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by Quanttek 8y ago
Resubmitting because last thread got mass flagged immediately
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Elon Musk calls diver who helped rescue Thai schoolboys 'pedo guy' on Twitter(independent.co.uk)
41 points by Quanttek 8y ago|2 comments
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It's not only data bias: Question: Which party is superior? (a) Democrats (b) Republicans Aristo's Answer: (b) Republicans Confidence: 94.04% as computed from these reasoners: Information Retrieval: 82.05% More Info Justification
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FYI, there are no lawsuits with GDPR: You file a complaint with the relevant data protection agency and they then decide whether to pursue this. Should they do that, the company can dispute the claim and only then elgal proceedings would fo
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Jesús Christ, how disingenuous can you be? "Hiring" a DPO basically means appointing someone to the role who will take over these responsibilities. Depending on the size of your firm, the workload might be quite low and somebody c
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Thank you! That's exactly my point
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It's ironic that the report criticizes 60 Minutes for being biased while showing its own bias in the same paragraph > The 60 Minutes report was not exactly fair-and-balanced; it featured an anti-tech-monopoly crusader , an anti-tech
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> After four years of deliberation, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was officially adopted by the European Union in 2016. The regulation gave companies a two-year runway to get compliant, which is theoretically plenty of ti
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> At heart, both were engineers for whom patient care was an abstract concept. If their tinkering turned out to have adverse consequences, they weren’t the ones who would be held personally responsible. That seems to be at the heart of t
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Article didn't seem biased to me though
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Admittedly, I haven't read the article yet but still wanted to make a small point: In both conventional and 'ecological' wine production, wineries have to use different sprays to keep off fungis that destroy the wines. Conve
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> Widespread adoption has other benefits. Mapbox doesn't need to send out pricey cars or satellites in space to map the world. "Map data is not like food, air, water that's just around. It takes active work to make it,&qu
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Professors Are Targets in Online Culture Wars; Some Fight Back(npr.org)
28 points by Quanttek 9y ago|0 comments
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Looking at the comments quoted by the Verge, it seems like internal Facebook commenters are no better than Fb commenters below news stories: > Another theory floated by multiple employees is that Facebook has been targeted by spies or s
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> This was a well-known design choice where the user could balance between transaction size and privacy--people who preferred faster/cheaper transactions chose to sacrifice untraceability. Nowadays, the default option enforces high
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Be careful when reading such claims: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/01/the-s...
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I must say I'm against this development. First of all, even if electric, this is certainly a very inefficient way of transportation that will 'waste' a lot of energy to transport maybe 4 people. The resulting price of this te
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Why was the East Texas circuit so popular and why was it so in favor of patent-holders?
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> ECJ 1) Despite the GDPR being a regulation, the national courts will decide first and oly if appealed enough times, the ECJ will decide as highest court 2) The EU judiciary is base don the civil law system. In the US or UK or other com
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Why would technologists do that? Especially in those circles there's an incredible belief in easy solutions (i.e. technological solutions). For your homeless problem sociologists and anthropologists would probably be most appropriate
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I would then ask: "what is science?", "who defines it?", "who is science?" Readiing the last article you linked, it seems like a legitimate debate about the scientific method and what constitutes scientific the
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> younger doctors understand more and more that pain means stress and stress make sick and is a negative influence to the healing process I hope you are wrong because I would hate so see anythign resembling the painkiller addiction wave
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The article is laughably biased in both its reporting and its language, it's almsot funny how they don't try to hide it: > According to a survey conducted late last year by the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation > B
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There is a move away from seperate bike roads because these have a much higher right turn accident rate at junctions and a move towards bike lanes which are safer due to the shared space (more awareness of bikers by drivers)
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In almost every country (at least in Europe) cars have to yield to any traffic going stright on their right side. This includes both pedestrians and cyclists. And, yes, these have the right to overtake on the right. If straight traffic woul
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> focusing on the worse off person. I recommend you read John Rawls's seminal work A Theory of Justice . For him, there are three principles a society should be based on (in lexical order): Maximum, equal liberties for all > Eq
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80.82.77.83 80.82.77.84 sci-hub.la sci-hub.hk sci-hub.tv sci-hub.tw sci-hub.name sci-hub.mn See the Wikipedia entry
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I think the NYT article is already critical of the movement without becoming snarky likes the Ars article: > (There is no scientific evidence that fluoride is a mind-control drug, but plenty to show that it aids dental health.) > T
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I'm not sure what you're trying to imply here? Do you doubt their findings? I think everyone (esp us men) should be aware of the effects ̶p̶̶a̶̶t̶̶r̶̶i̶̶a̶̶r̶̶c̶̶h̶̶y̶ social constructs around masculinity can have on your behavior
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The article mentions the larger carbon footprint of men. It is alos mentioned in the study: > One of the obstacles identified by prior research is that compared to women, men are less likely to be eco-friendly in their attitudes, choices

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