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And when that company commits a crime, it should be punished and its stock should lose value. It seems like you're arguing that shareholders should reap rewards for actions that a …

> "This 'Skinnerism' has been discredited in cognitive psychology decades ago and makes absolutely no biological sense whatsoever for the simple reason that any organism trying to …

kbensons is explicitly referencing a legal case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpiece_Cakeshop_v._Colora...

Given the relationship the current US administration has with Russia, it seems like Facebook would be a less welcome alternative for a pro-democracy Belarusian protestor.

It's currently a good predictor (socio-economic clustering) but it's less causal (find the right buddy -> immediately become wealthy). It's objectionable because it introduces yet …

Agreed, but the parking lot example seems like a clear example of public information.

And immediately the single most important aspect of financial success in the United States becomes having golf buddies that work in finance and M&A.

General intelligence in its biological form was achieved with hundreds of millions of years evolution, which required the "evaluation" of trillions and trillions of instantiations …

Are you describing yourself as European with a capital E?

Are you asking me if I think Facebook should have to host that content? Naw, seems like a better fit for tiktok.

You think his marketing team randomly chose from a selection of polygons to run as the primary image on a national ad campaign? The Trump administration loves their dog whistles.

I support your position of outlawing lobbyists, overturning Citizens United and instituting a blanket ban on political contributions by corporations.

I have an immediate family member with rheumatoid arthritis who struggled to fill their prescription through Kaiser because of this as well. It caused a lot of stress in my family.…

I know someone who submits PRs to large open source projects at the beginning of the year to update forgotten copyright values in their codebases in order to get listed as a contri…

It's a classic :) I made a little framework for building these types of models: https://github.com/jrhdoty/SwarmJS Here's a boids implementation using it: http://jrhdoty.github.io/…

Hi maram, I'd love to have copy too. My email is postnihilismhn@gmail.com. Thanks!

> As long as it stays within the boundaries set by the law. > Stop trying to tell a large corporation to stop doing business and make profits, go change the society in which it ope…

How does this play out at work? You saddle up to a co-worker at the water cooler. Hi Yasir (he's from the Bay Area), you know your religion has a terrible record of human rights? Y…

Equating 'misogynistic divorce laws, violence against “immodest” women, and application of the death penalty for homosexuality' with an entire religion of 1.6 billion people is the…

The first generation TPUs were focused on inference. Second generation TPUs are focused on both training and inference. https://www.blog.google/topics/google-cloud/google-cloud-off…

Your company almost certainly makes use of multiple pieces of open source software. What do you do when you need a feature that doesn't yet exist in one of them?

His pulled hamstring is from over extending this analogy.

Maybe, but using one of the most successful and wealthy institutions in the world as an example of ineffective bloat isn't useful for the overall argument. "This workout routine is…

I've enjoyed the Deep Learning Nanodegree [0]. It is a 6 month survey course of deep learning techniques and applications. Some of the lessons and instructors are better than other…