prolways

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by prolways 9y ago
If a significant portion of the population has a market value lower than the cost for them to have a reasonable quality of life isn't that some kind of fundamental failure condition for society/humanity?
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by prolways 10y ago
Is there a more rigorous explanation of why they count the probability space how they do? Watching that video I feel like the ordering of the kids and the striking of one of the "b2b2" entries seems wrong to me. If we care which
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by prolways 10y ago
The worry is that the training data has been affected by human bias, so that bias will bleed over into the ai.
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by prolways 11y ago
> A world war in 2015 killed nearly three billion people. Too bad we already severed.
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by prolways 11y ago
The article seems to address that in the second chart. When a woman publishes with only women they get the 9% bump they're supposed to. When they publish with a mixed-gender group they get only 4%, and when they publish with only men
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by prolways 11y ago
The study from which the article draws is also posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10785107 I'm going to copy some of the comments I made over there. Hopefully this is acceptable. The study does not sa
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by prolways 11y ago
The title needs a colon or something. Right now it reads like only women involved in Gender Studies pay more for stuff. The article is pretty interesting. There are a few stark contrasts where you see the exact same item costing twice as
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by prolways 11y ago
It it ever actually faster than https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoothsort ?
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by prolways 11y ago
Even if you're right (which I disagree) you need to be way more tactful with this type of thing or you stoke the "programming is misogynist" fire. Responding more directly: > "I tried to politely decline" > sh
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by prolways 11y ago
I'm not sure there is much the conference can really do, especially without risking the same backlash against our author that she is trying to avoid by not exposing him. It’s possible the conference organizers are simply unjust or don’
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by prolways 11y ago
It seems like in this case there is relatively objective evidence. I agree this is super tricky, but I don't think it has much to do with "he said she said". I believe the core issue here is that the bad actor has so much cl
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by prolways 12y ago
I'm wondering if it's possible to turn this problem into a solution. I don't know the numbers, so I'm probably off by orders of magnitude, and maybe it's a losing energy proposition, but: One of the biggest harms o
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by prolways 13y ago
Disallowing BART on the peninsula and requiring a transfer to the overpriced Caltrain has been extremely effective at gentrifying and providing de facto segregation on the peninsula. The people in San Mateo and Santa Clara county don'
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by prolways 13y ago
In general, if you seek help you will only be punished. My sister sought help for a sleeping disorder, and received nothing but a suspension of her driver's license. She then had to overcome her medical difficulties on her own and pas
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by prolways 13y ago
Until I read this thread I also saw a sumo or an angry onion, but I believe the picture is actually a person facing away from us undoing their kimono.
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by prolways 13y ago
Is anyone weighing in on this in touch woth how california actually votes? It doesn't matter how bad DFi actuallu is, our party voters are too busy protecting you from republicans. i didn't hear one reason in favor of hr last te
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by prolways 13y ago
Isn't this wildly illegal? I thought all web scraping violated CFAA... not to mention copyright...
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by prolways 13y ago
Isn't using "them/they" in the singular to avoid gendered pronouns still considered grammatically incorrect? If gendered pronouns are such a big issue why is there no effort to make a lasting official solution by updatin
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by prolways 13y ago
I'd like to see "retarded" and "lame" added to the Disability list.
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by prolways 14y ago
I can see the clients (and these are the same ones who get confused by Lorem Ipsum) complaining that the "font is unreadable".
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by prolways 14y ago
Working on my chromium in 12.10. Also, I really like how I can jump off of the balls I'm shooting meaning I can basically fly.