meri_dian

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by meri_dian 8y ago
I'm not talking about dating prospects though.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
You have it backwards, the "no barriers" mainly came from being wealthy. I'll give a small anecdote: One of my friends is from a very wealthy family. He is a person of color. He was still able to gain admission to an elite bo
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by meri_dian 8y ago
For most people it really doesn't matter, including most people in powerful positions. But we keep telling ourselves it does, unfortunately.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
Homelessness, both in San Francisco and elsewhere is not rooted in housing but in drugs and mental illness. Building more low income housing won't address those root causes or noticeably ameliorate homelessness as a symptom, because mo
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Why All Programmers Should Get a Master's Degree(qz.com)
1 points by meri_dian 8y ago|2 comments
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by meri_dian 8y ago
While data security is an issue Facebook must reckon with, it is not the major issue Facebook's existence poses to democracies around the world. The real issue in my mind is that the platform can be used by bad actors to spread misinfo
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Brewing Up Earth's Earliest Life(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by meri_dian 8y ago|0 comments
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The American Optimism of a Kansas Muslim(bloomberg.com)
1 points by meri_dian 8y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 8y ago
The amount of "bullying and abuse" by the US is grossly overstated. I think many people, especially in large and proud nations, don't like the idea of being a second class power to the United States. That's certainly wha
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by meri_dian 8y ago
I see China envy online a lot, especially given our recent political disfunction as people look at the superficial stability of China and want that for their own societies.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
Well that would be an inconvenience because I and many others go to work and ride public transport every day. Which is why we don't see TSA checkpoints everywhere; it would be too inconvenient. People fly infrequently though, and also
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by meri_dian 8y ago
It's funny, hate speech laws are unconstitutional and could not be passed in the US but such laws are commonplace in Europe. Yet people like to mock the US for saying it's the land of the free.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
Having to be scanned to get on a plane seems like a perfectly reasonable thing to have to do. I fly often and I'm glad the TSA exists and does what it does. I don't feel like my liberty is being taken away in the slightest.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
No it's not. It's the job of law enforcement to, unsurprisingly, enforce the laws. If you have a problem with the laws being enforced, call your congressman.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
Sorry dang
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by meri_dian 8y ago
So there wasn't torture destruction and murder on a mass scale before guns? Humanity works itself into a fervor of anger sometimes. That is what kills people. The implements of anger are irrelevant.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
I guess we're both right then
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by meri_dian 8y ago
Why were those guns and gas used? Because of the hateful rhetoric of an evil man and an evil ideology.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
Cambridge Analytica served ads to people. This is something that all candidates, campaigns and their affiliates do. Sure it collected data on people through sketchy means, but the essential part of its work was to serve advertisements. Simi
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People are mad about Cambridge Analytica because of Trump and Brexit(independent.co.uk)
1 points by meri_dian 8y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 8y ago
I mean basic income is just either printing money, or redistribution of money. One leads to inflation, the other is Socialism and already practiced in a number of countries. So we're basically just saying we need more socialism right?
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New Immunotherapy for Lung Cancer Shows Promise of Success(sciencedaily.com)
2 points by meri_dian 8y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 8y ago
I don't have tinnitus but I do know that not getting enough sleep can make you feel emotionally distraught and incredibly negative about everything. So I'd say focus on getting a good sleep before anything else.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
What exactly is Data Science? It seems like such an overused term and the value of the subject really gets diluted for me when I see charts in Tableau being offered as examples of "data science". What's the difference between
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by meri_dian 8y ago
"MIT is likely concerned with increasing its power. Thus is part of the establishment. Doing lots of great things, but part of the establishment." Almost all organized groups exist in order to increase their power/influence.
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by meri_dian 8y ago
Yeah, that's just being dramatic too. A tremendous amount of things in the past were created by skilled artisans, workers, farmers etc. And in those cases where people had to do difficult work and suffered, that was because there were
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Men Overestimate Intelligence in Science Class(nbcnews.com)
1 points by meri_dian 8y ago|0 comments
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by meri_dian 8y ago
Where are you coming up with those percentages? Why are you assuming that human operators will be removed from the decision making process?
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by meri_dian 8y ago
>"...that uses artificial intelligence to interpret video imagery and could be used to improve the targeting of drone strikes." These drone strikes have been happening for decades without interpretive AI, and they will probably
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by meri_dian 8y ago
Changed it, though "trying to kill 3 people" rather than "killed 3 people" are morally equivalent.

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