_IF_ (big if) the Republicans lose power, whoever follows will need to show real action and consequences. The Democrats already failed with J6. I don't think the American people will accept a similar outcome.
The post (and the website) is also an add for the author's upcoming book. I don't know the author or their prior work, but the clever title itself has me intrigued.
As for my comment on the post itself, as someone living in NZ I'm relieved Thiel chose to go to Argentina instead (for now). Also, it really shows how scared these people are. For all their wealth and power, they are clearly scared lonely little children.
This looks actually useful. But can someone help me understand how you address the non-perfect scores: "Privacy Filter achieves an F1 score of 96% (94.04% precision and 98.04% recall)."
How would you actually use this if it can fail redacting 4% of the data. How do you reliably know which 4% failed?
My experience with models that can reach high 90%-ile benchmark rates on tests is that often that last few percentage is arguable, vague, and often experts would disagree. You could try it yourself by training an MNIST classifier and seeing which digits your model inevitably cannot guess -- you'll be like "...wait a minute..."
Anyway, I have no idea what the underlying data here looks like, but I bet it's pretty unusual.
When I was working on my first job out of college, we were given a large contract and told to redact with black Sharpie every name of a company; it was a basic document prep exercise ahead of a strategy session for a competitor. Standard practice was to share general information but not specific. Our redaction error rate on 200 pages of contract was ... not 100%.
It's only allowed in one direction, but it's effective in many.
Violence is the reason slavery ended in the US. Violence brought us civil rights laws. Gay rights. Women's rights. Labor laws. Environmental protection laws.
Every right granted by default to white Christian gentlemen at the founding of this great nation had to be taken in blood by everyone else. That's just how America is. It cannot be trusted to live up to its own standards except at gunpoint.
When, where and how violence is justifiable is a different question, of course. But the premise that "Naturally, violence is never an answer, nor is it a politically effective tactic" is simply false. If violence were politically ineffective, authoritarian states wouldn't use so much of it.
Half of those things were not brought about by violence. Labor laws? Absolutely. Gay rights, maybe? Gay marriage was famously won non-violently by showing the wider public that gay is normal.
What violence brought about women's rights or environmental protection laws? I suppose protestors destroyed the fur market.
All this, so people like us can do our jobs just a little bit easier, which wasn't that hard to begin with, and in fact was quite comfortable all things considered, for employers who are promising to lay us off, for productivity gains that aren't even measurable.
Think back on a time where you and a teammate (or teammates) spent hours or days debating back and forth on different technological or architectural options for trade-offs. How much nuance and detail went into those discussion. We used to take pride in our ability to make careful and measured tradeoffs. And yet with this tech all that is thrown out the window.
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