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You US citizens don't seem to realise just how legal/lucky you are. I'm Irish. We're way more legal than you. Listen to anyone from China.

In times past having one's photograph taken was a soul-stealing for some. Some notions: - finding counter-examples is one of the most exploratory uses of calculation - there is no …

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Exactly And yet the phrase "be kind" appears nowhere on that page

Be kind as in be like thyself as in see thyself in others as in don't be unkind as in be kind The rest is noise in an expanding universe

https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/crdt.html is much more fun and, obviously, vastly more powerful.

Happy as in Halmos Tombstone

Mathematics is one of our love stories? Yes! All the endings are happy and the unfinished stories are utterly fascinating. And there are already so many stories with happy endings!…

Thank you to PG and dang. I reckon this is one of the best places on the Internet. Thank you everyone. I come here to learn and I do. The standard of discourse is heightening. You'…

Congratulations, this is awesome. One of those "why hasn't someone done this already?" projects. I can see this becoming transformative and superseding Excel, which is a bold claim…

One of the things I love about hacker news is that there's no AI content. The other is that it's like reading a commentary on our encyclopedia. I get to read thought happening. Apr…

One of the things I love about hacker news is that there's no AI content. The other is that it's like reading a commentary on our encyclopedia. I get to read thought happen. Apropo…

Digital stupidity is rife, spreading like a common cold, leaving children everywhere immunocompromised, adults ethically stunted, and technologists waving their conceits like handk…

It's the finest manure to fertilize thought we can turn over with only a fork

Yes

The core should be in rust, verfied in lean, and the runtime should be in guile. Literate programming in org-mode should be a hard requirement. Package management should require pa…

Thank you. This was the comment I was looking for.

Ah JCB, how I love your writing, you are always so very generous. Your This Week's Finds were a hugely enjoyable part of my undergraduate education and beyond. Thank you again.

I used to be an artist and then studied science. The first constitution I read was that of the USA, then that of Ireland. I've been reading law since. The decisions of judges are o…

Yes, and I'm an European. I don't think this is a matter of spirit or letter of Law, rather it is a matter of rigour or fluffy wooliness of thought.

Provable how? What's an AI watermark? What's a work of art? How inundated by works containing supposedly unique digital signatures nonetheless susceptible to collision attacks do t…

Having worked in cancer hospitals at the age of 16 (35 years ago) and having a father a doctor who coordinated long term cancer treatment in our country, I can say that cancer trea…