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funkythings

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    Comment #19697556

    This headline is misleading. A scientist deliberately adding bias is something very different than the problems, e.g. google is fighting, after letting models train unsupervised

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    Comment #19517813

    Working with go was...fun! Simple as that. I really feel like the authors of the language found a very good mix of expressiveness, speed and ease of use.

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    Comment #19514075

    Does the EU ever do anything except banning things?

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    Comment #19514070

    Thank fucking god. Someone with a brain.

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    Comment #19461870

    Many people talking about the Gender Wage Gap fail to differentiate between Wages and Earnings. There is a earnings gap, but no wage gap.

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    Comment #19448281

    The EU started as a union to promote freedom of movement, peace and trade inside Europe. Since then, it has grown to be an oversized bureaucracy that restricts the freedoms of Euro…

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    Comment #19414118

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    Comment #19127003

    There are thousands of examples with similar style across the "mainstream" media. At what point can we judge the state of journalism as a whole?

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    Comment #19054097

    Oh really? Will it stop fake news about the Covington Highschool kids? Sure, they were no angels, but most articles were simply wrong for stating they harassed the native american …

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    Comment #19019385

    I hope rust becomes more mainstream in companies. At the moment it seems like a lot of smaller components are implemented in rust, to allow employees to get familiar with it.

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    Comment #19005698

    I do not like Oslos city center. Everything seems so over-engineered and non-organic

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    Comment #18987004

    I never understood, why Dell only offers a FHD and UHD model. FHD just looks shitty after using more high def displays, and UHD sucks the life out of this thing. Otherwise, perfect…

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    Comment #18874219

    Young people have always been less interested in politics. Just because you/we don't like how the elderly are voting, we don't have to make this a bigger issue than it is.

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    Comment #18872870

    It's easy to blame on gender bias in todays climate, unfortunately. Every single major media outlet will publish your story. It is becoming increasingly difficult to differentiate …

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    Comment #18679615

    The author using the word "mansplaining" disqualifies her from any hint of professionalism

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    Comment #18544924

    This will backfire, as in previous experiments: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tria...

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    Comment #18544875

    The AI just generalizes to match the best possible output. all this bias reducing stuff in ML will backfire

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    Comment #18529513

    maybe, but 2016 told us a different story.

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    Comment #18529195

    People like Cortez will only hurt the Democrats by moving them further left and moving voters from the middle to alternatives other than democrats

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    Comment #18486327

    > Nosrat’s work to diversify the kinds of faces quite literally seen as culinary experts is directly connected to her view of food Can there be anything on the internet WITHOUT inj…

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    Comment #18431304

    the opposite of misogyny is misandry http://misandry.tripod.com/id6.html A more serious take: https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/03/30/the-spawn-feminisms-... Of course, esepcially …

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    Comment #18428369

    oh, typo! Violence may be motivated by misogyny, yada yada

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    Comment #18427465

    Have you read the title? > [...] elevated misogyny to new levels of violence

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    Comment #18427422

    Misogyny is not violence. Violence may be motivated by violence, but in itself it is not violence. She follow the disturbing trend to call words and speech "violence" > “It is with…

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    Comment #18325875

    And people wonder why the brits voted Brexit.