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by unishark 5y ago
One of the authors of the journal article is directly quoted in that UC story as saying technology makes us smarter. I'd be kind of surprised if there isn't something in that paper making the claim too. It looks like more of a rev
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From the notice: https://www.audacityteam.org/about/desktop-privacy-notice/ It looks more like they want to get basic analytics info abut users, which means legally they need this notice, and also of course the go
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Trees add value to a house so I'd say on balance people prefer them. Though this calculation may unfairly presume all things are equal (i.e., damage caused by a tree is not included) and less desirable trees that hurt value got removed
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So my corrupted file system was taking bribes? Just kidding but I like my definition just fine. It does require a degree of good faith interpretation of course. The Netflix case I cited did involve kickbacks. He was convicted in a federal c
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It's very common for journals to ask for reviewer suggestions. For example I guess this is the journal in question: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/vaccines/instructions "Reviewer Suggestions During the su
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Bad reviewers are extremely common. I wouldn't read too much into lazy people not double-checking the stats carefully. The one highly-enthusiastic reviewer is a bit suspicious, but I'd more suspect it was a case of the author reco
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I think it's a combination. Bad papers that reach conclusions scientists agree with will be generally ignored, while bad papers which reach conclusions they don't like will trigger protest. This is especially problematic in fields
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Is that how you'd describe the behavior of the VP of Netflix who accepted kickbacks to approve contracts? Corruption means a system not operating as it should.
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We aren't talking about engineers making advertising algorithms then washing their hands of them. It's quite common for engineers to develop a product using some code name, then hand it off to other groups such as marketing who de
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Did the engineers have any input in the name? It certainly is surprising to me that kids would care. And then that they would think an AI product is a negative versus a positive or neutral example of the name. I thought bullies were more co
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I would think it's more the fact that targeting diet ads to obese people is just creepy and obnoxious, because pretty much all ad targeting tends to be creepy and obnoxious. Though I agree with others that their statement was kind of o
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Arbitrary also means wide open to corruption. I imagine there is a lot of money to be made in influencing Pinterest management in their arbitrary decisions now.
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Could be a combination of things, some worse but others better: > A commission organized by medical journal The Lancet last year calculated that modifying a dozen risk factors could prevent or delay dementia in 40% of cases. These 12 var
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Doesn't that still put them within the western bubble of comfort in a sense though? It isn't much of a defense of an alternate way of life if that way of life required westerners to work hard in a different (i.e., consumer-product
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> All their founders came from schools with less than 10% acceptance rates. This says they were overachievers in prior pursuits too. Universities may not do a perfect job of it, but their admissions is primarily based on merit. In fact t
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Are these details publicly-available for the scraping though? I'd be suspicious it was an employee with internal access to the data or someone who had hacked such an employee's computer. Of course they wouldn't admit such cri
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But there's a big difference between a system where you are unhireable once you disappoint someone, versus just living with a risk that someone where you apply might know your last boss personally. I can't think of any case where
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I think there's a kind of pyramid. From the small number of people at the top who make the hardware, to a larger number making the OS, to a larger number making various libraries, to the most people (with least technical-skill requirem
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by unishark 5y ago
Speaking of reality, it's usually more complicated and nuanced than simple narratives about good versus evil. Here's an interesting profile from the 80s of Charles Rangel, when he was chair of the house narcotics committee and per
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I'd say society is converging towards outlawing all three. Both smoking and alcohol are vastly more limited and regulated than they used to be. Activist groups like MADD who are blocking decriminalization would certainly be happy to al
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Crack and cocaine were treated differently by the laws because their social effects were seen as different. Crack was seen as destroying inner cities in the 80s and those disproportionate punishments were directed at the dealers in an attem
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The US system is a heavily regulated market and roughly 50% socialized.
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> I wouldn't trust the Trump administration with coming up with a list of human rights, that doesn't mean that the only acceptable compromise is that we shouldn't have any. The point remains the same. If you don't tru
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Seems to me you're making the same point as the parent poster. I think by "ownership" they mean monopolization of the poles due to agreements with the local govt to provide service in return for monopoly rights.
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Seems like that would still include all foods that have been around a long time in old countries. Such as sushi for Japan.
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But the poster you challenged was specifically complaining about a generic product name that was not a place name. Because it opens Pandora's box in terms of every generic food name being reclaimed by the place it originated. The list
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"Chicago-style pizza" would be ok, according to the article. But not "Chicago pizza" if it wasn't really from Chicago (and if it was protected by law/treaty, which I don't think it is). New York City feels
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> This is no different than if Apple workers from China start selling iPhones in the US that is actually branded Apple iPhone, completely different from a "real" iPhone or exact copy, same thing. I think it's more like the
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Fair enough. While it was a rhetorical question, I have a couple counters too: increased spread of communicable diseases like coronavirus, highly-skilled robotics jobs traded for low-skill delivery jobs.
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Well there's cost. If you only allow cars (and of course there are lots of self-driving car startups and corporate initiatives too) then delivery robots will be limited to bigger richer companies with small businesses at a disadvantage

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