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Unfortunately we do not have a solution for countering this kind of a 'denial of service' attack on information consumption. It is trivial to concoct believable lies as compared to the effor…

And when they come in power it's not that they will hold any one accountable -- looking at Obama's administration.

How do you calibrate the GPS

Early humans fill me with awe with their ingenuity. Consider the planets. They noticed that among thousands of stars these five move funny. Of course it helped that most of them are very bright and do…

Yes it will be a catenary but it is not a problem if the purpose is to mark the ground. If the purpose is also to measure the distance between the 'pegs' and one uses the length of the cable…

I think wetting and drying of paper is a bit like heat treatment of steel. The fibres find a new local minimum stable position, prompted by the swelling and the shrinking.

I did not know this, very interesting.

Then there is the puzzle of coming up with folds to intentionally increase the rigidity of the surface. Essentially, using Theorema Pizzarium

Do dupe's get necessarily de-ranked ? If it has active participation in the form of new comments, it makes sense to merge the comments and not penalize the post.

Exactly.

LoL. Most welcome. My best (worst) HN days are like that :)

I have an asterisk in my post addressing that :) Happy to have picqued your mind. BTW, your method was the method of choice for the surveyors of the Nile, from the Egyptian civilization. Paper is hi-t…

Yup and if you need a right angle, combine it with this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48538771 by roelschroeven. I often wondered how to ensure that the corners of a sheet of p…

Indeed ! One can create an axiomatic system of geometry through such coincident folds (as an alternative to straight-edge and compass) and it turns out to be more powerful than the Euclidean system. O…

And then Britney Spears albums out sold The Dark Side of the Moon

You are perhaps commenting about the force needed to fold, the persistence of the folded shape. My comment is about the shape of the crease once it has been folded. Most metals are stretchier than p…

Oh no! woe is me, they don't highlight my absolutely, ridiculously favourite fact/curiosity about a sheet of smooth paper: If you fold it clean, the crease is a straight line. In fact I don…

Avatar. In realising stic scenarios they wouldn't win.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Silent_World:_A_Story_of_U... Capitalism and stock markets would drive them to become Avatar'esque villains.…

Thanks so much.

Oh my bad, thanks for letting me know. I usually edit out manually, slipped my mind.

https://youtu.be/Ef93WmlEho0 Off by one error, twice.

Touche

Ah that "both sides". I stubbed my toe on a rock while trying to kick it. Both sides got hurt.

Oh yes absolutely. Intelligence certainly developed more than once. Bird brain is no slur. Before your comment I would have said it emerged twice, but then I had not considered octopuses, they are wic…

Octopuses are probably more alien than others.

We have rescue dog (abandoned on the street) and it seems to have a notion that violence within family is bad. I was quite surprised to see that when I mock threatened my wife with a broom in his pres…

Till AI starts denying medical insurance cover.

Premature optimization is that occasional dessert we serve ourselves because it tastes so good. That said, I agree with you that the maxim is often used to justify poor planning or absence of plannin…

I love this one https://ia801706.us.archive.org/7/items/in.ernet.dli.2015.14... Luenberger, Optimization By Vector Space Methods. Although it is about a specific application…