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gahikron The Topological Unified Field Theory on the Complex Hopf Fibration [pdf]

I'm skeptical of science publications I see on social media especially when they make grand claims, but this seems to be interesting. I don't have a deep enough physics/topology background to be able to assess this paper though. I know some theories of everything end up non-verifiable or predict anything you want it to predict. Any opinions from people with physics/topology backgrounds?

gahikron Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office

Microsoft owns a lot of commercial real estate. The people who manage the commercial real estate within Microsoft certainly care about the value of those investments.

gahikron US judge throws out FTC's ban on non-compete agreements

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Brown_(judge)

Brown is a member of ... the Federalist Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society

gahikron Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D

I wonder what would happen if a critical mass of people with Roths, 401ks, index funds gave their proxy vote to Bernie Sanders instead of BlackRock, Vanguard, etc.?

gahikron Ask HN: My mother is slowly losing her eyesight, how to prepare?

My mom has macular degeneration and she loved to read.

At first I bought her an e-reader and a subscription to a library that had more ebooks than our local library. That gave her access without driving and she was able to adjust the font, font-size, contrast and brightness to her satisfaction. That worked for several years.

My backup plan for things getting worse was to move to audiobooks which she refused to try earlier because it felt like giving up to her. Braille was out of the question. Unfortunately vision loss is often, but not always, a precursor to dementia which I now know. She slowly stopped most activities she enjoyed entire life.

In some ways, attitude it the most important tool. Acceptance of things you cannot change, adaptability and creativity to handle unexpected events along the way, and compassion to support her in her journey.

gahikron PayPal restores to its TOS $2,500 charge for any post they don't like

I've wondered how far these TOS via clicks can go and what would actually stand up in court.

I'm also surprised an activist hasn't attached a TOS to sending payments such as "By accepting my money you agree to pay me $1 Million dollars for any time I spend more that 5 minutes with customer service without my dispute being settled."

I seem to remember a case where someone altered the fine print agreement on a credit card application and the credit card company lost the case with the consumer, but I forget the details.

gahikron The death of corporate research labs

https://slate.com/business/2012/07/xerox-parc-and-bell-labs-...

I’m surprised you are the only one mentioning this. You change the rules of the game, you change the game.

gahikron Questions

From a US perspective, these are all markets that depend on expensive skilled US labor. Many things like manufacturing have shifted to labor markets that are cheaper. How much is due to currency differences, cost of living differences, etc. vs. employee safety or anti-pollution regulations ... I don’t know.

gahikron Advocates say paper ballots are safest

Why not have both as an audit system? Electronic voting for instant tabulation. It prints out a voter verifiable ballot receipt that goes into a ballot box. If the electronic count and the paper count don’t match, some error or fraudulent activity has occurred.

gahikron 1/0 = 0

So x%0 = x for all x?