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These are the kind of things that apps should be more clear about.

The new Fujifilm app requires location access to even open the app, which you use to download images wirelessly. I know they want it always on to add GPS data to photos, but there’s no reason the app requires it to even launch! I should have the right to opt out of tracking because I don’t want to use Fuji’s weird social network feature.

But Google Photos on iOS requires access to all your photos and their metadata to even open. But I don’t want to use Google Photos to store ALL my pictures, I just want to download my photos. Google and Facebook both stored the exif data to determine your location, and so I can’t use Google Photos at all on iOS.

I don’t think you’re wrong either, but at the same time it’s not feasible for everyone to be their own agent and it’s not feasible to say employers can’t use AI.

I don’t know what the solution is, but I’m prepping for a sudden career change in the next few years.

It’s fair to compare but you can’t dismiss concerns based on that.

Past automation often removed duplicate or superfluous work type things, AI removes thought work. It’s a fundamentally different kind of automation than we’ve seen before.

It will make many things cheaper to do and easier to start some businesses, but it will also decimate workers. It’s also not something that’s generally available to lower classes to wield yet.

It’s here but I don’t have to be optimistic.

Alright, when the AI takes my job and I can’t feed my family while the billionaires add another digit to their net worth I’ll consider the pros.

There’s about 0% chance we reform society for AI, it will just funnel more wealth to the rich. People claim it will open new jobs but I don’t see it.

Even iOS and Samsung fucking browser gave ad blockers.

Chrome mobile is shit and purposefully so.

That’s actually really cool to hear. Where I live it’s still “sex: M/F” but trans people are able to get it changed.

They can’t really check that you’re non binary, that’s not a sex that appears on most (any?) drivers licenses/ID.

I think this case is far fetched, the ride share company has your info which makes the legal case against you a slam dunk.

I posted a description of how this causes bias here and here

When I run the numbers I do see this system as creating a financial bias in favour of women+.

I’m talking about the impact on the drivers, not the waiting time of riders (though that would also become longer on average for men, (edit: it does not change waiting time)).

I ran a simulation study of the queuing+matching system described (a variation of M/M/c queue) and there is a clear negative impact on male drivers. There are three situations: too many riders, balanced demand, and too many drivers (there’s also zero demand but we’ll ignore it).

1. Too many riders: in this situation men and women+ perform the same because the matching rarely happens. Women+ riders match to women+ drivers 23% of the time. Fares for women+ drivers are 53% women+.
2. Balanced demand: women+ match 23% of the time, yielding a benefit of 5-9% more fares to women+ drivers. Women+ riders match to women+ drivers ~41% of the time. Fares for women+ drivers are 80% women+.
3. Too many drivers: Women+ always match in this situation, making 5.5x more fares than men. Women+ riders only match to women+ drivers. Fares for women+ drivers are 85% women+.

The disparity can in theory go up to 8x more fares for women+, but the scenario where that happens has women always available in the system.

The actual outcomes of this would vary in real life of course, and queuing theory isn’t really my thing. I assumed all women+ drivers opt in (because why wouldn’t they?) and I’m using Lyft’s own published numbers. The state of the system will oscillate between these outcomes, but in theory it should skew towards the two biased results.

Now to your point: obviously women raped and financial impact to men are two entirely different things and we can’t even begin to compare them in this way. Rape and sexual violence is abhorrent and we should take actions to reduce and stop it, the question is always: which actions are reasonable and fair.

This system is financially biased against men, and significantly so. It would reduce the event of sexual violence (by reducing male-women+ interactions). Is the system a fair tradeoff, I don’t know. My gut feeling is that I don’t like it.

It is zero sum, giving preference to one group in the list requires changing preferences to another groups.

Imagine you’re at Walmart queued for checkout. You form a first-in-first-out line and the first checkout available takes you. With this women+ system there’s a person sending women+ to the express checkout (>20% of total capacity) unless there are no women in line, in which case the express serves men now. At busy times both checkouts serve customers, but the women+ lines are always at least as busy as the other lines.

Obviously the algorithm for location and time based matching with ratings is different than queuing at walmart, but the principal is the same. If you have a system where A >= B it is possible to fall on the equal region, but at low traffic times or in less ride dense areas this is objectively unequal.

It is objectively always better to be in the women+ group than outside of it.

This stuff transfers over WiFi quickly. I don’t think 99.9% of iPhone owners have even plugged a phone into a computer in the last 10 years.

I’ll go and shoot 30gb of photos and within a half hour of uploading them they’re synced to iCloud.

I use a Mac and I’ve seen plenty, apart from us being forgotten and the release date pushed back silently twice. For me any dirt ground textures never render.

Larian does a much better job than any other studio, but I paid for the game to play in August at release with my friends, but then they silently dropped the release date and the only viable solution to playing was to pay for GeForce now and stream it.

I’d only be a little annoyed if they communicated their issues.

The app ecosystem has been getting so much better, and people are starting to grok federation, and frankly this app would be dead if some of the recent drama happened if it had way more users.

We are definitely on the early adopter curve for this tech.

This is the rare hobby crossover and it costs more than the sum of its parts.

My pet peve is using splines to interpolate charts like this.

Just don’t do it. It makes baby animals cry and creates false trends which don’t exist.

D&D can be cheaper than wood working

It’s sad and frustrating to see a guy who was given every opportunity in life throw it all away.