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> If I didn’t give a shit, I wouldn’t be trying to explain it to him. That's not what's happening here. You do give a shit. You care that someone, somewhere, poked you. You're not …

> like human beings with a regrettable, painful, mortifyingly embarrassing condition are untrained dogs to you I explicitly used the example of people with a medical condition . Th…

It's incredible to read your story. I'm sorry for what you went through. It also re-affirms my belief about the solution: > But I decided to do no harm. I started thinking about it…

> Your other, horrible comment comparing BPD to incontinence makes me want to say something really nasty, emotional, and visceral to you, but I’m strongly resisting because it woul…

I'll agree, with the caveat that perhaps if the BPD person admits they have BPD, is in therapy, and is trying to get better... sticking around may be OK. But it's no different than…

I don't have enough upvotes for this. Or working with someone who has BPD. They don't get anything done. They play office politics to a ludicrous degree. They blame everyone else f…

If they're not getting better, they're not worth dealing with. I've seen analogies with other medical disorders. e.g. Incontinence. It's sad that you're incontinent. I feel for you…

> At which point... They have more data than they do now for machine learning, and a better PR story. i.e. uploaders can't be mad about the categories, because the categories are c…

> Tracking categorization abuse seems straightforward in theory but good luck automating that reliably over millions of videos Is Youtube (a) automating video categorization now, o…

> there is no incentive to not put your videos in as many categories as possible. We are talking about how to incentivize people here... why suddenly decide that there's magically …

I never understood why Youtube didn't have uploaders select various categories for videos. It would do a number of things: * allow them to demonetize / ban / block videos for abuse…

> Let's talk about how the ubiquitous use of SSN and credit reports puts a massively unfair burden on every US citizen. In France, private credit bureaus don't exist. It's up to ba…

It's pretty difficult to double that number. Can you really double your metabolism without ill effect? Or without massively changing your lifestyle? The normal expectation is maybe…

2 pounds a day. That's how much CO2 you breath out, and the hard limit for weight loss. You can lose more than that, (see boxers before a weigh-in), but that's all water loss, and …

> Okay, I think I see what you mean now. It's a bit hard to see I must admit to not understanding how it's difficult to see the correlation. If bail is set on factors X, Y, and Z, …

The comment I responded to discussed how bail was set based on prior events. My comment showed how those prior events were substantially biased. Therefore, by a simple and clear ch…

All of which are strongly correlated with factors open to bias. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/07/politics/blacks-wrongful-convi... https://www.law.umich.edu/newsandinfo/features/Pages…

> Instead of complaining about how terrible excel is, the community here should be providing alternatives. Yeah... like I'm going to compete with MS by writing my own Excel replace…

Tell that to tens of thousands of researchers. Heck, even integration has been re-discovered and published: https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-research... If the t…

Excel shouldn't be used for much other than trivial things: http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/one-five-genetics-pap... https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2016/09/da…

> The United States has the most advanced military in the world. It's not just that Silicon Valley and other tech is in the USA. It's the result of a massive spending program. http…

And that's with incompetence and neglect. http://chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/cause/ Personnel had an insufficiently detailed understanding of technical procedures invol…

> When major banks fail they take out major parts of the economy. Sure. So... do the bankers go to jail? Nope. They get bonuses. It's a great scam. They play with your money. If th…

> This article needs more information to explain how something so completely irrational-sounding could arise. It's simple: they don't pay their bills, so we have to punish them. Do…

> He told her that her comment had violated our policy, but that he understood that there was a broader context Ah... so the rules don't matter, because excuses. Look, if Sargon an…