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by tech_ken 3y ago
Makes sense, definitely if anonymity from conversation partners is desired then I can see how Signal's model falls short of your needs. I've also used Signal in the past for activist group chats, but in those cases my primary risk
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Never really understood the privacy argument for hiding (or disconnecting) your phone number in a User-User "texting" type application. I suppose if Signal were linking my identity across a bunch of platforms I'd be worried,
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> most important truths about the world are falsifiable I think it depends on what you deem "important". There are many truths that I relied on just this morning alone which aren't "falsifiable" in the like Poppe
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I think this needs a close reading by a historian or something. I'm certainly not qualified to do it but still there are so many lines that even to my layman's understanding seem like just obvious, fortune cookie horseshit (ironic
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> the driving force behind technology for the first ten thousand or so years has been the improvement of the human race and to win in the struggle to survive This seems naive to me (setting aside the issue of even defining or identifying
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I'm also an overall satisfied Alliant customer. Definitely the lack of contactless chip is annoying, and I will echo that their UX could use refinement, but otherwise it's a pretty reliable card and the points are simple and easy.
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The iCloud thing is weird, is it possible that the email was automatically created for you using your username? I believe that Apple used to do that or something similar, regardless of which email the AppleID actually used. Alternatively, i
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Got it, makes sense and I definitely agree: with Linux systems the more you deviate from the popular applications and use cases the more elbow grease is required. FWIW I’ve never had difficulty with my DE resulting from running Steam but pr
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What are you doing with your Pi where you’re running both HAOS and Steam? Definitely seems like an edge case. Put Debian on the thing stick it on a bookshelf and forget it exists edit: Actually put HAOS on, no reason to run Debian
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Check out “routine action theory” (which I came across due to the above meta-analysis, can’t explain why it 403d for you, paper is Pratt & Cullen 2005). Posits crime as occurring when three conditions are met: * Motivated perpetrator *
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> Is it really that hard to control for the police presence? You could probably answer this question by reading the original work, it's linked somewhere in this thread. > I think people on the left don't really want to admit
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Can't tell if this is a low effort troll, or if you're just confused about who you're replying to or what this comment was saying. The linked comment has a quote from the article confirming the points I made in my initial pos
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> The problem is the externalities of the policy. Not some mode overfitting. Sure I don't disagree with this. I guess the point is not so much that ML models are bad here in the typical sense (although greedy consultants may, and
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> To the extent you consider pretrial decision risk assessment software to be "predictive policing" (after all, it's predicting which defendants will skip their court date or commit a crime on bail), then there's plen
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First one that came up in Google from a source with a TLD that I trusted. Feel free to do your own research, I don't believe you will find much substantial disagreement with the older study but if you do please pass it on to me. edit
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> Most poor people do not commit crimes, which is what you would expect if that statemebt is true. No this does not follow from what I said. "Group A is more likely to do X than Group B" is very different from "The majorit
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> Why didn't these people casually turn to crime? Isn't violent crime at an all time low, historically [0]? It seems like every other day some rationalist is trumpeting the relative safety of our affluent society. > Would it
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> That doesn't mean causation. You might be interested to learn about the field of causal statistical analysis. There are many, many ways that a researched might infer a causal relationship from observational data. No doubt each ind
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> The conclusion of KL and related work is that we have to be careful when training ML models to remove sources of underperformance, not that all ML models are useless. Sure I don't disagree with that, and I'm not saying that a
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All the studies linked in this thread agree with what I'm saying, please feel free to provide counterexamples
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> I would bet money the correlation between number of hours worked and criminality is inverse. So someone working more hours at a legit job is less likely to commit a crime? I think that's likely. For one, more hours worked probably
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> Most violent crime is the result of interpersonal disputes Sure violent crime is complicated. I'll walk back my claims with regard to things like domestic violence or violent crime resulting from a fight or something. However the
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> but that strong link starts to weaken when you look across different societies, especially in the same region I'm not surprised by this, one would expect things like the ease of getting a weapon, cultural norms, and social welfare
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Thanks, and no problem! It's a touchy subject and there's lots of shitty takes on it so I get the reaction. Definitely agree that the best solution is simply decriminalization, maybe with the addition of improved support services
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Sure I never said "all sex workers are desperate", I said "in many cases". There was a great book I read a while back "Revolting Prostitutes" which talks about this distinction between types of sex workers. The
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That’s a really good point, although I do think the desperation/desire line in the case of ex. snorting coke is somewhat blurry. Overall though yes, in my mind I was imagining “serious crimes” like theft or interpersonal violence, rath
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Yep IIRC that’s the work she was presenting, thanks for doing the legwork I was too lazy to do :)
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I’m not sure I understand your point. If the model is predicting the probability that police will make an arrest in a location then I think it could perform well on rudimentary classifier metrics without working well in the more general sen
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> It’s no mystery that “guns and drugs on the table” crime is perpetrated by low-IQ psychopaths. This is simply and empirically wrong, but you're free to believe it if you find simple falsehoods more comfortable than nuanced truths.
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That’s an interesting point, I can’t say I recall what type of analysis if any was performed to address something like this. With that said, while these types of selection biases probably make it challenging to reliably estimate absolute dr

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