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by pimmen 8y ago
They gimp the AI to a human level APM because they want to win through superior strategy not through 30 000 APMs.
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Wow, what a weird and counterproductive way to implement unions. In Sweden, that's not even remotely how unions work, they're voluntary. That's a pretty messed up system you have, would you be more interested if they're
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Yes, but the reason the rest of us in the other parts of the developed world has lower salaries is because we use our taxes to buy lots of stuff we will need later on for situations you can't really plan for. When an American household
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You're already prefacing that you don't need unions, it's impossible to argue against that. If you don't need or want a union membership, don't get one, nobody is saying anything else. The argument is that you will
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However, getting rejected for jobs, especially if it happened at the interview stage will help you find the direction you have to go to grow professionally. If you listen to why they rejected you and can infer what they're hiding benea
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The states that don't offer time off controls a very large portion of the electoral college votes, unfortunately. The ones that offer paid time off are at a real disadvantage because of the electoral college, too.
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Age was apparently a better predictor than total number of links shared, according to the article.
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And they are more likely to vote than young people. We really have to work to make elderly people more digitally literate and young people more involved in politics, I reckon it will require the removal of multiple barriers (like, oh I don&
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Cities have more young people and a higher proportion of women than rural areas (women are more likely to walk or use public transportation than men). The researchers have t6o do better than just look at two variables, see that they correla
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I've met two that made my jaw drop. One was a guy I went to university with, 19 yo first time I met him, who was extremely good and had been running his own web developing business as a side gig since he was 16 (for Swedish readers, ju
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This is just one of many great losses for the Chinese people brought on by the Chinese government. Their government enjoys the benefits of permanent UN Security Council membership but don't respect the very human rights this organizati
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In a world where the share holder care that should trigger an investigation. I don't want to own shares in a company where management randomly does shitty things completely against the guidelines they've codified. But, we live in
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I know, but it would expose a lack of empathy for the victims.
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No, but China does recognize it as a human right since it has ratified the declaration and they enjoy permanent membership on the Security Council (after having gotten that position from Taiwan, and they did it under the condition that they
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Then I would expect them to fire Beaumont to at least keep some control over the culture. You can't tell the shareholders "we're too big to know what the hell we're doing, we might be throwing billions of dollars on a pr
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If one of your kids was disenfranchised by the government in an illegal way (maybe it was denied healthcare, education, protection of the law or something else that's fundamental) but because an engineer was paid 5-10 million you were
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by pimmen 8y ago
Let's say a country allows well over 99% of websites to be accessed, it only blocks Google products because the country's government doesn't agree with them fundamentally. I think that would make Google a tad upset.
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My relationship didn’t survive my ex-wife’s sickness. She had bouts with clinical depression and was at times not motivated to do anything. I did everything at home and because of her illness she was easily irritated at me and impulsive, I
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by pimmen 8y ago
To the people who say it was about ”states’ rights” and not slavery I ask: A state’s right to what? And it’s interesting that we focus on states’ rights and not human rights.
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You're goading me by bringing up my choice of words and saying I need help. Understand that I will not entertain it. I can concede that terrorist attacks affect more than the direct victims, but I posit that the rest of China is less a
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If you want to move the attention to my choice of words I won't bite. Are you seriously telling me the fear of terrorist attacks, something that is perpetrated by a tiny minority of Uighurs which has affected a few hundred Chinese, is
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by pimmen 8y ago
I'm Swedish, and one of my country men with dual citizenship is imprisoned in China without a trial after being taken from Thailand. His daughter is still in Sweden fighting to get him out through the Foreign Office. The argument that
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Are you really sure you want to play this game? Because, while you put the victims of terrorist attacks on your side of the scale I'll go ahead and put the millions of Uighurs who lose basic human rights, hundreds of thousands of whi
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They are, they might just be in denial over how active their own role is.
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Thanks for the reference! Very interesting Twitter discussion that sparked. :)
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I think it's a good piece because it highlights that tech doesn't exist in a vacuum, and neither does ethical discussions. Engineers like to abstract things, such as just solving the problem of recognizing people based on their ir
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Possible sources of skew is more interesting. Larger, skewed samples can be far worse than smaller, randomized ones.
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I whole heartedly agree, and if newer computer programmers don't believe that's how the sausage is made they could either start working as a consultant or ask their consultant friends about the inevitably awful software they use t
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China does want to gather data, it has deployed tons of sensors and cameras to monitor its population's habits on the street. With the personal credit score implemented it can monitor its population even more thoroughly. How much data
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> CNN is claiming neglect. They are probably right. But I think FB is overwhelmed too. Especially now that they have news vultures like Vice dunking on them post-Cambridge Analytica. Who would've thought making billions of dollars m

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