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I always wondered, why don't women get very harsh sentences if they get caught making up false rape allegations? I think that would discourage that sort of behavior and sort of balance things out.
where is the data suggesting women are falsely accusing men of assault at anything approching a significant rate?
Joke's on you, statistics, I plan to be dead long before then.
I'm not familiar with the Oxford Union president. Jian Gomeshi was credibly accused, the fact that he was found not guilty does not mean his accuser was false. I don't know why you include Emma Sulkowicz, I know of no evidence at all that she falsely accused someone. Also Jian Gomeshi is writing articles for the New York Review of Books and the man Emma Sulkowicz accused graduated, so neither of their lives were ruined.
> This isn't necessarily true. Imagine a recommendation list of 4 items being shortened to a list of 3 items... Or 4 small promotional thumbnail links being redesigned into a single larger image link for a single game. That larger image isn't going get 4x the traffic + clicks just because it's 4x bigger.

But that isn't the case here. "More like this" list was always 12 games. Both before and after the October change.
My little sister was raped by her boss last year when she was an apprentice[0]. Since she was devastated (and her ex-boyfriend a cunt, pardon my french), she waited 3 day before telling my father, who then took her to the hospital, but it was to late: no evidence we could give the police.

Result, the only thing she could do was filing a report at the police station, and now she have to wait for another girl to get raped and go to the police. I still scream "rapist!" when i pass by his restaurant though, twice this year and will do that too at Christmas, and will continue until i get arrested or until i pardon him. I also gave his picture and contact information to all my highschool friends so they can avoid him, as it's a small city and we are around the same age (luckily i'm no living there anymore).
My sister's former cooking school now forbid female student to take apprenticeship there (a bit cynical, but well, better than nothing).

I was all for "innocent until proven guilty", and still am, but maybe because it's still fresh, i really can't condamn public shaming anymore.

[0]I might have the wrong word: she was working on her cooking diploma while working in a restaurant
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If a specific message fails to process multiple times, most often it’s because that particular message is malformed or invalid, or exposes an unhandled edge case in the processing logic, and will never successfully process, at which point continued attempts are both fruitless and wasteful.

It’s better to retry a finite number of times and stash any messages that fail to process offline for further investigation. If there is an issue that can be resolved, it’s possible to feed deadletter messages back in for processing once the issue is addressed.

Feeding your deadletter events back into your normal processing flow not only hides these issues but forces you to pay real money to fail to process them in an infinite loop that is hard if not impossible to diagnose and detect.
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Yeah this article is a little too glib in its conclusion. Obviously, 'ate plenty of vegetable matter' !== vegetarian. Then without a discussion of logistics and pricing of specific foods at the time, its odd to try and conclude intention vs necessity, etc.

> we should expect that gladiators had a high protein diet. However, analysis of their bones has put forward the hypothesis that gladiators were vegetarian athletes

Who says that a mostly vegetarian is low-protein? No mention of specific foods that were eaten in ancient Rome, such as lupines ("lupini beans"), which are low carb high protein and easily dehydrated, transported, etc, and would make an obvious staple for soldiers.

As you say, what if the roman soldiers ate mostly lupines + dried fish? And perhaps not because they thought it was ideal for a warrior (though it may be), but simply because they were easy to carry?
Is it possible to clear all cookies in the main profile while leaving the cookies in the containers intact?
I respect your broader opinion but that's not how I would choose to define cowardice.
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The recommendation engine are there for the buyers, not to replace sellers' marketing. That's as reliable as a source of viewers as scratch lottery cards.
It's telling that I'm unsure if this line of comments is more concerned with the problem that people abuse other people, or the problem that people falsely accuse other people of abuse.
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I’m not sure that it relates to money. I’m from New Zealand and found people in London came closer than I liked. Could it be population density?
> Finally, he landed on the solution: “Just try not to be an asshole.” That’s pretty much the bottom line, said Ron Biscardi, chief executive officer of Context Capital Partners. “It’s really not that hard.”

Tell that to Neil Degrass Tyson! Would you ever consider him an asshole? And yet, here he is getting lambasted for pointing out a tattoo on a woman's arm and telling people he doesn't do hugs.

You literally can be the nicest man in the world and still get #MeToo'd
Testimony of lived experiences is evidence. It's enough to convict.

When you serve jury duty and the case involves domestic violence, you are explicitly reminded of this because most people will assume it is not.

Still, we end up with cases like Brock Turner where he does get convicted not with the victim's testimony but a mountain of corroborating evidence and national media scrutiny. And then receives what is essentially a non-punishment.
> "If men avoid working or traveling with women alone, or stop mentoring women for fear of being accused of sexual harassment,” he said, “those men are going to back out of a sexual harassment complaint and right into a sex discrimination complaint."

This presents an interesting conundrum, and I wonder how it will complicate the process of proving sex discrimination related to mentoring disparities. Even if laws stay the same, I think some jurors will be more sympathetic to the "Pence approach" in the wake of #MeToo. This will make it harder for plaintiffs to win in mentoring discrimination cases, and will mean lower settlement offers as well.
Could you please check your emails and actually reply to candidates too?
I've seen a reference in another quote that suggests 78% if diet from carb sources... that leaves 12% from meat. That is emphatically NOT vegetarian by any modern definition.

edit: could include fish, depending on the location.
But if experienced candidates go "meh" life's to short you might have missed a better candidate.

And Martin any professional should adapt to the systems in place - and I wouldn't use terms like "random luser" might have some blowback.
So, resident of Albuquerque here. Our city embarked on a plan to modernize our bus system by introducing a bus rapid transit (BRT) system down one of our busiest streets. This plan included ordering 15 buses from Build Your Dreams (BYD), a Chinese electric bus manufacturer.

Very recently, the city sent the buses back and demanded a refund after they failed to meet their advertised miles traveled per charge. They were the only thing keeping the new BRT route from becoming operational. Everything else was in place.

Getting them out of the city was a bit of a challenge. One of the buses broke down shortly after leaving.

China may be the only one in the race, but this experience has convinced me that it could never lead the race.
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You can't take an average and apply it to a specific situation.

In this context, if you believe that men are in dramatic positions of power, then you would have to find the # that shows how often powerful men are wrongly accused (vs. just the average man).
Mark my words, someone is going to memorize the entire thing and use it as a party trick.
>Why can't these men just learn to treat women like the humans they are?

They're not worried they don't know how to treat women with respect. They're worried that in 5, 10 or 15 years they they'll be put on the spot to defend their behavior in an interaction they don't even remember happening.
There may be something to that, but I am guessing that any form of self-medication is likely to be more destructive than helpful.

Use of pharmaceutical grade psychedelics in a clinical setting might have some benefit.
Would be interesting to know the success rate from these threads. Did anyone find work from the November Who wants to be hired?
Men are currently taken seriously when they complain about sexual assault and as a man there's no way I would voluntarily give this up. Why would I? What could possibly be in it for me?
> "It's very naive but many vegan and vegetarians think this way; As long as the food has that VeganTM label, it must be good, why bother even checking the ingredients?"

This has not been my experience. The vegetarians and vegans I meet are typically very conscious of what they're putting into their bodies.

The evidence is that you can be a great climber (the world's greatest free-solo climber Alex Honnold is a vegetarian.) or a gladiator without meat , and the humans' insatiable meat consumption is ruining the environment even more quickly than oil.

But I wish more people who ate meat had your disposition--at least have it in moderation rather than every single kind of meat piled on a plate 3 times a day 7 days a week which is basically the norm and sadly barely hyperbolic.
And cannabis as an "alternative". And keep kratom legal.
The majority of businesses, even really big businesses, do this. Very few businesses control their own sales channel, and the ones that do are generally smaller than the ones that don't. Apple doesn't control their main sales channels:

https://9to5mac.com/2017/10/19/apple-store-sales-cirp/

So it's unclear why you think anyone else should, either.
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Ah, so pretty much the same thing as spending money on a car you can't afford, but on a lower scale.

Seems pretty not-valuable to me.
this isn't true on safari. On preferences > web sites > zoom, you can see the zoom level that you choose for each sites
Duke Lacrosse might be “doing fine” now, but while it was happening they certainly weren’t doing fine. Kavanaugh made it to the court, but for the rest of his term, he’s under a cloud. What happened to Kavanaugh was brutal. Just because someone survived the ordeal does lessen the fact that it happened at all.
I don't think Facebook ads would work for many games. Here's an example:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/949790/Rogue_Bit/

How do you market such game outside of Steam? How do you reach the programmer/hacker niche that would be interested in playing this?
Eggs are not vegetarian.
Can you please cite your sources?

There is no serious, solid research on this question. "News" is certainly not where you can get serious figures on this matter.

Even the very definitions of what counts as sexual harassment / assault / rape / hate speech etc are deeply controversial. A most prominent example are radical feminists like Dworkin who essentially say that all heterosexual intercourse is rape.
While that's true, that also resulted in people avoiding AAA games on the worst channels like origin. We're maybe not much, but with AAA average margins we're important
Let me make that decision myself, thank you very much.
"I havent learned classical statistics, but I did take a machine learning course, so what I did must not have been that thing I dont know much about."

>Throughout the class, my fellow students and I successfully trained models

On top of that, arguing that training models is some sort of contribution to the field?

In High School Statistics, we were taught how to do everything by hand, with arithmatic. Then after we demonstrated we understood the formula, how it worked, and why, the teacher would show us that the graphing calculator had a function to do it automatically all along. Rinse and Repeat over the duration of the course. From then on, we could use the prewritten function.

Training a model is skipping to executing the function, without first learning how to write it. Is training a model even a feat worth bragging about?

>Yet, if you had asked me, or most of the students in that class, how to calculate the variance of a population, or to define marginal probability, you likely would have gotten blank stares.

But if I showed you the automatic function in the calculator or excel, and you understood how to input the paramaters correctly, I would be disappointed if you COULDNT get it to work.

>Information theory, in general, requires a strong understanding of data and probability

Probability theory is the underlying foundation of statistics. If you are going to argue that ML isnt Statistics, youre still agreeing that they are both subsets of probability theory.

>How could someone with virtually no background in stats develop a deep understanding of cutting-edge ML concepts?

Because you either a) learned statistics under a different name or b) learned how to input data into someone elses black box formulas and take credit for the output. Overall, this was a pretty painful read. The writer should check out a Philosophy of Science or Logic course. And are you really claiming a deep understanding of the concepts, or are we back to you can input data into someone elses function, and think the output is novel.

> as if to distinguish themselves from the regular, less statistical kind. Furthermore, most of the hype-fueling innovation in machine learning in recent years has been in the domain of neural networks, so the point is irrelevant.

.....what is an example of this "less statistical kind" of Machine learning? Am I taking crazy pills, neural networks are still probabilistic models. Giving such significance to the difference between AI vs ML vs deep learning vs neural networks, probably demonstrates more than anything, not knowing the unifying and underlying probability theory that well.

>Batch normalization? ... (probably because they are not statistical techniques at all).

Are you really arguing that Batch normalization isnt an application of NORMALIZATION, you know, from statistics??
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Very interesting. The Chinese are doing the same thing the Brits did to them: getting an entire country addicted to opiates.

In that one, Britain went to war with the Chinese when the Chinese tried to stop the flow of opium. Something like 10-20% of the population of the entire country was addicted.
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The reason is that the income tax prep industry has lobbied intensely to avoid a 'if you don't file, well just use your defaults on a 1040 that we would charge you with anyways' as your filing.

For most 40-hr/wk, full time employees with one job, they should net a '0' refund, and the return should be automatically completed based on their employers weekly/quarterly filing of payroll tax records.
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