profunctor

I am discriminated against because I can't just move to America. I need a visa to live there and Americans don't. Discrimination! I am discriminated against because I am not considered for jobs I don't have the skills to perform. It's fine to discriminate under sensible circumstances, such as stopping millions of people coming to your country during a pandemic.

I agree with your third paragraph about the conceptual error. I think there are subtleties to the concept and racism is manifested differently. I've heard Muslim and Arab people talk about their experiences with racism and I believe them but they don't complain of the same things that happen to black people.

And yes I chose the kkk member as an obviously racist person but my point was that pointing out white privilege is just not racist.

There is a clear difference between racism and acknowledging white privilege. White privilege simple describes one way in which racism manifests itself. If you can't tell the difference between a KKK member and someone says that people with white names getting called back for job interviews more than people with black names is white privilege then you are willfully ignorant. It is not racist to say that someone benefits from white privilege.

Also the person you are replying to didn't say they destroy peoples lives based on racial hatred. They haven't destroyed anyone's lives because they're white.

That fact that you made up that number is extremely funny in this context.

16-18 are also made private but a 17-18 year old can change it.

Unions have ideologies and goals above increasing pay and holidays. Holding management to account is common.

Git lfs is what you want.

You can test on a tester of use some of the examples from the checklist paper. In that paper they might add "I hate you" to some random data and assert that sentiment doesn't improve.

People use fashion as a means of expression and art. They might only want to wear an expensive piece my Prada a handful of times before they have gotten all of their enjoyment out of it. Or they may not be able to afford all the types of clothes they want to try and so they sell their nice pieces so they can wear others. It's not about having nice, presentable clothing. It's about experimenting, having fun and expressing yourself. I feel like most of the stuff that goes up on depop is sold by teenagers for whom the 5 euro they get or whatever is a significant amount but lots of adults use trailed because they tried out the Haider Ackerman jacket and it was fine but it costs hundreds and now they want to try something else.

This doesn't just describe a purge where maybe the leaders of the Communist party are imprisoned by a military dictatorship. This is mass murder of millions. It is never necessary. Do what the king of France did and just abdicate and leave if you have lost power rather than engage in mass murder. Sure if there is a militia planning to attempt to overthrow you then have them arrested but don't kill everyone with views to the left/right.

Has any war ever done better than that in all of human history?

Are black and white people equally screwed by corporations? Wage theft seems like something that would happen more to poorer people for example and class has a racial component. Additionally workers in the global south, predominantly non-white are totally abused by these large corporations.

Cities aren't being burned down

Wouldn't they cause violence?

I'm pretty sure they pay their drivers or have I been completely misled?

Isn't that Greek?

They do some great machine learning research and I am sure good research in other fields.

Why?

How does Adam provide regularisation? I’d never heard of this before and I don’t recall it from when I read the paper.

Socialism isn’t when the government does stuff.

Why would they?

> the presumption that disabled individuals are so fragile

No such presumption. Lots of people, especially kids, can become traumatised by bullying. This argument seems like concern trolling to be honest.

> and those people _willingly_ decide if they want to use it or not.

Children can willingly decide to gamble or buy a beer but we as a society don't let them. And we don't just leave it up to the parents in those situations either.

It seems to be a textbook form of discrimination.

Diego I think you're using the word asteroids where you mean the word steroids.

If we are going to take control of capital why not directly take control of the land and build more homes rather than firing money at some collection of small towns and hoping that solves a housing crisis somewhere else?

But nobody dies from the Fukuushima disaster. And plants are getting safer. and many places are safe from earthquake, tsunami combos.

Interesting piece although I don't think they represent the point of view of the agitators fairly, for example the author writes: " you ask supporters, they will tell you the cost does not matter so much, because this is about creating an ideal world. Of course the professor should be fired—how dare she stand against the minority student organizations? Of course it’s okay that the Yelp reviews were published—she should never have written them. Of course names should be changed if they hint at or honor the wrong ideology. What does preserving history matter if history is racist? "

What does honouring someone who is extremely pro-slavery even for their time have to do with preserving history? That history still exists whether they have a building named after them or not. And I don't think you will honestly find many people who believe that the ends justify the means no matter what, although you will of course find some people who believe anything. So I think the "ideal world" bit is also somewhat a strawman and a mischaracterisation of people who are anti-racist or whatever.

I do however agree that a lot of this stuff doesn't really help those who need it most. The rich kids paying a 2% wealth tax funnelled into social welfare and education for the working class would do more, as would having Yale include more working and lower-middle class student. But it's easy for me to say as a white guy that having many buildings named after pro-slavery politicians is not really doing any harm. Maybe we should ask those who would be more effected.

I would be really interested to read about the transition of slaves to serfs after the fall of Rome. Is this your own hypothesis or something that has been written about?

I think it's supposed to be dL/dw1. As in the loss function derived wrt w1.

How did you find developing your models in clojure? I would love to switch away from python for ml but it seems to just have the ecosystem.