LexiMax

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> The research and evidence is extremely limited. Puberty blockers have been used for decades for a variety of other uses, but it seems like its most common use is to treat precocious puberty, which has a number of undesirable psychologi
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Withholding medical care that has been demonstrated to result in positive mental health outcomes seems like the opposite of "do no harm to children" to me.
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I read an interesting post from someone who claims to sit on an IRB here in the US. In short, they were confused. The idea of suggesting more studies at a higher standards was a good thing. However, what puzzled them was that it was incre
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I don't think that structural problems with incentives require any sort of conspiratorial thinking. If you give individual users the ability to flag or downvote posts to tank their discoverability, it is possible for a disconnected gr
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I would hope that a CEO of a company that runs the forum you post in sending a drunken text wishing death upon people is both newsworthy and something that we could all agree on is bad. But not only was this article flagged by users, so we
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So, just so we're on the same page, you are saying that users of "news.ycombinator.com" wanted to purposefully hide a story about the CEO of Y Combinator wishing the death of San Francisco politicians, as well as the actual d
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Which is not surprising. Even the article posits that this is not an issue with any one person, but with the hacker community and culture as a whole. Shrugging your shoulders and saying "Well, users flagged it" is very much in l
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It appears that this was done on purpose and is not an oversight. https://nitter.net/elbertalias/status/1694454191266390361
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> There is nothing wrong with any of the comments linked to by him in that thread, in my opinion. Then there is no meeting of the minds that can be had. > In my experience, this is always arrived at by some sort of absurd logic that g
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Which conveniences are you talking about? Chocolatey gives me the "automatically updating my programs" experience, and vendoring dependencies with vcpkg is about as turnkey as it gets - add a git submodule to your project, refere
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> Can you give us links to some examples? Sure! https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110507731403617388 These receipts foot with my own observations. Transphobia does tend to eventually get flagged, but often i
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> It seemed like Microsoft's product complexity and dedication to backwards compatibility of software would make them the ones to move software management forward. That's precisely why they _didn't_ go with the package man
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It's long been considered okay for teenagers to get breast implants and other cosmetic surgery. By comparison, gender-affirming care has some of the most positive long-term outcomes not only of all cosmetic surgery, but in all of medi
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Kids and teenagers end up gay and transgender regardless of if they have access to the knowledge to explain their feelings and what to do about it or not. The only question is how much confusion, pain, suffering, and possible ostracism you
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> I don't get this. What are trans people doing to us? I've done a lot of thinking about this. People point to religion or society or statistics, but I believe that those are mere fig leafs to justify their hateful gut feeling
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He intended to back out of the deal from the start, it was supposed to be an attention-grabbing stunt, and if you believe conspiracy theories there was some financial upside from doing so, though I can't remember exactly what.
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Let's not give Reddit's management too much credit. They've lit a decade's worth of investor and advertiser money on fire and have precious little to show for it. Their recent moves seem less like calculated business d
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Love their work. OSP Blue has also previously done a multi-part series of the history of the Roman Republic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsR-C9WtoKg
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> I saw useful links on twitter before (occasionally), I see them now in pretty much the same quantity. You and I actually use Twitter in the same way. The era of Elon's ownership is the most unreliable the site has been since the
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Maybe, but the truth is that Twitter is not doing okay. It hasn't been doing okay ever since Elon bought the site, and it's because his purchase saddled the company with so much debt that he basically had no choice but to drastic
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> But I could imagine algorithm changes could ruin somebody's carefully constructed bubble and that could be upsetting. Well...yeah. That's social media for you. At the end of the day, you have to give people a reason to visi
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> But they are trying to build a narrative from it: I feel like the reality is that it has less to do with unbanning a bunch of alt-right trolls and more having to do with changes to tweet discoverability and blue-checks. It's not h
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> I feel like all this "twitter is a hellscape now" is posing trying to get back at Musk because his idea about who should be allowed on twitter doesn't match theirs. And mainly for politically tribal and partisan reasons,
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It still seems to work intermittently. I'd chalk this up less to targeted malice and more up to the general problems Twitter has been having in the past few days. I don't think it's an accident that this is happening at the
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For now. It's a two-site race to see if Threads will add a web-facing front-end before BlueSky can come out of private beta.
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I use the Nitter Redirect extension to redirect Twitter links to a Nitter proxy site, though I do it for more practical reasons - mirrors tend to be more reliable and faster to load than Twitter itself these days. - https://chrom
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Even discounting this incident, finding people and organizations that Elon has banned from Twitter isn't even that hard. I find it very difficult to believe that people who claim that Elon is some sort of free speech absolutist actual
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The Python 3 upgrade process for many projects was incredibly painful. "Mercurial’s journey to and reflections on Python 3" should be required reading for anybody with rose-tinted glasses of the migration. https://greg
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Gerrymandering is just one mechanism to rig elections. Voting laws can be changed to disproportionately affect certain demographics, and districts can even be targeted with special unnecessary "oversight." This is happening all a
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I live in one of the most gerrymandered states in the US. The district lines drawn since 2010 have been struck down by courts repeatedly, but there is no legal mechanism to force the legislature to draw them in a more fair way. On top of

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