GuerraEarth

We should try to help Brittney.

El Che Guevara made free medical education rampant and commonplace. When there was a breakout of Ebola some years back, Cuba was there, FIRST, front and center. Rival that, anybody? No surprise here that their vax is superlative. ALSO, when nobody would allow disease-stricken cruise ships to dock for medical help,at the initiation of Covid-19,Cuba took them. That is how Cubans contracted Covid. Beautiful, good, excellent, time-capsule Cuba.

I hope to offer a paid internship to local youths (up to two) for Summer 2021 to learn to draw. Asking for funding ideas for them, as I am unemployed but highly skilled and full of heart zeal. First a painter, then a JPL fellow and now again a painter. Upper West Side, NYC. Alison

I am fully in--Twitter back online NYC

They just forgot to re-write after Jan 1, 2014.

The excitement would be if spacetime and quantum mechanics can be shown as emergent from something more fundamental. Locality and unitarity emergent from an underlying principle. Right now, with Feynman diagrams, locality and unitarity are built in. So this new scattering structure formulation doesn't need Hilbert space, spacetime and quantum mechanics.

When I am bullied, I step up and speak out. This is a nice posting. I let you know that it is basically invisible. I've been more than once downvoted on HN, but I speak out in an educative way and turn the situation around. It's hard to know what to do, isn't it? Nobody wants to control the way a person responds, even if they respond in a bullying manner. That would ruin the site. Still, I can remember being much more shy than I am now. I think it is more than gender, more than ego, more than ignorance. Whatever it is that makes a conduct policy even be necessary, I don't think we have the tiger by the tail on this. More needs to be done. Much more. Conduct starts in the heart of our thought/impulses. Acting out in comment or in action (at a conference) is a demonstration of how we feel and think. I wish we could reach that part of ourselves and that a "conduct code" wouldn't be necessary.

Juno launched by Atlas 551 rocket, but that powered only as far as the asteroid belt. Then the Sun sucked Juno back in, effectively causing Juno spacecraft to orbit the Sun. The Earth flyby was planned as a trajectory to increase Juno's speed relative to the Sun so it can reach Jupiter. Earth's gravity causes a change in velocity to the spacecraft relative to the Sun, as much as a second Atlas 551 would give. Like a ricochet/slingshot.

Hey. It was the "Ada" one-word comment that made me do it : ) Anyway, thank you for being a good sport, code_duck. HN readers are an incredibly good group of people. It's a luxury, having HN. As good as a Christmas stocking each and every day.

Hi code_duck. It's actually code, not free association. Let me uncode: Ada Lovelace wrote what most consider to be the first programming code. She wrote notes for the Analytical Engine--Babbage's early computer. She was a visionary regarding design and specifically how society could collaborate with technology. In the recent discussions about all people learning to code, I responded to the simple comment "Ada," by pointing a bit more sharply to the inflection behind that comment. Ada the language, yes, but the concept of society at large and coding goes back as far as Lovelace herself. There is a current of comment going now too that suggests the need for a broad underlying knowledge base on the part of hackers/programmers. Lovelace had that educational background. Humanities, science, culture. The whole soup. I am sorry that you were offended by my comment. I hope this elucidation helps. --GuerraEarth

Countess of Lovelace and daughter of poet Lord Byron. Analytical Engine.

Even worse are the audio ads.

They were all collaborators. They collaborated. Lavabit was not a collaborator and Lavabit did not collaborate--in case it needs to be more clearly stated.

POY: the nucleus group of Aaron Swartz, Edward Snowden, and someone we should not forget to thank, Assange. Where, pray tell, would we be without them?

Well, I read it letting my eyes sweep back and forth.

"Unless you are craigslist." Isn't that the crappiest design ever?!? And isn't it the greatest website idea...and even more interesting since it's so good and it looks like (what he said) :=)

Alice has a right to be skew and whacked out. It is odd, though. Still, ravishing. Thanks for posting.

The red fire truck russianed in a lot of Wolfram interest.

No, but why don't you write a cool 30 lines of Perl. I'm a fan of Perl.

Funghi absorb radionuclides strongly. The reindeer and other grazers who eat lichen, etc. are all highly contaminated now. Look up radiotrophic funghi.

Okay. Here is more: http://www.wolframscience.com/appearances

It was 2002. I was a sophomore. The buzz was big. Everybody came. Packed the room. I can see him now, speaking. A male student assisting him. Patterns. Leaves. I wanted to make my way to him to say I got it, but the crowd was too thick. And everyone was so disappointed. They didn't understand. Columbia isn't receptive to extremely creative minds. They rep that they are, but in reality, we get treated badly here. That is why so many creative people leave Columbia. Anyway, he came here, explained his ideas, or at least elucidated them beyond theory, showed us models. And asked if students were interested in researching with him to please let him know. It was big and bold. Quiet. Subtle. And cinematic all at the same time. Very detailed.

Wolfram came here some years back--to Columbia University. A huge room was packed, but nobody understood him. He tried to explain his vision for universal patterns. I followed him. Few did. He was above their heads. The presentation ended in confusion. Some jerks in the room said Wolfram wasn't anything but the creator of Mathematica. They couldn't relate. He'd come here to look for good people to join his research team. He wanted recruits.

I see your point, chc. And you are right. Talking politics on a site like HN is defacto undesirable. But the NSA dogs made feces mandatory conversation--if we want to live our lives *shit free--and so the door once opened just gets wider. It is sad. All this stuff is really sad.

I was at this talk. Extended Q and A. Speaker makes lots of sweeping oratorial gestures: "There is sufficient villiany, but not enough heroism," etc. The talks are substantive and another in the series is scheduled for Dec. 4. Small reception follows.

I had zero help and made the mistake of a lifetime with my co-founder. My application to YC became fodder for landfill. After the YC door closed, something miraculous opened. I have now in my lap an opportunity that would be unbelievable even in a movie script. YC is a guidepost. Whether you go or not. The basic resources are all here on HN--excellence and a friend or two.

Just sent you an email with wording "marketing" that can help. I'm interested to see that good things don't languish and I am a strong writer--happy to give.

Article title reads ES "blasts NSA," yet "This is clearly an overstep," hardly seems blast-like. How on earth can ES make cozy at the White House (with La Hillary) and not think he's compromising himself/Google? How can we stretch our waning imaginations and believe anything ES says? How can we believe Obama, about--anything? My gosh, after he went for Snowden like a torpedo. Impeding the Bolivian president's plane. I just don't believe ES. I don't believe Obama, either. And I voted for him. (censor me HN if you need to)

Everpix. They just needed someone on the team who was passionate about marketing. Whose gifts ran in that direction. I bet what they do next will be even better/hotter.

Okay, well, don't please anyone be despondent. Do something fun to pass the time and start thinking about what we will all build tomorrow. We need every man on deck for our future. And remember, if we don't get YC, there are mass Angel investors out there, and there is Kickstarter (did you see that Dark Mail Alliance is taking bids!?). And I applied for a Shuttleworth Fellowship. Or alternatively, we can just build our stuff with no help at all. We actually don't need any cash. Just good advice because navigating the processes are full of pitfalls. Honestly, I am in my school library reading a Gothic horror novel to pass the night. That and doing an investigation of radium dial painters in the 1920's.

Excuse me, dear Locke1689, but the lads were. Young. My gx5 grandfather was 16 or 17 and fought and Alexander Hamilton and a bunch of college boys left Columbia (then King's College) to fight under Washington. And some chap who signed the Constitution named Dayton was age 26. A whole bunch of them were young.

Oh baddox, you are right, (I forgot) and alas, it is young idealists whom we so often need to lead us into the future. Those Revolutionary lads founding our country were below presidential age bar and that is why they were so mighty--they were still idealists full of passion.