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by jl6 1y ago
Which bit are you having difficulty understanding? Make trivial observations if you want moderate accuracy (~99%), use a cheek swab or genetic test if you want greater accuracy, consult a doctor if you are still unsure.
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by jl6 1y ago
A physical examination by a doctor, possibly augmented by imaging, is an excellent way to determine sex if previous observations and tests have been ambiguous. This is rarely a great difficulty, but when it is, it's how DSDs get diagno
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by jl6 1y ago
OK, I can reproduce that on the iOS Joplin app, but not on the desktop app. Weird.
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by jl6 1y ago
That’s one speculative possibility, but we don’t know. It could be infinite, or finite with a boundary just out of sight (beyond the edge of the observable universe), or some other more exotic geometry. There’s no solid evidence either way.
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by jl6 2y ago
I don’t understand… occasionally I use markdown and switch to the viewer mode to see it rendered, but most of the time I stay in the editor mode where everything is just plain text.
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by jl6 2y ago
If your target level of accuracy is 100%, there is probably no medical test that can show anything. Did you know there is no conclusive test for Alzheimer’s, IBS, migraines, and dozens more physical conditions, nor for any psychiatric c
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by jl6 2y ago
Francis would have been the first to call himself just a guy in a robe. I’m an atheist and don’t find it difficult to listen to people of all faiths put forward moral philosophy, and I can identify parts that I agree with even if I might di
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by jl6 2y ago
Body modification through technology doesn’t really encroach on the scientific classification of the natural world. The Vacanti mouse which had an apparent human ear grown on its back was an amazing thing in its own right, but its existence
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by jl6 2y ago
It is a screening test, not a diagnostic test. False positives are possible, but so are followup tests for those cases.
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by jl6 2y ago
Depends why you need to know and with what level of accuracy. Just looking at their face is about 96%-98% accurate[0], and becomes even more accurate when other cues are available such as voice, gait, and build. For casual purposes, humans
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s not that confusing. “Has a womb” is not a common definition of “woman”. Women don’t stop being women after having a hysterectomy. The woman in question is a woman because her sexual differentiation followed the female pathway. Just bec
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by jl6 2y ago
> He promised to look at all possibilities “agnostically” and “follow the science no matter what it says.” Great talk! Let’s check in on the walk in a year.
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by jl6 2y ago
Hey, if you don’t want to listen to that woman, that’s fine, but maybe you might listen to these women?: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02640414.2024.2... “The study compared current Olympic ver
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by jl6 2y ago
Opinions vary on what the purpose of government is, but if you take the view that the government's priorities should be providing services that are impossible, inefficient, or unethical to provide privately, then I don't see the C
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by jl6 2y ago
It’s a reckless move to cut funding so abruptly, but taking a step back from the short-term chaos, it probably is an anomaly that this was government funded. All of private tech relies on it, and private tech is big enough to pay for it.
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by jl6 2y ago
So is this going to instantly break a bunch of tools like Trivy?
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by jl6 2y ago
Well, the evidence is that when males and females compete against each other in sport, the males tend to win, so if you think womens' sport should exist, then you need to define who is included and who is excluded from that category.
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by jl6 2y ago
Good to see someone call out both the government authoritarianism and the academic echo chambers that precipitated it. Clean hands are in short supply here.
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by jl6 2y ago
Ah, the good old column naming convention from MS Excel. Now there’s an amazing creation that occasionally explodes catastrophically.
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by jl6 2y ago
> Viewpoint Diversity in Admissions and Hiring. By August 2025, the University shall commission an external party, which shall satisfy the federal government as to its competence and good faith, to audit the student body, faculty, staff,
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by jl6 2y ago
If it were that easy there would be no issue. If I were possessed of a religious faith that considered my name to be so holy that it must not be spoken, would a law against saying my name repress others, or would lack of that law repress me
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by jl6 2y ago
But then, human artists have a lot of training and influences too, so it's not so easy for humans to be truly original either (if that is a thing).
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by jl6 2y ago
I always wondered if there was a clinical basis for that escape hatch or if the drafting committee felt it was just too contentious to go there.
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by jl6 2y ago
If you are so terrified that it interferes with your normal everyday personal functioning, then yes.
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by jl6 2y ago
Beliefs and behavior are usually only a disorder if they interfere with the normal functioning of everyday life (whatever that is). Like, maybe you believe you are a mongoose, but as long as you can still happily eat / sleep / wor
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by jl6 2y ago
> For example they tried to claim that the slogan "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" is genocidal. It’s actually just German for “The Bart, The”.
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> no claims other than those of association Yeah but that’s how modern conspiracy theories work. They have evolved beyond the old staples like flat earth and moon landing stuff which make clear statements. They instead just insinuate. An
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by jl6 2y ago
Unfortunately a lot of data retention policies aren’t so mechanical, but are of the form “delete after 7 years unless there is a legal hold in force”, which is usually just rare enough of an edge case that orgs evaluate it manually and henc
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That which is good and right is built on deep foundations which are often forgotten or neglected in favor of surface level activity.
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by jl6 2y ago
> And that's assuming the revenue generated would be the same every year forever, when in practice it declines over time. For the crown jewel IP that the studios are most interested in protecting, the opposite of this assumption is

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