Chardok

The difference here, is that people are taking this genetic concept of "race" and trying to prove their racist points, which always misses the point entirely. It would be a non-issue if the word "race" wasn't so politically charged.

Quick edit for 2 easy examples: People with African descent are more likely to have sickle cell anemia, due to the resistance the gene provides against malaria.

People with European descent are more likely to have cystic fibrosis, due to resistance it provided from cholera and typhoid.

"Facebook, of course, lets you target exactly those boring, old demographic qualities" - just boring old mundane everyday Facebook. No worries here

"To be clear, what Cambridge Analytica did was somewhat worse" - Just a bit worse, but not too far from the norm

"Facebook no longer allows anyone to do this, thankfully, and hasn’t for years" - this has been a non-issue for years, what are you worried about?

By the way if you've never had brisket chili I highly recommend it.

I don't agree with this analogy. Phone calls and physical/electronic mail are a technology, not a corporation. While I'm sure Facebook would like to be there, as it stands a Facebook account is nowhere near the importance of phones/mail to function in a modern society. In fact, I truly hope it does not reach that point, as a central authority like Facebook can choose to blacklist your accounts entirely. (https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/18/facebook-has-suspended-the...)

>"Leaving" Facebook is close to impossible. They track you and keep a profile on you no matter what.

This is mostly dependent on data being fed by your friends and family. Unfortunately, you enjoying events and sales is contributing to this "shadow profiling".

She lists all the privacy and user trust violations, future social health concerns, but then says leaving Facebook isn't viable?

I have little faith in the US government regulating Facebook's privacy and data mining and even less faith that Facebook would take any action on behalf of its users privacy. Leaving Facebook is the only viable solution.

Why try to get a degree that doesn't guarantee any sort of employment, but does guarantee a large financial burden that follows you even beyond bankruptcy? It is absurd how short sighted our higher education system is here.

And yes, Reddit removed the ability to see the number of upvotes/downvotes on any item a few years back. Just another way for them to obfuscate the actual results of a post.

The Reddit algorithm now is incredibly opaque with constant tinkerings that make me think the "voting" is more of a placebo button on the front page. In recent memory, there were a few incidents of /r/The_Donald fully populating the front page, all with 0 upvote scores, which came off suspiciously as if they were deeply messing with the voting system.

Where it used to be a platform where you could be assured there would be minimal censorship, it is now commonplace to "shadowban" users who go against the narrative and the rules are arbitrarily enforced to ban subreddits. (Check out /r/shitredditsays for a subreddit that constantly breaks site rules but still stands unopposed)

Reddit is obviously striving for constantly more advertising friendly platform and it has been demonstrated multiple times upvotes are easily bought and advertisers are constantly sneaking in posts disguised as users to do their "viral marketing"

No, author, Reddit is moving right towards the direction of Facebook rapidly. It is only a matter of time before they begin to lock out content behind a login page, you can already see the transition today.

Seems like he might be trying to prime the US into accepting Google's participation in warfare.

I would love to be proven wrong, but the only way I know for sure is upgrading to the Enterprise or education editions.

Sure, I can certainly get behind greater funding for scientific research and education for our benefit, but China is certainly not a country I would like to emulate whatsoever.

My biggest question is, what is the meaning and implication of China "dominating" the AI industries? China overtaking the US in military and commercial might? This honestly seems unlikely.

And a follow up question is, besides government funding, what else is China doing to secure AI dominance? Putting human rights and regulations on the back burner would appear give them a competitive advantage - but is this worth the cost of privacy and freedom for the average citizen?

'"Shockingly some of the best people are in countries we won't let into America,' he said. "Iran produces some of the smartest and top computer scientists in the world. I want them here. I want them working for Alphabet and Google. It's crazy not to let these people in."'

Well now I am not following this logic at all. What is China doing to make working there more attractive? I would imagine the US looks a lot more attractive than China in terms of freedom and safety regulations.

If anyone has a copy of the AI report in English I would greatly appreciate it.

The game theory is plainly there: people are going to question or refuse to seek emergency treatment simply because they will be afraid of the cost. Now you get to add the stress of which type of care you should be getting, in the middle of a fucking scary medical emergency!

RIAA SWAT Raid in Atlanta - http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/magazine/18djdrama.t.html

Those are the two biggest ones I can think of, but both are examples of literal deadly force used for copyright violations.

To be fair, I think copyright has its place as a minimal safeguard for artists' work, but in its current form it is entirely too aggressive and lasts way beyond its scope should cover. Copyright should not be reason to send SWAT raids to people's homes, just as much as it should not cover 70 years after the artists' death.

I am certain that if we seriously rolled back copyright, our art would still thrive, albeit perhaps less AAA content.

There will certainly be a niche market for gourmet, organic, homegrown and cared for buds, but for the remainder of products: oils, waxes, edibles, infusions - you are not going to notice the difference between a small business and a larger growing operation except on price.

It seems rather obvious when you think about it though. I would compare cannabis to produce rather than beer/wine/spirits, in the sense that your small growers are going to have a tough time competing with giant farm operations, and will really have to differentiate themselves in specific ways to actually make it worth while.

Perhaps I am too cynical but given Equifax is still fresh on my mind I really have doubts the US government will do anything but pass laws to make sure they are getting taxes from cryptocurrencies.

I have already become acutely aware of self censorship, especially with posts associated with my name, out of expectation of something similar making its way into the US. Heck, I would not be remotely surprised to find out Facebook already has a working prototype to associate and score people based on their connections.

https://utdallas.edu/~sxv140030/Published/134.pdf

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3496540/

Could be possible an unknown infectious vector altering gene expression on the central nervous system?

I can guarantee the cable company will all of a sudden charge more, for the same service, by tacking on tiered plans, while doing nothing to upgrade reliability, bandwidth, or really anything. Why would they? Where can one go, when ATT will do the exact same thing.

Ajit is wrong, based on the assumption that the free market will correct this issue.

Ajit is absolutely ignoring the majority message and there is absolutely nothing your average citizen can do about it. They can't vote on it, and the 3/5 Republicans have already made up their mind a long time ago.

Just to be clear, I think the personal attacks are wrong and uncivilized, but I understand that when there is no civilized outlet for people, they are going to act out.

Once again Colorado has impressed me on the level of pragmatism they show in their state laws. They have been looking very politically healthy compared to the rest of the US, in my opinion, and I think it is going to pay off for them in the near future.

Personally I detest this and miss the flavor each city brought to its local media, instead of the same stations playing the same 30 songs repeatedly, but with phone music streaming becoming so popular I cannot see a lot of people being outraged by this.

Unless you are wealthy enough to do without or fine being homeless, this means you are living under a sub-government that the rules are set by corporations.