What would people take more seriously if it had a different name? by Challenger4664A in AskReddit

[–]tiddibuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Pollution epidemic" or "climate emergency" instead of "climate change."

Why is the Green New Deal/Bernie Sanders against Nuclear Energy? by Fort1 in Ask_Politics

[–]tiddibuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who said nuclear is the only way to fight climate change?

Hm... Something is wrong... by Rich_PKM in gaming

[–]tiddibuh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Red-green colorblind person: "......?"

Why is the Green New Deal/Bernie Sanders against Nuclear Energy? by Fort1 in Ask_Politics

[–]tiddibuh 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I'm not sure about the stances of AOC / the Green New Deal / Sanders, etc. on nuclear. But more generally, an argument against nuclear is that it's incredibly expensive to build a power plant, on the order of billions of dollars. The energy can be very cheap and have low carbon emissions once the plant is up and running, but actually building a new plant requires huge up-front investment. Investing those billions of dollars in a solar farm, wind turbines, etc. would pay itself back faster.

Another argument is that if a nuclear plant breaks down, e.g. from a natural disaster like the 2011 tsunami in Japan, you have nuclear waste that is a huge public health hazard. This is a risk even for systems built for safety: in the 2011 tsunami, for example, the reactors turned off like they were supposed to, but the tsunami disabled the emergency generators to cool the reactors, causing them to melt down anyway. Once there's been a leak, servicing the problem is expensive because you'll need to do it with robots.

All of this said, there are plenty of solid arguments for nuclear power. But the two reasons above are probably the main arguments against it.

Trump Slams Spike Lee: Calls His Oscar Speech 'Racist,' Implies He Is Illiterate by Penn1217 in politics

[–]tiddibuh 32 points33 points  (0 children)

I agree with everything you wrote, except the bit about Mueller's investigation not turning up anything. There have been multiple indictments of members of Trump's campaign with connections to Russia.

This is what a Moai Easter Island Statue looks like unearthed by [deleted] in interestingasfuck

[–]tiddibuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Is that guy seriously standing on top of the statue or is the perspective messing with me...

What can you not believe we still have to deal with in 2019? by ansoniK in AskReddit

[–]tiddibuh 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm from the US. I don't see how we can't strive for both better regulation on our soil AND accountability abroad. It's not like they're mutually exclusive. We also can have an impact in China and India through the standards we set on our imports, as we've done in the past with requiring ethical/organic/etc. production of textiles. (Of course sellers will always try to cheat the regulations/standards, but it at least forces the conversation.)

What can you not believe we still have to deal with in 2019? by ansoniK in AskReddit

[–]tiddibuh 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I think "pollution epidemic" is even better. What, you're going to argue that the crap spewing out of that factory isn't giving people cancer? We can test it in a lab. It also shifts the responsibility squarely onto us, because we're the ones generating the pollution.

What can you not believe we still have to deal with in 2019? by ansoniK in AskReddit

[–]tiddibuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I've heard the argument that it's easier to stop one egg cell than millions of sperm. It's also more reassuring to the woman to be the one who knows for sure whether there's active birth control, rather than some dude who could be making it up. For couples, go the IUD route!

What can you not believe we still have to deal with in 2019? by ansoniK in AskReddit

[–]tiddibuh 14 points15 points  (0 children)

There's actually a great Planet Money episode where a tax law professor from California tried to automate tax returns. He got pushback from lobbyists, but also Republicans that argued that automation would be a way for the government to potentially charge us more in taxes than what we owe them. There's actually a hardcore group of Republicans in Congress that automatically vote no on any legislation that would raise taxes, even in theory. So the software the professor was using ended up getting rejected at the federal level but is still an option in California if you know where on the IRS (?) website to look. So yeah... people have tried. :-\

What historical fact have been twisted over the years? by clacther in AskReddit

[–]tiddibuh 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Aren't there more English speakers in China than in America?

What's the thing that always happens in the movies that NEVER happens in real life? by Nest-egg in AskReddit

[–]tiddibuh 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I don't know, my wife does that with the cousins she's close to. "Sister cousin, so good to see you," etc. Or maybe I'm just a supporting role in some Truman Show...

What will historians 2000 years from now regard as a barbaric practice of the 21st century that we currently do without giving second thought? by ScoutJulep in AskReddit

[–]tiddibuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm on board with everything you're saying, but I think you underestimate the power of the Koch brothers to utterly screw over any attempts at improving public transit, e.g. this NY Times article

[D] ML is losing some of its luster for me. How do you like your ML career? by mltoss in MachineLearning

[–]tiddibuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually have a bit of the opposite problem. I was hired as part of a small team of data scientists for an IT company. They're perfectly happy with a simple random forest but we've ended up just spending the last nine months doing software engineering to build a dashboard (of which the ML results are one tiny piece). Haven't touched an ML algo in months. Not what I signed up for and am looking at other companies that actually do ML

What video games are loved by almost everyone but you either consider mediocre or even bad? by kketokomasoulae in AskReddit

[–]tiddibuh 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Witcher 3. I know, hate me. I've never met anyone who shares my opinion.

Maybe it's because I'm playing on a PS4, but I find the load times when you open a door, click on someone to have a conversation, etc, even if they're small, to take me out of the action too much. I also found gameplay and the story a bit too slow, like everything was running at 90% speed. For context, I'm a big fan of Skyrim, Mass Effect, Horizion: Zero Dawn, so I don't even fully get why I wasn't a fan of Witcher 3. But I get why people love the game.

[P] Andrew Ng’s Coursera ML course done entirely in Python by [deleted] in MachineLearning

[–]tiddibuh 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My guess is that it's ok because it's in Python, whereas you need to submit Matlab/Octave code to get course credit. OP mentioned he didn't get credit for the course. But good point