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by chroem- 6y ago
Your argument is much like answering yes to the question "Does a pound of bricks weigh more than two pounds of feathers?" Gaming still uses more energy, even if you try to rationalize it by invoking the motivations of the people
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by chroem- 6y ago
But you could make identical arguments for gaming, so I don't see how that applies: >Because intellectual and entertainment pursuits generally benefit society. The ability to conduct business under oppressive regimes in foreign coun
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by chroem- 6y ago
Supposedly (haven't dug into it yet) videogames consume more energy than bitcoin. [1] Yet we don't see a similar organized effort to ban gaming. Why? [1] https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/introducing-cbei
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by chroem- 6y ago
There's a lot of focus on recent events, but surely I'm not the only one that remembers when the New York Times almost singlehandedly started the Iraq War based on false reporting, right?
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by chroem- 6y ago
He framed the email as a call to action to make people uncomfortable, and in the context of the extensive protest violence that occurred in 2020 which made people very uncomfortable, his email is a call to further violence. As CTO, he will
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by chroem- 6y ago
He specifically highlighted the sections dealing with violence.
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by chroem- 6y ago
It was done through adding emphasis to certain portions of Dr. King's "Letter From Birmingham Jail". In bold font: > who is more devoted to "order" than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the abse
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by chroem- 6y ago
It's a very odd paradigm that we have in the US right now. To commemorate MLK Jr. Day, the CTO of the large company at which I work, sent out an email advocating for more political violence to promote racial justice issues, along with
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by chroem- 6y ago
I've found that it's surprisingly insensitive to the amount of regularization applied, however it definitely does warrant further experimentation. Also, I expect that one other distinction vs. image data is much higher correlatio
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by chroem- 6y ago
It's an ultra high resolution sales forecast model for a national retailer. It's made somewhat more manageable by the fact that the data is 1D instead of 2D though.
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by chroem- 6y ago
I've had the opportunity to train on an 88 billion example dataset, and while you do see diminishing returns with each additional sample, it is still important to try to cover as much of the dataset as possible. The limiting factor on
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by chroem- 6y ago
> We trained a generative model on CIFAR-10, which we then used to generate ~6 million images. The scale of the dataset was chosen to ensure that it is “virtually infinite” from the model’s perspective, so that the model never resamples
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by chroem- 6y ago
Would recent precedents around section 230 and the sanctity of corporate speech give ISPs a legal workaround here?
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by chroem- 6y ago
> What conservatives really seem to want, meanwhile, is something more like a version of the “fairness doctrine” adapted for social media. (Ignore the fact that conservatives used to insist that the fairness doctrine was an unconstitutio
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by chroem- 6y ago
It listed "folx" and "people" as alternate descriptors.
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by chroem- 6y ago
I am no longer allowed to refer to my group of cisgendered male companions as "you guys."
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by chroem- 6y ago
My work sent out a memo today regarding what pronouns I'm allowed to use. We're in the middle of a cultural revolution, and the current trend seems to be for rapid acceleration rather than moderation.
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by chroem- 6y ago
> the people on Gab are there because they feel like they are under sustained political attack I mean aren't they? I don't see another intellectually honest way of framing this. And yes, I'm aware: Popper's paradox,
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by chroem- 6y ago
That's not exactly correct. There are FLOSS replacements for Play Services these days. See also: https://microg.org/
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by chroem- 6y ago
China has been posturing itself to seize Taiwan by military force. [1] I am less than optimistic that our current government will prevent that from happening. [1] https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/14/asia/xi-j
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by chroem- 6y ago
> I think the most efficient and ethical way to combat privilege is to spend more resources to bring underprivileged people up In the context of primary education, and I mean this in the most sincere way possible, what if they don't
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by chroem- 6y ago
Switzerland's national defense strategy is designed around an armed civilian militia. They have some of the highest rates of gun ownership in the world, as well as some of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world. https:/&#x2F
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by chroem- 6y ago
Can you even imagine what the fallout would be if they started telling employees to "be less black"?
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I would be interested in seeing a comparative study with Switzerland (legally encouraged gun ownership), as well as Mexico (legally restricted gun ownership).
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by chroem- 6y ago
Ah yes, the classic approach of renaming "rights" to "loopholes" and then eliminating them.
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by chroem- 6y ago
That's irrelevant, because a private company can't be compelled to support someone else's speech against their will. If you don't like it, then take political action. Edit: For those unaware, this is the devil's ad
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by chroem- 6y ago
Facebook is a private platform: they're free to block any content they want, malicious or not.
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by chroem- 6y ago
Benito Mussolini, the inventor of fascism, described his ideology as the merger of corporate and state power. He occasionally referred to it as "corporatism."
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by chroem- 6y ago
If fascism is defined as the merger of corporation and state, does a dominant political party allying with major corporations to suppress a political opponent not ring alarm bells for fascism?
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by chroem- 6y ago
You're proposing to remove a very large, very alienated group's last public channel to express themselves peacefully. This risks further escalation. This is compounded with the stark contrast to how the protests were handled thi

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