DaUR

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by DaUR 10y ago
> The idea that the US is weak and needs to increase its military budget to achieve "Peace through Strength" is laughable. Who are you arguing with? You haven't read my comment, clearly.
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by DaUR 10y ago
Where did I argue we have to rebuild the military? Are you even replying to the right comment? Is your first sentence projection?
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by DaUR 10y ago
He said since the beginning of the primaries that he believe in "Peace through Strength", and repeated it many times. If you believe he wants to invade the world, you may be a low-information voter, with all due respect. (note: I
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by DaUR 10y ago
> The money you pay barely matters to USCIS It's literally how they fund 99% of their expenses.
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by DaUR 10y ago
Attempting to frame opposition to lowest-common-denominator-politics as a equivalent to racism and other -isms with a word made up by sociologists is laughable. A Porsche costs more than a Toyota. 2-weeks processing costs more and uses more
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by DaUR 10y ago
You're arguing that AI will lead to much more nuanced discourse, and much more complex and detailed pros and cons rather than the ruffian binary polarization we have now, and I agree.
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by DaUR 10y ago
You're supposed to look at what an optimal currency area is, and see if it applies. Don't just take Wikipedia's opinion for it. It's not. Cultural, language differences, asymmetric shocks, many reasons why. It would be t
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by DaUR 10y ago
It's better to have recourse. Either everybody waits a ton of time, or some people barely wait and some people wait a ton of time. Why drag everybody down to the lowest common denominator because of "fairness"?
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by DaUR 10y ago
This has nothing to do with Trump, or national threats. No F1B holder is superior to the others, but I'm glad that there's a way to jump the line if you have the means.
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by DaUR 10y ago
When the normal queue is 9 months, it would be immoral not to have any ways to jump to the front. Like the WWDC selling out in seconds, it might be "fair" but it's clearly not the optimal solution.
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by DaUR 10y ago
> would require things like common currencies That would be a disaster, and would hurt the dollar and therefore US NatSec and power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optimum_currency_area
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by DaUR 10y ago
I really appreciate the transparency. This is something you don't usually see accompany government decisions. All government decisions, laws and regulations should be accompanied by a list of what the decision is supposed to accomplish
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by DaUR 10y ago
> But that is what you're suggesting No, it isn't. I've said repeatedly they'd be much more accurate than humans, and much less biased than humans. You keep taking a black-and-white version of my arguments, arguing ag
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by DaUR 10y ago
"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." > In fact, in the US it's pretty clear that crime does not inc
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by DaUR 10y ago
On the contrary, there is no marketplace of ideas. These people are so insular that they'll hang on to their dogma no matter what criticism is leveled against them. They're fundamentally wrong, not just misguided. Case in point, t
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by DaUR 10y ago
Not sure how civil disobedience leads to authoritarianism rather than the opposite. Also, by your reasoning, civil disobedience is never justified. And does Trump being President change your reasoning at all?
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by DaUR 10y ago
As opposed to trusting biased, rushed, financially-motivated humans of average human intelligence to distill the world's knowledge? Or biased, rushed, career-driven sociologists, that live under publish-or-perish and don't use the
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by DaUR 10y ago
Exactly. 1. They have no obligation to law enforcement to make it easy to catch them. They're making it so that it's harder for LE to use their own service against them . Good investigators wouldn't investigate under their r
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by DaUR 10y ago
AI would allow us to form much more accurate etiologies than the current crop of sociologists, and better recommendations for solutions. There are simply no downsides to AI-journalism. The more you understand the present, the more accuratel
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by DaUR 10y ago
You argued that AI was biased. Now you're arguing that AI is too truthful, and that AIs uttering the truth would feed into a small minority's preexisting bias. This just proves my point that AIs are already less biased than humans
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by DaUR 10y ago
> AI can and does have significant bias, as long as it learns from sources influenced by humans with bias Sufficiently advanced AI would be aware of the bias of its data, much more than any human ever could. By the way, the IAT has very
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by DaUR 10y ago
> Journalism is pretty much about about selection of data. The opposite is.. well, like a data viewer for a repository of stats. Humans aren't good at dealing with data, especially on complex on nuanced subjects, or on topics where
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by DaUR 10y ago
The media "sticking to the facts" (laughable) isn't what causes mistrust. Them treating whole swaths of public debates as taboo, and ignoring some sets of inconvenient facts, is. If there's no problem, why the taboo? Vio
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by DaUR 10y ago
1. Analogies don't contribute to a debate since they're not based in reason, but in confirmation bias. You're trying to transpose the emotional connotations from one situation to a completely unrelated one. 2. She admits hers
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by DaUR 10y ago
Except she "knew that when I got indefinite leave to remain I can't stay outside of the country for more than two years". This is what she, herself, said. The title seems almost cynical when she could have avoided this whole
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by DaUR 10y ago
This is why the only profession that I'll actually be excited to see replaced by AI is journalism. A few tens of thousands of people out of their (pretty low-paying) jobs, but journalism is so utterly crucial to democracy and societal
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by DaUR 10y ago
That would be principled but not in Snapchat's interest. Their audience demographics would probably hate to see an NRA ad in a story about gun control, and it would hurt Snapchat's reputation, brand, and loyalty. You might even se
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by DaUR 10y ago
> That wasn't what I was trying to communicate at all. My intended meaning was that women—by wanting to look good, or to seem happy, or to put on one of the numerous other faces people expect women to present to the world—are forced
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by DaUR 10y ago
> I want to have someone in my life who plays the same role that a dental hygienist plays a dentist visit, but for my general physical health. You better not expect doctors to be that. Most of them still believe cholesterol causes heart
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by DaUR 10y ago
> I'm not sure if I disagree with you, or if my perspective is this same perspective from a different angle, but: I would say that it's more that men tend to (expect to) derive their self-esteem from things they do, rather than

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