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by testoo 3mo ago
actually it looks like he wrote several stories on this theme: https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/up.aspx what did H.P. know that we did not??
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by testoo 3mo ago
anyone else immediately reminded of this lovecraft tale? https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/nc.aspx
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by testoo 2y ago
this is really interesting, I'd love to read more if you have the link/links!
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by testoo 2y ago
oh no! another fun great math article, plummetting down the HN New stack into obscurity! [lonely upvote]
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by testoo 2y ago
update: sorry kshacker, I may have thrown you off the scent here. My explanation of the slingshot effect is right, but it doesn't look like slingshotting is what the spacecraft is using to increase its speed: the original article does
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by testoo 2y ago
hey icehawk -- so you can use any celestial object in the solar system to maneuver; all you're doing is basically changing your direction. But you're right, there's something strange going on here. The original article does
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by testoo 2y ago
i was wondering too! Do you think it might be because of citing family as a source? I barely ever post here, so don't have a good muscle memory for norms and best practices. (also both scared and curious of what might result from dro
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by testoo 2y ago
there's another cool aspect to your question too! "Who gained and lost [energy] and how?" >there actually is no objective answer as to which body gained and which lost energy! Energy is always conserved, but which way the
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by testoo 2y ago
hi kshacker! This is my understanding: That's correct, the energy comes from the body the spacecraft is slingshotting around (the Sun in this case). It's not mass or gravitational energy or anything weird like that, it's ac
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by testoo 6y ago
i think he meant Springfield, Oh Hiya Maude!
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by testoo 7y ago
Thank you for the reply! I'm not sure what the best way to link a source on HN is, but I'll do my best. McCrae and Costa did a study in the 1980s that looked at correlations between MB and FFA, as part of a larger, longitudinal st
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by testoo 7y ago
You're exactly right, I think, as to the reason most people are attracted to Myers-Briggs. That said, it's odd that the narrative persists of M-B having been discredited, when, as the article mentions but doesn't explore, the
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by testoo 7y ago
"What is elementary, worldly wisdom? Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have
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by testoo 7y ago
talk was previously linked from: http://www.ycombinator.com/munger.html but no longer available. Spent 20 minutes just now searching for it in frustration; here it is for anyone similarly afflicted!
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Charlie Munger: Elementary Worldly Wisdom (1994)(fs.blog)
1 points by testoo 7y ago|2 comments
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by testoo 9y ago
ah
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by testoo 9y ago
no comments yet - how strange! seems like a major change, assuming he can follow through on it, which might be hindered by all the other stakeholders FB is beholden to. i have NEVER really used it for social engagement (ie always passivel
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by testoo 9y ago
he shoulda just ended the letter at "WE STRIVE TO BE OURSELVES." ..."i apologize for the length of this letter; if i'd had more time, it would have been shorter"
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by testoo 14y ago
or "Accelerators Can't Just Be a Rung on the Venture Capital Ladder"