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by Manuel_D 2y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace#Controversy_over_... > All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier. The exception was prepared by Babbage
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
I find that very popular subjects do, in fact, manage to be relatively unbiased. E.g. Bush or Obama's Wikipedia page is pretty fair. The more eyeballs on a piece, the less likely that egregious bias is to persist. Bias is a lot more pr
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Two (well, really one) concrete example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessica_F._Cantlon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celeste_Kidd The allegations these women made against Jaeger were investigat
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
So they wouldn't have been sued if they just never pursued on device monitoring in the first place? Or is this going to be a new requirement for all smartphones moving forward?
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
I suspect this would be feasible if filming was accompanied with a depth sensing camera like the Microsoft Kinect. In post production, you could tell roughly how far each pixel is from the camera which could aid in the reconstruction of a 3
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Retro game coders achieve some pretty astounding results sometimes. One of my favorite examples is one who optimized super Mario 64 to such a degree that it runs with much better framerate on the original hardware. Also, multiplayer was add
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
It significantly increases the cost of track per mile. The (then) Soviets started electrifying their railways in 1930, and didn't finish until 2002.
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Lithium became drastically cheaper, but has yet to achieve relevance in term of grid scale storage. The US uses 12 TWh of electricity per day. The world used 60 TWh. Global lithium ion battery production is around 600 GWh. Most lithium stor
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
"...if there is no deficit to the hormone". It sounds like if someone has lower-than-normal testosterone then it increases sex drive. But if someone is already at normal levels of testosterone takes more, it doesn't significa
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
But discrimination against trans individuals has by most measures increased. Bathroom bills, many states categorized gender medicine in minors as child abuse, etc. Polls asking people of they agree that gender can be changed has decreased o
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
So a 3x increase over 50 years for left-handedness. By comparison there's been a 40-50x increase in gender clinic patients in just 11 years from ~100 patients in 2011 to 5000 patients in 2022: https://segm.org/images&#x
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> criminal conviction related to the profession is not a proxy, Yes, it is a proxy. Some people commit crimes but aren't charged or convicted. Some people are falsely convicted. Convictions of crimes absolutely are a proxy for commi
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Is it defensible to claim that men don't commit more violent crime than women? Sure, men are convicted of violent crimes at a higher rates, but convictions for violent crimes is just a proxy for the true violent crime rate. If we want
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> The actual claim being made: that the treatment is reversible in the sense that children are able to come off it and go through puberty, isn't really being contested here either. By this logic cross sex hormones are reversible to
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Again, can you point out how the report was influenced. We have the interim report published before Cass met with this staffer. We have the final report published after this meeting. Can you elaborate on how it was changed at the behest o
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
The interim report - which had the same findings that gender affirming care in minors had scant evidence - was published in March 2022. Also, that quote is not appearing anywhere in the linked article. Did you post the wrong link? Again, is
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
This meeting was held after the Cass Review was published, so it's odd to try and use it to discredit the review itself. Furthermore, Hilary Cass met with hundreds of people to discuss the findings of the review. Is any researcher who
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> I don't think patients who want to be addressed as a women particularly wish to end up 6'4" tall with broad shoulders, but those are unintended side effects of unwanted puberty for a significant number of people currentl
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
No, I don't think patients want to have brittle bones that are much more likely to break. I don't think patients wanted to never experience an orgasm. These are not desired outcomes. These are unintended negative side effects
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
It highly depends on your definition of trans. Some estimates place the rate of trans people at ~1.2%. If 1 in 10 trans people are athletes, then that'd be about 6x more common than intersex. https://usafacts.org/arti
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> The Algerian boxer was born female, but has high testosterone due to whatever medical condition, Imane Khelif has an X and a Y chromosome. She has 5-alpha reductase deficiency, which leads to the development of a pseudo-vagina and inte
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
It is very common for left-leaning figures in the US to deny that trans women and girls possess any advantage over cis females in sports. In reality trans women still possess greater bone density, higher average height, higher red blood cel
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> Singal has argued repeatedly that Zucker was fired without cause due to a witch hunt by trans activists (this will come up again) And Singal was right in that regard. Zucker was awarded over half a million dollars in a defamation suit
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
Intersex are not 1% of the population. That figure comes from a study that included women with Turner Syndrome and PCOS, as well as men with Klinefelter Syndrome as intersex. Even a layperson would have zero trouble classifying the sex of s
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
What's the basis for the claim that the Cass Review was written with political goals directly in mind? Is this just based on the conclusion of the report, or is there actual substance for this statement? Most of the criticism of the Ca
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
You perceive it to be accurate, that doesn't mean it is accurate. Furthermore, these sorts of things are highly subject to post-rationalization. Did you write down on a piece of paper what you expected before you clicked? Or did you
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by this. Let's imagine MCAT scores directly determine malpractice rates. If one country practices race based affirmative action in medical school applications, and another country does not the we should
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
It absolutely does offer that evidence. Blockers are indeed irreversible, they can lead to infertility and inability to orgasm depending on the length of time they're taken. Even shorter periods of puberty blockers will change height,
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
> Like what the skin color has to do with how good your physician is? Nothing. Unfortunately, this is not the case. Malpractice and disciplinary rates among Black and Latin physicians are higher: https://www.library.ca.gov&#x2
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by Manuel_D 2y ago
If SciAm is going to be opinionated like The Bro, then it has the same degree of intellectual authority (or lack thereof) as The Bro.

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