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by rjf72 8y ago
This topic is a very good example of the risks inherent in trying to do science by consensus. The study [1] this article references had a huge sample size (19,957) and is also probably very replicable. It's also complete trash. The met
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Just because some people may have had concerns about one thing that is not necessarily justified does not then mean that we can extrapolate concerns about new technology going forward to then be defacto unjustified. I'm not sure of the
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The article you link there does not mention the SISSA discovery of 2016 [1]. In particular in mini-spiral galaxies there seems to be an unexpected, and inexplicable, interaction between dark and visible matter. This falsifies the primary pr
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The interesting thing is what you're doing is really the exact same thing that drives racism. These [1] are the crime rates in the US from the FBI, organized by race. The values are not normalized to population sizes, so if one group m
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Something more relevant to contemporary society is that it also works with prudishness, but through a different effect. Rather than a loss of business there will be a loss of support for non-prudish behavior. As an example imagine video gam
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A major issue this does not consider is that ads which are too accurate are often deemed 'creepy'. Turns out there was some recent research on this topic [1]. In another thread on digital advertising a user shared an anecdote of a
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Completely agreed on this. I've also used a sharpening stone to sharpen scissors. It's quick, easy, and really satisfying seeing a dull blade go to razor sharp with a few minutes of work.
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They don't make a secret of this. Here [1] are their terms of service as it relates to privacy. They add a substantial amount of fluff that has no effective meaning in the terms. For instance one of the most overt example of this is in
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How about not having spyware? I don't think we should use the word "telemetry" when we do actually mean spyware. Telemetry, in connotation, is data used for diagnostic, maintenance, and 'real' quality assurance. I o
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- I am an 11 year old who is 9 feet tall and have won a Nobel Prize for my work in physics. - Elephants are big. Which one of these is a fact? English is unusually elegant in this regard. A fact does not mean true, it means something that
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Domain registration is one of the most perfect use scenarios for a blockchain type system. It would be entirely decentralized meaning no party has any unfair advantage which leads to these sort of systems where players obtain massive amount
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I think this is a common objection, but is it really so reasonable? Why show any image of ephemeral emotion at all? If you must include not strictly necessary multimedia, something that would be obvious would be a long range wide-angle pi
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I wouldn't create a dichotomy between these two choices. In many ways our descendants will determine the state of the future far more than any particular change we might engage in today. Imagine that people who are well educated, secul
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There's been another major shift as well. This [1] graph is critical. There were more self employed workers in the US in 1948 than there are today. The population since then has increased by more than 220%. And the trend increases the
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It might be helpful to check out Icons8. They seem to be operating under a similar idea to what you're looking for. Their licensing page is here: https://icons8.com/license I think they also have a great business model
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The problem with this definition is that it'd invariably result in a swapping of nomenclatures once one side became dominant. And while we do tend to swap between dominant ideologies on about 20 year spans (roaring 20s, warring 40s,
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The bizarre thing is how little people seem to have paid attention to Snowden. Apple joined the NSA's PRISM program in 2012. [1] PRISM enables the government to access data from participating companies including audio, video, and live
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He's talking about software patents. I wouldn't equate that with API copyright. For many things discovering an algorithm to do something is just that - a process more about 'discovery' than 'invention.' As an o
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There's a few interesting things about self driving vehicles. One surprising thing is that for a very large autonomous taxi company, these vehicles could, in theory, operate at a profit while charging less per mile than it costs you to
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George Soros in George Soros' own words [1]: "I fancied myself as some kind of god ... If truth be known, I carried some rather potent messianic fantasies with me from childhood, which I felt I had to control, otherwise they migh
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There's some fun even around the origin of the term. In late 1963 JFK was assassinated. According to a sourced referenced on Wiki [1] the first mainstream reference to "conspiracy theory" was the New York Times who, in 1964,
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Food stamps run out in March which generally sets a deadline to any shutdown. If it reaches that far the side that relies on the foodstamp vote will end up being forced to agree to practically anything. Even setting pragmatic politics aside
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The United States went from a inhospitable backwoods outpost isolated from the entire developed world to the most powerful nation in the world in somewhere around 200 years. These numbers sound larger because we don't live very long bu
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And a few years after Washington we'd have the current vice president and the former secretary of the treasury engage in a duel to the death! Claiming temperance is what kept our system afloat is probably a bit of a stretch. The Ame
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In every field you just listed the workers are seen as valuable part of the product. In the games industry, they're just seen as a resource.
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I would never judge a company based on their words. Most corporations spend immense amounts of money on public relations firms, and these firms are pretty decent at their job. And words can be faked - lies, deception. If you want to see wha
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While the article bemoans these programs becoming restrictive, it is ignoring a major reality. Let's take a person. This is the person that might end up getting 'weeded out' before they've even gotten their foot in the d
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There are different ways of training things than relying other people's data. For instance alpha zero is still the most remarkable achievement in ML or 'AI' in my opinion, and it used 0 human games in learning to play chess.
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You can't separate A from B in the above. For instance dark matter and relativity. Dark matter was invented (or at least expanded) precisely because certain rotational characteristics of distant galaxies seem to contradict what we&#x27
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Do you know what happened during the housing boom in the US? The 1950 to 1960 was one of the biggest housing explosions in the US. As well as one of the biggest population explosions with the population growing some 20% in those 10 years. T

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