John_KZ

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by John_KZ 9y ago
Discovery was ruined on purpose. I will always rant about this. Youtube wants to control what you see, that has always been the case since Google took over. Right now it's nearly impossible to research something specific on youtube. Yo
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Focusing on Facebook exclusively (for now) will give the public a real, indisputable, concrete example on why data mining is terrifying. If you start babbling on how "everyone's doing it" then you take away much of the import
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Yeah, looks like custom JS scrolling. I hate people that do this.
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Exactly. It's the same fallacy with open source code. Just because it could be reviewed, doesn't mean it has been. Formal or semi-formal groups that professionally review papers are essential. How are they going to get paid? I
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But the truck in front busted a tire... Now what? If the distance between vehicles is 1cm,then literally thousands of vehicles will crash. The AVs could offer some advantages (ie cheap car sharing via resource pooling, reduced parking space
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by John_KZ 9y ago
The reason Google isn't getting much backlash is because they played their cards right. They're much more discreet, their ads look like any other ad except for the tiny adsense symbol, they give the appearance of a free, open sear
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What's even worse is that sooner than later, not owning a cellphone with gps tracking will be seen as incriminating. Were you trying to hide your position? How do we know that you weren't there at the time of the crime?
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And the funny thing is that many of us don't even want personalized search.
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But unfortunately it's very easy to find a way around it: Make all decisions based on ML models, and only when a customer manages to go through the bureaucratic, expensive process of requesting an explanation, have a human review the
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The most worrying trend I note is how closely China and the West are when it comes to the use of AI and data collection for the manipulation and control of the masses. The financial system is different. In the West, there's no central
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Also there's a big and increasing class of people in the EU living outside their home country. They currently have no say in their country of residence for many years and if the EU breaks apart (ie Brexit), then millions more will be l
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Exactly. I would also fully support fusion or fusion/fission hybrids, which promice to burn up all waste and operate in a deeply subcritical state, meaning no meltdowns or explosions, ever. It's disappointing how little research f
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by John_KZ 9y ago
I had to reach the bottom of the page to find the only 2 commentors that understand that ADHD is an umbrella diagnosis and medication is often a crime. And of course both are downvoted to hell and about to be flagged and deleted. Who the fu
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I wouldn't be surprised if this was directly funded by TEPCO or some other "thinktank" that fears new contracts might be cancelled. If there's one thing the Japanese would do different in hindsight, it would not be ign
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by John_KZ 9y ago
I actually suffer from an extra problem. I no longer trust any program you can download off the internet, except for trusted repositories (ie most of canonical's ubuntu repos, debian etc). That has been a massive drag for me, because I
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Do the parents know about this? I can't imaging this happening in my country without massive, nation-wide action to stop it and fire/punish those that tried to implement the system.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
A lot has changed. Now a team of security experts hired by governments or large organizations write their viruses to look like they originated from someone else when the victims disassemble them and look for clues.
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The problem is that regular people no longer have a place to communicate. It used to be that the workplace, church, neighborhood or union meetings were the place to socialize and discuss these issues and take collective action. Now we have
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Although this study doesn't account for many externalities and long-term consequences, it's a good first step towards evaluating the real cost of private data collection.
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Is this really any better than "internal" entities trying to actively brain-wash the electorate right before the elections with personalized propaganda and a fake impression of consensus? The problem is personalized ads. We need t
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by John_KZ 9y ago
>taking over > "There are 34 on the road at the moment" >"There’s no luggage space at all, but ..." Yeah, sure.
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by John_KZ 9y ago
Hostile workplace culture is a thing everywhere. You don't have to and you shouldn't have to be friends with all your colleagues. Loneliness is not a problem that can or should be solved at work. You should make sure nobody is mar
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by John_KZ 9y ago
I used to feel like this before writing big and complex programs. But in term of practicality, it's a whole lot easier to just write the expansion of "rectangle" to "square" than re-writing "square" from s
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It opens the doors for going after even smaller crimes. Imagine if all CCTVs in London where online and they used them to purge all the homeless out of the city or jail them. Does that sound like a great idea to you? The law is often flawed
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Eventually we'll get drones to do this job. But first LIDAR needs to get small and cheap enough and large drones must be developed to be reliable enough to fly over populated areas.
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LIDARs are awfully expensive for personal use. Look for other 3D scanning methods, and if you still think it's required, rent one.
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Of the many things might have caused the revolution, global warming wasn't one of them. Egypt is at a country's developmental phase when urbanization happens. Also it takes a lot of confidence to attribute 2 years of dryness to cl
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Energy efficiency has been a big factor, but an even bigger one is the energy-intensive heavy industry fleeing from the developed world to china and other places where power is cheap and plenty. Countries like Germany that kept their indust
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1 meter in 100 years sounds a bit anti-climactic. With the kind of socioeconomic problems rising it sounds kind of dumb thing to care about. People will have decades to move and evacuate. Sure, some infrastructure will be wasted, but it&#x2
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Ah, that makes sense. I did mean emigrants. Emmigration and immigration have no correlation with IQ regardless. The lever of education sometimes does dictate who migrates (due to legal requirements or financial motivation for example), but

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