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by travisoneill1 6y ago
> While you only had muskets, right to bear arms had a clear benefit When the 2nd amendment was written there were privately owned battleships
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
If pornhub is breaking the law, then it should be prosecuted. The ability of companies and individuals to send and receive payments should not be at the whim of public opinion anymore than their access to the electric grid. Payment process
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
The problem here is that parts of college (any department that ends in "studies") are liberal indoctrination. So this is the college's job to fix before criticizing the students.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Well actually Epstein's tropical island was a central location in a pedophile ring which the Clinton's had deep connections to. All they got wrong was the location.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
You might like this: https://betterexplained.com/articles/colorized-math-equation...
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
But what about the value of having A tell you what to build? If A = Jeff Bezos, B/C/D, who would just be making a $150K salary at some other company, are now multi millionaires. The difference in value didn't come from thei
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Why do I meet so many happy poor people when I'm out of bubble, then?
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Isn't a race to the bottom the best possible thing that could happen to transaction fees?
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Getting the credentials is too expensive. Skills are nearly free. Most industries run on credentials. It's an important distinction.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Well if you thwart union formation and legislation by using communication to persuade people that you're right and to vote for your side, that's called democracy.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
The war on drugs has entered the chat
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Would make a great training data set too. Who knows what patterns we haven't found for lack of looking.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
By your logic, software engineers will only ever solve problems for other software engineers.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
> employees who walked out, "forcing" his hand > No one was asking for a political statement Pick one
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
One of the other things a professional news org does is not fire its editorial page manager for printing an opposing viewpoint.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Doesn't really change anything because you are pretty much out of the Earth's gravity well by the time you get to the moon.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Yeah. I'm not disagreeing with that.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Sounds like a win to me.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
The error bars just stop getting wider at about 100 years in the future? I don't buy that.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
They don't know what the model's accuracy is over long periods because it hasn't been around long enough to test.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
If it was because they predicted that no one would be interested, then yes. If it was because they disagreed with it, then no.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Threats of violence are illegal. We could leave it to the police to handle this, as they always have until now.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
True. It doesn't bother me that companies show me what they think I want to see based on a recommendation algorithm. It does bother me that they would decline to show me something that would otherwise be recommended because they, in
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
No it's really not too simplistic. The only case where Facebook's censorship is a positive is if the following 2 statements are both true: - FB's moderators posses better judgment than me as to what is and isn't true -
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
And I am not capable of judging for myself whether or not that is a bad idea, so I am grateful for the Facebook moderators and their superior judgment in making sure I don't see this!
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
It really pisses me off when companies don't decide for me what information I am allowed to see. They are obviously smarter than me, and only acting in my best interest rather than their own, so it's best that they do this for me
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
I read that wrong. I thought that the overall mortality rate in the groups was 1.2% and 1.7%. Didn't realize those were both differences from the control.
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Why even bother doing a study with a sample size so small that a difference as large as 49% is still not significant?
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
Well of course the people who want to hire by race want to get rid of blind auditions!
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by travisoneill1 6y ago
You don't have to win open battles. You just have to make it not worthwhile to keep fighting. Think Vietnam war. Also, in this scenario the army will not be united. In our civil war, many army units joined the rebels.

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