Hacker News: GuerraEarth

New comment by GuerraEarth in "[dead]"

GuerraEarth — Thu, 01 Jul 2021 20:51:48 +0000

We should try to help Brittney.

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Cuba′s Covid vaccine rivals Pfizer, Moderna"

GuerraEarth — Sun, 27 Jun 2021 19:04:57 +0000

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.

New comment by GuerraEarth in "[dead]"

GuerraEarth — Fri, 28 May 2021 20:21:21 +0000

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

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Is Twitter down for anyone else?"

GuerraEarth — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:47:58 +0000

I am fully in--Twitter back online NYC

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Is Twitter down for anyone else?"

GuerraEarth — Tue, 11 Mar 2014 18:33:44 +0000

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

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Scientists Discover a Jewel at the Heart of Quantum Physics"

GuerraEarth — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 16:40:25 +0000

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.

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Why Heroku Adopted a Code of Conduct Policy and Sponsored The Ada Initiative"

GuerraEarth — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 05:25:49 +0000

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.

New comment by GuerraEarth in "1st Video Ever of Moon Orbiting Earth"

GuerraEarth — Wed, 11 Dec 2013 01:01:36 +0000

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.

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Learn to code like it's 1996"

GuerraEarth — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 23:43:54 +0000

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.

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Learn to code like it's 1996"

GuerraEarth — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 12:21:04 +0000

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

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Learn to code like it's 1996"

GuerraEarth — Tue, 10 Dec 2013 06:02:47 +0000

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

New comment by GuerraEarth in "The Hack That Brought Foursquare Back From The Dead"

GuerraEarth — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 18:55:03 +0000

Even worse are the audio ads.

New comment by GuerraEarth in "NSA surveillance: tech companies demand sweeping changes to US laws"

GuerraEarth — Mon, 09 Dec 2013 15:04:23 +0000

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.

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Ask HN: Hacker News Person Of the Year"

GuerraEarth — Tue, 26 Nov 2013 14:37:58 +0000

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?

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Motherfucking Website"

GuerraEarth — Mon, 25 Nov 2013 04:25:31 +0000

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

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Show HN: Alice in Wonderland"

GuerraEarth — Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:41:20 +0000

"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.

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Wolfram Language"

GuerraEarth — Sat, 23 Nov 2013 13:49:15 +0000

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

New comment by GuerraEarth in "JavaScript particle simulator"

GuerraEarth — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 00:28:20 +0000

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

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Chernobyl Fungus Feeds On Radiation (2007)"

GuerraEarth — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 22:18:18 +0000

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

New comment by GuerraEarth in "Why are firetrucks red?"

GuerraEarth — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 20:20:35 +0000

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.