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by Manuel_D 1y ago
I can confirm that PIA does not reliably get around geo restrictions. There's only so many IPs in the pool, and the content providers will block them. There are alternatives like Hola VPN, a "free" peer to peer VPN except non
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Except in Britain you can be arrested for complaining about the quality of your school, or an offensive Halloween costume: https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/article/police-make-30-arr... This isn't about
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Microsoft has definitely put a lot of work into the arm surface laptops. I'm having a good time using a surface 15 inch. I picked the lowest spec model, only 16 GM ram and 256 GB drive. But I use it like a terminal: I run vscode server
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
It's not the write ahead log that prevents that scenario, it's transaction isolation. And note that the more permissive isolation levels offered by Postgres, for example, do allow that failure mode to occur.
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Time-boxed UBI experiments don't represent how people would behave if they had the benefits for life. That's not throwing rational analysis out the window. If anything, trying to extrapolate the results of a UBI pilot that didn&#x
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
I think the issue is that it'd be really hard to test experimentally. Basically you'd have to give a select group of people UBI for life and do a 40+ year long longitudinal study.
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
For, what, the fifth time the sample in the study did express cross sex gender identity. They were trans kids, to use your terminology. A patient can't desist from a cross sex gender identity if they never expressed one in the first
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
No, "trans kids" don't get prescribed blockers just because they ask for it. Does a child just say one day "I'm a girl" (or boy) and then get handed blockers as they head out the door? Of course not. There is a
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Unless you transitioned over 10 years after seeing your psychiatrist, you would be counted at the ~20% that persisted.
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
That is the same user, me. The critical used the same arguments made here: insisting that the patients weren't "actually trans", which I find unlikely for the reasons I wrote above. Not only that, they cited the retracted CAM
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
For the third time, the children in the study met the same criteria that would be used to approve a child for puberty blockers. Why do you keep insisting that these children "never necessarily claimed to be trans"? Whatever "
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Take a much more gradual increase in intensity. Start walking for 5 minutes, then speed walking for 5 minutes, then light jogging, etc. Alternatively, try cadio exercise on a machine. Personally I like the elliptical machine way more than r
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
The allegations of rent fixing don't look very credible. RealPage had a single-digit market share in SF when that story was making the rounds, nowhere near enough to effectively fix rates. Furthermore, these cities don't have high
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Sex is so deeply ingrained in humanity - heck, not just humanity but mammals and animals writ large - that it is almost certainly impossible to create a world where people genuinely treat trans people the same as cis people. Sure, outlawing
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
> There is a gap between how much the renters could conceivably pay and the minimum for which the house could be built and maintained. The actual price will be somewhere between the two. No, not necessarily. If there's enough compe
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Sure, but if the price of housing is too high then price controls won't fix it either. You'd end up with no availability, or a decades-long waitlist for rent-controlled apartments like Stockholm. The issue with housing affordabili
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
If loads of housing is built and the price of housing starts dropping, firms won't want to invest in housing because they'll lose money. Unfortunately, a lot of politically active home owners also want to keep the price of housing
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
For the third time, desisters are non-dysphoric cis people. They are not repressing a trans identity. If they still feel gender dysphoria living as their cis gender they have, by definition, not desisted.
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Neither of the two things you asserted are true. > You are counting kids with GNC behavior who never talked about transitioning themselves stopping said GNC behavior. These children met the criteria for GID in the contemporary iteration
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
The term "intersex" is no longer used by the medical community, as it wrongly implies that there are some people who are "between" male and female. The contemporary term is "differences in sex development" or D
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
What didn't I address? The fact that trans people have worse life outcomes than cis people? That's such a well documented health disparity I didn't feel the need to links sources, but if you insist: Higher rates of suicidalit
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
No, I don't think it should be illegal to speak about transitioning. Where in this comment chain does it even remotely look like I argued in favor of the bans discussed in the OP?
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Again, these people are not prevented from transitioning. A minority, about 20%, do transition as adults. The rest no longer harbor desire to live as a different gender.
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
About 3% of people 50-65 identify as gay. 4% of 18-29 year old identify as gay. 1% of 65+ identify as gay. At most, the rate increased 4x over the span of half a century: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023&#x2
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
The majority of patients stop experiencing gender dysphoria. The analogy to a married person "stuck in the closet" is not correct: in that scenario this person is still same-sex attracted but suppresses that desire. In the case of
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Desisters are not "still in the closet". They have become comfortable in their cis gender and no longer want to transition. Many (~60% of the sample) live happily as same-sex attracted cis people.
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
In the child comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44546443
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
Attempting to equate watchful waiting with conversion therapy is a bad faith attempt to discredit the evidence that without active affirmation, most gender dysphoria patients desist after going through natal puberty. What are you going on a
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
> The study itself uses criteria for gender dysphoria that's been outdated for decades. The study uses the DSM-III and DSM-IV criteria for gender incongruence disorder, or GID, now referred to as gender dysphoria. The sample ranges
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by Manuel_D 1y ago
As per the linked study, the desisters tend to no longer experience gender dysphoria. It's not just that they don't transition later in life. The scenario you're describing - people struggling with gender dysphoria but reluct

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