penetraitor69

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by penetraitor69 6y ago
Exactly. If your fire-control system is trained on a dataset that (through carelessness or malice) has some bias, you could end up with a racist machine gun turret.
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
Dang, if only every laptop I've had die didn't tend to go screen-first.
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
Agreed. But at the same time, a key part of normalization is constant exposure; people who are exposed to extreme views incessantly are less likely to recognize them as "extreme" than those who only see them once in a blue moon,
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
The lack of transparency is really unfortunate. It makes this whole thread sorta ironic: there's a lot of hate in this thread (deserved or not) directed at larger social media sites, but at least those ones aren't both removing pe
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
You could make that case, but I do think that they ceased to be "ideals to work toward" before people started recognizing them as such. I.E. it was only after "colorblindness" advocates started using the term to shut
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
Oh, gotcha; I just meant in the general case.
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
My understanding is that push/pop from the front/back of linked lists are constant time, but that inserts in the middle necessitate looping through the linked list until you get to the correct index, which is a O(n) operation.
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
"Individualism" was never really implemented as "western" value; it was only ever a catch-phrase to defend the status quo by insisting those at the top "earned the right" to be there. "Color blindness&qu
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
> Daniel Shaver's death is not argument against BLM's goals, it's an argument in favor of them. Exactly. I've seen far more outrage about the death of a white man from those who say black lives matter than from th
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
> They wanted to _clarify_ it with the true fundamental principle. I don't think that's an honest portrayal of the actual actions that took place or their motivations. In the context of disproportionate black deaths, mischara
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
Agree 100%. I essentially started going down the "Qanon" rabbit hole a few years before "Q" existed (the tropes have existed in right-wing circles for longer than the specific conspiracy theory has); part of my realizati
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
You could, but you could also argue that law enforcement and the military attract people with very black-and-white views of morality and society; people who who already unconditionally consider themselves and those like them the "good
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
Depending on how you're cutting it, you could also call it 1/1000000000000 of the way there.
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
As an American, I have no idea. I actually don't think I've ever seen a recipe that didn't have explicit tea/tablespoons before, that's really weird.
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
So, while this looks like it's more about breaking up the human-visible color spectrum into more discrete parts than RGB, and not stretching it out into infrared/ultraviolet. Still very cool (especially since even within the human
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
True, but which is more likely to get your click: a headline you're indifferent to, or a headline that fills you with righteous indignation? I think that if there's one thing that the development of social media has taught us abou
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
Speaking as a (now-ex) mormon, this is a very flattering characterization that unfortunately skips over a couple important points. For one, mormonism is a very conservative religion. From blacks voting to gays marrying, the church's
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by penetraitor69 6y ago
I was about to say the same thing. For lack of pictures, it's hard to get a sense for whether they would turn out well, except in the trivially simple cases like "put some chicken and veggies in a slow cooker for 8 hours" or