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by pelliphant 7y ago
Isn't the entire argument based on the belief that businesses would do a better job than politicians at being a government? And that "the invisible hand" is an acceptable replacement to accountability?
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by pelliphant 7y ago
Hm, I'm actually not sure where I draw the line for what is avdertising and what is not. The part about non-personal is copy-pasted from: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advertising And the 3rd sentence on that page
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by pelliphant 7y ago
Isn't it easier to see the evil parts of advertising if one calls it a form of propaganda than the other way around? In my opinion: using the first sentence of the wikipedia articles for advertising and propaganda, I would argue that a
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by pelliphant 7y ago
Thnx for the link. Found it to be more interesting than the main article.
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by pelliphant 7y ago
Not op but I'll answer: Advertising works, on everyone, including on me. No matter how hard I try to not be affected by advertising, I can't stop it from working. Now, with that said, if I have the option to be exposed to an adver
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by pelliphant 7y ago
Sure, Assume that there are twice as many men in this room, then if a sexual remark is made by a random person, then it will twice as often be made by a male. If the target of said sexual remark is always of the opposite sex, then a specifi
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by pelliphant 7y ago
> any bureaucracy, regardless of locale. So, not only in america then? The reason why I am asking is because as a EU citizen, my experience is that that bureaucracy in northern europe is very different from bureaucracy in southern europe
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by pelliphant 7y ago
> and save the symphonies for consensual sex... mmkay, thats nice, but what do you listen to for non-consentual sex? /s
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by pelliphant 7y ago
Ok, I can understand that it sucks that your language is excluded, but I think it would make way more sense to try to get your language recognized as an official eu language instead of critizising a finnish project for limiting their select
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by pelliphant 7y ago
do they only collaborate with people from their own university? What about the tools that they use? do you get german translations for all those popular python-libraries? How do you handle scientific papers? are those also translated, or do
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by pelliphant 7y ago
I don't disagree with you, except for the part about actual benefits, it might be true for the general "hacker news crowd", but anything that makes people understand statistics slightly better is good in my book. If it takes
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by pelliphant 7y ago
I'm from sweden, and I would say that the answer is "yes" over here. When actually talking to people that is, but if I instead looked at social media, tabloids and tv-talkshows, I would only find extremes.
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by pelliphant 7y ago
Why? Sure, it would be nice with more languages, but if someone from germany/france/spain want's to learn study AI, isn't it probable that they are used to reading english anyway?