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by tj-teej 7y ago
Shameful to see a Douglas Murray article posted on Hacker News... This guy's whole MO is saying racist/xenophobic things and then complaining about PC "mob mentality" when people say he's a racist or a xenophobe.
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by tj-teej 8y ago
If all hair had that problem then we'd say the machine doesn't work. They launched this new tech knowing a "certain type of hair" (specifically black women's) triggers the machine (and triggers degrading searches).
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by tj-teej 8y ago
You're right you can't blame the machine. I'm blaming the people who designed it, who defined what the 1 and the 0 are. If everyone in the country had the "certain hairstyles we'd have no problem saying "this m
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by tj-teej 8y ago
A lot of people will say "this is a limitation of Computer Vision", but they are missing something. If these kinds of technologies treat the hair of a certain race as a P1, then the technology (and people who designed the tech and
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by tj-teej 8y ago
Obligatory XCKD Cartoon: https://xkcd.com/2030/
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by tj-teej 8y ago
"I just wait till I stop if I need to adjust something that isn't on my steering wheel which is actually pretty rare." Tesla knows some people won't, and they still built the car this way. That is objectively dangerous.
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by tj-teej 8y ago
Do any of those scriptures tell the person they will endure torture in hell for the way they are? I think telling that to a kid is pretty damn close to violence
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UK Parliament Rejects No-Deal Brexit – To Vote on Asking EU for a Delay(vox.com)
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by tj-teej 8y ago
> There is no threshold at which we become greater than the sum of our parts; no inflection point at which we become fully alive. We can't define consciousness because consciousness does not exist The idea that consciousness doesn&#
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by tj-teej 8y ago
You are very correct! Unfortunately it's too late to edit now..
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by tj-teej 8y ago
I see a lot of comments in these threads regarding the old idea of a red cloud to indicate someone has peed in the pool. This idea never dies and I think I know where it started... When I was a lifeguard, we had to test the pH levels of the
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by tj-teej 8y ago
I would think it's to improve reliability of their deliveries. I see why you would be concerned, but retail stores have had security guards for my whole lifetime...
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by tj-teej 8y ago
Blaming the like button for the end of the "soft cuddly" side of Facebook is spurious from someone who was an investor. Facebook didn't have to build a surveillance machine, it didn't have to extract every possible penny
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by tj-teej 8y ago
I don't think the conclusion that "most people really don't care about privacy" is proved by people still using Facebook. Just because my friend buys a pack of cigarettes a day doesn't mean he doesn't care abou
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by tj-teej 8y ago
All due respect I don't think the article proved or indicated that "everyone has an ideology which overrides logic on many topics." The study found that people are less successful at spotting logical fallacies when the conclu
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by tj-teej 8y ago
DDB is typically used to denote DynamoDB
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by tj-teej 8y ago
I see all these comments about TSA being theater, and while I don't disagree, we should remember that these are real people with families to support. A Government job is historically seen as a "safe" income. These employees (
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by tj-teej 8y ago
> this is really darwinism at work That is cruel, disgusting and frankly a misrepresentation of Darwinism.
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by tj-teej 8y ago
I would encourage you to find a mentor who understands you. You'll be pleasantly surprised at how many engineers identify with the story you told. I think it's harder to "pick-up" the skills by reading generic, broad adv
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by tj-teej 8y ago
"figuring out what to worry about and what to not worry about" I think that is the "know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em" skill which is totally necessary to be content while working in an office enviro
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by tj-teej 8y ago
That’s completely true, I wasn’t clear in my first post, I meant images alone do not necessarily cause harm, whereas a cigarette does necessarily cause harm. You’re completely right that there are images which can cause harm
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by tj-teej 8y ago
All due respect, smoke causes cancer, images don't cause mental health problems. If cigarettes weren't addictive they'd still be REALLY bad for you. The problem with Facebook (or current Social Media) is that it IS addictive,
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by tj-teej 8y ago
Copyright law, Net-Neutrality, it sometimes feels that our current Governments cannot bring forward decent legislation on complex tech issues. Regardless of whether the cause is ignorance or cynicism; have there been other examples of times
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by tj-teej 8y ago
Why isn't the problem that Google has a monopoly on search? IF (a big IF) Google was actually biased, you could go to their competitor. But if there's no other real competitor then IMO the solution isn't to regulate Google, b
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by tj-teej 8y ago
Why isn't the problem that Google has a monopoly on search? IF (a big IF) Google was actually biased, you could go to their competitor. But if there's no other real competitor then IMO the solution isn't to regulate Google, b
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by tj-teej 8y ago
And a shot of strong Irish Whiskey!
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by tj-teej 8y ago
Football (soccer), is not an exact game, on purpose, the rules empower the referee to make judgement calls in order to encourage the "flow" of the game, to make it a "good" game. The explicit rule of "stoppage time&
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by tj-teej 8y ago
I think it's the difference between getting on a plane (you have no option to get off) and getting on a bus (you can get off and take the other bus back at any stop)
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by tj-teej 8y ago
At risk of using management lingo, there's a big difference between one-way-door (decisions which are hard to undo) and two-way-door decisions (decisions which can be easily undone). Asking for permission (or asking anything), in a com
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by tj-teej 8y ago
Wikipedia is correct, it IS an internment camp, like officially, that's what they're called. Vice, (who wrote the article) is the one being "political".

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