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December LC Thread **Survivor White House Edition**

View Poll Results: Who will NOT survive the month of December?

Matthew Whitaker

10 21.74%

John Kelly

6 13.04%

Kjrstyn Njielessen

8 17.39%

James Mattis

1 2.17%

Ryan Zinke

0 0%

Donald Trump Jr

8 17.39%

Roger Stone

4 8.70%

Ivanka Trump

1 2.17%

Rod Rosenstein

6 13.04%

Write-in

2 4.35%

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12-10-2018 , 05:59 PM

#326

Namath12

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T&P

12-10-2018 , 06:01 PM

#327

simplicitus

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Was told this week by a newbie Ivy League grad in HR that he was surprised how seriously his fortune 100 company took complaints.

12-10-2018 , 06:06 PM

#328

dth123451

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I worked at a big bank; EVP was openly racist and said he wouldn’t lend money to black people, got reported to HR and they fired the reporting party and retained the exec. Lol banks.

12-10-2018 , 06:08 PM

#329

goofyballer

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When was that? That sounds like it would be a huge deal today, like, really bad stories in the press and heads rolling.

Like, that's not to say it couldn't happen today, but there's a staggering liability (in the press) they're opening themselves up to by doing that, and presumably it hasn't bitten them yet.

12-10-2018 , 06:12 PM

#330

dth123451

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About 5 years ago. The exec was super connected politically right up to the CEO; shortly after this incident they moved him to a different group. Was pretty eye opening to me because when it got reported to HR I assumed it would be an instant **** canning, nope, exact opposite. Was very eye opening.

12-10-2018 , 06:21 PM

#331

suzzer99

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Lol England.

12-10-2018 , 06:24 PM

#332

jalfrezi

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Hey stop lolling at our mace, it's there because of... ah I mean it's important for .... ok forget it.

Mace >>>>>>>>>> POTUS

12-10-2018 , 06:28 PM

#333

Chips Ahoy

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I see it's been covered, but all the AIs are super racist because they learn from training data. The training data comes from the real world. The real world is super racist, we just pretend it isn't.

It's not bad design or bad implementation, the AI is learning our reality.

If you want your AI to not be racist, that's a hard problem. Good luck finding large data sets that aren't full of racism.

12-10-2018 , 06:32 PM

#334

well named

poorly undertitled

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I'm really interested in the possibility of algorithms like that being incorporated into social science research, as a kind of research method.

12-10-2018 , 06:35 PM

#335

jalfrezi

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How do you think the results would look if we seeded our AI with a text dump of 2+2?

12-10-2018 , 06:43 PM

#336

SuperUberBob

Not interesting enough

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Pre or post ikes?

12-10-2018 , 07:02 PM

#337

yeSpiff

old hand

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12-10-2018 , 07:12 PM

#338

chezlaw

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Quote:

Originally Posted by jalfrezi

I don't understand well enough what exactly is causing the bias - is it that more crime proportionally is committed by poor people, more of whom are from ethnic minorities? - or something else?

Poor and vulnerable people are far more likely to be convicted of a crime than others who commit crime at the same rate.

12-10-2018 , 07:40 PM

#339

ChrisV

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Lol England.

4:35

12-10-2018 , 07:47 PM

#340

All-In Flynn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by suzzer99

Lol England.

It is pretty hilarious, but let's not forget you guys have a thing every year where your head of state issues a pardon to a game fowl.

12-10-2018 , 07:50 PM

#341

chezlaw

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and Australia voted for the queen

and the game fowl would make a better president

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12-10-2018 , 07:57 PM

#342

DrChesspain

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Originally Posted by suzzer99

Lol England.

I thought someone was going to get sprayed in the face.

12-10-2018 , 09:00 PM

#343

Bdidd

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Cliffs on what I just watched with the whole
Mace thing and why it is lol?

12-10-2018 , 09:15 PM

#344

All-In Flynn

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Bdidd

Cliffs on what I just watched with the whole
Mace thing and why it is lol?

The mace is there as this like symbol of Parliamentary authority or something? John McDonnell, a fairly well hard-left member of the Opposition, picked it up and put it down on the Labour front bench. What he was thinking, who knows. Why people care so much, who knows. You have to remember England is a place where the judges still wear wigs and ****.

12-10-2018 , 09:17 PM

#345

ChrisV

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Bdidd

Cliffs on what I just watched with the whole
Mace thing and why it is lol?

The mace is a ceremonial symbol of the authority of the Queen. Parliament is not allowed to meet without it being there. Obviously, picking up that sort of thing and walking off with it isn't the done thing.

12-10-2018 , 09:20 PM

#346

ChrisV

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And honestly while it's kind of funny, you'd have to say 2018 isn't the best year on record for Americans to be laughing at the idiocies of other people's political systems.

12-10-2018 , 09:23 PM

#347

ChrisV

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Speaking of weirdness and Americans, my pub quiz the other night had a question "In the United States, what does a menu mean if it says something is served "a la mode"? I did not know the answer, and lol at calling it that.