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This is baloney, and it's pernicious baloney.

If you're going to cite a YouTube video of TV news as your source... I hardly know what to say.

Any large dog can be dangerous. They are, after all, carnivorous predators. Proper training and handling are the key responsibilities of any owner of a large dog.

So spare us the clickbait, and before you go quoting some unrefereed published number of bites by breed, at least do some rudimentary arithmetic and divide by the number of dogs of each breed in the sample population. So-called "pit bulls" are the most popular dog breeds in the United States, far outnumbering any other single breed.

The article is a little bit breathless about this work as though evidence of solar system instability is completely novel and unexpected, but investigation in the area using simulation isn't exactly unprecedented.

Gerry Sussman and Jack Wisdom were working on the question of solar system instability in the late 1980s and Sussman and his students built a specialized computer called the Digital Orrery at MIT. They ran some very long simulations and found strong numerical evidence that the orbit of Pluto is chaotic.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_of_the_Solar_System#...

These weren't obscure results; further work was published in Science. See "Chaotic Evolution of the Solar System," in

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.257.5066.56

Please, elucidate. I'd love to hear about all the superior programming environments developed in non-capitalist economies.

"Senior House has always had a heavy contingent of counter culture types, much more so than other dorms at MIT," -- ha ha. They nuked Bexley first for a reason. Ghetto -- suburb!

You make some specific claims here that sound a little odd to this LISP and assembly language hacker.

Assembly language doesn't provide any datatypes. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide any type checking. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide automatic storage reclamation. LISP does. Assembly language doesn't provide naming. LISP does.

You also make a claim about L1 caches and locality of reference. Every LISP compiler writer, and every LISP garbage collector writer, knows about CDR-coding. We also know about how Cheney copying garbage collectors and their descendants like the Baker incremental collector compact data, precisely for locality of reference. The compiler writer of course is thinking about cache performance and how lines are mapped in particular target architectures.

You should probably educate yourself a little more about LISP if you are so interested in it as to make statements in a public forum.

According to the article, Dr. Reiffel said, 'The Air Force wanted a mushroom cloud so large it would be visible on earth.'

That seems a very odd thing for a physicist to say, given that of course a mushroom cloud wouldn't form in a vacuum. Perhaps Dr. Reiffel was not at his best on the day of the interview?

Wouldn't it be fun if we could set up a prediction market so that we could all place bets on whether Mr. Wright is or is not an inventor of Bitcoin?

I completely agree. I'm surprised that the HN community, which so often points out poor science in other articles, in this case seems to include a lot of people posting personal anecdotes about their diets.

For those people, I think it's very nice that you had a good experience dieting. Your story isn't science however, and the rest of us aren't going to learn anything generalizable from it. Perhaps you should be posting to a reddit support group?

Even though I've never met the author or her brother, I actually feel relieved reading that; thanks for finding it and pointing it out.

Umm, does anybody else cringe at the public documentation of this person's problems? The author hasn't spoken to her brother since 2013 -- so how does she know he wants his problems to be made public to all the world? She even gave his full name.