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That would make you 11th fastest player in the world.

The world record is 15:01.

https://www.speedrun.com/pop1


If the original poster had managed to somehow record their original childhood playthrough and get the recording through to the present day with sufficient quality to convince the speedrun.com moderators to accept it, they'd actually only be able to claim spot 12 on the leaderboard out of 14. You need to look at the in-game time column, not real time.

25 minutes is a decently skillful playthrough, don't get me wrong, but it's not surprising that someone on here would have completed it in that time when you think about how many people would've played it back in the day and how few are speedrunning it now.


If the 11th fastest is 25 minutes, and the fastest is 15 minutes, then probably either there aren't many players, or not many players who post speedrun times...


Note that that is a _glitched_ record. To get 15 minutes you need to not only be very good at the game, you also need to know ways in which the game isn't what it seems to be, e.g. IIRC Prince of Persia has glitches that let you avoid doing some puzzles through careful timing, and skip most fights if you know exactly how to do it.

This is a runner doing a glitched run, right at the start they don't even collect the sword!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USv8OQbg73M

Nick.


There's only one glitchless run on the leaderboard, in 21m 32s of in-game time by the person with the 8th fastest glitched run. It really doesn't seem like a very actively run game and glitchless is even less so. (Also, note that the glitched record is 14m 29s in-game time and this is what runs are ranked on. Completing it in 25 minutes on the in-game timer would make you 12th fastest out of 14.)


They are all recorded for verification too, so yeah, it takes some dedication.


11th fastest player in modern times... without backing up or denouncing op I believe there must have been, back in the day, several top players going completely unrecognised. Most players would only have their immediate circle of friends to compare to.


I may have been incorrect then. Perhaps my pace was 25 minutes remaining, that'd be 35 minutes of ingame time. While I didn't waste too much time and didn't die (dying is the biggest timewaster), I wasn't skipping any fights either along the way so definitely wasn't going anywhere near a world record pace.


Why couldn't you say it now?

I had the idea young people are having less sex than the generations before.


Do you have a link to the post about Boole?


This appears to be the referenced post:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19091398


IIRC they can't be sold as "milk" inside the EU, they're usually called some variation of "beverage" or "drink". The only product that can be labelled as "milk" has to be produced, as you said, by mammals.


We can't get coconut milk in the EU since it can't be called milk. So sad.


Exactly, and I think "milk" is a confusing term that doesn't even describe what all these beverages are, which usually are way less nutritious than "real" milk.


I didn't know about outline and now I love it, thank you very much.


That link requires to be registered in the site.

Would you be able to post another link or just the citation?


If you're interested in learning more, just type "cbt pain management" in Google there are plenty of similar evidence:

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/318450.php

Some of these articles are more detailed than the first link I posted.


I am not by any means an SMW expert but lately I've developed a keen interest on the SMW romhack scene.

If what you want to do is extract a level and/or play around with level creation the golden standard tool is Lunar Magic [0].

There are some forums with information about rom hacking, level creation, music creation and so on for SMW, like SMWCentral [1].

[0] https://fusoya.eludevisibility.org/lm/index.html

[1] https://www.smwcentral.net/


I actually believe the intent is the opposite.

I think the PR people are just trying to sell Fokas as a polymath genius. "Look, he is not only a mathematician but also an MD, wow!"


Thank you, I had not considered that. I think researchers or a HN audience may perceive this differently than the average reader.


FWIW: my initial instinctive reaction to the MD part was most definitely negative.


Does anyone have references to books about this topic?

I'd be interested in reading about it.


Paradise Now by Chris Jennings (Peter Jenning's son, FYI) is recent and I enjoyed it: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/07/books/review/paradise-now...


Are you looking for the topic of intentional communities compared to startups? Or just intentional communities in general?

The Fellowship for Intentional Community is a great resource for the latter, see http://ic.org/


"Activism Or Escapism: Making Sense of 21st Century Communes" by M. Jade Aguilar has a lot of references. Text seems to be paywalled, but maybe you can find what you need via Google Books' snippets ...


For complex numbers it usually means the modulus of z is larger than zero.


I don't think I've ever seen that usage before. I've usually seen "non-zero" used in that case.


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