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Why is racial profiling wrong? Aren't you just making statistical inference based on past experience? if that is wrong then all learning is wrong.

>One potential solution is directly government funded news Where does the government get its money to fund news? Either from the local population which is enforced support for an e…

yikes indeed

This is why I tell everybody who talks about internet of things that I like my devices like I like my women: small and dumb.

When I was at university my roommate was a rich mainlander chinese whose dad bought him an AMG mercedes. So the average car for that household was in the 100k's needless to say i w…

>What we should really achieve is 1Gbps symmetric connections. Then the cloud is your LAN jokes on you because my LAN is 100. also im pretty sure all 4 ports on my el cheapo switch…

I thought about downloading all the youtube videos that I consider have future watching values but then i realised it would take way too much effort and storage space to download a…

>This is about your guests, who consented to the conditions of your house when entering. If he is not sure he ought to hire a civil engineer to inspect and verify the safety status…

>Americans should feel nothing but disgust for most of our housing policy, and single family homes should be derided as one of single worst allocation of resources the American pub…

>What I think stinks is that companies seldom thinks of accessibility. that's because there aren't as many blind people as seeing people.

People do like to hero worship. I think it's a psychological thing. Although I disagree with saying that you can never reach a level of somebody that's you idolise. What I observe …

Confucianism was chosen by the chinese power-that-be because he encouraged obedience and conformity. It's the reason Chinese society stagnated with a monolithic central authority. …

I don't think people write lisp interpreters for performance reasons. It's more a computer science exercise which helps you understand languages better.

So basically it's a clickbait title.

People have been doing programming even though it's unfashionable forever for their interest in the activity itself. So if these people would do it either way, what's the delta of …

Gotta make sure all the sysadmins know to update and it's more likely they are on HN than checking the update server every 2 minutes.

The best thing about buying cloth online is that you buy before you put it on, thus there is an exciting wait period between when you purchased the item and it arriving in the mail…

> https://imgur.com/g595nJ1 It seems a lot of women have taken up 'coding' not out of interest in complex systems or solving difficult problems, the reasons that have attracted tra…

What would be the point of using microsoft's linux?

I woke up early for an 8AM class also because the prof. was way better than the 9AM one.

>Can you imagine travelling today to a foreign country ready to die for fighting oppression? I have never seen such kind of conviction in my life. There were russians who fight in …

I think there are rooms for both VR and Augmented Reality to co-exist.

Some huge percentage of all stupid arguments are made with logical fallacies, but that does not mean that any argument that uses logical fallacies are stupid. Thus the solution is …

Things like DRM can be fixed from the user demand side. If there are enough products on the market, then users can simply choose not to use products with DRM. On the other hand, wi…

>The ancient tradition of hoaxing and playing practical jokes on the first day of April has fallen victim to China’s crackdown. Reading that the first time I thought 'hoaxing' was …