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by mcguire 4y ago
Are these "hackers" the same ones building the massive databases of personal information that back every modern advertising business?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Anyone else remember the time, years ago, when someone introduced a new performance feature to TCP, using an otherwise-unused bit in the header. Unfortunately, rolling it out turned into a giant clusterfuck because many routers on the inter
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Letter from former Twitter employees' lawyer to Musk(twitter.com)
16 points by mcguire 4y ago|8 comments
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by mcguire 4y ago
Source? I have a pretty low opinion of the zero tolerance policies because they seem to primarily operate to the benefit of the bullies in this case: the bullying is not readily visible as a problem to the adults and when it is, many of the
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by mcguire 4y ago
You might wish to examine the statistics on the relationships between rapists and their victims.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Homicide and suicide are the second and third leading causes of death for teens and young adults following accidents (primarily motor vehicle). (If it matters to you, males are much more likely to die and females are more likely to report b
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by mcguire 4y ago
One notes that rural teens and young adults die of suicide at nearly twice the rate of those in urban areas. ( https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/fullarticle/... )
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by mcguire 4y ago
Problem: " Existing research indicates that (a) being bullied in childhood is associated with distress and symptoms of mental health problems...; (b) the consequences of childhood bullying victimisation can persist up to midlife and, i
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by mcguire 4y ago
"But our business processes avoid all bias; all decisions are based on a ML model, not on human decisions."
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by mcguire 4y ago
Is it the role of the loan industry to make it more difficult for black people to get loans, regardless of whether the individual is a higher statistical risk? (Apparently so, since that's the way it's always worked, right?) It is
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by mcguire 4y ago
Absolutely. That's why PredPol was such a great success.
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by mcguire 4y ago
~11% ( https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/ERP-2012/pdf/ERP-2012-ta... )
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by mcguire 4y ago
I'm not sure Berkshire Hathaway is comparable to anything in the crypto sphere.
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by mcguire 4y ago
How much memory/cpu does Pleroma need for a single user instance?
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by mcguire 4y ago
Somehow, this sounds like one of those "use paintballs to blind enemy tanks" things that work out better in theory than practice. A snazzy demo video for an anti-personnel artillery round: https://www.youtube.com/w
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by mcguire 4y ago
" If they ask you to dig in a hole and then fill it back after you do it. " This is a recipe for a really crappy career. Source: my career.
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by mcguire 4y ago
You should probably not say this sort of thing in public as it may cause people to view you as an emotional or intellectual cripple.
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by mcguire 4y ago
Consistency is not Musk's strong suit.
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by mcguire 4y ago
I don't think you read this one: " Black people who were fatally shot by police seemed to be twice as likely as white people to be unarmed. "
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by mcguire 4y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but this sounds very much like what dang does here.
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by mcguire 4y ago
First, those are cases of black people being arrested or detained, sometimes violently, by police. Not killed. Further, many of them resulted in a successful lawsuits against the police, which should tell you something about the quality of
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by mcguire 4y ago
No, you need to post a list of articles showing white people being arrested or detained, sometimes violently, by police while being in their garden... And do keep in mind that "White alone, not Hispanic or Latino" make up 60% of
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by mcguire 4y ago
" Consequently, there are more very disenfranchised whites who are probably experiencing the same, if not worse, conditions as others races. " I grew up white and lower middle class, but I've never been worried about being ar
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by mcguire 4y ago
So you're saying that a poor white family has the same disadvantages as an equally poor black family?
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by mcguire 4y ago
And yet, at the same time, "at least I'm not black."
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by mcguire 4y ago
Six of the Ivy's admitted 13,000 students this fall ( https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/04/04/ivy-... ). UTAustin admitted 19,000 last year, and roughly 50% enrolled. ( https:&#x
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by mcguire 4y ago
Efficiency argues for keeping those buffers as small as possible. In a series of "normal years", a business that keeps their inventory down to what they need in the "normal case" will be more efficient than one which kee
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by mcguire 4y ago
Ok, here's a question for you: back in ancient days, most women worked at home. Is taking care of your own children and your own household an economic activity as would count in GDP, for example? Is someone making a bowl of soup for th
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by mcguire 4y ago
There's an old joke about an "economic hero" being a wealthy man going through an ugly divorce while dying of cancer.
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by mcguire 4y ago
You are absolutely correct. Well, there goes that part. Eesh.

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