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> With climate change smashing Australia in the face we just re-elected a government that thinks climate change is a hoax.

For all practical purposes, this isn't an issue. If you have a depletion of water coming up then spending resources on curbing CO2 (which may or may not have an impact decades down the line[1]) is not going to be your first priority.

You'll need desalination plants and you'll need to re-orient agriculture around what works in the future, not the past.

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[1] Hold your pitchforks! What I mean here is that the efforts for curbing CO2 may or may not have an impact. I solemnly swear that I believe anthropogenic CO2 affects climate change!
Which is why it's hard to understand how the study suggests environment plays such an insignificant role.

If you're born into a very poor home, and to use your example, a poor black home in the US, I'm not convinced my IQ would overcome my environmental handicap.

How many times out of 10 would you expect to make it to college and earn a high paying job while growing up black in some of the rougher city's and neighborhoods of the US?
How on earth is that the card issuer's fault?

The chargeback is for the exact fraudulent type of activity described in the article, and the business who allows it should be punished.

Heck, that is the primary reason I use my credit card, for this type of protection.
There's probably a wide range of unusual, one-off edge cases that almost never happen which would be impossible or difficult to find.

And maybe catching/handling them properly would involve more sensors, when people really just want a well-trained human who is able to improvise in the cockpit.

It would be difficult code a machine to find a good landing spot in extremely variable terrain. For instance, I saw a video of a plane safely crash-landing landing on a four-lane highway with traffic. It would be impractical to code something to handle that very rare situation.
It can no longer do micro like that, I have watched most of its games several times and it never did any micro feat like that again. On the contrary its micro was often lacking compared to humans, it won mostly through very strong timing attacks and uncanny ability to pick when to fight.
But these are limited to political parties. You are proposing to take away the voice of SuperPACs who make the lion's share of the paid advertisement in a modern campaign. If billionaires don't get a voice how can they control the government? You are going to make them go back to regular lobbying and regulatory capture! What a travesty!
Well, I'm sympathetic to where you're coming from, but this is muddled.

"Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one" has been a cliche for a long, long time, and while it is a little flip, there's a truth there. Your freedom of speech does not require me or anyone else to amplify it. Or even listen.

Put another way, do you believe you should be forced to tell other people my message? What about everyone else's?
Illinois is the poster child for taking this too far.

https://www.illinoispolicy.org/reports/too-much-government-i...
It sounds like your parent is explaining why their version of empathy looks like pedantry to others. I'm not sure "be empathetic, not pedantic" is helpful. S/he already has enough self-awareness to recognize that that is what others expect from him/her.
Why they wouldn't solve more impactful problems rather than playing games?
> But if Catalonia secedes, the majority (they're not, but for argument's sake) of independentist catalonians

If Spain really wanted to quiet down the independence movement in Catalonia, they could actually introduce a democratic, non malapportioned voting system. Americans would be proud of the Spanish non-democratic electorates.

The Spanish have basically gone off and said "how can we make an on-paper proportional voting system repeatedly return majorities for the minority who we hate and who are destroying our country". The problem is, as always, that no politician would ever vote themself out of power, and so no-one in Spain will ever propose a democratic reapportionment.
Thing is, accurately describing the problem often is 90% of the solution, and the only reason why you can't solve it yourself and are asking for help is because you don't have the skill, knowledge or experience to see what is wrong there. Similarly, if I'm doing the diagnosis, I don't want your description of what you see there (because that's likely misinformed, misleading, or missing the point), I want the actual evidence.
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Yes that is valid point about the limitation of this approach. There are 3 methods to address it, none of them are perfect:

(1) Statistically compare the population of twins vs the population of non-twins. The paper I linked to has more specifics on this, but twins earn similar amounts of money, live similar lengths of time, do similarly well in exams vs. non-twins, so it any twin-specific genetic effect has to simultaneously be strong enough to cause this discrepancy, but not strong enough to impact population means.

(2) Compare adoptees to genetic offspring of parents. This has the same issue that you pointed out (maybe there is something specific about adoptees) but the two together find roughly similar effect magnitudes, which reenforce each-other. I'm actually a bit more concerned about adoption being less 'clean' an identification strategy than twin studies, because it's a complicated social process.

(3) Look at genetic variation at population level and find genetic markers that explain variation, using Mendelian randomization as identification strategy - this is technically very challenging, and has only recently become feasible. So far research have only been able to explain around 7% of IQ for example with specific genetic markers, but it will be interesting to see if this creeps up as the field matures.

The big puzzle here is the large variation that we between cultures - moving time-periods, or countries can significantly change your life-expectancy, earnings, test-scores or even IQ. I don't know how to reconcile this with the strange finding of this research strand is that family level environmental effects (shared environment) seem to be much less important than the conventional wisdom would suggest.

Links
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B008042707... (gated)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mendelian_randomization

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2163484-found-more-than...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
>“BlizzCon is sort of like the Christmas of Blizzard,” one staffer said.

More like the Singles Day of Blizzard now.
Being from N. Ireland, and seeing as US cultural imperialism reaches far and I know about all your stuff, police human rights abuse comes from above. We had the brutal RUC until the Good Friday Agreement. Now the police are completely reformed. Sort out the political side and the human rights abusers will no longer be able to work under the conditions.
Of course the scammers are good at "frog in the boiling water" level of scam, so it always seems like it will be easier and "I guess good enough" to just keep going.

But I don't think I would ever try to contact AirBnB "in the moment" (when I'm in a city not my own and need a place to sleep and trying to do whatever I'm in the city to do), since I've been trained to expect that any support from such companies is going to be very inconvenient, take lots of my energy, and take at a minimum hours (if not days) to resolve. Hours I don't have, when i'm trying to enjoy my vacation or whatever.

If AirBnB wants customers to contact the company immediately whenever anything looks fishy, they probably need to educate customers on that (with examples of what sorts of fishy things they'd like you to contact them asap about), as well as providing enough resources to customer support such that doing so actually helps instead of just adding more headache to an already painful situation. But I doubt AirBnB really wants customers to do that.

From the OP for instance:

> If a host asks a guest to stay at a property that’s different from the one they rented, Airbnb advises the guest to request a cancellation if they’re “not okay with the switch.” In both cases, the rules favor a would-be scammer and place the onus on guests who have just parachuted into an unfamiliar locale with their luggage and have nowhere else to stay that night.
I don't think Facebook would be happy to lose all their high-value customers and keep the ones in markets where they don't make as much money.

As for "Gen X and older", when your youngest customers are pushing 40, that's the kiss of death.

I agree with all sibling comments that claim that Facebook is already out of fashion; I'm suggesting that this will get worse, rapidly.

Suggesting? Ok, hoping.
Free speech is the tech industry's default excuse for not enforcing something, and for about two decades it worked fine. Please have to have some forbearance while they get over their addiction to that particular excuse.
Here's the actual PR: https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/2117/research-shows-th...

And the study (PDF): http://ftp.iza.org/dp12524.pdf

I haven't read the whole study but it seems like it's pure correlation, is missing some controls, and has suspect conclusions.

They claim

> We find large and significant negative effects of the provision of pension benefits on cognitive functioning among the elderly.

That's correlation. They're claiming that giving people money reduces cognitive function which is ridiculous. Eliminating cognitive activities and meaning could reduce cognitive function, giving people pensions would not.

They didn't seem to have any controls for post retirement activity. All they controlled for was age, gender, and other medical conditions.
Political ads are not a problem. Targeted political ads are the real problem. I think all targeted ads are the real problem.
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Yeah, subtitle seems much better. My impression before reading was that it did beat the top players but reading the articles makes it clear it beats everyone BUT the top players...

Also, this part seems a bit weird from the article:

> The AI wasn’t able to beat the best player in the world, as AIs have in chess and Go, but DeepMind considers its benchmark met, and says it has completed the StarCraft II challenge.

So they didn't manage to beat the best players but consider the challenge complete anyways? I thought the goal was to build something that could things better than humans.
Ha! So I always did that in Brood Wars, but in SC2, I put each hatchery on a hotkey (0, 9, 8, etc.) and then just pick the units I want to queue up. No need to select individual larva any more.
If a business bans customers who charge back after being defrauded then the fault is with the business, not the card issuer.

What surprises me is that the card issuers don't come down harder on businesses with this practice. I suppose Airbnb is a pretty large customer (of the card issuers) and so aren't so easy to influence, however...
AFAIK, it used to be that you needed to notify the airport (not to ask for permission) if you were flying within five miles of it. It looks like now you use LAANC.
Exactly what I was thinking too.. well said. BigUp!
That is also a much weaker statement that will be taken less seriously.
Someone just needs to start a dark money PAC promoting the NAMBLA agenda, surely they have a candidate in a race somewhere. Fill Facebook with these ads.
If large indentations bother you, good. Braces or not, large indentations and large code blocks should make you start wondering how to refactor them.

And if Python's design seems to discourage over-indentation and oversized code blocks, brilliant.
I am staunchly opposed to all the “free” offerings of our more progressive presidential candidates - free healthcare, free college, etc - but free beer could sway my vote.
The Zuckerbot is a functioning profit-maximizer, if that's what you mean.
Your viewpoint is very agreeable, but how do you propose to do it otherwise? Given limited resources (which continues to be the case even today), you have to allocate them somehow. Can you think of a simple and objective measure to distribute the available resources between research projects?

It's all right to decry financialization of research, but it is a very difficult problem to solve.
The question isn't whether the AI still has advantages, but whether it's an unfair one. The current restrictions were implemented with input from TLO, and seem to work quite nicely.

One could, of course, add more restrictions (like not noticing things on the minimap all the time...), but that's not what's it about anymore. At this point, micro is comparable to humans, and we can start to compare macro and strategy.

Fwiw, when I watched some of the replays, I was disappointed by AlphaStar. It's a very consistent player with few mistakes, but it isn't very reactive and definitely not inventive. Instead of switching tactics when things don't work out, it generally continues with the chosen strategy. Often, that's enough: a well executed strategy with few errors often wins, even if it wasn't optimal.
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> You don't discredit anti-vaxxers with speech. Same with flat-earthers. Same with fascists. You know what works? De-platforming them.

This isn't necessarily true. I was listening to a podcast about conspiracy theories and how misinformation spreads (the name of which is failing me right now), and in one episode there were some scientists who were dealing with a particular subsegment of the conspiracy theory crowd who would make wild claims about their scientific field. Trying to blackball them or shut down their voice was often all that was required to add fuel to their fire because "obviously these scientists were trying to suppress them because they didn't want the truth getting out".

What ended up being much more effective was inviting some of the conspiracy theorists to speak at one of their scientific conferences. It ended up completely taking the air out of their claims, because none of them were willing to get up and try and defend their ludicrous theories against a bunch of trained experts.

Short of creating an iron grip on all interaction with information a la China, deplatforming people is temporary, as creating and finding a new platform is easy and simply leads to a more concentrated echo chamber for their ideology to fester in. Voat, Gab, Hatreon, 4chan, 8chan, etc. There will always be another platform that opens up in response to other platforms shutting them down. And soon instead of having the original fake news or hateful ideology in the public, you now have a distilled, more extreme version of it leaking into the public.

I don't know what the perfect solution is, but simply deplatforming people isn't going to be it. It will likely be something more like drowning out conspiratorial ideas with high volumes of truthful ones, rather than simply trying to cutoff the oxygen of the conspiracy theorists.
If you come from the dBase / Clipper experience, then Harbour could be considered a more modern version => https://github.com/harbour/core
Then we are stuck with an inherently unfair system, as robotics is nowhere near ready for keyboard/mouse, and neuroscience is nowhere near ready for CBI.

This current modality is important, IMO, because we could potentially see neural networks performing tasks on other software, not just SC2. Imagine a neural network performing copy-editing in Word, writing code for CRUD applications, etc. Those are some mind-blowing potentials, we'd be losing out if we slowed down to work on robot hands.
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Not believable, which is why I am suspicious why the Vice writer tried to spin it as a credible thing.
It's an AI system, of course it has some advantage, that's why we are building them.
Downvoting is not being wrong, it is being disagreed with. It is a win in my book if you ruffle some feathers in your opinions, it means you’re not just restating the majority belief.

In terms of a graphical model, voting is dependent on not only opinion but also motivation. Somebody that thinks you’re wrong is more motivated to downvote than someone who thinks you’re right - one has an ax to grind, one does not.
We have that style of "Master-Pattern" and no matter how small a team you have it introduces problems. It's still a hidden dependency, so you don't know if you've forgotten to initialize it before you get an exception. At least for us we ran into the problem that we wanted to make some changes that meant it was no longer a singleton - but now we had to perform a major refactoring.

So you could use a good DI framework such as SimpleInjector and get all the benefits without all the problems. You only have to initialize once, and then it's injected into constructors when needed, and you can inject different implementations depending on context.
Link to all game replays: https://deepmind.com/research/open-source/alphastar-resource...
As someone who likes watching public events go horribly wrong, I have never been so excited for a videogame convention.
Think of it as a moving hotel. During the night it moves you from location A to location B. During the day you will have opportunity to do various activities at the locations. It's a very convenient variant of a road trip.
I’d hope that autoland connects to Garmin HQ and then they can coordinate and also just call up the tower and tell them what’s going on. Managing airspace and radio communications is the tricky part imo
The Urgenda case was slightly different though. In NL, they argued their case on behalf of the next generation (broadly speaking), and the outcome of the trial was a 25% emissions reduction target for the government to meet.

The German case seems easier (on the surface), because it is about the government failing to meet the targets it has set itself.
Don't run things on an unmanaged box on the floor in your office anymore. No more "My S.Q.L." no more flat file DBs saved in CIFS. If you have to ask these questions you're not the power user whipping up production code in a few hours with no framework or managed service you feel like you should still be.
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It isn't true that IQ tests contain questions about tea-service items or yachting or other culturally biased questions.

Raven's Progressive Matrices [1] is an example of a test that doesn't depend upon knowledge of tea service items.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raven%27s_Progressive_Matrices
Now now, it's not like advertisement in general is particularly wanted so it's deeply unfair to single out a simple global tech giant with such an insidious question!
No, it doesn't select the larvae by dragging, it just selects them instantly from the other side of the map. I'd guess it either has a hotkey for the hatcheries and press it and the larvae key instantly without it showing in the replay, or it has a cheat ability to instantly select larvae.
Headlines in Norway today: a high ranking police officer "forgetting" or forgetting to hand in some weapons he was supposed to turn in for a friend or something.

Seems like he might get away without a charge since he delivered them during an amnesty which - as far as I understand - means he legally cannot be punished for possession prior to handing them in.
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Why would they care? They're applying the Fight Club formula.

Take the number of listings, A, multiply by the small proportion of scam listings, B, multiply by the average refund we post, C. A times B times C equals X. If X ... well, who cares about X, it doesn't matter - people will still book with us anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HqwCrDBdTE

Here is a video of someone finding out that he played against alphastar. (He won)
But we're talking about air-breathing rockets, not merely engines. Crucially, a rocket supplies its own oxidiser, and an air-breathing rocket supplements this with intake air. An example of such would be Sabre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SABRE_%28rocket_engine%29
> My point is, the former already happened, and made zero difference.

To that particular person. Being personally shameless with corrupt friends does have a way of making one immune to many kinds of blackmail. That doesn't mean there aren't a lot of people who have more shame and better friends that can still be controlled via threats of blackmail.
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What you describe sounds roughly similar to what parent op is warning about. Being reliant on external forces for your own happiness / fulfillment will probably suck in retirement - people generally lose friends, not gain them over the years. Find something that motivates you on its own, regardless of anybody's else involvement.

For me that would be travelling, hiking, and generally being in nature - but this requires at least OKish health for the age, which might or might not be there later. Reality is, we mostly don't know how things (and us) will turn up later in life, and if we end up in good spot it will be mostly by sheer luck.
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Nice way of wording that! :)

It also explains the complexity of the following 10 pages of text.
Wouldn't all of this FB BS be solved if he just asks users to pay $3 a year (or .50 for developing nations), and then removing ads/sponsorship entirely? That'd be billions per year and they'd not face all these charges of political shenanigans, poisoning the democracy, etc.

I doubt few of the FB users I know wouldn't part with $3 in exchange for their network/contacts that FB provides.
Most people will never read this sort of article. And frankly it seems like Airbnb is perfectly happy to not rock the boat and continue to slurp up their fat percentage share of the fraud that they abet...