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Re:Gezellig – a word that encompasses the heart of Dutch Culture
on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @09:06AM (#35627652)
It’s a family of North Sea words at various stages of commercialization/gentrification: koselig,gesellig,hygge,cosagach,cozy.
Re:Gezellig – a word that encompasses the heart of Dutch Culture
on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @08:51AM (#35627497)
Can always move on to Koselig, even shorter distance to ‘cozy’
Re:The End of Matter (1906) by Henri Poincaré
on Tuesday April 04, 2023 @10:41AM (#35440399)
The essay seems to be predicated on the mistaken notion at the time that the electron has no mass..
RIP M Poincare was a great man.
Re:The Priest in the Arena
on Sunday April 02, 2023 @09:30PM (#35417454)
According to eternally recurring themes in myth-legend-history the next one in the sequence is: the engineer/developer/artist in the arena.
From the Aesir/Vanir, the Titans/Olympians to the French & Russian revolutions.
“The ultimate structure of the myth, then, is that the three estates of Proto-Indo-European society were fused only after a war between the first two against the third...”
(The third being not those who engage in (corporate) warfare or (rhetorical) magic, but those who working with concrete stuff (modern day fertility cults))
From the wikipedia article on the aesir-vanir war.
For the decentralized subculture, perhaps “the persons above the arena”
Re:2023 Abel Prize: Luis A. Caffarelli
on Wednesday March 22, 2023 @07:31PM (#35268531)
Think of it as an upgrade from no bels to a single bel. The next milestone is weird, ten bels.
Re:Three Body, a review: Chinese production beats Netflix to the screen
on Monday February 06, 2023 @09:06AM (#34677418)
From the banner it looks like Zhang Lennon plays the lead.
Re:CEO behind ChatGPT says his tech is ready to beat capitalism
on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:53AM (#34677264)
CEO behind ChatGPT says his tech is ready to beat capitalism
Re:Three Body, a review: Chinese production beats Netflix to the screen
on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:48AM (#34677223)
Three Body, a review: Chinese production beats Netflix to the screen
Re:Eton and All the Murder (2019)
on Friday February 03, 2023 @10:53AM (#34642721)
>He beat the nanny, Sandra Rivett, to death with a lead pipe.
One wonders if the Etonians of earlier decades were hit as hard by lead poisoning as by a misplaced sense of impunity.
Re:Knot Portal to Narnia in VR, Inspired by Bill Thurston
on Thursday January 19, 2023 @06:21PM (#34447053)
Knot Portal to Narnia in VR, Inspired by Bill Thurston
Re:Sorry, What's Going on Here?
on Thursday January 19, 2023 @05:30AM (#34438790)
Do YC no longer pay the mods’ salaries? That’s odd, I was under the impression that HN exists to serve the interests of YC. If you look carefully at the behavior of the largely negative Coinbase thread—- given its upvotes and recency it shouldnt be so quickly off the front page compared to others now on it. Not to mention the regular job postings.
Re:Piero della Francesca's symbolic egg (2013)
on Thursday January 19, 2023 @04:49AM (#34438480)
In the comments:
“Ostrich eggs are a spider repellent (this is such common knowledge that authors may not feel a need to clarify this detail) and spiders are sacred in Islam because a spider saved Mohammad's life. As a matter of fact, the modern mosques in Istanbul also have ostrich eggs.”
Hmm, shouldn’t these facts make ostrich eggs kind of unholy? Anybody has a resolution?
Re:One man’s two-decade quest to let the ‘Irish Giant’ rest in peace
on Tuesday January 17, 2023 @08:49AM (#34412312)
Sadly, he enjoyed only one year of voluntary fame before passing away, at age 23. Of what exact causes I do not know, but it is said that he was an alcoholic.
Re:“The Californian Ideology” by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (1995)
on Sunday January 08, 2023 @08:05AM (#34298781)
Likewise, freedom (blue) is made in multiple flavours, some uniquely (Northern) Californian vintage
Re:“The Californian Ideology” by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (1995)
on Sunday January 08, 2023 @07:26AM (#34298512)
Re:Five Mildly Anti-Buddhist Essays
on Saturday January 07, 2023 @10:20AM (#34288767)
Now that you mention it, Christianity is Judaism stripped for export. And that’s discounting the BBC take that Jesus was a Buddhist monk.
Re:“The Californian Ideology” by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (1995)
on Saturday January 07, 2023 @09:54AM (#34288497)
That’s the whiff of freedom (probably no grapes involved)
https://web.stanford.edu/dept/pres-provost/president/speeche...
Re:“The Californian Ideology” by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (1995)
on Saturday January 07, 2023 @09:48AM (#34288435)
>Somehow I don't think "the European artist-engineers"[0] ever did construct a cyberspace[1] which is inclusive and universal.
Otlet & La Fontaine came close when they tried to get Le Corbusier (quite the artist-engineer) to build a version of the Mundaneum. They intended it to be public and electric, even somewhat decentralized. The surviving bits of it is fully wheelchair accessible.
Re:Long out of math, an AI programmer cracks a pure math problem
on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @08:38PM (#34240793)
The probabilistic version of nerd-sniping, nerd-bombing.
Re:The Infrastructure Behind ATMs
on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @07:04AM (#34230444)
Physicists like to call this kind of sum “finite”, to make it sound closer to infinity, which sounds better than “nonzero”, which makes it sound too close to zero.
Re:Lula Becomes Brazil’s President, Bolsonaro Flees to Florida
on Sunday January 01, 2023 @02:38PM (#34209951)
Paradise
Re:AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:56AM (#34170516)
Going to buy some SamAltman WorldCoins now. Nothing like profitting from and supporting AI safety and AI based dystopia at the same time. /s
Re:AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:42AM (#34170451)
I think WorldCoin is more popular with the Third World, who simultaneously are more willing to spam and less concerned about rights. Should have called it ThirdWorldCoin. The prophet having renown away from home etc /s
Re:AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:34AM (#34170418)
Hey, you folks who are willing to pay to be part of a vetted community? Looks like Sam Altman’s WorldCoin, which is about verifiable identity, might just become a viable business. ChatGPT’s role in that strategy makes more sense now.. remember Altman is behind OpenAI? If this is part of his strategy to monopolize internet comments, then his next step is to have ChatGPT recognize its own outputs. (To deal with those WorldCoiners who abuse ChatGPT, for example.)
Re:AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
on Thursday December 29, 2022 @02:26AM (#34170375)
You’d be happy to pay? Looks like Sam Altman’s WorldCoin, which is about verifiable identity, might just become a viable business. ChatGPT’s role in that strategy makes more sense now.. remember Altman is behind OpenAI?
Re:Unbundling Tools for Thought
on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:07AM (#34149847)
Uh yeah.. also a hint of “Ozark” in there, to make it uh .. taste like nepotism