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by chlodwig 2y ago
The vast majority of people with some kind of intersex disorder are still very clearly either male or female. Hermaphrodites, that is, people whose primary sex organs developed in a way that make them truly ambiguous, are vanishingly rare.
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by chlodwig 2y ago
With regards to "book banning" every example I've seen has been referring to a government library, so the state is involved either way. What is going on is that one arm of the state (elected officials) is fighting another arm
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by chlodwig 2y ago
As far as I can tell, book banning means "Republican elected officials enacting imprecise rules to override to the curation decisions of tax-payer funded school librarians." Personally, I think that many school and city librarians
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by chlodwig 2y ago
This is funny to me because I recently re-read Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and I found the general vibe very appealing. I'm not currently immersed in a world of well-spoken high-status gentlemen-scientists who carry out their own experimen
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by chlodwig 2y ago
The rising young generations want texts that matter to them, that reflect their lives and experiences....Ishmael Beah’s A Long Way Gone, Ibi Zoboi’s American Street, and David Bowles’s The Prince and the Coyote, are all complex, challengin
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by chlodwig 2y ago
I didn't include typewriters on my list of goods. I only included items like cars and motherboards that were as economically relevant at the beginning measurement point as they are at the endpoint. If you think that the manufacturing o
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by chlodwig 2y ago
I've read the thread and have been very familiar for decades with these debates. There are two separate questions: 1) Has USA manufacturing increased or declined in its output (measured in things, not $)? 2) If output has declined in t
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by chlodwig 2y ago
Is that an indictment of the book or of economic orthodoxy?
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by chlodwig 2y ago
that US manufacturing has pretty much been constantly growing for the past century; Really? Every time I see this claim its based on some citing some statistical mismash that the person citing does not understand and cannot explain. How m
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by chlodwig 2y ago
Namecheap, Vultr, BuyVm all operate in the U.S. and at times in the past (I don't know if they still do) have either accepted crypto or anonymous charge cards (available for cash at a convenience store), thus making it possible to get
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by chlodwig 2y ago
There are IaaS services out there that accept bitcoin, monero, or anonymous prepaid charge cards. They aren't an IaaS but Mullvad even accepts cash mailed to them in an envelope.
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by chlodwig 2y ago
Well, it may not be the industry standard definition, but it is the definition used in the actual regulation: ------- Infrastructure as a Service product or IaaS product means a product or service offered to a consumer, including compliment
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by chlodwig 2y ago
It affects all web hosts, so if you want to lease a server in order to install Wordpress or Mastodon you would need to submit your identification to the provider.
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by chlodwig 2y ago
This would make it illegal to anonymously run your own Wordpress install or Mattermost/groupchat server, you would have to reveal your identity to the web host. Do you trust the powers-that-be to never use this information to find and
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by chlodwig 2y ago
IaaS is defined as a provider of computing resources the allows you to run software that is not predefined. So that would seem to include basically every web host. If you can install Wordpress or Mastodon on the servers they provide, they a
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by chlodwig 2y ago
Skimming the regulations, this does not seem right. All IAAS providers (which is everyone who allows customers to run custom code, so it includes any web host like Dreamhost) to verify the identity of foreigners who open an account. This wo
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by chlodwig 3y ago
Notice how you are resorting to name-calling instead of responding to my evidence and arguments. I expect better of you.
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by chlodwig 3y ago
To clarify, the actual causality is this: 1) YIMBY's want to keep out crime. 2) The only tool available for keeping out crime, is to keep housing prices high and to keep out low-income housing projects, because low-income people dispro
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by chlodwig 3y ago
1. Is someone who points out black populations have a 10X to 30X higher crime rate inherently an immoral racist? 2. Is it immoral and racist to point out that because of (1) any policy which aims to reduce or prevent crime in a neighborhood
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by chlodwig 3y ago
> "limiting influxes from populations that have much higher rates of crime": gives the first paragraph defines black people as a population that has a higher rate of crime, this is pretty much explicitly saying "building r
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by chlodwig 3y ago
Is someone who points out black populations have a 10X to 30X higher crime rate inherently an immoral racist? Is any policy -- even if prima facie race neutral -- that tries to limit higher-crime-rate populations from moving into a neighbor
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by chlodwig 3y ago
Blue zones are probably fake -- https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/09/th... https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/704080v2.full
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by chlodwig 3y ago
There are an infinite number of lousy and p-hacked studies showing that every single possible diet is both good and bad before. What are the one to three highest quality, most convincing studies showing that eating unprocessed ruminant meat
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by chlodwig 3y ago
Instead parents insist on this "no drugs, no sex" policy. Of course both of those things can present major problems, which is why they should be discussed but not forbidden. Even sex ed today is maximizing fear and pushing waitin
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by chlodwig 3y ago
From early 20th century until the 1970s people lived in very walkable neighborhoods and took the subways and street cars to work. Read this post of excerpts from a memoir of growing up in West Philadelphia circa 1968 -- https://d
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by chlodwig 3y ago
This is not isolated, my parents were involved in the church in many states and internationally, it was everywhere. Which church?
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Total Nuclear Death: A Warning(mythpilot.com)
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by chlodwig 4y ago
Have you tried the J.Crew 1040 Athletic tapered-fit stretch chino pant? It's designed with a bigger thigh for guys who don't skip leg day -- https://www.jcrew.com/m/mens/categories/clothing/pant
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by chlodwig 4y ago
I don't have a lot of sympathy for those who bought into crypto looking to get-rich-quick or to make unrealistic gains for no effort ... But how many normal people bought and lost crypto with FTX because of their Super Bowl ads and cel
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by chlodwig 4y ago
Not exactly, because banks tell you that they will loan out your money and you might not get it back, that's why you get interest on the account. They can't go horse betting, but they can loan it out. You don't have "tit

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