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Comment by RiderOfGiraffes | Hacker News Reader

Previous discussions are closed now, of course, but in case anyone is interested in the HN thoughts and opinions, here are some links.

The result was announced some 6 years ago, and there was a long discussion about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1587340

It was submitted again three years ago with another lengthy discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7374994

The other submissions had no discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3921215 (1689 days ago)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1606717 (2315 days ago)

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The quality of the comments is surprisingly high: a AWS analysis, some maths, etc.

My favorite being:

    > If you disassemble your cube and put it back together, there
    > are 12 possible sets that you can land in. Those sets are
    > not reachable from each other.
    > The proof is quite elementary.

There are even more sets if you start painting the sides

Thanks for reposting. i had missed this.

I always hesitate - some people hate it, others appreciate it. I think it's worth cross-connecting previous conversations, because I see the HN discussions as a resource. Others seem to think it should all be ephemeral and throw-away.

Having said all that, I hope this gets some new discussion.

This jarred loose a memory... You and I discussed this here once, years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=227579

The experiential difference of seeing the contextualization you put in the top-level post here, and just seeing a list of links (like you used to do) is huge. This way feels friendly like being invited into a larger conversation. A "sterile" list of previous discussion feels a little too much like "OMG repost".

I can't speak for others - but I think you hit the sweet spot of how to do the cross-connecting.

I think of it as a public service, so others don't have to do the same. Thanks!

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