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villmann··on Why are we still using Markdown?
Use LaTeX nice and simple
villmann··on Athena landed in a dark crater where the temperature was -280° F / -173° C
How can you have temperature without a medium? The lander would have steadily lost temperature through heat radiation, but it's not like the vacuum had a temperature in the crater.
villmann··on Car tires shed a quarter of all microplastics in the environment
> Well they have more tires than four vehicles do. Actually, four vehicles would have more tyres in total (:
villmann··on DeepMind debuts watermarks for AI-generated text
To what degree will AI-generated text and watermarking influence how human language evolves... I bet "delve" will become more frequent in the spoken language :)
villmann··on A New Wave of Underwater Comms Is Coming
"Imagine someone set up a radio or a noisy machine somewhere in your own vicinity and you had no choice but to listen to it", you mean like a mosque :-D
villmann··on The Dumber Side of Smart People
Speaking for the very smart people, I must say that this article is full of useless stereotypes. Most of us frequenting the smart-people-club are open, contemplating, and humble.
villmann··on Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why
Newphew of Freud invented breakfast (:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/nov/28/breakfa...

villmann··on Ask HN: Has anyone gotten complete, permanent relief from tinnitus?
I had a period of bacterial imbalance in my gut caused by Plastocystis Hominis. At it's worst, I got periods of tinnitus. After being cured, took a year to find the cause, the tinnitus also disappeared. Worth checking out the bacterial balance in the gut and trying some probiotics.
villmann··on Was the Nord Stream 2 Rupture an Accidental Catalyst?
What WWIII? The one where Russia, that has no functioning military, together with Wakanda faces the rest of the world? The rusted non-functioning nukes that Russia has no reason to use and only function as a deterrant?
villmann··on Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?
I just installed incineration toilet at my cabin. Works great and burns the shit to ashes. Works with a gass balloon and a 12V battery. 220V option being available.
villmann··on Tell HN: I have the perfect job, why is it not enough?
Happyness is mostly how you yourself perceive things and less dependent on external circumstances. I would work more on own pshychology and perception of things. Our brains are riddled with biases and filters, it helps a great deal to know about them and to identify your own fallacies.
villmann··on Leetcode Considered Harmful
Putting Polish in your code would indeed considerably complicate the solution.
villmann··on Show HN: World’s first £3 flat fee (0% FX markup) money transfer service
https://wise.com/
villmann··on Germany considers keeping nuclear power plants online
Hopefully thorium SMR reactors will be a thing soon, as Norway has huge deposits of it. Won't help in the near future, though.
villmann··on Flies possess more sophisticated cognitive abilities than previously known
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like banana!
villmann··on Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions
A NATO alliance that is an American puppet and following American interests is dangerous for the stability in Europe. Europe should take more responsibility for it's own safety.
villmann··on Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's two breakaway regions
Germany should never have shut down many of its nuclear plants to become reliant on Russian gas. Buildout of new nuclear and SMR as soon as possible, and declaring nuclear as green energy should be prioritised. Wind and solar is not enough to stabilise the grid without storage technology.
villmann··on Is Crypto Bullshit?
Crypto is total bullshit, how could you ever think that it is practical to find three very large positive integers e, d, and n, such that with modular exponentiation for all integers m (with 0 ≤ m < n): m^d^e === m (mod n) and that knowing e and n, or even m, it can be extremely difficult to find d. Come on.
villmann··on We Are Qualitatively Different from Other Species
Don't crows trade shiny objects for food?
villmann··on Ask HN: What can I do to actively fight climate change?
People who are consious about climate change are the kind of people who should have kids, and propagate those values. The world will be worse off if filled by mindless drones instead.
villmann··on Wearable Microphone Jamming
Won't somebody please think about the dogs
villmann··on Decreasing human body temperature in the U.S. since the industrial revolution
In Soviet Union it has always been 36.6
villmann··on Ask HN: How to remove voice from a music file?
My date was sending me mixed signals, so I did a fourier analysis.
villmann··on Ask HN: How do you stay healthy?
This! I try doing 5:2 at times as well. In addition I supplement with calcium, D3 and Mg.
villmann··on Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?
The Selfish Gene, Richard Dawkins; Red Queen, Matt Ridley; Sperm Wars, Robin Baker;

Read in that order, the books explain much of what is going on in our society and lives. This has enabled me to to analyse my own, and others, actions and motives.

villmann··on Ask HN: Which non-fiction books changed your life?
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins (Evolution) The Red Queen - Matt Ridley (Sex and evolution) Sperm Wars - Robin Baker (Sex as the driving force in society)

The books, if red in that order, provide a total picture of evolution in our society and the driving forces.