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by notSupplied 2y ago
After which none of the doomsday scenarios people shrieked about had occurred. ISPs aren’t selling bundles that exclude certain websites, nor do cable providers privilege their streaming video traffic over Netflix.
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by notSupplied 3y ago
The reverse surprised me too: From seeing only abstract drawings of dogs, my daughter pointed at a real dog for the first time and said “dog!” ML is pretty long way from being able to make generalizations like that from…20 samples?
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by notSupplied 3y ago
Making things look pretty is very good for your portfolio and career. But making things usable usually means ugly. Thin scrollbars and window borders are pretty. Mobile buttons with only icons but no text are pretty. Hiding functionality is
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by notSupplied 3y ago
Who knows, if voting doesn’t motivate them, but concerts do, maybe it will cause more people to get IDs. Isn’t that a good thing?
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by notSupplied 3y ago
It’s really disturbing to pass a value judgement about what kind of fans are more desirable than others, and social-engineering it into the pricing structure.
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by notSupplied 3y ago
Alas, every metric that isn’t “paying more money” can be horrendously gamed and corrupted. This is why despite all its flaws, the “price signal” is still the tried and true “least bad way to allocate scarce resources” for most cases.
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by notSupplied 3y ago
Isn’t it basically auction-based pricing with more steps? That’s not a fundamentally evil thing.
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by notSupplied 3y ago
College admissions at elite universities, what this SCOTUS case is about, is zero sum.
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by notSupplied 3y ago
This SCOTUS case had heavy emphasis on the fact Affirmative Action as it is practiced at elite institutions today, has a net slightly negative effect on whites, and an extremely large negative effect on Asians applicants. It is in practice,
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by notSupplied 3y ago
If groups have responsibility as you say, then Blacks as a group would have tremendous culpability for excess ratio of interracial murder committed by that group. That of course, is a racist idea, because it assigns group responsibility to
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by notSupplied 3y ago
https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/videocard/?sort=pct The most popular GPUs in use TODAY are 1650, 1060, 3060, 2060. If Apple can get the M2 Macbook Air to run like one of these, it essentially makes the mos
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by notSupplied 3y ago
Absolutely, the worst feeling of being stuck on a puzzle is not knowing whether you simply haven't solved the puzzle, or a bug has caused this door to not open and having to run online to check.
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by notSupplied 3y ago
Honestly not a bad pilot episode right there.
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by notSupplied 3y ago
The article says “averaging”, you say “converging”, but what if the operative verb is actually “optimizing”? Certain looks get the most followers on Instagram. Movie posters are tested against focus groups. Market forces reward high end cof
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by notSupplied 3y ago
Adding hold-delays to anything is the opposite of juicy.
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by notSupplied 4y ago
Because with search, the competition is really just "one click away", but when it comes to changing your office suite, or operating system, not so much. What MS is doing is far more effective than if Google did the same thing in r
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by notSupplied 4y ago
People forget fees compound. 1% extra fees will make you a lot more than 1% poorer in the long run.
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by notSupplied 4y ago
One thing Americans do not have much experience with, is how the exercise policing speech eventually becomes the exercise of policing coded speech. People will always get around speech rules by speaking in code. China has probably some of
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by notSupplied 4y ago
I agree. I wish to go away from traditionalist views “Alice should stop playing with trucks and play with dolls because she is a girl” to “Alice can with trucks if she wants”. But I was shocked to find that instead, some people now believe
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by notSupplied 4y ago
No, I don’t think the analogy works. People have a freedom of who they associate with and do business with: Boycott is when you decide not to spend your money someplace because you don’t agree with them. You’re exercising your freedom of as
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by notSupplied 4y ago
Thank you for sharing this. I remember a while back there was a major social justice controversy at Basecamp which started with a senior exec using some insensitive language. An employee then shared the “pyramid of hate” with “biased attit
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by notSupplied 4y ago
Sadly, news articles always grossly exaggerate research results. "We found weak evidence of ..." becomes "New study ABSOLUTELY DESTROYS the myth that..."
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by notSupplied 4y ago
Who is the most underprivileged? 1) A Bangladeshi immigrant whose parents entered the US as economic refugees 2) A Uyghur immigrant whose parents entered the US as political refugees 3) A rust-belt white whose family and community was ravag
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by notSupplied 4y ago
The comparison to "cancelling" is coming up a lot, but I think this is a reasonably simple way to distinguish the two: Employment requires sustained two-way consent. An employer should not have to pay someone money only to have th
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by notSupplied 4y ago
Because Elden Ring took 4 years to develop, 5 years if you include the DLC release time. You would need to amortize its very front-loaded revenue over those 5 years, because a live-service game like Diablo Immortal would be generating somew
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by notSupplied 4y ago
People are people. They're just worse versions of themselves on the internet, Twitter in particular. I think Yishan was trying to say that moderation is hard not in a "This requires brilliant minds and hard effort" kind of wa
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by notSupplied 4y ago
The saddest thing about this bid going through is that we're going to miss out on the next SpaceX or Tesla and he's going to be pulling his hair out over this intead.
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by notSupplied 4y ago
People often contrast loot boxes with Magic the Gathering: "At least you can resell your cards", but this makes it more like gambling, not less! CS:Go has far greater potential for economic harm & fraud--due to resale--than
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by notSupplied 5y ago
Yeah I’m with you here. Would it be reasonable to say that hard work should be rewarded? Well…ones propensity for hard work, it turns out, is highly heritable. Either from your genes or from your upbringing. You didn’t choose your parents,
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by notSupplied 5y ago
> Anything other than an objective standardized test is just asking for bias. Agree. "De-bias" is actually the same thing as bias. The only way to solve bias is to increase accuracy of measurement, not introduce new error terms

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