ImSkeptical

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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Presumably models are also real people who have an interest in being there (their interest is in being paid). If consenting adults are being treated fairly, I don't see any moral problem here.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
To be clear I only meant "testing" to apply to the CIA. I imagine the other groups would be using it as part of some operation. As for why I imagine the CIA is testing this, the CIA has experimented on unwitting American citizens
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
The problem with this analysis is: what does Russia gain by doing this with a sonic mystery weapon? If Russia wanted to divide the US and Cuba by attacking diplomats, wouldn't a sniper be simpler and less obvious? Or paying some Cuba
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
The perpetrators are repeatedly performing an activity that hurts specific targets. It's hard not to consider this an attack. I agree that it's probably not Cuba itself doing it though. My own suspects, based on nothing but wild s
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I believe they have an audio recording of the sound, suggesting it's not purely a brain activation/attack. https://youtu.be/HcI7yYK_6Z8
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I also felt a bit of antipathy for the author. Something about a capitalist traveling to the former USSR, in it's vulnerable time of rebirth, and exploiting poor uneducated people to make a profit rubbed me the wrong way.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
>facial recognition software has problems recognizing black faces because its algorithms are usually written by white engineers That quote doesn't seem right to me. I think the basic premise - that facial recognition typically doesn
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
The research I'm familiar with shows that both men and women want to spend more time with their children, that only about a third of women want to work full time, and that women's desire to work full time declines as they get more
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, the relationship between supply and demand is still a well regarded concept in economics - if the supply of labor doubles, the cost of labor will... A) Be unaffected B) Increase C) Decrease I'm not saying ther
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Yeah, I agree that's a problem too. The problem seems to come from when women entered the work force, society neglected to take a roughly equal amount of men from the work force. This resulted in a surplus of labor and therefore dimini
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
It's not a moral fad at all. Women, including highly educated women, typically prefer having more children than they have [1]. 60% of women in the EU say they have less than the ideal number children. Women all over the world want mor
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I disagree on two points. First, people shouldn't love you for who you are. That assumption is in popular culture but it's really pernicious if you examine it. I don't love my mother because she's my mother. I love my mo
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I had a similar experience, but submitted a picture of my congressman (who was standing in front of a billowing American flag) which was accepted without comment by Facebook.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Google trends graph shows a fairly recent and step spike for the phrase "fake news"[1]. I'm sure the phrase was intermittently used for some time, but it's current usage send new, and much more popular. My memory is the
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I think it would be an annual bonus for some Americans, and an annual tax increase for others. As someone who, I suspect, would be in the second group, I feel like we do enough of this kind of thing already.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
If the purpose of the program is to entertain go players, then I'd say the bug is in the spec, which describes the wrong game.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Don't say "No" then, but agree and report to the authorities.
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Thanks for the correction. I typed the previous comment on my mobile, and the autocomplete there is quite confident with apostrophe insertion, which I don't always notice and correct. You are incorrect though regarding Skitt's La
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
The "verb" section has two definitions for effect. >1. To make or bring about; to implement. >2. Misspelling of affect. I believe the second one is the relevant definition here. Compare that to google's verb definitio
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
The article author's claims are anecdotal by definition. She is recounting the story of why she doesn't want to be a software developer anymore. As readers, we can ask ourselves whether her story represents something that we fee
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Seems like in the 70's this guy, his wife, and six other people pulled off a daring robbery of an FBI office. They broke in by picking the lock, then stole a bunch of files. They relied on the people in the office being distracted by a
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
If I understood the article, he has confessed to this behavior, there are many victims with similar stories, and corroborating evidence. I agree he should have a trial and a criminal conviction, but reporting the abundance of evidence that
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I watched/skimmed the first two minutes of this video. The lack of audio seems off-putting and amateur (so does the Big Head). It also seems a lot like a video of someone filling out a form. I feel like most people will be able to fil
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
This article doesn't inspire much faith in me as a reader. The first example of a start up beating a tech giant is Snap competing with Facebook. Snap did well for a while, but things are looking grim last I heard. Likewise, the author,
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I'd say that this is an argument that you should vote for systems that treat people fairly regardless of class. Even if you have no chance of becoming a millionaire or billionaire, it seems to me you should still try to treat such peo
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
I never suggested that hard work would be sufficient to make someone a billionaire. I do suspect hard work might be necessary, assuming the "inherit" case is ruled out. Hard work will likely improve the chances of one becoming a
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
That's a cynical way to put it. A more positive spin on the same idea would be that we encourage ambition and hope for the future. If my child wants to be a billionaire, should I say "Sweetie, you probably won't be a billiona
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
My mother told me that "sorry" means "I won't do it again.". Maybe that's not exactly right, or standard, but I think it's pretty close. "Sorry I stepped on your toes.". That was probably an acci
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
Won't their prices go up then? And won't that disproportionately hurt the poor people you're trying to help?
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by ImSkeptical 9y ago
We should try to increase the per capita GDP in the US then.

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