smegma2

Forgive me for only reading the abstract.

> The results show evidence of systematic racial bias in all datasets, as classifiers trained on them tend to predict that tweets written in African-American English are abusive at substantially higher rates.

Wouldn't we need to know the true rate of abusive tweets by race in order to conclude this? Is this addressed at all, e.g. with human labelled data, or am I mistaken in thinking this is necessary?

I don't understand what should be done then. If the government isn't capable of providing that kind of help, then surely it isn't capable of eliminating all billionaires?

How do you know if someone is being fairly compensated? My stance is that a market is likely to produce more accurate prices than any individual could, but maybe you disagree. It's true that minimum wage is very low, but it should be the job of the government to support people who aren't compensated enough to support themselves.

I don't mean to sound obtuse. I've heard this claim many times and I can imagine it being true, but I have no way of knowing whether it is or not. So I wanted to see what the reasoning is.

Many people make the claim that the fundamental problem of the US is wealth inequality, or no social safety net, or disdain for the poor. I believe these claims are much more common (and in my opinion could be considered more fundamental) than the claim that nepotism is the fundamental problem.

What do rich people leech and from who?

Of all things, nepotism seems like an odd thing to single out. Do you have any numbers for this claim? It would be useful to hear e.g. what percentage of people secure positions through referrals/family members.

Somehow I feel that github is capable of managing.

There was a change in ls which caused it to quote file names with spaces or special characters instead of (I think?) escaping them. Some people were upset because they considered this a breaking change. I'll just add that ls only does this if it's running interactively so I wouldn't expect it to break scripts.

Please don't strawman.

The post was written for people who are interested in starting a company. If you're not in the financial state to be able to do so, then blogs about starting companies are probably not for you.

Do moderators expect to get paid?

Bay area residents probably make up a small portion of Google's applicants. It would be more interesting to hear what percentage of their applicants are Hispanic.

Of course the most important thing is: out of minority applicants who are qualified, what percent are hired? Because we may expect a smaller proportion to be qualified due to systematic barriers that they face. Google is not necessarily in a position to fix those.

I find this a little pedantic. If someone talks about maximizing their salary, it doesn't mean literally maximizing it at all cost. If someone tells you that they're interested in maximizing their income, it means that they'd like to take steps to increase their income, not that they've lost all of their morals or any other goal in life to do so.

I've been wanting this for a while, mainly because I often find myself writing long function composition chains that end up being a mess of parentheses. Python is good at encouraging functional style but sometimes it ends up being too much to be readable with the normal syntax.

Isn't this exactly what acephal alluded to above?

> But this also was a major source of resentment and ostracization that I'm still dealing with to this day.

Isn't it possible that resentment and ostracization could lead someone to not want to try as hard to learn?

No, this is useful information. Thank you.

Ok, so you seem to think that landlords cooperate on pricing. My reply was to the person above who seemed to think that prices may deviate from the market rate without any cooperation.

Regardless, do you have a source on the claim that housing prices never go down, even with a declining population? I'd be curious to see if they adjusted for inflation or not.

Wouldn't it be likely for another more rational landlord to exploit that opportunity then? Or are there some barriers?

What kind of abstract mathematics?

I guess you're saying that the earnings of the 1% stifle the earnings of the 99%. Do you know how we can go about verifying this, as well as finding out what upper percentile of earners stifle the earnings of others? For example do the earnings of the top 10% stifle the earnings of the top 90% as well?

How do we go about deciding what an appropriate percentage to make up 50% of AGI is? How much inequality is acceptable?

Can't the rethrowing logic be expressed using `fmap`?

    λ :set -XTypeApplications 
    λ :t fmap @ (Either Error)
    fmap @ (Either Error) :: (a -> b) -> Either Error a -> Either Error b

> America is the only developed country that has the class of "working class poor"

I'd be interested in seeing a source on this, if you have it

Not sure about the last two you listed, but those languages don't support parametric polymorphism which means that although you can write a `fmap` method for things, the compiler can't check its type properly. At best you can write an interface, but that interface won't be able to guarantee that the functor returned by fmap is the same one you started with.

When a FAANG company makes an acquisition, what's the effect on consumers? Would they be better off if acquisitions did not happen?

I'm curious how you managed to block twitter? Somehow when I add twitter.com to my /etc/hosts it doesn't seem to have any effect.

Measuring the bias would require knowing the true temperature.

I usually go with nmtui. You can also connect using it.

The functor it returns should be the same functor it was called on, i.e. calling map on a Maybe should return a Maybe. The parameterized type can change so map can bring you from a Maybe<Int> to a Maybe<String> which is why in the above description we have Functor<B> instead of A. But what typescript is lacking is a way to describe that the functor returned should be the same.