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by gota 7y ago
The fraud comes from the distinction between "We _will_ be able to X" and "We _are_ able to X" They couldn't do things they claimed they could to lure investments. That's fraud. Also; I wonder how much the rele
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by gota 7y ago
Regulations that are stronger than they should are made to be broken and circumvented. There's at least one likely future in which, following a couple multi-million lawsuit baseds on such requests, a kind of 'blind referencing&#x2
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by gota 7y ago
> "Newbie Experience" picture + > Over the next few quarters, we’re going to be taking a step back and re-evaluating how we deliver feedback to users about their questions. We want to make sure people are getting necessary f
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by gota 7y ago
> "Some people now spend more on feeding their pets than they do feeding their children," Yes, this is easy when you have zero children and more than zero pets; and I'll wager a good amount of money that its true only in t
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by gota 7y ago
LinkedIn has become plagued by self-help-like stories and other self promoting, vague and meaningless write ups, in my experience. It wasn't always like this. I used to have a reasonably cool feed centered towards technologies and news
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by gota 7y ago
I agree that automated systems applied to the same task will (eventually) beat human performance by a lot, but there are 2 issues that make this less relevant in this case. The first is one relates to this application of facial recognition
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Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil
93 points by gota 7y ago|43 comments
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by gota 7y ago
I didn't mean that _only_ extremely libertarian (or communitarian) people hold one or the other end of the argument. Just that it it's more common, as these are most likely core concerns for those people
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by gota 7y ago
That's a view that seem common among extreme libertarians. An opposing view is that no person has any rights other than those that _other people_ agree they have. That latter view is more common among extreme communitarians, that _all_
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by gota 7y ago
I'll focus on the initial part of your post to point out that you _cannot_ trivially avoid taxes for operating in the largest economy in the world while operating in the largest economy in the world. Sure it's possible under certa
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by gota 7y ago
Indeed, abduction is a way to base your priors in Bayesian nets!
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by gota 7y ago
What I don't follow - and this is where I "side" with the authors - is how Science says the field has advanced past that paper if it hasn't been refuted yet and keeps being cited
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by gota 7y ago
Thanks for your comment, I see it can help frame the conversation, but I meant to say I'm not versed in the terminology for social sciences. I'm about to finish my Doctorate heavily involving formal logic and logic programming, a
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by gota 7y ago
I'm not educated in how it works for this kind of (sociological? Psychological?) experiment but finding repeated instances - as per the trials reported in the article - seems like more than just a data point. They have many more negati
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by gota 7y ago
Replication might suggest they obtained the same results. A better title for laypeople would be "We _refuted_ a Science paper that can't be replicated and Science won't publish it"
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by gota 7y ago
What does ISTM mean?
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by gota 7y ago
Lula (left-wing politician) was Brazil's president for two terms (2003 through 2010) and was followed by Dilma Roussef trailing off of his extremely high popularity. Dilma was impeached in 2016, midway through her second term, followin
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Brazil in political turmoil over alledged Telegram leaks
15 points by gota 7y ago|1 comments
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by gota 7y ago
I think this is one of the areas in which an academic relationships are strong. Most (granted, anecdotal) examples that I've witnessed are a teacher/professor/advisor either moving into or with strong ties in industry mentori
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by gota 7y ago
> doing it, not receiving it Thanks for the clarification On a more serious note, > having to fall back to qwerty on other's devices This alone effectively nullifies my will to learn Dvorak
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by gota 7y ago
Not to mention that the game 'drops' several cosmetic items and rewards them for 'quests' in-game, so the average person has about a 0% chance of distinguishing between paying and non-paying players I'm not sure but
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by gota 7y ago
Yes, but this _nothing to do_ with the issue of military police preemptively sniping people in slums. The drop in death rates is associated with 'peace treaties' between large criminal factions in peripheral states such as Rio Gra
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by gota 7y ago
First, cute wordplay but criminals are people, despite your feelings. Second, in many cases you can _at most_ use the word "suspects" because the people murdered were not in flagrant delict an were not tried and convicted. Third,
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by gota 7y ago
> Anyone who has done serious work in Word, or some other WYSIWG editor has got to the point where the document becomes FUBAR, and you have to copy the plain text, and start again with a new document I'm sorry but, speaking from exp
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by gota 8y ago
> Nothing could stop you from opening a business that would offer insurance in case of key theft. I don't think insurance models work for this. How can the insurance company verify that the key wasn't stupid simple? It seems ve
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by gota 8y ago
Oh, ok, I had no idea. Thanks.
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by gota 8y ago
Yeah, most presidential election polls around here survey roughly that amount of people - and they consistently get it 'right', most likely because they also 'sample it right'
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by gota 8y ago
It would be (morbidly? Sadochistically? I lack the term) interesting to watch how many people jump ship in a situation like this.
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by gota 8y ago
Surely he could have gotten an O Visa by now if he applied previously?
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by gota 8y ago
The error is a missing word if anyone is wondering. "The Bosque programming language is designed for writing code that _is_ simple, obvious, and easy to reason about for both humans and machines."

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