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by cmendel 6y ago
Well there's also the whole "school shooting epidemic" thing. But sure, the 3 billion people in those three countries are all fairly comparable. China:1.4 B India:1.35 B US:0.3 B
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by cmendel 6y ago
Immaterial. I don't want self driving cars driving like Bostonians or worse, New yorkers. Self driving cars need to follow the law, drive defensively, and be conservative. If that means that they take 10 additional minutes to get to th
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by cmendel 6y ago
Because the generalization changes the question. There is a world between "can drive 90 % of the time on 90% of roads" and "can drive 100% of the time on 100% of roads." The former is still extraordinarily valuable, the
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by cmendel 6y ago
So on point 1 I agree with you. I think point 2 is pretty iffy though. Unless there has been some recent legal proceeding that I am unaware of, point 2 isn't true.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Businesses are intrinsically amoral. While humans may have different moral goods, companies only have to make money and, as such, need not concern themselves with petty human morality.
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by cmendel 6y ago
Because closed source software is worse for everyone. Regardless of any other feature, being closed source makes Apple products a non-starter for a sizeable subset of the population.
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by cmendel 7y ago
I'm a scientist, we have a saying in my field. Garbage in, garbage out. If the data from China are wrong, then including them in calculations will make all of your calculations worse. We know that China's numbers are not only susp
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by cmendel 7y ago
Sure, though that number that you have memorized for the world population is wrong. We're at approx 7.8 billion rather than 4 billion.
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by cmendel 7y ago
1999 and 2001 are only 2 years apart though...
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by cmendel 7y ago
...You think that the policy of "Give everyone 1000 USD per month" is designed to dismantle? the welfare state?
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by cmendel 7y ago
This isn't true though. There used to be light rail in LA, it was bought up and then shuttered by Ford and the like.
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by cmendel 7y ago
Wait, so your "similar" car has half the range and is more than twice the price?
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by cmendel 7y ago
It does matter. If people get hate for doing work on open source they will stop doing work on open source. Yes you can be critical of everything, but the hate that some people spew toward certain open projects is not only nauseating but act
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by cmendel 7y ago
But you are moving the goalposts now. You: > The article doesn't give even 1 example of that GP: > It does. You: > but They weren't supposed to. Me: They did though.
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by cmendel 7y ago
Yes, but the incubation period on this one is 14 days. That changes the calculus.
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by cmendel 7y ago
That's a little bit much don't you think? Please do be kind, that is another human you are responding to.
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by cmendel 7y ago
The difference is scale. With ML Face recognition we can identify people in real time, without some safeguards we very rapidly reach a point where we can track anyone anywhere. Imagine if every camera in the city of London could identify y
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by cmendel 7y ago
This is false. https://www.cnn.com/election/2016/results >Trump 46.4% votes 62,984,825 >Clinton 48.5% votes 65,853,5165
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by cmendel 7y ago
Would you be so kind as to pass along a citation for this? >But that still doesn't account for the entire pay gap. It still leaves about 7% difference. My understanding had been that the wage gap was a result of statistical malpract
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by cmendel 7y ago
Hold up. Bias is being used in two different manners because it has two differed meanings. When you are using bias in industry you are talking about a minor mathematical factor added to a learning rate. When we talk about human bias, we are
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by cmendel 7y ago
Either a corporation or a cartel typically.
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by cmendel 7y ago
In a move that surprises literally no one, angel.co recommends investing in startups across the board. Shocking I know.
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by cmendel 7y ago
Yes, but you are conflating local effects with broader trends. A housing development may result in the partial or total habitat destruction of a couple of species, climate change is causing the destruction of a double digit percentage of al
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by cmendel 7y ago
GP's point is that they aren't. We are looking down the barrel of a total ecological collapse, and the trigger has likely already been pulled.
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by cmendel 7y ago
It's pretty disingenuous to talk about prius as if they are equally bad to all other vehicles.
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by cmendel 7y ago
Honestly? Maybe we need to call a constitutional convention.
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by cmendel 7y ago
That food bill is sky high, holy shit. My households food bill is 300-400 a month and we never eat out. 12k a year makes a difference.
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by cmendel 7y ago
One of the incredibly unfortunate things about science out of China. It may or may not be trustworthy, as in the data may be just straight false. I'm not surprised that you saw that split, I'd be leary of quoting/referencing
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by cmendel 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
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by cmendel 7y ago
>>Teacher pay is not correlated to outcome. The US pays more for its teachers than Finland and other counties with much better outcomes. I do want to point out that these two points aren't actually related. Just because the US pa

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