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by rmxt 11y ago
Saying you "don't like gay marriage" is a bit like someone in 1950s America saying they "don't like interracial marriage." I don't think that someone should get fired from their job for believing that (bec
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I can most definitely see how the AI made the mistake. My point is that it might be possible that the human creators of those programs might have had an unwitting role that lead to that mistake. What is "slanderous" about stating
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What do you think the skin tone of the people that came up with the AI is? Can you say with a straight face that this has 0 influence on how they initially calibrated the models? I would imagine that they tried their best to have the algori
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This is pure FUD, coming from a seemingly very targeted throwaway account. Thinking that crime in a city is directly correlated with the political party of the mayor of that is naive at best. Giuliani likes to tout that he turned NYC aroun
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> Recently opinions changed from calling homosexual marriage an absurdity to a civil right. They also changed from saying that a parent should teach their child about what it means to be male or female into saying that a child can choose
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Now you seem to be arguing about the integrity of the entire fields of psychology and sociology? When I say those "who know more than I do," I am simply deferring to scientists that have studied observable phenomenon and concluded
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Thank you, quite insightful and I agree on all counts. My use of the Bible quote was an attempt to cherry-pick in the same sort of way as the arguments I'm detracting. The selective re-imagining of religious texts to fit the preexistin
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>You're right, it's not a slippery slope. It's a gate we've opened and said that whatever your sexual compulsion is, no one else has a right to tell you that it's wrong. That is a very dangerous gate to open and
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That's a red herring, almost concern troll-esque, argument. This ruling isn't a slippery slope towards moral depravity and chaos, no matter how much religious authorities will attempt to paint it as such. We can definitely know th
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What "social insanity" is it to recognize and legalize a completely natural phenomenon? Or are you going to tell me that all those ducks and bonobos are sinners too? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexual_be
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The rule of thumb that I've heard is to walk against traffic if there are no sidewalks or dedicated space, but always to ride your bicycle with traffic if there are no bike lanes. You might be practically invisible to motor vehicle
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Islam has nothing to do with the issue at hand, which is why it is being dismissed. It's perfectly reasonable to want to discuss a particular instance of ignorance ("the Confederate flag is a symbol of southern pride, nothing more
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Primarily states' rights or primarily slavery, that "peculiar institution"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornerstone_Speech It's a bit of historical revisionism to suggest that slavery wasn't
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If you are interested in the above text, this textbook might also be of interest: Applied Mathematical Programming by Bradley, Hax, and Magnanti for MIT's Introduction to Optimization. (15.053). Not as code heavy, but still enlightenin
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Sure, his generalization regarding "nicely with two cars" might have been overstated, but your link supports his notion that "at some point all those things have eroded," at least in the case of car ownership per househo
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Maybe a little ironic that this linked page doesn't work unless cookies are enabled. For those unwilling to click, the screen shot contains a snippet of the Adblock filter selection, and "Adblock Warning Removal List"; "
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Grades on the Columbia equivalent of the Moodle/Blackboard student portal can and do update instantly as soon as teachers hit submit. This is a recently updated, fairly modern system. However, these are not necessarily the official gra
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This legacy system issue doesn't just happen to remote/low budget operations either. While they've now moved to emulating the system on what are presumably VMs, Columbia University uses what amounts to a 40 year old system to
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When you say "some" and "they" do you mean "black people"? I only ask because the parent comment specifically talks about minorities. If so, that's a unfortunate dichotomy that you have created. If anythin
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How does one get from "a few kids being rowdy and not listening to police officers" to "x group of people has entitlement issues"? Seems like quite a disingenuous stretch.
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As a tip: if you are building a specific project, and are looking for a large number X of a specific shape of brick, odds are there is an employee there who knows the best way to to pack the cups to get the most brick for your buck. The &qu
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If calling things "racist" is a dream, then so is the sunshine story of blaming everything on "the immigrants" and a "crumbling social fabric." Polarization and naivety are easy, subtlety and deeper understandi
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To be trite and cliche: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. Your claims make a superficially plausible story, but if you are going to base your moral decisions on something, basing them on these unsubstantiated claims is ci
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Nope, that's a willful misreading: "Statistik från årsredovisningen som släpps i dag visar att endast tio procent initialt har godkända id-handlingar som godkänds av verket." Only 10% had ID which were approved on the first
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Did you miss these lines? "Jihadist Trojan horses are flowing through the porous border along with the tens of thousands ID-less refugees. But what makes me the most pessimistic about Sweden’s future is how the social fabric itself has
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At the same time that you blame the victims of police violence, you fail to make a convincing argument that connects the dots between "minorities exist in a country" and "minorities cause police to shoot people." Throwin
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Not much of the exterior shells of these super tall buildings are concrete. Those are the areas that are experiencing large deflections, i.e. are bending in response to the wind. The floor slabs are concrete, but they are essentially rigid
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How do you reconcile [1] with the use of Stingray-like technology from outside the home (whether in the air or not)? Stingrays are not commonly available to the public, so no "shmuck" can go up there and do this. [1] https:/
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Google Cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NePDgA...
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No one (in this thread at least) has said that they are not supposed to "spy" completely. What people are concerned with is dragnet surveillance. The way you are framing the issue is a classic case of a false dilemma. EDIT: My apo

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