[HN Gopher] History of the Paper Clip (2016)
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History of the Paper Clip (2016)
Author : wizardforhire
Score : 62 points
Date : 2024-06-05 15:53 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| fscaramuzza wrote:
| Thank you very much, now I want to play Universal Paperclips so
| bad.
|
| https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/
| cpach wrote:
| Yeah, IMHO that's one of the funniest and best computer games
| ever. For those who haven't played it, I can warmly recommend
| it.
| mlyle wrote:
| I assign it as homework in my microeconomics class.
| ben_bai wrote:
| it's like 6h when you know what you are doing :-)
| cpach wrote:
| Cool! How do the students react? :)
| CobrastanJorji wrote:
| There must be some point before the game ends where it must
| surely transition to macroeconomics homework.
| tomcam wrote:
| Deep cut
| contingencies wrote:
| _First clip 's free_: An historical drama new to Netflix
| exploring a parallel historical reality in which all
| socialist revolutions are pre-empted with funding and
| covert support by a shady paperclip industrialist.
| bbarnett wrote:
| This is what the internet is for! This!
|
| A view into the hobbies, the lives of your fellow humans, not for
| profit, not with dancing stuff on the page, not with endless ads,
| this!
| TechPlasma wrote:
| https://www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/index2.html
| alt227 wrote:
| Its like Beetlejuice.
|
| Say paperclips 3 times and someone will link to Universal
| paperclips.....Or clippy will appear and murder you.
| ben_bai wrote:
| Love it, play this once in a while. 6 hours of fun.
| ASalazarMX wrote:
| Now I understand how it can use paperclips to make technology;
| technically any bent metal can be considered a paperclip.
| Groxx wrote:
| I've seen a surprising number of these (a dozen? maybe more?),
| given the years they were introduced... the "Ideal Paper Clip" in
| particular keeps popping up somewhere every few years.
| ranie93 wrote:
| >Vaaler Paper Clip >Patented 1900 (Germany), 1901 (US)
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| >Vaaler, who was Norwegian, is commonly but incorrectly given
| credit for invention of the paper clip. His designs were neither
| first nor important. There is a large Gem paper clip statue in
| Norway. Norway might consider giving it to the U.S.
| jessetemp wrote:
| It's wild how many patents were granted for basically the same
| thing. Add a little wiggle on the end? New patent!
| pnw wrote:
| No mention of those clips which require a tool to take them on
| and off. They are basically like a binder clip without the arms.
| IIRC they are a Japanese design, I've never seen them for sale in
| the US but I'd love to know what they are called.
| cheschire wrote:
| Paper clam clip
| contingencies wrote:
| Trust the Japanese to introduce a seafood reference.
| contingencies wrote:
| Recently I have been fascinated by the awesomeness of wire
| bending machines. Has anyone done any really funky stuff purely
| with wire bending? I am thinking furniture scale creations, green
| walls, giant sculpture, etc. Haven't quite got the timespace to
| build one but should be straightforward assuming small guage
| wire. There are some open source ones published:
| https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ftsa&q=open+source+wire+bending
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