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> And yes, in finance, the correlations between asset classes shoot up toward 1 in periods of crisis (black swan event) . Hence, the research for tail-hedging strategies... Related…

Efficiently? Maybe. Providing the same type trust and guarantees? Probably not. A public, append-only Merkle tree just has a lot of interesting properties and I think there are spa…

> So they set out to describe it as „an accident“ because „blameless post-mortems“ are something people really like? As someone who has operated bug bounty programs, understanding …

This looks fantastic! I'm working on a desktop app and I've been struggling with the extensibility story in the back of my mind for a couple of weeks now. Thanks for building this!…

> I can't find any motivation to write abstract algebra to build UI widgets This made me chuckle, because I am at this very moment trying to apply the "tagless final style" describ…

For me, I use the simple stuff (Semigroup, Monoid, Monads, Functors, ..) the most. Often times I'll be reasoning about a problem I'm working on in Haskell and realize it is a monad…

I would imagine in the current climate the properties are operating at a profit, don't you?

What about incitement to violence?

Right? Also these companies probably hired a lot of folks during the pandemic, and also relaxed their performance criteria while everyone was adjusting to remote work... So this ju…

Why would a crime (especially one external to the university) be better handled by the university than the legal apparatus?

Agreed. If you're an individual who wants to work this hard, hopefully you can find a team of like-minded folks who will work hard with you and make sure that it is structured in a…

Flask is a multi-threaded server, so while only one thread can execute Python code at a time (due to the GIL), you still get concurrency with respect to IO. Not to say that e.g. Fa…

I definitely had some uncanny valley vibes watching it, but I think it might be a combination of the camera's perspective (distorting distances away from center) and the footage be…

I'd think it is something like a ratio of bitrate to entropy. How quickly is information being processed relative to how quickly it is being lost?

I think it is safe to assume that most/all (large) modern countries have paramilitary forces that are used to carefully tip the scales toward outcomes that are in their best intere…

Uniformity, presumably

Presumably there would be a similar page in the Gitlab Handbook if they had findings

I'm not sure how meaningful it is to separate politics from religion at the the level of the individual person. Those two things are strongly interconnected and together constitute…

In the physical world there are folks who design bridges, dams, buildings, telescopes, furniture, and a million other things. All of those have unique requirements and skill sets. …

> does any sort of protest outside the capitol = "coup attempt"? The rally was organized under the headline "Stop the Steal." It was very explicitly the intent to prevent the peace…

Note that this doesn't appear to have been submitted by the post's author, and HN may not have been the intended audience.

> It insists on having a chain of updates from a single user, which feels unnecessary to me and something that adds bloat and rigidity to the thing — each server/user needs to stor…