joshuamorton

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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> We deny people waiting for organ transplants medical treatment regularly. Yes, but not for their moral failings. We deny care for health reasons, as generally speaking the goal is to optimize for additional healthy years of life.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
No, it really shouldn't. I'll be the first to say that unvaccinated people are morally bad, and their actions are harmful to wider society. But, and this is a really important but, the way to punish that behavior isn't to den
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Consider that a random baseline is 10% accuracy, so 60% is pretty good, especially if the training time is functionally free to get to that accuracy. Granted the comparison is 2500 iterations of sgd which isn't a lot. I haven't pl
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
But like it already exists. That's a sunk cost. Presuming it actually works and gives useful weights, if it lowers training time of novel models by 10% or something, that's dollars saved in the long run.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
And this distinction is very important. Organizational scar tissue can and does develop, where things are a certain way and no one for sure knows why, but there are {vibes, superstition, ego, whatever} that develop into maintaining them. It
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
This is a misrepresentation of the actual NYT claim: > “The fact that we are no longer offering behavioral targeting options in Europe does not seem to be in the way of what advertisers want to do with us,” he said. “The desirability of
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
FWIW android supports Work profiles for exactly this purpose (though your company may not allow them). So for example I have my work and personal accounts on my phone, and my employer (Google in this case) can manage my work profile, up to
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
The discoverability may not be the best, but its not terrible. There's a "Send Feedback" button on most search result pages (and specific ones per-result if you click the 3-dot menus). The same "Send Feedback" thing
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Depending on the approach that can work, although there are cases where trying to making encoding a literal would be too restrictive (imagine a system that dynamically loads parser plugins, which isn't as uncommon as it sounds), so a l
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Alternatively, it's "opinionated", which is often a great selling point for libraries.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
If you're entering a code, the 2FA method you're using is still susceptible to mitm-style phishing attacks, which is what this kind of location based check is securing against. You'd need a push notification or yubikey based
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> I noticed you didn't directly answer the questions.. but I'll ask something else I thought I did. If I didn't, I apologize, but then I wasn't clear on what exacly you were asking. > but pre-covid, would you have
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Interesting, I find that the conceptual overhead of pyo3 (or cytpes) is often higher than making a local rpc
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
This is usually true just as a function of what the job is, for better or worse. I'm a senior eng on track to staff, and the fact is that code is rarely a scalable enough output. Often the problems I'm solving are hard enough that
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> Here is the ACLU statement in opposition the SCOTUS rulings that the new york ban on church gatherings was unconstitutional If I'm remembering correctly, the ACLU statement here is correct. Religious gatherings were given more lee
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> Do you think it's also within your rights as a business owner to allow unmasked and unvaccinated patrons, or to ban masks? Yes > If so, then are you upset that these civil liberties have been violated? No, because on the balanc
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> that civil liberties said that businesses can’t ban people for what they look like, This is wrong. One of these isn't like the other. I expect that whole race and religion are things the aclu would defend, having a beard is not (u
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
It's worth noting that, practically speaking, none of the public health measures used in the recent pandemic have reached the level of what the ACLU was arguing against, which was things like forced quarantine (e.g. you're infecte
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I'm really confused, are you denying that the guy who self-identifies as conservative and anti-leftist, and who has worked for The Federalist (a conservative publication) and Young America's Foundation (a conservative youth moveme
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> And I'm saying it's not a generally conservative opinion. Generally, conservatives are against abortion across the board 40% of self-identified conservatives support first-trimester abortions (see the table at the end of htt
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> His stance is that institutions should not discriminate on the basis of race. That is the Motte yes. The Bailey is that attempts to improve it are "appalling"[0]. And that Black and Hispanic students don't deserve to att
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I guess I should have been more precise and specified left/liberal on the relevant issues. Someone's position on guns probably doesn't matter, but their position on race does. That said, Xu specifically just very much is a co
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
I'll reply with a question: why would they ? What does having an ID card (that notably isn't a passport so doesn't allow you to travel) get you? People don't commit crimes for fun, they usually have some goal in mind. H
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Right, so you don't just want national ID laws like other countries, you want significantly more restrictive ones. Perhaps, instead of asking > How can you order a valid national ID online and receive it in the mail, while making su
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
> “anti voter rights” when in reality they just require ID to vote which is standard in many places that are more civilized than the US. This has to be viewed in context. In these other "more civilized" countries that require v
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
It's worth reading the abstract of the paper you indirectly cite: > The lack of negative impact on voter turnout cannot be attributed to voters’ reaction against the laws, measured by campaign contributions and self-reported politic
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Is there...anyone in that group who is left of center? Like Bari Weiss, Kenny Xu, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Andrew Sullivan, Will Reilly, John McWhorter, Abigail Shrier, Megyn Kelly, Zaid Jilani, Peter Boghossian, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Glen Lo
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
And I pointed out that your statement doesn't actually contradict the categorical. The successful minorities you know may well be successful despite such challenges.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Note that what you said here doesn't at all contradict what GP said. Both comments can be completely true.
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by joshuamorton 5y ago
Right, so senior leadership is racist. That's like...4 people out of potentially a few hundred. Culture can be set by a few powerful people. You don't need the org to be "full of" bad actors for those bad actors to harm

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