MichaelGroves

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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
You're right, I've read numerous articles and editorials in the NYTimes about this issue.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Would you be okay with that? What does it even mean to be "okay with that" in this context? I certainly think it should be legal for newspapers to publish opeds arguing for harsher sentencing, just as it should be legal fo
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Second Life for kids.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
That's how it works in minecraft right? Kids can design and build a minigame within the context of minecraft, but minecraft doesn't provide provide some minecraft diamonds to USD conversion service that allows players to bring
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> So, the unwanted results here are still due to the input data. But neither the input data, nor the algorithms contain any racial bias towards the black people. The results might be merely due to the difference between dark faces and p
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> You cannot ask a researcher to invent a new more performant computer-vision model, invent a way to correct for bias, and design a fair dataset all in one. That's three entirely different careers. Might it not sometimes be reason
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Any word with powerful meaning in one context will inevitably be repurposed in other contexts by people who want to borrow some of that power for their own uses. Here is an example: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=democratize
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
What the platform incentivizes is not all there is to consider. Actual outcome must also be considered. Nike can go through all the motions of incentivizing the use of ethical labor in their factories, but if it turns out that despite the
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> There is no good gps app anyway. Forget global positioning specifically, shouldn't a good OpenStreetMap atlas application without automatic positioning be feasible, if not presently available? Today it might feel like caveman t
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> How do you know that cheap editing job on fiverr is not made by an enslaved worker? That's my point, you don't and can't . You should be cognizant of the possibility of abuse, not write off the possibility. Don&#x27
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
They could do that. Or they could choose not to be involved in that sort of business.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> I totally agree that OnlyFans is a legitimate and ethical site "IRL", abusive relationships can be hidden in plain site from people who think they know the couple well. How do you stand any chance of knowing there isn&#x27
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
That's the point of all of this isn't it? Wikipedia's standard/definition of notability, or their method for determining it, is broken.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> She is notable now for having won a Nobel Prize That's not right. The Nobel Prize didn't bequeath notability to her, it recognized the notability she already earned for herself.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Citing reputable sources is necessary but not sufficient. In practice, wikipedia seems to care about the appearance of citation more than citation itself (a number of studies have shown that using [bracketed footnote numbers] boosts the p
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> You're being downvoted because everyone knows Wikipedia is built on citations. Got a citation for that supposed common knowledge? I couldn't resist myself, but seriously, wikipedia purports to be built on citations but how
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Right, the Nobel Prize didn't make her notable, it recognized her existing notability. What made her notable was the work she did before she got the prize. Wikipedian editors incorrectly failed to recognize her notability, because
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
The UN Security Council isn't meant to be a politically nimble engine for progressive economic change; it's meant to prevent a shooting war between those major powers. Judging the UNSC by the standard of that design intent and pu
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Low orbits do decay naturally in a few decades, yes, but MEO and GEO orbits can take thousands to millions of years to decay. Tens of years? Try tens of months. The ISS has a minimum mean altitute of 370 km, a max of 460 km, and w
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Facebook hires underpaid and poorly treated contractors to moderate exactly this same kind of content. I see no reason to believe Apple will be any different, particularly a few months from now when the general public's attention has
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Canonical and ClamAV aren't trying to curry favor with the US government to stave off antitrust action.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I don't think chlorine in water is considered a medication. Chlorine in water is added with the intention of disinfecting the water, for human health reasons, but that disinfection happens before the water is consumed. The chlorine
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
I'm not talking about combined sewers. Systems in which the sanitary sewer and the storm sewer are completely separate can become combined sewers when the sanitary sewer is inundated with more infiltration/inflow than it can h
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Humans don't poop in a box and have someone else handle it? Well.. not usually. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedpan
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Second is combined sanitary AND rain runoff sewers - which bypass treatment when there is high rain. This is a very difficult problem. If the sanitary sewers aren't in great condition, rising ground water levels can leak into t
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Is there any way to prevent it? Do what I do: Run it on a burner computer connected to your guest network.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
This should be a boon for the GOA, which has a much better track record of actually supporting what they purport to support.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
> Would you consider the sliced and bagged bread to be ultra-processed, but not a whole loaf of basically the same thing? "Ultra" seems subjective, but sliced bread is objectively more processed. The mistake is assuming tha
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
Besides corporate VPNs, typical consumer VPNs are also set up to allow LAN access. Your average joe-smoe would be annoyed if their network printer stopped working every time they turned on their VPN to watch netflix movies or whatever.
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by MichaelGroves 5y ago
"Lots of people do it" should never be considered a legitimate excuse. Trying to use that excuse should get you kicked out of the meeting room.

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