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by sagebird 7y ago
A society could reasonably elect that firings must be reviewed and signed off by a human. In real life, there are instances of hard working people who through some bad luck end up having to do manual work into their 70’s. They haul ass and
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by sagebird 7y ago
Just because robots exist does not imply humans should accept being treated like one in order to be maximally competitive. Societies get to collectively decide what the floor is for human treatment, not just market forces. (Hint- the market
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by sagebird 7y ago
Hahaha, wow -- full circle, this inadvertently arrives back at a racist system it seeks to counteract! For example, if it averages that hispanics are 1.6 times faster than the average worker at sorting boxes, does that mean it should fire a
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by sagebird 7y ago
Interesting as that may be, I'll raise you: discrimination is best measured as a deviation between a selected ratio and a population ratio. If you don't account for that, then silly things happen, like all heat maps turn into popu
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by sagebird 7y ago
Not necessarily. If it fired people who listen to rap music while they worked, would it be racist? Some might argue— no— because it also fired white people who listen to rap. But it would be a rather obvious discriminatory practice. Now we
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by sagebird 7y ago
I think it is almost a non feature that gmail provide a choice of white space. As though a manager was too magnanimous in deciding so told his underlings— surprise! You’re all right! Let’s give the users a choice! Meanwhile the average user
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A Technical Debt Avalanche(medium.com)
2 points by sagebird 7y ago|0 comments
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by sagebird 7y ago
This is so true. It is especially important to amplify voices that have experienced the most cultural oppression and erasure. I hope that we will be able to resurrect Neanderthals from dna and and provide them with a natural habitat where t
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by sagebird 7y ago
I encourage you to test this idea out ( or if you don’t have the time, situation, etc. encourage others). Even if it has a low chance of working, it would be really positive if it did work. Some antidepressants are approved on slim margins
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by sagebird 7y ago
There is value in adding a concise, incorrect comment on hacker news if it is presented in a clear and falsifiable way. I am sorry I did not google "pressure altitude" before commenting and did not present my findings so others co
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by sagebird 7y ago
For the transcriptions to be useful they will ultimately be aggregated in some sort of data set so the analysts can have at it. So even if they somehow guaranteed the security of the raw recordings the very nature of data analysis means tha
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by sagebird 7y ago
I am more pessimistic. When discussions of securing user data come up, how often do people vote - limit lifetime of collected data and delete it after x days? I don’t think businesses ever choose that because they don’t want to commit to th
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by sagebird 7y ago
I see what you are saying and the article's sentence is technically not wrong. But it is a useless phrasing none the less. By decreasing altitude they decrease apparent altitude... so what? How is that different than saying by filling
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by sagebird 7y ago
You are not incorrect but if someone gained access multiple recordings, and recordings have location data, if they gather two or more from the same person, they can piece together the history to the extent of how many recordings they captur
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by sagebird 7y ago
"A lower flight level to decrease the cabin pressure altitude was also requested to assist with the captain’s recovery." Doesn't flying lower make the cabin pressure increase?
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by sagebird 8y ago
If this is sarcasm it’s a bit dark and that is fine, otherwise I want to give you a hug because this makes me very sad.
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by sagebird 8y ago
Um, let the bidding begin? I'll bid $200 for the domain. I'm sure there are some windows 8 machines that will never receive the patch. I don't have any nefarious plans besides perhaps setting each tile to rick roll. Ok, on se
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Ask HN: What job could you do that you can't get?
1 points by sagebird 8y ago|1 comments
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by sagebird 8y ago
I hope you will not take this as me encouraging a conspiracy theory — I sometimes wonder what would happen if someone stumbled upon a simple, robust and general method for halting aging using the likes of stem cells. Ordinarily this sort of
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by sagebird 8y ago
I don’t think there is some sort of list of forbidden tools. Though Wikipedia says that Protestants think you go to hell if you commit suicide: Psalm 139:8 ("If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold,
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by sagebird 8y ago
If God gave man brains and free will, then Christians should be ok with the tools and medicine man creates, because it’s still God’s creation at the root, if even indirectly. (I know this doesn’t square with Luddites/ Amish etc.)
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by sagebird 8y ago
Some comfort can be had in knowing that some of the soul or atheistic moved on into golang. Though I imagine the joy of using golang to pale in comparison to the experience of using an os so orthogonally constricted, as well as creating hyb
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by sagebird 8y ago
Plan 9
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by sagebird 8y ago
If Facebook wants to get ahead of and control privacy regulation, Zuckerberg needs to create an arrangement with a third party to push his agenda. IE - a charismatic CEO from another company that has a good public image. If it was done corr
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by sagebird 8y ago
Imagine how transformative it would be if there was a reliable way to share/report your amazing bosses in a way that can’t be gamed. In a parallel universe, LinkedIn would perform this function. (Instead of being a cesspool for narciss
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by sagebird 8y ago
Thanking him would be wrong. But I acknowledge that Facebook has provided early example into the real harms of social networking + data collection + psychological manipulation via ux. If Facebook became prominent later, after stronger ai wa
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by sagebird 8y ago
Why does an active MCAS system need to exist in order to tamp down on pitch up? I wonder if modifying the surface of the wing and or tail could achieve this. Eg, make a computer model of the plane, verify that it captures the real pitch up
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by sagebird 8y ago
This article is a bit superficial. CCD is more than just pesticides killing bees. The invasive varroa mite is likely a big factor. It’s a good thing that he is taking care of bees. The solution might be more complex than sanctuaries though—
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by sagebird 8y ago
There is something junky about Pinterest and Quora— the experience of using it while not logged in is bad. Facebook has users in a strangle hold— afraid of alienating and being out of the loop on family affairs if they leave. Can someone co
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by sagebird 8y ago
This is wonderful. I found it more enjoyable if you add the following css to the canvas: canvas{ image-rendering: pixelated; width: 100vw; height: 100vh; object-fit: cover; position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; f

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