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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Again, how would this prevent the company from just looking at the applicants with their eyes and discriminating against the ones they don't want?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
But do you trust the same governments hassling journalists at the border and rooting through their electronic data to decide who is, and is not, a journalist?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Disclaimer: US border control, including in this case, is in my view terrible, unjust, and counterproductive. That being said: There's a weird "OMG A JOURNALIST WAS HASSLED!" angle to the story that, frankly, smells of aristo
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Why should journalists have more rights than ordinary civilians?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
That's fantastic, thank you. Obviously the researchers are going to be optimistic about their own project but if it's even a tenth as good as they claim, this could genuinely solve the problem.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Hmm, I've never heard that proposal before. Is anyone seriously investigating the use of ground-based lasers to clear orbiting debris? It's plausible that a powerful and well-controlled laser could damage large satellites, but cou
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> When China does it, it's bad, right? And the same done by the U.S. good? Or is it the other way around? Neither. Instead of flashing an applause light (on HN, that would be "The United States Government is evil!" but, to
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
How is a computer looking at the applicant data, including their faces, more insidious than humans looking at it? In either case the company could claim they were totally not paying attention to skin color.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> One of the most important stories of the year, on HN for 6 hours, with 11 comments and 105 points. Is everyone already afraid? Or maybe they don't share your opinion about how important or meaningful it is.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
If some corporation did want to be racist (which has not been established), they'd hardly need fancy face-analysis technology to do it. They could, you know, just look at the applicants.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
That... that's your evidence that Google are a bunch of racists? Because they want to know how well applicants did in college? Okay, then. Good luck with the lawsuits.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> US corporations have a multi-hundred year history of using thinly veiled proxies for race as part of their hiring practices. This continues to this day, including in the tech industry. That's a pretty serious accusation, one that
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
And if the President was selected by popular vote, that would mean something.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> This immediately brings to mind the history of scientific racism, specifically with craniometry being used to 'prove' that certain races are inferior. I can't imagine why...? That would be like seeing a freeway and insta
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Gizmodo? Isn't that the revenge porn outfit that was sued into bankruptcy a while back?
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Some microcontrollers use under 0.2 watts, which would be 153 grams of this material. So there are at least some potential applications. If you combined that with a bistable LCD display, could you make a clock/thermometer/whatever
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Fair enough. Can I at least suggest, though, that if you don't want political fights going on at HN it would be a good idea to swiftly remove "stories" such as this one that are purely political and are guaranteed to bring ou
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
I can't help but notice that you skipped over the little details about a lack of democracy, a lack of free access to information, and how dissidents are punished. > On the other side, western propaganda blanks out a lot of facts abo
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> But comparing the US and USSR isn’t nearly as easy. Both were (and are) horrible to non-citizen. Go ahead and compare how the United States treated the citizens of, say, France, with how the USSR treated the citizens of, oh, say, Czech
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Really? There have been free and fair elections in Cuba, where anyone can start up a political party, campaign for their positions without any fear whatsoever of government retaliation, and successfully get elected to office, even if they h
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
"Done fucked up"? In what sense? You appear to have some action in mind.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
The proposed changes to using the popular vote would not increase the campaigning in Wyoming or Montana either.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It already has. Which is doubly unfortunate since there is no evidence whatsoever of monkey business anyway.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Cuba also sent lots of soldiers to foment revolutions and enforce dictatorships in African countries. It's pretty rich to thank him for sending doctors when he's also sending the people creating more injuries. > He had his figh
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
It's a pity that journalists (and a few self-interested politicians) distorted Halderman's points so dramatically. This stuff's never going to go away, now -- it'll be the foundation of wild conspiracy theories for decad
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Perhaps they could also call for the manufacturers to "develop technology" to give every driver a pony, while they're at it. It's kind of infuriating to hear from someone who thinks you can just say "develop technol
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
No, they would try to run up the numbers in big cities and large media markets, and ignore the rest.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> Clinton got over 2m more votes than her opponent, but will not be President. That's not democracy. I suppose it was kind of a rotten trick to not tell the Democrats about the Electoral College beforehand, yeah.
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
> It's that if someone wins a popular vote by 2 million fucking votes, then they should probably win the election. Except that in a universe where the President was selected by popular vote, the candidates would have campaigned diff
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by mzw_mzw 10y ago
Wikipedia is one of those systems, like Twitter, that almost seems like it was intentionally designed to incentivize toxic behavior. It rewards clique building and gives victory in any fight to whoever is the most stubborn and has influenti

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