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by chownie 6y ago
> Because when we say "4th of July" it's not being said in the context of a date, it's an event. Eh, that's not very compelling. You have a specific event for which you break your date ordering just because? &quo
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by chownie 6y ago
Except for cases like the 4th of July, in which case it's suddenly DD/MM again. Much like the UK's relationship with metric/imperial, the problem with US dating is that it's not consistent. In the UK we'd say &
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by chownie 6y ago
I'd pursue a different avenue honestly. Autism as I understand it is a difference in brain development, it is not something you can cause by wanting. Your same logic has previously been tried on gay men too varying levels of insistence
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by chownie 6y ago
How large should the sample be before it's substantive? The British polling institute advises a sample of 1000 for a total UK population of around 60,000,000. Trans people make up 1% so roughly 600,000, with that in mind 57 doesn'
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by chownie 6y ago
That's fair! I just feel the need to correct the record when I see claims like that.
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by chownie 6y ago
> "you have to act like autistic person with no knowledge of society you operate in". Don't disagree with anything you've written, but could you not do this? Autistic people have trouble with theory of mind (attributi
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by chownie 6y ago
Wow, that's not very nice to read as someone neurodivergent (in my case Autism). I'll use ND further on since it's pretty long to re-read. ND people are all very different, with their own strengths and needs. A lot of it can
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by chownie 6y ago
It is a false comparison to put Disney land (owned by Disney) and iOS devices (owned by Apple customers) side by side. We already had battles on this front, Microsoft had to offer competing browsers for some time at least in the EU. Manufac
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by chownie 6y ago
> Don't fall into the trap of thinking a company of FAANG size cares all that much about individual employees. Don't fall into the trap of thinking everyone posting on HN comes from a similar background. I work for a non-profit
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by chownie 6y ago
That answers a point I didn't make. Everyone exchanges their time for money, if you work a job that's entirely unfulfilling you're trading happiness too. It's an exchange that no one wins.
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by chownie 6y ago
You spend around half of your wakeful hours at your job, if it's unfulfilling you're trading misery in addition to time for money.
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by chownie 6y ago
I'm getting 2.7% CPU usage with the clock loaded on Firefox, possibly platform dependant?
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by chownie 6y ago
Great! Can you provide that argument or am I supposed to think it up myself?
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by chownie 6y ago
This is a really strange take. Once people have gone down the avenue of earnestly reporting private information leakage, the correct answer is to investigate. DDG decided not to do this and instead dismissed the problem completely out of ha
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by chownie 6y ago
The line of defense here is really strange, in order the author runs a whole gamut 1. No this code is original, it's not copied 2. Yes it's copied but it's MIT so it's okay 3. No actually they copied me and being MIT mea
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by chownie 6y ago
It's really varaible based on habits and your biology I guess. I used to drink pretty much consistently Pepsi and Coffee every day for maybe 4 or 5 years. When I decided to give up caffeine it was like a week and a half long flu, horri
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by chownie 6y ago
100% disagree. Male models have similar unhealthy standards, there's just no social expectation that they shouldn't. A comment elsewhere lists common conditions for male models. They have to pre-pump before pictures so muscles are
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by chownie 6y ago
'Huh?' is significant because it forms a communicative purpose, it forms a request from listener to speaker to recall the previous spoken phrase. The study is showing that all languages have a sound for that purpose.
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by chownie 6y ago
n=1 obviously I take a multivitamin with 15mg zinc in it, as far as I can tell none of the autism specific symptoms are affected. The biggest difference is that I feel sleepy in the afternoons when I take zinc, when I don't take it I f
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by chownie 6y ago
I disagree with a lot of what you've written. Occupational therapists and nurses are not qualified to diagnose autism and there certainly is a "somewhere on the spectrum" vaguery to autistic symptoms. If I recall correctly on
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by chownie 6y ago
In 2012 62% voted for statehood, nothing resulted from it. They've voted in favour of becoming a state twice and nothing has resulted from it so far.
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by chownie 6y ago
Yeah, that would've been great but it was a shared codebase among many teams and one of the hard rules was no access to stuff like document :( We also couldn't console.log in this codebase, it was very ideologically pure but it to
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by chownie 6y ago
We had a similar scenario at my workplace, but with React rather than Vue. We wanted an internal component to be able to change the page title, which ended up with a project to transition to using react-helmet. It ended up taking a few week
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by chownie 6y ago
What is SV? I don't know this initialism
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by chownie 6y ago
I actually mentioned the work directly, it's hooked on research starting in the 1800s that she appears to be replicating. We know that Mimosa Pudica can learn, we've known this for over 100 years at this point. She is selling her
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by chownie 6y ago
The parts about plant acoustics are interesting, that's something I hadn't encountered before but it makes sense. That's the most interesting part of the given article that's provable. The focus on habituation studies as
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by chownie 7y ago
Much like typical crimes, only a subsection of company malpractice comes into public view. There's a few major scandals per year from the largest and most publicly known companies. The very least we can say is that company malpractice
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by chownie 7y ago
I think the situation has improved in the last 10 years. When I got a fraud call and was asked to authorise I told the agent that I didn't trust them unless I had a number to call to verify, so the agent on the phone told me to call th
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by chownie 7y ago
I don't believe this to be the case, I don't think autistic people as a rule lack theory of mind. I think autistic people lack the model to link desires to actions and so have a maladapted or vague theory of mind instead. If I&#x2
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by chownie 7y ago
Is there recourse for those who have had their images repurposed for face detection? I don't know if GDPR applies, but the images were collected without consent at the very least. Plus the copyright to these images belongs either to th

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