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New comment by goialoq in "Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews"

goialoq — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:17:14 +0000

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

New comment by goialoq in "Some hotels have charged visitors for bad reviews"

goialoq — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:15:59 +0000

Revenge is sweet, though.

New comment by goialoq in "With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit"

goialoq — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:09:18 +0000

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

New comment by goialoq in "With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit"

goialoq — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:06:59 +0000

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

Nothing new under the sun.

New comment by goialoq in "With teen mental health deteriorating over five years, there’s a likely culprit"

goialoq — Sun, 28 Jan 2018 23:05:20 +0000

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

New comment by goialoq in "[dead]"

goialoq — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:47:01 +0000

> 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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goialoq — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:45:36 +0000

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?

New comment by goialoq in "George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society"

goialoq — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:39:56 +0000

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.

New comment by goialoq in "George Soros: Facebook and Google are a menace to society"

goialoq — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:36:00 +0000

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.

New comment by goialoq in "Graham's Number Is Too Big to Tell How Big It Is"

goialoq — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 22:54:46 +0000

recall this classic:

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

C Compilers Disprove Fermat’s Last Theorem

New comment by goialoq in "Burger King Has an Opinion on Net Neutrality"

goialoq — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 06:17:50 +0000

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.

New comment by goialoq in "Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)"

goialoq — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 06:14:21 +0000

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...)

New comment by goialoq in "Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)"

goialoq — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 06:11:48 +0000

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

New comment by goialoq in "Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)"

goialoq — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 06:10:42 +0000

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?

New comment by goialoq in "Algorithmic decision making and the cost of fairness (2017)"

goialoq — Thu, 25 Jan 2018 06:08:38 +0000

> 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?

New comment by goialoq in "It Takes Two Neurons to Ride a Bicycle (2004)"

goialoq — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 21:07:56 +0000

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.

New comment by goialoq in "“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York"

goialoq — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:03:50 +0000

124 is not a "low" IQ.

New comment by goialoq in "“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York"

goialoq — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 09:01:10 +0000

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

New comment by goialoq in "“Get Out of Jail Free” Cards in New York"

goialoq — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 08:59:05 +0000

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

New comment by goialoq in "What happens when you grep the file you've redirected grep to?"

goialoq — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 08:55:05 +0000

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