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I think it is, and it's sad that you have been so heavily downvoted.

We seem to be finding ourselves lacking the etiquette to deal with this situation.
Can you do this in the workplace, yes, with the right people and relationships.
Can you treat trans people like this, yes, with the right people and relationships.

If ribbing someone causes them to get offended, you leave them alone or it is just bullying.
If they come back at you, it's a game, a fun game that builds relationships with the right people.

This is a key element missing from the discussion. In some contexts being purposefully disrespectful is a good thing.

This also means you need to operate in an environment where it's okay to make a mistake, apologise and move on. You have to be able to read the person's response to attempt any of this. You cannot do that over text, so it can't be used online.
But I also know a trans woman who is over 6 feet tall and has a beard. She is considering hormone replacement therapy but has not committed yet.

I cannot help but have some empathy for women -- who might have very good reason to be fearful of men -- who are uncomfortable having this person in female-safe spaces. That is 100% independent of the intentions or actual danger posed by this trans woman I know, which is as close to zero as I can imagine.
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I absolutely agree it's wrong to publicly shame someone to use this pronoun, but I don't agree with how you're framing the rest of the situation. Why is it that they're "indoctrinating" and not "teaching"? Also, if people are using this word it naturally exists.

You seem to accuse them of having an agenda, as if this is a bad thing on its own, but it's clear you too have an agenda of your own. But while theirs, misguided or not, is based on acceptance, what's yours based on?
Shouldn't it be a self hosted server?

The Google drive could be deprecated at any moment
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Right? It's like if someone asked me "Hey, I'd prefer you call me Robert instead of Bobby" and I got pissed about it because they're trying to infringe on my free speech.

It's their identity, they're asking you to identify them a particular way.

Are they asking you to expend a small amount of effort to mentally adjust how to refer to them? Yes. Have people been changing nicknames over their lives for probably hundreds or thousands of years? Also yes.

But you ask someone to use a different pronoun and suddenly it's just too much.
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Note that trans rights activists are pushing for the use of "personal pronouns", which are not limited to the traditional binary genders. They want you to use pronouns such as Ze/Zir/Zirs/Zirself, or Moon/Mooner/Moonself, or whatever someone feels like.

If you object, or can't keep up, you'll be labelled a transphobe.

Here's a sample, linked from the website of Stonewall UK, a prominent trans rights organization:

https://www.mypronouns.org/how
Are there no privileges afforded to men?

I can think of at least one -- working in tech.
Here is a lecture series on HoTT from CMU. The video recordings are abysmal, but I still find the lectures very interesting because of how the instructor motivates everything.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u92V0OMgvhM&list=PL1-2D_rCQB...
Because I agree but only know of him through Hunter Thompson, I will plug his own book here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autobiography_of_a_Brown_Buf... - and give it a read some time.
Cultural degeneration? The messenger is usually shot, because people believe that what they don't know can't hurt them. Here, I think people valued 'clarity' in risky times. (even if that clarity was baseless)
People often forget how dramatically things changed in the years after the attack.

Or I suppose some people just weren't alive to witness the changes! It was a long time ago, bizarrely enough. It feels recent. Perhaps in part because it's still so relevant.
A bunch of liberal pundits snarked out about it which caused me to behave like an arrogant jerk, so now instead of admitting that I should do better at thinking for myself, I pretend like I don't understand why someone thinks an apple might have fallen from a nearby apple tree, like the rest of my hipster friends who refuse to admit the media prescribes their entire worldview wholesale.
Oh wow. The coverup, the first cases being right next to WIV the only BSL4 and studying coronaviruses, WIV having multiple recent virus leaks…
Occam’s razor definitely applies but not the way you’re alluding to.
I don’t think so, he was too impulsive to keep his mouth shut
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Technically, Olympic sports are niche sports as well - the only difference is they have a giant collaboration every four years. There's nothing to say that disc golf won't be part of the olympics or bowling (addressed in the article as well)
I hate to wade into a controversial topic where I'm under-educated and have limited info/opinions; but for what little it is worth to add to anecdata - the current cohort of 12-15 year old girls in my friend/family circle are virtually all in some level of gender dysphoria. Most of their parents are supportive and loving but... panicked, I guess - completely uncertain what to do, how best to help them, and without robust support themselves. I think there'll be people with strong opinions giving advice here as there are in real life - but those are in some ways people whose advice I'd personally be least likely to take - on average, more interested in propagating some ideological rightness (on any and all sides), rather than looking at each and every child, circumstance, and taking a good hard look what's best of the person. Because that is a damn difficult question, whereas loud opinions are all too easy.
You already can see companies, eg Shell and Exxon investing heavily in their "chemical complex" refineries, and selling off refineries that only process fuel.
> You don't "easily make nukes".

I didn't say anyone can, I said the US can. Even if the US "demilitarized", we could definitely still easily make nukes.

> And it's worth pointing out that bioweapons are not a problem that can be fixed with a standing army.

I never said standing army, I was clear about using demilitarized/militarized. You could use cyber security as another example – a country with a standing army is of course not going to help against a cyber offensive. However a country with cyber defenses...

> but the idea that you can vaccinate an entire population without anybody noticing is just flat out ridiculous.

The US vaccinates its population against the flu every year.
Maybe possible? But generally in that case when there was no fraud, you just get a bankruptcy-resistant lien that follows you to your grave, and whatever enforcement actions accompany liens. Generally again, absent fraud, they'll work out a high-interest installment plan.
Don’t be naive.

Having a immediate target that is clearly to blame and already an “enemy” isn't going to just result in a ideological slap on the wrist.

What consequences do you think there should be?

Pay for the damage to the US economy? To the world? Apologise and it’s fine?

What do think “holding them to account for what happened” actually means?

This isn’t some scientific journal where you lose magical reputation points.

There's already literally a response two comments down saying you would need to force change to the CCP. How do you imagine that's going to happen? Ask nicely? Sanctions? Well, that's worked just great so far.

Let's see, oh I can think of another way of forcing change... what could it be?
Disappointing. It doesn't even link to a source for the claim. It also confuses the issue.

RAND had chance meetings specifically designed into their building in the 50's, I was always interested to see if it actually worked - https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/cp537rc.14?seq=1#metada...

We do know Silicon Valley is real, Hollywood is real. We also know the higher the population density innovation increases. At a macro level it seems very real.
Pelosi is a vile and corrupt politician. Not surprised she got a call but I hope she’s raked over the coals for it.
Those "thief words" are part of a dialect, yes. A word being "forced" or "natural", whatever that means, has no bearing on this discussion, and neither your personal choice of using them or not.
> I will caveat that I believe people who are opposed to the gender pronoun salad should also have the right to share that publicly, and in the event a person who subscribes to that way of life stumbles upon those public comments would benefit most by live-and-let-live, and simply write off or ignore those individuals if they feel upset.

What do you mean by this? In what circumstances do you think it's acceptable to make these comments? What qualifies as "stumbling upon"? Do you mean to include group interactions in non-dedicated forums of discussion? Personal interactions? Should neither party be permitted to raise objection? Why should either party be expected to simply leave the discussion without contributing?

> That is, unless there is a clear sign that said prejudice is on track to grow rapidly in the direction of genocide or overt societal exclusion and/or the belief that reeducation is necessary. All of these are unacceptable.

Who judges this and how are they chosen to do so?
She is crushing the competition by winning 95% of the time and got placed 4th at the age of 43, stealing the place & glory of another top-tier athlete at their peak performance.
How is that not an extraordinary feat had she been a biological female? So no, there's nothing misleading about that chart, you just read it wrong.
Azure DevOps seems to be full of interface bugs and gotchas, and the UX is a whole magnitude poorer in execution compared to GitHub. Also the whole Microsoft SSO flow gives me serious problems when switching between my 3-4 Microsoft accounts, and means I have to keep opening up incognito tabs. GitHub organizations are so much better at this.

And does nobody else find the URL schema of Azure DevOps highly confusing? You seem to be able to load up the same dashboards from 5-6 different URLs, and some days certain URLs don't work and others do, and I just have no idea where to land for the front page half the time! The only way I know how to quickly get to my org in Azure DevOps is by the several shortcuts on my desktop. If I lost it, I'd be screwed.

And I find it so jank that you have to go into a completely separate area and click through several tabs with page refreshes to find the ticket list for a project, and even then the backlog view is not intuitive to use.
The question is not "would you consider a trans person as a sexual partner" -- the question is, "do you consider a trans person to be the gender they identify as".

There are a lot of women I would not want to sleep with. Does not mean I question their gender.
I was lucky to see have had this instructor for a couple of lessons. Bob is a total legend.
> The US has complete control over a restaurant in California

No, it doesn't.

> Its got a huge military and could nuke the place if it wanted to

By this logic, the US govt. has control over every corner of earth.

Also, was the US govt. running the place and ignoring safety warnings?

Was the restaurant possible responsible for a global pandemic?

The analogy is stupid and not worth discussing more.

All I am getting from this is that people think a restaurant I n US has the same level of responsibility as the lab in Wuhan.
So if I had a series of heavy processing tasks to run - your approach to optimizing them would be to divide the tasks by whether they're above or below the median and then execute each half of tasks on separate equally equipped computers so that half of your computing resources are sitting idle for a good portion of the time?
There is no better way to provide video content with a text document than to link to youtube

That may be the best "free" way, but my company puts their training videos up on some training website. The site tracks which videos were watched and sends nag emails when required trainings are late.

So if you're putting up content that your employees are obligated to watch, there are better alternatives than Youtube.
While I 'get' this, as not everyone's living conditions are favourable, personally my experience with WFH has been awesome from the air conditioning perspective.

I've had skin rashes every year in winter since moving here, except mysteriously (or not ...) this winter. I blame the conditioned air in the office. Summer isn't better either. Outside I can't take off enough clothes to stay non-sweaty and then I come into a freezer in the office. Sweaty and with not enough clothes on me. I literally wear _more_ to the office in summer than I do in winter, because the ice cold air is blowing around (and for some time I was so unlucky that I had a seat right under a vent).
> For example, lets say a tech company in Boise Idaho can pay 120K salary for a senior dev while FAANG pays 200-220K for similar role but you work in California. Should that company in Idaho struggle to find devs ?

Why not pay 200-220K? That's the market rate now.
How many more years until i/you/we will be unemployable in tech because we pass our mid 40s?
Two things here.
1. Sex isn't nearly as objective as you're making it out to be. It's a bimodal spectrum of correlated traits; meaning there isn't a single marker you can choose to separate everyone into neat buckets that wouldn't misclassify some cis people (and jeez yall get mad when you get misgendered). [0]

2. None of this is even remotely new, Im not sure where you're getting that impression from. Germany had an entire institute dedicated to studying trans people at the turn of the 20th century [1]. I'd agree that for a variety of (usually discriminatory and religious) reasons it hasn't been well studied, but trans people certainly arent new.

[0] https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/24702897188036...

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissen...
If (real if) you're hostile to the idea that they could really be trans, it's possible they feel hostile to the idea that you could really be making a good faith best effort to support them, which is what this sounds like to me: defensiveness.

True, you don't know me.

When my child came out as pan, a few days later we had arranged for a trip to an old friend of mine who is a trans-woman, a lesbian, and who had a non-binary friend who was staying with her.

I regret the fact that you had a difficult relationship with your parents. I've seen that story play out. However I'm pretty confident that I'm not actually transphobic. My concern is not that I don't want a child who is trans, my concern is about what is best for my child's long-term well-being.
Between Pelosi and Cook I’ll take my chances with Cook, thanks.
Your experience is not the issue I was addressing and it's not really the subject of the original article. I, and in my interpretation the article, was talking about the problem of education not providing the opportunity of success for those of lower means that has typically been considered the "American Dream".

Your anecdote does not appear to contradict my statement. I made a statement about students with high needs being concentrated in a class or school overwhelming the system, and you made a statement about being a single student with exceptional ability in what I interpreted to be a typical American classroom setting not getting personalized instruction.
> You still need to hire (or get a vendor that hires) good developers or you'll be screwed though.

And the best have a tendency to... end up in your local talent pool soon enough (jumping to companies serious enough to sponsor them).
More likely to be combinatorial scaling reasons, I would have thought
I'd love to hear from Linus why they don't have that.

I know it's probably super hard to "unit test" some of this stuff but... does the Linux kernel have effectively 0 testing?
I think 2 is debatable, and not vaccinating specific groups takes away from herd immunity, which hurts everyone. To be fair he discussed that criticism.

He's completely right about 1 and 3.
The IT residency you don’t even get stock.
> It establishes civil liability, but does not indicate anything (or even that anyone has reached any judgement) about the relevant facts.

Hence the word culpable, and not guilty.
People stay in cities because there are more opportunities there and they have a support network.

I have a property in a very small town around (1000 inhabitants, about 130 kms from the city) and I think it's great: kids can play in the street, I can hear and see horses when I go for a run on dirt roads, nice people, slower living with a close contact with nature. But then again I can work from anywhere and name my price, I have an appartmt in the city and a car and can switch between them as I please.

If you are poor and want to move there it would probably be hell: no much opportunities for a formal job and no one to rely on if you are an outsider... Poor people are not stupid
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I like my job very much, but the day-to-day is the same as in any other big corporation with all the "agile coaches" and office politics that come with it. What we also get is an amazing workplace (look up LEGO Campus) with a huge amount of tool freedom and flexibility. I've done projects in Rust for internal tooling because that's what I'm excited about right now, and one of my more TDD and CI/CD-interested colleagues is allowed to spend time really fleshing that part of his work out.

And of course, when I first got the job I (as a Dane with Danish family) wasn't told "congratulations with the job". I was, however, told "congratulations with the job at LEGO" with a very big emphasis on the last at LEGO. It's a point of pride when extended family asks because it's so revered.
Correct. This has been my experience as well.
I could just as easily ask you why you think it is sufficient to wholly explain it away.
And sadly it has been deleted..
This nicely captures the crux of the argument. I suspect it also explains why you’re going to have an uphill battle convincing a lot of folks.

When the presumption of ill intent (and not e.g. confusion or ignorance) is automatic, there’s not much left to discuss.

It’s worth remembering that cis children (and adults) are misgendered too, including for reasons as banal as unorthodox appearance or unusual names.
Hold your crypto bashing for a moment. Basic Radicle features do not rely on the blockchain at all. The ethereum extras are only for things like for name reservation and organisation management. (And for project development funding)

The product itself exists and is usable in a very basic form for a while now. (You can download it from https://radicle.xyz) It's not complete though and definitely not ready for the kernel's use case at the moment.
A recent Lego puzzle game just released with RTX support and it looks incredible: https://youtu.be/1hq2kFIfaCM
> Deploy does not run on AWS Lambda nor does it use Cloudflare Workers.

This is interesting given most other serverless platforms run on these two.
I know a few people that took EngRes over Amazon despite the pay gap and it really hammered home how much folks think people like me are subhuman - they literally think being a lower paid, probationary employee is better than working at Amazon. I’m glad it’s done for, it was basically just another pipeline for elite students to have a fallback into Google (The folks I knew that took it were CS students from UChicago and UPenn)
I don't have any hard numbers, but it is the impression I get from various organizations and legal challenges to trans legislation in the UK. The organized opposition seems to be largely driven by women.
These discussions used to be a lot worse. I think occasionally having people butt heads a little with good moderation has helped relax people a bit on the subject. This is the most productive thread I've seen on the issue on HN.
Please cite a long term medical study that confirms the safety and complete reversibility of puberty blocking.
I really wish there was some sort of perfected version of this:

https://rollibot.com/product/mini-split-ac-room-air-conditio...

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I can emphasize with the article - air conditioning is definitely a luxury, one you don't fully appreciate until you experience 80+ degrees Fahrenheit with 80%+ humidity.
The chance of your self hosted server going down, being hacked, catching fire, etc is infinitely more likely than google drive being shut down so fast you can't switch to something else.

At this point the advice is moving towards "Don't even have a video if you can't be bothered designing a CPU from scratch to host it on".

Keep a local backup by all means but it's far more likely the local copy will get lost than the google drive copy.
I just wanted to say thanks for reminding me that deadlifts is the really big one.

I've been mainly focusing on my squats in my garage gym (full Olympic barbell/bench/rack with spotter bars/extra Olympic EzyCurl bar) setup, but looking at my history I've let the big deadlift slip - 14 days since last session.

So I took the 20 second trip to the gym last night to start fixing that, warmed up with squats and then just deadlifts - and can definitely feel the energy today (on top of the fatigue!).

I've been struggling with energy lately due to a lot of change and stress, so hopefully a renewed focus on the deadlift will be helpful. Cheers.
Okay, let's accept this framing for the sake of argument. Does the n-word then merely refer to dark color?

I think not. It's obviously used as a slur and a way to shut people up. Reductionism to etymology or literal interpretation do not change that fact.
Panels. Good reader app for DRM-free comic books. Octal for Hacker News content. Discord. Procreate if you’re an artist. Streaming apps.
"There's literally no evidence suggesting he was murdered."

I mean, he did get a tattoo saying if he was found dead while in custody he had been murdered. But do go on...
"Actually, John killed his own dogs after he believed they were poisoned by his neighbor."

I've never heard he killed his dogs. I did hear he thought the next door neighbor poisoned his dogs.
We have the American Disabilities Act.

We provide braille books, and TTS options.

We invent wheelchairs and ramps and lots of prosthetic limbs.

We (recently) approved a drug to treat Alzheimer.

We offer nursing homes and in-house help and care to old people with mental issues.

We do little more than argue about trans individuals. And many trans individuals are killed or commit suicide. The average life expectancy for a trans person is likely a lot smaller than a blind or disabled person.

THAT is why trans people and the related community are making a lot of noise.
Re Blink.

I've been a long time Blink user and recently switched to ShellFish:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/secure-shellfish-ssh-client/id...

Like Blink it is fast, but it also has great support for the files app & shortcuts, and widgets. The widgets are actually useful because they have the option to turn on "Location Persistence" which must use an API similar to navigation apps.

[1] I wonder how long this will last before Apple wises up.
Like Epstein, McAfee didn’t kill himself.