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by MikeUt 5y ago
> The total fertility rate—a snapshot of the average number of babies a woman would have over her lifetime—fell to 1.64. To put that in perspective, replacement-level fertility is 2.1. The US has been below-replacement since 1973 [1]. Ye
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> One of my teachers even showed to the class that he was able to view the screen of a student who was absent from class, without the student's knowledge. Isn't the fig leaf of "it's stated in the ToS that the user re
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That's orthogonal to my point. I only added the reasonable amount requirement because otherwise the change in law is useless - if you don't want to license to someone, just charge a billion dollars. But to answer your question, a
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If having no advanced courses is best for everyone, as that study claims, then there's no need to think about those questions you raised, is there? There's no dilemma, since both gifted and ordinary students are best served by the
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> Does raising the average math competency of all students outweigh the possible benefits of catering to a select few? This assumes that advanced courses harm students not enrolled in them. I don't see why that should be the case, a
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I am okay with the compromise that one must pay for copyrighted works. But if you're not given the option to pay (a reasonable amount), copyright should not prevent you from enjoy that work.
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> Does the artist not have a right to decide whether to license that? They shouldn't have that right. No, let me re-phrase that - others shouldn't be deprived of their right to enjoy works of art, at the whim of the copyright h
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It's more accurate to say the 3rd party doctrine goes around rights , not just legal requirements. The 3rd party is forced to betray its clients to the government, even against its will. In other words, this doctrine doesn't only
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by MikeUt 5y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27033019
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> the likely reason for their disproportionate encounters with Police is their disproportionate socio-economic situation Seems odd to omit the more direct cause - disproportionate homicide and violent crime rates [1] - and skip to socio-
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> Beyond the prohibition on scraping, the terms also state that, by accessing the Southwest site, the user also agrees it “will not use the [Southwest site] for or in connection with offering any third party product or service not author
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> There's a minority of consumers who went for the cheap stuff and now want to make money off of it by pushing it beyond the stated limits. Wasn't the GP's whole point that those limits aren't stated? Or that they a
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But I was describing subversion and takeover, not 'damage'. And even in the case where the subversion is poorly executed and thus perceived as damage (or perceived at all*), China, due to its size, can withstand more damage than T
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On the other hand, an increase in trade gives China (the bigger partner) more leverage to pressure Taiwan using economic measures. Suppose 60% of all campaign political contributions came from China's puppet companies in Taiwan. Or if
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> "but end with 'please comply with your license agreement and stop reverse engineering our code, already.'" We should reject the term "reverse engineering", and use the more accurate "examining how som
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The Mystery of Why a Foundering Football Player Killed a Family(nytimes.com)
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"Software has both false positives and false negatives, we will present you a carefully chosen subset of each." I wonder if the article deliberately has no information on the rates at which the content is blocked/allowed, suc
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Do: And now they want to sell our language back to us as a service. Don't: Speech recognition algorithms may also have racial bias; Error rate for African American speech is nearly double that for others. [1] [1] https:/&#x2F
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> preventing the use of AI Dungeon to create child sexual abuse material. I am shocked to hear this was possible to begin with. It was my understanding that AI Dungeon could only generate text, and did so entirely on computers. But now w
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That 'we', the developed world, aren't sharing vaccine formulas with the developing world. But that guilt trip only works if you accept that the private citizens of the developed world, and the pharmaceutical companies trying
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Empirically, no: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
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Contrary to what the title implies, those vaccines aren't 'shared' with the developed world either. They're kept by the pharma companies, and the developed world has to pay for doses, despite having funded over 97% of
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> And I guarantee that the vast majority of companies that will start doing so will be fly by might operators By this logic, the generic medicine market should have already collapsed. Drug safety standards apply even when patent restrict
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Can someone explain the significance of this, for those who don't know how Uber Eats works?
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> With immigration leveling off Leave it to the Times to describe near-record high immigration as a "leveling off": Immigrant share of U.S. population nears historic high - https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tan
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> I am confused why I am being downvoted?....please help me to understand why anyone would support terrorists. Talking to terrorists does not imply supporting them. And I don't want Zoom or the US or Israeli governments deciding who
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> As women of color working in tech, they faced no shortage of challenges breaking into the predominantly white, male industry. The US is ~69% non-Hispanic white. Uber, Facebook, Apple, Google, Twitter, Microsoft are all <60% white [1
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Yes, but because they talked about it using proxies of ethnicity, such as religion, geography, or nation*, we are to believe they were completely race-blind. * The word nation came from the Old French [8th-14th century] word nacion – meani
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> primary sources at many points throughout history That's like debunking alchemy, then claiming you've disproven chemistry. Do those primary sources prove that Europeans are not, on average, more closely related to other Europ
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The Let-Teenagers-Knife-Fight Caucus(nationalreview.com)
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