fucking_tragedy

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Comment · 7 years ago
> 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.

Comment · 7 years ago
> 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.

Comment · 7 years ago
Just ask for an extension to reach them at when you call their public number.
Comment · 7 years ago
Used to happen to me in New York 15 years ago. Hasn't happened since, though.
Comment · 7 years ago
People have well-documented biases, besides reflecting biases of humans, AI systems will also have arbitrary biases that are hard to predict.
Comment · 7 years ago
> We better design these systems not to fail then

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

Comment · 7 years ago
It matters to me as a pedestrian because drivers will become reliant on their AEB, and when it fails, they might run me over.
Comment · 7 years ago
> 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.

Comment · 7 years ago
> 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?

Comment · 7 years ago
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.
Comment · 7 years ago
Communist hunter-gather societies have been studied extensively and it's the earliest forms of production.
Comment · 7 years ago
It's weird to hear you describe Xi Jinping's dictatorship as the voice and sovereignty of the people.
Comment · 7 years ago
Comment · 7 years ago
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?

Comment · 7 years ago
It's difficult to take a look at modern China and call it communist with a straight face.

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