What Hamas did had a totally unsurprising result, as distressing as that is, that inevitably resulted in, and continues to result in, unacceptable civilian suffering. Moreover, even though Israel has slow walked towards a regressive ethnofascist state since at least the Rabin's assassination, the October attack straight up merced whatever dwindling progressive peace activist movements on the Israeli side that were still continuing the struggle.

One can be anti-Zionist and pro-basic human decency without romanticizing a violent religious fundamentalist organization that has at this point done almost nothing but harm to the interests and well-being of the people whom it purports to be protecting.

Do you have actual examples? I've lived here (greater Boston area) for over 10 years now and, having grown up in and around WI, the level of racism here strikes me as virtually non-existent in comparison, and where you do see it (lots of systemic artifacts), there is a constant and loud pressure to address it.

I'm not saying that Boston doesn't have issues with racism, at many levels and in many ways, but I hear people claim it's exceptionally worse than elsewhere in the country and I'm just confused. Had family friends from Chicagoland suburbs try to convince me Chicago has less racism issues than Boston and I just can't imagine what the fuck happened to their brains to think that.

My z flip is hands down my favorite phone I've ever owned and I didn't get it expecting to like it much. I just needed a new phone and with Samsung's recycling program, my old near-tablet sized phone made the switch like barely 100 bucks.

There are a lot of small advantages it provides that quickly add up to it being an overall superior experience. Now if only Bixby wasn't the worst fucking thing ever.

Their non-profit status had nothing to do with the legality of their training data acquisition methods. Some of it was still legal and some of it was still illegal (torrenting a bunch of books off a piracy site).

Except, more likely, there are few available competitors to the tarriffed product and now the consumer covers the increased cost. Meanwhile, local alternatives, where they are available, price up because, well they had market when the pre-tarrif import was available and their own delta was what it was, so they can push the price up to just capture more profit with the same or still larger market, depending on the good.

The point is that deploying the sort of policy is incredibly tricky in the best of circumstances, and still likely to do more harm than help. And that you think, of all people, someone as very obviously stupid as Trump is capable of threading that needle is beyond baffling.

Yea, those are bad, too. Are you under the impression that we just don't have enough of them and that's the issue?

So hold no one accountable and don't try to model future behaviors based on past actions and statements? I guess it's better to grab performative notes from Twitter.

At the end of the day, the likelihood of survival for any given Palestinian drops dramatically with trump as president as compared to Harris. Does this mean Harris is doing everything or will do everything she should? Absolutely not. But if you actually give a shit about people's lives, then, yes, strategic voting, particularly in this case, is necessary mitigating action. Or maybe you don't actually care about humans living or dying and are, like I said, just engaging in social media fueled performative bullshit to justify apathy and laziness.

Historically, bedouin have been seen as a distinct ethnic/cultural group, separate from the surrounding ones. Basically, they're similar to the Roma of Europe and my understanding is that they're treated and viewed by local communities very similarly as to what the Roma go/have gone through.

From what I've been told, the test itself will still be given and used for gauging such things. It just won't be a requirement for getting a HS diploma anymore. If that isn't correct, I'd love to learn more. I've had a hard time coming to a decision on this one.

But Walz is a Democrat?

In addition, people act like she isn't also the acting VP during this campaign. It would be extraordinarily problematic for the VP to actively undermine the policy of the president with whom they are serving even if their own presidential policy would be significantly different.

Oh wow, this suit is shaping up to be silly. I didn't realize it was filed in Japan, too. That makes the patent aspect even shakier. Japan has no discovery process like in the US, which is generally very necessary for many software-related patents as, assuming they have a strong likelihood of surviving challenge, they are typically drawn to processes that are completely obfuscated from the user and outside observes.

There is an era of patents from the late 90s through the early-mid-00s that were insanely vague and rarely stand up to scrutiny, but most are expiring at this point, if they haven't already. Generally, though, patents are not granted on "concepts" but on implementations. That's a sometimes ambiguous line, but that's a fundamental principle of modern patents.

Other guy is being a bit of a dick, tbh, but you do realize that the PPP loans weren't just "passed with little oversight", right? Democrats tried to get oversight and Republicans fought tooth and nail to strip as much oversight as possible. There's a reason that Republicans disproportionately scammed PPP loans after they were finally passed in an extremely urgent situation where some sort of relief absolutely needed to go out.

At the end of the day, legislation is compromise but one party has unraveling and selling off of the state as their goal, which makes the feasible compromise point a bit hard to create effective legislation. As a result, this means there are no effective or honest Republicans, but there are at least some effective or honest democrats. It's a sucky situation that is hard to crawl out of.

If it's patented, you can just read the patent to know what else is in it.

My point is just that they're effectively describing a discriminator. Like, yeah, it entails a lot more tough problems to be tackled than that sentence makes it seem, but it's a known and very active area of ML. Sure, there may be other metadata and contextual features to discriminate upon, but eventually those heuristics will inevitably be closed up and we'll just end up with a giant distributed, quasi-federated GAN. Which, setting aside the externalities that I'm skeptical anyone in a position of power to address is equally in an informed position of understanding, is kind of neat in a vacuum.

Yes, it's called a GAN and has been a fundamental technique in ML for years.

I am in Massachusetts. RCV was a ballot question. It lost. That means the voters didn't want it. Overall, RCV is pushed by multiple members of the democratic party. So this idea that democrats don't want it as some sort of secret party policy is wild.

Now, is it fucking dumb we didn't vote RCV in MA? Absolutely. Most voters are actually fucking morons.

The straw thing is super interesting (all of it is really-- thanks for this explanation). I wonder if there is a way to do in-situ biochar of the straw that isn't just setting the field on fire.

I'm reading it now. I recommend the book as well!