repolfx

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by repolfx 7y ago
Ah, but TSX is also used to block attacks (on SGX enclaves). So just disabling it entirely seems over simple.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Look at codebar.io and then adjust your priors for what you consider a "right wing caricature". In particular read https://codebar.io/student-guide#eligibility (straight white men not eligible) and the preamble on
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by repolfx 7y ago
The real problem here is a deep political schizophrenia in modern society, or at least parts of it, which demands decisions be deliberately biased towards the outcomes they politically desire. These people then turn around and describe re
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by repolfx 7y ago
Creating unbiased data is, imo, impossible, as I am also biased, and so are you What about just learning based on the entire web? I think you're using the word "unbiased" to mean "heavily adjusted for US centric views
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by repolfx 7y ago
There's only been one case of being unable to recognise black faces that I know of, and it was shown later to be due to the lighting conditions the guy was using leading to very low contrast imagery. The same problem was replicated wit
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by repolfx 7y ago
Why would a name letter bias be biological caused? Or do you mean bias about biological factors? Bear in mind "bias" is just a perjorative for "generalisation" or alternatively "lesson learned". AI algorithms a
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by repolfx 7y ago
The web is anything but small/lightweight and WASM requires a full blown JIT a la V8 to get good performance, so WASM being "small" (relative to what?) seems hardly a benefit. JVMs are sandboxed and verifiable too, not sure
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by repolfx 7y ago
Damore didn't condemn anyone, that's just a smear attack.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Physical safety trumps most other things in our culture, rightly so. So political activists realised they can brainwash or pressure idiots by claiming that any opinion, person or class of people they don't like creates "lack of sa
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by repolfx 7y ago
They aren't really asking, are they? Asking is a question at TGIF. What these people were doing is trying to create a bloc of activists that comes with the implied or explicit threat of coordinated employee action or pressure, as they&
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by repolfx 7y ago
Bombing has become a regular occurrence in a first world European country that isn't fighting a war, or experiencing mass civil unrest, nor are there any major terrorist groups or separatist movements occurring. How is that not "v
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by repolfx 7y ago
The IPCC, being a UN body of government appointed scientists, economists etc, consistently take an overly conservative view No, IPCC predictions have been wrong/over-aggressive in the past. Their 1990 long range predictions can be co
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by repolfx 7y ago
Is it? Political threads are pretty routinely allowed and surface. This one is patently being killed because a lot of people really hate the implications.
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by repolfx 7y ago
Yes, for sure any implementation is very much about the design subtleties. I did work once on an email spam filter so I have a pretty good idea of the complexities involved in that space, which includes things like some people's spam b
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by repolfx 7y ago
Who underwrites the investment risks taken by Bill Gates exactly? Wealth mobility in the USA is pretty high. It's entirely possible for billionaires to stop being billionaires, or for people to temporarily become rich and then lose it
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by repolfx 7y ago
Spam didn't break email's network effects. Yeah, it hurts it a bit, but there were lots of attempts to build competing email networks that didn't go anywhere. This is partly because email isn't "for" anything e
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by repolfx 7y ago
As to the touted ineffectiveness of political advertising, the arguments would ring far truer if 1) the parties claiming such reflected the belief in their actions and 2) would not protest so loudly efforts to either curtail or 3) clearly
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by repolfx 7y ago
I think it's a difference of additive vs subtractive distortions. Censorship deletes things: it reduces the size of the marketplace of ideas. Money adds things: if I spend money tomorrow to buy some ads it doesn't affect you unles
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by repolfx 7y ago
It's easy to write laws such that totally blocking automation is allowed, totally blocking human written content is 'censorship', and categorising/hiding by default/ranking content is allowed. Yes, this doesn't
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by repolfx 7y ago
Depends what you mean by "a forum like HN". Before HN the main geek watering hole was Slashdot, which famously never censored content and fought strongly against attempts to force it to do so. Slashdot also had a rather sophistica
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by repolfx 7y ago
Spam can be solved by just making it easy for people to spot when something was classified as spam, e.g. as spam folders do.
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't, because you can still see such comments (it may require an account and flipping a switch). And in fact I browse Hacker News with showdead turned on, and I often start from /active so I can see stories and comments other p
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by repolfx 7y ago
They say they would consider it? Sure, such a weak claim is bound to get 90%+ agreeing with it. Who wouldn't say they'd consider it? Now how many actually do? Not that many, for sure.
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by repolfx 7y ago
See my other comment on this thread about that site. Most of those "myths" are actually cases where the press told the truth and the EC just didn't like it.
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's what cryptocurrencies allow, since Bitcoin. People can pick a dispute mediator who gets involved and can reverse the transaction only if there's a dispute. It's all done with OP_CHECKMULTISIG. The mediator is not an es
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by repolfx 7y ago
And yet Europe has massive youth unemployment throughout large regions, there is poverty, there are problems. Why are they spending money on trivialities like circus performers in Africa: a place Europeans don't live? If you can't
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by repolfx 7y ago
I don't follow. If money is invested then by definition it's not sitting idle.
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by repolfx 7y ago
That's the EU loyalist line but look at the comments in this thread. Tons of people saying, yeah, old news, EU money is corrupt and distorting, why is this suddenly in the NYT? But notice how they're all people reporting personal
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by repolfx 7y ago
Just go read stories from the UK Eurosceptic press over the decades. They've been digging up stories of EU corruption since forever. The only reason the UK is seen as "weird" by people in other EU states is because the press
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by repolfx 7y ago
The NYT appears to be going after Eastern European politicians here, which is surely deliberate as they tend to be conservative and against immigration, so the ideological enemies of the New York set. But it seems they got distracted along

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