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>These days the ACLU is incredibly politically biased I was going to post the same in anticipation of the partisan downvotes that you're receiving. Without going into specifics, th…

>Fast Company [2] writes about this as well: "The ACLU in both tests used an 80% match confidence threshold, which is Amazon’s default setting, but Amazon says it encourages law en…

Has anyone actually found any evidence of damage in the field? I did a cursory search but didn't find anything, though the wiki looks pretty corporatized (sanitized). OTOH people d…

>Actually you can prove it and it has been proven. Genetics have a minor say in who a person is, and racial factor is equivalent to statistical error That's not true and you won't …

>There is nothing inherent in black people that makes them commit crimes more, these are societal factors. You fundamentally cannot prove that, but people are making policy as thou…

Look. I know this is a very unpopular opinion, but it absolutely needs to be said. If we continue down this path of conflating equality of opportunity with equality of outcome, soc…

The first 12 years of your life are spent in the care of (ideally) parents who love you unconditionally and genuinely want you to succeed. Under psychedelic therapy, you are at the…

>This is because leaders on the left and right have refused to respond to new data, and are working with the same plans set in March. As the article somewhat loosely implies, the p…

Yes, and most of them know next to nothing about the drugs they take beyond what their doctors have told them. I've watched this blind faith harm people dear to me on multiple occa…

I don't think these drugs should be scheduled but here's a perspective that you're less likely to find online: I would never put myself in a position to be indoctrinated by the mod…

>>However, as public health advocates, we do not condemn these gatherings as risky for COVID-19 transmission This post is pretty double speaky because these doctors can't quite com…

I won't deny that there are corruption and accountability problems among US police forces, but I also can't help but feel like many people, especially now, don't appreciate the fac…

The only surprising thing here is that the Twitter thread is (rightly) against this move. Twitter's algorithm seems to foster single opinion threads - I have a feeling it has to do…

> conflation of humanities and social sciences. You've missed the entire point. A sort of conflation is the problem - not by the author, but by people in and around soft sciences a…

I haven't had a FB account in about 10 years. I can't stop them from harvesting anyone else's data. Or controlling what they see.

FAANG are different a kind of monopoly - an unprecedented one for which no legislation exists. They have a monopoly on data , as brokers they control not only what companies may pu…

Dehumanizing someone for holding right of center views and then using that unilateral label as justification for targeting them is nothing like domestic violence. People have start…

>the group of angry young white men inhabiting r/the_donald not conservative voter The degree to which casual anti-white racism has been normalized on reddit is abhorrent. Even mor…

> I am obligated to call you out: You should have shut down the_donald instead of amplifying it and its hate, racism, and violence. So much of what is happening now lies at your fe…

>For this study, which was done online, participants had to decide how much of a 10-point endowment to give to other people. The points had monetary value to the participants; givi…

That's most likely a training data issue. The whole thing works on statistical priors: if I have feature a at location x, there's a 90% I should have feature b at location y. So if…

>The president has made it clear that despite voting by mail himself multiple times, he does not support wide expansion of the practice. If we take off our hate-goggles here, this …

>bizarre because it's so stupid. Normally, police don't beat journalists because they're conscious that if you force the media to side with the protesters, it's pretty much all dow…

> https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1241367239... "...have a real chance of if being a game changer" There is absolutely nothing incorrect about this post. And what…