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hdevarajanon Scientists Reveal How the Maya Predicted Eclipses for Centuries

“Unfortunately, much of this knowledge – and the texts that contained it – was destroyed during the Spanish Inquisition, leaving only a few bits and pieces from which to reconstruct these advanced methods for celestial prediction.“ Not the Inquisition, which happened on a different continent!

hdevarajanon FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

I don’t think the Eu got it right; crucially they missed requiring these choice points to be automatedly navigable for users (eg “.. and if you must publish the metadata representing the choice architecture this way, use these standard keywords to present options, and must allow users to use automation to make their selection “)

The first reg this happens in will I think make billions the world over realize this is what the template of all opt-in online regulation has to be and will hopefully change the world.

hdevarajanon SEC Closes Insider-Trading Investigation into Ex-Sen. Richard Burr’s Stock Sales

“The SEC this week told Mr. Burr, a North Carolina Republican who retired from the Senate at the start of the year, that it closed the investigation and wouldn’t take enforcement action against him.” Regulators had earlier said that Mr. Burr had material nonpublic information about the Covid-19 pandemic in February 2020 when he sold virtually all of the stock he owned through a retirement account.

hdevarajanon Real-time dialogue between experimenters and dreamers during REM sleep

(2021)

hdevarajanon Show HN: Simula One – Portable Linux VR Computer

Might you have references ?

hdevarajanon Nacirema

https://youtu.be/6C72u3v-Y-Y (No English subtitles unfortunately!)

hdevarajanon Guinea worm disease nears eradication

Actually, no. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medici...

hdevarajanon Guinea worm disease nears eradication

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caduceus_as_a_symbol_of_medici...

“.. older representations from Syria and India of sticks and animals looking like serpents or worms are interpreted by some as a direct representation of traditional treatment of dracunculiasis, the Guinea worm disease.“

hdevarajanon Guinea worm disease nears eradication

It is believed that those snakes you see in the logo for medical services (caduceus) are actually Guinea worms as physicians used to advertise their services that way. See for example

https://medium.com/@DrWink/what-does-the-caduceus-represent-...

hdevarajanon The gene drive dilemma: we can alter entire species, but should we?

It's speculated in [1], that agriculture selected evolved humanity towards both long term planning and docility

[1]Cochran, Gregory, and Henry Harpending. The 10,000 year explosion: How civilization accelerated human evolution. Basic Books, 2009.

hdevarajanon Model beats Wall Street analysts in forecasting business financials

Were parties aware that this was close to or a de facto reg fd violation (https://www.sec.gov/rules/final/33-7881.htm) and/or how was this handled internally?

hdevarajanon Animals with larger pancreatic cells tend to age faster

https://www.cell.com/developmental-cell/fulltext/S1534-5807(...

hdevarajanon U. of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory to close after 120 years

I would and kind of you to propose.

hdevarajanon Bill Thurston answers: What's a mathematician to do?

Thurston is low dimensional topologist and Fields medalist. From the Wikipedia page:

'In fact, Thurston resolved so many outstanding problems in foliation theory in such a short period of time that it led to a kind of exodus from the field, where advisors counselled students against going into foliation theory[1] because Thurston was "cleaning out the subject"'

hdevarajanon An Hour of Running May Add 7 Hours to Your Life

Look up morbidity compression. Not my area so no views myself but it's a thing, and correlates with regular moderate exercise

hdevarajanon Diamonds Born in Santa Clara

Look up egroups or the Wikipedia entry on him (disclosure: am an old friend of Martin's)