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by xenocyon 7y ago
Pedestrian deaths in the USA have steeply risen over the last decade, as you can see in this graph: http://usa.streetsblog.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2019/0...
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As a parent, I reject this disingenuous pretense of concern for "the children". Folks are eager to invoke children to justify the surveillance state while conveniently forgetting the plight of children when it comes to concentrati
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> To a meat eater... it's not something we'd ever consider doing That is absurd; many vegetarians are former meat-eaters.
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IMHO an entity is ethically responsible for anything its contractor does, unless there is reasonable clarity that the contractor acted in opposition to the client's wishes. Having someone else do your dirty work doesn't make it le
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There's nothing inherently wrong with a linear fit and a linear model is often more accurate than a more ostensibly correct-looking polynomial or complex function which overfits the observed data. Perhaps you mean that drawing any ki
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Not quite; Simpson's paradox is when splitting a group into subgroups reverses the direction of correlation in every subgroup of the split, which is not the case in the example presented here. Aside: it's not always true that th
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> For all the downsides of a touchscreen phone, people are able to use them one handed for hours on end. You actually picked an example that doesn't support your argument very well: back in the day, people were able to manipulate du
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Also, it's not unusual for star professionals in other fields to make that much at nonprofits. E.g. neurosurgeons can often make that much at nonprofit hospitals. And if one gets into executive comp at a large nonprofit, a million a ye
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The problem with metrics is a big problem for AI · fast.ai(fast.ai)
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It is incorrect that inanimate objects are handled in a bias-free way. For instance, yellow bananas are (by human labelers, and consequently by AIs) labeled 'bananas', while green bananas are labeled 'green bananas' (sim
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Inmates built computers hidden in ceiling, connected them to prison network(arstechnica.com)
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I am parent to a young child and your take is, at least in my case, ridiculously accurate. I wish more people would do this!
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Socially we are conditioned to not question legacy admissions, while being very critical of affirmative action. Your comment is an example of this. Consider: Table 6, which you cited, shows that legacy dunces (3rd decile) have a better chan
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Recessions often tend to be global; they are not a zero-sum competition between countries.
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The article isn't actually that trivial; it makes a very provocative and bold statement towards the end, essentially declaring that all stated progress in image classification in the last 5 years is questionable. I don't know if I
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I think your comment illustrates exactly why this is a win-win for Amazon: on the one hand they take a cut out of (cheap, low-quality) third-party sellers on their platform; on the other, quality-conscious consumers like yourself simply fil
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How does obesity prove your point? It's possible (and indeed common) to be overweight and malnourished at the same time. Also, the mass starvation events that I am aware of are actually human-created (results of egregious public policy
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When I grew up in India AC was actually almost nonexistent (except for very rich people and some offices). Instead there were lots of trees, high-velocity ceiling fans, and ventilation (which is important when there's no electricity).
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The Urbanist has an article on how modern rent control proposals differ from older ones, and the ramifications thereof: https://www.theurbanist.org/2019/08/05/the-case-for-rent-con...
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While streaming is obviously the revenue king, the apples-to-apples soft-media comparison point for vinyl and CD is not streaming but digital downloads, which isn't covered in the OP article but is in the linked RIAA report. tl;dr: Cur
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Space missions have been, from their very beginning in the past century, not only tribalistic/nationalistic but very overtly and pointedly so; indeed, that was practically the reason they came into existence.
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The article doesn't touch on carbon impact, which I can intuitively think of as going in either direction. On the one hand, it's obvious that replacing a car commute with remote work is directly advantageous on a one-to-one basis.
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A quick 101: https://www.statisticsdonewrong.com/power.html
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This is correct, and also illustrates why merely replacing frequentist methods with Bayesian methods is not sufficient to fix the scientific reproducibility crisis.
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I'm South Asian as well and I find your attitude a little arrogant. As pointed out in the book "The other one percent" (Sanjoy Chakravorty) Indian immigrants of my generation have benefited from a couple of events we didn&#x2
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I grew up with Lego in the 1980s; back then they had zero or few tie-ins with branding other than Shell IIRC. There were also fewer specialized pieces, meaning greater emphasis on kids' using their imagination.
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Texting While Walking Isn't the Scourge It's Made Out to Be(gothamist.com)
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Amazon Is Looking More and More Like a Nation-State(vice.com)
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"encourage my smartphone-owning friends to use Signal" is precisely the problem, though. I like Signal, but there should be a way to message people that doesn't necessitate sender and recipient having to use the same client a
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Your question is a little like asking "If chemotherapy cures cancer, then how come most people I know who have undergone chemotherapy tend to have cancer?" If the cities you mentioned hadn't undertaken some pro-density measur

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