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New comment by hackandthink in "Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem"

hackandthink — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:28:30 +0000

if you are a fast learner

The British state has lost the argument

hackandthink — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:13:18 +0000

Article URL: https://jonathancook.substack.com/p/the-british-state-has-lost-the-argument

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49508715

Points: 46

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Chartbook 467 "Mad dogs and ": Heatwave economics – summer 2026

hackandthink — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 18:12:16 +0000

Article URL: https://adamtooze.substack.com/p/chartbook-467-mad-dogs-and-heatwave

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49322288

Points: 2

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New comment by hackandthink in "New Lower and Upper Bounds for the Grothendieck Constant"

hackandthink — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:51:58 +0000

By Grothendieck's standards, there are a surprising number of important practical applications.

"Grothendieck's Theorem, past and present"

https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.4195

New comment by hackandthink in "Fields Medals 2026"

hackandthink — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 20:43:53 +0000

Scary stuff from one of the winners:

"A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence"

(Jacob Tsimerman, Andrew Critch)

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.09369

DeBasification a Fancy Word for Booting the US Out of the Middle East

hackandthink — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 04:32:29 +0000

Article URL: https://larrycjohnson.substack.com/p/debasification-a-fancy-word-for-booting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49001921

Points: 10

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New comment by hackandthink in "Profiling the "Abundance" housing bottleneck with real data"

hackandthink — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:27:33 +0000

Berlin was divided.

Like Berlin, Vienna had occupation zones, but there was never a wall between them.

Cloudflare Threatens to Cut Google Off from Their Publishers in Searches

hackandthink — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 03:43:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/07/cloudflare-threatens-to-cut-google-off-from-their-publishers-in-searches-due-to-ai-scraping.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48878074

Points: 6

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Domination Without Hegemony and the Limits of US World Power

hackandthink — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 15:17:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Corey-Payne/publication/363778292_Domination_Without_Hegemony_and_the_Limits_of_US_World_Power/links/63937c1be42faa7e75ad0569/Domination-Without-Hegemony-and-the-Limits-of-US-World-Power.pdf?origin=journalDetail&_tp=eyJwYWdlIjoiam91cm5hbERldGFpbCJ9

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48528094

Points: 4

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Liu Jianjun: the false faith in social sciences

hackandthink — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 16:04:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.eastisread.com/p/liu-jianjun-the-false-faith-in-social

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48447137

Points: 4

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New comment by hackandthink in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

hackandthink — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 14:31:07 +0000

Mearsheimer was right: Putin wrecks Ukraine.

https://www.mearsheimer.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Why-t...

Simpson's Paradox

hackandthink — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:45:21 +0000

Article URL: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/paradox-simpson/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48421782

Points: 5

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New comment by hackandthink in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

hackandthink — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:07:16 +0000

It is neither obvious nor intuitive. But it is logical possible that we all are Zombies.

In my regard the weak link is our understanding of materialism. It is to simple minded. (though panpsychism sounds really crank)

New comment by hackandthink in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

hackandthink — Mon, 18 May 2026 06:54:42 +0000

Chalmers: “It is natural to hope that there will be a materialist solution to the hard problem and a reductive explanation of consciousness, just as there have been reductive explanations of many other phenomena in many other domains. But consciousness seems to resist materialist explanation in a way that other phenomena do not.”

"A landscape of consciousness: Toward a taxonomy of explanations and implications"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S007961072...

New comment by hackandthink in "Mearsheimer and Walt versus Nuland and Pompeo"

hackandthink — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:36:02 +0000

That would be a good fit for a prediction market.

I think Restraint usually loses. In times like these, though, warmongers have a harder time, and those two are truly creepy characters.

Mearsheimer and Walt versus Nuland and Pompeo

hackandthink — Sat, 16 May 2026 17:31:29 +0000

Article URL: https://mearsheimer.substack.com/p/mearsheimer-and-walt-versus-nuland

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48162155

Points: 2

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New comment by hackandthink in "“Why not just use Lean?”"

hackandthink — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:51:00 +0000

>the law of the excluded middle, which says something can't be true and false at the same time

This is the not excluded middle, it is the "Law of noncontradiction"

Excluded middle means: either p is true or the negation of p is true

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

New comment by hackandthink in "US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification"

hackandthink — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 17:51:29 +0000

I don't care about gas prices either. But next winter is going to be expensive. I don't have the option of switching from natural gas to a heat pump.

But of course, electrification as soon as possible.

New comment by hackandthink in "US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification"

hackandthink — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 15:13:04 +0000

I guess, a high oil price is a good thing for the oil industry, especially when producing oil domestically becomes more expensive.

But I also don't believe in some conspiracy by the American oil industry to eliminate other suppliers in order to fleece Europe.

(the article is not by Henry Farrell itself, it seems to be below his niveau)

https://shalemag.com/peak-oil-production-in-the-us/

US is making Europe pay dearly for its half-hearted electrification

hackandthink — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:48:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.programmablemutter.com/cp/195461224

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47907984

Points: 25

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