“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely…
I had the same experience so I just bought their iOS port of Graphing Calculator. It's cheap at $10, it's excellent, but mostly I wanted to say thank you for doing such a ridiculous amount of unpaid work, at personal…
Again, the law and custom already cover this. When you hear a siren you're to become alert for the possibility of flashers behind you. You are not supposed to just start pulling over because it may not be on the same…
The only reason this even looks like a problem is that humans don't follow the law. In most jurisdictions if there's an emergency vehicle running flashers and/or siren behind you on the same side of the road you're…
Note that I'm addressing the Snopes conclusion more than the comments of the HN poster, except insofar as he/she used Snopes as a source. The key elements of the Snopes article are these: -Victim was crushed by…
You're hitting the nail on its flattest head here. The metaphors are deliberately broken. The ways in which they break are meant to show aspects of the system. Theorems have characteristics that aren't obvious to…
"They also found that the man had a small sack with an iron key, about 20 silver coins and two bronze coins." This is exactly what I'd expect to find when searching a skeleton half-buried under a rock in an Elder…
It's also absolutely real and has been fairly common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_syndrome It's hard to understand why Snopes has this marked as a myth. The specific anecdote structure with the wife showing up…
It does sound a bit like Thud, doesn't it? From your link: Thud is a board game based on the earlier dwarfish game of Hnaflbaflsniflwhifltafl. It is played mainly by Dwarfs and Trolls... The game itself echos the game…
“This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely…
I had the same experience so I just bought their iOS port of Graphing Calculator. It's cheap at $10, it's excellent, but mostly I wanted to say thank you for doing such a ridiculous amount of unpaid work, at personal…
Again, the law and custom already cover this. When you hear a siren you're to become alert for the possibility of flashers behind you. You are not supposed to just start pulling over because it may not be on the same…
The only reason this even looks like a problem is that humans don't follow the law. In most jurisdictions if there's an emergency vehicle running flashers and/or siren behind you on the same side of the road you're…
Note that I'm addressing the Snopes conclusion more than the comments of the HN poster, except insofar as he/she used Snopes as a source. The key elements of the Snopes article are these: -Victim was crushed by…
You're hitting the nail on its flattest head here. The metaphors are deliberately broken. The ways in which they break are meant to show aspects of the system. Theorems have characteristics that aren't obvious to…
"They also found that the man had a small sack with an iron key, about 20 silver coins and two bronze coins." This is exactly what I'd expect to find when searching a skeleton half-buried under a rock in an Elder…
It's also absolutely real and has been fairly common. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crush_syndrome It's hard to understand why Snopes has this marked as a myth. The specific anecdote structure with the wife showing up…
It does sound a bit like Thud, doesn't it? From your link: Thud is a board game based on the earlier dwarfish game of Hnaflbaflsniflwhifltafl. It is played mainly by Dwarfs and Trolls... The game itself echos the game…