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by bgravinz 3y ago
You don't think anyone on the left holds that position? Even the Hacker News crowd has previously upvoted stories like this: > [The proto-fascism of Elon Musk]( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35998913 ) And else
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by bgravinz 3y ago
> This isn't left vs right. This is extreme moral relativism to the point of racism. The end point of a line of ethics ML research where people won't take a stand that might offend almost anyone. I think if you created a distri
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by bgravinz 3y ago
Google's institutional biases affect their products. Hard to pretend that's not operative.
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by bgravinz 6y ago
The amount of hip hop that explicitly trades in horrifically prejudicial content, that isn't getting yanked by eBay or Amazon, likely dwarfs these books thousands of times over in both reach and vileness. Tired of white liberal handwri
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by bgravinz 6y ago
What part do you find disgusting?
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by bgravinz 6y ago
Once an entire government worth of people led the US into war that cost millions of lives over fake reports of nukes. It would be interesting to compare the damage caused by open, crowd-sourced investigative efforts against the damage cause
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by bgravinz 7y ago
"This is fine" is going on.
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by bgravinz 7y ago
He's claiming you're blowing a dogwhistle, and that you're not-so-secretly a racist.
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by bgravinz 7y ago
Generations are not classes. They span classes.
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by bgravinz 7y ago
The wisdom of the "may you live in interesting times" curse rears its head once again.
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by bgravinz 7y ago
I’m not seeing not sticking to 30k is really detrimental to how most people would likely consume a doc like this, which would probably be to sample various parts to find what they’re interested in and then dig in.
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by bgravinz 7y ago
That seems like more of an exercise in framing. If you currently work at the NYT as a data-science researcher, doing the job that journalists without data-science experience can’t do, and you see your job imperilled by this, you’ll want to
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by bgravinz 7y ago
Why would journalists need to know data science?
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by bgravinz 7y ago
Many very popular religions are supremacist in nature. And pretending otherwise to allow them to skirt the censors just makes the entire censor regime seem like a hollow power play by a company trying to keep from sinking in a turbulent pol
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by bgravinz 8y ago
I'd argue that "poor diet" rounds out that list of "obvious physiological deficits that impair mental health".