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by tfehring 6y ago
Also, even if people outside of those bubbles see and dislike those videos, the Dislike button is more likely to feed and reinforce their primary audience's persecution complex than to cause them to reconsider.
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by tfehring 6y ago
I see no problem with unsophisticated people trading stocks on their phones, because one consequence of markets being efficient (or close to efficient) is that it’s really hard to underperform the market consistently. Just as hard as outper
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by tfehring 6y ago
A Conceptual Introduction to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo (2017) https://arxiv.org/abs/1701.02434
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by tfehring 6y ago
I don't see how that's an exception at all - price sensitivity is presumably really low at that end of the market, and Apple priced accordingly. Who's realistically gonna pay $6,000 for a monitor and then buy an aftermarket s
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by tfehring 6y ago
It’s ludicrous but I’m still tempted. It seems like they uniquely offer the best UX in headphones since unlike AirPods you don’t have to intermittently take them off to charge them if you’re using them all day. “The best UX” is assuming you
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by tfehring 6y ago
Florida is still a purple state and Wikipedia says Tallahassee is 2:1 Democrat:Republican. I'd have said the same about judges in most areas of the US that don't have a significant tech presence. I would not feel that way about a
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by tfehring 6y ago
That's an awfully flippant dismissal of an entire major branch of moral philosophy. Consequentialism has its critics and I don't expect everyone to subscribe to it in a strict sense, but if your own moral philosophy doesn't j
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by tfehring 6y ago
Reporting accurate data on the current pandemic when government officials couldn't be trusted to do so. On the balance of evidence I don't think it's that likely that she was responsible for the unauthorized access, and even
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by tfehring 6y ago
Aren't the requirements for being a judge basically just (1) be a lawyer (2) get elected? I'd hazard a guess that the bar in terms of technical sophistication for a Tallahassee judge is not that high and that it wouldn't be i
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by tfehring 6y ago
Her actions seem to have been ethical and important regardless of whether they were lawful.
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State-level funding sounds good on paper but would work poorly in practice because the federal government benefits from its sovereignty in ways that state governments don't. The vast majority of Americans' tax revenue goes to the
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by tfehring 6y ago
This shouldn't be a choice between risking continued transmission of a pandemic disease and letting small businesses fail. The US collectively produces way more than enough to keep them afloat until the end of the pandemic; the only re
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by tfehring 6y ago
"Close" is relative. Most of the population of Brazil lives within the tropics, and the furthest point from the equator in Brazil is closer than the southernmost points in the US or Europe, where much of the relevant studies were
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by tfehring 6y ago
I'll corroborate this and add that I think most of those 2/3 would decline to eat it just because they're personally not interested in eating meat anymore, not because they think it would be unethical to do so. However, this
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by tfehring 6y ago
Also from Gebru's memo ([0] in the parent comment): > And you are told after a while, that your manager can read you a privileged and confidential document Emphasis mine. Showing your employee that you don't even trust her
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by tfehring 6y ago
> Dean says the paper was reviewed by a "cross-functional team". Gebru says she received the feedback through a "privileged and confidential document to HR" I don't think these two takes are at odds with each ot
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by tfehring 6y ago
More specifically, she stated in her original email [0]: > Have you ever heard of someone getting “feedback” on a paper through a privileged and confidential document to HR? Does that sound like a standard procedure to you or does it jus
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by tfehring 6y ago
It's pretty clear that Gebru criticized LeCun for being apathetic about an obviously biased model, not because he's a white male. And again, "There are difficulties on collecting data and historical reasons that leads to bias
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by tfehring 6y ago
From Dean's email: > Unfortunately, this particular paper was only shared with a day’s notice before its deadline — we require two weeks for this sort of review — and then instead of awaiting reviewer feedback, it was approved for s
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by tfehring 6y ago
I don't think that's a fair characterization of Gebru's argument there at all. A better summary might be "You're the Chief AI Scientist at a massively influential and profitable company with billions of users and ex
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by tfehring 6y ago
My very speculative reading of this: Stripe needs to fulfill KYC/AML requirements for its own customers, but not for its customers' customers. If I own a store and accept payments via Stripe, Stripe needs information about me to h
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by tfehring 6y ago
Conversely, I've been pleasantly surprised at how well voice recognition works with weird song/album titles nowadays. "Hey Siri, play 'Zombie by the Cranberries by Andrew Jackson Jihad' by AJJ on Spotify" works
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by tfehring 6y ago
It would be awfully charitable to categorize Atlas's call for people in Michigan to "rise up" as an argument. Among other reasons, a call for insurrection isn't falsifiable. As for his actual arguments (see [0] for refer
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by tfehring 6y ago
I've seen a resurgence in the "I like ads" argument from non-tech-savvy friends recently, usually in the context of Facebook. This feels like the modern equivalent of people in the '50s saying they smoke cigarettes to he
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Yes it was.
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GP went too far with that claim but I think their broader point is valid - BOH work is at least comparably hard and demanding to FOH work but often pays 1/4 to 1/2 as much. Same goes for lots of other “unskilled” non-tipped jobs.
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by tfehring 6y ago
> Yelp's review system is among the hardest to game I assume you mean it's among the hardest to game except by paying Yelp to remove negative reviews - that's a pretty important caveat when it comes to trustworthiness.
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by tfehring 6y ago
FWIW, I just got an original SE new in the box for around $130 a few months ago after my last one went for a swim, and it came with 96% of the original battery capacity as reported by iOS. My goal was for it to just last me until the 12 cam
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by tfehring 6y ago
I’m aware of the strategy you mention in the context of racial and ethnic diversity, but do you have a source suggesting that cohesion also decreases with more gender diversity, and that governments, corporations, etc. are somehow activel
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by tfehring 6y ago
My impression is that the typical music industry exec is just as egomaniacal as Kanye, just without the creative success to justify it.

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