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by yipopov 9y ago
>Yes, truly how terrible they are to spend money encouraging the eradication of polio. Yes, that was what the loan was for. Even if it all went to its intended purpose, that doesn't excuse apparently not budgeting for any repayment.
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by yipopov 9y ago
I'm curious what HN thinks of the current trend in languages like Kotlin and Typescript of having getters and setters masquerade as properties. Then again if you have to use accessors in the first place you have already committed the c
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by yipopov 9y ago
I know the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox do in fact practice things like abortion and contraception, but they are still highly controversial subjects and far from universally accepted in the hierarchy. I still think it's a pretty fair
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by yipopov 9y ago
That said, it should not be underestimated what an immense strain those people are on mental health workers. I wonder how much time those institutions dedicate to debriefing their own staff, I think that would make a big difference in how t
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by yipopov 9y ago
Another example of this idiocy is the lack of goto in WebAssembly
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by yipopov 9y ago
What's the relevance of the minority status? Would a drug proven effective for whites and ineffective for blacks in the US suddenly become effective for blacks and ineffective for whites if administered in Zimbabwe? Or do you mean &quo
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by yipopov 9y ago
Good luck defending this as long as it's deemed political wrongthink to say there are any biological differences between races. If everyone is the same, why bother with diverse studies?
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by yipopov 9y ago
That's hypocrisy, not cognitive dissonance. Though I suppose a lot of hypocrites also experience cognitive dissonance. But if you're going to accuse someone of hypocrisy I think you should be a bit more specific about exactly who
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by yipopov 9y ago
Yes, but in the context of upholding traditional Christian moral standards that's not an option that's on the table, and neither is using contraception. Celibacy, or to be more precise, abstinence, is the only option.
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by yipopov 9y ago
Surrogacy is legal in many parts of the world, and the women are often not in a good position to resist pressure to have abortions.
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by yipopov 9y ago
Celibacy means you won't have any children. Same reason why a carrier of the Huntington's disease gene may choose celibacy instead of reproducing.
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by yipopov 9y ago
Whose cognitive dissonance?
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by yipopov 9y ago
I tried bringing up an Android VM and see if I could escape the web browser and get to an app store, but couldn't, at least not by doing anything more than just poking around with the mouse (if the Indians in question had the know-how
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by yipopov 9y ago
http://archive.is/z9iUE
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by yipopov 9y ago
Two? Who's the other one?
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by yipopov 9y ago
>We set it down next to the rest of our haul from District Attorney Mike Schrunk's trash--the remains of Thanksgiving turkey, the mounting stack of his granddaughter's diapers If they really wanted to make his skin crawl they s
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by yipopov 9y ago
Don't they typically test rockets in outdoors test ranges? And aren't rockets normally supposed to be able to operate outdoors? Of course there is going to be dirt, rocks and yes, even fecal matter. What are they supposed to do, b
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by yipopov 9y ago
I just used embedded Jetty and a normal non-forking service. Why does the Java ecosystem have to make things so complicated and duplicate so much effort?
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by yipopov 9y ago
>Let’s try another more illustrative question - what would the reaction be if he were an Indian in India doing that to Indians or doing it to Americans. Probably just a lot of people shrugging and saying "I guess this guy doesn&#x27
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by yipopov 9y ago
But who was phone?
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by yipopov 9y ago
No, it would be highly unethical to lock the entire control population in a lead bunker for years on end.
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by yipopov 9y ago
Yes, this story definitely has a certain WE WUZ feel to it.
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by yipopov 9y ago
When in the history of Mac OS X could you not install kexts?
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by yipopov 9y ago
> refusing to accept that someone is depressed The depression is not what's being contested. The claim that they belong to the opposite sex just because they say so is what's being contested.
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by yipopov 9y ago
> I'm not talking about the medical treatment. > My question was why do you believe those people need an external frame of reference to know whether those feelings are correct or not? I don't know. I'm sure many genuine
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by yipopov 9y ago
> Your comment also appears to suggest that a life of depression and potential suicide is preferable to the medically accepted palliative treatment that has shown itself to be quite life-altering indeed, That only follows if that outcome
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by yipopov 9y ago
I'm very familiar with gender dysphoria research, and I'm also familiar with the endless stream of vitriol (but no actual scientific refutation as far as I have seen) against people like Blanchard, Bailey, Lawrence et al. as soon
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by yipopov 9y ago
The question of what it's like to be someone or something else is much more immediate with all the youngsters who claim they feel like the opposite sex and have done so their whole lives, despite of course not having any frame of refer
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by yipopov 9y ago
If you don't mind I'd rather not have my name linked with fraudulent academic articles, regardless of who exactly the guilty party is. I could have just said "What the linked article says is correct", but I figured this
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by yipopov 9y ago
Why? What special about JavaScript that makes this kind of analysis possible? Or what is it about WebAssembly in particular that prevents it?

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