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ColinWright

136,194karma·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.

recent activity (18,658 total)
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October 2010. Probably still relevant, and certainly interesting (to some), but not current "news".
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Thanks for replying and sorry I never got back to you about your experiments, No problem ... The AskHN wasn't officially killed (more backdoor BS) it just can't be found except…
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Firstly, it seemed to me that yesterday I heard nothing but people talking about "The Impending Ice Age." This isn't news to me, and it's not secret. Secondly, all news sources have to decide what th…
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Interesting how on one hand people are claiming that the government is colluding to create internet censorship, and on the other hand the government is sponsoring a device to help circumvent internet …
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Perfectly possible. Ethical? Different question. Further, if you annoy hackers and they think you are being unethical, they may choose to take more "direct action". Why would you do this anyway? If…
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I'm always worried about these sorts of things. If there's enough money in the eventual jobs then people will start choosing to do engineering, because the benefits outweigh the costs. Part of the co…
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Clear explanation of the different forms of libration: http://www.nmm.ac.uk/gcse-astronomy/sun-and-moon/moon-moveme... …
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Previous reports: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652900 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2654567 …
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From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html : If you submit a link to a video or pdf, please warn us by appending [video] or [pdf] to the title. See also: http://news.ycombinator.co…
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Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652991
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Submission of the referenced TechCrunch version is here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2649458
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Clickable: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2312566
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Submitted 6 hours ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652900 Much, much discussion there already. Don't add to it here.…
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Originally submitted by brandall10 - but now deleted. Not sure why - I thought it was interesting.
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Typo in your title - bet you didn't use the bookmarklet to submit this. http://ycombinator.com/bookmarklet.html
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Hey Greg - didn't you submit this just 5 hours ago? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652020
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See also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652387
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From 3 days ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2640972 Much discussion there.
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Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2652194 And as I write it's still on the "Newest" page, and it's made the front page.…
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The actual math starts at about 1:05
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Duplicate: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651730 There is no discussion there yet, I add this imply to ensure that if any comments are made, they don't get split between the two submissions. A…
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Duplicated: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2651951 There is no discussion there yet, I add this imply to ensure that if any comments are made, they don't get split between the two submissions. …
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