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by sukilot 6y ago
One case of being imperfect isn't "abysmal". Cross facial discrimination is far more accurate than cross-species body discrimination, or wood grain discrimination, or many other things. There are brain regions detected to be
752.
by sukilot 6y ago
Huh? That map colored black people dark like their skin, and encoded misery as unhappy faces. The result accurately showed happy white people and unhappy black people. How is it racist to acknowledge the racially biased distribution of suff
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by sukilot 6y ago
Routing is scary magic. DNS is scary magic. Wifi is scary magic. Everything in computing is scary magic until someone writes an app with good UX for it. It's not a fundamental problem.
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by sukilot 6y ago
If the browser correctly explained what you were doing, and warned you that this is an attack unless you are in control of the entire network and the machines on it, I don't see the problem.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Parler is 2 years old and not exclusive. It just got popular this week thanks to some Twitter influencers and due to the founder requesting peot to join.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Why would you set an Objective to hurt yourself?
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's impressive that "OKRs" (inspired by Google in the modern business culture) are so worshipped despite being a management truncheon that helped Google go from being universally loved to being largely despised (killing prod
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by sukilot 6y ago
What does "excessive" mean then?
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by sukilot 6y ago
(1) Zimbabwe and Venezuela are two extreme examples. (2) microfinance is not those currencies.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Not necessarily. One goat gifts go to people who already want goats, while cash has a risk of being wasted on short term benefit.
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by sukilot 6y ago
No, because the payday loans are still available to people who already used payday loans.
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by sukilot 6y ago
On a relative scale on the context of local economy, microfinance is more like a mortgage or SBA loan.
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by sukilot 6y ago
That sounds like GiveDirectly.org with extra steps for the donors ego. The US just gave $1200 to each of millions of Americans, all of whom have already income plus other govt benefits totalling high above median income in Nigeria. If you
764.
by sukilot 6y ago
Microlending isn't a complex ARM loan. It's $X out, $Y due back later. NPV doesn't matter to someone who wants $100 to fix their roof or buy a sheep.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Scalability isn't the issue. It's just not profitable. Microlending is a money loser overall. Dirt farming just isn't very profitable on the scale of a wealthy investor in a developed country. It only works because the lender
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by sukilot 6y ago
That is utter speculation.
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by sukilot 6y ago
It's ridiculous to equate poverty in the US with poverty in Africa. Nigeria GDP per capita is under $2500/yr.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Read the page before advertising your ignorance of it.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Vulgar language makes your comment hard to read.
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by sukilot 6y ago
Please cite a source for your claim. Economists agree they utility is the measure of value to society. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/u/utility.asp Money is merely a proxy for utility, a token of exchange.
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by sukilot 6y ago
They were falsely advertised as non-addictive, and they were prescribed by bribed doctors violating their fiduciary duty to their patients.
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by sukilot 6y ago
I'd say social democracy has done more. It's easy to tally up the greatness of the free market when you redefinento boundaries of society to exclude the huge negative costs imposed on slaves and laborers.
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by sukilot 6y ago
"Celebrities" are misdirection. They generally he tmoney for value. Money siphoned by bankers and defense contractors and predatory advertisers are the real waste.
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by sukilot 6y ago
People buy horrible prescription opiates generally with no recourse to the legal system, and that's legal.
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by sukilot 6y ago
This process is documented at length in the book 1984, including a special appendix dedicated specifically to what the author termed "Newspeak" and "doublethink", or "doublespeak". https://en.m.wikip
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by sukilot 6y ago
Corporations used to have to justify their charter by showing how their enterprise helped society. And charters were temporary. Now corporations have more rights than humans and people who have corporations are nigh untouchable by law for t
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by sukilot 6y ago
This is a major part of Donald Trump's business. https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/trumps-businesses-are...
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by sukilot 6y ago
This is also how automatic digital photo enhancement worked for a while.
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's fine. They are accountable to the electorate who can recall them.
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by sukilot 6y ago
That's not how language works. You can't freely remove words from a sentence and assets that the meaning remains the same.

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