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New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Disney+ streaming uses draconian DRM"

fucking_tragedy — Mon, 21 Oct 2019 06:29:00 +0000

> Watching Disney+ is hardly some inalienable human right nor essential for survival.

Neither are never-expiring copyright laws, and there's no reason someone in a country that doesn't abide by them should have to honor them.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "China attacks Apple for allowing Hong Kong crowdsourced police activity app"

fucking_tragedy — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 18:35:59 +0000

> the actual reaction of Chinese people on Weibo and other Chinese social media

People are censored and punished for disagreeing with their government and its dictator-for-life.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "I was just subjected to the most credible phishing attempt I’ve experienced"

fucking_tragedy — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:44:34 +0000

Just ask for an extension to reach them at when you call their public number.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Decades of diesel use in Europe have created a public health crisis"

fucking_tragedy — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:23:09 +0000

Used to happen to me in New York 15 years ago. Hasn't happened since, though.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Beware of Automated Hiring"

fucking_tragedy — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:12:26 +0000

People have well-documented biases, besides reflecting biases of humans, AI systems will also have arbitrary biases that are hard to predict.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds"

fucking_tragedy — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 15:10:48 +0000

> We better design these systems not to fail then

Too late, we're commenting on an article about them failing in common scenarios.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds"

fucking_tragedy — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:49:55 +0000

It matters to me as a pedestrian because drivers will become reliant on their AEB, and when it fails, they might run me over.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Pedestrian detection systems don’t work well, AAA finds"

fucking_tragedy — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 03:12:36 +0000

> Just because they aren't perfect doesn't mean they don't make your car safer.

There is no evidence that they make your car safer, but there is evidence that AEB fails in common situations or in ways a human driver wouldn't.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts"

fucking_tragedy — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 02:23:48 +0000

> But just because they don't hold public elections doesn't mean they do not draw their legitimacy from the people

Got any other zingers you want to tell me with a straight face?

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "How much does air pollution cost the U.S.?"

fucking_tragedy — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 23:21:11 +0000

Combustion is a reaction between fuel and oxygen. Part of the weight comes from the fuel, the other part comes from oxygen in the atmosphere.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts"

fucking_tragedy — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:12:16 +0000

Communist hunter-gather societies have been studied extensively and it's the earliest forms of production.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts"

fucking_tragedy — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 21:01:59 +0000

It's weird to hear you describe Xi Jinping's dictatorship as the voice and sovereignty of the people.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Beware of Automated Hiring"

fucking_tragedy — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:55:34 +0000

All the EEOC would need to do is to prove that there is disparate impact[1] based solely on the hiring outcomes of companies using AI to hire. This is what they already do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Beware of Automated Hiring"

fucking_tragedy — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:50:03 +0000

You're assuming that an inscrutable AI is basing its decisions off of something you can change on your CV.

Maybe it doesn't like your name, one of your past employers, or Oxford commas. It's effectively a black box, so who knows?

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "NBA's China dilemma: $4B at risk as Chinese TV cancels game broadcasts"

fucking_tragedy — Tue, 08 Oct 2019 20:31:29 +0000

It's difficult to take a look at modern China and call it communist with a straight face.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat"

fucking_tragedy — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 00:10:57 +0000

I haven't watched it in a few months, but salmon farming happens in net-enclosed partitions of natural bodies of water that are polluted with industrial waste. Pesticides are sprayed directly into the farms in order to combat disease. The pollution from the farms themselves makes the situation even worse as time goes on.

Here's a resource[1] for anyone who is curious but doesn't want to sit through a YouTube video.

[1] https://livingoceans.org/initiatives/salmon-farming

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "New research questions the evidence for health benefits of eating less red meat"

fucking_tragedy — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 21:40:07 +0000

Farmed salmon is often high in mercury[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbtit20DLo

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?"

fucking_tragedy — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:12:59 +0000

Affiliate, referral and influencer marketing will game your model.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Have Online Reviews Lost All Value?"

fucking_tragedy — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:40:44 +0000

Doctors in my area pay firms to pad their bad online reviews with glowing ones.

New comment by fucking_tragedy in "Scientists Identify How Many Trees to Plant and Where to Stop Climate Crisis"

fucking_tragedy — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 15:19:07 +0000

> Why is it that everybody is so interested in “lifestyle” changes, and so uninterested in things like OP or Project Vesta [1]?

Project Vesta hasn't proved efficacy or ability to scale. It's reminiscent of the "solar roadways" hype from earlier this decade.

Most greenhouse gas emissions come from industry and transportation of goods.

It's less politically expedient to blame entrenched powers for their hand in climate change than it is to blame Joe Nobody for driving instead of walking to work.