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I think I recall Chomsky saying something along the lines that the financial press is the most reliable because it isn't in their economic interest to mislead their audience.

pauldelanyon Ask HN: Favorite purchases of last two years?

Backscratcher - I never knew I couldn't go without one until I had one. I now have several dotted about the house.

pauldelanyon The Recursive Universe

Anyone point to sources describing how people come up with these large meta-structures in the first place?

pauldelanyon Ask HN: What is a science fact that blew your mind when you learned it?

May be wrong, but I think it correct to say glass is a 'fluid' (it flows - very slowly), gases and liquids are generally fluids. But glass is not a liquid.

pauldelanyon Tesla stock plunged after Elon Musk tweeted it was “too high”

Not the only thing too high...

pauldelanyon Show HN: Firefox addon that hides news articles about Covid-19

https://hitchhikers.fandom.com/wiki/Joo_Janta_200_Super-Chro...

pauldelanyon The Universe Within 12.5 Light Years

The association you have is not for the local / galactic chart from Elite, but rather the navigational scanner when in flight - used the same 3-D positional rendering for nearby objects. See bottom centre here: https://www.retrogamer.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/Elite-...

pauldelanyon Getting a 787 back in the air after a diversion

Had to build a runway for one take-off to get this private jet back in the air in 1983: https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/features/humanintere...

pauldelanyon All the balls are the same color: brown

It's also worth checking out his research: https://twitter.com/chazfirestone/status/1109105677006487552

pauldelanyon Ethiopian Max Crash Simulator Scenario Stuns Pilots

Altitude is always with respect to sea level.

pauldelanyon Evolution of Trust

I thought this interactive piece on the principles of game theory and strategy evolution in populations might be interesting to some. Reminded me of the more detailed explanations that Dawkins gave in The Selfish Gene and/or The Extended Phenotype (can't recall which one).

pauldelanyon 30,000 empty homes and nowhere to live: inside Dublin’s housing crisis

One reason there isn't much political will for this in Ireland: https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/nearly-one-in-five-tds...

pauldelanyon An 89-year-old Reinventing the Train in His Backyard

One of the earliest working applications of this in the 19th century was very near to where I live in Dublin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalkey_Atmospheric_Railway. The railway was used to carry stone from the quarry (which was a few hundred feet above sea level) to the shore a couple of kilometres away, to build what is now Dun Laoghaire harbour.

One of the small roads near where the line used to run is still called Atmospheric Road.

pauldelanyon Improved audio rendering with an optimised version of memcpy (2013)

"phoneopathy" sounds better :)

pauldelanyon Who Y Combinator Companies Want

True, but also consider that you're the product in this case, and the salesman (in many cases) doesn't care who he makes the sale to. It may be better to first research and shortlist companies that you want to target, and then find a recruiter who has them as a client? Never done that myself, so don't know how practical it might be.

pauldelanyon The Conversation (1974)

There's something to note about this film which, once you know it, detracts from it in a significant way. Since it's a bit of a spoiler, if anyone want's to know drop me a mail.

pauldelanyon Ask HN: What software for diagrams and flowcharts do you use?

http://www.sparxsystems.com/products/index.html

pauldelanyon Lisp In Summer Projects: Coding Competition

"Q: Why can't citizens of Cuba, Iran, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Sudan, Syria, Brazil, Italy, Quebec, and Saudi Arabia participate? A: Lisp In Summer Projects is similar to Google's Code-It, which is where the requirement originated. Lisp In Summer Projects does not have access to Google's cadre of lawyers and cannot invite legal risk to ourselves, our associates or our sponsors."

-- what's up with Brazil, Italy and Quebec that they're on this list, can anyone tell me?

pauldelanyon Investing in the mental health of your team

"While those football players are getting 6 figures salaries"

- just to note, some of those players get 6 figure sums per week, not 6 figure salaries!

pauldelanyon ‘The Fractalist,’ Benoit B. Mandelbrot’s Math Memoir

Also the documentary "n is a number"

pauldelanyon Larry Wall on why he wrote Perl

Parens are optional