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by pimmen 9y ago
I'm still a bit sceptical, I only invest in companies that use "machine learning" at least twice in their marketing material.
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by pimmen 9y ago
Sweden doesn't record religion in the census. I'm very interested in seeing your source for your statements. And "the vast majority of violent crimes" does not mean that one group is more disproportionally represented. D
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by pimmen 9y ago
Nope, he said the vast majority of violent crimes are committed by one group, not that one group is disproportionally represented in the violent crime statistics. Big difference, and it makes him completely wrong and it either reflects poor
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by pimmen 9y ago
I have relatives who lives in Malmö, they did the same thing when they were 10. Gothenburg is larger than Malmö, but Malmö is admittedly more multicultural (about 40% are foreign born compared to Gothenburg’s 25%). However, the island of Hi
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by pimmen 9y ago
I pointed out that just looking at multiculturalism and crime rate of a single country is very bad research, you are the one drawing parallels to ”leftist multiculturalism” propaganda. It’s a discussion about bad and simplistic deduction, i
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by pimmen 9y ago
That doesn’t explain why crime is going down across the US and the EU too. Correlation does not equal causation.
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by pimmen 9y ago
Youth activity is probably a factor. Some anecdata is that, in Sweden, January is usually the month when violent crime is at a very low point in the year. Young people don’t have any money to go out after spending it on Christmas and New Ye
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by pimmen 9y ago
Wow, you were very quick at turning correlations into causations there. Canada also has a very low crime rate but has a very multicultural society, same thing with Singapore. Rethoric like that could also get your case into trouble. By your
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by pimmen 9y ago
”What exactly are Uber's options in a city where the scam is supported by politicians?” The management could always open up a pizza company. If your business model sucks because it depends on regulators giving you a break, that’s on yo
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by pimmen 9y ago
I use Messenger to get in touch with my friends from college and I'm a member of a private group about AI. I actually don't use the birthday list because, be honest, do you know if all your close friends and relatives on Facebook
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by pimmen 9y ago
I applaud this application! Very thoughtful and comprehensive!
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by pimmen 9y ago
I do agree that a lot of Uber’s impact is positive on both riders and drivers. Every time an Uber scandal rolls by I’ve heard the same two quotes from friends and family; ”Really? All I know about Uber is that when I used them in a complete
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by pimmen 9y ago
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again; engineers, is there really no other company with the same interesting problems to work on but Uber? I can understand staying with a company past a big scandal and shake up in management, who knows
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by pimmen 9y ago
I suspect not, you should be covered by the first amendment. However, I don't think most people have the money to find out. The ones that do seem keen on following Ellison's example.
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by pimmen 9y ago
The white paper is very approachable, and Bitcoins is a technical marvel. My big problem with Bitcoins has nothing to do with blockchains, trust or even security. All of that looks great. My problem with Bitcoin is simply that it’s a deflat
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by pimmen 9y ago
And in some cancer types the probability of death rises by 198% and becomes 97% without being insured. Prostate and breast cancer are common but they are not the majority of cases alone. And in the context today, a very high proportion of A
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by pimmen 9y ago
It becomes much worse for the US when you frame it like this; ”if a given American gets diagnosed with a potentially fatal cancer, what is the chance for survival?” because then if the person can’t afford the therapy they need it looks very
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by pimmen 9y ago
There are other ways to travel than by car, you can walk for example. Trains, light rails, bikes and electric cars don’t use gasoline and are options, if you make sacrifices. There’s no alternative sacrifices you can make to solve your canc
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by pimmen 9y ago
We pay a far lesser portion of our GDP in Europe for health care and we have a longer life expectancy, higher chance of survival for the majority of cancer and cardiovascular diseases. It’s not that hard to understand; you try to control ma
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by pimmen 9y ago
And that’s why you shouldn’t check in passwords or tokens with Git, kids.
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by pimmen 9y ago
If your devs are located in a bigger city, you can have an office located in that bigger city. If you have an office in a bigger city, you can recruit easier since there's more devs in a bigger city. If your devs are in a bigger city,
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by pimmen 9y ago
Your defense basically boils down to "what about other companies?" or comparing the bad things Uber does to all the value it delivers. Maybe I'm missing something? I can tolerate a company doing something bad, taking responsi
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by pimmen 9y ago
Comparing the severity of the crimes, sure, that's very unfair. Comparing the defenses I don't think is too much. If that is what engineers who did any of this shady stuff are telling themselves, that is. For all I know, they&#x27
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by pimmen 9y ago
I care about the 0.1& too. I don't believe in knowingly messing with people for the benefit of everyone else. And if the last part of your argument is "why care about anything less than the worst things in the world?" I d
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by pimmen 9y ago
If I were to present to you individual cases of people being knowingly screwed over by Uber, is your argument then that if millions of other people benefit it's all worth it? Lets say many people are angry that Uber kept it hidden that
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by pimmen 9y ago
I don’t think there’s a simple answer to that question. I feel like two layers of inderiction is too little personally (i.e I don’t want to make things murderers use even though I’m technically not selling stuff to murderers or pull the tri
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by pimmen 9y ago
Yes, the reason the Allies had jointly agreed not to allow that defense was because they knew the Germans would use it like they did after WWI in Leipzig. But, the Allies also had to reconcile this with the Yamashita standard; that commande
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by pimmen 9y ago
So they tell themselves they have a right to a well paying job and that their right to a good livelihood is more important than the rights of the people Uber screws over?
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by pimmen 9y ago
Working for an arms contractor is something I would never do because I don't want to make things that kill people, however if someone else thinks that the military is a necessary institution for public safety those engineers can also p
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by pimmen 9y ago
I personally do not think weapons make people’s lives better, but if you would have the opinion that an armed defense force is a public good that’s a separate discussion. What you have to ask yourself is ”Is this illegal? Could I tell my gr

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