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from : https://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/panda-security/how... "Cyberstalking is the act of using the Internet to systematically and repeatedly harass, threaten or intimidate someone. This can be done
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> Are you suggesting cancelers are commiting crimes? I think they are, it's harassment and mobbing. They should be prosecuted and given serious fines and in some cases jailed.
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> in that regard it doesn't matter if it's only rumored to be used wrong and the rumors have something like 10% chance of being true I agree, but then it's telling how in an abstract argument about the potential misuse of
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Here we're talking about AI biases though. Such as the possibility of an AI giving a bad score to a black loan applicant because of implicit biases in the training. On the other hand, China is in a conflict with the Uighur population o
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In this case, the very existence of teams is an invention of those who managed to make a career as team leaders. By prefacing your statements with an explicit allegiance to a team, you're in fact endorsing whoever is presenting him&#x2
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> This is fallout from the exclusion of Italian immigrants from the higher classes in the early 20th century I am Italian and I can assure you that those who remained in Italy are not different. Large part of the Italian immigration to t
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> On the other hand, nothing an engineer or scientist can do will stop the Chinese government OT, but shall we stop throwing casual references to China as the example of everything bad that can happen?
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Agreed. I was only pointing out that even bias is a matter of bias: if white faces had been depixelated to black faces instead of the other way around, the authors could have still been accused of a racist bias (because of the hypothetical
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In this case, ironically, it seems that an AI could incorrectly depixelate faces of suspects caught by surveillance cameras to white instead of black. Which would lead to a bias against white people.
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Sorry, I know "power alliances" wasn't too clear, but it was just a way to stress that these are in effect temporary, shifting alliances between powerful organisations (such as nation states are). > For my part, I think th
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And why a country that puts snipers to shoot on protesters and is planning the annexation of territory belonging to others (after several other illegal annexations) is the US's best friend?
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Strange, because the question I asked and you didn't answer was pretty clear: "What values does the US share with the UK more than with most other western countries?". My point (implicit, but obvious) is that "values&quo
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You entirely missed my point: I'm not questioning the existence of a "special relationship", I'm asking if it's based on "values". What values does the US share with the UK more than with most other wester
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> Think about the "special relationship" among the UK/US that is (definitely was) primarily based on values. Which values? Atheism? The welfare state? Well defined social classes? The royal family?
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> but if you go on almost ANY news website in china, the headline news is dedicated to government propaganda Well I have news for you... Most of the news about international politics you read in the west are propaganda as well- and it wo
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Beautiful, except for the fact that discoverability is impossible, because clients cannot read the links and think "let's try to click there to see if I can find that data point".
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I actually like it. It's very punk, so ahead of its time.
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> Relationship therapists teach couples to use "I" language vs "you" language to express feelings On the other hand, when a statement is made about you ("what you did is wrong") you always have a chance to d
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Basically every app that is used to sell goods or as an add on to a physical product doesn't have to pay Apple a cut. And it makes sense: the app is free and only the means to access a backend service or a something that was paid separ
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I thought so after posting it :)
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> lots of people died First time I hear this. Source?
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Can someone explain Medium to me? I find it makes for a minimalistic, pleasant user experience (later degraded by banners, paywalls), but apart from that? Editing options are borderline non-existent. The comments section, usability-wise, is
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Actually, albumin seems to be filtered out as well and replaced. If I understand correctly, albumin is a transport protein, so it carries around a lot of stuff. When it gets replaced, it is replaced with a "blank" version.
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Plasma Replacement Therapy Promising in Alzheimer’s Patients(labiotech.eu)
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There's a Spanish pharma company (Grifols) that has been experimenting for years with plasma replacement to slow down or stop Alzheimer's disease progression. The first results of the therapy called AMBAR (Alzheimer's disease
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> I'd be surprised if this architecture scales to larger resolutions Could a different NN be used for upscaling?
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Do I understand correctly? So Google is demonetising a site because it considers it responsible for what the users post on its forums? Isn't that contrary to Google's (and all internet giant) own policy of not being responsible fo
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> But when you know how it makes people feel when you make your assumption visible... How people feel depends on their own assumptions on why you made the mistake. Say that yours was a perfectly natural mistake based on innate heuristics
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Well, it would be annoying in general (beyond this specific case, let's assume an instance we agree on) because it confuses an ethical stance with a factual statement. In this case, right with the profitable . Say that tomorrow we f
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> why not include a nice chart showing that those 10% companies in the US that don't have a woman director are underperforming? Because most probably they're not, once correlations are excluded. It's annoying that we keep

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