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imagin8or··on Confess your love with zero-knowledge
I feel like this could be a good implementation.

"Find out if your crush fancies you, just choose them from your contacts:"

...

"Message 'hey there, I like you' sent"

imagin8or··on Does the human lifespan have a limit?
I have a gut feeling that as physical medicine has advanced faster than neuro or psychiatric medicine, people will live long enough to want to die, and euthanasia (self or pre arranged) will become acceptable, even normal.

I would choose to give my children financial benefits instead of years of late life medicine, even if I could afford to live over 100.

imagin8or··on Does the human lifespan have a limit?
<puts down fork>
imagin8or··on I can't stand developing for Safari anymore
Somilarly, the strategy for the Conservative Party in the UK for many years has been to systematically underfund the NHS so that the cracks start to show and they have to fly in with private healthcare or private healthcare insurance provisions. Many party members hate the NHS, but the UK public love it. So they're stuck making claims to support it, but in reality funding per head in real terms falls and falls.

They just have to make it bad enough.

imagin8or··on Show HN: AstroNote – Push Real-Time Messages to Your Watch
* your Apple Watch
imagin8or··on What is the mysterious 'global Hum' and is it simply noise pollution? (2019)
Finally, if all else fails, clamp a microphone to your head
imagin8or··on Ask HN: What RSS Reader do you use?
Also, a lot of sites use email where they could (should?) be providing RSS, for updates and news stuff. So to see those in the same place as RSS feeds, either you use a common client for both, or convert one into the other.

Feedbin seems to permit receiving email newsletters as a feed, so that's one of the few making email into RSS, whereas the others all turn RSS into email.

imagin8or··on The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
Regarding limited trading: anyone but a retail trader could trade the forward OTC rather than this illiquid thing on the exchange. We can trade our guesses for tomorrow's price (which is really the live current price) as much as we want, and it will just wash out tomorrow.

Regarding length of ownership: so I make a fund which owns an LTSE-listed stock for a longer term, and people trade my fund instead.

Ultimately, neither of those things is much use, nor even necessary. A much stronger driver for long-termism would be to derive the dividend from the last 3 years of profits; since prices are estimates of future value and future dividend, the actual value of those would be smoothed; if any action can only make a small difference to the dividend, there is much less focus on quarterly results.

A formula or at least limits on dividends (no windfalls) would reduce the interest to activist investors who might see a pot of cash and seek to liberate it.

imagin8or··on The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
So you make a fund which holds the stock of the listed company long-term, and trade the fund as normal... this doesn't seem robust yet.
imagin8or··on The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business
Agreed. I suspect that it's more like "The Stock Exchange For LongTerm(TM) Certified Companies", so more like the requirement that exchange-listed companies are at least 70% public.

Presumably that could mean requirements on board memberships, dividend levels, types of employment perhaps? I find it a bit hard to see what stipulations they would have that aren't just good governance.

imagin8or··on [dead]
Tho that is true, it doesn't seem to explain this particular effect. From the article:

"The study found no statistically significant link between the risk of maternal mortality – which is also much higher for black and brown women – and the race of the mother’s doctor."

imagin8or··on The Rush to Stop the Asian Giant Hornet
Well, rather those than famine or war.
imagin8or··on An audio app that has consumed my life
It's a very basic version of IRC but for audio, and only for invitees for now.

And it's great for all the reasons IRC is great, but everyone thinks it's all a totally new concept so they're just waiting for it to get its unicorn horn and start pissing cash money.

imagin8or··on The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 Winners
It was a dark and stormy lane, amidst a dark and stormy night, and down the lane shuffled a small ragged pile of clothes hiding a small and ragged child.

She approached the fork in the lane, wherein the choices led to Town and to the hamlet of Ruin.

Town held Rita's past and future, her torment and her only family. Ruin was several miles off, and on any other day she would only have glanced at that fork and dreamed. But today she had been given a wide brimmed hat by a pitying Lady, and instead of misery beneath the rags lay a tiny kernel of hope, sheltered from the rain.

As she neared the fork hope was fanned into anger, and into need, and into determination. For so many nights the rain had beat so hard against her face that she could barely see to walk, let alone to choose her path. But tonight she had just a few inches of respite, the luxury of seeing the fork for the choice it was.

Her fists clenched and her mouth set hard, her shuffle turned to a stride, and she chose her path, joining unknowingly every other shuffling wretch who before her had reached their last drop of hope and spent it taking the path to Ruin, where no one would dare to seek them.

imagin8or··on The Bulwer Lytton Fiction Contest: 2019 Winners
thought Mettler, raising a glass of sub-par Chardonnay that matched her gradual discontent with the world, before replacing it carefully on its coaster so as no to disturb the bear snoozing by the door.
imagin8or··on Aviation safety: Transport comparisons
I too think we should reinvent the discipline of statistical analysis in this thread.

For example, richer people fly, should we adjust for that?

I love these dim headlines

imagin8or··on Show HN: Avoid editing while writing your first draft
I would quote Frank O'Hara at this point, his poem "Why I Am Not A Painter" is a brilliant discussion of stimulus and revision across art forms.
imagin8or··on Ants trapped for years in an old bunker
"Dude, where am I?" "We don't know." "How do we get back to Mother?" "We don't know, or we would have gone home" "You say 'we', how many of you are here?" "Millions"

"Is there anything to eat? I'm so hungry I could eat a horsefly"

"That depends on how long we have to chase you around for"

imagin8or··on Looka lays off staff as failed rebrand from Logojoy cut revenue in half
I don't know if I'm just being dim because its not a weekday, but, what do it do?

Is it for me to fill out forms on random sites, in which case how is it an API? Or is it for the people with the forms to make it quicker to fill them out (which makes sense, but doesn't match the one line of blurb on the site)?

If it's for form filling, why is the word "doc" in the name, which I'd assume meant document rather than relating to form data or personal data.

Looking on the staging page it makes more sense, it seems to be for the companies who have the forms rather than the people who have to fill them in.

But does it take a pdf and generate an electronic form from it, or take filled-in forms and pull the data out of them?

Or is it for companies who have data to use to fill in forms from that data?

Just quite confused, tho maybe I wouldn't be if I was a company with forms.. or data..?

imagin8or··on Making Wrong Code Look Wrong (2005)
Yes, though the notation approach is worth following if you cannot use the type system (lang doesn't support it, or incurs unacceptable performance or complexity overhead).

But yeah, zero cost compiler magic is the reason Rust is so good.

imagin8or··on Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
Preprint is here:

https://pierce.atmos.colostate.edu/Monthly_Pollution_and_Cri...

It points out that they look at data for 99% of US counties, which rules out a simplistic attribution of crime to population density, and describes some of the data cleansing. They also claim it corroborated findings elsewhere.

Since this is a data review presumably other centres can repeat the analysis to confirm the correlation result at least, and medical researchers could conceivably find a real experiment to establish causality.

imagin8or··on Exposure to air pollution is linked to an increase in violent crime
Preprint from the Colorado State website:

https://pierce.atmos.colostate.edu/Monthly_Pollution_and_Cri...

imagin8or··on NASA Does Not Detect “Largest Asteroid to Pass This Close to Earth in a Century”
How close? 65,000 km. For reference, GEO is 35,000 km, Earth diameter is 12,700 km.
imagin8or··on Scientific breakthrough may eventually allow many blind people to see
First, it lets the blind see.

Then it gives the sighted a neural interface

imagin8or··on Darpa Looking for Underground Facilities
That or an asteroid.
imagin8or··on If the Tuition Doesn’t Get You, the Cost of Student Housing Will
Take control of the means of accommodation