lordCarbonFiber

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by lordCarbonFiber 5y ago
Two limits with a large space of indeterminate in between sounds an awful lot like an analogue signal. A system that classifies as A, B, other: grab bag of unrelated conditions isn't particularly useful in a societal nor medical cont
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by lordCarbonFiber 5y ago
So, just to get the record straight this woman[0], md/phd, expert in gender and sex, is less right/qualified than you, unqualified programmer (who cites no sources for your claim) on a web forum? Like yeah, Im aware HN (as a popul
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by lordCarbonFiber 5y ago
Two things here. 1. Sex isn't nearly as objective as you're making it out to be. It's a bimodal spectrum of correlated traits; meaning there isn't a single marker you can choose to separate everyone into neat buckets th
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by lordCarbonFiber 5y ago
How difficult is it to ask a simple question every morning? Or baring that, engage your kid. Could come to a compromise for defaulting to a gender neutral "they" for when you don't know how they're feeling in a given day
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by lordCarbonFiber 5y ago
Worth noting that that paper not only surveyed exclusively parents but also recruited exclusively from transphobic websites (small wonder the parents found weren't particularly supportive). To the point where the conclusions had t
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Say anything positive about trans people on this site and the downvotes come ^_^;;
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
A mistake that a lot of people make when talking about bigotry is assuming it begins and ends with loud angry people yelling slurs. Building a system that genders people based on their voice isn't "inconsiderate" it's ju
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Link to the paper for anyone that wants to look more critically at the study. https://sci-hub.do/https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/full/10.10...
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Trans people are required to be on hormones (and even maintain certain levels) to compete in elite sports. See WA and the Olympic committee's rules[0][1] So yeah, not a transmedicalist, just we have existing frameworks for how to balan
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
The exhausting angle is real. I think there's some inheritant bad faith (even if unintentional) in asking sensitive questions to a forumn with no validations on identity or expertise. Your odds of finding someone that knows these thing
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
So, first off, that number is not the average, it's the median. Quoting from Table2 "Data are presented as median (25th percentile–75th percentile]." The paper isn't on nonfree testosterone in general, but in the opening
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Ignoring why the WSA chose 5nmol/L over something closer to the average cis woman's upper quartile (which is closer to 2 [45ng/dL as seen in [0]], not .6 as you're implying with the 7.5x figure), Im not sure what their r
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
We live in a world where google exists, hell where scihub exists. It's extremely suspicious to show up in a forum "asking questions" when these resources exist. Getting told to "fuck off" in this context is basica
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
So that's the stance "the liberties of the intolerant should be limited only insofar as they demonstrably limit the liberties of others" most of the major social networks take and it falls short in that it's hard to dr
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
You have to always remember it comes down to scale. The fact that making the claims is always less work than debunking them already has the balance of power way off into the claimant end. So anyone moderating anything is going to turn to h
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Tones of statements fall under that header. It can be Trump supporters tallking about election fraud, nazis talking about "race based IQ distributions" or transphobes talking about "bathroom predators"; there's no
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Especially since, a year later, the answer seems to be "selling how to build a Twitter following" self help videos. [0] This is just someone who desperately needs to justify why he retired early (which is a perfectly reasonable th
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Citation desperately needed. Having grown up in the suburbs and participated in the exodus along with everyone I knew that could, detached housing is an isolating personal hell (and a pain to clean and maintain on top of it). Places where s
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Comparing being "forced" to commute hours (in a house that you chose to live in when you took the job) is a bit disingenuous to being actually forced by a pandemic to not go into an office. Im happy for all the people that can l
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
It's interesting how basically everyone in the thread has an example of a badly awarded or maliciously used software patent and there even existed an entire industry predicated on lawsuits built on the back of portfolios of the things
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
I fully agree that opening up the offices before there's a vaccine is very unsafe and shame on any company that brings people back early but it's not just extroverts that want to go back to the office. Speaking as an introvert
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
I love how cis people, after reading (likely only the abstract) of one paper and now fashion themselves experts on the lived experience of trans people. Measuring a correlation says nothing about causation (either way; there's a lot of
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Except, in this system you're relying on users who choose to view unrated content to provide the initial ratings. Even places like 4chan have moderation and most people won't be willing to engage with content at that level to pos
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
Allow me to shed a single tear for the landlords who took an over leverage position and are expecting the taxpayer to bail them out on the threat of a mass eviction crisis. If only someone could have told those poor poor landlords the dange
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
If 5MB of memory means swaping out to a floppy disk 30 years ago and 1GB usage doesn't today because your macbook has 32gb of ram the older program is still going to be slower. I think there's an important distinction between &
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
[citation needed]
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
110% I wouldn't federate with any node that allows that sort of posting (from Trump or anyone else). I run a a mastodon node precisely because I don't want to deal with the racism, homophobia, and transphobia so common on twitt
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
I think a lot of what gets seen as ageism is push back against the explosion of "software developers" (i use this term very loosly) that cropped up during the dot com boom. Especially in industries that aren't purely tech (fi
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
So all of the negatives of working at an office (distractions, commute, etc) with none of the perks (free food, good tech, access to coworkers). I enjoy the office as a perk (with wfh an as needed thing rather than a regular thing) and con
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by lordCarbonFiber 6y ago
That assumes my compensation is already at the upper bound of my cost/benefit axis for the company instead of close to the minimum bound to keep me from looking to advance elsewhere. Better question is how much more would I be look

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