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No. Her concern in that case was that a predictive model that measured the effects of racism on some people would then be used to increase the racial discrimination against them. That is absolutely an ethical question. Her task was not mere
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Some really interesting points in her negative review of Nate Silver's book: "In baseball, a team can’t create bad or misleading data to game the models of other teams in order to get an edge. But in the financial markets, parties
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Also forgot to mention Steve Jobs/Tim Cook.
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I use a 1st-generation iPad day to day to read eBooks and PDFs, and for light web browsing, and it's going strong. But it is limited to iOS 5, and can't run anything but really ancient apps.
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I had also thought that it was more of an Android thing. But apparently it's been the rat in the walls of computer UI since the 1980s on the Xerox Star and DOS, now blown up by Twitter and Facebook. https://blog.placeit.net&
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The point is that Smallville is also illegal. The article is talking about the Main Street of yore, the closest thing to which is built today is an exurban strip mall with an enclosed parking lot.
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It's not about squeezing everyone into a dense city: it's about legalizing or prohibiting the traditional small town form. My grandfather lived in a small town in Oklahoma that was literally three blocks long. It had a traditional
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There is a huge, strong link between zoning regulations and segregation. It is one of the major factors, even the major factor. Zoning regulations happened en masse at the tail end of the Great Migration, to control and confine black migrat
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Ursa Major is a very common constellation. It's identified in many way by many cultures: it's also common it identify it as a plow, cart, or wagon. To me it's just the Big Dipper. This is sort of like the birthday problem in
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Look at the actual tree chart "Genealogy of Myths". There are numerous Algonquian, Iroquoian, and Inuit examples from northeastern North America, a number of examples from southeastern North America, and a small cluster of culture
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Mac OS X came out in 2001, and there was a lot of immediate adoption by people using emacs and bash: It became the largest consumer distro of a Unix-based system overnight. (look for all the old articles about how to upgrade from tcsh to ba
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The study examined people blind since birth. But the article doesn't say much about the degree of their visual impairment—there's a big difference even between "no light perception" and "light perception only"
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The company has NOS SID chips, but sold out of their 2015 C64 Reloaded motherboards (which have S-Video out and other useful modifications).
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I thought this is what they did on Geocities. But don't people still do that on Tumblr?
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Maybe we can try to solve small problems as well as big ones? It would be as easy to deride the early plans of Google, Facebook, and Wikipedia as what the author does here (finding better kitten pictures, sharing kitten pictures with your s
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Some of the nitpicking is funny, but the lede is kind of terrible: "Imagine if people from Kansas and California were as genetically distinct from each other as someone from Germany is from someone from Japan." Just imagine if Cal
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They're not talking about a massive high-rise in this article. They're talking about a four-story apartment building that has 10% more units than a conventional studio apartment building, and is on high-frequency transit lines wit
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You support homeless tent cities but oppose micro housing because it doesn't mandate enough parking? Your moral priorities are screwed up. It's the ultimate "let them eat cake" moment of local housing policy. "Well,
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And unfortunately, as here, "poor people" frequently just means "young people". Working families can't really live in these apodments—they are for people out of college or starting out in their careers who are tryin
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Acquiring languages isn't about going through books and studying—these are methods that adults can use to make use of the metalinguistic knowledge acquired from their native language. There's a pretty good popular-science book on
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Yea, I was reading through the article and wondering why they didn't mention actual researchers. Where's the discussion of Tomasello's work, for example? Then down at the bottom, I saw: More to Explore Constructing a Language
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Floppy drives were still going strong when Apple killed them, as were CDs. Apple briefly made a candy iMac that had neither a floppy drive nor a CD drive nor any other kind of removable drive...I always wondered what you were supposed to do
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Of course there are innate factors and learned/environmental factors, but the relationship between genetic predisposition and learning are huge, and they magnify each other. A human infant at birth has a brain size similar to a chimpan
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If it's "Built from the top down" it might be "with hate!"
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J>E is the worst, Spanish is also not great. Google Translate is especially bad in places where the speakers will assume their interlocutors will infer significant amounts of information from context—because Google Translate has not actu
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Human language is like a scaffold of metaphors, on upon the other. George Lakoff, of course, wrote the book on this.
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Note I'm also a fan of the Buffalo Commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Commons
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If Africa cannot establish a safe habitat for these creatures, we need to establish a breeding reserve for them in the US. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_rewilding
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The differential between server minimum wage and regular minimum wage used to be much lower, but the regular minimum wage keeps getting adjusted up due to inflation &c.
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The ultimate problem with tipping restaurant service workers is that servers are legally allowed to be paid sub-minimum wage. The restaurant offloads their obligation to pay their employees onto the customer, and if the customer doesn'

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