thomasfedb

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by thomasfedb 4y ago
Whether they are "normal" is an interesting philosophical question. There are lots of things that are unusual or rare but which we still think are "normal variants" - red hair, left-handedness, coronary artery location,
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
It's not "a scientific fact". There's almost nothing in medicine that you can reduce to a strict binary, it's always more complicated than that. It's always fascinatingly and amazingly complicated. In medical s
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
I think the way we regard guns in Australia is important. They are dangerous objects that are either used for work, or as a hobby by a small number. To a very large extent we don't worship or slobber over them. I've fired a gun on
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
That is one usage of the word. But we should not pretend that the word has only one use. Chuck "discriminate" into Google and you'll get two definitions: > 1. recognize a distinction; differentiate. > 2. make an unjust
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
A blanket ban would be I think. Having a blanket ban demonstrates that you are judging transgender people on their transgender status alone, rather than making an evidence-based assessment of whether a particular athlete has an unfair advan
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
I do really think that what most trans activists (and most trans people) want is "please let us live our lives". That said, I'm in Australia, and maybe things are really different wherever you are. Of course, "live our l
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
Totally agree. The charitable interpretation is the right one to make if you actually care about arguing the ideas. I'm sure my philosophy professor would be very upset with me.
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
What I was trying to point out is that the relationship should be: "is a mental health condition" infers "is in the DSM" Raster than: "is in the DSM" infers "is a mental health condition" That said,
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
Have been using Dokku in (small scale) production for years and absolutely love it. Was also recently pleasantly surprised to see that Dokku supports ARM... so looking forward to trying it out on my RPi4 next week.
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
Would be reasonable to expand that to "prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism against trans people". Hate is a pretty high bar perhaps? The etymology of the -isms and the -phobias is unfortunate. But the <group of people>-
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
Fixed! Yep, that was a slightly uncharitable reading of the parent post I accept.
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
If you're accusing me, be good enough to be specific.
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
There's an important distinction here. To quote that page: > Gender dysphoria is the feeling of discomfort or distress that might occur in people whose gender identity differs from their sex assigned at birth or sex-related physical
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
Given that you've clearly decided that trans activists have "delusions" I'm not sure there's much hope, however... - What changes to your language are they demanding? If you mean they ask you to refer to them in a p
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
The DSM is a book full of things that (a particular group of) academic doctors think should be considered to be illnesses. It's previously included homosexuality and "gender identity disorder" (transgenderism). It's a
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by thomasfedb 4y ago
The main point being raised by trans activists is "please let us live our lives and not be horrible to us". There's really not a whole lot more to it than that. So if somebody's "pushing back" on that, I think
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by thomasfedb 5y ago
I am a doctor, and while exercise is really good for you (and we should all do more!) it has effectively no bearing on weight in the general population (non-athletes).
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by thomasfedb 5y ago
Regarding messing with your gas exchange: The body is well adapted to 21% O₂. If you flush the CO₂ of of your lungs (which you can do without the tank, just hyperventilate) you'll actually bugger up your blood's pH (CO₂ in water i
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by thomasfedb 5y ago
It's not that simple, sadly, if it was my job would be way easier. Yes, your cells (usually) run on glucose but that glucose can be produced from a variety of dietary sources including sugar (sucrose, fructose, etc), other carbohydra
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by thomasfedb 5y ago
Personality disorders are generally not able to be effectively treated with medications. That's not to say that doctors don't ever try, but there's very limited evidence to support it.
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by thomasfedb 5y ago
But the format and length for these numerical strings is fixed.
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by thomasfedb 5y ago
Should also point out that a psychotic disorder is probably not the most likely reason for issues with attention in adulthood. There are numerous organic (medical term for non-psychiatric) and psychiatric causes of inattentiveness.
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by thomasfedb 5y ago
Per the DSM-5: "Several inattentive or hyperactive-impulsive symptoms were present before age 12 years" is one of the diagnostic criteria. Source: I'm a doctor, also https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/adhd/d
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by thomasfedb 5y ago
One of the many reasons I love the ABC (our national broadcaster in Australia) is that everybody knows that they will have the info you need in an emergency - on TV, radio, online, and social media, round the clock.
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by thomasfedb 5y ago
There's value in delightfulness in CLI tools. Having "go get" be the incantation for Go to go and get something, that's a nice experience for a dev, particuarly when you're picking up the language/tooling.
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by thomasfedb 6y ago
> despite making a $600 withdrawal from his Open Collective fund in June 2018 with the explicit purpose of releasing v5[2]. I just want to point out how crazy it is that we expect people to releasing a whole major version for $600 Meanwh
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by thomasfedb 6y ago
Even for a stroke, the standard ED protocol is a CT in the majority of cases.
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by thomasfedb 6y ago
If you could document your experience with Pouch/Couch that would be excellent. I've considered using the stack for a offline-first SPA but the curve seem so steep, particularly the database creating, proxying, etc required to mak
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by thomasfedb 6y ago
> Hint: plan to have babies in April/May, so any complications all get stuffed into one plan year, and you hit out of pocket maximum sooner. As an Australian medical student I'm horrified to think that this would be a genuine &
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by thomasfedb 6y ago
Irritation factor is an important billing metric. I very rarely say no to a job, I just price so that I'll be happy if they accept.

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