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by jnty 8y ago
That sounds exactly like an urban myth along the same lines as 'seatbelts kill more people than they save'. Has it ever been proved? Worth also noting that rear-end crashes are generally less dangerous than t-bones. For similar re
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by jnty 8y ago
Good intent from the labellers isn't always required for a good model but it certainly helps, especially if the model training process is unsophisticated. I'm sceptical enough of this being the case for poorly-paid annotators -
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by jnty 8y ago
This is seriously impressive and very pleasant to listen to.
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by jnty 8y ago
This is surfacing now with relevance to the debate about fake news, but it's really more about what we would call reconstructions today presented without disclaimer at a time when it wasn't necessarily assumed that everything you
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by jnty 8y ago
I thought this was going to be a polemic relating to the debates going on about banning smacking in Wales and Scotland at the moment!
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by jnty 8y ago
Yep - It's a good and useful feature. But it's very poorly pitched. Calling it 'retention management' or something would have made it sound like the boring administrative management tool it is, rather than a magic self-d
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by jnty 8y ago
It's disappointing that the article doesn't lead with this limitation. We (and everybody who's used Snapchat) know that self-deleting messages aren't truly possible, but there's no reason everybody should. This is d
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by jnty 8y ago
Short-term lets don't have to contravene current regulations to cause a residential housing crisis.
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by jnty 8y ago
He misrepresented the article. It does not claim that racism 'explains everything', merely that it was one of a number of factors which have led to the demonisation of MSG. That was a disingenous attempt to erase the effects of ra
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by jnty 8y ago
This is fun primer for OpenCV but I'm not sure I understand why you'd want to do this.
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by jnty 8y ago
No, a significant part of it (in the UK) has definitely been stereotypes around Chinese food being somehow 'dodgy'. Clearly racism doesn't 'explain everything' and the forces you mention played a part, but you'
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by jnty 8y ago
A key reason is that off-peak services are often subsidised by on-peak services, so to economically provide a good all-day service the whole thing needs to be provided by the same operator.
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by jnty 8y ago
Double 50% is 100%, so assuming your market doesn't significantly grow, it's impossible to double your market share again.
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by jnty 8y ago
It is bizarre that we are discussing making cars entirely autonomous as a way of improving safety, but refuse to consider the much more feasible option of technologically restricting speed on public roads.
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by jnty 8y ago
There's no feeling quite like going 'what the hell was the person who wrote this thinking??' and then doing a git blame and making a humbling discovery.
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by jnty 8y ago
Given the alternative would be working while being sedentary, I think it's probably a fairly good (if odd) setup? I'm assuming he doesn't take the laptop like that when we he wants to walk to the shops at the weekend.
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by jnty 8y ago
Of course drivers in cities do expect 'bikes coming out of nowhere' because, unless you literally separate bikes with a 6ft wall, you can in fact still see them despite there being kerb-separation in place. At car/bike juncti
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by jnty 8y ago
In the UK, people against 20mph limits often oppose them while claiming that they're never able to get above that speed anyway. Why are they opposing it then? The answer is simple - it's not true and on many streets you're ab
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by jnty 8y ago
I swear you only got downvoted here for using the word 'irregardless'
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by jnty 8y ago
It may still be the case in the UK that it's illegal to receive ('intercept') radio communications not intended for your consumption, even if they're broadcast in the clear. It's not an unusual class of law, does ma
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by jnty 8y ago
Are you a parent? Of a child over ten?
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by jnty 8y ago
They still have the effect of depressing wages with a component that is uncertain, volatile and liable to theft.
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by jnty 8y ago
There was a never a 'golden age' of tipping where everyone was getting paid fairly. Make no mistake, tipping was and is usually used as a way of justifying lower wages.
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by jnty 8y ago
It does when large resellers suddenly drop their entire range as unprofitable.
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by jnty 8y ago
It's more likely to be soot from coal burning, which was the norm for much of these building's life.
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by jnty 8y ago
This reminds me of Chris Speed's toilet paper sensor experiment. Although it's more frivolous, the fairly detailed analysis of the ethics and sensitivities around monitoring people's visits to the toilet seems to apply equall
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by jnty 8y ago
Given that bulbs have always been electrical devices capable of malfunctioning and burning our house down, we have been living in it for decades.
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by jnty 8y ago
Without wishing to sound flippant, as a society we've developed a mechanism to control the allocation of scarce resources - pricing. It sounds a lot like the parking you're describing is extremely underpriced, both in the demand&#
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by jnty 8y ago
Cynically, I'm going to say you either find unsurprising matches (eg. photos of the same group of people taken on different days) or even more convincing and hard-to-detect false positives. If your goal is explicitly to find something
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by jnty 8y ago
I think the issue summarised the first line the author writes: "I’ve been hospitalized once in my life."

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