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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Oddest thing is that many groups deemed a majority are not if one looks at a global scale. It really seems the terms majority/minority are selectively defined as needed to target certain groups.
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>since there are actually really clear biological differences between the sexes, and those biological differences influence both strength and propensity towards competitive/violent engagement. If someone tried to make the same argum
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
What if it is such only because we made it so? For example, policing policies that increase fatherlessness in specific communities will result in increased levels of crime. But to then take a 'fair' approach at distribution of p
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>The problem with predictive policing is in the name. Inference (ML) predicts the future from the past. If the past is racist, then inference will create a racist future. Since racism is systemic[1], especially when it comes to policing,
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
I've found it useful for knowing if you have enough of each ingredient. If they weren't separate, one of the first things I would need to do would be to sit down and work out what ingredients I need to know if I need to buy more
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
It isn't meaningless anymore when we have found that there are multiple national level or greater conspiracies involving some of the most vile things known to mankind. We are 2 for 3 with these three cases and we have seen how corrupt
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Imagine if there was something larger than just what that one billionaire was involved in. Kinda like how when stories about the Catholic Church broke there were just a few high level Bishops involved until much more work was done to pull
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Yeah, the conspiracy theory is just insane. Almost as insane as the conspiracy theory that one of the world's largest religious organizations was engaging in something similar, except at a scale spanning every continent except Antarct
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>That's what concentration camp is for. To concentrate and control. The problem is that these words have taken on entirely different meanings that perhaps what they once meant and there are those who take advantage of that disparity
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
But that isn't the argument being presented because if the parents don't will it to the children, then no one thinks the children should get it (well, a few such children might and may legally challenge the will, but that is a ver
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>Honest question: does race predict legal recourse when decoupled from socioeconomic status, or is this an assumption? I think the issue is that regardless of the answer, it isn't decoupled in real world scenarios. I think the solut
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
It would be AI by the standards of A*, maze solvers, and similar. It isn't ML and doesn't isn't related to that branch of AI. Should graph search be considered AI? This gets us to the root of the issue, which is how do we c
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>You arbitrarily picked 16 possible photorealistic faces out of a total solution space of what? Millions? Wouldn't the solution be to find a 4 different axes and pick faces that represent different endpoints. With a little psycholo
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Because people generally find that informed consent is the only consent that counts. If someone cannot read a contract, how can they give informed consent to it? If we decide that uninformed consent is still consent, we open a significant
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>One problem with your argument (from a political perspective) is that it undermines the entire system of mandatory disclosures (for drug warnings, investor relations, real estate, etc.). Is this a bug or a feature? >as they are based
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
This doesn't sound right, so let me try to form an example to get at what is the issue I'm seeing. Let X be "It is okay for me to ban my customers from using discounts." Let not X be "It is okay for me to use discou
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
I've also moved on to board games that have some element of randomness as otherwise I try optimizing to the point where it ceases to be fun and becomes work. Overall I've found myself way too competitive, especially around younge
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
I asked a few people much better than me and they couldn't think of any standard openings similar to what I was using. A few were able to point out some openings it was similar to, but those were rarely used openings.
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>So the focus in chess has moved away from manually exploring to find optimal plays and new opening styles as was the trend in the 19th century chess rennaisance to a focus on preparation so that a player can quickly find best moves, und
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
On a certain level fines and other punishments exist because they are politically popular.
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Can that be done? The issue with politics is that the end result in enforce, often metaphorically but sometimes literally, at gunpoint. The real world implications are something that cannot be ignored, unlike a discussion of favorites tea
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
I wonder if I can get more web developers where I work back in the bootstrap camp now. Use of jQuery was their main complaint and reason for abandoning. On a related note, I feel like I'm officially becoming an old fogy because I lear
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Isn't this part of a different problem of not being allowed to be wrong? It has major impacts on racism (and sexism and other forms of discrimination) making it worse, but also is a factor when someone is wrong in other areas of life
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In that case it would be a trade off for their increased ability to deploy lethal force or imprison a person. Honestly, I'm thinking the trade off would still be weighted too much in their favor. An alternative is to have it so police
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>There's nothing wrong with the idea of qualified immunity. A government worker should not be held responsible if they make an honest mistake. In a legal system where the average person is held responsible for an honest mistake, I t
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
There are a few outstanding questions that will test this. Can someone discriminate against an asexual or bisexual person? If so, then this logic doesn't protect LGBT but only LGT, which is something of an important distinction in so
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
Because the notion of sex is implicit in some sexual orientations. If you fire a man for loving some individual, but not fire a woman for loving the same individual, then that is discrimination on the basis of sex. The question that I thin
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
The supporters (is that the right word) seem to agree. The issue isn't that the people were discriminated based on their sexual orientation or gender identity, but because of their sex. That is to say, if they were males presenting a
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
But doesn't this then introduce the problems with fines? They can be disproportionate and can also be viewed as a tax. Making them proportionate has other issues, such as effectively making it a non-punishment for some people who can
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by SkyBelow 6y ago
>You could watch 100 videos of disgusting malpractices in restaurant kitchens and begin to think you should never eat in a restaurant again. If you did that, and then decided we needed either better laws concerning food safety, or better

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