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> Does nothing well except generate heat. Like the current GPUs running my application? I wish you would directed that to my comment above. I would reassert that something like thi…

> Look, you’re not wrong about anything Nor you! I was just returning to thank you for posting your original idea to listen to this--I was only clarifying my thoughts before--Leary…

I agree that hallucinogens have therapeutic promise. Leary (and John Lilly, and others) was forward thinking in this respect. But they can be dangerous if misused, with the potenti…

Designs like this are what I like to see in my field of implicit modeling of geometry. We need processors with more general purpose ISA, recursion, and 64 bit floats due to the fun…

Respectfully, it's about what I expected. A mostly earnest man addressing the real problems of the military/industrial dystopia, the world's break from reality, with a bit of wisdo…

In other words, like hallucinogens, computers and "cyber-enhanced" reality aren't necessarily bad medicine , but they are strong medicine . Playing them off as "cool" and enhanceme…

Thank you for your comments and consideration of our time. I think it was Stanislaw Lem that said there is so much poor quality writing out there, reviewers should present the mate…

Is it too late to nominate Nadsat? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadsat or Newspeak? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak both expressive languages developed by forward thinkers …

> Hackernews armchair linguists seem to think an ideal language for world communication can somehow be engineered from some small set of primitives, like Scheme I see we have met. …

I got to thinking about silent movies, like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. I don't think I ever saw another treatment of home ownership quite so apropos as: https://en.wikipedi…

OK in Firefox desktop Linux.

Anything interesting in it? Would you recommend it and why?

It's interesting to draw a parallel between the popularization of acid by Leary and the popularization of the Internet by many. John Lilly experimented with hallucinogens, but knew…

Nice writeup, thanks. > It depends. I hardly ever give up a computer, we still have a '98 Windows laptop doing recipe duty in the kitchen. (It's getting harder to find a small 32 b…

It might have been more interesting to watch Aki Kaurismäki's movies, including the Proletariat Trilogy if I understood Finnish. I'd like to know a very different language from my …

I like Couturat et al.'s Ido even better. I can't "think" in it yet, but it is very regular and easy to learn. The main (irrational, personal) issue I have with it is the monotony …

We need you here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32430592

As I finished the code for straight-line coil geometry tonight, I thought of an abbreviation for the above story. Take the year it happened, 2014 and subtract 30--(re)read this boo…

A Kubrick-directed LHOTP would have been a different series, too, I imagine. I don't think NBC had a Kubrick level budget either. On a side note, there was a rumor that the Caprico…

My father taught me how to chop wood in the early seventies at the age of 8 in the remote territory of suburban Connecticut. More dangerous was the wasps whose nest I disturbed nea…

Right, but LHOTP showed the importance of community--and the power of cooperation. [1] This was a strong theme in the first season. I grew up in Kansas in the late '70s to mid '80s…

As a follow on to a my previous submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32142757 Disappointingly, while the sequel "The Flying Girl and Her Chum" had a similar charm to th…

I forgot to add, at the time in 2014 I was working on this project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32491982 which lead to this one: https://github.com/JMC-design/tovero As I w…