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New comment by tonyvince7 in "Om Malik has died"

tonyvince7 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 05:46:16 +0000

Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Requiescant in pace. Amen.

New comment by tonyvince7 in "I pitched a roller coaster to Disneyland at age 10 in 1978"

tonyvince7 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 15:37:39 +0000

WED’s letterhead was immaculate.

New comment by tonyvince7 in "These Men dove to the Edmund Fitzgerald shipwreck decades ago. Their stories"

tonyvince7 — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 14:14:43 +0000

The ship was the pride of the American side Coming back from some mill in Wisconsin As the big freighters go, it was bigger than most With a crew and good captain well seasoned Concluding some terms with a couple of steel firms When they left fully loaded for Cleveland And later that night when the ship's bell rang Could it be the north wind they'd been feeling?

The wind in the wires made a tattle-tale sound And a wave broke over the railing And every man knew, as the captain did too 'Twas the witch of November come stealing The dawn came late, and the breakfast had to wait When the gales of November came slashin' When afternoon came, it was freezin' rain In the face of a hurricane west wind

When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin' "Fellas, it's too rough to feed ya" At seven p.m., a main hatchway caved in, he said "Fellas, it's been good to know ya" The captain wired in he had water comin' in And the good ship and crew was in peril And later that night when his lights went outta sight Came the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

-- Gordon Lightfoot, The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald

Money, sex and a Buddhist monk: Head Shaolin Temple under investigation

tonyvince7 — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 12:51:47 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/28/china/china-shaolin-abbot-shi-yongxin-investigation-intl-hnk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44710370

Points: 2

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New comment by tonyvince7 in "Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms"

tonyvince7 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:39:13 +0000

Can recommend watching this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shc9aOdWJ-g

New comment by tonyvince7 in "Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms"

tonyvince7 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 14:23:01 +0000

Unlike the animals in the Zoo, the sight of a wild Asian elephant (males especially) with unaltered tusks is very intimidating. People don't dare to go near the wild ones even when they are friendly. The domesticated animals (ones used in temple proceedings) are a different story. They are still majestic but sadly in chains and strappings so people touch and feed them often. Google 'Pampadi Rajan' - name of a domesticated elephant

New comment by tonyvince7 in "Behaviors reveal sophisticated tool use and possible “pranking” among pachyderms"

tonyvince7 — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:44:10 +0000

I am from south India where a lot of wild elephants roam the villages and towns. When elephants come to roam the streets most people lock themselves in their homes and alert the forest division authorities. Someone I know once rescued a baby elephant from a trap set for boars. Every year, a herd of elephants stop by his gate and leave presents - mostly bananas and coconuts. They wait for him to come out, make a friendly gesture - folding their trunks in a specific way, and leave peacefully. Our elders tell us that elephants have memory and show gratitude and they can hold a grudge so be respectful all the time.

New comment by tonyvince7 in "12,000-year-old realistic human statue was unearthed"

tonyvince7 — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 06:57:09 +0000

Graham Hancock must be feeling vindicated

New comment by tonyvince7 in "Visualizing Quantum Entanglement of Photons"

tonyvince7 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 07:57:43 +0000

visualization of the wave function of two entangled photons in real time

Visualizing Quantum Entanglement of Photons

tonyvince7 — Thu, 24 Aug 2023 07:57:43 +0000

Article URL: https://phys.org/news/2023-08-visualizing-mysterious-quantum-entanglement-photons.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37246180

Points: 1

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New comment by tonyvince7 in "How can I get my boyfriend to stop digging his tunnel?"

tonyvince7 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 15:11:11 +0000

The HN replies are more of an encouraging nature where as the reddit replies are more "how to stop the tunnelling". What explains this?

New comment by tonyvince7 in "Billionaires-in-space critics are 'largely right', Bezos concedes"

tonyvince7 — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 10:40:19 +0000

"The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision." - Randal Monroe of xkcd

New comment by tonyvince7 in "Bitcoin as an Investment (2018) [pdf]"

tonyvince7 — Thu, 10 Jun 2021 07:32:24 +0000

The main problem with this analysis is that it is purely based on the fiat standard. Bitcoin as a store of value is conceptualised as an alternative to this fiat standard. Over the years many "experts" claimed

- Bitcoin will collapse at x and will never recover

- The institutional adoption will not happen

- It can not be used for day-to-day payments

- It will never become a legal tender

We all know what happened to these predictions over the years.

WE FOUND Panzer of the Lake! | Mysteries in History

tonyvince7 — Tue, 23 Mar 2021 11:36:18 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO58B6LcTfM

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26553803

Points: 1

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New comment by tonyvince7 in "Removing Holocaust Denial Content"

tonyvince7 — Mon, 12 Oct 2020 14:52:22 +0000

“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”

- From Noam Chomsky's (Chomsky's grandparents are holocaust survivors) on the foreword for "Some Elementary Comments on the Rights of Freedom of Expression" for the book of French Holocaust denier Robert Faurisson.