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   by pmiller2 6y ago

   I would hope it's unlikely these officers would suffer from a similar bias, but "they all look alike" is true in the limited sense that people who don't have much experience with particular ethnic groups do find individu
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   by pmiller2 6y ago

   Ugh. You would think Apple would do more testing in one of their largest markets, and the place where iPhones are literally built .
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   by pmiller2 6y ago

   See also "touch DNA": https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191026/12493943266/feder...
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   by pmiller2 6y ago

   Given that the available equipment is what's available, saying that the equipment is biased versus that black people are harder to photograph is a distinction without a difference. I've literally experienced this when I saw how a
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   by pmiller2 6y ago

   Oh, I agree 100%. I'm just saying that maybe the quality of input to the algorithms leaves something to be desired. Or, maybe the fact that there are relatively few black people in tech means that the developers of these algorithms do
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   by pmiller2 6y ago

   Part of the reason is likely that black people, particularly dark skinned black people, are just harder to photograph than people of other ethnicities: https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/04/16&#
7. 757.▲
   by pmiller2 6y ago

   Eh, I wouldn't even say that. I'd say they look similar enough to be put into the same photo lineup, but I wouldn't even drag the guy from the article in to do a physical lineup, much less arrest him.
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   by pmiller2 6y ago

   Yeah. For one thing, the actual suspect's face is much wider than the man who was falsely accused. And that's just at a glance. I'm sure there are multiple other points of difference.
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   by pmiller2 6y ago

   Indeed, let me present the case of William West and William West: http://dh.dickinson.edu/digitalmuseum/exhibit-artifact/babes... Those two men truly do look a lot alike, unlike the two men referenced in the art
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    This is exactly what I try to do. I'm sure I might have left one or two hanging accidentally at some point. OTOH, those 1 or 2 certainly never contacted me again, so I don't feel terrible about being imperfect here, as long as
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    I'm glad you've gotten a good response. I called out a recruiter on the phone once for putting me through a bait and switch interview process. I got nothing but incredulity for my troubles. Still felt good though, and I don&#x2
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    I was thinking autocorrect, but that's also plausible.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    Have you met kids? They suck, especially to other kids.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    Yes, of course. Silly me.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    +1 to this. I've seen this done as well, and it works marvelously. SD cards last half of forever if all you're using them for is a boot device.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    Hmm... is it because the suburbs are boring? reads article Yep, except instead of "boring," they say "walkable." I can't say I disagree.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    I don't understand your question, but what I do understand seems interesting enough that I want to understand it.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    I didn't know about that one. Are there other scale models of large, physical hydrodynamic systems out there?
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    Well, for that matter, for what it does, it shouldn't even exist.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    Core i5 first generation came out in 2009 with 4 cores: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_processo...
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    Yeaaaah, like that wouldn't have any unintended consequences. Meanwhile, I find this more interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_B... The Army Corps of Engineers literally built a
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    Big deal. That's literally why you've got 3 more cores.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    I'm not sure what's going on, but I opened it in Chrome on a 5 year old PC and had no fans going, no choppy framerate, no nothing. I probably could have left it open forever and never noticed.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    I didn't say "American media companies." I said "Netflix and Amazon." Both are perfectly capable of, and, in fact, do block certain titles in certain countries for political reasons. They certainly do it for li
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    Fair enough. Kashoggi most definitely was not just any journalist. Either interpretation reflects pretty horrible on the Saudi royal family though.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    I don't know about you, but if I ever got a bug report that says "do these things, and it will catch on fire," you can be damn sure I'd be trying to reproduce it with a fire extinguisher nearby. :P
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    Again, what does pretention, or lack thereof, have to do with the truth or validity of my argument? You're doing it again. Who ever mentioned "absolute," or "hidden" truths, either? That's called "straw m
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    You can redefine "routinely" to mean just about anything. I "routinely" get my car's oil changed about once every 6 months. All I did was go straight to their site and pick out literally the first link in a list,
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    That's the problem.
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    by pmiller2 6y ago

    None of that is news. That's an almanac entry.