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sizimon··on What would it take to bring back the dinosaurs?
The sheep was named Dolly, after Dolly Parton, because the cell used for cloning was taken from a mammary gland.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolly_(sheep)

sizimon··on “My Octopus Teacher” defied convention
Huh? He only has one kid- a son, who appears in a lot of the movie diving with him. I'm no expert on the filmmaker's life, but I've not heard that he 'turned his back' on his wife. In fact, you can read her feelings about his relationship with the octopus here:

https://stories.seachangeproject.com/my-octopus-teacher-and-...

She ends by saying that she dives almost every day with the filmmaker.

sizimon··on An Underground Farm Delivering Rare Herbs to New York’s Top Chefs
Aerogarden makes a dead simple, self contained 3 herb hydroponics set complete with reservoir and light. You basically just plug it in and eat herbs in a couple weeks. I've been using one for a couple years to grow basil and some other stuff, and I really like it. Not sure if linking to products on HN is discouraged, but should be easy to find with a quick search.
sizimon··on Show HN: Real-time notes app built with Vue.js, inspired by Notational Velocity
I'm curious about where you saw claims of Vue.js being a fully fledged MVC framework. Asking because I've always thought that Vue did a decent job of being forward about exactly what it is. Just reading the first paragraph of the guide (https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/):

"The core library is focused on the view layer only"

It seems to be pretty clear that it's meant to be a simple, easy to deploy, view layer only. I think it accomplishes that purpose pretty well. There are additional libraries (Vuex, VueRouter) which extend this core library into something coming close to a full MVVM framework, but those libraries are all maintained separately and not part of the core.

sizimon··on To fix L.A.'s traffic, we need tolls
One of my favorite little-known tidbits of Los Angeles traffic history is the Alweg monorail proposal in 1963. The Alweg Monorail Company offered to finance and build a 43 mile monorail system, which would be repaid with MTA revenues. The proposal got derailed when Standard Oil lobbied heavily against it.

I'm convinced that if this proposal had gotten approved and built, the trajectory of public transportation in Los Angeles would have been significantly different, and the city would probably have a very efficient and extensive monorail system now. Los Angeles seems to be the perfect place for a monorail - it can be built around existing structures and doesn't require underground tunneling. I'm not sure that Los Angeles would be a 'car city' now if we had started building this monorail system 50 years ago.

http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/LA1963.html

sizimon··on A Gentle Introduction to Data Compression
This is a great article, but it fails to mention Weissman Score - the gold standard of compression measurement.
sizimon··on Clickbank order details in plain view
"ClickBank.com is a secure site. The only way someone would be able to look up your order, which does not show any payment detail except your Credit Card type and last 4 digits on the card, is to know the exact order number and email address."

Strange, because the link in the ticket to the order still works and is viewable without any of that information.

sizimon··on I built my blog on websockets
How does this make the front page of HN? When I try viewing this on FF 13.0.1 on Mac, I only see what I presume is supposed to be the left sidebar (About Me, Resume, etc). I don't get any content. What is the value of this?