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by srean 4mo ago
Mail dang at hn@crowycombinator.ravencom they clear it up quickly. Remove the corvids.
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by srean 4mo ago
Please make an HN post out of your generative bad hand writing. Very cool.
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by srean 4mo ago
Very beautiful. I am a complete newbie, so I might be asking about something obvious -- does anyone know how some of these would relate to plotting random Polya vector fields ? For example, one can take a sum of complex rational functions o
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by srean 4mo ago
> Dupe's It gets tiring to watch over autocorrects <sigh>
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by srean 4mo ago
Unfortunately we do not have a solution for countering this kind of a 'denial of service' attack on information consumption. It is trivial to concoct believable lies as compared to the effort needed to debunk them in a way that is
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by srean 4mo ago
And when they come in power it's not that they will hold any one accountable -- looking at Obama's administration.
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by srean 4mo ago
How do you calibrate the GPS
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by srean 4mo ago
Early humans fill me with awe with their ingenuity. Consider the planets. They noticed that among thousands of stars these five move funny. Of course it helped that most of them are very bright and don't twinkle. On a clear sky even Si
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by srean 4mo ago
Yes it will be a catenary but it is not a problem if the purpose is to mark the ground. If the purpose is also to measure the distance between the 'pegs' and one uses the length of the cable in between, then it can be a problem. T
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by srean 4mo ago
I think wetting and drying of paper is a bit like heat treatment of steel. The fibres find a new local minimum stable position, prompted by the swelling and the shrinking.
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by srean 4mo ago
I did not know this, very interesting.
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by srean 4mo ago
Then there is the puzzle of coming up with folds to intentionally increase the rigidity of the surface. Essentially, using Theorema Pizzarium
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by srean 4mo ago
Do dupe's get necessarily de-ranked ? If it has active participation in the form of new comments, it makes sense to merge the comments and not penalize the post.
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by srean 4mo ago
Exactly.
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by srean 4mo ago
LoL. Most welcome. My best (worst) HN days are like that :)
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by srean 4mo ago
I have an asterisk in my post addressing that :) Happy to have picqued your mind. BTW, your method was the method of choice for the surveyors of the Nile, from the Egyptian civilization. Paper is hi-tech and was not available until much lat
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by srean 4mo ago
Yup and if you need a right angle, combine it with this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538771 by roelschroeven. I often wondered how to ensure that the corners of a sheet of paper make a right angle. You need that t
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by srean 4mo ago
Indeed ! One can create an axiomatic system of geometry through such coincident folds (as an alternative to straight-edge and compass) and it turns out to be more powerful than the Euclidean system. One can construct cube roots, trisect ang
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by srean 4mo ago
And then Britney Spears albums out sold The Dark Side of the Moon
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by srean 4mo ago
You are perhaps commenting about the force needed to fold, the persistence of the folded shape. My comment is about the shape of the crease once it has been folded. Most metals are stretchier than paper. If it is thick it will resist fold
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by srean 4mo ago
Oh no! woe is me, they don't highlight my absolutely, ridiculously favourite fact/curiosity about a sheet of smooth paper: If you fold it clean, the crease is a straight line. In fact I don't know of any other good way of ob
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by srean 4mo ago
Avatar. In realising stic scenarios they wouldn't win.
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by srean 4mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silent_World:_A_Story_of_U... Capitalism and stock markets would drive them to become Avatar'esque villains.
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by srean 4mo ago
Thanks so much.
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by srean 4mo ago
Oh my bad, thanks for letting me know. I usually edit out manually, slipped my mind.
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by srean 4mo ago
https://youtu.be/Ef93WmlEho0 Off by one error, twice.
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by srean 4mo ago
Touche
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by srean 4mo ago
Ah that "both sides". I stubbed my toe on a rock while trying to kick it. Both sides got hurt.
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by srean 4mo ago
Oh yes absolutely. Intelligence certainly developed more than once. Bird brain is no slur. Before your comment I would have said it emerged twice, but then I had not considered octopuses, they are wicked smart and so unlike other intelligen
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by srean 4mo ago
Octopuses are probably more alien than others.

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