affinepplan

> Sprinkle some "bugs happen to anyone" and "you can't have 100% security anyway" on top and your shit burger is finished.

I mean, yeah. both of these statements are unconditionally true.

the study was intending to measure the rate of suicidal thoughts among transgender people.

Seems like a great way to get a lot of datapoints is to use a transgender forum. Seems like a great way to measure suicidal thoughts is to ask "do you have suicidal thoughts"

So seems like a great approach to gather a lot of evidence for the question at hand?

Seems like you just don't like the evidence because it doesn't reach the rather bigoted conclusion you want it to

> how this will inordinately punish the private citizen buying a second home as an investment property.

Good. Properties should not be investments.

> but multiple studies have shown suicidal thoughts is virtually unchanged after operation.

This was literally the first result when I googled "post op trans suicidal thoughts study" (n > 27k)

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamasurgery/article-abstrac...

So, seems like there is indeed evidence?

> and that external incentives don't outweigh enclosed ones.

I think this is actually the most commonly overlooked assumption. The protocol seems very robust, *assuming* perfect information (aka all incentives are known to the system).

I encountered this problem a few years back when trying to design a protocol for a decentralized prediction market. It's very hard to account for hedges or huge bets on other markets.

Stallman wasn't exactly just a free speech issue.... he was sexually harassing students.

It is a very well-designed language for many (although of course not all) applications. Most of the ecosystem revolves around scientific computing so you may find there is a bit of a learning curve / sparse existing libraries if you want to use it for game development.

Also, on the language side, Julia is optimized for total throughput, which means even though it is easy to write extremely fast code, it sometimes suffers latency issues during stop-the-world garbage collection or JIT compilation. Julia gives the experienced developer tools to avoid this, but especially for those less practiced with the language it could potentially be an obstacle for real-time games like FPS--of course if you are developing a turn-based game this is less of a concern.

Because the second you try, about ten times as many other HN users come to tell you you're wrong and it's all just a Ponzi and anybody who is interested in crypto is just a grifter.

I absolutely understand the exhaustion.

idk, college for me demanded a lot more hours per day than middle and high school, not less

> HN, for example, is already taken over. There are nationalistic and politically-inclined shill groups (paid, and useful idiots) already in here and have been here for some time.

Ok, so it seems you recognize there is a problem.

What, if anything, do you think can or should be done about this problem (and similar), and by whom?

The facts are:

1. online propaganda and astroturfing are very effective 2. our foreign adversaries are very aware of point #1 and use it for political gain 3. hence, there is rampant misinformation online which fuels polarization and societal instability

So I guess there are two questions here: 1. do you think the combination of factors above is problematic? 2. if so, what can or should be done about it, and by whom?

> anyone who lives in Washington, DC won't say they are "from Washington."

not true. source: I live there

I don't think it's super productive discourse to call an entire country, especially one as large, diverse, and developed as Canada, "mediocre" in its entirety.

check out JuMP---it's by far the cleanest interface to defining & solving optimization programs I've ever used

ok but---it's literally set to merge in like a month. It did get delayed for quite a while yes, but it's happening now for realsies