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> It's not clear to me what the existence of the occasional XXY individual, etc., has to do with the idea that gender is just a social construct.

It doesn't, but it does have to do (potentially) with the argument.

One side says "Gender is male/female, scientific fact, and can be examined in DNA". They are outright rejecting the idea of gender being a social construct.

The other side COULD try to argue that gender is a social construct by virtue of all the social variables and treatments that are involved, but that doesn't actually set up gender as a social construct - those can all be social issues ATTACHED to a non-social construct, just as young/old are the social constructs attached to chronological age. To convince the other side, you need to separate gender as a concept from the genes. If the "static binary" group cannot imagine a gender identity separate from the genes, they might understand someone XXY having one of those binary options. They may even understand one XXY person being "male" and another being "female". Even if they argue that there is still a rigorous "male" and "female" option that is based on the expression of the genes, they are accepting that we are making some definition of "male" and "female" that is from a collection of criteria. The "decision" of what is in those collections of criteria are more clearly socially influenced.

So: Society decides what defines "male" and "female" traits (based on "traditional" traits exhibited by chromosome-based sex) => society is defining male and female for the unusual genetic mixes => male/female is based on behavior => male/female isn't solely decided by chromosomes => having only strict male/female definitions is not the only set of definitions available.

At least, that's how I understand the argument. And I have some anecdotal evidence for it - My first exposure to transgender/intersex/etc was in college with a video made by a group of people who WERE unusual genotype or extreme phenotype differences. Listening to someone talking about how they felt like a "boy" but their penis was removed shortly after birth, forcing them to be in a world that treated them as a "girl" gave me a perspective I could identify with (and was horrifying - it also gave me my first real moment of empathy to consider how day-to-day life is different for a woman. Realizing that I (cis-straight male) thought the idea of being treated as female was actually scary caused me to rethink some assumptions...and I was raised to be socially liberal. The idea that there was a penis to be removed made me instinctively agree that this person could be male in a way that is hard to match.

That said, I don't think the non-XX/XY phenotype argument is the most persuasive available, or at least not for everyone. I do think it's a valid approach, even if such visible phenotype differences are rare.
Indeed.

Not only do you learn geometry, but you participate in the same understanding of geometry that all later mathematicians started from.

I've always encouraged reading Euclid, Newton, Einstein. In my humble opinion, mathematics is much easier to understand historically, as it developed, and the best historical perspective comes from primary sources.

I must acknowledge, however, that for whatever reason very few people share my perspective on this.
If they do (don’t have mine handy to check) then perhaps they shouldn’t. Since that marker is used to enforce a specific gender on people’s lives.
Microsoft cracks down on tech support scams, 16 call centers raided
Marriott’s poor data breach response is putting victims at risk of phishing
and yet here you are
You need a proof of concept to demonstrate both to yourself and others that your idea is worthy of a full implementation. Usually this means writing real code; not a ton, necessarily, but enough for a Show HN. To get others interested in your project, you have to have enough to convince them to participate. Don’t make vaporware.
Because it increases responsibility, when you are the who has to clean up the mess. It makes you care more to keep your system reliable and available, because your personal stakes are higher. There are some good comments here along those same lines.

Of course getting a call middle of the night, when your system goes down because of an AWS outage you can nothing do about just sucks ;)
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It's ok to make a point like that in general, but not fine when it's personal, and there's nothing more personal than a case like this. Please don't do that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
And this is after only two flights. It's a Block 5 booster, which are supposedly designed for 100 reflights each.
I think we could apply the principle to programming languages - which old languages are still used? C comes to mind, as does Lisp.
Is the ToS a binding and enforceable contract in your country?
This completely misses the point. The problem is not "most searches". The problem is those banned ones and what is done with access to that search history.

Search activity is linked to a phone number so it could be used in the social score. Do you think a message on the result page will help with that consequence?

Don't delude yourself into thinking Google is somehow making China a nicer place to live because it's easier to search for pictures of cats.
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"Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it, email us and we'll look at the data."

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you are an idiot! this means people with high skills are allowed in this country.
> Although, if you show me a random person, I can easily tell you their sex (and in most cases gender).

No, you think you can easily tell their sex, because people who have successfully transitioned are the ones you can't pick out. It's confirmation bias.
This is a bit overly simplistic, and there are many things to consider.

Let's say we agree with the premise that search censorship is bad, and we want to work to get rid of it. What is the best way to accomplish this if you are Google?

Maybe the best answer is to refuse to work with the Chinese government and not do this project. Maybe, though, the best approach is to comply and try to work within the system to change it.

I am not saying that answer is correct, either. I am just saying you can't act like the answer is cut and dry without any room for differing opinions or debate as to the best way to accomplish the goal.
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That's (maybe) great for folks in China, but what about folks outside? Is the rest of the world really better off if Google can easily be bullied and manipulated by the Chinese government?

Once they start taking orders from Beijing about what results to show in China, why shouldn't they take orders about what to show in the US? After all, the Chinese government controls their access to an enormous market worth lots of money. Will we be able to find articles about the concentration camps for Muslims in China after they're operating in China?
The comment reasonably suggested that wealthier countries tend to be better stewards of the environment. This isn't at all like saying that we should plunder the environment for profit, and it takes quite a logical leap to misread it that way.

(Edit: Removed reference to flag killing, as it's not clear that's what actually happened.)
I worked for a company that had product managers that were very talented at turning requests for custom features into solutions that we enabled (and our core was required to implement) but using a third party to implement. Consulting was used to find new core features and keep a finger on the pulse but not as a significant revenue generator. It enabled us to grow a product company to big revenue per headcount metrics, which is hard to do as a service company.

The situation described by GP is primarily a expectation and people management problem, not a technical issue.
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Discrete Graphics cards are niche hardware, but the niche isn't shrinking appreciably anymore. Intel doesn't seem all that interested in competing above the middle-low level of performance, nor do they put nearly the amount of effort into their drivers--which means more headaches when you try to push them hard. They're happy gobbling up the majority of machines where people don't give a shit about the graphics and let nVidia and AMD do the expensive battle to capture the enthusiast market.

This strategy did let them down in that it caused them to miss the opportunities for AI, cryptocoin, ML, and other such markets.
I think you're probably seeing a bias introduced by your sample being composed of people who have the reach to be identified by us as "publicly worried" figures. Public figures are probably more likely to have a larger footprint. Similarly, public figures are probably more likely to make cynical public-image decisions. I don't think the accusation applies broadly to normal people. And even further: Everyday people who are not public about their worry won't contribute as much to your observations. Anecdotally, I know many nobodies who are very worried about climate change and who make lifestyle decisions using that concern, and who I am confident are not shallow public-image cultivators. How successful or impactful they are in their efforts, I can not say.
Pigovian taxes WORK: If something is more expensive, people take steps to avoid doing that thing. They work twice as well if you re-invest the revenue raised into addressing the negative externalities.

I see you whining a lot in this thread about how "globalists" (whoever those are) don't have a good plan. What's your plan? And remember, "do nothing" is not a viable plan because then the fish and crops die.
I mean you see Neil Degrasse Tyson reputation completely destroyed on the news, mentioning he invited his assistant home for wine and cheese and doing some awkward handshake. This could happen to anyone. Better be safe than sorry.
Yes, I can imagine with video they'll be able to do 3d reconstruction and even more accurate.
I wondered what these folks' portfolio was like, so I took a look.

Here's the summary:

> cards

> cards

> puzzle

> puzzle

> puzzle

... for which reason it's no wonder that these folks' sales are down when AAA releases come out. A silly little puzzle or card game has nothing on a 3D spaceflight simulator and other such AAA fare.
Planetary Resources just folded up shop and got sold. The new company is liquidating most of the assets from what I can tell. That's a shame. That looked like a really interesting concept.
The least effective part of going vegan is how it deteriorates individual health.
i have no idea.... lol
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I think a big part of it is something the article touches on: Jeff is an extrovert, Sanjay is an introvert. Jeff is the much more visible of the two; the one who people are more likely to have heard speak personally or to have dealt with. It sounds like this is how they both prefer it, but it definitely means that Sanjay's contributions get passed over in the common discourse. I was also glad to see the article avoid that trap.
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I don't think it is a situation that people are for censorship so much as they don't see any net benefit in avoiding a market that does do censorship.

Google was in China at one point. They took a stand and got out. Since then, Android has taken over the world. Also in that time, China has become one of the, if not the, biggest markets in mobile. So Google's creation, Android, is being sold within China completely divorced of everything that makes Google commit to Android in the first place. They've really gained nothing except a moral victory during this period and have lost considerably for said stand.

Feels really weird defending Google to be really honest, but in this particular case, I understand the decision to release a censored Google there. They fought the government and the government won.
This is so fucking hilarious.
Think of this: You have a digital library of sequences that are fed into an AI that predicts structure. The structures are fed into an AI that predicts the desired function based on that structure. You use an optimisation algorithm to identify candidates. You synthesise the most promising candidates and use those as the basis for generating a physical library, and then screen as usual.

You now have a way of navigating sequence space far more effectively, so you can explore more of it. You could also potentially use the results to feed back into the system regarding function, so it could become smarter over time.
When I have to pick between good enough alternatives, and more information to make a more informed decision is not readily available, I just pick a random option as quickly as possible and don't look back.

This goes for peanut butter vs Nutella as well as React vs Vue for the next big project. Momentum is important and decision fatigue is real.
Old mathematics books are also interesting. Really cool to see how notation has evolved over centuries of mathematical inquiry. Right now I'm reading "The World of Mathematics, Volume One" and it is quite a relaxing read when starting the day with a good coffee.
There is evidence that it's gendered. One example is that hospital admissions for self-harm are higher for girls than boys. It's also going up for girls and not going up for boys. See figures 1 and 2 of: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/26640...
Quantum protein folding paper has been released a month ago.

I think it's better fit than AI.
One thing Phil Knight wrote in Shoe Dog that has stuck with me is something similar:

"If all you see are problems, you're not seeing clearly"

There are often times when I feel like "every way is up" and that there are only bad outcomes; this quote leads me to re-think whether or not I'm seeing the issue clearly or not.
Sure. And the timing can't but reinforce that.

OTOH, the cost of ownership for a 787 seems kinda excessive, so it's probably a good choice to get rid of it purely on economic grounds as well.
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The website shows almost a year-old version of the product/pitch, it's come quite far since then. The pitch is a knowledge app platform that runs entirely on device, with great search, and which learns your company vocabulary and profiles of everyone with who is good at what. Our "secret" is an augmented system for actually understanding your screen at all times and showing augmented information/updates inline, anywhere you are.

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This is the one I have listened to on and off: https://historyofphilosophy.net/
Apparently the precious metal content on asteroids is through the roof. Titanium, Nickel, Platinum, etc. One study concluded that there was more than a trillion dollars worth of metal on one asteroid alone.

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Deferring destructors is a suspicious pattern in general - in C++, I generally expect them to not be async and unpredictable like that. What guarantees do you make wrt destruction order? I hope it's not as complicated as finalizers in Java and C#...

The more logical model, to me, would be to have child views owned by parent views, and to only allow ownership-changing calls (i.e. adding or removing a child) from the main thread. That way all you really need is unique_ptr (from parent to children) and raw pointers (from children to parent, and from any observers). Although it would probably still be better to use shared_ptr just so that observers can use weak_ptr, since untangling lifetimes in callbacks can be tricky, and often it's easier to just check if the object is still there.

To give a specific code example, with unique_ptr, the same snippet would be:

_window = std::make_unique<bdn::Window>();
_window->setTitle("AwesomeApp");

auto button = std::make_unique<bdn::Button>();
button->setLabel("Hello World");

// The following *moves* button, such that _window takes ownership over it.
// It can only be called from the main thread.
_window->setContentView(button);

_window->requestAutoSize();
_window->requestCenter();
_window->setVisible(true);

And furthermore, _window wouldn't have to be a pointer at all - it can just be a member of MainViewController.
I love how your comment is being downvoted for the heresy of suggesting there is something wrong with neo-nazis or /r/incels.
Another Bitcoin Price Crash Imminent?
I usually only ever see a sliver of my wallpaper in between the gaps of my i3-gaps windows. I think at this point it's less of a wallpaper and more of a texture for my window borders.
Agreed. If you look at computer science as a branch of mathematics, there are very old books that are as worthwhile as ever (as mentioned elsewhere in this thread), but the kind of computer science that can only be done when you have a computer is still necessarily young because programmable computers are new.
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