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> they taste good, are easily available and are satiating. Vegan and vegetarian foods are usually less so for all three categories.

This might be true for some people in some places, but is far from an objective fact. I'm not a vegetarian, but I frequently prefer to eat vegan or vegetarian food because it offers more interesting flavours, is easily available and easy to cook, and leaves me with a more pleasant fullness.
Why should I care about the environment? I'll be dead in 30 years. I'm not having kids. And I don't care about the survival of the species. I don't depend on it by choice. If someone asked me before I was born, I'd say no thanks I don't want any part of existence. But since I was conceived without my consent, I'll live however I can't to, the environment be damned.
In terms of environmental sustainability, chicken is the best value of any meat. It's about as an efficient feed:meat ratio as you can get, their waste is reusable, and they're certainly not going extinct.

The moral problem, though, is it takes more chicken deaths to get an equal amount of meat as almost any other farm animal. One cow gives you as much meat as a few hundred chickens, so you're killing hundreds more chickens each year to feed a family than if you fed them beef.

So if you are eating meat (I do) and you want to try being ethical about it, total environmental harm and total death numbers are generally on polar opposite sides. Justifying regular animal consumption in any environmental or ethical sense is pretty much impossible, unless people start eating exclusively overpopulated invasive species--but cannibalism generally isn't socially acceptable. :)
When exactly in human history did people live in an Utopia of happiness? Misery and suffering has always been prevalent for the majority of the human species.
i think this belongs to the " colors and bokeh" category. It all boils down to: how can you give the same information faster. For a car repair, a video is much quicker way to show what goes wher. The vast majority of videos on youtube, though, are elongated transcripts read aloud.
I usually like all Odroid products but fail to understand the reason behind making those general purpose boards -beside being excellent for prototyping and development- which will probably cost more than a specialized one and can lack important features often due to space constraints. Can economics be the only reason? For example, although this board can do its job as a firewall, a NAS, or a workstation, what if Odroid made three different models, say:

model A: 3 NICs, no audio, no video, no SATA, aimed at firewalls with DMZ

model B: 1 or 2 NICs, again no audio and no video though a minimum of 2 to 4 SATA ports
to be used as NAS/server machines w/software RAID etc.

model C: more powerful CPU, just 1 NIC, audio, video and 1 SATA port to be used as a client/MPC etc.

Would the higher cost of producing 3 specialized boards exceed the benefits of making general purpose ones where for example a powerful and costly GPU is left unused because the user had no alternatives to consider for building his file server? I for one would seriously consider purchasing the first two (as I did with other pcengines.ch firewall boards in the past).
Especially the branding although process and scale probably help too. I used to think that, when Starbucks started selling coffee to every hotel that filled up urns for meeting rooms, it would be some serious brand dilution. But it wasn't.

Coffee snobs like those downthread notwithstanding, most people don't care. I don't care most of the time although I try to frequent local shops for the variety. So anything that gets a lot of people to default to Starbucks, especially for a morning caffeine fix habit, is a win.
> If I can paraphrase your first point, people eat meat because they enjoy it, and that's that.

I understand your sentiment but there's a reason people enjoy eating meat, it feels pleasureable in our mouth because it is rich in nutrients and rare in nature. In nature you don't eat meat every day like we do in our current society.

Just like donuts and candy tastes nice is because there's a lot of sugar and fat in them, things that are scarce in nature.

>I'm curious what your source is for saying a vegetarian diet isn't optimal. Most studies I've seen (including large and long studies) claim the opposite. Here's a list: [1]

If you actually read through the Wikipedia I am not really convinced

> (...) although this is at least partly due to lifestyle factors beyond diet, such as a low prevalence of smoking, and the generally high socioeconomic status

>(...) and other lifestyle factors associated with a vegetarian diet may contribute to the positive health outcomes that have been identified among vegetarians.[11]

The point Wikipedia tries to make is clear.

What I'm trying to argue is that there are nutrients in meat that you are unable to get anywhere else than from meat. Yes, I fully realize that we can synthesize these things artificially but you still need them. As with most things in life, the optimum is somewhere in between. One could eat no meat at all, one end of the scale, one could eat only meat, the other end of the scale with the optimum probably somewhere in between.
And yet it does persuade some people. Many people are vegetarian and an increasing proportion of the population is moving in that direction. It seems reasonable to assume that at least some of that change is due to exposure of modern factory farming methods.

> you're not going to change my mind by making me feel bad about how a cow, pig or chicken is raised and killed

Why not? If you're feeling bad about it, presumably you have some empathy with the animal. Or do you mean that it's not possible to make you feel bad about it?
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Watching it right now. Pretty gruesome so far, up to the kosher part but it's still not a deterrent.

edit: Finished. I'm still going to eat that steak but some of those scenes will probably pop into my head while I'm eating. A bit annoying tbh.
As a counterexample, I used to be like you (loved eating meat) and was convinced not to by allowing myself to entertain the notion that it was wrong, and learning about animal suffering at factory farms. I was able to make a moral determination that went against what I wanted or craved. I still crave meat years later, but I don’t eat it.

Probably similar arguments to yours were made in favor of slavery not so long ago. “It’s convenient and makes my life better, and the morality of it is irrelevant.” Now slavery is repulsive, and in the future we will look back at how we treated farm animals in a similar way. For me it was worth considering which side of the moral history I wanted to be on.
I take ~3 weeks off to help my wife post-baby for the same reasons.
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Instinctively, I want to think that post-quantum crypto means both ends. That is to say, if it transpires that quantum computing can break all pre-quantum encryption schemes, it ought to follow that there will be post-quantum encryption schemes that it can't.

I don't understand quantum computing well enough to know if that's a reliable instinct though. Is it anywhere near the mark?
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I don't think they use anything in common. Try to set your locale to "C" as otherwise string comparisons will do extra work handling your locale's notions of equivalent characters.
!g on American Inventor gets me the TV show plus pictures from it.
> (fairness) how to define it

Not even a paragraph in and I see problems with this. Seems somebody bias has already gotten in their own way.

This is the first step - redefine the meanings of words to fit your agenda.

I could be wrong about the intent. But when you can redefine fairness the you can make it fair to take from one person and give to another. Or deny one person and Grant access to another based on things that don't matter.

Also. The attack on human bias is totally silly. It's a key trait that had made us and other species successful. Without these biases we might pick the wrong fruit eat it and die. We might try to cuddel into a cave with bears in the winter.

Our entire existence and reasoning skills is based off bases.

Also. Never in my life have a seen ripe or unripe bannans and described them by their color. Is this a education problem?

But even if I had there is nothing wrong with pointing out when something is not atypical. Besides if I plan on eating bananas in a few days I might want the "green" ones. Or if I was going to make a yummy smoothie the "brown" ones are the ones I want.

Also bananas are a bad analogy for what they were getting at. Every banana has the potential to be green, then yellow, then brown. So none of these states are out of the ordinary.

I don't need or want to be unconsciously retrained by ML. I think we are going to need laws against big cooperations using their power and tech to change socal constructs. It's not their place and we can never be sure they are doing it for good or even the outcome will be good for human kind. It's also a power that can be abused. We already have internal documents comming from Google suggesting swaying public opinion on on political canadates. And this type of research is exactly where you would start.
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I think the movie you are referring to is District 9.
Or maybe it's just Apple's way of pointing out that battery life correlates to the amount of time the screen is on.
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Hah! So their intro video for this idea states that we are basically biased because we assume bananas to be yellow...
I wonder how their code is going to read...

If white, then reduce privileges
If black, then give reparation as structRep
If binary gender, then increase non-binary sexual imagery; equalize all norms
If young female wants to be a mother, then show videos of females "succeeding professionally"

Again, at the top of HN with the most political article, but commenters like myself are censored from being able to even give our take on why they're extremely misleading.
How is this not exactly like Brave New World?
Can you help me interpret these jokes between you and your friends? "Boy this steak sure tastes good because that cow was suffering" This sort of callousness is a common theme. Is this the form the jokes were taking?

I'd understand if it were making fun of the animal for getting killed so long as it was humane, and people who worry too much about them. I'd understand the idea of "yeah I know it's bad, what am I going to do. It tastes good". I could understand making fun of an exaggerated claim of suffering. I could understand making fun of trying to avoid killing in the world which is probably literally impossible. But I can't understand making fun of real suffering, and furthermore making fun of people who care about it. I don't think they're actually sociopaths but I don't understand how else to interpret what they're expressing here.

If the answer is "hey don't take it seriously, you were a jackass in college too" - fair enough, but you brought this up as an example of the general population just not caring enough. Maybe your friends actually made these jokes to deal with their discomfort with those videos?

And yes for disclosure, I'm a vegetarian myself.
My theory is that all is faith-based. Because the amount spent on advertising is relatively small, advertisers are happy to spend whatever the publisher asks, and their management will still be happy. As long as both advertisers and publishers believe they provide value to each other (and they definitely do, they just don't know how much) the model is not questioned and everybody 's happy.

Online banner advertising is often similar , with the major difference that there is a limited 24 hours in a day in which the TV budget gets allocated, while there are vastly more publishers on the web.
I still see people call policing maps "crime maps" as though you could map out all the crime like in SimCity.
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Exactly HN "moderation" is right out of Brave New World.
A couple months ago there was a nationwide prisoner strike in the US against this practice: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/aug/20/prison-labor...
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These are two separate things. Hunters for example are often very respective of the animals they track. And as another example, when a persom is sentenced to death, we still try to treat them with respect throughout the process.
SIDH keys can be as small as 330 bytes. That's not much bigger than a modern RSA key. Lattice keys are also in the (higher) hundreds of bytes, and were briefly (as an experiment) deployed in Chrome.
I find the classic Trolley Problem interesting mostly because it exposes the extremely limited capacity that humans have to act rationally. I would expect a trivial ML/AI implementation to "correctly" solve the Trolley Problem and I would not want to consciously program our future AI systems to suffer from the same limitations that cause humans to struggle with the Trolley Problem.

By programming them this way (avoiding programming in human frailties for the purpose of better "fitting in"), I think we can more quickly expose and correct certain areas where us bags of mostly salt water act suboptimally.
I have a certain nostalgia for dictionaries as well. That is, until I actually end up having to use one nowadays. It one of these problems that modern technology has completely and utterly superseded. You can find people arguing for the superiority of analog audio or film cameras (if only for purely subjective or emotional reasons) but I wonder if you'll find many people who still go out of their ways to use a paper dictionary instead of one of the digital alternatives available. It's so much faster and convenient. You can also easily look up any slang word, archaism, proper noun etc...

I've been learning Portuguese lately and quite naturally, having grown up using dictionaries extensively, I bought a Portuguese dictionary. I end up not using it, I just look up on my smartphone instead. The main problem is not so much the lookup speed but the fact that a small pocket dictionary simply doesn't have enough words while large ones are way too bulky to use comfortably and carry around.

I suspect that for people learning languages with a more complex script (chinese comes to mind) modern technology make things a lot easier as well, I remember reading that looking up words in a Chinese dictionary could be quite complicated for a beginner.
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I feel that you don't want to change your mind anyway, and are happy to show us how smart you are by purposefully doing the opposite of what people hope to get you do after reading the article.

To me, your comment reads as someone saying that reading an article about lung cancer didn't deter them from smoking and actually reminded them to go and buy a pack of smokes. Or how an article about global warming reminded them they had to buy a gas guzzler today. Or reading an article about how cars should share the road with bicycles and saying it reminds you you didn't drive today and you're off to doing punishing passes and coal rolling cyclists.

Good for you, people can't tell you what to do and you know exactly what buttons to push to show how smart you are.

You might not agree with the article, but your reaction is ridiculous.
More important than "big company" is the group of people you're working with at the big company. If you're working with some smart/motivated people and can avoid the management processes and overhead, it's a good combination of resources and autonomy. I worked in a group like this; we delivered projects and the managers stayed out of the way. They never said no to any training or software/hardware purchases. Then the bottom dropped out in 08....
It’s a trope that’s supposed to show that google searches are biased in favour of black people. If you search for American inventor you get lots of image hits for black inventors. The real reason for this is that American inventor is a substring of African American inventor, so google shows results containing the superstring.
> Smaller companies if you want to work for free and have no benefits.

Maybe you mean startups? There are lots of small companies that pay very competitively and have great benefits. There are big companies where the pay and benefits are terrible along with forced OT or on call. I have worked at both.

I will take the small company over the big every single time, because in the small I have always been able to enact change to make things better (going as far as getting them to change the retirement provider to another one with better fund options). In a big company, even when it is clear there are problems, it can be almost impossible to push changes through.
We're talking about owners of a Mac. They're not likely to be that strapped for cash, regardless of where they live.
> Unequal outcome != bias.

Sure, which is why the fair machine learning literature has developed more nuanced (and IMO better) definitions of fair predictors.

For example, suppose you have some sensitive attribute A (say race) and want to know some outcome Y. A predictor \hat Y satisfies equalized odds if \hat Y and A are conditionally independent given Y. In binary classification, this means that the classifier has identical false positive rates and false negative rates across races. So e.g. your false negative rate for white people must be the same as your false negative rate for black people. Note that a perfectly accurate classifier satisfies equalized odds -- roughly, its a way of guaranteeing that errors are not concentrated in some group.

I think it's unfair to characterize fair ML research as the work of "SJWs". There's a lot of smart, technical work done by smart, technical people thinking hard about these problems.

Moritz Hardt's course on the topic is still a decent intro: https://fairmlclass.github.io/
As a thought experiment, let us imagine you have been sentenced to death (that still happens in the USA, right?)

5 years from now, you will be killed.

Would you rather spend those 5 years jammed into a concrete cell with thousands of other inmates, unable to move, standing in your own feces, never to see the sun and only eating corn?

Or would you rather have a bed, running water, proper meals, be allowed outside in the sunshine for some hours a day and even get some exercise?

I think it's pretty clear which one you prefer, and we should treat non-human animals the same way. They're alive, lets treat them with some respect. (That applies to death row inmates, regular citizens and animals equally)
This study measures academic performance in non-identical twins with identical twins as the control group. It finds a significant difference in outcomes between non-identical twins than identical twins suggesting the role of genes in academic outcomes.

I am not a genetic researcher, more of a layman in this line of study. Some academics in social media (twitter) handwave and dismiss this research as inaccurate and they also feel its dangerous for such a study into genes (which might have ethical implications when applied to social policy) to be done without adequate interdisciplinary collaborations.

Irrespective of their motivations, I am interested in knowing whether such criticisms hold good for this study.
I suspect something is broken on your end, the font is large but not absurdly so on my monitor and if I zoom out to 33% it's almost unreadable.
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>Tristan, you have drunk your death

>>If by my death you mean this agony of love, that is my life. If by my death you mean the punishment [Iseult and I] are to suffer if discovered, I accept that. But if by my death you mean eternal punishment in the fires of hell, I accept that too.

What about the troubadours? It seems like their works had a common theme of "My love for this person is an expression of who I am and what is happening inside of me as an individual"

Everything I know about the troubadours I learned watching Joseph Campbell and Bill Moyers on my TV, so I may be missing some important information.
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"Fairness" as defined by Google.

Ethically bankrupt advertising corporations have no business teaching people about ethics.
You're still not making any sense. Why would google show results for a 'superstring'?
They won't need to reach the table because they're going to do everything using a tablet from their beds.
The Python library author community sure is getting a lot of mileage out of this 'For Humans' marketing meme
I think we just really started to see the value of high resolution internet browsing and media consumption in your pocket.

If the cell carriers did something crazy like not letting us browse the internet through their network (or charged us $1k+), phones would likely small and forgettable.
The thing with small phones (or pocket watches) is that they're still something that has to go in a pocket (or bag). For me, and I suspect many others, once I'm putting something in a pocket it might as well be more or less as large as it can be (while, in my case at least, being fairly usable with one hand). IMO the Plus models are a bit big for this but the iPhone X is just about perfect.

A watch OTOH is something that you can have right there for just about any activity and which can alert you even if a phone is tucked away someplace. I tend to also agree that AR, better conversational interfaces, etc. will probably make wearables more capable over time.
He lied to congress before about tax. I think he will be fine. He is a seasoned and perpetual liar.
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Why don’t you ask them?
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I mean, define 'destroyed': he was fined $2.5M and forced to sell the LA Clippers for $2B. That kind of 'destroyed' I would probably be able to live with. Still, as stated in 'Slate Star Codex'

"... banned for life from an industry he’s been in for thirty-five years, banned from ever going to basketball games, forced to sell his property against his will, publicly condemned by everyone from the President of the United States on down, denounced in every media outlet from the national news to the Podunk Herald-Tribune, and got people all over the Internet gloating about how pleased they are that he will die soon"

Is that 'destroyed'? Depends on his state of mind, I guess.

However, people who thought this was excessive and said so publicly were fired. Is that 'destroyed'? Dunno.

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I was also dismayed by the lack of choices in smaller smartphones a few months ago when my Nexus 4 died.

I tried an LG G5 for a while but couldn't handle the larger screen.

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