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I worked for Weta a few years before the acquisition, let me just say that I'm not surprised that Unity didn't know what to do with it. It was never a single DCC set of code, but l…

From my experience, I don't think this is true (at least not in the way that matters). I finished my PhD in CS as few years ago from a good school and I am now a researcher in indu…

It seems like you're trying to shoe-horn in an entirely different point? How does maintaining air supremacy as a military tactic relate to mass casualties?

I lived downtown Toronto for several years and I had to replace my car battery three times because I drove it so infrequently that they died. I understand that living downtown isn'…

Yes! I thought the same thing. Such a great film.

I don't want to defend that. I want to instead ask, what would the damage be if members of Congress were killed? I think the long-term damage would be much, much worse.

I get what you're saying. In my mind, the plot to kidnap the governor of Michigan changes the priors in determining if it was purely symbolic.

That's interesting. I wonder how they calculated the area. There's no way Yonkers is twice as dense as Auckland in a practical sense (I would guess it's similar). As for Wellington…

I agree on the isolation. I lived in NZ. As someone from North America, it was strange how isolated it felt. Especially outside of Auckland. As for density, I disagree. Most of the…

I'm disappointed that this didn't end up getting more attention on HN. It seems like a rather important bit of news.

I think it's still too early to tell. I live in Toronto and we've been mostly shutdown for two weeks. I believe we took actions earlier into our outbreak than Italy and the US did …

That's not what the OP said though. I am in academia and most of my colleagues would agree with you about publishers. That's why most of us publish pre-prints on our websites, so t…

> It is only a poisoning if it is not true. That is literally not the definition of the "poisoning the well" logical fallacy. And if you actually did publish in Nature, congrats. Y…

EW has a PhD but I can't seem to find any academic publications under his name. That doesn't outright mean he's wrong but it does mean that he actually has limited experience with …

How about you do something constructive instead and propose a better alternative. You're just "poisoning the well" with empty accusations and ignoring how successful the scientific…

Where in Washington? I grew up in Vancouver and live in Toronto. Compared to Vancouver, winters in Toronto are horrible. For 4-5 months per year it's too cold to be outside for any…

What journal/conference are you submitting to? I haven't come across any in CS/Math/EE that even have a Word template to submit with. Every last one has a latex template.

Any reputable investment firm will have risk management reports. If you don't like your fund pouring significant money into A+ rate bonds of a country with potential headwinds then…

When you say packaged into derivatives, what do you mean? I can sell you all sorts of derivatives today without ever owning the underlying.

Oh yeah? There are no democratic countries with high speed rail? Hmm... I wonder where the Chinese stole their high speed rail designs from then...

As long as they can continue to get away with it, sure. Let's see if their greedy algorithm continues to work.

I remember seeing "leaders" in the Vancouver tech industry talk about a labour shortage and thought the same thing [1]. Given the cost of housing and the salaries Vancouver compani…

As a 30-something year old Canadian, I was surprised to learn about this place just last year!

Ah right! Thank you for the correction.

Don't forget mortgage-backed securities.. oh wait. In all seriousness though, large pension plans have very diverse portfolios. Ontario teachers used to own 80% of the Toronto Mapl…