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by baddox 6y ago
Interesting. I would have sworn that I remember “the Space Jam website is still up” being a common fun fact on the internet when I was in college 10 years ago.
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by baddox 6y ago
That’s not an ad hominem attack. The comment didn’t say that the person’s argument is wrong because that person is silly. Clearly the comment is saying that the argument itself is silly.
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They’re primarily a search engine, so yes, you definitely have to trust that they won’t misuse information about what search terms you are querying for.
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by baddox 6y ago
More importantly, they require a lot of intense training to use. Most people doing web design do not have the luxury of putting a vast array of functionality flat on the page and knowing that your users will be trained and intimately aware
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by baddox 6y ago
Of course that is an option. I just don't think it's the only acceptable option, and I think what Apple does is perfectly acceptable and makes a lot of sense to me. Apple doesn't want its customers to play the game of agreein
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by baddox 6y ago
I've also never had problems with any of my several well-used Amazon-branded Lightning cables. But then again, I've never actually had any problems with the supposedly fragile Apple Lightning cables either.
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by baddox 6y ago
Lysander Spooner is not taught in public schools civics courses, as far as I know.
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by baddox 6y ago
Being too busy to cancel a subscription is a problem that would apply equally to normal subscriptions that start charging you immediately. The only alternative to that would be no recurring automatic payments at all, which is to say, no sub
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by baddox 6y ago
Because Apple doesn’t want free trials to be “bait” to convince you to pay later. The idea is that you authorize payment and start your subscription at the very beginning, whether or not there is a free trial. With any subscription, you can
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by baddox 6y ago
I guess the idea is that you are supposed to cancel when you decide you want to cancel, rather than trying to be clever and use your entire free trial and then cancel at the last minute.
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by baddox 6y ago
Most people who believe the “the government sucks at everything and should be as small as possible” probably still worship the Constitution and “the forefathers” and believe it’s completely compatible.
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by baddox 6y ago
Americans are deliberately and explicitly indoctrinated from a very young age to believe our system is the best system in every way: most democratic, most free, etc. It’s not surprising that even the slightest challenge to those beliefs wou
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by baddox 6y ago
Perhaps you only have subscriptions directly from Apple? Apple seems to treat its own subscriptions differently. For my iCloud subscription I just get monthly receipts after each billing. But for third-party subscriptions, I get an email wi
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't think Apple is intending to cover the "subscription you intend to cancel" case. When you start a free trial for a paid subscription in an iPhone app, you have to do a normal payment authorization which looks almost ex
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by baddox 6y ago
Well, no, the billing is opt-in at the beginning of the trial period, and Apple (in my experience and opinion) is very clear about that. You even have to do a FaceID payment authorization at the beginning of the trial.
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by baddox 6y ago
It could be, but that doesn't fit with the aggressive billing cycle notifications that Apple does which it certainly could choose to not do.
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by baddox 6y ago
If the human baseline is bad, that doesn't imply that it's better to use computers to do the same task much faster while obfuscating accountability.
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by baddox 6y ago
That correlation could be very easy to explain by a confounding variable.
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by baddox 6y ago
That seems like an awful lot of assuming. Even if it's true that they needed to raise the price of their existing channel offering, and only added new channels to help justify the price increase, that still counts as bundling being use
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by baddox 6y ago
Except this article is about YouTube TV adding more channels and charging everyone more.
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And the times when we find ourselves wanting to quantify and measure them in order to make decisions that impact people’s lives them are precisely when we need to be extremely careful, because they are subjective traits.
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by baddox 6y ago
Specific results for some specific IQ test are not subjective, but intelligence is a subjective trait. IQ is not an objective measure of intelligence.
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by baddox 6y ago
> Phrenology was bad because it was scientifically invalid. Well, that's not a very full story. It was scientifically invalid because it modeled mental traits based on the shape of the skull, and that's the important part. If y
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by baddox 6y ago
Well, what are you going to use this technique for? What’s the use case for generating a high-res photo of a face from a low-res photo of a face? It’s hard to think of any use case with real-world consequences that wouldn’t be a bad idea re
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by baddox 6y ago
What actual task are you performing that requires you to generate a high-resolution photo of a face given a low-resolution photo of a face? If it’s just for fun, then sure, bias may not matter by definition. But if it’s used to make decisio
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by baddox 6y ago
My takeaway is that people disagree that the problem is simply the choice of dataset, but rather, they think that the problem is using ML at all to perform certain tasks (including, perhaps, making important decisions based on a person’s
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by baddox 6y ago
Sure. All I meant is you cannot just download and install anything and everything without using your judgement.
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What are the preparations that a company would have needed to do in the last 100 years to protect themselves in the event of a new pandemic? Wouldn't they need a plan to restructure to cut costs or find new revenue, and be able to cove
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't pirate much any more, but in high school and college I was very much a digital hoarder. I ran plenty of pirated software and from what I remember never had any problems whatsoever with malicious software (that I was aware of).
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by baddox 6y ago
The fact that a police department technically has the option to fire a police officer for not acting to prevent crime (but the public has no recourse if the department does not do this) is hardly what I would consider to be genuine respon

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