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by Udik 6y ago
> But I think if you discount by 50% or so you'll be pretty close Look, a metric ton of sugar wholesale costs about $250. When you buy it in 1kg bags in supermarkets, with an extremely streamlined and risk free distribution chain, i
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by Udik 6y ago
The substance in itself must be extremely cheap to produce. What you're paying is the mark-up at each additional step in the logistics chain; and the mark-up is huge because instead of rewarding labour it's rewarding risk. You can
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by Udik 6y ago
> remove bias from data, not introduce it The problem is in finding the bias, since it's a quantity inferred ex post by checking the discrepancy between reality and expectations. And since we have come to ideologically reject the ve
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by Udik 6y ago
Hmm, so what the dog wants to communicate is that she wants a food treat. Not exactly unexpected. Reminds me of the famous Gary Larson's comic: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/1d/b5/27/1db5279f8a07f16
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by Udik 6y ago
A dupe from 9 months ago?
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by Udik 6y ago
If Jews are extremely over-represented (with respect to their share in the US population, which is about 1.7%), shouldn't there be an affirmative action for non-jewish students?
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by Udik 6y ago
> mostly because mainstream Christianity does not currently have many restrictions which inconvenience people day to day. Note however that Islam has similar restrictions but an entirely different way to deal with them (respecting the sp
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by Udik 6y ago
> practical discussion of under what conditions, and how explicitly, one can ask a non-Jew to do things on the sabbath that would be forbidden for the asker themself to do If I remember well, one option is "if someone were to do thi
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by Udik 6y ago
It's more that for Judaism it seems God's laws are legal boundaries devoid of any ethical meaning. The important thing is to respect their letter, not their spirit.
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by Udik 6y ago
> you don't pour kerosene on it while trying to put it out, right? The fact is that you're not trying to put out the fire (I am talking about the US, as this seems to be first and foremost a US issue). You're actually feed
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by Udik 6y ago
But then your problem is with authoritarian harassment, not with facial recognition. If you're fine with the fact that the police can stop and harass random people based on indicators that have a high rate of false positives, then faci
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by Udik 6y ago
> That's a weird suggestion. It's undisputed that they have put millions into detention camps No, the article talks about "tracking" Uighurs, not rounding them up. The Uighurs are 25 million and mostly live in the Xin
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by Udik 6y ago
> With FR the immediate issue is making many false matches I don't get it though. False matches seem to be a great thing: it means that facial recognition does not really work well and can't be used to tell who is where. Do you
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by Udik 6y ago
Thank you, but this article seems to say that the technology is used to track Uighurs (I suppose for the reason that some of them have been engaging in terrorist activities) and not to incarcerate them. Despite the scale- which we consi
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by Udik 6y ago
> thousands of Uyghurs are put into concentration camps based on computer vision algorithms invented by this community I saw this repeated frequently in the last few days, and I think I've missed some important info. I know that Chi
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by Udik 6y ago
> in practice Han Chinese are largely spared... Yes, so are the Han actually complying more with the law (which seems very probable, since they're culturally aligned with the state)? Or is this "largely spared" already tak
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by Udik 6y ago
You also have to take in account the rate of compliance to the law by Uighurs. If they're strongly religious and fiercely determined to keep their traditions, I guess they might also be much less compliant than the rest of the populati
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by Udik 6y ago
I am trying my best to avoid it though I have my axe to grind. But it's hard because it all strikes me at least as preposterous: all these terrible news about China started to come out just when it suddenly turned from "super dyna
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by Udik 6y ago
It seems to meet the definition of genocide if sterilisation methods are used, as it is claimed in the article. On the other hand, it's a bit of a tricky point because China has nation-wide policoes about fertility (the one child polic
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by Udik 6y ago
Hm hm. Israel. With the generous protection and help of the US of A.
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by Udik 6y ago
> I don’t understand how you can say something like that with a clear conscience Not the gp, but my position is that equating a fetus to a person is a fallacy based in the idea that it's a potential person. Which however means it&
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by Udik 6y ago
> a programmer still getting paid way less than her colleagues? Could you point me to a source for this?
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by Udik 6y ago
The problem, if I understand correctly, is that we're feeding enormous amounts of text to language models hoping that they might contain, hidden in their patterns, enough information about the real world to allow prodigiously complex N
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by Udik 6y ago
> I honestly rarely have seen this happen. Well, I honestly have never seen actual witch burning happen. Yet I know it's wrong and it should not happen. > If that actually for some reason causes a PR shitstorm for your employer
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> It may have been made up, but I'm willing to bet that a not insignificant portion of people who are _now_ making it aren't doing so to make a point of saying "everything is just fine". Absolutely. But the corollary
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You have to admire the delicacy of that "disgraced media tycoon" label.
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> It isn't great for police reform policy, because you don't have metrics to judge success or aspire to. I feel that the idea of a racial bias behind police killings in the US is misguided. The issue exists, but as this study s
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> If you're accusing people of criminal acts, you should, you know, actually be certain that the acts are criminal. Intention matters, and that is usually left to the interpretation of the events. A judge or jury is free to decide
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> You aren't reading carefully. I said and not due to other reasons. I read it and ignored it as a completely arbitrary constraint that you added. > There are legitimate reasons to complain to someone's employer about their
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by Udik 6y ago
> Or perhaps more specifically, can you present an example of cancelling that was done "specifically [...] for reasons of anger, revenge or control", and not due to other reasons, and that includes embarassment and humiliation,

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