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ColinWright

136,193karma·18,658submissions·December 14, 2009
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If you want to contact me, find me on the web. I am especially interested in math, juggling, programming, and education, and since there are other people with my name you'll probably need to include at least one of those terms in any search.

I was once a prolific contributor and commenter, but no more. I go through bouts of submitting stuff, but then go and disappear for lengths of time. If there is something you'd like me to see or comment on, you can email me. Don't ask me to upvote things. If it is interesting (to me) then I will.

Submissions do not imply endorsement.

My spam filtering is pretty severe, but I've put the word "Dysprosium" on the allow-list - quote that and your email will get through.

I used to have an email here but it got harvested by spammers - I'm looking at you, mbientlab.com - so it has been removed. This is a temporary one:

HN_a7dab8S4@solipsys.co.uk

Email sent there and quoting the element name will pass my spam filters. After that we can use "proper" email addresses.

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In my circles, "lol" means "laugh out loud" ... but I can see no reason why you would react in that way to this article. Am I missing something? Can you explain or expand on that …
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Quoting from the article: Representatives from Springer Nature declined to comment, beyond saying that “detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared …
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In case you're wondering where problem 23 might be, problems 19, 20, and 23 are listed together.
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Er, that's this submission.
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At this time of day HN can send a lot of traffic[0] in a very short period of time. [0] By some metric, of course.
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