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by jules 11y ago
This is what many people think, but it is demonstrably false. Most terrorists are highly educated and some are rich. The terrorists involved in 9/11 all had university degrees, for example, and some of them from western universities. T
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We can debate on his motives and methods, but in terms of death count he is as good as any. But you are right that ISIS is more evil in this sense: if ISIS had Stalin's power and military apparatus, they would do more damage than Stali
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You really think that the sincere belief that you will spend an eternity in heaven and secure a place in heaven for 70 family members of your choosing and earn the love of God has nothing to do with it? It's hard for people who are n
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What gates? You can walk or drive from France into Spain or Belgium or Germany and not even notice.
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There are many techniques that work. The one thing that does not work is relying on willpower. The two main ones that work for me are: 1) Make the path of least resistance the right one. Do a task together with others. Make it just a little
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I would say that Saudi Arabia is the odd one, and Israel is, given its circumstances, on far less low moral ground, for what that's worth. That is not to say that Israel does not do a great number of deplorable things, but certainly if
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I would like to believe that even if my family was killed in a drone strike I would not go to a random country and kill civilians. Furthermore, I would like to see data on how many terrorists had families that were killed in drone strikes.
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What do you mean by that? The border between France and neighboring nations is always open.
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Funny that you mention those three countries in one breath like that.
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Maybe there is somebody who uses GI to do those things, but that is not a standard method and likely a bad idea. For comparing files the standard method is just a diff based on Levenshtein distance, and the standard methods for character re
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The question why people are so bad at intuitively weighing harm is a different but interesting question. There have been some studies that suggest that there is an inverse relationship. When asked how much money they would give to save 2
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It's not really an accident though if it's a likely outcome. The point is simply this: on the one hand people accept a substantial probability of killing innocent people and intentionally killing guilty people if the upsides are
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Well, lets talk about people who are not like that, but people who think drone strikes are might be okay in certain circumstances. My point is that those are the same people who say that torture is not okay under any circumstance. That is t
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The intent of e.g. a drone strike is to kill the target. So even in terms of intent that is worse. The thing is that nobody even cares about that: arguments against drone strikes are virtually always about collateral damage of innocent peop
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That is not what I'm saying at all. What I am saying is that compared to collateral damage the discussion about torture is completely out of proportion. Of course the concept of innocence comes into play. I'm not talking about war
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Are saying that collateral damage is not justified under any circumstance? Otherwise your witty response does nothing to adress the point that I made. We already do not condone murder nor rape.
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We make cost-benefit analyses all the time. With any military operation the collateral damage has to be weighed against the target. The fact that we freak out over torture yet kill innocent people in collateral damage is completely irrati
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Robots change precisely that.
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In my experience the metal urinals are less splash prone. Perhaps it has something to do with the material itself being hydrophilic?
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The size of a country has nothing to do with this. A larger country has more people to support, sure, but it also has a larger economy.
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This is how you ensure that somebody will never like math.
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Companies spend lots of money there, so they believe it does work. Samsung built an ice skating facility directly in front of the courthouse. http://mix931fm.com/yes-you-can-ice-skate-in-east-texas/
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Interesting bit about 7 kilometers per hour. That's almost walking speed.
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Thanks for the explanation. That still leaves the question why he left his wife in Syria, and not in Turkey or Lebanon?
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These visualisations are great but misleading regarding the performance of these classifiers. In practice you don't have a lot of data in a small number of dimensions (2 in this case). You have a little bit of data in zillions of dimen
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It seems that also in this situation, money is key. Does this mean that most refugees that make it to northern Europe were rich people in Syria? Also interesting that he left his wife behind. Is she not in danger? Or is the reason for going
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These are algorithms for convex optimization whereas stochastic gradient descent and saddle free newton are generally used for nonconvex optimization (neural nets in particular).
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The thing is, is making a website with those services faster than with code? Even if it is slighly faster, they only work well for the 80%. The last 20% of features are impossible and you're back to code. I'd rather worry about hi
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Nuclear power isn't solar power even by that definition.
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Maybe because it directly contradicts the facts? If people can't change then why is the recidivism rate in humane prisons 20% and in punishment oriented prisons 70%? A more likely explanation however is that there is another reason why

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