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From this article and a one a month back(0). Simonis seems to have some major bias against law enforcement. As they participated on one side of the protest (not as am independent watcher) and even got arrested at the protest.

Regardless of that, what percentage of the gas canisters where HC?

To say that the protesters where completely peaceful and didn't deserve anything is really dishonest. I am not saying that the officers were completely peaceful either.

Straw man from the article made me question the intent of the study.

“The degree to which law enforcement believes Black lives do not matter is shown by their willingness to use known toxic hazardous waste chemicals indiscriminately,” Simonis says. “Now I don’t go around the feds without a gas mask.”

0:https://pamplinmedia.com/scc/103-news/485705-390928-highly-t...

What are some steps to bring us into the age of post-social media that aren't draconian/radical? If that is even possible...

Great point, the US should take the high road and allow the free flow of information regardless of the host of that info (friend or foe)

To give some push back:

Currently the US is in an election year and both the left and right are concerned about foreign interference.

Being said Tik Tok is a Chinese based company and following priority Chinese law. Couldn't they propogate direct election interference under the precived guise of being a US private corporation bc of US public's consumption and get away with it?

A counter point could be made for an actual US corporation doing the same thing, but a nation state doing it would be a different issue entirely.

Could this be the same as a tit for tat measure like with tariffs? China has banned a lot of US services and forced US corporations to pull content from their stores too [0] [1].

Genuinely asking and want to remain open-minded about this.

0:https://www.gadgetsnow.com/slideshows/10-popular-apps-and-we...

1: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.news18.com/amp/news/tech/ch...

1. "...moving around a lot" Yes, in some cases, but it's not a great point to make because there are also lot of cases where protesters are huddled together for a long period of time [0], [1].

2. I do agree on this point (based on live feeds I observed), but we wouldn't be getting the full story if we just talked about the protesters and not the tear gassed rioters, indoor looters and police officers who didn't wear masks. [2]

3. I have some differing perspectives on this point:

Most of the attendees that were tested statistically were a younger and less vulnerable population [3], this cost time, effort and money. How would this not have a direct impact on the future testing capabilities and resources that some of those cities needed for more vulnerable populations and rising cases [4]?

More than 3300 people who participated in the protests in Minneapolis got tested and 1.4% (now 1.8%) of them had the virus. This is needs to stated along side of the 7 day average infection rate that week of 3.7% out of 13,000 people. [5]

It's also fair to mention the most populated city in the US and the one that had some of the highest protesting wasn't asking people if they attended the protests when they got tested. [6]

I am sure there were other indirect impacts on virus patients like emergency response time and hospital services during the peaceful protests and non-peaceful protests that.

0: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEmealSp7Aw

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z82gf5bk8kM

2: https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/6/12/21288340/police-offi... https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/06/05/8701444...

3: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/06/24/recent-prot...

4: https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/07/us-covid...

5: https://www.twincities.com/2020/06/12/mn-coronavirus-george-... (Published June 12, 2020)

6: https://www.businessinsider.com/nyc-contact-tracers-not-aski...

The article's beginning and very ending was very informative and made clear nuance of the situation of keeping kids/college young adults from school.

The author lost me completely when they started injecting in one sided political perspectives and hindsight bias:

"...opposition to public-health guidance."

Which public-health guidance? Not all of the "opposition" was bad. Example: Any guidance from the W.H.O early on in the pandemic [0]

"Had Trump implored his supporters to wear masks and be patient, case counts might well be dropping across the country. "

Author chooses to show a particular political bias again and fails to mention the other major event that caused a uptick in cases (nationwide protests).

This whole section seems very out of place with the rest of the article, almost like The Atlantic had a requirement to show a left leaning bias to be published...

0: https://www.businessinsider.com/who-changes-timeline-first-c...

This seems like public grandstanding and virtue signaling to me, but not too surprising coming from tone deaf Silicon Valley elites.

I think the action taken with /r/thedonald contributed more to what you are warning against (echo chambers) [0].

"Community Guidelines" can mean anything or whatever confirms to the CEOs biases.

From the article "Current CEO (and Reddit co-founder) Steve Huffman stepped in as CEO following Pao's departure. He's had his own tussles with r/The_Donald: in 2016, he admitted to modifying posts from users on r/The_Donald after they repeatedly sent him expletives. "

And

"Others on Twitter have taken issue with Huffman's letter regarding Black Lives Matter as well, with the Twitter account for r/BlackPeopleTwitter quoting Reddit's tweet with an image of a Guardian headline that reads, "Open racism and slurs are fine to post on Reddit, says CEO."

0:https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/reddit-...

> There would then be a vacuum where other actors to fill > if there's an opportunity, people are going to take it.

Good, we need more platforms (preferably decentralized) to cultivate free thinking and public form. Not a centralized entity that bends to the will of domestic and foreign governments and angry mobs.

Do you feel the same way about Twitter ?

"shooting legs"

No, you can't just shoot someone in the leg to disable them. You have very high chances of hitting main arteries anywhere (arms and legs).

Shooting a human being is not like it is in Hollywood movies. Once an officer pulls out his/her firearm and use it they know it means killing the person. That's why they go through other means of less lethal force before drawing.

Edit: Spelling

Could you expand on this comment more? Engines that run on Android vs iOS maybe? Just curious :)

My friend and I were seriously thinking this was a good idea until we read an article [0] destroying it completely. Lol

0:"Here's Why We Can't Just Throw Our Garbage Into the Sun" https://www.popularmechanics.com/space/a19666/we-cant-just-t...

This looks very promising! I read more into this agency and it looks like they are looking to put a price tag on some of their services [0] From the article: "The hope is that by putting a price tag on some of USDS services, that will encourage agencies to develop their own native digital service teams, as the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs have already done. That in turn will free up capacity so that more agencies can tap USDS personnel for their own needs."

0: https://fcw.com/articles/2019/06/17/weichert-usds-funding-ma...

Update: Services offered to other government branches, not to end-users.

"While it’s true that the IRS has experienced budget reductions over the past several years, those cuts hardly explain a failure of an 18-month-old piece of computer hardware. More important, those claims conveniently ignore that the IRS has spent untold billions since the late 1960s on numerous attempts to modernize its IT systems, all centered on trying to replace the ancient IMF system, with minimum success."

I assume you didn't read the whole source

Who is going to build this "free" tax filing system? I hope not the IRS [0]

0: https://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/irs-predic...

Cool! Back in college we used fpgas with verilog! The labs always took some finagling to get working, but still very fun!

Let's just entertain the though of ETs for a moment. They would probably be trying to replicate the natural way of producing methane, perhaps to terraform a planet. Alright my tinfoil hat is coming off :)

0: Methane, explained https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/global-warmin...

Not a great argument, look at our 19 year war in Afghanistan.

How long did Uber give you to do this?

You must have read Seeker by Douglas E Richards :)

This read reminded me of one of the famous TOP GUN movie quotes:

"A good pilot is compelled to always evaluate what's happened, so he can apply what he's learned. Up there, we gotta push it."

Great story! My favorite class in uni was a class called "Software Testing and QA" where it was primarily focused on TDD. We went from simple unit tests to a full deployment pipeline.

Why not have Google decide the AI for military applications? This group who is against current drone warfare, which they have every right to. See [0]. One civilian is one too many! So why doesn't Google actually put their ethics and AI knowledge into action, by maybe coming to a better solution to identify actual enemy combatants?

The military will use drone warfare regardless of what a group of Google employees think. The US military is in dire need of ethics in AI [1]

[0] "Summary of Information Regarding U.S. Counterterrorism Strikes Outside Areas of Active Hostilities" [PDF] https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/Newsroom/Press%20Release...

[1] "Does the U.S. Face an AI Ethics Gap?" https://www.rand.org/blog/2019/01/does-the-us-face-an-ai-eth...

I am assuming that would be solved by having the AI also take in inputs of where your troops and allies are located. Perhaps with something like the Blue Force Tracker [0].

One of the first priorities of an operation is not knowing where your enemy is, but where you are.

0: https://www.viasat.com/products/blue-force-tracking-2

I think it also depends on what base we are talking about that the enemy has destroyed. Is this a base the farthest away from neighboring base? Are the KC-135s refiller planes destroyed as well? Where is the nearest carrier located? Like I said would really like to see how the simulation was executed.

"In these simulated fights, an aggressor force obliterates US stealth fighters on the runway, sinks US warships, destroys US bases, and takes out critical US military systems."

Uhh is this assuming that the US is just sitting still? Scrambling of fighter jets can vary and much is just speculation on how fast they can scramble, wonder which time they went with in this think-tank . Found an interesting discussion on how fast an F-22 can scramble [0]

In general I would be interested in how these "simulated wargames" are being created.

[0] "How fast can an F-22 scramble?" https://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/9703/how-fast-c...

How would you determine if a user is "seriously" mentioning any of those topics?

Dr. Mike Pound from Computerphile did a video on this "Secrets Hidden in Images (Steganography)" [Youtube video] https://youtu.be/TWEXCYQKyDc

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