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by jonathanlb 4y ago
You're not wrong, but the scope isn't limited to traditional news. The power of mass media (including social media) plus the ratings/profit-motive led us to expect entertainment at all times, and it's been a long time co
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
Quotas are a straw/boogeyman. Most companies have hiring targets. The difference is that quotas must be filled (which doesn't make business or social sense) whereas hiring targets are goals (which aren't required to be attain
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
Agreed that DEI initiatives are hard, but the picture is a bit incomplete. Quotas are the boogey/strawman that get trotted out when DEI initiatives are mentioned. Quotas _must_ be filled, and this serves no one, not the companies doing
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
One use case for synthetic data is the ability to work on datasets that would otherwise contain PII.
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
Aren't Ernie and Bert Sesame Street? IIRC, that's a different Muppet cohort (Big Bird, Grover, Oscar, etc.)
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
But I'm repeating what the actual purveyors of the data said about their own data? They analyzed their data and came to the conclusion you seem to have an issue with- that whites account for 59.1% of violent crimes. In any case, the pi
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
How am I distorting the table if I reprinted verbatim what the FBI itself reported? In any case, the picture you're suggesting is itself distorted given that other correlating factors such as social class, are ignored.
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
No it is not. > I think it's fair to point out that men commit most violent crimes. That's not good/normal/expected it's just a fact. > Again, replace “men” with “African Americans” and you also have a statis
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
That is a falsehood. Per the FBI: "White individuals were arrested more often for violent crimes than individuals of any other race and accounted for 59.1 percent of those arrests." https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
I'll believe BLM is mainstream culture when people of color aren't being disproportionately killed by police. Until then, if police forces are upholding a mainstream concept of law and order resulting in said disproportionality, B
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
> Iran, Russia, France, and China One of these is not like the others.
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
> The day Tiktok is banned in the USA, that's the day the American decline starts. TikTok's availability in the US is your metric for the success of the American experiment?
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
You left the first point unaddressed- that there is a white supremacy problem in the United States, and the fact the people of color are _already_ under police state surveillance. Secondly, your argument that _only_ 0.15% of cops are racist
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
> 'white supremacist terrorism' narrative that politicians and alphabet agencies have been trying to sell If white supremacist terrorist attacks are actually happening (and they are), then it's not a fictional narrative t
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
Add a responsive API on top of that and on-prem deployment capabilities and you'll absolutely put a few startups out of business.
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
I agree to some extent, but your comment has several major fallacies: Slippery slope, e.g., acknowledging privilege or past wrongs leads to a dangerous path, such as the Holocaust. False dilemma, e.g., either one must give away their wealth
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
In some cases it is. Wachovia (acquired by Wells Fargo) laundered drug money: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/03/us-bank-mexico... > Primarily, these involved deposits of traveller's c
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
> based on which laws (State or Federal) had primacy Primacy to do what?
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
> weird and not ok I mean, that particular individual is in turn weird and not okay. But who am I to say? And what does it matter if something is weird and not okay? Lots of things fit that bill, and that doesn't mean they shouldn&#
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
> your chump-change investments being lent out doesn't matter. Who is to say my investments are chump-change? What's with the derision? I'm under no obligation to help broker-dealers make money off of lending out my shares
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
Inaccurate. The full saying is: "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil."
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
One aspect of the buy and hold mentality I feel is missing from the discussion is direct registering (DRS) the shares you invest in a company. The shares you buy through a broker-dealer are held in "street name" meaning they are r
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
> I am not on the 'right', but it's clear the left and media have been using twitter as it's coordination and messaging infrastructure You are not on the 'right' but calling out the 'left' while o
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
There's a difference between having a quota and having a target. Targets can be missed, and reasons for the miss can be explored, e.g. were there sufficient qualified candidates in the pipeline? If not, what can be done about it. The h
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
I'm not sure if you're trolling or if you genuinely don't understand reading fiction. In case of the latter consider this: Imagine traveling to a destination. The way is fraught and perilous, but you reach your goal- a blissf
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
You assume that laws are moral to begin with. Remember, slavery was legal in the United States, and the Nazis made laws to deprive Jewish people of their rights. Conversely, not all immoral acts are illegal, e.g. cheating on a spouse.
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
If you are responsible for your own happiness, it follows that others aren't. Healthy relationships operate under this principle- that of recognizing (and respecting) the autonomy of the other. On the other hand, consoder toxic relatio
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
Users generally don't like surprises. As a user or consumer, it an unpleasant surprise that feels like a bait and switch when the free product you used now requires payment without prior warning. At least smaller apps are upfront about
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
> The state is supposed to pass laws that represent the will of its constituents. If the majority of the people living in the state are opposed to such a program, then they shouldn't have such a program. You're ignoring that ge
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by jonathanlb 4y ago
Just watched "The Kid" for the first time expecting a silent "Three Stooges" sort of film. I was captivated by the depth of Chaplin's work, and of silent films in general. I'm not a connosieur of cinema, and my

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