fucking_tragedy

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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> Watching Disney+ is hardly some inalienable human right nor essential for survival. Neither are never-expiring copyright laws, and there's no reason someone in a country that doesn't abide by them should have to honor them.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> the actual reaction of Chinese people on Weibo and other Chinese social media People are censored and punished for disagreeing with their government and its dictator-for-life.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Just ask for an extension to reach them at when you call their public number.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Used to happen to me in New York 15 years ago. Hasn't happened since, though.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
People have well-documented biases, besides reflecting biases of humans, AI systems will also have arbitrary biases that are hard to predict.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> We better design these systems not to fail then Too late, we're commenting on an article about them failing in common scenarios.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
It matters to me as a pedestrian because drivers will become reliant on their AEB, and when it fails, they might run me over.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> Just because they aren't perfect doesn't mean they don't make your car safer. There is no evidence that they make your car safer, but there is evidence that AEB fails in common situations or in ways a human driver woul
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> But just because they don't hold public elections doesn't mean they do not draw their legitimacy from the people Got any other zingers you want to tell me with a straight face?
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Combustion is a reaction between fuel and oxygen. Part of the weight comes from the fuel, the other part comes from oxygen in the atmosphere.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Communist hunter-gather societies have been studied extensively and it's the earliest forms of production.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
It's weird to hear you describe Xi Jinping's dictatorship as the voice and sovereignty of the people.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
All the EEOC would need to do is to prove that there is disparate impact[1] based solely on the hiring outcomes of companies using AI to hire. This is what they already do. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_im
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
You're assuming that an inscrutable AI is basing its decisions off of something you can change on your CV. Maybe it doesn't like your name, one of your past employers, or Oxford commas. It's effectively a black box, so who kn
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
It's difficult to take a look at modern China and call it communist with a straight face.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
I haven't watched it in a few months, but salmon farming happens in net-enclosed partitions of natural bodies of water that are polluted with industrial waste. Pesticides are sprayed directly into the farms in order to combat disease.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Farmed salmon is often high in mercury[1]. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbtit20DLo
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Affiliate, referral and influencer marketing will game your model.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Doctors in my area pay firms to pad their bad online reviews with glowing ones.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> Why is it that everybody is so interested in “lifestyle” changes, and so uninterested in things like OP or Project Vesta [1]? Project Vesta hasn't proved efficacy or ability to scale. It's reminiscent of the "solar roa
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> Seems to me that every time this subject comes up, an arbitrary list of things are considered protected by whoever is making that point. It might feel that way to you, but it seems you haven't bothered to look into the history
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
> Talk to the actual couriers I have: they don't like the current arrangement. When they're tipped via apps, they don't even get to keep them. Doesn't sound like they're independent contractors when they can&#x
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Other countries were able to figure it out, so can we. Voting license proponents never seem to want to send eligible voters their free voting licenses, though.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Or you can just send every eligible voter their voting license when they turn 18 and cut out the middleman.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Astroturfing has been happening for as long as I've been online.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
What's being measured is the strength of the bars that make up the roof, not the glass.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
Look at stats for other luxury vehicles. They have much lower crashes per millions of miles driven.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
That's fine, someone else will find a way to profit from the situation you won't consider.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
It's the same value-add as any other niche job board.
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by fucking_tragedy 7y ago
They overlap and aren't mutually exclusive.

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