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I think it's quite safe to say philosophy has never contributed anything whatsoever to any kind of math, science, or engineering. Philosophy is all about helping mankind understand…

Ruby is every bit as dead as Visual Basic.

It's trivially easy and unimportant to purposefully create two sets of data that hash into the same hash value. The value of any hashing function is only from the statistical effic…

Yeah, I think it's actually trivial to purposefully create two sets of data that hash into the same hash value. If this weren't the case then it would be the equivalent of data com…

Here's an example article just published that shows plenty of people use Standard Model in a way that assumes gravity to be part of what's encompassed by that term. https://www.nyt…

PuTTY has been a sort of industry standard for decades and they're still afraid to put a "Version 1.0" label on it!? Can that be right? I guess Google is still in the "beta" versio…

@dang, Quit pretending to be an admin of this site. You're an ordinary SockPuppet burner-account and have absolutely no affiliation with HackerNews.

Like most 'debates' on HN, the entire thing boils down to whose definition of a word is correct. If I had stated something incorrect about actual physics, you'd have pointed it out…

Don't we all wish HackerNews had that capability! I certainly wish I had the ability to at least mute people. Yourself for example. I'd mute you if I could, because you're only her…

Just to keep score: You called me a troll, because I called someone an a-hole, for calling me a liar. That's what just happened. What a totally PC Snowflake Soap-Opera. Of course t…

WiredTiger is a great way to correct from the original 'wrong turn' mongo took when they decided not to build on an existing (RDBMS). WiredTiger may be vastly superior to the MySQL…

Most people consider the 4 fundamental forces to be 'part of' the Standard Model, even if the field equations are not complete. But like I said, i did understand what you meant by …

So now you want to even debate what qualifies as a debate. Clever way to bow out.

You can google the phrase "Standard Model" or look it up in any physics book you want, and there will always be a table labeled "Standard Model" that shows all the particles, which…

...and this from a guy who thinks the wave-function of light is describing a path of motion.

If you're calling light interactions with other particles (like mirrors, lenses, or even edges of things) your 'bending' then that is a complete 'context switch' you have made, and…

Nice dissertation on 2+2=4. I've known relativity for 30years. The point i was making (as i'm sure you genuinely DO actually know, despite pretending once again to need to correct …

Your first point of contention is invalid, because there ARE two distinct and DIFFERENT interpretations of what "dark stuff" is really telling us: Either 1) there are genuinely a w…

So much of what you said is hilariously wrong. Probably the most acute example is your claim "Standard Model is mute on gravity". Are you kidding me? Page one of any book of the St…

Oh, I can prove it with evidence. The only thing that can change the direction of motion of a particle is a force. Photons have zero mass and zero charge, therefore no force (inclu…

I do understand why you think what you do. Most physics articles (and even the Wikipedia page on Gravitational Lensing) are explaining it wrong. They are saying that the light bent…

I'm a 50yo engineer. Chances are I've known the nuances of GR/SR several decades before you were even born, just based on HackerNews demographic.

read the rest of my comments. I clarify why "dark stuff" is all the same.