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by orand 4y ago
Dude, you're on Hacker News and you're asking why HTTPS? Are you trolling?
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by orand 4y ago
> It's more that male/female is not a single binary, it's several bimodal spectra. Gametes are not "several bimodal spectra." They are a single binary. And they are what define male/female.
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by orand 4y ago
> Language is a tool for communicating meaning; as long as the other person is understanding what you're saying then it's not that big a deal how the message was delivered. People get so offended over nothing. Would you be okay
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by orand 4y ago
In Mexico, age is now legally a social construct. Race is one of the last remaining universal taboos for self-ID.
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by orand 4y ago
The modern distinction of gender identity as separate from sex was invented by John Money in the 1960s.
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by orand 4y ago
100%. Lawyers such as Candice Jackson believe that applying religious freedom laws to gender identity is the clearest path out of this mess. The true believers should get no more and no fewer rights than anyone else. It's important tha
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by orand 5y ago
Bingo. Read the recent book T: The Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us by Carole Hooven. It covers this and related issues in great scientific detail. https://www.amazon.com/dp/1250236061&#
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by orand 5y ago
Here’s the Obsidian Webclipper iOS shortcut I use that I modified from someone else’s on the Obsidian forum. You’ll need to modify it to fit your folder structure, etc. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/0d542087f367494fb
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by orand 5y ago
It’s about postmodern deconstruction. Tearing everything down will make everything better. Somehow.
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by orand 5y ago
Autism/Asperger’s is likely the common factor. There are studies that show this.
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by orand 5y ago
It’s the new anorexia or cutting. These things come in societal waves, and tend to impact teenage girls the most.
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by orand 5y ago
Humans can only produce two different types of gametes (sperm or egg), and never both in the same body. And it’s never a “spectrum” with “speg” or “sperg” variants.
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by orand 5y ago
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-stream/2021/6/22/why-a... “The proportion of mental health–related emergency department visits among adolescents aged 12–17 years increased 31 percent in 2020 c
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by orand 6y ago
Yep, bi-pap is the intermediate machine that insurance protocols force you to try and fail on before they’ll approve the machine that actually works for your condition: ASV (Adaptive Servo Ventilation). It’s crazy expensive if you buy it n
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by orand 6y ago
If you don't know who Miguel de Icaza is, read this first. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Icaza It will put his thoughts (and those of uninformed commenters) in a very different perspective.
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by orand 6y ago
Agreed. Coming from Miguel, this has 100x the weight of some random schmoe on the internet. Tons of respect for what he's done over his career, and his position on technology and freedom issues.
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by orand 7y ago
Where can I find "the literature that is being published in real time"?
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OKRs require empowered product teams(svpg.com)
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by orand 7y ago
My favorite part is Huawei is supposedly using our own law enforcement back doors. I hope that this is forever used as an example to fight the ongoing push for "good guy only" back doors.
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by orand 7y ago
Bruce Schneier's summarization [0] of NIST's revised recommendations: 1. Stop it with the annoying password complexity rules. They make passwords harder to remember. They increase errors because artificially complex passwords are
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by orand 8y ago
“Built with Go”. Seems like there are a lot of “built with X” articles. When I see these I always think who really cares that much which language something is built with? Isn’t there anything more headline-worthy about it than the programmi
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by orand 8y ago
Computers used to be bicycles for the mind. Now with things like Facebook they’re self-driving cars for the mind.
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by orand 8y ago
This _is_ billions. $10.7 billion. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/04/15/tesla-has...
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by orand 8y ago
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2018/04/15/tesla-has...
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by orand 8y ago
The vast majority of his career has been leading open source projects and companies. You really can't do that successfully without deeply getting open source philosophy and culture. The most talented open source devs simply won'
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by orand 8y ago
Your comment is a significant misreading of his current statements as well as where he's come from. Yes, he's very skilled in the corporate world, but he's just as skilled in the open source world. You absolutely need to be
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by orand 8y ago
Using Stack Overflow tag trends to compare Swift to the other languages and technologies listed in the article, Swift is still on top. React Native is climbing fastest, and is almost half-way to where Swift is today. http://sota
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by orand 8y ago
The best example of this I know is the HL7 FHIR standard. v1 = DSTU1, v2 = DSTU2, v3 = STU3, v4 = R4 I'm hoping that they call the next one "V5", just for fun.
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by orand 8y ago
Let's rename JavaScript to JNOScript, as in "JNO's Not Oracle". Pronounced "JunoScript".
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by orand 8y ago
Did you know they're trying to get you to stop that and call it ES2015? No joke. Only standards bodies think it's a good idea to come up with a new version of the word "version" for each major new version.

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