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by ddiq 7y ago
I see what you're saying, but it's just a bit naive. It's not that easy to create a new provider to help political dissidents. A number of web services have been started to do so, and forced to shut down by being cut off by u
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by ddiq 7y ago
It's ok to go after the free speech of political dissidents if you slander them with generic insults first?
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by ddiq 7y ago
Chase Bank shuts down prominent conservatives https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/04/chase-bank-conservati... AirBnB seeks out and blocks people going to the American Renaissance conference https://gizm
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by ddiq 7y ago
Doesn't seem to matter, since that comment is getting downvoted as well. I guess technologists don't want to see the future they're creating, and would rather just come up with tactics that barely defend against the surveilla
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by ddiq 7y ago
If you think this story is limited to, or even about, political correctness, you are mistaken. It could be your insurance rates going up for jaywalking, even with no cars around. It could be your credit score dropping if you have too many d
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by ddiq 7y ago
It's the year 2027. You get a notification from the H8Watch™ by the ADL app, default installed on every phone, and can't be deleted without jailbreaking. You open the notification, and it shows a video of you from 2 weeks ago, fro
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by ddiq 7y ago
An oft-overlooked aspect of Fahrenheit 451 is that it's everyday people that report others to the firemen in the book, very similar to how content is censored these days. Goodreads will list any book for the time being, even ones banne
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by ddiq 7y ago
Out of curiosity, would you be ok with a non-citizen Japanese person lecturing you on why Americans are bad because they don't have the exact same outlook and attitude as Japanese people? Because that's what the author of this art
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by ddiq 7y ago
There's always an explanation where the answer is racism, even if it isn't the correct explanation. Wider than the average Japanese person and crowding the seat(s) next to you? They must not sit next to him because he's black
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by ddiq 7y ago
Of course, I commented on his picture and it would be pretty hard to notice his width and not his race. I don't see why this is pertinent, though, he's not Japanese and I was commenting on the fact that he's not Japanese, not
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by ddiq 7y ago
Likewise Amazon removing books from its site is much more effective than any book burning.
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by ddiq 7y ago
Do you not think studying gravity lead to predictive value before we reached a point of being able to compute orbital dynamics of a spacecraft?
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by ddiq 7y ago
Urban sprawl and planned cities are a pox on humanity. Look at this thread and tell me that these layouts don't look eminently more livable than the modern grid layout city. https://twitter.com/wrathofgnon/status&#
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by ddiq 7y ago
Those are flawed studies, as different names is as much a class distinction as a racial one. Even if it were true, however, a white candidate will on average be better than a black candidate with the same resume, because the white candidate
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by ddiq 7y ago
You can read more about the baseline known as the 80% rule here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact#The_80%_rule Since the onus is on the employer to prove that they had a legitimate reason for this disparat
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by ddiq 7y ago
No CEO would say this, even if they thought it, because it could be used in evidence in a diversity lawsuit under the 80% rule of diverse impact, because the CEO was intentionally using neutral rules of hiring that ended in "discrimina
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by ddiq 7y ago
That doesn't really follow. We don't need to have a complete map genotype to phenotype in order to have an understanding of the weight of genetic component of certain traits. Just because we don't know exactly which genes cau
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by ddiq 7y ago
Can you look at the data and come to a different conclusion rather than attack the paper ad hominem?
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by ddiq 7y ago
Can you find something wrong with the research itself in any of the papers that I linked?
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by ddiq 7y ago
This is just not true. The percentage of blacks in a population is a higher correlate for crime than income, poverty, or any other economic factors. This has been replicated many times. edit: Here are some studies. I would have put them in
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by ddiq 7y ago
Do you want your system to be "nice" or do you want it do be effective?
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by ddiq 7y ago
Machine learning will find these patterns all on their own. They're not worried about being ostracized for seeing the world for how it is.
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by ddiq 7y ago
It's a perfectly reasonable stance in a war. Better to have 10,000 people interned than to risk a few more Takeo Yoshikawas running around.
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by ddiq 7y ago
Racial profiling is just a slur for pattern recognition. If it turns out that 95% of Chinese scholars in the US are more loyal to China than to America, and that when given a chance, will illegally send information back to China, what are y
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by ddiq 7y ago
You'd think that someone with an IQ of 139 would be able to see why the example of his failure to capitalize on his own intelligence doesn't discount the value of IQ as a measurement of general intelligence.