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by lopmotr 7y ago
Or underpolicing. Blacks are at much higher risk of being the victim of violent crime than whites. Even the boy in the article's brother was murdered. Lack of security means people take it into their own hands and you get violent gangs
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It seems strangely ambiguous: "(geospatial imagery) and (point clouds)" or "geospatial (imagery and point clouds)"? Point 4 requires the use of geospatial imagery, so any point-cloud-only product would be exempt, it seem
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Being sued or prosecuted doesn't automatically mean all your property is seized and business shut down.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It seems like a flaw in the system though because those micro-optimizations are what usually drives the free market and accumulate to become huge. If all buying decisions were just made on the same coarse decision making then the useful com
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Wow. If you need to use a special library made by the author, then what's the point of a hello world? You're not learning how to get the basic things running.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
The network should just learn that they all have symmetry and only encode the unique information. Once you start hand-coding priors like this, where do you stop? Maybe also constrain the range of colors? Size? Other geometric features? Even
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by lopmotr 7y ago
If that was going to be a problem, people would already be generating fake numerical data like material properties, physical constants, statistics, or whatever that's also subtly wrong. You don't need machine learning to do that.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Yes, I was a bit sloppy. It's the flowing energy, not the flow of energy. The point of my comment was to distinguish heat from stored thermal energy so the distinction isn't so important in that context.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Are you asking if it violates the 2nd law? Of course not. It's just a heat engine like any other electrical generator so it's not going to have fundamentally new kinds of applications. Don't forget you can also use the waste
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I think it's correct. Heat is the flow of thermal energy. A portion of that flowing energy is converted to electrical energy. Perhaps you're confusing heat with thermal energy? There must be some heat flowing to generate electrica
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I saw a hint of this in a paper describing how something in climate change was found to be positive or not as bad as previously thought. It ended with a call to action for people to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, despite the paper itself
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by lopmotr 7y ago
You have to be careful with "race realist". It can mean people who believe there is only a small number of sharply divided races, such as mongoloid, negroid, and caucasoid. But it can also be used to describe hereditarians who ide
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Clicking a link can't infect your computer with a virus anymore. As long as any vulnerabilities in QR scanner apps are reliably patched, it should be just as safe as clicking a link. There are zero-days, but that risk exists any time y
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Solve them internally in your own country instead of the near-impossible task of trying to bend the whole world to accommodate your interests.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
FSF's "free" is neither. You can't do whatever you want with GPL software and if you want to do those forbidden things, you can sometimes buy permission using money.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
That's an obvious falsehood. Companies operate successfully in foreign countries all the time.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Why do you need A to do B? Obviously any competent ML practitioner can notice a biased training set. Discriminating against people based on an assumption that race determines ability is just racism.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Huh? Isn't that just clever accounting? 2% is still twice as much as 1%. If a black person and a white person each travel the same number of times, the black can still expect twice as many additional checks as the white, the same as be
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Increasing overall accuracy won't help if it's applied to all ethnicities. It has to be an increase only for the affected type of people. But if you're going to do that, you could also just artificially cripple the accuracy f
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by lopmotr 7y ago
How could we not adapt? We can move our houses. We can heat and cool them. Grow food.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
It's not really illustrative to call it a "whole country's economy". Liberia has the same population as LA but only one third of one percent of the GDP. So of course it's not going to be able to afford the protectio
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by lopmotr 7y ago
What's wrong with creating fake accounts? Nobody has to listen to what they say. This worry about disinformation seems to be the idea that people see multiple accounts making some claim and wrongly conclude that it represents a popular
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Seems to be her/princess. If princess is concerned about what pronouns people use, then princess wouldn't like "she".
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by lopmotr 7y ago
A bit off your conversation, wasted money means lives lost. A direct example is, building, vehicle, and work safety tends to increase as people are more able to afford the extra costs of safety features. Those things are both cheaper and le
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I wouldn't say censorship, but yes, the Overton window is powerful. Currently, it heavily favors individual liberty at the expense of survival of the society or quality of life for future people.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
We treat children like that. Largely for the economic value they can provide by making them spend most of their awake life at school. If school wasn't needed, it would look barbaric.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
I'm sure there are some extreme people. But when I look at right-wing TV and journalism, I don't see climate change denial, nor human-causing-it denial. Instead, I see denial of the severity of the uncertain effects, criticism of
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by lopmotr 7y ago
An Australian scientist was fired for saying controversial things about the health of the Great Barrier Reef which he'd been studying for decades. There was also a case in psychology where a researcher admitted writing the wrong conclu
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by lopmotr 7y ago
Yes. An interesting effect of this is that subsidizing bio fuels makes climate change worse because it takes away from other renewables.
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by lopmotr 7y ago
You can't really see sea level rise on a map because most of our developed sea shores are already at least a meter or two above water. It's not going to change the shape of the coastlines near cities or other developed places, whi

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