The essay seems to be predicated on the mistaken notion at the time that the electron has no mass (the proton had not been discovered yet). Of course today philosophers of physics might make similar arguments using gluons; see that other hot thread
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35432918
According to eternally recurring themes in myth-legend-history the next one in the sequence is: the engineer/developer/artist in the arena.
From the Aesir/Vanir, the Titans/Olympians to the French & Russian revolutions.
“The ultimate structure of the myth, then, is that the three estates of Proto-Indo-European society were fused only after a war between the first two against the third...”
(The third being not those who engage in (corporate) warfare or (rhetorical) magic, but those who working with concrete stuff (modern day fertility cults))
From the wikipedia article on the aesir-vanir war.
For the decentralized subculture, perhaps “the persons above the arena”
Do YC no longer pay the mods’ salaries? That’s odd, I was under the impression that HN exists to serve the interests of YC. If you look carefully at the behavior of the largely negative _oinbas_ thread given its #upvotes and recency it shouldnt be so quickly off the front page compared to others now on it. Not to mention the regular job postings. EDIT— this post too, perhaps its an automated system?
“Ostrich eggs are a spider repellent (this is such common knowledge that authors may not feel a need to clarify this detail) and spiders are sacred in Islam because a spider saved Mohammad's life. As a matter of fact, the modern mosques in Istanbul also have ostrich eggs.”
Hmm, shouldn’t these facts make ostrich eggs kind of unholy? Anybody has a resolution?
Sadly, he enjoyed only one year of voluntary fame before passing away, at age 23. Of what exact causes I do not know, but it is said that he was an alcoholic.
>Somehow I don't think "the European artist-engineers"[0] ever did construct a cyberspace[1] which is inclusive and universal.
Otlet & La Fontaine came close when they tried to get Le Corbusier (quite the artist-engineer) to build a version of the Mundaneum. They intended it to be public and electric, even somewhat decentralized. The surviving bits of it is fully wheelchair accessible.
Physicists like to call this kind of sum “finite”, to make it sound closer to infinity, which sounds better than “nonzero”, which makes it sound too close to zero.