compycom

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by compycom 4y ago
Genuinely shocked to see something like this on the front page of HN. Framing your misinformation in the form of a debunking doesn't mean it's true.
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by compycom 6y ago
It's hard to weigh the aggregate harm of doing something slightly bad at massive scale against the aggregate harm of doing something very bad to a small group. Both are pretty bad, and we should be vocal about both.
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by compycom 6y ago
The whole point is that it never is trained on a "Senegal" dataset, is it? Why do we always see these errors where white-centric datasets produce white-centric results? While it would be a symmetric situation a vacuum, we do not l
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by compycom 6y ago
She didn't call him a racist. She pointed out that there's more to addressing bias than just acknowledging that it's there. If you are going to say "Well, garbage-in, garbage-out!", why do you keep putting the racis
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by compycom 6y ago
Open source has become yet another way for big tech companies to exploit laborers. If you are an independent developer working on an open source project without a copy-left license, you are a fool.
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by compycom 6y ago
Fairness is a legitimate end unto itself, an essential part of what makes a justice system 'just'. If reducing crime is our only objective, we can do so trivially by indefinitely detaining anyone who ever does something suspicious
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by compycom 6y ago
One half solution that people don't tend to bring up: massively increase the number of members of congress. The formula for a states representation in the electoral college is {number of senators + number of representatives}. Since the
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by compycom 6y ago
It's still an issue in that this wouldn't afford equal representation. The way the number of electors is determined is {senators + members of congress + 3}. Since the senate affords massively more representation per person to rura
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by compycom 6y ago
I disagree. Consider our inability to coordinate a proper pandemic response, or the current smoke catastrophe spanning the west coast. The problems facing our country are increasingly national in scope, and require coordinated responses at
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by compycom 6y ago
Unless you are entrepreneur with access to capital, I'm not sure how you can expect individuals to will a good employer into being if none is to be found. Using the government to create better conditions for the working class is a comp
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by compycom 6y ago
Capital has an immense amount of leverage in the market, and the only way for that power to be counteracted at scale is through government action and/or labor organizing. Individuals can't will a reasonable employer into being on
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by compycom 6y ago
> If someone can come up with a legal operational structure that gets around taxes then that the government didn't do its job. Right, they passed a law, AB5, to better do that job.
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by compycom 6y ago
Uber and Lyft are voluntarily suspending operations to make a political point; they are the ones kicking the little guy while they're down. The fact that these companies can spend 100 million to dismantle the outcome of the political p
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by compycom 6y ago
I think it's reasonable for a government to crack down on businesses where the entire operational structure is designed to subvert that government's tax code and regulations.