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It's pretty clear at this point that harm reduction policies are failing worldwide and that only the lessons learned at a higher stage of moral development will get us out of this mess. Relationship-focused consequentialist thinking l
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Microsoft is working furiously to eliminate anonymity and purge unpopular speech from the internet. The Windows 11 changes will enable this plan by tying every computer to a real identity and using that identity to watermark all content. I&
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When I hear the word "pizza", the first thing that comes to mind is a New York slice. Italy wasn't the first culture to bake cheese and other ingredients on a flatbread, either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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> This is absolutely a best practice in some corporate environments for DLP. No, it's not, and this attitude is a major cause of resentment among technical employees. The "DLP" industry, in general, is a solution in search
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It's not really surprising. Breaking PKI by installing fake CA certs so that IT can MITM every connection is now an Enterprise Best Practice (tm). In case the sarcasm isn't evident, please read the above as sarcastic. I detest ad
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If it's Boeing, I ain't going! Hard to believe they wouldn't invest and ensure that their software is perfect after the MAX incidents, but here we are.
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> I really fail to understand the logic that may make someone to think a software engineer, however brilliant, can write software for a domain they don’t understand. This misunderstanding arises out of necessity to compensate for the lac
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MBA thinking guides these companies. There's no cost to suppressing coverage of the Uyghur genocide because Western boycotts are virtually nonexistent. The upside of suppressing coverage of the Uyghur genocide can be calculated as the
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> what is Google's exposure here? They want in. They really want in. And they're not alone. Google and every other company dream that, one day, the Great Firewall will come down, and they'll suddenly have a billion mor
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I guess there'll be some more required CBTs about the company's history and naming, then.
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Same. Our company (we'll call it Monsarno) was bought by a certain German aspirin company, and our Bavarian overlords are slowly forcing us from Slack over to Teams. It's a nightmare, and very few groups have made the transition
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Oh, it's definitely not the case anymore. Anecdotes about students in competitive disciplines falling back on medicine are usually multiple decades old. Today, there's no such thing as medicine-as-a-fallback. If you aren't
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That isn't an objection. Inaction doesn't require justification unless action is obligatory. The decision to help a child mutilate himself is never obligatory (or even justifiable).
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Congratulations. Getting fired for doing the right thing might hurt in the short term, but it's the right thing to do and eventually (perhaps already) becomes a great story to tell.
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I agree with you, and I use that to set boundaries and find meaning outside of work. If you surveyed me about my attitudes regarding work, you might think that I have burnout. But if you asked questions about my emotional state or my life
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Burnout is real, but it's not unavoidable. If you can't imagine yourself doing your job for the next 40 years*, then find another one. *If you're a gunner and plan on running the place by then, that's different. Likewis
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Allowing a child to grow up is like allowing a flower to bloom. There isn't a moral equivalence between interfering in the process and allowing nature to run its course.
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> I'd imagine you take the position that a child seeking this care is always confused. Could this be mistaken? I'd conjecture that you believe this to be the case, because you don't address the simple fact that you assume
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It's negligent that a hospital's website doesn't mention the severest consequence of puberty blockers: infertility.
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It's neither speculating nor catastrophising. The risks are real and documented. A confused child cannot give informed consent in this situation: "The primary risks of pubertal suppression in gender dysphoric youth treated with
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The research does not agree. "The primary risks of pubertal suppression in gender dysphoric youth treated with GnRH agonists include adverse effects on bone mineralization, compromised fertility, and unknown effects on brain developmen
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So an "AMAB patient" who takes puberty blockers never develops into an adult man and would require surgery to simulate the appearance of being an adult man if he decided he wanted that? And people insist that these drugs are harml
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The first statistic in the article (high school completion rate) is not an appropriate measure. There's a growing body of evidence that high school seniors are being graduated whether they're capable or not, so a diploma in 2016 m
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Your guess is as good as mine. Maybe Charles Lindbergh used diet and exercise to improve focus?
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I always heard that medicine was the fallback for the students who couldn't hack it as physicists.
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Go work for a non-tech Fortune 500. Expectations are low, and your success will depend much more on soft skills than any other factor. Your TC will be cut in half (or worse), but your base might not suffer as much as you think, as long as
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A fax machine uses a modem of sorts, just with one specific protocol and purpose. I can't find anything about how WarVOX differentiates modems from fax machines, but I wouldn't write them off right away.
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(2014) Definitely still a global threat in 2021, but not the disease that most people have on the brain right now. (Unless they own a cat.)
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Making St. Thomas accessible by relating his work to modern times is a skill. Great post.
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If it's really stressing you out, consider dating people younger than you are. A five year gap is nothing by the time you're in your thirties.

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