Global warming is accelerated by humans and our planet is doomed if we do not stop it. With that said, I could care less about saving the environment.
Recycling, composting, and electric vehicles - most of this is an inconvenience to me and is more expensive. My kids and their kids will be perfectly fine in their future environment. Now the trillion dollar question is how do you make people like me care? No, 25 cent paper bags at Safeway won't convince me to bring my own reusable bag.
Say what you want about biological plausibility. But in other cultures/countries around the world, Blacks consistently underperform (any metric you like: marriage success, salary, mortality rate, graduation, etc.) compared to other ethnic groups. What will convince you it is in fact a biological difference?
Despite what the American declaration of independence says (whether you are American or not), no, not all people were born or created equally. Additionally, of the ones born equally, they do not have equal rights or opportunities to pursue of happiness.
Blacks (or African Americans) are less intelligent than other ethnicities, in average. We have information that satisfies your two criteria of supporting class information. Yet people on HN (liberals/progressives) will get upset with this fact.
Supporting classes:
1. Through employment, high school graduation, incarceration, and homicide rates.
2. Due to black cultural, male macho-independence, discrimination from non-blacks, and poor family values.
We have evidence for this, not from machine learning, but from human observation. Yet we're not allowed to use these statistically significant generalizations?
> I wonder how labelling would work with news like saddam hussain's weapons of mass destruction - reported by cia, backed by the goverment as truth, but turns out it was all fake.
There's no need to talk technical about graph nodes and machine learning. It's very simple - the fake news labels are, and will always be biased in favor of the liberal/progressive/Democrat agenda. Objective news is a lie. No one wants to hear it. We want echo chambers that make us feel good. The labels will shift to accommodate this desire.
> Basically, I've come to the conclusion that college is not for all.
Of course college is not for all. It is not something everyone just "does" because of "jobs". High schoolers and college students feel entitled. The vast majority should not be in college nor do they need a college education. If you are an 18-20 year old and cannot see this, then you sure as hell should not be in college.
Intellectual exploration? Community college is good enough. Parents taking $40K/year loans for tuition/rent for your private or flagship state university? Majoring in humanities? Ha. Go ask those graduates if college was worth it.
> Basic income. Free tuition. An outright grant, no repayments. Literally zero barriers except ability for anyone, for any level of academic achievement in anything. Result: a culture with a lot more understanding of the real world, and the preservation of human and humane values, rather than a laser focus on the hand-to-mouth of Jobs Right Now.
Incorrect. This will foster a culture of inferiority because not everyone is equal. No matter what you do, the lower class will be jealous of the upper class and will always demand for more.
Money and education is solved? What about universal access to entertainment? Universal food? Universal housing?
> try to do something non-trivial and 8gb vanishes and you start swapping like crazy.
Perhaps you should stop trying to do all your intensive college assignments on a machine optimized for portability and use a proper workstation or desktop. You know, the "old" computers?
So you would rather us directly fund oppressionist governments around the world, just so you can feel better for the 50 people living in the town next door to the oil fields? Ok.
You think someone in debt would be smart enough to prod half the country as sheep into voting for him? Ha. America got trolled and was given the middle finger. We get it, you're upset. But listen to what the Democrat thought leaders are saying: stop dividing the country with your continued rhetoric in your comment.
- Software engineer at Google in Mountain View, California
Recycling, composting, and electric vehicles - most of this is an inconvenience to me and is more expensive. My kids and their kids will be perfectly fine in their future environment. Now the trillion dollar question is how do you make people like me care? No, 25 cent paper bags at Safeway won't convince me to bring my own reusable bag.