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691.
by yawpitch 2y ago
For any given individual BMI is useless; it was only ever intended for use in population-level studies, and should only ever be used in that fashion, precisely because it’s simply too back of the envelope. For example consider two people
692.
by yawpitch 2y ago
What a bizarre non sequiter, but the answer depends considerably on the topic, who has the gun, and your survival incentives.
693.
by yawpitch 2y ago
About two hundred years past time.
694.
by yawpitch 2y ago
The purpose of a gun is to put a bullet down range, the purpose of a bullet is to put holes through things. The purpose of a safety is to keep the gun from incidentally harming someone by putting a bullet down range without the user’s expre
695.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Herein lies one of the inherent problems of linguistics, words have meaning only within a narrow context. Moral philosophy (aka ethics) is a branch (with numerous sub-branches) of philosophy that tries to discover or design a heuristic by w
696.
by yawpitch 2y ago
I wouldn’t say it’s the only way — if only because that implies there’s just another binary outside the binary — but certainly making room for the idea that the assumed gender binary isn’t real makes it much easier to set aside the lens
697.
by yawpitch 2y ago
“Moral philosophy” is another word for ethics, and in that branch of philosophy existing/entrenched societal stereotypes and expectations are the moral norms (and framework) of that society. The word “moral” isn’t being used here in
698.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Morally, yes, but again you’re making an incorrect analogy. Let’s evolve this into something colorable: guns are available to purchase, but the manufacturers are required to put serial numbers and safeties on those weapons. Now a new manufa
699.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Someone who is responsible for their actions doesn’t provide fire to an arsonist, a knife to a murderer, or an LLM capable of emitting CSAM to a pedophile. Personal responsibility doesn’t only exist on the consumer side.
700.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Honest answer, not something we’ve achieved yet. Some hints of it in NNTP, HTTP, RSS/Atom, Usenet… but until we decide that Internet connectivity is a fundamental human right and actually back that up I think we’ll still be a long wa
701.
by yawpitch 2y ago
How do I put this so it might make sense? If you’re looking for a knife that is the same as any other knife except no one can stop you from using it in an offensive manner, the odds are you’re not looking for the tool end of that spectrum
702.
by yawpitch 2y ago
So, a CSAM engine. Well done.
703.
by yawpitch 2y ago
A privately owned social media platform exists for no other reason than to promote the political agenda and economic interests of its owner(s). So where you see racism, misogyny, and lies I see a racist misogynist who lies.
704.
by yawpitch 2y ago
If it’s said on a privately owned platform on private infrastructure then it isn’t free speech. Private companies have the freedom to restrict speech on their platforms, and they enjoy that freedom at the price of having to adhere to regu
705.
by yawpitch 2y ago
You linked its Wikipedia entry, I don’t see your quote there, and DDG doesn’t find anything for it either. I do see various things she said about transcendence and immanence that could be twisted into that, possibly through a bad translat
706.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Those two words are still pretty telling, unless “interesting” is understood to have a deeply cutting sarcasm to it.
707.
by yawpitch 2y ago
I can’t readily find any evidence she ever said those words, and from what I can see of what she actually wrote you seem to have taken a somewhat distorted view of what she seems to have meant by transcendence and immanence. Even if an accu
708.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Yeah, cause patriarchy has worked so well in the past. Once again I have to ask, what went wrong in this guy’s childhood?
709.
by yawpitch 2y ago
The most vulnerable were old male smokers with COPD, diabetes, cancer, kidney malfunction, elevated D-dimer and obesity. Just having two of those didn’t put you anywhere near the top.
710.
by yawpitch 2y ago
What’s with the immediate redirects to malware ad spam?
711.
by yawpitch 2y ago
The whole point is to save the warnings for the 0.9% case when there’s actually a dangerous jellyfish about, so if you know one of those (very) rare species is about, go nuts.
712.
by yawpitch 2y ago
… except, of course, the know nothings who fight to remain ignorant. But please, keep wasting your time and that of the people you’re warning against non-existent harms.
713.
by yawpitch 2y ago
… and yet, in the end, it’s still all just physics, even if the physics involved feel like magic.
714.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Seems to me, millennials may simply have mastered survey trolling.
715.
by yawpitch 2y ago
… just make sure you warn them about the water and the air and the land first, all three of which are statistically more likely to kill or injure them.
716.
by yawpitch 2y ago
If we’re talking about Cnidaria, there's a 90% chance it’s a garden hose, a 9% chance it’s attached to a 9V battery, a 0.9% chance it’s a low amperage 120V line, and a 0.09% chance it’s really, really dangerous. If your death in any w
717.
by yawpitch 2y ago
A lot of people have been adding an inappropriate “e” to “secret” lately, I’m beginning to think it’s an evolutionary trend. As for the tool, show me the source code, right now there’s zero reason to believe it’s in fact zero knowledge.
718.
by yawpitch 2y ago
Wouldn’t we have to be pretty certain NI has benefited the world to have a hope of even guessing?
719.
by yawpitch 2y ago
You’re talking about web development; the computer doesn’t matter at all, neither does the OS… get a very cheap used laptop and install NetBSD or any LTS version of Linux. Seriously, a decent keyboard you can type on is the only thing that
720.
by yawpitch 2y ago
So not going to be using that. Also, I know this is probably a losing battle, but there’s a very substantial difference between something you decide is secret leaking and something you decide to secrete leaking. The former is likely b

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