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by khawkins 8y ago
This has the capacity to put domestic abuse victims in jail for the actions of their abusers, force noble people to pay the price for family members who have no decency, and allow crime lords the ability to escape to freedom by sacrificing
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by khawkins 8y ago
Indeed. BYD's electric vehicle production is heavily supported by Chinese subsidies and cuts in these subsidies have had a big impact on profits. Its stock has been steadily declining since the announcement earlier this year. https:
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by khawkins 8y ago
It's certainly fair to say that Obama benefited from racial tensions, whether his campaign intended to or not. https://news.gallup.com/poll/107770/most-say-race-will-facto... Blacks were 19% more likely to vo
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by khawkins 8y ago
I'd love to see this network tested on hybrid breeds (but still trained on pure breeds) to see if the probabilistic output would be divided between the two parent breeds.
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by khawkins 8y ago
I think in recent years dogmatic minimalism has shown itself to be destructive. Time is wasted refactoring code and features are removed, reducing usability, all in service of an aesthetic that has lost sight of its purpose. Each of the gu
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by khawkins 8y ago
This is why it's wise for researchers and business leaders to temper expectations. Better a constant modest flow of money into the field than a boom-bust cycle with huge upfront investment followed by very bearish actions.
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by khawkins 8y ago
AI winters are a result of a massive disparity between the expectations of the general public and the reality of where the technology currently sits. Just like an asset bubble, the value of the industry as a whole pops as people collectivel
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by khawkins 8y ago
The economic and demographic points seem to lack perspective in some places and in others are downright conflicting. Take the evidence cited about how NEETs make up 10% of young people. However, the report itself offers one explanation for
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by khawkins 8y ago
From the Hackernews guidelines: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon." This post is clearly political and calls for universal health care hav
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by khawkins 8y ago
Snopes has debunked this claim. "We reject the notion, however, that this “common” practice of U.S. farmers “saturating” wheat crops with Roundup herbicide as a desiccant before each harvest has been causing an increase in wheat-relate
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by khawkins 9y ago
But now you're arguing that we need to kill more innocents in order to drum up support for political change. That's cutting off your own nose to spite your face. Drone strikes aren't going away, especially since there is wide
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by khawkins 9y ago
That doesn't make any sense. If they wanted to scale up the program, they'd use the money to buy more drones and bombs, not invest in better eyes.
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by khawkins 9y ago
It's lower income, lower education people who are out-migrating, and those groups tend to be more right leaning on average. So if anything, the states are becoming even more uniform politically.
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by khawkins 9y ago
Very enlightening, but I think the points about non-GMO/organic food are a bad example. The non-GMO/organic movement is a rejection of technologies which improve yields. Distribution costs might have lowered, but supply forces wi
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by khawkins 9y ago
>Very few people take Breitbart seriously but many will take CNN or NYT seriously. Many people take Breitbart seriously and do not take CNN seriously. Alexa ranks it at 52 for US traffic. Many people take CNN seriously and do not take
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by khawkins 9y ago
It's worth noting that while this is true, it has larger effects than those immediate. High cost of living is detracting from the city's ability to attract valuable workers and businesses. I think there are plenty of cities arou
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by khawkins 9y ago
It's even worse than a monopoly, it's the elimination of a market. When you perform a vertical merger you no longer have to negotiate with people at that level of the market. The acquired business now only has to respond to the
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by khawkins 9y ago
More importantly, how would you forbid someone from using their contacts?
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by khawkins 9y ago
> Now imagine how much more they'd make if they actually published quality material instead of culture war clickbait and freshman opinion pieces. Won't this crowdfunding potentially polarize journalism even more? In general, i
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by khawkins 9y ago
The fact that the article features an English professor is unsurprising. This is a supply-side problem--liberal arts degrees are in relatively low demand, but institutions continue to graduate students at unsustainable levels. No one is t
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by khawkins 9y ago
The 2004 tax holiday was a bad idea for trying to grow the economy. However, there is a clear difference between a short-term tax holiday and a long-term lowering of repatriated fund taxes. The problem is that investment isn't spurre
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by khawkins 9y ago
Can you give an example?
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by khawkins 9y ago
Went to a graduation at NC State, one of the top veterinarian schools, and one of the takeaways was that we're not going to to see gender parity any time soon. This profession will be dominated by women over the next few decades.
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by khawkins 9y ago
But if the results are generally unreliable, everything is open to one's own interpretation. In the article, they quote an genealogy expert who says the science is "murky": >J. Scott Roberts, an associate professor at the
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by khawkins 9y ago
The trend in this field is to do both training and classifying remotely on a desktop. It's hard to see the benefits of keeping everything on the same chip. The primary reason would probably be latency in classification. One would hav
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by khawkins 10y ago
In addition, sociology as a practice seems to tie itself deeply to activism. When it does so, the credibility of sociology as a scientific pursuit weakens. Compare, for example, at Colombia University, the Department of Sociology homepage
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by khawkins 11y ago
This article really buries the lead.
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by khawkins 12y ago
It's for this reason that I cannot follow this debate anymore. Every time this debate comes up buzzwords get thrown around and people take sides but the issues keep moving. From what I read in the comments, these rules make all packets
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by khawkins 12y ago
Here's machine learning expert Michael Jordan on the issue: http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/artificial-intelligence/ma...
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by khawkins 12y ago
Though I think it's an interesting idea discussing the role of history education in gaming, this piece makes little headway in assessing whether any of the games mentioned have done it well. I'd like to see a more thoughtful piece

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