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by majos 7y ago
I mostly disagree. A good therapist can be very helpful in helping you unpack why and how you think about things, and how you might change both for the better. That can be a valuable professional service. Especially for people who might oth
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I would argue that you can 1. assume all prisoners are guilty and 2. not care about their welfare (both assumptions that I disagree with) and still support prison reform on the grounds that it reduces criminality in society overall. Look
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by majos 7y ago
Good point. But parent comment described infanticide by finches as a response to captivity, as if they were deliberately preventing offspring from growing up in captivity. In contrast, the "motives" given in the Wiki article are e
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Do you have a third-party source for this? Never heard of this behavior.
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Not parent, but this well-researched and gripping anecdote [1] may offer a helpful picture of American places where the law is not so dependable. [1] https://magazine.atavist.com/outlaw-country-klamath-county-o...
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by majos 7y ago
Can you elaborate on "experienced something similar"?
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Not parent, but closest thing I can find is the Kaltiala-Heino et al. study [1], found from p7 in this literature review [2]. There it's summarized as "26% of those who had experienced gender dysphoria had previous diagnosis of AS
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by majos 7y ago
+1. I have never read anything else as crazily synesthetic and almost uncomfortably rich as Schulz's writing. It just goes on, page after page (but only a couple hundred in total) of gorgeous and often bizarre imagery. Imagine an autho
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Did you write anything about the experience? Sounds like it would be an interesting read.
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> Because there's going to be something that looks like a violation of the Fair Housing Act (f.ex., or any number of other laws promoting equality) and "Our algorithms handle it" isn't going to satisfy a judge. What i
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by majos 7y ago
What's haunting about that? Finding a husband or wife is a primary concern in almost every culture, so that makes sense. Along the same lines, the characterization of En-mei as selfish and manipulative seems unfair. His story is a heig
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by majos 7y ago
You could, but if your statistic is a function of one person's data, differential privacy will force you to add enough noise to mask that one person's data, i.e. destroy almost all of the utility of the statistic. It's possib
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by majos 7y ago
Not a bad idea! It sounds pretty similar to k-anonymity [1], which is not a terrible privacy heuristic. But it does have some specific weaknesses. Wikipedia has a good description. > Homogeneity Attack: This attack leverages the case whe
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Of a differentially private algorithm? Frank McSherry (one of the authors of the original differential privacy paper) has a nice blog post introducing the idea and giving many examples with code [1]. Or even more briefly, if you want to kno
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by majos 7y ago
> Unfortunately, Differential Privacy proofs can be used to justify applications which turn out to leak privacy when the proofs are shown to be incorrect after the fact, when the data is already out there and the damage already done. You
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by majos 7y ago
Yes, in the sense that the output of a differentially private protocol has mathematical guarantees against re-identification, regardless of the computational power or side information an adversary has. There are caveats. The exact strength
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by majos 7y ago
His #3 way to spot a 10x engineer is that their "laptop screen background color is typically black".
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by majos 7y ago
My conjecture, for which I offer no proof: people get a lot of utility from friendship, especially if that friendship is with someone popular/fun/cool/beautiful. People are also not very good at distinguishing "I see thi
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by majos 7y ago
Do you have a recommended source for learning more about SPVs, whatever those are? A book would be OK.
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A recap of the Philadelphia refinery explosion(inquirer.com)
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by majos 7y ago
Interesting, I didn't know about that legislation. In that case, I don't follow supermarkets' logic. If donations are restricted to people who can't otherwise afford the food, and the food will be discarded anyway, why n
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by majos 7y ago
It's one thing to get annoyed by waste and consumerism, but "actively maintaining a beehive" seems like a high bar for caring.
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by majos 7y ago
Silly question but, looking at > the bees not having enough honey to survive can you give bees honey they didn't make?
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by majos 7y ago
I didn't write the original comment, so I didn't say I "wouldn't be caught dead". But I'm skeptical that the choice is between "personal wealth enrichment" and "[my] community". It's fa
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by majos 7y ago
My approach to fiction is different from the author's, but there is a point where we agree: taking notes on books greatly improves the experience. Before and during college I read a fair amount of fiction. Most of it I enjoyed in the m
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by majos 7y ago
> People like you are part of the problem. The problem of what? We seem to be at an equilibrium, non-federal government offers neither the compensation nor the work environment to attract people who have better options. Maybe you can mak
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by majos 7y ago
My attempt at a more accurate summary of the evidence from the article: some animal research labs focus on neuroscience, and some of those neuroscientists use machine learning. Sometimes, they get good enough at using machine learning that
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by majos 7y ago
What do you mean by "these incidents are meant to keep each other awake"? Why would you want to keep a competitor awake?
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by majos 7y ago
I think Volume 1 of My Struggle is a good starting point. That series sounds intimidating -- six volumes averaging maybe 500 pages, written by a gloomy-looking Scandinavian, with an ominous and provocative title -- but Knausgaard is crazy
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by majos 7y ago
> Putin What? Politics as much aside as possible, why put him next to Leibniz and Ben Franklin?

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