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> Scientists haven't developed a test for transgenderism

Transgenderism is a broader term and is often characterized by gender dysphoria. Aside from that, this is false. The American Psychiatric Association defines diagnostic criteria for gender dysphoria in the DSM-5, and they're listed on Wikipedia [0]. It isn't currently (and may never be) diagnosable by, say, a blood test or MRI in the same way that physical ailments often are, but the same is true of psychiatric diagnoses for many other well-established conditions.

> or even identified a measurable difference

It's well-established that a significant number of people meet the diagnostic criteria in [0], and that hormone therapy frequently results in substantial positive outcomes for those people [1] [2]. There's some evidence that the same is true of sex reassignment surgery [3], though the consensus naturally isn't as strong because sample sizes are smaller and double-blind trials aren't viable.

> what little research has been done comes from the politicized and not-at-all-rigorous "social sciences" whose reliability is questionable at best

If the research is that unreliable, a well-funded, properly motivated organization like the Heritage Foundation should be able to identify methodological weaknesses or other flaws in the literature, instead of sponsoring unscientific drivel from people with PhDs in fields like "political philosophy."

> There won't be an evidence-based scientific consensus (as opposed to an artificial consensus enforced by excluding anyone who disagrees with the party line) about transgenderism any time soon.

Can you cite up-to-date, peer-reviewed scientific research that disputes the existence of gender dysphoria or the effectiveness of hormone therapy in treating it? Or even a single researcher with relevant scientific expertise who disputes those points? If not, I'd ask how else you could reasonably define an "evidence-based scientific consensus about transgenderism." Keep in mind that scientific consensus isn't necessarily uncontroversial among laypeople - see, e.g., global warming [4] and the theory of evolution [5].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_dysphoria#Diagnosis

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21937168

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23574768

[3] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24344788

[4] https://news.gallup.com/poll/248027/americans-concerned-ever...

[5] https://news.gallup.com/poll/210956/belief-creationist-view-...
While there are many people who don't understand git's staging area, there are far less that understand how to selectively stage/commit chunks, or even that such functionality is available at all.

It should be a crime for people to blindly stage everything. Cleaning up after my colleagues easily falls under the "lost cause" umbrella.
Yup! This was it.
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I am not sure exactly the distance to the new Leo constellations. Maybe 2k km? If that’s the case even with the speed of light advantage it’s still roughly 30ms round trip just to go up and down not including any electronic delays in the equipment. So unfortunately NYSE-LSE would still be faster on fiber.
Even if Kay Cole James is egregiously wrong about trans-people, that doesn't mean she's incapable of participating in a conversation about AI ethics. She clearly has is intelligent enough to be in the position she is today.
He was never able to speak it well? Or at all?
On Australian radio - yes. 'It took Facebook 29 minutes to realise the content was there' and then another 30 minutes to take it down after being reported. It was first reported ~14 minutes in.

This hour lapse is why the video was so widely shared. In the Australian publics mind, as the perp was our citizen, we have a lot to answer for.

The livestream was purely to broadcast to his own people (see how he had the names of similar assaulters on the weapon), so the concept here is removing the platform that provides an incentive - in this situation - to do the deed.

Since the guy thrives on being noticed, NZ has actually barered photographs of him unpixalted from the 1st appearance in court. Today they announced total bans on photos and videos until further notice of him at the trial.

Bit of a long winded answer, but this is the link that a lot of the foreign commentary is missing. While the reach is wide of the legislation, there is no 'what about before the internet existed?' claims on how this tech makes things better. It was also considered when people used facebook live for suicide broadcasting.
An individual over at the /r/spacex subreddit did some simulations with what a LEO constellation would allow for latency reduction and improved routing (beyond your own continent)

https://youtu.be/AdKNCBrkZQ4
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I have asked for a citation numerous times because I was genuinely curious to learn more about a topic. Not all discourse online is combative.
A 2km pilot of a similar solution has been deployed in Sweden.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/apr/12/worlds-f...
Not really. The hardest part is getting the activation bytes and even that is actually quite simple and you only have to do it once. For the actual converting I have a bash script that can convert all the aax files in a directory and convert them to a m4b format with all the metada intact. Using your approach you would have to manually set the chapters and the cover art. I have thousands of hours worth of audiobooks but even if you only have a single 10 hour book I think this approach is still the easier of the 2.
By definition?

Not a heavy eBook user but I buy all movies and TV shows through iTunes because I have a (lossless) De-DRM program I can use. Works consistently every time on everything. It may stop working altogether someday, but if that happens I’ll stop buying from iTunes. Until then, the program is 100% reliable.
And morality is very subjective, thin line.

E.g. is it moral for male-to-female trans to compete in women sports events?
What do people annotate generally that's worth 25$? I'm genuinely curious.
The only science we have at the moment whose area of expertise covers this issue relevantly is the somewhat dubious social science, which has been researching the issue and has some amount of consensus on it.

Is true that the social sciences are relatively weak compared to things like physics and even biology. But that doesn't mean we should wait for the physics community to reach a consensus on transgenderism, any more than we should wait for the biology or neuroscience communities. It's a separate area of knowledge that we just don't understand yet enough to have the amount of rigour about that we expect from physics.

That doesn't mean that our attempts in this direction don't qualify as science,or that the consensus of the social science community can't be called scientific consensus.
IMHO having more players in this market, which so far is dominated by state operated telcos and de-facto monopolists like AT&T is actually improving things. The more independently operating companies there are operating their own cables, the more room there is for free market to operate.

That being said, I do believe the notion of big corporations with pre-existing near monopolies on e.g. search or online retail with yearly revenues exceeding the gross national product of most nations on this planet, is not necessarily good for a free market. There have been some demands for some of these companies to be broken up and IMHO that would actually be a good thing. Calls for that are only going to get stronger.
I think the issue was more that languages often used to have multiple implementations which differed and no real standard beyond the de facto (whichever was most commonly used).

You saw this with the variations of BASIC on the micro computers, the different Pascal and C compilers of the 70s and 80s etc.

But even back then, languages without a compiler were still nothing more than an academic exercise which entertained a comparatively few of the overall engineers around at that time.

So I don’t think much has changed in that regard aside the expectation that a language should now have a reference implementation. And even then that’s not always the case (eg Perl 6).
That's a pretty misleading representation of the state of research, unless journals like nature, endocrine society, neuroendocronology etc are now politicized social sciences.
Yes, it does. You'll have to use the correct activation bytes to decrypt, but those can be retrieved by signing into the audible account.
What about Conrad?
Oh that's interesting. Do you have examples? That sounds like a bug in the user agent to me.
>All code is security code.

Debian disagrees. They are wrong to do so.
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But what you're saying, which seems to be that technology is getting more accessible over time, does not appear to me to be fundamentally different for other technological means, be it algorithms, ai or digitalization in general.
Fantastic, thanks.

The many uses of : syntax are intriguing - lambdas, functions, control, python-style structure, data, globals. I reckon you've established it works in all cases, but I'm not yet familiar enough to see that for myself.

For initial adoption, I wonder if more regular sample code, without the special-case abbreviations, might be more effective? (Followed by the short version.) OTOH, maybe at this early stage it's best to select for developers interested/capable enough to handle it!

EDIT if : is used for both blocks and code structure, could everything be one-line (or is \n significant?) Not great style, but helps in understanding the syntax. Maybe returns and vars need their own lines?

def find(xs, fun): for(xs) x, i: if fun(x): return i return -1

var r = 2 var i = find [ 1, 2, 3 ]: _ > r
> Extrapolating from your last sentence – fatigue?

Yes. They train to exert the maximum amount of effort in order to optimise their time. If they're at maximum speed at the finish line it does them no good, they likely could have expended more energy to be quicker in the middle of the run to cut their time.
Can anyone with more understanding of these things given a run down on how this 5nm compares to 5/7/10nm from other companies?
No contract was signed concerning the work done or the scope of it when I was a contractor and not a full time employee.
I do believe him without holding my employment paycheck is illegal and he is using this threat of civil action against to try to get me to play nice.
In fact he started paying people monthly now and I believe that is illegal in New York State.
I do not have liability insurance as a contractor since it was something I full-time.

An ex-coworker is pursuing legal actions against him for unpaid wages so I may need to ask him for a lawyer reference for all this.
Won't the books remain on the reader device, even if the store closes?

The discussion is also old. I realized that I end up lending only a small fraction of books to other people, and my kids will probably not care about most of my books. Storage of paper books also costs money, so rebuying the few books I want to pass on or reread may be cheaper than buying and keeping physical copies of books. So I chose ebooks.
> Making philosphical arguments about censorship, technical feasibility etc will never resonate with politicians in this political environment

I disagree entirely. There's enough energy in society to successfully push against this kind of abusive legislation.
Taxes haven’t funded anything since the end of the Gold Standard. That’s another framing myth that fails to look at the overall picture.

Here’s Beardsley Ruml ex chair of the NY fed on the subject: http://home.hiwaay.net/~becraft/RUMLTAXES.html

Society funds things in real terms not in financial terms. To train more doctors there has to be less medical care available for a time to everybody.

It’s the same investment problem faced by firms. Firms invest in training which is a real cost to their production, then other firms nick the staff. The result is that firms stop training. It a major dilemma at country level though because the get out of borrow to train yourself doesn’t exist there. There is no independent training country you can go to that only does training.
Wow - this is old journalism at its best. A few things really stand out:

- a 36(!!) minute masterpiece, and difficult to cut anything out to make it shorter without losing something

- the journalist covered both sides of the story, and did so beautifully, allowing us to enter into his shoes and feel like we were in the action, talking to the people on both sides

- both sides were given more than fair treatment to voice, not just their political stance, but their passion and feelings about the issue

- added supplementary information about foxes, the history of hunting, animal rights, English dissenting tradition, even his personal experience with foxes - all to add color to the issue and make it come alive within its historical and humanistic context

- the opinion on whether or not fox hunting is right is not the main point of the article - the issue isn't front and center, the people are

- does not write his opinion into the article, remains the unbiased third party throughout while still allowing the reader to get into the heads of both sides and form their own perspectives and views

- an absolutely amazing conclusion (i want to avoid spoiling it) that manages to tie everything mentioned in the article together and turning fox hunting into commentary about the entire British society

2004, huh? Would love to see this kind of journalism make a comeback.
A list of what files to include is very different from an invisible arbitrary data tree.
First, nothing you responded to clears up anything about your negative assumption that transgender people change for sports titles. That will always be transphobic and doesn't look at all into what the life of a trans person today or in the past has looked like.

But the body and hormone levels absolutely do affect physical sports, you're right. If you want to dig into hormones, what about intersex people? What about people classified as women with significantly higher testosterone levels? Despite the classification most hospitals do, a surprising amount of births show non-traditional genitalia, and if you go beyond the external looks then the waters only get murkier. How many athletes are actually not traditionally male or female but were simply never classified as such medically due to a lack of awareness and education? Do you then want to have all sports competitions separated based on hormone levels instead of sex/gender?

> I'm considering ideas on their own merit, not how they're labeled. And it's disgusting that progressive/diversity label was ruined by affairs like that. And yes, I definitely have bias against ideas that seem to have a label they're not worth of.

But you give no argument for the unworthiness of it and instead start from the assumption. Not only that, but you paint with a very broad brush and are not digging into any of the nuance. That doesn't scream openness and combined with other things you said again comes off as ignorance or lack of education on the subject.

> I hope definition of "transphobic" will change and I won't be called one in the future.

That definition will only go the other way as more people become educated on trans people. What defines transphobia is ignorance, not gusts of cultural wind. What would make your actions change will have to be you, not the classification of them.

As an aside generally, being transphobic or racist or sexist should not define you - it's a chance to learn and understand. It's not an identity, despite how it is assigned like one to many public figures these days. What's much more important than never saying or doing something sexist/racist/transphobic/etc is being open to changing and understanding to not do it in the future. Really it's just listening and understanding other people's experiences.
The energy system that is used for explosive power can only last a few seconds, after that muscles have to use another energy source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioenergetic_systems#ATP-CP:_T...
Third parties can always just resort to web-scraping if API support is dropped. If you consistently scrape public pages on Facebook, you can amass a trove of data within a year. By supporting an API, Facebook offers a controlled avenue for this to happen, which people pay for because it's easier than scraping. It will still happen if this doesn't exist, though.
Thank you very much for the link.

If true, and more and more seems to point into this direction, we can pretty much lay the arguments of the "badly educated and overworked third world pilots who are too dumb to work a checklist" to rest.

I always found that reasoning rather bigoted and jingoistic.

It seems more that Boeing was selling a death trap certified by their cronies at the FAA.

What galls me most is the fact that they didn't ground that atrocity after the Lion Air crash, but used their energies to throw customers and pilots under the bus and developed a checklist, which, as it turns out, is actually counterproductive and does nothing to fix the inherent design problems of the plane. If anything, it serves the exact opposite.

The second crash is mass murder for commercial reasons, period. If not legally then at the very minimum morally.
Untrue for ebooks - I doubt a week's gone by without me having done this for years, without a thought or a problem.

> we shouldn't be expected to deal with it

Agreed, and with this as for many other things perhaps one day (after the revolution) we won't. But railing against the universe won't make books available for me to read today.
This was amazing read, thanks!

Also I believe it overestimates the power needed to kill all people.

How much time does it take for us to get to the point when an entity has live GPS coordinates of all people living in the world for example? Just 15 years ago this question sounded stupid.
You claim the author is cherry-picking, and then you say this:

> The marginal cost for natural gas is roughly ~1.8 cents/kWh today (including O&M)

I am assuming you worked this out using the Henry Hub prices of circa $2.50/mmscf - yes? But hardly any gas consumers pay these prices, even in the US. In Florida and New York, for example, the prices are more like $5.00/mmscf, and can be even higher. And in the rest of the world - which accounts for the vast majority of electricity production - the prices are far higher still, commonly around $10/mmscf, today.

>solar would have to be ~$0.50/W ... ... that is ~5 doublings from today

Not really sure what $0.50/W means here - is it $0.50 CAPEX per "peak watt"? If so: The cost of utility scale solar power plants today is around $1.00/peak watt, so with your assumption of a 20% learning curve it will only take 3 doublings to reach that.
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Dude, the ping i get on my facebook atlantic cable is like 2ms between here and the .eu shard.

What are you getting on that other link?!

Ssure they spy on all my stuff but look at that ping!
> Even people who hate each other or each other's opinions.

Do you think that would leak into their work?
I wouldn't worry about this unless/until it became a problem :)
I assume books are encrypted on the ebook reader and the reader operates by going to Microsoft each time someone tries to open a book and getting an encryption key show the book unencrypted.
You do raise an interesting point. For ex, I saw this elsewhere on HN:

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-04-02/zucker...
Do professional developers ever use these wysiwyg editors ?
I have some friends who studied the Masters of Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne (an Australian university), a course accredited by EUR-Inf (http://www.eqanie.eu/pages/quality-label.php) and the Washington Accord (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Accord), which allows graduates to more legitimately refer to themselves as "engineers" in some countries. A huge portion of the course was dedicated to essentially just teaching waterfall: giant UML diagrams (with mandatory 90s style OO) and 50-100 page reports. Given how disconnected this is from what's considered modern software development best practices, I think in practice the spread of licensing would only hold the field back (unless it's somehow completely disconnected from the bodies responsible for traditional engineering licensing).
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I was thinking a similar thing, but with "runningSum"/"runningTotal".
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exact opposite.

legislation like this will force tech and give legal basis be more invasive on individual user privacy in order prevent, predict or minimize risk of costly 'offensive' content being posted. spill-over effect from more invasive privacy measures only benefit ad-tech.
> they'll load in parallel with your site's

you still have to wait until the css declaration is fetched and parsed, so don't forget a Link: prefetch header on the response (or http push, but a prefetch in the http response header is easier to implement)
The right- or wrong-ness of passing new laws based on a single incident notwithstanding, there is an Australian Senator, an elected representative of the Australian people, that said this in response to being censured by the Senate:

"What blame did I attribute to the victims? I said nothing of the sort," he told the Senate.

"I issued a media statement condemning the shooting and the shooter in the strongest possible terms.

"However, after putting the immediate blame where it belonged, I looked for contributing causes. I identified that immigration program that allowed Muslim fanatics to migrate to New Zealand was a key enabler of community violence.

"The claim that this somehow blames the victims is absurd, Mr President.

The hypocrisy and blind discrimination on display by an elected politician at the highest levels of Australian Government is a far more scary and far-reaching issue as far as I'm concerned. If a politician says those kinds of things it makes it OK for the communities that they represent to normalise that attitude.

In this instance the terrorist was an Australian. Allowing an Australian fanatic into New Zealand was the cause. If New Zealand was to have a knee-jerk reaction to this incident it should be to put greater restrictions and tighter background checks on Australians coming into the country, not muslims.

Good on the Senate for censuring his comments, but if laws need to be changed for social media responsibility then laws are well overdue for the responsibility of what politicians say in public and the anti-social attitudes they encourage.
What do they do with them? Keep them around as pets? Stuff them? Make traditional Chinese meds out of them?
Yes, this is something we're definitely investigating! We have an issue open at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/55840, please join us in the conversation there if you have thoughts on how we can do this in a way that works well for your use cases.
That is not correct, cooling uses maybe 20% of the electricity used by the electronics themselves.
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