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by gingerrr 10y ago
Since it's already been purported to work the other way (fecal transplant from overweight individual causes rapid weight gain [1]) it may become the next big diet fad. That would be a nice biohack. -- [1]: http://www.bbc.com
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by gingerrr 10y ago
There are several other examples which show both ES6 and ES5 syntax, there is no reason the better ES6 syntax couldn't be shown here as well.
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by gingerrr 10y ago
What exactly is the point you're trying to make here? First, he was the CEO at the time of the controversy - a much more symbolically important leadership position than CTO. For many companies, their CEO is the face of the company,
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by gingerrr 10y ago
The general argument I've heard that synthesizes both: They gave Trump too much credibility by treating him as an equal while attacking Clinton (were "pro-Trump"), but endorsed Clinton and crowed triumphantly at every step th
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by gingerrr 10y ago
> It's not reasonable to expect other software developers to refuse to raise rational points of inquiry that you've based your argument on because it may result in weakening your argument on the merits. > I'm not sayi
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by gingerrr 10y ago
That last point is a great one I hadn't considered. Framing work-life balance as a business need is the only tenable bargaining position we will continue to have. Thanks for the clarification.
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by gingerrr 10y ago
I'd take issue with your claim that the response by GP was the first emotional or attacking blow - that response was to GGP's "easy hipster life" claim, and the implicit claim therein that GP's call for labor solida
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by gingerrr 10y ago
Pence is the real LGBTQ scare factor for this new administration. In 2000 he ran on the platform of redirecting HIV/AIDS treatment funding to conversion therapy [1], among many many other anti-LGBT comments and promises, and continued
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by gingerrr 10y ago
Yeah, that's a problem. Wikileaks purports itself as a nonpartisan idealistic "all information is free" organization and so far has been accepted as such because that mission is of a higher purpose than political gain. The ty
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by gingerrr 10y ago
That's a pretty reductionist characterization of GP's point. IMO, they're not saying information shouldn't be used to e ffect political change in the abstract - but that it should be available when available, not when p
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by gingerrr 10y ago
Only anecdata, but I used to feel the same way about noise-canceling headphones without sound playing. After a cross-ocean trip where my devices all died and I was only left with the unsoothing silent hiss, my ears adjusted to it. It's
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by gingerrr 10y ago
So help me, I think you've convinced me. I don't know what to do with all this leftover xkcd/386 though. Thanks for the great chat.
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by gingerrr 10y ago
Your last example of the hyperintelligent space heater is exactly my point - the Turing test is a test of the (necessary) precondition of communication, but NOT a sufficient test of intelligence. In your example, the black box AI is assum
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by gingerrr 10y ago
I don't understand what your example here about common language rebuts - that's something that would be solved for in the premise of the test, or it's not a fair test. Is your argument that that person is still intelligent ev
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by gingerrr 10y ago
That last bit is a false equivalence - we have no way with current science to truly introspect the "thought process" of another human, so functional judgment is the only kind we can exercise. With AI - we built it. We can read the
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by gingerrr 10y ago
My attempt to extract the key changes: - Now collects IPs as "Personal Information" in addition to the previously-listed types - No longer claims that cookies do not contain Personal Information, and no longer claims that cookies
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by gingerrr 10y ago
The Turing test doesn't test for intelligence , simply human-like communication. Things like lying, typing errors, or reaction to insult aren't indicators of an artificial intelligence, but are requirements for passing the Turing
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by gingerrr 10y ago
That was a good thread, good call.
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by gingerrr 10y ago
TBF, the difference is that the comment about women didn't call for sterilizing all of them, which NYT pointed out as the reason for rejecting the Saudi Arabia comment.
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by gingerrr 10y ago
Comparing to overall profits is necessary when the discussion is about whether the penalty financially screws Monsanto's shareholders over. Nowhere in the parent thread is there a discussion going on about whether this is an appropr
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by gingerrr 10y ago
Got it, didn't realize that was the argument. Thanks much. I hadn't heard this decision point framed so clearly in terms of the two kinds of labor each side ends up favoring, that's a great example.
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by gingerrr 10y ago
That makes more sense, thanks for clarifying. Appreciate it!
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by gingerrr 10y ago
That clarifies GP's argument immensely, thank you.
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by gingerrr 10y ago
Monsanto posted a gross profit in 2015 of $8 billion [1]. I doubt losing 1% of their earnings for a single year qualifies as being "screwed". -- [1]: http://www.monsanto.com/investors/documents/2015/
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by gingerrr 10y ago
You realize that "living wage" is only a price floor for labor, not a price ceiling , right? It is a guarantee that people are paid at a minimum the amount necessary to support themselves, with various definitions excluding o
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by gingerrr 10y ago
Would be interesting to see the performance of Python's overallocation algo compared to a simpler one like Lua's, which just overallocates to the next power of 2 (so if you have a list with 4 items and want to add, it jumps to 8,
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by gingerrr 10y ago
It's a good indicator of your management style that you won't even publically forward your opinion without a throwaway. Nobody wants to work for a coward.
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by gingerrr 10y ago
If by "I trust her to know what's going on" you mean you would put faith in a proposition she makes based solely on her domain knowledge, that's literally the fallacy. Sure - trust her to know the data in the space bet
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by gingerrr 10y ago
Wrong. Appeal to authority (argumentum ad vericundiam) says that: because Ms. X is an expert on Y, this statement she made about Y must be true. There's no condition requiring the subject matter to be outside her area of expertise, i
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by gingerrr 10y ago
If the presence or absence of people can affect the size, wouldn't the fact that swimmers start out of water and dive in screw this up? Unless the boards were mechanized/able to adjust after the fact to maintain the correct dista

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