cato_the_elder

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Wyoming Senate cuts UW’s Gender Studies program(wyomingpublicmedia.org)
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War of Words: Meet the Texan Trolling for Putin(texasmonthly.com)
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Memories of Feynman (2007)(infoproc.blogspot.com)
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
Probably because no one is using it? HN also has a "no procrastination" option which I also think not many people use.
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
Paywall bypass: https://archive.is/hMgqp The original title was "Trudeau Government Moves to Make Expanded Surveillance Powers over Financial Transactions ‘Permanent’" which I had to make shorter due to title leng
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
> Governments have been trending towards policies I like since long before I was born. Assuming you aren't too young, were you in favour of going to war in Iraq and Afghanistan? The Patriot Act? Trump's travel ban? The the long
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
I agree that it is propaganda, but ghostwriting is kinda common for politicians. Reagan's famous "Tear done this wall" speech was written by Peter Robinson. [1] Hillary Clinton's book "It Takes a Village" was w
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
:-)) I just noticed that I'm defending César. That's cruel to my great-grandson.
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
Well, not all organizations need to be strict bureaucracies. Bell Labs didn't work that way. You could certainly argue that the giant bureaucracy model hasn't worked very well for science. Even if you think it has worked well, I t
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Kanye West Announces ‘Donda 2’ Will Be Released Exclusively on His Stem Player(complex.com)
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Nostr, an Introduction(wiki.wellorder.net)
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
I think merely blacklisting a list of bitcoin addresses doesn't do much. There is no limit on creating new ones.
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
So much for the recipient of the "2021 Free Expression Awards". [1] [1]: https://notthebee.com/article/youtubes-ceo-was-given-a-freed...
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
> The severity of the BLM protests in no way sets precedence for other protests, nor informs the minimum level of violence/destruction/disruption that must occur before other protests are criticized and acknowledged as traumati
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
:-) I just noticed that we posted almost the same thing, at almost the same time.
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
I kinda agree, though probably from a different prospective than you. In the case of abortion, the right of the fetus to its life should be balanced with the bodily autonomy of the mother. You can make a much stronger argument against manda
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ACX Grants ++: The Second Half(astralcodexten.substack.com)
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
Rodney Joffe [1], supposedly. [2] [1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Joffe [2]: https://nypost.com/2021/09/30/who-is-rodney-joffe-tech-execu...
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
> It reads as if you expose the article to make a wrong statement about incident rates. No? But you could read it as "exposing" the fact that it mentions incident rates only vaguely [1], and that the title is chosen strategical
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
Sorry, your point about exclusion of bisexuals was actually totally correct. Also, creata found more up-to-date numbers.
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
Because what we have is: # of gays / # of males but what we want is: # of gays / the whole population
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
Yes, the ones you found are more up-to-date, and the more recent numbers probably suffer less from the closeted people/stigma bias. Also, as cuteboy19 pointed out, my number excludes the bisexuals. Unfortunately, I can't edit my
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
But people writing headlines for press releases are supposed know that people are going to make that mistake, and that we often only read the headlines. (TBH, I think they do know) Even setting that aside, there's still a slight (thoug
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
> I don't understand why you would use .85% if 1.7% is the correct (but possibly underestimate) number. I think 1.7% is out of the males, and males are about half the general population. > Additionally, gay/bi is included in
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by cato_the_elder 5y ago
Let's do some back-of-the-envelope calculations. According to the article, "Half of all new HIV diagnoses were in heterosexuals (49%) in England in 2020, compared to 45% in gay and bisexual men." Based on the official UK sta