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Fair enough. I have significantly more PSLV than GLD. I recognize that even the PSLV isn't sitting in my safe, but because it's in a retirement account, I don't have the option of taking physical delivery.
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WTF are they doing to burn out the employees? How hard could a dating app company possibly have to work to make money? They're not exactly selling ice cream to Eskimos.
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I own some (paper) gold because I think it's been neglected. The market and real estate have produced outsized returns for 20 years (even factoring in the 2008-9 recession), and investors haven't really gotten spooked. Popular s
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> Yeah, all this concern with scalability, portability and clean code, has created quite a dystopian software world. I don't think scalability, portability, and clean code are the enemy. C/C++ are as portable as they ever were,
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Your example illustrates the point perfectly, though. Infertility in someone who is of childbearing age is a problem. A bug, not a feature. Intersex conditions are similar. They don't diminish that person's dignity as a human, b
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There are two human sexes. Carrying a child in a uterus is not a social construct.
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1. Human beings have two arms and two legs. 2. Thalidomide caused some humans to develop without all four complete limbs. These people are still humans. Statements 1 and 2 aren't contradictory. 3. There are two human sexes. 4. Genetic
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There are only two human sexes. Genetic diseases that occur at a rate of 0.018% don't constitute additional categories.
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Intersex people exist at a rate of approximately 2 per 10,000: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12476264/ Most people will go their entire lives without ever meeting one. Do you really think these 2 out of 10,000 people
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Actually, it does. It starts with data. Sure, we can't conclude from his N=1 experiment that it definitely works. But Youtube wants to conclude from N=0 that it definitely doesn't work, and they don't want the peasantry aski
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> doses up to 100-fold higher than those approved for use in humans. Drugs are approved according to their use. If they have multiple uses, they will have multiple approved dosages. Someone with sudden sensorineural hearing loss might
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Yes https://www.evms.edu/media/evms_public/departments/internal_...
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"Not too distant" means only five years ago. The "anti-vaxxers" were people who lived in primarily white, primarily wealthy, primarily urban or suburban environments and who refused (usually) the MMR vaccine. You don&#x
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Sounds like the working title of a Harlan Ellison short.
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Is your code actually correct, efficient, and maintainable? Does the rework improve its correctness, efficiency, or maintainability? There are members of my team whose PRs are rarely approved without rework. There are other members of my
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> Novice developers tend to be proud of how terse and dense their code is, and optimize for minimizing line count. I've never seen a senior write nested ternary expressions with side effects...
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We can be sensitive about edge cases, but we don't generalize from them. Actual intersex conditions occur at a rate of approximately 0.018%. [1] This is a pathology, not a third category. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
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A higher average, even if I'm not participating in it, will benefit me. Looking at a list of countries sorted by GDP per capita reveals that the ones nearest the top (with the highest average) are, with few exceptions, the best places
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> It is an objective fact. An attribute that can change based on someone's feelings is definitely not objective. And all of the genders that are neither male nor female were invented in the last few decades, so membership in one ca
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This would be true if the penalty were only reputation damage. Instead, the penalty is censorship.
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In other words: Is it worth decreasing disparity if the only way to achieve it is to make us all poorer?
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There is less social mobility in the United States (that paragon of bootstrap-pulling) than in the United Kingdom (where class is explicitly acknowledged and accepted.) https://www3.weforum.org/docs/Global_Social_Mobili
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Statistically, without any other data, about half of the people will be smarter than I am, and half of them won't. How can I be sure that I chose the right half to follow, especially if we're assuming that I'm average? Regar
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> In general, if lots of people feel a certain way, and your conclusion is completely contradictory, you should assume you’re wrong until strong evidence says otherwise. This is a useful heuristic for becoming popular but not for making
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https://www.pewforum.org/fact-sheet/public-opinion-on-aborti... > Fewer take the position that in all cases abortion should be [...] legal (25%) 75% of Americans support some kind of ban (with differing positions on
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Most Americans support an abortion ban, but they also support exceptions for rape or incest. If the fetus is a human person with rights, there should be no exception. If the fetus is not a human person with rights, then restrictions of any
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There are two centrisms that can't be confused. The first kind of centrist examines each issue on its merits and arrives at a principled conclusion, regardless of how other people think about an issue. This kind of centrism is reasona
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You didn't like my comment, so you went through my post history? Recasting criminals as innocent angels is a disinformation tactic. You don't get to accuse people of laziness when they correct the record.
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Running a gay bar in New York City wasn't illegal in 1969. The Stonewall Inn was effectively a brothel with mafia protection, not a gay version of Cheers.
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This is not indicative of engineering skill. This is indicative of political savvy and the ability to influence. Rewarding influence indicates a lack of leadership. Humans being social animals, we're already prone to being influenced

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