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by cassonmars 5y ago
Retaining and maintaining a legacy can be the right path when the external processes that interface with them are heavily laden with bureaucracies or qualifications that are slow or expensive to change. Accounting is a great example, as are
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by cassonmars 5y ago
This isn’t editorialized, the change log literally shows the hate speech rule was removed. They didn’t replace it, they didn’t codify what classifies as hate speech at a different point. They removed it. You can argue on whether or not it’s
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by cassonmars 5y ago
It’s funny you mention that — I just started such a project (three hosting modes: centralized, federated, fully decentralized) as an educational series to teach software development on multiple levels. It’s very early (read: non functional)
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by cassonmars 5y ago
All observations about the use of the term “abnormal” aside, I agree the idea of specifically isolating the hormone variable by using groups of people who naturally fit that range and groups of people that use medication to mirror that rang
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by cassonmars 5y ago
I wonder this too, and they could get a pretty solid answer if they incorporated transgender folks’ data into the set since they’re actively keeping their hormones in the desired ranges of their gender identity.
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by cassonmars 5y ago
Deleting a record in some databases uses a process of marking the record with a “tombstone”, processes can be killed. Abandoning a former name that doesn’t align with a gender identity? Yeah, it’s dead to me.
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by cassonmars 6y ago
Seems like an interesting idea, but it’s light on details such as how consensus is actually achieved. Infobombing is a common tactic (sometimes called the Gish Gallop), where one person will spew multiple claims and sources (which are in of
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by cassonmars 6y ago
My mother was one of the super skeptical types, so she wouldn’t allow the plug in fresheners in the house (or the spray kind either) — it was open windows, sunlight, and very limited cleaning products. I’m pretty thankful about that skeptic