Hacker News: ashurbanipal

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Fathers’ choices may be packaged and passed down in sperm RNA"

ashurbanipal — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 18:11:55 +0000

There is no notable evidence here, just theoretical hints. Sympathetic magic, translated into modern context.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Malicious compliance by booking an available meeting room"

ashurbanipal — Thu, 15 May 2025 18:18:09 +0000

Good story thanks

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Library of Ashurbanipal"

ashurbanipal — Thu, 31 Aug 2023 22:33:38 +0000

You’re welcome

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab"

ashurbanipal — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 22:24:54 +0000

Is this cold fusion? The article contrasts this experiment with a plasma tokamak in the UK. I suppose the lasers require a lot of energy but it doesn't sound like there is a plasma is there?

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Age of the oldest known Homo sapiens from eastern Africa"

ashurbanipal — Fri, 14 Jan 2022 22:31:08 +0000

This seems to be case. Google Jebel Irhoud to learn more.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "How to Avoid the Time Wars"

ashurbanipal — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 01:58:08 +0000

This story is about the legalization of psychedelics. If it don’t believe me, read to the end.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Sleeping octopuses may have dreams, but they're probably brief"

ashurbanipal — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 23:16:13 +0000

Children of Ruin

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Inside the court of Ashurbanipal, king of the world"

ashurbanipal — Thu, 22 Nov 2018 16:11:27 +0000

Very cool, I endorse this post!

Older episodes of Dan Carlin’s hardcore history podcast that cover this period have put the whole ancient near east into context. highly recommend.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "U.S. Consumer Bureau Loses Fight to Allow More Class-Action Suits"

ashurbanipal — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 17:06:18 +0000

How would this situation qualify for a class action? You don't seem to be a member of some large class of people to me.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Search across every word from 25 years of the Simpsons"

ashurbanipal — Wed, 28 Jun 2017 20:29:53 +0000

This would be better if it was only 10 years of the Simpsons.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "How J.J. Abrams Created a Reading Experience Unlike Any Other"

ashurbanipal — Fri, 12 May 2017 21:47:07 +0000

Like Bats of the Republic, similar idea.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Time-resolved 2M-year-old supernova activity found in Earth’s microfossil record"

ashurbanipal — Fri, 27 Jan 2017 19:14:49 +0000

Just like in classic sci-fi Dragon's Egg. Supernova happens at the same time hominims begin to become human.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Updates to our Google Voice apps"

ashurbanipal — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 22:31:24 +0000

It looks like Hangouts can make free calls, but GV cannot. At least according to their respective descriptions in the Play store. That seems like a major downgrade.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Tally raises $15M for app to make credit cards less expensive, easier to manage"

ashurbanipal — Fri, 20 May 2016 01:18:17 +0000

i think that's the only way it works

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Tally raises $15M for app to make credit cards less expensive, easier to manage"

ashurbanipal — Fri, 20 May 2016 00:51:34 +0000

If a credit card company can make money from me by charging the merchants I use the card with, and the credit card company gets its money for free through bank deposits and the credit card company has decades and hundreds of millions already invested in its underwriting model, how can Tally sustainably charge me less than the credit card company?

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Tally raises $15M for app to make credit cards less expensive, easier to manage"

ashurbanipal — Fri, 20 May 2016 00:26:53 +0000

Tally appears to do no underwriting it simply offers you a lower rate than your current cards offer and allows you to pay all the bills at once? Or does Tally have a proprietary method to tell which borrowers are worthy of a lower rate, the story is not really clear on this point.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "The New Mind Control – The internet has spawned subtle forms of influence"

ashurbanipal — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 22:31:01 +0000

Hold on, so we call it "Mind Control" when Google shifts our preferences toward one of two pre-selected choices? What do we call the state of the world that leaves us with only 2 pre-selected choices who happen to agree on 90%+ of all policies?

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Prehistoric Art Found to Contain Stenciled Lizard Hands"

ashurbanipal — Wed, 09 Mar 2016 14:33:54 +0000

inhabitants of Lovecraft's Nameless City

New comment by ashurbanipal in "Jeff Bezos and the Amazon Way"

ashurbanipal — Sat, 22 Aug 2015 23:30:18 +0000

FLSA is not a joke anymore. Especially for a big company or one that has aspirations of becoming big.

New comment by ashurbanipal in "How Walking in Nature Changes the Brain"

ashurbanipal — Thu, 23 Jul 2015 13:25:51 +0000

Thank you for that link. I am not expert on statistical methods - is the reference to the F-stat in the link meant to indicate that the p-value was only 7%?