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> Have you heard of Abigail Shrier's book "The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters"? She was on Joe Rogan's podcast recently though I have yet to listen to it. A quick search turned up, not surprisingly, some negative critiques and others that are more positive.

So, you're asking an honest question, but it's pretty insensitive and I hope you're curious because this is the truth. Framing that as a curious question makes me wonder if you even read the title of the book -- the title is quite obviously meant to be antagonizing to trans people. So that's not a great start. But here we go.

As for the contents of the book itself, it's little different from much trans-antagonistic pseudoscience and literature -- the main difference being that it's focused on guys rather than gals. It cherry-picks studies and anecdotes to promote harmful stereotypes, and presents trans-ness as a status symbol (it's not, it fucking sucks to be trans in the presence of cisgender people who know that).

To address the "craze", we need only look at history. I'll use mine. In the 1990s, when I was in middle school, I noticed distinct feelings that I now understand to be gender dysphoria. I didn't get it at the time; but sexual orientation was quite the buzz, and I knew I was bi very early on. In the 2010s, our society underwent a phase transition on its view of trans people. I met some other trans people, had some curious conversations, and started to put the pieces together. It took me several years to overcome my transphobic cultural upbringing; and several more to overrule the same of my ex-spouse. Coming out was hard. As with many, I lost friends and family to their prejudice. But even so, it's way easier now than it was in the 90s or even the 00s.

One commonality between trans and autistic people is that we don't always feel welcome around cis / allistic people. Not really knowing why, we form cliques of people who are feeling the same stuff. Many of the trans people I know are, yes, autistic, but also were outcasts as kids. In speaking with other late-transitioning people of my age, I've seen a pattern: others in our friends group have transitioned in the intervening years. Do groups of trans kids gravitate towards one another and have shared gender discoveries? Well duh, of course they do! It's not a "craze", it's a result of teenagers talking to eachother about their feelings, having appropriate language to talk about them, and having even the slimmest feeling of safety in coming out.
I think that Trump believes that Snowden is a Russian spy, because he cannot imagine (given their different personalities) that somebody would do what Snowden did just for intrinsic reasons.

So Trump is trying to make a deal with Snowden - find some dirt on Democrats (Obama administration) during election, and I will pardon you.

However, Snowden is most likely not a spy, so no way this is gonna happen.
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People get bored and take road trips. Prior to this year, it was a common American pastime. Another unlikely example:

https://www.ijpr.org/2017-05-09/solar-eclipse-or-bust-small-...
>crazy people find the camera. Something attracts them to it

They're marginalized most of the time. The camera promises a brief break from that.
Seven years ago, Trump said Snowden should be executed.

Four years ago, in an interview, Obama refused to pardon Snowden.

I’d say this is a notable development.
I'm not saying that at all, I'm saying very specifically:

The material conditions of people alive in the west today are significantly worse than they were in 1999, largely as the result of the ascendance of the digital platforms and economic arrangements that organizations like MIT and Berkman were taking money to promote.

Ordinary people today are more lonely, overwhelmed, polarized and impoverished. The "new" economics they were promoting - gig economies, crowdfunding, "conversational" marketing - have only resulted in a new form of serfdom, upward movement of capital from the poor to the rich, and a completely collapse of dignity in public life.

In fact, I'll even go a step further and suggest that what we needed was _more_ negativity. Techno-positivity and lack of critical thought is exactly how we got in this mess.
I find it hilarious that you've basically arrived at what Java tried to do so many years ago.
People gather in the desert all the time. Burning Man, Coachella, EDC. The people who gathered at Area 51 made their own gathering.
You should have tried the 4th day, usually the first 3 days are the worst, then the body completely switches to burning fat and learns how to do it efficiently. 6th day is for me usually the worst sudden crisis, then from 7th to 21st day I have absolute mental clarity, I can finish very demanding mental projects quickly and require only around 4 hours of sleep, then up to 30th I feel normal and slowly start to get hungry. After the fast I feel like after a great sauna session, but it lasts around a week. It feels like having a superpower. However, physical exercise ability goes away very quickly (I actually measured it every day and even went mountain-biking to steep hills to see how much my performance degrades and it was downhill literally and figuratively).
It worked to me. But honestly annoying. I had to keep opening the browser for half of the emails.
In my mind, that's what makes him "super-human" -- his ability to reflect upon himself is a skill that most average human beings don't possess.
Neither do they protect against witch hunts apparently, nor require so much as an accuser, let alone a non-kangaroo court process to terminate your career.

Consensual sex is not a crime, and there are no circumstances in this case that would warrant maximum available punishment for the lowest possible violation of this policy according to the university's own range of possible punishments. This is a witch hunt that never cared about any facts, in all likelihood they just wanted to fire the guy for his political opinions.
Shopping on Amazon has become unbearable for like 95% of categories these days. The experience is like rummaging through some shady tourist market with a dozen stall owners trying to scam you. The pricing is all whack with lots of counterfeits that have gamed the ranking and review systems. It’s just not worth trying to filter and find things that are actually competitively priced and sold directly by Amazon.

Have no idea how they are so dominant still when they seem to not care at all about these things.
I was expecting you to make another one, but "nails on a chalkboard" seems to be the correct usage. Am just ever so slightly disappointed.
As long as the loss is small and well distributed, it's kind of ok.
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>Is it "normal" now to go to a place where conspiracy theories suggest the government is keeping alien remains and try to storm its gates?

We used to pack a lunch & watch the prison riots in my hometown. It's like that except you can be close to the mayhem.
Tons but none that HN cares about. He got the economy roaring, reduced feel-good environmental regulations which opened up more jobs, took a hard stance on China in a way that saw success unlike Obama, moved border security forward in a way it never would have under a democrat, facilitated the Israel/UAE news that Biden is trying to claim credit for, sent federal police to hinder BLM rioters at a time when blue states decided they don't actually need to have safe streets, and generally made a lot of decisions that make the country better at making money. It's why the DNC has doubled down on corruption memes and giving freebies to minorities, they don't have anything else to offer as a party right now.
I want to address your direct question: no you are not being self centered; that someone meant to be assessing you has a passing familiarity with your resume is an extremely reasonable expectation.

It might not be the interviewers fault if they aren’t given adequate preparation time but that just means the place isn’t taking hiring particularly seriously, or that they interview tons of people.

I realize it’s not always possible to do so, but you and everyone else deserve to work at a place that treats them with respect, don’t feel bad for desiring this most basic thing.
> Imagine you went into a retail store with a faulty product

I understand where you are coming from, but there are lots of consignment stores and flea markets, at least in the middle parts of the US. The person you pay at the front counter simply records the transaction for the merchant. Amazon is a sort of cross between traditional retail and a consignment store, so it's not obvious (or "common sense") where product liability should lie.
It’s not that they will go out of their way to harm it. The ecosystem will change from being the top focus of arm to becoming more of an afterthought. Nvidia arm could end up taking more of a take it or leave it stance because those customers are no longer the top priority.
> How does Amazon know for sure? Since that experience I have looked at Amazon in a different light, and I've realized how difficult it is to source name brand products with confidence.

You buy them wholesale from the manufacturer?
Wasn't Gaius Julius Caesar [1] the first emperor? How come he is missing?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
totally untrue they dump the western nucular waste in front of the Somalian coast.
Given that I was told that C# is "productive", I found myself quite surprised at the amount of boilerplate I was writing. Better than C++ but really not all that great.

I also found myself pulling my eyes out because I kept trying to do const-correctness but it doesn't seem to support it at all (which was really odd given that this was inside a game engine)
This the example I point out whenever an Amazon employee mentions letting customer QA 3rd party garbage.
Opus is weird because it can use fewer bits to encode complex sounds, and more bits on simple sounds. MP3/Vorbis/AAC all do the opposite. I’ve read it is because it has relatively poor frequency precision, for which it gains excellent time precision. So, on purer sounds it has to use more bits to maintain accuracy. But it’s so counterintuitive, that when I also consider it can’t do a 44.1k sample rate, I stick with vorbis for high-bitrate CD rips, just so I don’t have to wonder if artifacts are hiding somewhere. I think most of the testing by far has been on the low-bitrate encoding where it really excels.

Edit to add: I had my whole collection encoded with Opus at one point, and could never discern it from the FLACs in a few ABX tests I ran. It’s only theoretical problems that were nagging at me that made me switch back, nothing I actually heard.
Has Amazon systemically refuses refunds for people who try to return counterfeit goods?

It definitely doesn’t care if you don’t even notice. But they do the returns if you ask. The former is what needs to change.
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Presidents typically work with their party to pass something. His own party more often complains about a lack of help or counterproductive behavior that makes it difficult for them to pass things.

Trump's lack of effort to work with his own party was a constant topic, until his partly largely quit talking about it as no help became the status quo.
"Real ketosis" is the presence of markers that demonstrate fat metabolism. This is most commonly done by measuring beta-hydroxybutyrate with the same device that diabetics use to measure blood glucose (using a different kind of test strip). It wouldn't be uncommon for any given person on any diet to show signs of fat metabolism if, for example they've fasted for 12 hours or more and have done any kind of exercise.

Nutritional ketosis as practiced by anyone doing "keto" is generally considered to be somewhere between 1.0 to 3.0 mmol/dL BHB. Getting there is not hard for anyone on a fat-adapted diet.
that's only if it was switched an odd number of times. It could totally have been one of those shell game things where it's switched a couple dozen times, and no one knows whether it was even or odd.
This is just absurd.

If moon was square, Trump would become a dolphin. This kind of statement.

Pardoning Charles Manson won't help get anyone reelected. Saying what Trump would do "if" is just a demagogy.
Opus is awesome. Up to 255 audio channels supported!
Well, sure, if you consider just the two objects, but I would think the neighborhood is dense enough that statistically something else might have a close encounter and change the orbit.
A very high volume of mail is machine addressed (much of it uses printed address barcodes too). Many people have legible handwriting, so those can get a barcode added when they hit the system. The remaining letters addressed by people like me can get exception processing. If the zip code is legible, at least it can route to the right post office and get figured out there, otherwise, it can make its way to a dead letter office for help.
It's also in the Nintendo Switch :)
The principle is pretty simple: any person that has evidence that the U.S. government is violating the U.S. Constitution should report it to the American people. If there is an official channel for reporting it, they should try that first (as Snowden did), but that is totally optional.

Any damage that results is the fault of the people that chose to violate the Constitution, and not the fault of the whistleblower. The violators should be imprisoned in almost every case, and probably even have their citizenship revoked.

Snowden should have be granted a pardon, become a universally respected American hero, and receive a medal.

Snowden's exile in Russia proves that Americans are too ignorant of their own constitution and the principles behind it to do the right thing for him. But he played his part flawlessly and history will grant him the title of American hero.

1. There's nothing about this whistleblower principle that would lead anyone to believe that assassination is fair game. Revealing constitutional violations = whistleblowing; that's it.

2. If there is no violation of the U.S. Constitution, then there is no whistleblowing to be done. Spying on foreign citizens is not a violation of the U.S. Constitution, for example, and so it should not be protected in the same way.

(Whether Americans should support a constitutional amendment that protects foreign people from American spying is another matter.)
mutt-wizard makes it very easy to setup mutt/neomutt to make it work with gmail and other services. It sets up encrypted offline versions of your mail and sets up most of the mutt environment for you:
https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/mutt-wizard
Trump doesn't do U-turns, he does donuts. Wake me up when he actually pardons Snowden; this isn't news.
Living in groups, and having more babies (i.e. child birth rates always drop when conditions in a country improve)
If Russia allowed Snowden to be murdered they would lose the trust of other potential defectors - especially those that are directly valuable (military and industrial secrets). For this reason I'm certain he's under constant watch.
they cross reference it some how. CNN had someone on from Washington State who said they received less than 200 ballots from deceased individuals in the last election so they are able to track it and ignore them.
I know of a company with a team of 10 just managing Google shopping ads. Their entire SEO/SEM team is probably 60+. And they are only doing a million a day in sales. At Canva's size I think 75 is small.
I had a bit of a breakthrough a couple of years ago playing with a Microsoft USB camera. (Not that it's specific to MS but that's what brand it was.) Anyway, when I took the plastic shell off the outside, the lens was mounted on a threaded base that could be adjusted in and out. With the right adjustments, the camera became a microscope - not enough to see pollen or anything like that, but enough to get a 1080p picture dominated by an ant's face.
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I sleep on my camping cot or hammock full time. I should buy a sand box.
I’ve finally figured out how to buy non-counterfeit items on Amazon: try selling it yourself and see if Amazon says 3rd party listings are allowed. In the very few cases where you’re not allowed to proceed to create a listing, it is safe to purchase.
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I could hardly disagree more. It takes some effort to find the good stuff, but Amazon is the superior way to shop online for most things.
Also, prior to the evolution of language it would make sense for the children to be born a little more battle (still useless, but relative to what they will develop into) ready whereas a modern child is born requires some form of education be that in hunting or surgery.
Caesar died before the Roman empire was established. His adopted son Augustus recreated the republic into an empire and is the first emperor.
Especially for handling branches that were rebased and force pushed.
90% of the times that I needed to help someone with git were due to a branch that was rebased and (force) pushed to the remote, and the person I was helping didn't know how to handle that and align his local copy with the remote.
Maybe it’s because you’ve always made sure to buy only from Amazon and not from 3rd party sellers? Around the time Amazon posted their 1st quarter profit, we weren’t allowed to return a defective 3rd party marketplace item that cost us about $300. It was infuriating and it was also the last time we mindlessly bought from Amazon without being on autopilot. Fast forward to today, we are very paranoid about buying an item if we find any 3rd parties are selling the same item.
History would indicate otherwise. Defectors, spies, people who just leak things for money. They sometimes there are repercussions, other times not ... and still more do their thing.

I don't think it is all or nothing and I seriously doubt Snowden is untouchable.
Code repository tools should be transparent, unfortunately Git very often stands between my changes and the repo. It's funny how other utilities (build pipelines/dependency management/deployments) became more user-friendly in all languages yet the step from SVN was a step in the wrong direction and all thanks to the 'cowboys' with an attitude of "let's use it as if we are a facebook/google or if Linus is using it - it's super cool" without understanding the context where they operate. I can hardly think of a dev tool that became mainstream yet brought so much inefficiency on such a scale into our everyday lives. And when they say 'oh just use these beautiful GUI tools' - oh, wow, we got the same set of tools we had 15 years ago - what an innovation, indeed!
If they started doing this I'm assuming they would put it inside some sort of faraday bag
Sounds like a great idea for a chrome add-on
Hmmm. I recently ordered an item (pack of quicklinks) and the package itself arrived with a hole in it and no product (looks like the bubble-envelope seam failed). After clicking around on Amazon's website, the closest way to solve this was "return because of missing items" and they seem to still want me to ship back the original item (which is obviously impossible). The replacement was shipped quickly, but I have no idea what will happen when they don't receive a return.

As far as I can tell, there's no way to communicate this to a human. I'm not impressed with their service.
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Usually, that was rather a mix of walking, walking fast, and the occasional jog. The animal just broke down from exhaustion in the end, exactly _because_ it had been running all day.
It is a big pain in the butt but it is definitely the standard/most popular. I can't imagine boilerplate using another ORM.
As well as several other country leaders, e. g. presidents/PMs of UK, Italy, France etc.
Some people get mail every week. Not everyone does. And certainly not all at the same time.

I've worked a logistics building before. The single worst day of the entire month was the day TV Guide went out. The entire facility was drowning in TV guides, with a box going to every grocery store in the country.

Imagine that, but orders of magnitude more deliveries. And then take out the sorting equipment.
I'll happily agree that it depends on the mail, and that for emails actually using graphics or fancy formatting, you really do probably need a real graphical interface. Personally, probably 90%+ of my mail can be reasonably rendered in plain text, so this works for most of it and then I use another client for the rest. But for the things it works for, mutt is amazing, so I use it when I can.
Those people complain because they never built anything meaty on other stacks like Android or iOS which have all sorts of warts and offer nothing as good as Elm or React much less an open source solution.
I'd wager a lot of developers, good ones, share your sentiments. Git is a well designed, dependable SCM, there is no question. But its command line UI is awful, far too close to the metal. I'm not at all surprised though, it's a UNIX cultural thing -- ignore the 80/20 rule and use the command line for everything. Compare installing anything on Linux vs. Windows. It's ridiculous.
> if you tally up the % of Washington state that 'did a protest' it's a very, very small number

That seems to describe every non-local protest - or gathering, for that matter.
> that when I also consider it can’t do a 44.1k sample rate

Why is that an issue? I don't think you'll hear any difference if the Opus encoding is resampled to 48khz.
It sounds like an opinion, and you can certainly make a case there. But I feel equally strong that networked technology today is amazing, and 1999 sucked. Being able to look up how to do anything, talk to people I know instantly. Cameras in your pocket, wikipedia, phones, collaborative documents, gps on maps, youtube, online shopping, they've been great equalizers in many ways.

All the things you mentioned were serious problems before just in a different way. Advertising was horrible when I watched broadcast TV. I spent probably 2 hours each day looking at commercials. Propoganda was ubiquitous and there wasn't even a place you could point out it was happening. The gig economy jobs back then were just different jobs with fewer options, like pumping gas or minimum wage at McDonald's or greeting people at Walmart. And now online discussion allows people to be more open about mental health and the anonymity let's you talk about relationship or depression problems with others.

It's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than what life was like before. And one thing I agree with you on, is that it isn't because of the Media Lab or Berkman. It's because of a lot of people making slow incremental progress throughout the entire tech stack.
Interesting. What you describe about not fitting in etc. is very similar to my experience. Only that I’m a straight male. Could it be that transitioning is not so much about gender but about fitting in? If I could put a name to my angst and the barriers with others, it might be “transgender”. Which could give me a community of similar folks, a measure of acceptance, a handle, on why I’m not like the others. The research describes correlation, but maybe the causality is the other way around with “weird” people finding ways to cope with their being in a particular fashion?
Here's more or less official description of this issue.

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
It's impossible by design to find "the good stuff."

Even when purchasing from "legitimate" product pages, they'll send you co-mingled counterfeits. You have absolutely no assurance that what you're buying is legitimate.