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by baddox 6y ago
Why is that the only alternative? Couldn’t the consequences of this particular action in fact be a good financial decision due to negative feelings toward face detection software held by some portion of IBM’s potential customers or the gene
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by baddox 6y ago
During the rise of social media I tended to think the same way, but now I think it’s vital to be able to distinguish between “democratic” and “accessible.”
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by baddox 6y ago
Perhaps you weren’t a member of any groups affected by the issues that have been protested recently and throughout recent history.
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by baddox 6y ago
That view is extremely popular for essentially every action made by any well-known company or individual. Personally, in cases where there isn’t a specific explanation for why a particular decision has secretive motivations, I do find it a
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by baddox 6y ago
It's a bad success ratio if the 200 predictions didn't have good explanations for why they were made, because that means they are essentially 200 arbitrary predictions. In that case, the fact that one prediction came true is irrel
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by baddox 6y ago
I don't see how it's a justification to resist change any more than any other recommendation is inherently a justification to resist change that violates the recommendation.
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by baddox 6y ago
There seems to be broad agreement among experts that bats are the primary reservoir, and less agreement about an intermediate reservoir (although pangolins are commonly proposed). We certainly have wildlife sequences from bats that are plau
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by baddox 6y ago
How so? Predictions of black swan disasters are only useful if the prediction leads to investment into preventative measures, right?
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t use DDG. I just followed this HN link, then tried typing some other things in the search bar.
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by baddox 6y ago
Autocomplete in the search bar still works, so there’s some data out there.
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by baddox 6y ago
Yes, people were vastly less productive at a huge number of tasks before computers. Tools and machines make people more productive. I’m very confused that this seems to be controversial. I suspect there is some unstated definition of “produ
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by baddox 6y ago
I wouldn’t expect that textbook to list all examples of public health issues, nor would I expect you to overhear discussion about all examples.
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by baddox 6y ago
That makes sense. I intended to refer broadly to programs to compensate people due to lockdown-related reductions in income.
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by baddox 6y ago
Were you as productive then? I don’t know what kind of work you do, but I recently put together a website with a map displaying some public data around Covid-19. That website can be viewed in seconds by essentially anyone on a 3g or better
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by baddox 6y ago
According to what definition are you claiming that police brutality is not a public health problem?
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by baddox 6y ago
That seems like a good argument to expand unemployment benefits during a global pandemic, and I suspect most public health officials would agree.
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by baddox 6y ago
To me, that seems like fairly precise language. They’re saying they do not believe the risk level is sufficiently high to condemn the gatherings. It doesn’t seem much different than saying grocery store visits are not condemned as risky, wh
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by baddox 6y ago
I’m pretty much in agreement with everything you said, but all I can think about is how even the worst video is almost certainly better than someone’s slideshow from a technical talk shared online with no transcript or other context. I’ve s
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by baddox 6y ago
And missiles tend to fair well in combat against manned aircraft.
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by baddox 6y ago
Why is this less reasonable than having wifi in nearly every home? Mentioning Instagram photos is not a strong argument for fast internet access not being a valuable component of infrastructure.
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t think that’s a very useful way to think about resource allocation. It’s not practical to only focus on what is deemed the single most important problem facing the world. Even if it could be done, it’s likely not even the most effici
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by baddox 6y ago
Couldn’t it be that I realize that JS has some problems and is undeniably useful and is eating the world, and I therefore conclude “JS rules!!!” In my view, it lacks nuance to suggest that saying something is awesome must mean that it has n
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by baddox 6y ago
I suspect any police force that is sufficiently large and has militarized and "riot" gear will tend to have similar problems. I'm sure that small town police departments have much more variation in their patterns of behavior.
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by baddox 6y ago
I think it’s abundantly obvious to anyone looking at this with good faith that the autonomy refers to the targeting of the weapon and the decision to fire the weapon.
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by baddox 6y ago
If you don't use software that parses and displays HTML, then plain HTML tables won't work either.
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by baddox 6y ago
That thought experiment does not reflect any realities of the real world that we are discussing, so I don’t find it particularly interesting. The analogous situation would be if judges systematically sentence Black men to twice the jail tim
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by baddox 6y ago
> Yeah, sure, a black guy from a rich family that attended MIT will have a harder time finding funding than his white or asian friends from the same background ... but he'll have a much easier time than some white kid from a broken
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by baddox 6y ago
I don’t know if there is such evidence, and while it could be interesting to know just out of curiosity, it doesn’t strike me as particularly valuable to test the impact of adding additional irrelevant information to job applications.
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by baddox 6y ago
There should be programs that endeavor to compensate for the inequities between socioeconomic background, family situations, etc. And indeed there are such programs. That’s not mutually exclusive with the need for programs like this one. Th
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by baddox 6y ago
All that shows is that race is not strictly biological or genetic, which is already widely recognized.

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