sayonaraman

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by sayonaraman 5y ago
what they call "divisive and extremist actions" that need to be censored is basically anything which doesn't agree with their political ideology. It's a direct attack on free speech.
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
How is giving access to user data for "research" is better than that whole data privacy scandal with Cambridge Analytica. these days research comes with a set of politically charged assumptions, for example the definitions of &quo
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
so many CEOs would come back with tail tucked between their legs when there is an aggressive PR attack, it's so refreshing to see someone unapologetic for a change, standing their ground against blatant lies and angry mobs with pitchf
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
These are words by great CEO, fight these baseless accusations in court like you would fight any slander. These witch hunts must stop.
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
well as the success of the US economy shows, those greedy capitalists create millions of jobs and goods and increase overall "happiness" of millions (of perhaps less greedy) people. Greed and free markets make for a healthy societ
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
I don't think you can argue with Gordon Gekko " that greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit..." And btw this
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
time to buy more FB shares when a company leaves the headlines it's time to sell.
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
These things are easy to fake and hard to disprove, especially in the current political climate
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
Most likely this is a hoax like all the other fake “hate crimes” or recent years e.g. that story with a “noose” in the garage or black students writing racist graffiti on campus Some do it for attention, others for financial gain https:&#x
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Why is the earth's core so hot? (1997)(scientificamerican.com)
1 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|1 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
The author also wrote "The Wretched Atom" and is clearly nuclear-phobic. Nuclear power is the only hope to stop climate change.
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
FB, while being the prime medium by which fake news spread, is at the same time terrible for anyone who attempts to control public opinion. You can never hire enough "fact-checkers" thank God, it's democracy in action.
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Primordial 'Hyper-Eye' Discovered(phys.org)
1 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|0 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
the whole concept of "oppression" in modern context holds absolutely no merit, it's a divisive racist view of American culture and it's been used for political gain again and again. Since it's published by supposedl
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
have they defined what "hate speech" and "misinformation" mean these days? More often than not these terms are used by one party to silence & suppress opposing views of another. Thankfully Zuckerberg doesn't giv
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Exhibition of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Frescoes Is Coming to San Francisco(secretsanfrancisco.com)
1 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|0 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
I think "consciousness" is such a fuzzy term that talking about is at best premature when we are still trying to understand more fundamental things which underlie cognition, such as how human (or mice) memory works, or how the &qu
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The Bipartisan Case for Labeling as a Content Moderation Method(papers.ssrn.com)
2 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|0 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
time to buy more FB shares
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
The only result of “defund the police” movement so far has been an explosion in violent crime. The murder rates skyrocketed in 2020 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/22/upshot/murder-rise-2020.h...
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
I just reset profile in youtube settings periodically, their recommendations are way too sticky, like literally the same videos are shown for months even if I watched them already. I wonder what all the highly paid "ML/AI engineer
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
What’s wrong with 4chan? I for one think it’s awesome, one of the few outlets that haven’t gave in to censorship. I can give you a counterexample of Reddit that turned into cesspool with (and may be because of) excessive moderation. Just ch
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
i think it comes down to difference in sources of the information, rather than difference of interpretation. These days people rarely form an opinion of their own, it's mostly a sort of digest of media they consume. The assumptions can
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
> words cause pain more often than not it's the pain of hearing a different opinion. The "hate speech" label turned into "speech I hate" long time ago.
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
i think this can be extended beyond Nobel as many famous scientists use their large audience to promote e.g. political ideology, Noam Chomsky being the prime example.
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Russell Brand on Political Propaganda(trendingpolitics.com)
2 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|1 comments
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
it's an incomplete graph problem, no all the edges (and vertices) are available, i guess the best way to describe it is finding missing edges by identifying network "hubs" i.e. most influential nodes (as in PageRank or Katz
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
I recall about 10 years ago in college we had these required 'core' classes, and the very first course, on writing I think, included mandatory readings from Edward Said*, a well known academic whose entire career was built around
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by sayonaraman 5y ago
I don’t know about squirrels but hamsters are known to hedge their “nest eggs” with crypto. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/crypto-trading-hamster-mr-...
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Low-Dimensional Structure in the Space of Language Representations(arxiv.org)
29 points by sayonaraman 5y ago|1 comments

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