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by majos 7y ago
I usually interpret a "dream" kitchen like the one shown in the article as evidence that a person doesn't really like cooking. I just don't get how somebody can cook frequently and even semi-seriously and have the fridge
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by majos 7y ago
Right, but parent comment said they just searched all images (or jpgs). Hard to think of any motivation beyond finding child pornography, no? But that doesn't seem like something you'd reasonably become suspicious of during a shor
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by majos 7y ago
Why do you think they did this kind of invasive search? It's very weird to me that border patrol would randomly search all the images on someone's computer. This doesn't even seem like an efficient way to catch criminals. Pow
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by majos 7y ago
Since you're just getting downvoted -- the article is arguing that the aesthetic of Instagram photos is changing from manicured tableaux to candids (albeit, it seems, pretty staged candids), not that the platform itself is changing.
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by majos 7y ago
As a fan of the show -- seems like many people love Rick because it's very flattering to reason that you're alone (or misanthropic, whatever) and depressed because you're so much smarter than everyone around you.
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by majos 7y ago
That guy may have been looking at your partner thinking "how nice, their partner remembers to close the car door. Me, I gotta check that the burner's actually off every time my wife makes breakfast. It's killing me!" I o
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by majos 7y ago
Yeah. As much as I think "toxic" is overused, it's definitely not helpful to you or the person you "love" or the person they love to pine after the "beloved" forever. I mean, wouldn't you feel weird i
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by majos 7y ago
It looks like we just disagree on definitions -- my definition of love entails commitment and obligation, yours doesn't. But there are so many existing ways to communicate your definition of love: you're so rad! hanging out with y
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by majos 7y ago
Not trying to criticize here, but if "love" becomes freely applicable to all sorts of relationships of varying intimacies and understandings and bonds, doesn't that cheapen the word? Maybe the word doesn't need to be lov
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A layperson's guide to frameworks for secure multi-party computation(github.com)
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by majos 8y ago
Yeah, for determining which of six strangers in a lineup is the one who mugged you in a dark alley. IDing someone who harassed you at work seems easier.
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by majos 8y ago
> Indeed, what downsides are there for false harassment claims? Many people who get harassed opt to change teams, companies, or professions rather than actually pursue a formal complaint against their harasser. Perhaps they are mistaken
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by majos 8y ago
For me, I find it difficult to make quick connections with people, so I'm unlikely to really "meet other people" in a brief week or two in another place. In this way, I find myself a true tourist in almost all places I visit,
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by majos 8y ago
This is your observation about elites, or your theory? Saying that you've regularly observed elites keeping blackmail on each other in their pockets seems...deserving of elaboration.
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by majos 8y ago
> almost wish Uber/Lyft were more expensive (and that money went to drivers). I'd use them less, but I'd be happier about using it when I did. You can do this already using the tips on both platforms, which go entirely to
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by majos 8y ago
The Players' Tribune does some cool stuff. Like others mention, the amount of ghostwriting is unclear, but the pieces all feel faithful (and accurate) to the subject. They are never hagiographic, and while there's some amount of b
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by majos 8y ago
That's also a good point -- evaluating fairness against labelled data breaks down if the labels themselves are biased in some way. IMO (and I am not familiar with the entire fair ML literature), we still lack technical tools to address
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by majos 8y ago
What? This isn't about re defining fairness, but defining it in the first place. Seriously, try to come up with a rigorous technical definition of what a fair decision process means. It's not easy. But we need such a definition (
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by majos 8y ago
> Unequal outcome != bias. Sure, which is why the fair machine learning literature has developed more nuanced (and IMO better) definitions of fair predictors. For example, suppose you have some sensitive attribute A (say race) and want t
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by majos 8y ago
> Foods grown in low-vitamin dense soil inherently have less nutrients to provide the organism which consumes them. Even taking this as a given, "less nutrient dense" is far from "so nutrient poor that digestion literally
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by majos 8y ago
>Pesticides not only destroy the detoxifying organs in our body upon consumption What? Do you mean by direct consumption or residually on food? > you begin to realize that this commercially farmed food literally takes more energy an
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by majos 8y ago
Yeah, that's silly. 34 gb is 34 billion bytes, so if each byte is a character and the average word about 5 characters, 34 gb should be more like 6.8 billion words. Also, most of that 34 gb is probably video anyway, in which case we may
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by majos 8y ago
The extent of Hoffman's forgery and its impact on LDS scholarship reminds me of Leopoldo Francioloni, a 19th century Italian antiques dealer who passed off so many fraudulent works that, per Wikipedia, "[t]o this day his work is a
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by majos 8y ago
A possible explanation, also from the ambergris Wikipedia page: > Ambergris used to be very highly valued by perfumers as a fixative that allowed the scent to last much longer, but it has been replaced by synthetic ambroxan. But buyers s
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by majos 8y ago
I think it varies more than a "bit" by field. I would say it's extremely uncommon in math and theoretical cs.
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by majos 8y ago
There is a nice, short (12 pages!) scholarly article on this topic called "Did the Ancients Care When Their Children Died?". Evidently, this question (and the more specific question of child mortality) has seen quite a bit of stud
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by majos 8y ago
The technical part is a weird objection to me, the ethical part less so -- there is definitely software development work with a strong ethical component. The article really suffers from conflating all of these things in a short span. (Also,
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by majos 8y ago
I disagree. "Common decency" isn't innate, it relies on growing up in an environment that encourages it, and even then the rules are not obvious to everyone. Witness the examples in this article. Probably, those examples of m
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by majos 8y ago
> Be suspicious of people who you don't know that well, but all of the sudden they pop up in a moment of crisis. This is a bit weird, because it seems to imply that if person x is casual friends with person y, then person x should k
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by majos 8y ago
Interesting point, I've never heard of this. Why are girls more likely to be the hidden children, though? Does cultural preference for a son mean "well, he's the favorite anyway, may as well make it official"?

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