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I'm highly suspicious of the historical accuracy of this popular claim. I don't think any such transition occurred. In fact I think the idea of the Renaissance is more myth than reality.
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Obviously no one likes crime so societies try and clamp down in that
The sole question is can you on 100 dollars a month today live in a manner similar to what the average person in the 20s did
The empirical questions are what does 100 a month buy you today and what was the average lifestyle of a person in the 20s in terms of how much would it cost to buy that lifestyle today
Questions of how we got feminnism and better medicine since then is irrelevant and trying to distort a simple empirical analysis into a political one
I don't think available goods and resources was as bad as this thread was making it out to be
Consider that If this was possible I could work at McDonald's for two years and then retire to that kind of life. Obviously that's not realistic
We require insurance which is expensive. There's no excuse not to require winter tires, it's a basic safety requirement. Driving without winter tires is just dangerous.
It doesn't matter how much salt they put on the roads. The issue is that winter tires are made of a material that grips better in cold temperatures where ordinary tires don't grip as well when temperatures drop.
>saying Democrats are causing covid
>saying dead basketball player is useless
I mean these seem like problems that could be easily solved by having a human intern read over the AI generated story before it's published.
I don't understand why Microsoft just let an experimental tech run a customer facing site without anyone to at least vet and read over the content
This can't be a violation of any law or ethical rules... Does anyone seriously think serving only good and relevant ads is an ethical obligation. Can't retailers accept ads from anyone without vetting for quality control.
The only thing I can think of here is FTC is trying to make a weak case that Amazon is a monopoly by claiming look they had the power to show crappy ads. Which is a weak argument.
Maybe Amazon is too big and too dominant in the market. I don't know. But this article and this aspect of the case looks weak.
I think the interesting aspect here is that the evaporation is greater than what can be explained by heat alone.
Well yeah, what's wrong with that. Eg I work in construction I build concrete. I don't know about the various strengths and mixes of concrete. I just know my little field. Me trying to get the perfect concrete mix or designing the rebar would be bad because I don't understand engineering.
It's neither efficient nor productive for everyone to be an expert on every aspect of the tech they are using.
If I have a problem with one tiny aspect of a computer program I shouldn't have to gain an understanding of the underlying framework. I just need the specific task to solve my particular problem.
I want to use flutter to build an app not to understand the details of how these iOS and Android platforms and underlying tech work.
If you don't know an answer offhand and haven't worked with the specific part of the program the question is about then there might be an issue with implementing the docs you are unaware of.
Assuming the asker is lazy, didn't read the docs and just linking the docs isn't actually helpful behavior. Please do not do this.
Baseline code also seems to be well documented as a rule. However modules in a lot of languages, even important widely used modules are too often very poorly documented.
>Stable Diffusion drew negative attention when requests for a “Latina” produced images of women in suggestive poses wearing little to no clothing. A more recent system (version 2.1) generated more innocuous images.
So at least in more obvious and extreme cases of bias something can be done to fix the training set.
Why aren't people starting their protest against the website they're currently using instead of at OP.
OP just thought of a creative, effective and probably faster more code efficient way to do analytics. I love it, thanks OP for sharing it
Second more importantly privacy seems to be a watchword for tech people. Maybe people claim to care about the sort of privacy you are talking about when asked but their actions speak different. People use Facebook, google maps, leave location data on on their phones. Obviously people don't value privacy as much as they do having access to certain tech. Sad but that's the world, privacy seems to be a thing of the past.
We can all opt out by not using these services. To the extent that we don't there must be some extent to which we accept and consent to this tracking.
I care because I'm afraid of my government and want to keep myself secure from them. I also realize that's not the average person. My preference for privacy means not using Facebook it doesn't mean I get to control how Facebook does business or how people choose to use it.
My view is that ultimately people have to be responsible for the tech that they use and how they use it. We can't just pass along that responsibility to government or business.
I would agree this is a big deal if it's true but I haven't seen evidence of it being true.
The rest of your arguments ignore the human choice aspect. Facebook didn't come pre-installed on my phone, I don't think it came pre-installed on anyone's.
At the end of the day using Facebook is a choice. Nobody has to have Facebook. I get by fine without it, without instagram, WhatsApp any of it. These are things people willigly choose to use and give their info to.
I think your arguments have weight only if their users are unaware of Facebook selling data to advertisers. You'd have to be living under a rock not to know that in 2023. I mean it's not just a choice it's an informed choice.
In any case even if they are I still don't care because they're not tracking me. Know why - it's easy, I just don't use Facebook. People who complain about Facebook collecting their information all the while continuing to use Facebook are not victims - they're just complainers.
If stopping it is as simple as logging off forever and people can't even do that, I can only assume that they consent.
People who want the government to step in to prevent something they could prevent by hitting a log off button...I don't even know what to say about that.
Besides even the criticisms don't make sense - eg complaining that they won't say what info they have while at the same time complaining about video tracking. How do you know they have that if you don't know what they have?
They're not selling personally identifiable information. They're selling generalized group info on categories people fall into for targeted ads.
I don't understand how this is a privacy violation or unethical. Especially given Facebook isn't hiding what it's doing, they're open about what they're doing. I assume the customers are informed and are consenting to this in exchange for free use of Facebook's services.
I think it was wrong for Ubuntu to sell user data to Amazon because their users weren't informed. Some people choose Linux for privacy reasons and that trust was violated.
No one who values privacy would willingly use Facebook. Facebook doesn't hide what it does, it's a consensual sharing of information. They even have a big button on their site inviting their users to try targeted ads. Everything they do is in the open.
In this case there was no parading over the body of an enemy. This wasn't an enemy this was a girl in her early 20s. How is she an enemy, she didn't do anything. We don't even know maybe she opposed Israel settlements and wanted a different approach to Gaza.
The difference with groups like Hamas is they don't care, everyone is an enemy deserving of rape and torture, even random girls in their 20s. It's not the same thing, comparing this intentional attack to unintentional breaks of discipline or accidents in military contexts seems insane in my mind. The difference is Hamas intentionally targets civilians as their official policy, that's their organizational approach.
In this case there is tension and bad things happening at the border with sporadic fighting.
Then on October 7 Hamas on its own volition crossed the border and did attacks on regular people.
Just imagine a different situation. Imagine Russian army started shooting Ukranian kids at a dance party, paraded the naked body of one of the kids in camera after they raped tortured and killed her
Would we still be having this intellectual debate about whether the word terrorism is overused and wether it can apply here.
You know what I think, I think this is the bigotry of low expectations. Some western intellectuals instinctively apply different and lower standards to people of other races.