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by kemayo 5y ago
It’s not a gotcha, friend. It’s just that you were wrong. You can now say the accurate thing instead and still be making a good point.
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by kemayo 5y ago
It's a great argument for camera phones, because you don't need added lighting or stabilization to get decent shots. The pictures you take are better than the ones you never took, and if you take a lot of pictures you're mo
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by kemayo 5y ago
I did say it wasn't great. It's just not as bad as the poster claimed.
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by kemayo 5y ago
This is true, but my Windows experience suggests that the one-set approach to window-switching doesn't help me maintain that grouping. You do get quick switching between recently-used windows, but if I have more than a few (or multiple
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by kemayo 5y ago
I don't think you can say Lightning only exists to make Apple money. They did come out with it a decent length of time before USB-C was finalized (2012 vs 2014), and (I think) Lightning is clearly superior to pre-C USB options for a
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by kemayo 5y ago
You don't actually need to do that. You can use Xcode to put any app you compile onto an iPhone connected to your Mac, regardless of whether you're paying. However , if you're not paying then those apps will only work for 7
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by kemayo 5y ago
You can also get to that directly from the cmd-tab switcher -- if you press up or down while the switcher is open it jumps straight to exposé for the focused app.
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by kemayo 5y ago
I actually like the command+tab behavior, and miss it when I use Windows. I'll explain: if you have a lot of windows open, I think it's nice to silo them. When I have ten Firefox windows and six Sublime windows and three iTerm win
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by kemayo 5y ago
Having a nice painless euthanasia experience is really helped by professional medical assistance. Yes, there are other ways. But.
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by kemayo 5y ago
Oh, I doubt he really wanted that. The sort of thing I suspect he was actually referencing is the "black people commit X% of all crimes" / "racial differences in IQ test scores show..." talking points. (Or their e
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by kemayo 5y ago
> This is called the Genetic Fallacy, it is completely irrelevant who said anything as long as that thing is true and/or useful. Nobody owns words. Is it irrelevant, though? I mean, there's a reason you haven't edited
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by kemayo 5y ago
Personally, I'm amused by the interpretation that the best way to comply with this law is to avoid all mention of gender and sexuality in classrooms. All children shall be "they"; books mentioning heterosexual romance will be
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by kemayo 5y ago
For what it's worth, I think that the critical position on this bill is basically extreme skepticism about what the parties initiating legal proceedings are going to consider "instruction ... on sexual orientation and gender ident
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by kemayo 5y ago
Ignoring for a second that it's perfectly legitimate for a teacher to do something like have a rainbow flag bumper sticker on their car, or be openly gay and mention their same-sex spouse in class, all of which would not go well in m
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by kemayo 5y ago
> But this focus - deliberately engineered btw - on right wing firing is misleading. There is an order of magnitude more firing and suppression of left wing voices at college. It’s just there is no Fox News of the left to focus culture w
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by kemayo 5y ago
My understanding, and I’m not a professional here, is that child development studies indicate that children develop a sense of gender identity by about age three. There’s a lot of debate about how this gets determined — whether it’s biologi
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by kemayo 5y ago
If you’re okay with everything I asked about, does whether gender is inherent matter?
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by kemayo 5y ago
Actually, question to reevaluate: from that answer you’re okay with the existence of gender roles as distinct things from physical sex, right? Do you have any opposition to someone presenting as a gender role that doesn’t align with their p
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by kemayo 5y ago
No, I said “gender role” in quotes for a reason — to group it together as a concept. If you want I can rephrase it to “societal role historically associated with a particular set of physical traits”, but I thought that was apparent. The arg
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by kemayo 5y ago
I stand by the non circular definition I put in this comment in a different part of this thread, if it helps: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30979465
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by kemayo 5y ago
I am using the word "valid" about how you're using "real", I suppose. This is probably a dead end of an argument. I think you're making a value judgement about what could be possible -- you're entering t
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by kemayo 5y ago
I think you fundamentally disagree with this, but I'd say gender is your internal sense of how you align with societal constructs that we associate with certain "gender roles". In our society this is "male" and &q
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by kemayo 5y ago
I think you're exaggerating what qualifies as a "heresy". It's different from people thinking you're wrong, loudly disagreeing with you, or even not wanting to associate with you once your opinion is known. If we ag
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by kemayo 5y ago
Doesn't this argument work about as well to deny the validity of most psychological conditions? Some have a physical basis, but a lot are entirely rooted in internal experience.
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by kemayo 5y ago
Mysteriously enough, the rich old man has his priorities aligned differently there. Tangentially, I'd like to note "rich old man" as an example of one of those "just speaking an objective truth" things this essay su
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by kemayo 5y ago
The particularly uncharitable reading of that quote that jumped to my mind when I read it is "but why can't I, a white guy, say the n-word?" But this probably isn't what Graham actually had in mind. I think Graham is try
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by kemayo 5y ago
The good old "a state's right to what exactly?" comeback. :D
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by kemayo 5y ago
> When you're out of a call or your camera is off, we show users as "selfies" because we think those feel more human that just a green dot. Website viewers often interpret these selfies as being live video. Even though in-
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by kemayo 5y ago
Looking at it, I suspect a lot would depend on the specific team/manager's expectations. The basic idea of "there's a fluid always-going video call that you can drop into whenever you want" isn't awful, and I c
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by kemayo 5y ago
I think it's somewhat context-dependent, but people do have a general preference that applies across situations. Particularly if it's a topic where you don't have the expertise needed to evaluate what someone says, falling

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