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by karpierz 6y ago
I think the "hilarious" part is how disconnected from reality the CEO must be if they think their quote somehow makes the situation better.
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by karpierz 6y ago
Citations needed? This comment smells a lot like: https://xkcd.com/793/
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by karpierz 6y ago
The choice you're being presented is not: 1. Shelter in place, -0.1% chance of death 2. Go out and have fun, +0.1% chance of death But it's actually: 1. Shelter in place, -0.1% chance of death for everyone around you 2. Go out and
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by karpierz 6y ago
I'm confused, you started the argument off by claiming that spreading PizzaGate isn't problematic and then went into a series of arguments for why it should be legal? Can legal things not be problematic?
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by karpierz 6y ago
You may not be required to pay the full loan if your company goes bankrupt. A loan is a series of scheduled payments which are likely but not guaranteed to happen.
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by karpierz 6y ago
What does "delivering on prosperity" mean? Is that GDP per capita? Life expectancy? Number of iOS apps produced?
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by karpierz 6y ago
What are the requirements for a free market to work well? And how do you define working well?
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by karpierz 6y ago
How inefficient are welfare systems, and how is that measured?
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by karpierz 6y ago
Do you think Singapore is a free market? What do you think of their housing policy?
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by karpierz 6y ago
1. Things tend to turn to dust rather than stay together, because the number of states where things are "together" are small, and the number of states where things are dust are high. 2. Ice has a few arrangements, and water has ma
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by karpierz 6y ago
Sure, and if you order food at a restaurant and and want to modify it, don't expect the chef to let you into the kitchen and use their tools to do it.
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by karpierz 6y ago
In what versions of OO does a hash map hide the data? The definition of a map requires that you can access the data.
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by karpierz 6y ago
Where do you find this "fundamental" kind of work? How do you select for it?
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by karpierz 6y ago
> If people say evil things that cause harm, go after them for the harm. You'll need to define what an "evil thing" is. For example, in the race statistic example, you make it clear that depending on exactly what was said,
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by karpierz 6y ago
I believe that people will take deals that don't benefit them. But that's not the point here. The numbers are made up, but say Uber makes 10$ per ride and the driver makes 10$ per ride. If the drivers get together, they might be a
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by karpierz 6y ago
Can you be more precise by what you mean by lynching? If I retweet a message that says "X assaulted Y" and X ends up fired later, have I participated in a lynching?
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by karpierz 6y ago
> Free speech isn't free if those who would cause you harm are free to do so at the slightest provocation, and without fear of punishment. It seems like what you're going for is that freedom of speech requires responsibility fo
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by karpierz 6y ago
If you want to have a separate conversation on whether false speech is prosecuted in the United States, we can do that. But this isn't really relevant to the discussion at hand, which is how is "cancel culture" at odds with &
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by karpierz 6y ago
> Yeah it ends when you make a statement about someone that accuses them of a crime Why should I avoid talking about something because it pertains to a criminal proceeding? If I get sexually assaulted, should I avoid reaching out to anyo
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by karpierz 6y ago
> Falsely calling people you don't like evil to cause them harm or for you own economic gain should result in jail time and compensation for the victim. False speech isn't protected. Also, the parent comment made no claim that
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by karpierz 6y ago
Would you like to judge how limited my speech should be? For example, if someone feels me up, should I be allowed to post on Facebook detailing the encounter? Am I allowed to name them? Can I tag their employers? If I read about someone cla
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by karpierz 6y ago
I'm confused, how does that show minimum wage is not an anti-poverty measure? Doesn't that just indicate it's an anti-poverty measure for wealthier nation's?
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by karpierz 6y ago
> Engineers are never fired? Not even when the company shuts down? Engineers never lose assets because their work doesn't produce value, or destroys value. Engineers aren't liable for the success of their work. Engineers don&#x
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by karpierz 6y ago
Why should an engineer be paid that value they produce when they assume none of the risk? If the company goes bankrupt, will the engineer be willing to bail the company out? The engineer is paid less than the value they produce because they
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by karpierz 6y ago
1. The study assumes that the statistics provided to them by police departments is accurate. That is to say, they're assuming that when an officer shoots an unarmed man without provocation, the officer will report it accurately. 2. Thi
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by karpierz 6y ago
> The government's actual purpose is the one thing no business can do, which is to use physical force against people that murder, rape, steal, defraud, etc. Can you explain why this is true? It's a very strong claim.
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by karpierz 6y ago
Sure, but "there are racial disparities in this domain, and therefore in the data" and "there aren't racial disparities in this domain, but there are in the data" are very different problems. The latter is the topic
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by karpierz 6y ago
I don't think there's an argument that needs to be made; it's pretty clear to me that people use researcher-produced models in production all the time without regard for whether they're biased because it's the easie
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by karpierz 6y ago
Do you believe that industry uses pre-trained model that researchers release? Do you believe that industry uses pre-made datasets that researchers promote in their work? Would yes to the above two question be sufficient to show "use of
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by karpierz 6y ago
This is tangential to the original thread; the point isn't that the world is biased. Obama's face exists in the world. The issue is that the model is biased in a way that the world isn't.

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