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by allthenews 9y ago
I'm sure there's a name for this phenomenon. We shouldn't be calling remotely piloted quadcopters drones either, but "drone" has become a modern colloquialism for any UAV that isn't a remote controlled hobby pl
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by allthenews 9y ago
What happens when you combine these cameras with facial recognition technology? Sure, these are public places, but does that justify the intrusiveness of a police force, or other government organization, tracking your every public movement?
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So it sounds like one could summarize the distribution as being random, but constrained by a cost function which locally maximizes entropy, i.e. reduces clumping.
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by allthenews 9y ago
I'm not sure, I don't mean to imply any wrongdoing with any certainty, only to give pause to people who blindly believe that they are helping. But, what about cultures that, for example, believe that pain is integral to the human
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by allthenews 9y ago
I think there's an implicit assumption of cultural superiority in such case. This mirrors the pattern of imperialist "civilization" of "savages" that drove the European world to commandeer undeveloped nations over t
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by allthenews 9y ago
I'm confused. How is hyper-uniformity different from a homogeneous mixture? What is the difference between a hyper-uniform material, and a material that has had adequate time to mix through diffusion?
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by allthenews 9y ago
Amazon already forces you to see what are effectively ads. Every page you visit has suggested items based on either similar search results, purchase history, current page content, content other users purchased after viewing a product, etc.
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by allthenews 9y ago
Is it right to help people in third world countries if it effectively means we are erasing parts or all of their culture with our own? Are we meddling?