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> I love it. Drilling and pumping oil like crazy and then using the money to pay some African country not to cut trees. I love the Arfican's side of it. Hey guy I got a rich guy to pay me NOT to ruin my own country.

Ignorant question: China's expansionist trend? Any examples other than Taiwan and their long time border dispute with India? Edit: Why was I downvoted? I even said its an ignorant question.... Meaning I don't know much about it and want more info. You fuckers are mental.

Didn't they do this with ivory and it actually increased the incidences of poaching due to their being an increasing demand for wild "purity"?

As a South African. This has been happening for years. Luckily law and our constitution is on our side. As soon as "they" think that they outsmarted the system, we get our intelligent people out that know how our laws work and it gets set aside till it is contested again. Almost what Trump is doing in the US now. Most of the majority party and EFF Julius Malema still have the agenda to take away …

I wonder how much of this is self driving cars assuming others are going to follow the law and an experienced driver knows some cars just don't yield.

> People shouldn't fear the loss of jobs, they need to fear the distribution of wealth. Salient, concise, well put. The critical factor here is that people's entire class consciousness is so suppressed they don't understand why they have anxiety. They lack the grammar to even express it, or conceptualize it.

“Happy” hour....After all those hours, the last person I’d want to still see is my boss. Rather squeeze in remaining time for family, friends, and sleep!

The thing is... we already knew it. This is really just a bunch of ideas that mostly failed in the 1800s and early 1900s. Yet here we are.

I can promise you that *all* the online job sites (Indeed etc) that promise employers “better” candidates are actively discriminating, and likely in massive violation of federal law. Regardless, these sites and their algorithms have destroyed the likelihood that you might actually get a job. Are you a strong interview with nonobvious qualifications? Forget it. Their main task (what they’re paid…

I was driving down a residential road by my house one sunny afternoon doing the speed limit which was 30 and I saw a ball roll out of a driveway and into the street in front of me. It had appeared from between two cars at the end of a driveway. I remember wondering if something would be chasing it so I moved my foot from the gas and hovered over the brake. Sure as shit out comes a 5 or 6 year o…

[The costs of mitigating are trivial compared to the alternatives](http://www.aguanomics.com/2017/05/so-what-would-carbon-tax-really-cost.html). The consensus among [scientists](http://bush.tamu.edu/istpp/scholarship/journals/ClimateScientistsPerspectives_ClimaticChange.pdf) and [economists](http://policyintegrity.org/files/publications/ExpertConsensusReport.pdf) on [carbon pricing](https://en.…

Taiwan: a HK activist joining a solidarity rally in Taiwan was [doused with red paint](https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/dasafq/a_pro_beijing_thug_throws_red_paint_on_denise_ho/) by a pro-China thug

It wasn't just the embargo. Cuba had heavy restrictions on buying and selling cars made after 1959 for a very long time.

I'm not anti-Greta. I love what she's done, she finally woke up lots of people. But in my opinion it's enough. She's just 16 and people expect solutions from her, even though it's not her job as a student. It's politicians time now. You should see german media. It's all "Greta is in a boat now. We can't see her yet, but she is definetely in that particular boat." Who cares? Why not looking at po…

> based on whether they acknowledge the existence of reality or not. You do not know that that is the criteria the AI is selecting by. It most likely isn't like this at all. It could be noticing any number of patterns in speech - I'd bet that there would be a better-than-chance hit rate of an AI doing this for literally any random tweet, not just covid related ones.

You mean exactly like it says in the article? > Overall, it prevents the city of Boston from using facial recognition **or obtaining information from a facial recognition system, or hiring a third party that can use facial recognition on the city's behalf**.

>One of my largest positions is in a company that saw earnings growth during the pandemic, benefits from lower interest rates, yet is cheaper than it was in 2019, trading at a very low p/e ratio. Care to share this company with the class?

To be fair, they helped the rich citizens at the top of the company. And the shareholders! Won’t somebody think of the shareholders???

> Gebru, who co-led a team on AI ethics, says she pushed back on orders to pull research that speech technology like Google’s could disadvantage marginalized groups. What does this mean?

Eye witness testimony has been shown to be riddled with errors, yet we still use it. Self driving cars cause less collisions per mile than human drivers, yet people are scared of them. Purely human based conviction sends innocent people to prison every year. Banning facial recognition based upon a subset of anecdotes is irrational. Instead, merely measure its performance, and use it as the perfor…