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goialoqon Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews

The saying goes, "a prosecutor could _indict_ a ham sandwich"

goialoqon Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews

Revenge is sweet, though.

goialoqon With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit

YouTube, like TV and the newsstand, has good content and bad content.

goialoqon With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit

http://www.momminitup.com/emily-thinks-shes-funny/objects-in...

Nothing new under the sun.

goialoqon With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit

He was playing on the computer too much so you are training him to be a pervert?

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> But we moved forward and got the job done, because we weren't getting paid to kvetch about politics.

No, the difference was that we didn't have modern social media amplifying and echoing and re-broadcasting all the noise; so political arguments burned themselves without a wide conflagration

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UncleMeat didn't assume anything about you.

> just want my coworkers to stop getting into arguments about things that then make it really awkward to work with them.

Things like who is allowed in the women's restroom, perhaps?

goialoqon George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society

Soros made his money by betting against people less shrew then he, not by manipulating people's minds. He's like a poker player who is opposed to modern slot machines that scream for attention and mislead about their odds of winning. Both are casino games, there's a clear ethical difference.

goialoqon George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society

Are you referring to this? http://www.rense.com/general44/soros.htm

The ADL complains that any statement that Jews contribute to anti-Semitic feelings, is anti-Semitic. This is also a tactic that right-wing Israeli politicians use to deflect criticism.

goialoqon Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is

recall this classic:

https://blog.regehr.org/archives/140

C Compilers Disprove Fermat’s Last Theorem

goialoqon Burger King Has an Opinion on Net Neutrality

This is one of the worst things Obama did for Net Neutrality -- tying its fate to paid prioritization because the public is too ignorant to understand any of the real complexities of NN.

goialoqon Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)

And "public safety" conspicuously excludes the harms caused by incarceration (for both innocent and guilt suspects, and the innocent members of their families and communities).

(Not to mention that "public safety" still excludes the harms of centuries of slavery and decades of Jim Crow...)

goialoqon Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)

Geography is a good place to look for clues to causes, but a not good justification for locking people in jail without trial.

goialoqon Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)

Because correlation != causation.

Here's a very simple refutation:

Is past arrest history a valid factor in the model?

What if past arrest history is biased due to biased policing (Hint: it is, well proven)

How about zip code?

goialoqon Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)

> the broader community should tolerate laxer pre-trial sentencing standards applied to people of race A, precisely because they commit more crime than people of race B

Does "they" they mean "each individual of Race A", or the subpopulation of "Race A"? Those are two very different meanings, and the heart of the problem.

Why should I be jailed because other people with similar skin color to me committed crimes?

Should we go digging to find whether Irish or Russian caucasians have higher than average crime rates, and then refuse bail to all Irish or Russian-descendant defendants?

goialoqon It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004)

No, because the model described in the paper only works for an extremely simplified toy simulation of a bicycle, not a real bicycle riding on a real road that is not a spherical cow.

goialoqon “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York

124 is not a "low" IQ.

goialoqon “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York

WA uses slave labor in its prisons to make those license plates, so a little $28 bribe on top is nothing.

goialoqon “Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York

What country _is_ it worthy of? Think carefully about the implications of your answer.

goialoqon What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?

If you redirect output, how can the command know the name of the destination?

goialoqon What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?

noclobber

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clobbering

goialoqon The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it

Is Bosnia a western nation?

goialoqon The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it

Did you just assume parent's location in the world, after the OP and the parent both they strongly implied that it wasn't anywhere near Pittsburgh?

goialoqon The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it

Which part of the world as Democracy/Freedom fully developed? The Eiffel Tower and the US NY Port Authority have similar IP restraints.

goialoqon The city I write this in protected its name, so I am not allowed to use it

Flagged article, headline is a lie and article is intentionally misleading.

goialoqon Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages

"integrity" is not a word that matches "Business Insider", even if they are willing to poke at their investor's investments.

goialoqon Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages

Some hedge fund made a killing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUxMY77i0q4

goialoqon Whole Foods employees reveal why stores are facing a crisis of food shortages

Businesss Insider is a clickbait website that takes little snippets of comments and spins fanciful stories about them, and wraps them in junk titles with "how" and "why" but never deliver explanations. It's a shame this site allows that website to be posted here.

goialoqon Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017

Reducing demand for (street0 parking increases road space for moving cars.

goialoqon Lyft says nearly 250K of its passengers ditched a personal car in 2017

Old and poor people suffer severe lifestyle degradations, the don't simply avoid the "waste" of care expenses.