a government may be more willing to permit a certain level of environmental degradation in the name of “sustainable development”.
Pertinent question to ask here is if sustainable development can ever be verified sufficiently with hindsight. If not, then does that mean one should practice conservancy or protection, where protection implies using advances to fix historical problems.
1,23%
Typo: should be '1.23%' Why the comma? I guess it is next to the period on the keyboard. I think this might be a sign that mathematics needs an easy-verifiable markup like Markdown. (At least for the basics.)
why genetic humanness matters.
By extension, does saying humanness matters mean eugenics is an important topic despite its historical consequences… For some reason, I really hope genetic humanness does not matter a lot more now…
Bolivia followed Ecuador in 2009 by similarly giving Constitutional protection to natural ecosystems, in order to override the immediate interests of residents
Seems like nature is being granted more legal rights in order to save us from ourselves. What is the evidence we still need nature to function? Could we live on the moon without nature by now if we needed to?
is intended to emphasize the stake that conscious, sentient beings have in their own well-being
This made me thing of the desire for life, liberty, and happiness in the context of bacteria. Even though they are much simpler organisms, could it be argued that they deserve things like freedom? I ask this in the context that bacteria which cause harm could be treated as having no rights because it violates the rights of others.
The arguments are varied but all recognize that legal personality is a policy decision, not a biological one.
At what point are decisions inherently ethical ones, rather than ethics based in secondary practices. For instance, politics, biology, or business.
Environmental protection thus gains with constitutional provisions based in public trust doctrines that restrict the state legislature’s ability to reduce environmental standards.
I wonder if there are laws passed which modify strong constitutional environmental law.
while others object that the ascription of rights to nature anthropomorphizes it to its detriment
One thing I always wonder is why if we anthropomorphize something it might decrease in value. Is it simply because it might not be objectionably true? From a human perspective, it seems to me we are always at risk of anthropomorphism. In addition, it seems we have little chance of preventing it from happening, rather we can only correct it via more observation.
aproach
Typo: should be 'approach' Is this a language translation typo?
It is assumed that the user reports to the system as soon as it crosses the LA boundary.
This is essentially stating that we are able to think of LA boundaries as horizontal planes, but I wonder if vertical elements cause issues. That would require more than four colors because of the 3D boundaries, right?
As TypeScript/JavaScript code will mainly be used for web-based games and will not try to access local files, this issue will be of little practical significance.
I think this comment would be different given modern browser local storage policies.
However, when extensive processing is required, for example, for speech recognition, a server-side asset would be appropriate in order to avoid poor game performance
I wonder if recent advances in AI towards sequential time-oriented analysis, like speech recognition, would change this recommendation.
(http://rageproject.eu/)
I wonder why they do not use HTTPS yet.
95% of the students participating in the course thought that they learned the required HCI skills using the design and development of video games (see Figure 7). The remaining 5% considered that it was necessary to integrate additional content so that learning was more complete.
I wonder how this breaks down under gender lines. Could this strong percentage also just be due to question wording?
Since any missing data that Reddit does not provide will still be missing from the corrected datasets, we encourage researchers to check the integrity of your data when publishing results from this dataset
Personally, I think the best way to encourage researchers to check integrity at this point in the paper would be to list simple actionable steps.
Saleem, Dillon, Benesch, and Ruths have re-analyzed their data after filling some gaps and fail to find any substantial differences in the performance of their machine learning models (citation forthcoming).
This seems like very good news. I wonder if it is because machine learning can track false negatives, false positives, true positives, and true negatives. This would make those metrics important for future history and network analysis studies.
We observed numerous sources of potential bias in research: a substantial percentage of users could be affected by these gaps, the gaps are not evenly distributed across time, and gaps are not evenly distributed across communities.
This says to me someone should develop a social media gap tool if researchers are to effectively mine that data. The main hurdle, I think, would be tuning it to the specific "centers of gravity" of each platform at particular moments.
Leaning on Jo et al [21], we employ a measure of “burstiness”, defined as , where σt and μt are the standard deviation and mean of the size of missing id gaps for each month of data from the Baumgartner corpus.
I wonder why the Fano factor was not used. This probably means I should read Jo et al.
When searching for submissions between #1 and #9,970,001, we have successfully found some submissions, leading us to believe that millions of submissions from the early history of Reddit may be absent from this dataset, though that figure only represents an upper bound.
I kind of wish they mentioned which numbers they found the submissions at between 1 and 9,970,001. Instead of using database techniques, maybe some old fashioned investigative journalism could be done to find out why there are early gaps?
“How can we act responsibly and effectively for change if we do not understand how the food system works and our role within it?”
Maybe AI technology used for diagnoses could be helpful here. Just like a medical AI that recommends treatments, a ethical food AI could provide transparency for consumers even from complicated markets. (Well, in theory anyway.)
arout
Typo: misspelling of around 'around'
assuming part of the risk of poor harvests
If prices go up on a product because of a bad harvest that means consumers in a market are absorbing some risk, right? I suppose, in practice, trying to raise prices to get consumers to pay for bad luck will not work on all crops consumers want.
‘foods without identity’
I wonder how the authors would define brands and culture products differently. I suppose it would depend if you think corporations are people with social responsibilities, or business entities that operate on economics under the law over ethics.
Shortening the distance between producers and consumers is one of the main strategies of the fair trade movement.
I wonder if this strategy could be replaced by advancing communication technologies. If the goal is to have a connection with producers, then maybe following your suppliers social media can keep you tuned in like being a neighbor can. Both seem to achieve the goal of allowing consumers to be passively connected.
or actually
Typo: missing commas here
I wonder if this is a common translation error.