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Re:Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews
on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:17PM (#16254194)
The saying goes, "a prosecutor could _indict_ a ham sandwich"
Re:Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews
on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:15PM (#16254188)
Revenge is sweet, though.
Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a li...
on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:09PM (#16254159)
YouTube, like TV and the newsstand, has good content and bad content.
Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a li...
on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:06PM (#16254145)
http://www.momminitup.com/emily-thinks-shes-funny/objects-in...
Nothing new under the sun.
Re:With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a li...
on Sunday January 28, 2018 @06:05PM (#16254133)
He was playing on the computer too much so you are training him to be a pervert?
Re:The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google
on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:47PM (#16243845)
> But we moved forward and got the job done, because we weren't getting paid to kvetch about politics.
No, the difference was that we didn't have modern social media amplifying and echoing and re-broadcasting all the noise; so political arguments burned themselves without a wide conflagration
Re:The Dirty War Over Diversity Inside Google
on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:45PM (#16243839)
UncleMeat didn't assume anything about you.
> just want my coworkers to stop getting into arguments about things that then make it really awkward to work with them.
Things like who is allowed in the women's restroom, perhaps?
Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society
on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:39PM (#16243809)
Soros made his money by betting against people less shrew then he, not by manipulating people's minds. He's like a poker player who is opposed to modern slot machines that scream for attention and mislead about their odds of winning. Both are casino games, there's a clear ethical difference.
Re:George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society
on Friday January 26, 2018 @06:36PM (#16243789)
Are you referring to this?
http://www.rense.com/general44/soros.htm
The ADL complains that any statement that Jews contribute to anti-Semitic feelings, is anti-Semitic. This is also a tactic that right-wing Israeli politicians use to deflect criticism.
Re:Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is
on Friday January 26, 2018 @05:54PM (#16243559)
recall this classic:
https://blog.regehr.org/archives/140
C Compilers Disprove Fermat’s Last Theorem
Re:Burger King Has an Opinion on Net Neutrality
on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:17AM (#16229165)
This is one of the worst things Obama did for Net Neutrality -- tying its fate to paid prioritization because the public is too ignorant to understand any of the real complexities of NN.
Re:Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:14AM (#16229152)
And "public safety" conspicuously excludes the harms caused by incarceration (for both innocent and guilt suspects, and the innocent members of their families and communities).
(Not to mention that "public safety" still excludes the harms of centuries of slavery and decades of Jim Crow...)
Re:Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:11AM (#16229135)
Geography is a good place to look for clues to causes, but a not good justification for locking people in jail without trial.
Re:Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:10AM (#16229133)
Because correlation != causation.
Here's a very simple refutation:
Is past arrest history a valid factor in the model?
What if past arrest history is biased due to biased policing (Hint: it is, well proven)
How about zip code?
Re:Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)
on Thursday January 25, 2018 @01:08AM (#16229125)
> the broader community should tolerate laxer pre-trial sentencing standards applied to people of race A, precisely because they commit more crime than people of race B
Does "they" they mean "each individual of Race A", or the subpopulation of "Race A"? Those are two very different meanings, and the heart of the problem.
Why should I be jailed because other people with similar skin color to me committed crimes?
Should we go digging to find whether Irish or Russian caucasians have higher than average crime rates, and then refuse bail to all Irish or Russian-descendant defendants?
Re:It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004)
on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:07PM (#16217710)
No, because the model described in the paper only works for an extremely simplified toy simulation of a bicycle, not a real bicycle riding on a real road that is not a spherical cow.
Re:“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York
on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:03AM (#16212050)
124 is not a "low" IQ.
Re:“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York
on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @04:01AM (#16212039)
WA uses slave labor in its prisons to make those license plates, so a little $28 bribe on top is nothing.
Re:“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York
on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:59AM (#16212036)
What country _is_ it worthy of? Think carefully about the implications of your answer.
Re:What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?
on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:55AM (#16212022)
If you redirect output, how can the command know the name of the destination?
Re:What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?
on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @03:53AM (#16212015)
Re:The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to...
on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:50PM (#16199612)
Is Bosnia a western nation?
Re:The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to...
on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:48PM (#16199604)
Did you just assume parent's location in the world, after the OP and the parent both they strongly implied that it wasn't anywhere near Pittsburgh?
Re:The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to...
on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:47PM (#16199598)
Which part of the world as Democracy/Freedom fully developed? The Eiffel Tower and the US NY Port Authority have similar IP restraints.
Re:The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to...
on Sunday January 21, 2018 @02:46PM (#16199594)
Flagged article, headline is a lie and article is intentionally misleading.
Re:Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food...
on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:59PM (#16190234)
"integrity" is not a word that matches "Business Insider", even if they are willing to poke at their investor's investments.
Re:Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food...
on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:58PM (#16190227)
Some hedge fund made a killing
Re:Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food...
on Friday January 19, 2018 @04:54PM (#16190189)
Businesss Insider is a clickbait website that takes little snippets of comments and spins fanciful stories about them, and wraps them in junk titles with "how" and "why" but never deliver explanations. It's a shame this site allows that website to be posted here.
Re:Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017
on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:37PM (#16164397)
Reducing demand for (street0 parking increases road space for moving cars.
Re:Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017
on Tuesday January 16, 2018 @07:31PM (#16164346)
Old and poor people suffer severe lifestyle degradations, the don't simply avoid the "waste" of care expenses.