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Yeah, so the "law" as stated in the Wikipedia article is not correct.

I'm not opposed to being served ads. I just think taking an essay about counterculture and serving it with ads is highly ironic. And I didn't say readtext is a startup. I said it's…

"Who will be the next CEO of Apple?" "No." Someone didn't think this law through...

An essay about technology counterculture, now hosted by a tech startup on a website that serves ads.

I have no idea who "they" or "our" refers to, or what "sudden jump" you're talking about.

> Try approaching them and saying: Hi! I would like to reserve two billion DOIs :) If you've already registered a prefix with them (say it's 10.8888), then you have an essentially …

We already have the DOI system. Why is a new system needed?

> Is there an actual model of light based on his work? Yes: classical electromagnetism. It's an outrageously successful model of how light behaves. It doesn't predict photons, but …

Even better, p-values should not be used at all. If I have data in hand, I want to use it to find out the probability that my hypothesis is true. But p-value analysis requires me t…

If Markdown were around (and widely used) when MediaWiki was written, I imagine there would have been a push to use it as the markup language for MediaWiki. I don't see MediaWiki m…

And trying to click on "About" in the sidebar returns a 403 for me. What a tease!

I think most other people use a single M to mean million, and k for thousand. Can't we just use SI prefixes or spell the numbers out instead of using some random alternate conventi…

> $40+mm 40 million million dollars?

You can install custom CSS somewhere in your .jupyter directory. Of course, this feature is undocumented and different from the analogous (documented) ipython feature.

> Cosmologists are people who publish papers that can't be tested Once again you are wrong. Mather, Smoot, Perlmutter, and Riess are all cosmologists. Their Nobel prizes were award…

> I'm not sure anything has actually been figured out by a professional Cosmologist You are 100% wrong. Several Nobel prizes have been awarded for seminal results in cosmology, lik…