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by program_whiz 9y ago
Are you sure about this? I guess we should stop trying to fight crime with those outdated notions of education, upward mobility, etc and instead focus on creating more of the conditions refugees have instead, since that appears to cause le
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by program_whiz 9y ago
But if you assume the probability of strike is increasing over time, as is the population of all these areas, then the best alternative (although horrible to imagine), may be sacrificing 10m lives now to save 100m lives in 10 years. Its not
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by program_whiz 9y ago
There has been a huge increase in terrorism and crime, as well as massive drains on public resources. 99% of refugees aren't going to come to a first world nation from their 3rd world war-torn nation and just "settle in and start
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by program_whiz 9y ago
What I was referring to this: "As nutty as they seem neither NK nor USA are going to attempt a first-strike" My question was not an appeal to emotion. My question was, "Had the missle not broken up but instead hit Japan"
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by program_whiz 9y ago
If the missle had hit japan this morning, would you still think that?
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by program_whiz 9y ago
Is our only option to just surprise strike this guy into obvlivion and hope for the best, take casualties now? Assume that his capability is going to grow over time, just take whatever losses and assume eventually he will strike -- so best
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by program_whiz 9y ago
This NK situation is crazy -- seems like there is no good way to deal with this guy. If we silently ignore, he keeps testing until its too late. If we get aggressive, he pulls the trigger. And "diplomatic pressure" doesn't
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by program_whiz 9y ago
Seems like we're at a tipping point. It does seem like there needs to be more "Peaceable" in the "Right to Peaceably Assemble". But if you're investigating someone who bludgeoned a police officer for example,
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by program_whiz 9y ago
Here's an interesting thought experiment. What groups count as minority? When we reach 50% women, what if there aren't enough black women? Once we reach precisely 16% black women of the 50% women, what if there aren't enou
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by program_whiz 9y ago
Not being sarcastic, is there evidence that more diverse teams are better? There seems to be some anecdotal evidence going both ways (i.e. more diverse viewpoints vs team cohesion). I can imagine that there's a balance point as well.
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by program_whiz 9y ago
I have a question to further this debate. Would people consider it sexist to administer a completely automated test of technical and personality questions which was used by an unbiased program to hire only the best qualified candidates? Wha
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by program_whiz 9y ago
Here is the refutation being referred to in the article, the article author did a poor job explaining it, and the reason to reject isn't "effect is too large", because the effect is real -- but this study explains it: http:&
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by program_whiz 9y ago
The key here is the number of responses. The "rate" is high (so say 70% of 25 yo males respond to 50 yo women), but the actual number of occurences is low (1% of time time messages were sent). That means 99% of messages were a mor
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by program_whiz 9y ago
The key here is the number of responses. The "rate" is high (so say 70% of 25 yo males respond to 50 yo women), but the actual number of occurences is low (1% of time time messages were sent). That means 99% of messages were a mo
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by program_whiz 9y ago
Seems like there's a sub-thread going on in this discussion relating to zen/buddhism/enlightenment. Dream reality or "Maya" is the reality of concepts and ego. "Reality" is the real tangible experience o
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by program_whiz 10y ago
Ok I think my issue with this is that its akin to saying: Given the same users, in the same position, with the same hardware, performing the same gestures, we discovered the signals are consistent enough that a NNet can figure out a pattern
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by program_whiz 10y ago
Read the section "limitations". Only works on 10 users right now, must be trained for the pattern "per user", phone must be sitting on stable surface, gesture must be performed as close to "the same" every tim
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by program_whiz 10y ago
Was referring more to general case, like using less regulated labor abroad (China, Mexico). It has an impact because workers in the US or other first world countries are essentially in an unfair competition those workers can't demand
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by program_whiz 10y ago
Your point was that the impact of using non-American labor was essentially nil in every study ever done. My point was that replacing a $25 / hr union factory worker who has healthcare and PTO, with a $2/hr factory worker in a &qu
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by program_whiz 10y ago
Couldn't have said it better. That's why there won't ever be a skynet, because a computer doesn't ever "leap to conclusions", instead of learns examples or patterns and then uses deductive reasoning to guess wh
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by program_whiz 10y ago
> Because the study shows there is negligible impact. Every laborer is also a spender. If the person saves, then every laborer is also an investor. See the sweatshops, guess they are just "another spender": http://ww
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by program_whiz 10y ago
My point here is that its not surprising that a company takes a better cheaper option that can't just leave, and often costs less and has fewer regulations. That means that its worse for the average American worker, because they eithe
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by program_whiz 10y ago
Ok what's the suprise here? If you give companies a chance to get cheaper "mostly the same" labor without a downside, or maybe with the upside they can't leave, they're going to take it. That's why I do belie
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by program_whiz 10y ago
Even our concept that the brain "controls" things is just our own projection of things. Think about it, you get hit hard in the leg, so the leg releases chemicals that trigger a bunch of repsonses, perhaps using the brain as the
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by program_whiz 10y ago
All wealth is inherited. Are you proposing each person is cast out and begins again in cave man form with nothing but the unowned land to start with? Everything you have, knowledge, money, inventions, cultivated land, food, your body etc,
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by program_whiz 10y ago
Very true, humans are completely addicted to this type of thinking -- abstract, divisive, echo chamber.