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by affinepplan 3y ago
unsurprising. the experience with Lyft is terrible. the last three times I attempted to call one I had to give up waiting for a driver after nearly 40 minutes. drivers will accept the ride, and then just never show up. I watched them on the
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by affinepplan 3y ago
I think it saves me about 30 min / day. that's worth more than $20 / month to me
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by affinepplan 4y ago
> 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.
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by affinepplan 4y ago
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 "
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by affinepplan 4y ago
> how this will inordinately punish the private citizen buying a second home as an investment property. Good. Properties should not be investments.
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by affinepplan 4y ago
> 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.
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by affinepplan 4y ago
> 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 syste
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by affinepplan 4y ago
Stallman wasn't exactly just a free speech issue.... he was sexually harassing students.
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by affinepplan 4y ago
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 wa
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by affinepplan 4y ago
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.
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by affinepplan 4y ago
idk, college for me demanded a lot more hours per day than middle and high school, not less
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by affinepplan 4y ago
> 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, i
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by affinepplan 4y ago
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 societ
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by affinepplan 4y ago
> anyone who lives in Washington, DC won't say they are "from Washington." not true. source: I live there
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by affinepplan 4y ago
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.
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Scholars ask Congress to scrap winner-take-all system(nytimes.com)
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Crypto market maker Wintermute loses $160M in DeFi hack(bloomberg.com)
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by affinepplan 4y ago
check out JuMP---it's by far the cleanest interface to defining & solving optimization programs I've ever used
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by affinepplan 4y ago
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