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This is not true. "Just following orders" was held to be not a valid defense in the Nuremberg trials: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

You're paying a third of what someone on the US federal minimum wage would make during that time (7.25 x 40hr/week x 20 weeks).

Edit: oh, I thought it was 2000 total, not per month.

Never mind then, though I do think this is would ideally be a government program.

I am sorry to hear about your experience.

As far as the dialog, it is known that Facebook pays PR firms to improve their image by spreading misleading stories (see Definers Public Affairs), so I think there is reason to believe that some comments here may be disingenuous.

This is the most interesting comment I've seen on hn in a while, keep up the awesome work!

Exactly. The authors don't seem to have any basis for their explanations, and the title should really be "neural nets more accurate... on dating website images". Still this is significant, because these are the same images a government or business could potentially access for their own ends.

Another perspective (Nietzsche's) is that conquering is man's noble state, and that sin is an invention that allows people to pretend otherwise.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Genealogy_of_Morality

be renamed. Really a careless error for BBC.

someone please train a character based RNN to generate these

If this article had any less substance it would be a David Brooks piece.

the betting argument is not the same as what is being discussed.

to a halver, the likelihood of heads and tails are still each 1/2, but the expected winnings of betting tails would of course be larger.

it would be like saying i'll flip a coin, and if you guess correctly that it's tails i'll give you a million dollars. obviously i will guess that it's tails, even though i still believe each outcome is equally likely.

experience is misspelled :)