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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>Rich Established French Companies did, as did Nations and people outside the British Empire. Yes, because there was little or no risk for them. Google will happily side with the revolution in Bangladesh or Gambia, not in the US.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Do you think any rich established British company supported the American revolution? Why do you expect Google to help anything new or different regardless of how "correct" it is? Big established players can't afford revolutio
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
The demonetization effort is too targeted and obvious to be explained by "AI did it". If AI did it, they could undo it after appeal which they don't.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
This doesn't work for me. I assume so much positive intent that I give people a lot of chances without criticizing them. Even when their story makes no sense, I try to give everyone full benefit of doubt. As a result, they seem to thin
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
In fact, only growing trees have significant net absorption of CO2. Older trees, specially the non-fruit bearing kind, have negligible net CO2 absorption. Cutting down old trees may not be good for the ecosystem, but it is great for CO2 abs
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Well, that focus is if you are looking to market your apps in those markets. If your market has ubiquitous fast affordable internet, shipping more javascript is not that much of an issue, specially if it makes your web application faster an
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Why do Trump-haters pretend to not know the difference between legal and illegal immigration? Is there a labor shortage that can be filled by bringing in immigrant workers? Then push for new laws that makes bringing in foreign workers easy
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I am just using what the BBC article suggests you should do to not fall for fake news.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Just a hypothetical question: Would it be OK if a bakery run by Christians were not willing to do business with a gay couple?
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Talking about ML and DL and figuring out how companies can add a few buzzwords in their marketing to say that they use AI.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Yeah, - only some people - occasionally - along with all other types of food making tofu a very small portion of the diet
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I don't use Facebook and I get by just fine. However, when I tried to switch to bing for a while, I could barely use the internet. Google is much worse than Facebook can ever hope to be.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
The "notion" may be "destructive" in your opinion, but it doesn't make it less true.
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Maybe because the studies are cherry-picked to fit their agenda?
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Given that all of the videos happen to be anti-ISIS... and YouTube happens to be owned by an evil empire in bed with American military industry which created ISIS... the AI must have figured out that the videos could be a threat to its mast
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Social networks are different, in that the people can comment back and discuss the issue if someone is trying to spread nonsense. This is why many top news sites now have disabled comments (to "prevent trolling and hate speech" ob
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I like how "evidence" is required when everyone is not parroting the "facts" everyone got by watching the same "news"-cum-"comedy show" on TV.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I don't buy Herbalife products for the same reason I don't buy most Apple products. They are overpriced for what they are and I am capable enough to make whatever cheaper alternative "just work" for me without additional
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I would be very happy with all birds being extinct if that is what would take to come up with a solid replacement for fossil fuels. The problem with wind power is it will not replace anything. Wind cannot provide reliable power so it has to
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
> right wing extremist Right wing of where exactly? I am not American but I am assuming you're talking about the US. In that case, you should know that the clean tech industry in the US started and thrived during Bush presidency. Th
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Yes that is what I was referring to.
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No, it is a project by Statoil, one of the biggest oil companies in the world.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I see. So, if there will be these profitable companies which profit from building and maintaining automation technologies, will they be so small that anyone can start their own automation company or be so big that they will require huge inv
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
If automation will take over certain "jobs", then whatever is needed by humans will be produced without anyone doing those "jobs" and people will have all those things without paying for it for very cheap (because if eve
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
Yes, with all the gamification, many of them can't quit. What the problem is that kids don't have much money to pay for anything. So, if you make a product for kids, make sure it is something their parents will pay for. Snapchat i
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I started doing it in 2016, so while I seem to come up with various facts that I read from the books in conversations when something related to what I have read comes up, I don't know how much of each book I actually remember. To test
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
I wanted to finish 100 books in 2017, already on 75th.
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
OK, but why should a business care?
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>Do you think it's possible and worthwhile to change attitudes? Depends. >If we once believed (and no doubt some still do) that black people are worth less than white people, and so black people were effectively forced to accept
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by anotherbrownguy 9y ago
>If Herbalife's product is as good as they claim why not sell it direct to customers either online or in supermarkets? For the same reason Apple made iPhone exclusive to a carrier when it launched for the first time... and for the s

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