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Fantastic real life example. Italian PNs carry also the gender, which something you can change surgically, and you'll eventually run into the issue when operati
by tacone 10mo ago
Fantastic real life example. Italian PNs carry also the gender, which something you can change surgically, and you'll eventually run into the issue when operating at scale.
I don't agree with the absolute statement, though. Permanent identifiers should not generally carry data. There are situations where you want to have a way to reconciliate, you have space or speed constraints, so you may accept the trade off, md5 your data and store it in a primary index as a UUID. Your index will fragment and thus you will vacuum, but life will still be good overall.
- mckirk 10mo agoI'm not sure whether that was intended, but 'operating at scale' actually made me laugh out loud :D
- benterix 10mo agoI have to admit an unintended chuckle, too.
- cozyman 10mo agohow does one change their gender surgically?
- WalterSlovotsky 10mo agoThe preferred method would be gender affirming surgery.
- cozyman 10mo agoaffirming would mean the change has already taken place
- BobaFloutist 10mo agoRight, because it has. The change in gender identity (or in choosing to make said identity more public )has already taken place, and the surgery seems to affirm that.
- delichon 10mo agoYou can't, but since gender isn't defined by anything physical, there's no need.
- bigstrat2003 10mo agoThat is only true if you're using an extremely idiosyncratic definition of gender. As far as 95% of English speakers are concerned, gender is defined by the body you possess.
- Terr_ 10mo agoDoes that mean hundreds of years of English-speakers referring to sailing ship as "she" were all part of a conspiracy to hide that ships have jiggly bits? :p
- pezezin 10mo agoWait until you find gendered languages (like most languages in Europe) and realize that grammatical gender usually doesn't have anything to do with biological sex :P
- lovich 10mo agoThe only real states of matter are solids, liquids, and gases. Everything else is just woke lunacy. I am confident in this fact because I learned it in elementary school decades ago and it is impossible for humanity to discover new information that updates our world model. Every English speaker knows that “plasmas” and “Bose-Eisenstein condensates” are made up.
- brigandish 10mo agoWe all await your Nobel for finding a third type of gamete.
- lovich 10mo agoThe person I was responding to was talking about gender, but if you want to talk about biology then https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Prevalence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex#Prevalence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klinefelter_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXYY_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXYY_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXY_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXY_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXYY_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXYY_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXXY_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XXXXY_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisomy_X https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trisomy_X I assume you will be one of the advocates for my nobel prize edit: I'm sorry you specifically mentioned gametes, we can talk about diploids and haploids if you wish and how our bodies are such complicated machines that any sort of error that can occur in our growth is guaranteed to at scale
- pelheit 10mo agoI think he means attempting to mimic some features of the opposite sex, with procedures like penile inversion and so on.