People are not capable of understanding Facebook's recommendation engine. That isn't an insult. I'm a software developer and I'm sure I would have a hard time deciphering what's going on. There may not be any developers at Facebook who completely understand the entire thing. So where do you draw the line between "we use some information about you" and "here's the source code" as the appropriate degree of transparency? And can you see that Congress drawing that line is problematic?
For the last 150+ years, it has been only government sanctioned (R & D) candidates that have been allowed to be viable options.
Did you recently emerge from a cave? Our previous president was about the last person the establishment (from either party) would have wanted as a candidate.
Actual opposition candidates and parties, while not explicitly prohibited, are effectively prohibited, largely by onerous, expensive, and time-consuming ballot access requirements and restrictions.
That just means you have to be rich to run successfully, not that you have to have the blessing of the "government" (what the government even has to do with who runs for office is not clear).
And it seems that Facebook managers expect the long-term effects to be to reduce profits, otherwise they would have pursued this research further, and if it came out as really increasing profits, we would now have a Facebook that would look like what was tried out on these 0.05%.
Or, your assumptions about how Facebook makes decisions are incorrect.
Re: Re: isn't "representative" government somewhat obsolete?
Shenanigans of the nature described in this post are symptomatic and evidential of this theory.
But I shudder to imagine the shenanigans that would ensue with direct democracy in the US. Millions of people who mostly have no idea how government works or what the Constitution means, many of whom have as their primary goal defeating the other political team, voting on probably thousands of bills a year... as bad as the current system is, I think it might actually be better than that.
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so long as they're stickin' it to those durn tech companies.
Which really means stickin' it those durn libruls. Those tech companies are in California and Washington, which are just barely technically part of the US of A.
Sony sends dmca notices on classical music in the public domain because the released concerts of some composer from 1850 on cd
The recordings are still copyrighted, even if the composition is not. Now whether they are correctly identifying the specific recording they have a copyright in is doubtful.
the SWAT agent might have had the leisure to aim low, putting a FMJ through a shin or thigh rather than center body mass.
To what end? Then the shooter is probably on the ground, probably still holding his gun(s) and probably still conscious. Maybe they give up, on the other hand maybe they now see they have nothing to lose because the police are trying to kill them, so might as well keep firing. There are reasons police don't shoot to disable: it's not a reliable method of either keeping a subject alive or ending a violent encounter.
I have no clue what the data is, but it is equally likely that 600 is the median of a set of values, not the average of total seizures.
The statement is: "The median value of an individual item seized (including cash, which counted as one item in our analysis) was just $600, and the median value of all items seized during a single incident was only $1,370".
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True, but I don't see how that would affect who gets to Congress. It would just ensure nobody there has time to figure out the job before they go home, leading to the lobbyists and staffers actually running the place.
He's just using the concerns (legitimate or not) of many conservatives to rope them into his agenda.
And if he preaches those concerns while acting in opposition to them (e.g. "men must be held responsible for their actions" while not holding Trump responsible for his actions), then he's a hypocrite.
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People are not capable of understanding Facebook's recommendation engine. That isn't an insult. I'm a software developer and I'm sure I would have a hard time deciphering what's going on. There may not be any developers at Facebook who completely understand the entire thing. So where do you draw the line between "we use some information about you" and "here's the source code" as the appropriate degree of transparency? And can you see that Congress drawing that line is problematic?
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Resolve
So... it hasn't been resolved? The SSNs are still there in the source code?
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Did you recently emerge from a cave? Our previous president was about the last person the establishment (from either party) would have wanted as a candidate.
That just means you have to be rich to run successfully, not that you have to have the blessing of the "government" (what the government even has to do with who runs for office is not clear).
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Or, your assumptions about how Facebook makes decisions are incorrect.
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Re: Re: First rule of data transfer?
It's better than COMEFROM.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMEFROM
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I would use the term "justified shooting." There was nothing good about the situation.
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Re: Re: isn't "representative" government somewhat obsolete?
But I shudder to imagine the shenanigans that would ensue with direct democracy in the US. Millions of people who mostly have no idea how government works or what the Constitution means, many of whom have as their primary goal defeating the other political team, voting on probably thousands of bills a year... as bad as the current system is, I think it might actually be better than that.
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Re: The latest in 'Look at and vote for me!' bills to hit the fl
Which really means stickin' it those durn libruls. Those tech companies are in California and Washington, which are just barely technically part of the US of A.
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The recordings are still copyrighted, even if the composition is not. Now whether they are correctly identifying the specific recording they have a copyright in is doubtful.
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A bit of a stretch to call them civilian combatants.
So what? A standing army means it's permanent, it doesn't mean there isn't an army during a time of war.
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Um... what??
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To what end? Then the shooter is probably on the ground, probably still holding his gun(s) and probably still conscious. Maybe they give up, on the other hand maybe they now see they have nothing to lose because the police are trying to kill them, so might as well keep firing. There are reasons police don't shoot to disable: it's not a reliable method of either keeping a subject alive or ending a violent encounter.
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At least he didn't write "que", which a disturbing number of people seem to think is an English word.
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The statement is: "The median value of an individual item seized (including cash, which counted as one item in our analysis) was just $600, and the median value of all items seized during a single incident was only $1,370".
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To whatever extent they're doing it now, it would be much worse with short term limits.
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True, but I don't see how that would affect who gets to Congress. It would just ensure nobody there has time to figure out the job before they go home, leading to the lobbyists and staffers actually running the place.
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Two major parties.
How?
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And if he preaches those concerns while acting in opposition to them (e.g. "men must be held responsible for their actions" while not holding Trump responsible for his actions), then he's a hypocrite.
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No, the median is 3. Plug it into a spreadsheet and see, or Wolfram Alpha.
https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=median%7B1%2C3%2C3%2C3%2C3%2C3%2C3%2C3%2C3%2C3%2C3%7D
It's 3 because the median is the middle number of a range of numbers.
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There are some exceptions. Besides Ron Wyden as mentioned, there's Mitch McConnell, for example.
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