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by wpasc 7y ago
What about all the longtime existing homeowners who make it very difficult to build new/denser housing?
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by wpasc 7y ago
what's your recommended alternative?
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by wpasc 7y ago
Kind of. AI/ML systems are supposed to learn things from the data they are fed to accomplish some sort of more generalizable goal or task. Echoing the biases they're fed is probably more akin to overfitting to their training data.
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by wpasc 7y ago
Are you arguing that the NYPD in its entirety adds no value to quality of life in NYC? New York city has been home to organized crime in the form of the mafia and gangs, boasted a huge murder rate in the middle of the 20th century, and is t
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by wpasc 7y ago
But as they are still developing (with less lock in/sunk costs) perhaps they will be able to avoid some really poor emissions pitfalls and move into renewables more easily when the economics make more sense
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by wpasc 7y ago
Most people today get more time through advances in healthcare because a simple infection won't kill you. We get more time through almost instant answers to many of life's question (search engines). We get time back through instan
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by wpasc 7y ago
I think a variety of things get conflated. (anecdotal insight here): Many people at tech companies are not software engineers. I believe they are more often to the left of the general tech workers. Tech workers can be pretty left still, but
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by wpasc 7y ago
I'm sorry but this article is beyond stupid. It is a narrative in search of data. Opening line: >Silicon Valley software engineers seem more loyal to the left wing of the Democratic Party than to their own employers. Then proceeds t
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by wpasc 7y ago
The issue with limiting it past what humans can do is that in the self play training they'd never encounter what humans could do. The benefits of trying to make the limitations somewhat human-like is that the self play optimizes around
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by wpasc 7y ago
Is this one less weird (interesting, unique, etc.) than Oumuamua?
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by wpasc 7y ago
Counter-counter-point, of course you'll see people in open footwear but in many busy, populated areas (especially near where people work) such as around market, civic center, soma you'll see needles and feces everywhere. Open toed
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by wpasc 7y ago
Nobody is against housing development in San Francisco? It is not really a controversial position that it is very difficult to build new housing supply. There have been numerous well studied articles on this fact and a variety of first hand
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by wpasc 7y ago
Not to mention re emergence of medieval diseases like Typhoid [1], large and widely spread amount of human feces (which is a biohazard), and lack of housing supply which contributes to untenable housing costs. [1]: https://www.th
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by wpasc 7y ago
i appreciate the link, was the "lazy/poor" word choice necessary?
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Not to mention the crazy restrictions around acorns
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by wpasc 7y ago
I don't know that I agree with your sentiment. Irreverent comedians who have achieved significant success and not really accountable to anyone are perfectly positioned to "tell it like it is" and may be the best individuals t
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by wpasc 7y ago
For 4 of the largest companies in the world that have a global presence, that list doesn't seem that long?
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by wpasc 7y ago
Would this apply only to executive when they are directly aware of or actively encouraged/engaged in illegal activity? What I wonder about when people suggest these things is what happens if a CEO takes every procedure possible to ensu
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by wpasc 7y ago
I find the prospect of this translating into actual action is dubious.
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by wpasc 7y ago
I was under the impression that natural gas was twice as good as coal[1]? 50-60% less CO2. not perfect but far from "not much better" in my opinion [1] https://www.ucsusa.org/clean-energy/coal-and-other-fossil
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by wpasc 7y ago
Betteridge's law; I love this sort of thing too, though I hope it comes sooner and humanity/society breaks new ground in science at a more rapid clip (compared to the morass many believe we are currently in)
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by wpasc 7y ago
This reminds me of a talk I watched with Peter Thiel and Eric Schmidt. I know Thiel is controversial, but he was well-meaningly digging at Google for running out of ideas and no longer innovating. The criticism was something like "You
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by wpasc 7y ago
I listened to that podcast as well and have listened to Thiel/Weinstein talk about tech and science stagnation in past podcasts. If you listen to Thiel, he'd say that going into any engineering field in the 80's-2000's w
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by wpasc 7y ago
I believe the comment is referring to beliefs that certain achievements like beating humans at chess and go, tagging objects in images, etc. were all at one point another considered to be AI and impossible feats. And each time one of those
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by wpasc 7y ago
No borough identity is truly intact. Brooklyn of today bears little to no resemblance of what it used to. Similar gentrification is happening in queens and to a lesser extent the Bronx. Staten Island? yeah it's identity has the best ch
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Friends to Be Taken Off of Netflix for WarnerMedia Streaming Service(wsj.com)
1 points by wpasc 7y ago|0 comments
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by wpasc 7y ago
Is it just me or are these restaurant adjacent businesses involved in some really bad practices. Between Yelp and Seamless, it seems to me that a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship will not form organically. (I'm referring to h
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by wpasc 7y ago
For something like optimal diets for everyone, I imagine it's more of an issue with incomplete understanding of diet, microbiome, genetics, epigenetics, etc. Once that's known, I'd venture to say you don't need AI. But a
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by wpasc 7y ago
I'm only posting this because I think Hulu is still mostly broken for a lot of users? Search function not working, 404's on most shows.
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Hulu, Xbox Live and Reddit Go Down Wednesday Afternoon(cnet.com)
1 points by wpasc 7y ago|1 comments

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