Notices by Dave Neary (dneary@mathstodon.xyz)

@evan I feel like starting one called "Young's slits" - the act of observing then can change the results.

@evan What does publishing the amendment do?

@evan I'm not sure ActivityPub was roaming the plains though

@evan I had never thought of that! Interesting to think about how Chinese and Indian restaurants, and Irish pubs, are ubiquitous worldwide. Does that say something about the nature of Irish, Indian, and Chinese culture that generated more expats?

@evan I understand. From my perspective, there is so much public support for foundational R&D that is then commercialized and monetized by private industry in this world, that we need more regulation of monopolies, not less. The investors make out OK.

@evan This feels like a mini-troll Q from you, given the audience who follows you, and your personal history. I of course answered "hell no". Especially since the cost of R&D for many of our innovative companies is borne by the taxpayer already through public funding!

@evan I agree. How they are suppressed or tolerated, and whether the White House finally succeeds in negotiating a cease fire, will dictate whether they are remembered throughout the campaign the way Chicago '68 was.

@evan And in my original response, I meant "going hard outside the convention might be more satisfying short-term, but could help Trump in November."

@evan Perhaps short term, but anti-war protests in Chicago risk helping Trump in November. At least Mayor Daley Sr. is no longer in control of the Chicago riot police.

@evan Can you imagine the repercussions for Fox News newscasters if they were talking about Trump the way that hosts on CNN and MSNBC are covering Biden.

@evan Did you go to La Banquise!?! Mon préféré.

@evan I do not, usually. I just roll with the new subject. I do have occasional leaps that make me think that a new subject is related to the old one.

@evan One example comes to mind where I was talking to someone about measuring progress towards a goal and started telling a story about a rat problem in Hanoi in 1902-03. There was a connection, but by the time I finished the story, I had forgotten where we started.

@evan It took several minutes for us to figure out why the side story was related to the thing we were trying to figure out before.

@evan Incidentally, the point was about setting incentives to get the results you want. Paul Doumer's Indochinese government offered a bounty for dead rats, but only required the tail as proof of death. They immediately saw two phenomena: tailless rats and rat farms. 150 Vietnamese died in a Bubonic plague outbreak at the time.

@evan I did it again, didn't I? Sorry.

@evan I had never thought about it like this.

@evan Wow! Self-awareness trigger for me. I do this frequently, and had never considered it hostile. I will need to calibrate based on this perspective.

@evan Did you know that there's a significant Irish legacy in Buenos Aires? One of the largest Rugby teams in Buenos Aires is called Hurling Club - one of their former scrum halves was the great-great-great-grandson of Galway born Patrick Lynch, although he was better known later as Che Guevara. A Mayoman called William "Guillermo" Brown founded the Argentine Navy. And there are around 650,000 Argentinians of Irish descent!

@evan You weren't kidding about that plot twist! Holy Moly! I felt sorry for Sabiha, the woman who guarded him, who was surely punished after the twist.