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by fiter 10y ago
I think it's important to remember the context in which the USA created its laws about free speech. In that time, it was your right to buy a printing press, paper, ink, movable type, and print your own pamphlets. The government was not
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by fiter 10y ago
If they're getting better results than the previous state of the art, I think the most important point of this research is its critique of previous papers! The previous state of the art research needs to consider such old, basic techni
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by fiter 10y ago
The paper I was thinking of is called: "InfoGAN: Interpretable Representation Learning by Information Maximizing Generative Adversarial Nets"[0]. I do not have experience training and investigating neural nets, but from what I rea
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by fiter 10y ago
I wouldn't expect that the neurons are orthogonal on a set of features which we find interesting (sentiment, geographical location). They could be bound up in some other basis of features that we do not find interesting. Other people d
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by fiter 10y ago
Thank you for pointing this out. I was not thinking about it at the time and I will remember it for next time.
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by fiter 10y ago
Food restrictions can cause alienation as well, unfortunately. I agree that that the expectation that socializing=drinking is a problem.
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by fiter 10y ago
I remember hearing the 5M number on the day of the election and maybe the day after, but not all the votes were counted at that point. It looks like the voter turnout was pretty average. Going back to 1972, the turnout numbers are similar:
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by fiter 10y ago
You'd be surprised at the prevalence of regulations! ("You have one flush toilet. U.S. regulations require every legally habitable dwelling to have at least one flush toilet connected to an approved sewer or septic system." -
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by fiter 10y ago
I think it's important to consider the difference between "possible benefit" and "avoiding injury/death". When it comes to safety--because we understandably put such a large value on human life--small risks are
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by fiter 10y ago
I think this is a business decision. Some building developers will reap the reward if it was a good decision, others will suffer the consequence.
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by fiter 10y ago
I suppose I didn't make it explicit, but my point is that these regulations can be costly and/or stifling for a future benefit that may never come. Costly in the original example would be that waterless urinals are installed for t
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by fiter 10y ago
I think it's very important to be able to let people make these decisions. It's inefficient to add a water line if it's never going to be used. You might believe I'm going to use it, but I might know I'm not goi
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by fiter 10y ago
I believe you are incorrect. I believe in 2008 it was about 132M and in 2016 it was 139M. http://www.electproject.org/2008g http://www.electproject.org/2016g I will also note that the poster you're rep
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by fiter 10y ago
The poster you responded to referenced gerrymandering. I believe in that person's view, the gerrymandering is a form of corruption. Surely you believe corruption would result in an unfair election result. Though I would understand if y
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by fiter 10y ago
Thanks for the Sound and Fury recommendation. I watched it today and had an interesting discussion with my housemates. I highly recommend watching the short followup, "Sound and Fury: 6 years later": https://www.youtube
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by fiter 10y ago
Keep in mind I said prison, not "US prison system in 2017". http://www.businessinsider.com/why-norways-prison-system-is-... You would let murderers out because you think there is some compromise between their free
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by fiter 10y ago
I like the way you put it: the creators are required to subsidize the disabled. Would it be better if this was approached from the other side? Creators could create without this concern. Disabled consumers would then pay for services that m
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by fiter 10y ago
There's definitely reasons to imprison murderers: (1) to prevent them from murdering again, (2) to rehabilitate them so they do not murder again, (3) to give feelings of closure/justice to those that cared for the victim. I think
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by fiter 10y ago
I appreciate this discussion because we need to realize the trade offs of strict fairness. In order to be fair, we have provided less good/utility for those that were benefiting unfairly from the service. We have not provided any addit
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by fiter 10y ago
For whatever reason, the "Six Sigma" techniques/ideas aren't using "Two Sigma" to refer to ±2σ, instead they're referring to the width of the band around the mean. https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by fiter 10y ago
Sorry it took me so long to see that you responded! I looked up the elevations of cities in Montana and it looked like the minimum was 2000 ft. This implies that we've seen more change due to plate tectonics than the 750 ft (generous)
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by fiter 10y ago
> Guess how a shark tooth winds up buried in Montana? My guess is plate tectonics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plate_tectonics
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by fiter 11y ago
I have heard that a reason for a lack of wealth building is because the countries often lack basic infrastructure: peace, rule of law, roads, capital, etc. I could hypothesize that another problem could be a lack of density combined with ba
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by fiter 12y ago
Your citation does not seem prevent militias like the Florida State Guard. The Florida State Guard would fall under the "regularly organized land and naval militia of this state" exemption.
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by fiter 13y ago
Oh, certainly... What does that have to do with my comment? In my comment, I say nothing about whether or not the campaign was reasonable. I don't think that's a good argument to make. I did say that it's reasonable to judge
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by fiter 13y ago
I don't think it's fair to say "privately held belief." He supported a campaign to change public laws. What society can we have when there are no reasonable limits on how people can judge and prosecute you for your attem
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by fiter 13y ago
If you sell more cars, you should be able to invest more in engineering reliability. The cost should be spread out over many more vehicles. This all goes out the window depending on margins, priorities, and presumably other factors, but for
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by fiter 13y ago
> My family should be able to walk down the street without fear. I think we need to be extremely cautious when we think things like this. I'm not sure everyone's fear is well-founded. It seems like we can't eliminate risk,
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by fiter 13y ago
> Either they can increase supply, or they can decrease the number of high-end bidders somehow by making the city less desirable somehow. Another option (which the city pursues) is regulations like rent control, affordable housing, etc.
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by fiter 13y ago
To be fair, we'd both agree that we're bending "natural laws" not physical laws. Right? I mean: we're not getting energy for free, we're just capturing more of it.

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