Greenland is not part of Europe. But they are part of "Rigsfællesskabet" (The Kingdom of Denmark). So part of Denmark but with a high degree of autonomy.

Regarding "European values", I think they are just Western values but with a twist away from the US version. In my layman view, that means: Europe values citizen privacy more, US values citizen freedoms more, Europe values environment more, US values businesses more.

Until recently I would have said Europe values diplomacy more, while US values military power more. But now I dont know about that.

That is a puzzle thing. The word cube is used very loosely. Douglas Hofstadter wrote about it back when Rubiks Cube was still new.

In this case it is a stretch, but the Rubiks Cube inspiration is so clear, that I think it sort of makes sense.

I dont think those fonts, linked to in the article, are going to make any significant difference. But I really like the creativity behind them.

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Thank-you.

I agree, and the very low price of used books that have writing in them, suggests that this is how people feel in general.

I have begun to write a page (by hand) summarizing my thoughts after reading a book, and put it in the start of it. That was a tip I saw on HN some time ago.

I basically agree with you, and I have a profile on LinkedIn.

A number of companies only announce job openings on LinkedIn, and if you are looking for a job (as I am) you would handicap yourself by not having a profile there. HR departments around the World are infatuated with LinkedIn, unfortunately.

My strategy is to give LinkedIn a minimum of information, use it for job search, and filter away most of their emails.

I look forward to the day where I can close down my LinkdIn account. But until then I have to put up with it.

Both P and NP are computable. That is, a Turing machine can compute both of them.

Those quantum processes are interesting. Take the random numbers generated from radioactive decay. They are (after some cleanup) truly random. That is what we think. But how could we tell the difference from pseudorandom numbers, generated by a sufficiently advanced algorithm? We couldnt. So particles could simply be Turing Machines running sufficiently advanced algorithms that we cant reverse engineer. If so, quantum mechanics is computable even if we cant compute it.

(Particles being TMs doesnt mean they are FAs with an infinite tape, but that they are computationally equivalent to TMs.)

There is such thing as a quantum Turing machine you know (Deutsch 1985).

Yes I know.

When I wrote Turing Machine, I was thinking about the classical determinstic Turing Machine.

Im not super knowledgable about Quantum Turing Machines, but as far as I know, they dont do better than the classical deterministic Turing Machines when we are talking about computability.

Im an iPhone user. I want it to take as little space as possible physically and mentally, and try to use it as little as possible. My experience has been that it was easy learning to use it by just bumbling around.

That is, until two weeks ago when I got my new iPhone. I had to, the old one couldnt upgrade to the newest iOS.

I feel ashamed to admit, that I had one or two days of extreme frustration just learning to do basic stuff. It was not about the shape of icons, but more along the lines of what you write. Swiping patterns, button press sequences, and the time you should hold down a button. It is ridiculous.

Some of the blame is on me for not being mobile phone savvy, but it is indisputable that the UX has deterioted significantly. I suspect it will just get worse going forward.

I dont know what to say. I relate a personal experience. Yours was different. Good for you.

My problem was not using apps, but the other stuff. I did as I was used to, stubbornly bumbling around, feeling sure I would run into the solution. But I never did. I had to look up instructions, several times. That was never necessary with my old iPhone.

I think what is much more important, is that it exposes the shortcomings of the Danish SSN system.

It was introduced in 1968, when Denmark was a high-trust society. It was used as a sort of password and key for looking up your information. If you wanted to create a bank account, you told them your SSN. If you wanted to buy a car, you told them your SSN. If you had any contact with the authorities, you told them your SSN. And so on.

The usage has changed, but not that much. So today, when trust in Danish society is not as high, the system falls short. Identity theft. Privacy. Scamming. They have to be detected and stopped by other means.

The proper path forwards would be to radically change the system (or the society).

Yeah, he seems confused to me. Well meaning, but not so consistent.

What is good is that he is a wrench, that throws itself in the works repeatedly. This is a healthy thing to have.