23iofj

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by 23iofj 6y ago
> ...and the internet has latched onto it and now misuses it all the time. I can't decide if this comment is very clever ironic satire or... not ;-) > Politicians started using that phrase en masse about a year ago "Exi
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> There are more law graduates than jobs. But starting salaries haven't gone down. Perhaps this isn't true? It's possible that salaries for lawyers are not going down, but that salaries for law graduates are going down
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> Nothing existential about it at all. It's an actual threat to Facebook's business model. "Existential threat" means a threat to the very existence of a thing, so a thing that is an "existential threat" i
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by 23iofj 6y ago
WE DEVELOPED AND DEPLOYED SEVERAL VACCINES TO A NOVEL VIRUS IN LESS THAN A YEAR. The year over year progress on computing power/efficiency/size is beyond impressive. Modern computer hardware is an amazing feat of engineering. The
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by 23iofj 6y ago
I assume you're not living in the USA, because private primary/secondary schools exist in the USA. They're actually quite common here and provide a lot of diversity in terms of style/rigor/selectivity/etc. In N
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by 23iofj 6y ago
Exactly. If schools explicitly acknowledged their dual purpose, then they could more cleanly separate the two functions. I think doing so would even improve the educational component. I've volunteered in high school classrooms quite a
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> But the upkeep cost of protecting the gold is continuous in the same way as bitcoin mining. This completely misses the point, which was one of magnitude: >> The upkeep cost for Bitcoin is, and by necessity must be, PROPORTIOAN
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by 23iofj 6y ago
Remember that these are correlational studies! They're not directly comparing raw counts of data points, they're checking for statistical significance. It can be that COUNT(failure -> failure) > COUNT(success -> f
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> There is a 50% chance that a random person from that population can create a successful business... All 100 attempt to start a business. 50 succeed, 50 fail. This is the most glaring wrong assumption that causes your and GP's c
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> these aren't recommendations of systems in any way This is a deflection. I'm responding to a comment that stated: >> as they state on their website, they scored #1 for best at that by Consumer Reports compared to the
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by 23iofj 6y ago
This is only true for a tiny subset of possible flaws. Toyota was found legally responsible for its unintended acceleration bug from the mid 2000s when "the driver should pay attention 100% of the time" wasn't even something
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by 23iofj 6y ago
On public roads. We don't know how many they've done if you include closed track testing, but I'm willing to bet it's at least as many as they've done on public roads. The real point is that Google isn't sellin
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> but perhaps that’s because super cruise is geo fenced. Exactly. The Consumer Reports test wasn't a comprehensive safety analysis; it was a superficial "how will this feel to a consumer based upon a few drives" analysis
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> They want to avoid thinking about non-engineering things like liability for as long as possible and focus on the engineering problem. It's a valid approach. When you write software that can kill people, you don't get to rol
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> For example, their "leader" shows up and makes commits to their safety code like "WTF WHY WAS THIS SHIT EVERYWHERE." Every self-driving product that deploys to consumers is going to end up in court eventually. I
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> best at that by Consumer Reports compared to the stock offerings from Ford, Nissan, and other carmakers. Read through the Consumer Reports PDF [1]. It's abundantly clear that they have no idea how to properly evaluate adaptive c
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by 23iofj 6y ago
I expect this to end about as well as it did last time. 35 million miles is statistically meaningless.
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by 23iofj 6y ago
It's far worse than irony. Google and FB hire AI ethics researchers as a way of laundering their reputation. IMO selling AI Ethics street cred to an ad tech company is a lot more problematic than any particular NeurIPS paper.
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by 23iofj 6y ago
Most software developers have mostly operated in largely unregulated domains, so there's a MIS understanding of how manufacturer responsibility works in industries like automotive. Saying "I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING"
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> Housing is not included in CPI, only "rents". This reads like an oxymoron to anyone who's not a property owner, which is about half the country -- all of whom are in the bottom 90% referred to in the headline.
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by 23iofj 6y ago
In particular: education, insurance, and housing really is accurately reflected in the CPI, but the true price of non-shit consumer goods are consistently under-estimated in the CPI.
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by 23iofj 6y ago
Why cherry-pick? Just running the regression analysis on the entire dataset.
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by 23iofj 6y ago
Note: sometimes you'll get two people giving different numbers for the same city. AFAICT this happens most often when pensions are broken out as a separate budget item. The fact that cities break them out separately is sensible -- pens
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> if it serves a legitimate law enforcement purpose What legitimate law enforcement purpose is being served here?
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by 23iofj 6y ago
"Lies, damned lies, and statistics" as they say. Serbia and Honduras are anomalies. Within the entire data set there's a significant positive correlation between "Guns per 100 inhabitants" and Homicide rate.
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by 23iofj 6y ago
Too bad the recidivism rate is also firmly in the "shit that clearly does not work and is absolutely a fucking waste of tax dollars" range, then.
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> Not true. The popular comparison is the US spends about as much as the next 10 countries combined. US is ~38% of the world's defense spending. In other words 4% of the world's population and 40% of its defense spending. Fuc
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by 23iofj 6y ago
Reducing the number of military veterans period would be a good place to start. The USA does not need a massive standing peacetime army/navy/airforce. There's a real human cost too -- we kill more of our own soldiers in ac
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by 23iofj 6y ago
> I wonder if this is again another example of class-war in disguise (i.e. upper class kids pretending to be civil rights leaders by forcing working class officers to be their youtube material). 1. Poor people exist in Beverly Hills. 2