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Sounds good.. although this comes to mind: https://xkcd.com/927/ (How standards proliferate)

Even if you found a better way, the world might just end up with yet another set of keystrokes to memorize.

It makes me ashamed to be human. Reading stuff like that, and thinking about what we do to cows, sheep, lambs, chickens, etc, it dawned on me a while ago that humans have no right to treat animals like they're just a bunch of cells to be treated however we want, like a serial killer treats their victims. But that animals are fellow beings, a lot like us in many ways. I didn't want pain, or someone to kill me, so I figured they didn't either.

It was so easy to stop eating animal "products". The whole thing started to seem obscene, like a nightmare - ads on TV trying to tempt people to eat slaughtered baby sheep etc. I thought I'd miss the taste of meat but never have. (I feel so weird writing that sentence now.)

I encourage everyone reading this not to be a part of the problem, to stop contributing to this desecration. If no-one ate meat, this genocide of sea life would just stop. For every person that stops, we get closer to that. I realize in some cultures, it's not so simple, but in many, it is.

And maybe the life in the ocean is more than just a "resource" for humans to exploit, like so much coal or gas.

Hilarious comment, thank you. :-)

Dang explains: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32359993 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31574948

Hate? Sounds like total indifference. But 3 people commented last time you submitted it 12 hours ago, saying it's great. ...Although, those 3 commenters are brand new accounts with 1 comment only. Are they you?! The way you say you couldn't get a single person to talk about it on here makes me suspicious.

Not an expert, but it sounds like you forgot what I'd say is the #1 startup/business lesson HN teaches - not to spend time/money developing a product before you know there's demand for it, people who will pay for it. That's the advice people would give, I guess, had you asked for help instead of writing this contemptible comment, which I flagged.

> This is why the Utah teapot looks squashed

Although it says on that page:

"The real teapot is 33% taller (ratio 4:3) than the computer model. Jim Blinn stated that he scaled the model on the vertical axis during a demo in the lab to demonstrate that they could manipulate it. They preferred the appearance of this new version and decided to save the file out of that preference."

I was going to correct "siezed", but the original headline seems even worse! :

> Asthma, cancer, erectile drugs sent from abroad make up are most confiscations, despite opioid claims

The first paragraph of the "Puffery" wikipedia page:

"In everyday language, puffery refers to exaggerated or false praise. Puffery serves to "puff up" what is being described. In law, puffery is usually invoked as a defense argument: it identifies futile speech, typically of a seller, which does not give rise to legal liability. In a circular manner, legal explanations for this normative position describe the non-enforceable speech as a statement that no "reasonable person" would take seriously anyway."

It seems puffery in both those senses.

I think the quote must have come first: T Auvinen wanted to use the quote, which they'd seen online, but needed a reference, so searched for something mentioning Plato, stories, and rulers, and found this paper. That seems very likely. I think there's no way you could get the quote from the paragraph, but they share the same elements.

Same for me. Yup, weird.

It's been done to death already. e.g. https://www.redbubble.com/i/art-board-print/Plato-I-Didn-t-S...

Some variants:

Einstein https://innovativewealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/Eins...

Lincoln https://innovativewealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/quot...

Buddha https://superaalifragilistic.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/new...

TLDR: Lion's mane mushrooms, not magic ones or the common white mushrooms.

Link to full text of paper:

Hericerin derivatives activates a pan-neurotrophic pathway in central hippocampal neurons converging to ERK1/2 signaling enhancing spatial memory

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jnc.15767

> Plato said it best, "Those who tell stories rule society."

Source? This quote appears in many places online, but never with any source, besides "attributed to Plato", or "as Plato once said" etc. Usually this means it's not something Plato said. The internet is full of fake Plato quotes.

I got to the 6th page of google results before seeing anything like a source, and followed that trail - "Leadership Manipulation and Ethics in Storytelling" by T Auvinen, 2013, cited 110 times, says "Even Plato stated that those who tell stories rule society (Fisher, 1985)". So I looked at that paper, WR Fisher's "The Narrative Paradigm: In the Beginning" (1985), which doesn't contain that quote or anything like it! It does say, in its one paragraph about Plato:

"[Plato's] “contribution” to the transformation of logos was to technologize it, to make it a term appropriate to only philosophical discourse. The effects of his thought were to create “experts” in truth, knowledge, and reality; to establish the rational superiority of philosophical (technical) discourse; to relegate mythos to myth (meaning fictional); and to downgrade rhetoric and poetic. Dispensations were made for rhetoric and poetic; they had a place in the life of the community but they were not to be considered serious intellectual arts. They were to be controlled or informed by philosopher-kings."

Which is vaguely in the right ballpark - although more like its opposite. Tentative conclusion: Plato didn't say that.

(IANAL) Take this, for example, from a jazz/funk/? band I like:

"The Funky Knuckles is a world class jazz orchestra made up of genetically enhanced cybernetic super men. They have played at the finest venues around the world delivering mind blowing rhythms and harmonic complexity that will shatter your fragile psyche and leave you drowning in a pool of fresh llama milk. The band members are as brilliant as they are handsome and they have performed with people such as the legendary Phill Aelony. This unstoppable crime fighting squadron will make you dance like a kraken on meth before you burst into tears of joy which can be combined with powder from a ground up cobra skull to synthesize the elixir you need to pass through solid objects."

It's cool, funny, seems appropriate to the band, - and also not meant to be taken seriously, so seems to fit that "puffery" definition. But calling it "just legal lying" would...miss the point.

https://www.thefunkyknuckles.com/about

I tried 9x9 and it seemed impossible at first but I solved it in 5-10 minutes. I want to try larger ones!

Keep fixing digits one at a time with things like parity, e.g. if the numbers are all odd and sum to an odd number, you know an odd number of them are needed. If a total is very high or low, there's often obviously only one way to make it. For totals not quite so high, if you choose the few highest numbers, and by trying ways to reduce the total by the excess, it becomes evident what the numbers are. ("Get your hands dirty.")

Often a row/column contains e.g. two 7s, and you know one of them is needed, but not which until other information comes in. (Having an "OR" label/symbol to mark those would be nice I guess.)

e.g. One of the columns I had: total 46, column is 16,-2,12,-2,14,-2,14,16,1. Eliminate the 1 by parity. I try adding the largest numbers, 16,16,14, which add to 46...and somehow I can see/intuit that there's no other way of making 46, as the -2s can only adjust downwards. So you green-circle the two 16s, leave the two 14s blank, as you don't know which is needed yet, and cross out all the others.

What does "jackbox-esque" mean?

I found the font saying the speed and angle were much too small to read, and hard to read against the background anyway, so it was unplayable. No one else seems to have had that problem! macOS 12.5, firefox, 24 inch 1920x1080 display - pretty normal sized. Maybe it works on a phone. I tried zooming in but then I couldn't see the ground, and the font didn't get bigger.

Surprisingly good game! Nice job both of you. 6x6 took me a few minutes, after initially seeming impossible. I like much more than Sudoku cause it uses maths as well as logic. 9x9... not so easy :-)

Possible bug: I got some of the row/column numbers (outside the puzzle) turning bold black before I'd finished ruling numbers in that row/column in or out, not sure why. That was with the 9x9 grid.

Probably anyone reading this thread knows about this already :-) but that's like the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

The worst one I've ever seen was: "must be read", prominent on the front cover.

Which probably influenced my decision to buy the book. But later I noticed the sentence that quote was from was something like "This book must be read not as an analysis of X, but as a contribution to Y". I couldn't believe it! It was a serious non-fiction book, I think, and not an obscure one, although sadly I lost track of the book it was years ago. Not easy to google. I'll never forget the unfathomable effrontery/deception of whoever had the idea then OKed it for the cover.

I get all kinds of obvious spammy/dodgy emails in my gmail these days. Maybe one a week or something. Ones where you can't believe it didn't go in the spam folder automatically! Never got any before the last couple of years. I've seen the problem mentioned frequently on here in the last couple of years. Something evidently went very wrong with the gmail spam filter, and was never fixed. Yours is a slightly different issue, but I wouldn't be surprised at anything not being filtered out anymore.

I started using Apptivate a couple of months ago, someone on here recommended it. It makes app switching very pleasingly fast. I use a PC kbd with a mac mini :-) and have F5-F9 assigned to instantly switch to the 5 apps I always have open.

Also, holding down F5-F9 shows those windows as long as they're held down. So now, to take a peek at the bash window I hold down F5 as long as I need to look. Can also type or drag things onto there while holding F5 with the other hand.

You can assign any app to any key or combination of keys. It's free. It can do other stuff too. Very highly recommended.

Also, F1-F3 I have assigned in the system settings to F1=Show desktop, F2=current app windows, F3=show all open windows (mission control). So I very rarely have to use Cmd-Tab any more!

http://www.apptivateapp.com/

TLDR: "For JPL's highest accuracy calculations, which are for interplanetary navigation, we use 3.141592653589793"...Using pi to 15 decimal places, you'd get the distance of Voyager 1 wrong by less than 1cm!

Ohh ok thank you very much! Perfect explanation.

I think Peter Singer challenged a lot of deluded, 'magical' thinking in the 1970s when he wrote in Animal Liberation about realizing that animals are not mere tools for human use, to be exploited in any and every possible way, but fellow beings. We know this about dogs and cats, but ignore it in the case of cows, sheep, ocean life, and, for example, the billions of living baby chickens we grind in "macerators" every year.[0] He is a philosopher who believes in living things. This article is just embarrassing.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_culling

Genuine question - I read the wiki page, not knowing anything much about it. It's an ebook reader? How is it true that he brought books to millions? I can't tell from your comment or the wiki page. Thanks.

No problem, I'm sure it's not just me who felt that. Also, please consider that even if you were totally right about everything and everyone you interacted with totally wrong, that would be no justification at all for the way you've carried on on this page.

Ok, I give up. That's about the 20th mocking, insulting comment of yours I've read on this page, while you pretend to occupy the high ground. Sickening stuff. HN deserves way better.

Please refresh on the guidelines. There aren't many in the first 10 paragraphs of the "In comments" guidelines you haven't broken on this page, multiple times. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I spent a while marvelling at how far down the page the text starts (what's the record for that?!) but eventually found the colour picker page, which is pretty cool:

https://oklch.com/