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mathoff··on The Billable Usage API: programmatic cost visibility for Cloudflare
Translated: Close, but still not hard cost cap at Cloudflare.
mathoff··on The Mystics of Progress (2023)
> one of the most difficult problems facing Western/global civilization is the construction of a belief system that understands this flaw of nihilism and presents a strong argument for the alternative, factoring in scientific knowledge

Do you have any suggestions for this future belief system?

mathoff··on Ask HN: Comment here about whatever you're passionate about at the moment
I like it. However: pricing. If you trust that it will work you would offer a transparent income sharing, for example 1/3 for you 2/3 for me with a credible income UI would be an acceptable offer.
mathoff··on Ask HN: What are some good inspirational and uplifting books?
Try Alter https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38212108-the-hebrew-bibl... .
mathoff··on New Teams Features
OTR?
mathoff··on New Teams Features
Hi malgorithms, I like team "badges". Is it possible somehow to embed my keybase.io profile into my website, e.g. as a widget?
mathoff··on Michael Puett’s book The Path draws on the insights of Chinese philosophers
His book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23492653-the-path
mathoff··on “Evicted”, an ethnographic study of tenants in low-income housing (2016)
One step closer: this is the summary by the author http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/02/08/forced-out
mathoff··on Newborn girls named Hillary
Source: http://peterturchin.com/cliodynamica/cultural-evolution-knew...
mathoff··on Evolocumab and Clinical Outcomes in Patients with Cardiovascular Disease
"RESULTS At 48 weeks, the least-squares mean percentage reduction in LDL cholesterol levels with evolocumab, as compared with placebo, was 59% [...]"
mathoff··on Farts can cause infection if the emitter is naked, but not if clothed (2001)
French data indicate global phenomenon! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1326950/
mathoff··on Ask HN: What books fundamentally changed the way you think about the world?
Heidegger: Sein und Zeit https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21477742-martin-heidegge... (translation: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/92307.Being_and_Time ). Great philosophy, and, alas, nazi author. But you can't choose your family either.
mathoff··on Conflict and Consensus
"Americans relied on the organic growth of institutions to fit circumstances and experience. The true “genius” of American politics, he said, was that Americans had no political philosophy. Instead, they shared the common assumption “that institutions are not and should not be the grand creations of men toward large ends and outspoken values; rather they are organisms which grow out of the soil in which they are rooted and out of the tradition from which they have sprung.” The American Revolution was simply an attempt to preserve political institutions and practices inherited from Britain and adapted to the circumstances of American life. Even the Civil War “did not represent a quest for a general redefinition of political values” because it was an essentially conservative struggle between differences of “constitutional emphasis,” not different political theories."
mathoff··on Annotation is now a web standard
Hm... that would be really sad.
mathoff··on Annotation is now a web standard
"The Publisher receives a notification for any annotations made on their site which are explicitly published publicly. There are two proposed mechanisms for this:

1) a client-side event which informs the page of the annotation's publication URLs;

2) a server-side notification sent to the publisher's “well-known” contact address.

Either or both of these mechanisms may be used, each with its own use cases." https://www.w3.org/annotation/diagrams/annotation-architectu...

mathoff··on USA: Legalization of marijuana caused a reduction of rapes and thefts [pdf]
+ reduced consumption of other drugs and both ordinary and binge alcohol
mathoff··on [dead]
Maybe we are not alone?
mathoff··on How Norway Avoided Becoming a Fascist State
" Meanwhile in Norway, the Norwegian Workers’ Party crafted a vision that seemed both radical and reasonable and won majority support for their view despite the dissent of a very small Communist Party. Grassroots movements built a large infrastructure of co-ops that showed their competency and positivity when the government and political conservatives lacked both. Additionally, activists reached beyond the choir, inviting participation from people who initially feared making large changes.

Norwegians also took a different attitude toward violence. They chose nonviolent direct action campaigns consisting of strikes, boycotts, demonstrations, and occupations—a far less fearsome picture than Nazi Brown Shirts and street fighting. Norway therefore lacked the dangerous chaos that in Germany led the middle classes to accept the elite’s choice of Hitler to bring “law and order.” "

mathoff··on What Do Animals See in the Mirror?
Yes: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=3388267104904598345
mathoff··on The most cited deep learning papers
The most cited deep learning papers: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q="deep+learning"
mathoff··on Time-resolved 2M-year-old supernova activity found in Earth’s microfossil record
> What did the recent article add?

Yes. This is my question as well.

mathoff··on Time-resolved 2M-year-old supernova activity found in Earth’s microfossil record
FYI: Supernova link to ancient extinction [2002] http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2002/feb/13/superno...
mathoff··on The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics
In philosophy, this is what we call four dimensionalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-dimensionalism https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/temporal-parts/