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by FakeComments 7y ago
I’ve seen no evidence of it. What I’ve seen is differential comparisons, eg, comparing the rate of white detection to black detection or the difference in certainty scores on each — but I’d really appreciate it if people could show me the a
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Any US citizen interested in zero equity seed money from the US government should investigate SBIR (of which this is the NSF component), a program overseen by the Small Business Administration, but run through the departments. (You end up p
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Can you walk me through a situation where you could use a codeword to the bartender, one that is known by every female in the establishment, but not, eg, simply talk to a staff member, email them, or call them — and how doing so is more dis
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by FakeComments 7y ago
That may make sense internal to a library, where you’ve established idioms. But as a counterpoint, I only know what you meant by the first expression because I read the second expression. I actually agree with you in large part, that short
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by FakeComments 7y ago
I think I came across as more disparaging to codes of conduct and those kinds of things than I meant to — they certainly have a place. One example where you’d want one, where everyone has high social skills, is during a negotiating summit:
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by FakeComments 7y ago
I think codes of conduct become relevant somewhere between 100 and 1,000 people, organizationally. Around the point you’re transitioning to more political structuring because simpler mechanisms break down.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
It’s a waste of time to use classes , if all you’re doing is hacking together 500 lines into a stable enough heap to generate the graphs for a paper. Not all academic code is that bad, but the heft is definitely towards that end of the poo
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by FakeComments 7y ago
For people like me who are slow: cap - res f/t | | chg c/t mem - ind flx Squares are neat. (Not my area of knowledge; have no real clue. Hoping someone comes along and explains further.)
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Yes — and organizations have been firing (and historically enough, killing) middle managers to “crumple” diffused executive misconduct for a long time. But “moral crumple zone” sounds sexy, while “the human in an AI driven system is just
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by FakeComments 7y ago
I’m not sure I understand your point. Let’s imagine that I work a job for three years, and a company spends $30,000 training me over that time period, when I then leave because that training helped me reach a better career position. If they
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by FakeComments 7y ago
> > offering to register them to vote sans additional proof of citizenship > You are not automatically registered to vote just because you have a WA driver license. I find it interesting you didn’t actually critique what I said. In
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by FakeComments 7y ago
It’s the thinking that underlines blood sacrifice: if we ritually commit an injustice, it will atone for past injustice.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
In 1999 when Palm Pilots and Blackberries were there, showing a clear trend towards greater handheld power after things like brick cellphones and gameboys? Yeah, that was the general consensus about what the future would be.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Can you cite something to support that? It sounds like a just-so claim: it’s not really a problem, and the people complaining are just bad people! As far as I’m aware, not only is there not accurate study — jurisdictions like Washington i
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by FakeComments 7y ago
The very notion of “you and me” is an appeal to realism: without an external world, there is only me — “you” become a figment of my imagination. Realism explains why my paper a) arrives while I’m asleep and b) sometimes surprises me with th
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by FakeComments 7y ago
There’s also an “outside the box” problem: in a non-local universe, it may be impossible for you to compute the trajectory of something without perturbing it, eg, because you slightly jiggle all of the electrons everywhere. So the co-trajec
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by FakeComments 7y ago
Yes — so much so, they added it as an extra assumption to their model. The original justification is that we have things like Bell’s experiment that say reality is non-local or non-deterministic, because they exclude local determinism. But
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by FakeComments 7y ago
> I feel like when people say ‘realist’ in this context, they mean someone who believes that ordinary intuitions about the way the world works are how the world must work at all levels. From the article: > Like Einstein, Smolin is a p
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by FakeComments 7y ago
You admit your comment is non-responsive to my point, which is that dang ideologically censors posts. Do you believe a non-sequitur ad hominem was a constructive comment? I’d prefer not to learn that style of social skill. Your comment is a
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by FakeComments 7y ago
> That guideline is based on the evidence of what happens when people don't follow it. That's the opposite of arbitrary. I didn’t mean to imply that the rule was arbitrarily selected, merely that your application of it was arbi
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by FakeComments 7y ago
> Especially: "Comments should get more civil and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive." > dang has previously said that they’re more critical of people who perturb the groupthink, and take action against the
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by FakeComments 7y ago
You have, to me, in reply to contentious things I’ve said. Repeatedly.
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by FakeComments 7y ago
My naive read is that $500k is an estimate of their profit over X time period, likely based on the $50k restitution over Y time period, which is the conduct they’re actually charged for. The reason for the discrepancy is simple: the governm
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by FakeComments 7y ago
There was a lot of pseudo-legal justification and lack of prosecutions for the Bush torture program as well, which was another violation of American norms. You have a very idyllic view that people can’t break the rules and get away with it:
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by FakeComments 7y ago
> Neither will catch issues like using a subnet that doesn’t exist [...] The CDK does: you’re either explicitly bypassing the safety checks, are explicitly importing a value (which necessarily is validated at runtime), or have to provide
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by FakeComments 7y ago
That exists for AWS: https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk
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by FakeComments 7y ago
CloudFormation YAML being terrible is well known, to the point that AWS did precisely what that person suggested. https://github.com/awslabs/aws-cdk They are in the process of releasing a kit to define your infrastruct
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by FakeComments 7y ago
This seems a strange response, since the extra-judicial killing of an American by the Obama administration was widely regarded as a serious breakdown in American norms — precisely by the same crowd who says things like GP. Your link then wo
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by FakeComments 7y ago
There’s a strong, intentional skew in their enforcement: dang has previously said that they’re more critical of people who perturb the groupthink, and take action against them for things people supporting popular opinions would be excused f
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by FakeComments 8y ago
You have a second vision that had nothing to do with what we were talking about before, which was changing the current system to one where entrenched private interests would be censors — the envisioned change I was responding to. Your non-s

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