heterodoxxed

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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Once Perestroika liberalized their economy, they had distribution issues, sure. But before then, housing, food, clothing all were cheap and available. The food was simple, the apartments small and the clothing dull, but it was all there and
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Cheap wants, expensive needs. This is our economy now. "I love my iPhone, but I worry about health insurance." as I've heard it put here on HN. Ironically, the Soviet system fell from opposite. Expensive wants, cheap needs.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Simple session tokens are fine, always have been.
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Burnout Is Real(twitter.com)
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
| The WPATH standards of care also state, however, that male chest reconstruction surgery for female-to-male patients “could be carried out earlier” than the age of majority in certain cases, and ultimately should be considered on a case-b
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Mastectomies are performed for non-gender-related reasons, such as prophylactic mastectomies, so it's arguable whether that falls under the definition of SRS/GRS. For any reason, it is exceedingly, vanishingly rare in children. It
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
| grounded in facts and Biblical truth You're going to have to come up with a better source.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
That seems unnecessarily pedantic, since obviously it should be assumed to mean "not recommended by anyone who matters ", but I've upvoted you for providing the source. I was editing my comment with that exact link when you
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
| gender reassignment surgery SRS/GRS is not recommended for pubescent children by anyone. At that age only hormone blockers are on the table, definitely not permanent surgery. EDIT Posting a reference backing up my claim since I&#
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Of course not, it's a terrible thing.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
The market doesn't reward those who optimize their code. Fastest-to-market and slow beats second-to-market and optimized every day of the week.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
| a much smaller house, much less technology, a very cheap car or public transit, vanilla food, only a few suits of clothes, and bare bones health care. You would have to be highly skilled to do that, the average worker couldn't get
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Right, but that's why we (ideally) put infrastructure costs under the control of an entity (the government) which doesn't have to operate within a system of profit and market competition.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
But those are for automated systems, more akin to a keycard than a contract for ownership.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
| NFTs have a future as digitally signed proof of ownership Why do you think handwritten signatures have gotten us so far? Because the literal act of signing something is the lease important part of contracts and trust relationships.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
| It's bad now, but in the future it might be great? Not be able to reverse transaction is not a feature, it's a fundamental flaw. There is absolutely no advantage to the consumer or the producer to have all transactions immedia
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Calendar year means YTD not 1 year.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
One aspect I'm fascinated with is the way that consumer goods are continually dropping in price offsets the increase in necessities. We get a supercomputer in our pocket for $40 a month, but rent has ballooned. We can have hundreds of
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
I live in Trump country, too. Which means I know a handful of people (not even anywhere near a majority) love to throw their impotent tantrums and we need to stop letting that scare us.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
It seems to me this sort of cynicism is more about giving up without a fight than any kind of hardened realism.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Restricting the greatest excesses of the rich and militaries (the US specifically) and some form of aggressive carbon sequestration, but I don't think any of that requires some kind of Year Zero political program.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Public transportation, requiring biodegradable packaging and transitioning our energy grid doesn't have to be nasty.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Simply put, there is no humane way to occupy a people.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Not everyone has the time, energy or inclination to be a race car driver, even if they possess the capability. Some people just want to be able to use a computer without having their identity stolen and bank account drained.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
| subscriptions that cost $36 per month and $43 with delivery. | For that, subscribers get a 3-pound mix of greens and vegetables every week. $43 a month gets you 12 pounds a month with delivery which comes to $3.58 a pound ($3 without
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
Yes for the most part, plenty of women always had jobs . The feminist movement was about women who wanted careers , which is why so much of its appeal was amongst the middle to upper-middle class who were unfairly being kept out of presti
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
First off it's been over seven years, it's not hard to understand that black lives matter is a decentralized movement that is not centrally represented. The website is not the movement. Second, both of those "opinion pieces&q
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
https://www.nola.com/opinions/article_4f6138fe-ea8c-551b-9e6... https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/12/09/black-lives-mat... https://www.facebook.com/JusticeForDa
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
| it's just another respiratory viral disease, Except it's literally not, it's a vascular disease.
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by heterodoxxed 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tendency_of_the_rate_of_profit... "The tendency of the rate of profit to fall (TRPF) is a hypothesis in the crisis theory of political economy, according to which the rate of profit—

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