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> Watching Disney+ is hardly some inalienable human right nor essential for survival.

Neither are never-expiring copyright laws, and there's no reason someone in a country that doesn't abide by them should have to honor them.

> the actual reaction of Chinese people on Weibo and other Chinese social media

People are censored and punished for disagreeing with their government and its dictator-for-life.

Just ask for an extension to reach them at when you call their public number.

Used to happen to me in New York 15 years ago. Hasn't happened since, though.

People have well-documented biases, besides reflecting biases of humans, AI systems will also have arbitrary biases that are hard to predict.

> We better design these systems not to fail then

Too late, we're commenting on an article about them failing in common scenarios.

It matters to me as a pedestrian because drivers will become reliant on their AEB, and when it fails, they might run me over.

> Just because they aren't perfect doesn't mean they don't make your car safer.

There is no evidence that they make your car safer, but there is evidence that AEB fails in common situations or in ways a human driver wouldn't.

> But just because they don't hold public elections doesn't mean they do not draw their legitimacy from the people

Got any other zingers you want to tell me with a straight face?

Combustion is a reaction between fuel and oxygen. Part of the weight comes from the fuel, the other part comes from oxygen in the atmosphere.

Communist hunter-gather societies have been studied extensively and it's the earliest forms of production.

It's weird to hear you describe Xi Jinping's dictatorship as the voice and sovereignty of the people.

All the EEOC would need to do is to prove that there is disparate impact[1] based solely on the hiring outcomes of companies using AI to hire. This is what they already do.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disparate_impact

You're assuming that an inscrutable AI is basing its decisions off of something you can change on your CV.

Maybe it doesn't like your name, one of your past employers, or Oxford commas. It's effectively a black box, so who knows?

It's difficult to take a look at modern China and call it communist with a straight face.

I haven't watched it in a few months, but salmon farming happens in net-enclosed partitions of natural bodies of water that are polluted with industrial waste. Pesticides are sprayed directly into the farms in order to combat disease. The pollution from the farms themselves makes the situation even worse as time goes on.

Here's a resource[1] for anyone who is curious but doesn't want to sit through a YouTube video.

[1] https://livingoceans.org/initiatives/salmon-farming

Farmed salmon is often high in mercury[1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsbtit20DLo

Affiliate, referral and influencer marketing will game your model.

Doctors in my area pay firms to pad their bad online reviews with glowing ones.

> Why is it that everybody is so interested in “lifestyle” changes, and so uninterested in things like OP or Project Vesta [1]?

Project Vesta hasn't proved efficacy or ability to scale. It's reminiscent of the "solar roadways" hype from earlier this decade.

Most greenhouse gas emissions come from industry and transportation of goods.

It's less politically expedient to blame entrenched powers for their hand in climate change than it is to blame Joe Nobody for driving instead of walking to work.

> Seems to me that every time this subject comes up, an arbitrary list of things are considered protected by whoever is making that point.

It might feel that way to you, but it seems you haven't bothered to look into the history of why certain classes are protected against discrimination in housing, employment, medical treatment etc.

One of those reasons is to fight the tendency for discrimination to create second-class citizens[1]. Along with our society's past and its contemporary history, we also have a several millennia of written history to look back upon to see just how easily and willing we are to make life very bad for people who are discriminated against.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second-class_citizen

> Talk to the actual couriers

I have: they don't like the current arrangement. When they're tipped via apps, they don't even get to keep them.

Doesn't sound like they're independent contractors when they can't set their own rates and collect from their clients without the delivery app companies skimming their tips.

> they don’t want to be employees, because this very frequently is not a full time job.

This is a false dichotomy. Many people work multiple jobs on a flexible schedule where they are considered employees at each of their employers.

They also hate the tax burden that is quarterly filing and paying the self-employment tax.

Other countries were able to figure it out, so can we. Voting license proponents never seem to want to send eligible voters their free voting licenses, though.

Or you can just send every eligible voter their voting license when they turn 18 and cut out the middleman.

Astroturfing has been happening for as long as I've been online.

What's being measured is the strength of the bars that make up the roof, not the glass.

Look at stats for other luxury vehicles. They have much lower crashes per millions of miles driven.

That's fine, someone else will find a way to profit from the situation you won't consider.

It's the same value-add as any other niche job board.

They overlap and aren't mutually exclusive.