Exactly! There’s nothing wrong with seeking to make facial recognition work better for dark skin tones. Nothing wrong with offering gift cards to people on the street (to a point). It’s how they went about getting the consent for that data that’s the issue.

I mean, he’s right, though. They focused on people of color because they needed training data so the software could recognize faces of people of color. The only problem is how they explicitly didn’t get informed consent for that data.

Why all the focus on targeting darker skin tones? That was the EXPLICIT need to make the product better for everyone. IMO this article would be a lot better by focusing the negative energy towards the shady consent practices.

to be fair, it is comparable to similar goretex jackets.

This sounds complicated. My advice is to pull the plug and scrap the servers.

Okay, no. You tried to make porgs happened, internet, and they flopped. Now we’re told to love a random alien who’ll be on screen for less than 5 minutes.

The question is, how would the economy be without the US sanctions? My guess is they’d be no worse off than the Saudis. It seems they have enough oil to keep the economy going. They just can’t sell it now under the sanctions.

South Korea has turned out alright in the end, but the country spent much of the Cold War under the rule of autocratic strongmen like Syngman Rhee and Park Chung-hee, who were more than happy to violently suppress dissent. Things didn’t really start to get better until the 1990's.

To be fair, the embargos we’ve placed on them has been fairly catastrophic, just like with Cuba. When you had to depend on Russia for economic stability, when Russia wasn’t doing so hot either, then your economy is going down the shitter.

America was once a modern, relatively secular country with an educated middle class that embraced Western culture.

The US is situated about 7500 miles from Iran. Iran has never directly attacked the US. The Shah was not a US “ally”, he was put in place by CIA facilitated coup that overthrew the elected government. He was a murderous ruler who tracked and killed people around the world as well as in his country. He was put in…

Think of it as if the religious right wing was taking over America.

Trump has so far seemed extremely reticent to engage in any sort of actual conflict, despite every other dumb thing he does day to day.

Looks like the Stormtrooper Pyramid didn’t go so well. So much for making it to Nationals.

Search your feelings, you know it to be true.

and that is one with out the cliff-side view

That would be a bargain in San Francisco

A 6.5 square meter cave would go for $2000/month in Manhattan!

Accusing the authors of corruption is pretty foul. Yet somehow you’re in the black and I’m in the grays.

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