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YouTube moderation bots punish videos tagged as ‘gay’ or ‘lesbian’(theverge.com)
11 points by wolfgke 7y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Anyway, weather is not the main cause of suicides. What is the main reason then?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Especially RE when some of their activities aren't legal and they don't want to be found. I have trouble believing that if you don't want to be found, you will participate in a reverse-engineering competition with your r
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by wolfgke 7y ago
I respect your reasoning, just a counterpoint: I (and I know quite some programmers who think the same) really hate it when for piquing my interest some fancy puzzle/problem is presented, but the real work that is to be done has nothin
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I imagine that this would be a good way to find some of the best reverse-engineers in the world :) Just a consideration: aren't the names of these persons "principally" known (at least if you are willing to do some inves
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Who guards the guardians?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I actually think that the worry about government censorship isn't as strong as you think. The US government unlike a private corporation can't legally engage in viewpoint based censorship. Copyright is also a form a censorshi
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The builder of the AI should be trained in recognizing that his discrimination machine can be used for good and for bad. Quite a tautology.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> 30 years might be enough to become a popular retreat from technology. They just need proper online marketing. Was the contradiction between these two sentences an actually intended stylistic device ("retreat from technology"
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Maybe people are upset that stereotyping machines are being given harder powers to make consequential decisions about individuals. Then these people should argue against AI instead of swinging the racism cudgel.
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Reasons, Contexts and Costs of Camouflaging for Autistic Adults(link.springer.com)
4 points by wolfgke 7y ago|0 comments
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Knowing that even if the hack works now it could break on future versions of the browser or different OS. So that also assumes the website will be an actively developped website forever. This rather is a hack to make your job much more
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> The big issue is that none of the drivers are upstream Demand from the Linux kernel developers that the internal APIs for drivers are kept stable for a much longer time.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Just a consideration: Do these differences in salaries for professors of the different subjects also show up in tuition fees for students of the respective subject?
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Perhaps those academic institutions should simply offer tenure much faster if they want to keep these professors. It is hard to compete on money with the industry, but this is something that universities can offer.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
Use archive.is, e.g. > http://archive.is/2qktN
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> It seems like the only solution will be for the FAA to flex it’s regulatory muscle on this, and become the sole authority on where you can fly a drone. Or prohibit the FAA to make such many confusing rules, i.e. flex the regulatory mus
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> And our capacity to do stuff is going to decrease as we suffer from the consequences - e.g. population reduction, conflicts, etc. If the population reduces, the emission of greenhouse gases decrease which helps to reverse the effect of
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> These three things won't be sufficient, but are required to even approach zero emissions. Does it seem plausible to suceed in somehow forcing everyone worldwide to implement such policies within a decade? So governments should bet
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Two decades ago we could have solved the problem if economic growth in the rest of the world stopped. So stop the economic growth in the rest of the world to save the climate.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Scientists and engineers put us on the moon, but it was government that directed and enabled them to do so. Rather: the government was arguably the only institution that could spend a sufficient amount of money for this mission. If the
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Not sure that works. That's like telling a child, "Watch out for that car. Oh! Lookout for that one, too." And the kid thinks, "Well, neither of those hit me, why should I care?" And the next one flattens him.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Does a manager deserve to be condemned if he lowballs a man, because he thinks he can get away with it? Yes, because paying very different salaries for a very similar position causes a lot a damage to the reputation of the company if i
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> How much one gets paid in relation to their peers is solely based on negotiation This is very US-specific and does not hold, for example, in Germany. I actually prefer the situation in Germany: this way, you can concentrate on getting
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I love the coding aspect. I love using my brain, solving problems, working with intelligent people. I can't handle sitting inside for 50 hours a week, and I can't handle business politics and nonsense. A wild consideration: D
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> If the industry is chewing up and spitting out people as a matter of course, perhaps the problem is with the industry rather than the people. Or with wrong expectations that people who go into the industry have.
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> David Hasselhoff caused the unification of Germany, so everyone loves him :D > Sorry if this is offensive to some folks, but the folklore here is that David thinks he caused the reunification while everyone over here (that I know of
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> Is this a translation issue or does someone actually think laying down naked in the snow on a toboggan and riding through winter's bounty is fun? I know Germans who indeed find this very funny. But afterwards, better put on warm c
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> As much as I hate edgy 'Gamer' names, it seems AMD's new CPU does live up to its name. EPYC is AMD's server CPU series. > https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Epyc&oldid=911736..
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by wolfgke 7y ago
> I thought that the biggest blob in most linux systems is GPU driver and RISC-V doesn't solves this. It makes no sense to counter a hypetrain with intelligent arguments. :-) Of course, you are right.

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