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I see what you're saying (and understand you're not arguing that) but, I'm not interested in having a freedom of speech argument with people who want to dictate what content Twitter/Facebook must have on their platform. The American right is philosophically and politically bankrupt; we should stop both sides-ing them until they dig out of their ditch.
Maybe I'm out of the loop, but who cares what he says? He is just a crazy person who dodged taxes.
Based on the numbers I've seen, there are slightly more trans people in the world than blind people, but overall — you're not wrong. I don't even think most trans rights advocates would disagree with you that the amount of attention devoted to transgender people is excessive. The reason transgender people are getting more attention than blind people is because there is currently a strong movement to regress transgender rights, while there isn't an equivalent movement for blind people. Transgender people have some asks in terms of societal support (e.g. British law has some awkward legal red tape for trans people around things like marriage), but in general, most of the noise is being generated by the anti-transgender side (e.g. bans on therapy for transgender people, bathroom bans, sports bans, outrage at voluntarily chosen gender-inclusive phrasing like "people who have a uterus").

So it's a bit of a hard subject. I really don't think it's worth this much attention, but if hate groups are devoting this much attention to opposing transgender people, we're faced with the choice of either also giving it a lot of undue attention or throwing transgender people to the wolves.
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He was found guilty in a civil suit, and has been actively avoiding a criminal trial.

"Likely" is a fully appropriate term, since all evidence points to that being the case, but (as you say) there has been no trial to subject that thesis to evidence.
Did you ever get the impression from him that he was "holding back"?
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/29/im-cre...
Congress defines a security, and the SEC interprets the definition, and the courts subsequently interpret it if the SEC sues. Congress has made a definition that does not apply to Bitcoin, and the SEC has interpreted the definition to not apply to Bitcoin. It hasn't come up in court, and it won't unless the SEC changes their minds first. But their arguments are sound and it's extremely unlikely that their interpretation could change, or that a court would agree with them if they did change.

It's also unlikely that Congress would change the existing definition to apply to Bitcoin. It's much more likely that they would pass specific regulations for Bitcoin and cryptocurrency.
If the issue is that voices are being censored then the issue affects everyone who is studying in a university - massively more than your figures.
How do you tell if someone is a 'him' or 'her'? What are the criteria you use to make that decision, and why are they immutable?

(Please don't say XY chromosomes, you don't do a genetic test on everyone you meet.)
>McAfee announced via Twitter that he would be continuing his campaign "in exile", following reports that he, his wife, and four of his campaign staff were being indicted for tax-related felonies by the IRS. McAfee indicated that he was in "international waters", and had previously tweeted that he was on his way to Venezuela. The IRS has not commented on the alleged indictments. On June 29, McAfee tweeted that his campaign headquarters had been relocated to Havana, Cuba.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McAfee_2020_presidential_...
https://archive.is/gggnc
Spanisch also hast it. Real academia española

But he post of the other member was about that languages naturally evolve, which is true, but this is forced and unatural.
That is hard to say.

In a world full of discrimination against trans folks, who knows how many people who would prefer being trans have failed to be identified?

But the topic is much bigger than that. You see, the ideology being pushed says that everyone who has gender dysphoria should be assumed to be trans. But a LOT of teenagers, particularly girls, go through a period of gender dysphoria when they hit puberty. What little research exists on the topic says that most of those girls will grow out of their gender dysphoria, and well-meaning attempts at gender reassignment surgery for them will backfire. However said research is highly controversial exactly because it undermines the politically correct ideology that we should take seriously all claims that physical appearance is less important than chosen gender.

And THAT is the real problem. I don't have statistics. But anecdotally I have a 12 year old with gender dysphoria. Many of their friends have the same. I personally know more children claiming to be trans at present than I've known people who were blind or missing a limb over my entire life.

A *LOT* of parents are in my boat. It is easy to find opposing ideologies about how we should deal with our teenage children. There is very little research. And people are so focused on yelling at each other that nobody dares DO more research. Because no matter what you find, you're going to get targeted by someone.
It feels like everything now starts with 'it's a conspiracy' for no reason and somehow everyone has to prove it isn't a conspiracy ... or it is assumed to be.
It’s almost like those who are opposing acceptance are slowing things down for little reason.
I think that's what I'm saying too unless I misunderstand. 2012 was 9 years ago, and Obama was anti gay marriage. So was Clinton for that matter until about 2015. https://www.eqca.org/hillary-clinton-has-a-new-position-on-s...
That "just" is doing a looot of work.
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There are other solutions than what you're describing. I've been in a number of bars with unsexed bathrooms, where the sinks are all in the open and there are private secure individual stalls. I don't know that this is the best solution, but it does remove the gender distinction from the bathrooms and it certainly isn't "a bathroom with 5 men in it".
As I wrote in another comment, trans individuals’ gender identity is hardwired to the same extent that people’s sexual orientation is hardwired, so there must be some innate physiological component to gender identity. My guess is it’s neurological, since there aren’t discernible hormonal, genetic, or anatomical differences between trans and cis people.

Your analogies don’t apply because, with the exception of age (mental age vs. physical age), there is no mental analog to race, height, eye color, etc.

I’d analogize gender identity to sexual orientation: there is nothing physiological that distinguishes heterosexual people from homosexual people, but the former are hardwired to be sexually attracted to members of the opposite sex, while the latter are hardwired to be sexually attracted to members of the same sex.
(Are we talking about Reddit's terrible videos?)

I would have expected them to have fixed the obvious issue with their UI by now.
There's a lot of projects working in this area to make enclaves easier to manage and deploy, e.g. Veracruz [0] which I work on.

[0]: https://github.com/veracruz-project/veracruz
This was trending like crazy on Twitter this morning before they nuked it.
He also said he would eat is own anatomy regarding bitcoin price.. I guess this bet is gonna happen in another dimension.
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I don't see how banning prostitution isn't merely a limit on the kinds of sex work you can perform.

The distinction is arbitrary.
Being a do-er... what a nice, simple, seemingly intuitive concept.

I grew up in a rich area; all of my friends (even the screwballs) are in white-collar jobs, they are all "senior this" and "lead that". I'm 30. Even the people who were serious screw-ups, getting in trouble, drugs, rehab, etc. are doing relatively well - they just had unlimited re-tries.

On the contrary, my wife is from a relatively poor area. Most of the people she knew are poor, have a number of kids, and are just struggling to make ends meet in blue collar jobs.

I don't think my rich kids group had "the ability to DO THINGS". They just had every advantage & their failures were just setbacks in a nearly inevitable path to success.
I too like nuanced discussion on HN and I generally don't shy from political questions.

That said, HN is the watering hole for people with multiple political approaches on a fairly wide spectrum.

I think debate between these people is best facilitated by prompts and articles which raise multiple nuanced questions. And I think we do have useful debates at this point.

What isn't useful is something like an overt manifesto for one or another "side" on this political spectrum. And HN generally avoids such things.

But there's a kind of article, like this one imo, that is more or less a manifesto - an article that stake out a position and only give apparent gestures at balance. These have the same low-quality potential as manifestos. In important questions, it's unfortunate have a lot of uninformed posts even when they aren't flame bait.

In the case of the present article, I don't think readers of the article will come away with any greater understanding of "Gender Theory" and what gives rise to it and so it's not really a generator of good quality discussion even when people are not shouting at each.

Edit: Another thing I should add is that in the case of article that are effectively manifestos, upvotes and downvotes are going to gravitate to being just around the popularity of various positions and that too lowers the quality of discussion.
Name has no factual meaning, it is an ID, referring to someone as male or female indicates a fact, the way you see the world. It is like demanding saying about someone that he is tall even though he is short factually. So I don't think it is a good comparison. Sometimes people sugarcoat reality, especially women when they compliment other women's kids in social media, but that's out of their own will and reasons, not because someone is demanding it from them.
I'm sorry to be so frank, but this is more of the same mormon bullshit.

"Love the sinner, hate the sin" is the typical line. The problem is our actions and identity are often intrinsically linked.

They have the same stance for gay people. "It's ok to be gay, god still loves you! The only catch is you can't ever have a romantic relationship with the person you love. If you do you'll be excommunicated and ostracized from your family. No biggy! God bless!"

Nobody wants this sort of faux compassion.
Yes, my point was that they're not just running a website. That's reductive.
Why are publicly funded institutions allowed to
decide who's opinion matters and whose doesn't?

At a very minimum, there are real-world constraints at work.

There are a limited number of lecture halls and auditoriums. It costs money to run the facilities. Staff is required to maintain them. Somebody has to sweep the floors. There are heating and cooling bills to be paid and new boilers to be purchased every few decades. There are a limited number of hours available in students' academic careers.

A university cannot provide platforms for an unlimited number of professors and guest speakers; a student cannot attend an unlimited number of talks/lectures.

Therefore it is obvious. Choices must be made. One could even say that this curation is one of the most elementary duties of an educational institution.

What's your alternative? Should publicly funded institutions make zero curatorial choices whatsoever? Should literally anybody be able to teach there? If that is not your position, then you surely accept that some curation needs to occur.

This is not incompatible with the wishes of the people nor does it suggest that educational institutions should have dictatorial carte blanche. They must make choices, but must also be accountable to the public.

Are we trying to curtail freedom of speech?

No.

Nobody is arguing that the subject of the linked article should be barred from expressing her views. This is strictly a question about who should (or should not) be obligated to give her a soapbox and a megaphone.

They shouldn't be allowed to take a stance
because they are the government.

There would be considerable benefits to getting the government out of the education business entirely. The downsides would be considerable as well.

It would be worth looking for examples of times and places when government kept its nose out of education entirely. I do not think you will enjoy the correlation between "governments disinterested in education" and... well, anything good.
Azure DevOps is quite a bit more advanced than GitHub. Is there a feature that GitHub has that is missing from Azure DevOps?

UX is very subjective and while DevOps is not perfect, I don't find it straight up horrible. It has way more features that need a place in the UI. Plus it's lightning fast compared to JIRA.
I don’t think there’s an if/else clause. Allowing trans women to legally be claimed as women is really just an adjustment in a database, as well as just treating people the way they want to be treated. It doesn’t cost anything to be respectful to people regardless of who they are.
TERFs primarily don't focus on trans men because they see them as misguided women. You can find many TERFs blaming trans women and "gender ideology" for convincing butch-identified lesbians that they're actually straight men. Personally I think this denies trans men the dignity and autonomy to define themselves as they see fit, but then again, I would say that, I'm trans.
I live in a downtown area where there are many cats walking around. They used to poop all over my garden, but I think I may have found a solution but I am not sure.
I read that cats dislike the smell of coffee. So to experiment, I would cover the pile of cat poop with a large pile of coffee grounds. In my experience so far the cats do not return to poop in that spot like they would before.
It is also not illegal to add plants that are poisonous to cats on the border of your property.
Arguments trying to separate lisp from functional programming generally fall apart pretty quickly, notwithstanding common lisp in particular being multi-paradigmatic by design.
Thank you, this whole discussion seems to have turned into a circle-jerk to prove how hard working and deserving wealthy people are, when then simple fact is they are all born lucky.
OK, I'll just agree to disagree then. I understand that boilerplate ideological rhetoric is an unavoidable hazard in a thread about gender issues (or indeed, politics more generally) and I'll keep trying to write comments that are as far as possible from any 'boilerplate'.
It is indeed an alternative possiblity, but the possiblity that he was murdered should not be discounted. Murdering those that challenge authority has been happening since the dawn of history and nothing has fundamentally changed. Well other than needing to make it look like a suicide since modern society likes to believe it's enlightened.
Here's a chart I love showing how the news distorts based on what people want to read (or what they are pushing) versus reality:

https://ourworldindata.org/does-the-news-reflect-what-we-die...

I'm not sure how the world would be if proportional importance news were the norm, but it's certainly not the case today.
John McAffee dies in Spanish prison
Whether or not someone deserves to die doesn't seem like much of a question when the cause of death is intentionally self-inflicted.
That Thompson quote really resonates with me, thanks for sharing.
Sotheby's and other art dealers are not regulated by the BSA. They are not considered money exchangers since art isn't considered a financial asset.

They do have a voluntary BSA compliance program, but voluntary doesn't mean mandatory.

Can NFTs really be sold as 'art' or are they just a crypto? I think they are cryptos since they point to an art file at a url. Art has to be visual, or at least experienced, so the machine code or source code that encodes the digital art, even if put inside the NFT itself would still not be art.

Since NFT is a crypto, doesn't matter if just 1, or 1 of many, Sothebys is doing money transmission when it auctions NFTs.
An unstable personality that hates the US saying the US government would stage a suicide is much more likely to actually kill themselves than your regular run-of-the-mill evil billionaire with powerful enemies saying nothing about how they will die.

I don't think Mcafee really thought things through enough to come to this conclusion.
Sure. Thanks for correcting me and sorry for the inconsistent number at first. It wasn't easy to find numbers since most just retold the original mentioned article without absolute numbers.

But the entire fraud /year is way less percentage then this sole scam from the entire Bitcoin market cap valued against its peak.

So his comment is actually a net positive for traditional payments ( even if you neglect insurance, ... )
The existence itself of that movie demonstrates that many parties had it in for him.
He said he'd eat his dick on live TV if Bitcoin didn't hit $500k by last year (https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887012614131372032, https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887039604846714881, https://twitter.com/officialmcafee/status/887024683379544065) so the track record on predictions... isn't great.
a great quote -- thanks for this
Ask me how I know you grew up in a wealthier neighborhood.
Impregnation and sexual assault are obviously not the same thing, and I am not combining them as if they are. Housing cis-women and trans-women creates a unique situation where cis-women can be sexually assaulted AND impregnated. I don't dispute that cis-women can sexually assault other cis-women, and that sexual assault is a problem in men's prisons and women's prisons and exists with or without the presence of trans men and women.

To completely stop sexual assault in prisons, people would have to be housed in separate cells. Housing cis-women and trans-women in the same cell does not stop the sexual assault problem.
> No, I don't think anyone deserves to die.

technically, everyone dies... the question should be, did he deserve to be killed, if he was (not saying he was) or did he deserve to think that was his only way out?
Which is more believable, that he was murdered, or that he killed himself to troll people?
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I think of it as basically the same problem as running a Tor exit node: you're basically taking on the risk of whoever committed the greatest crime using that system, with the knowledge that the more successful you are at making the service work the more likely it is that someone sketchy is going to send traffic your way because it's cheaper / more reliable than the alternatives.

Even if you love the concept and want to see it succeed, that's a big deterrent unless you love litigation and are confident that it won't be a SWAT raid.
I agree and I'll add to that activists claiming to speak on behalf of a particular group are often not actually representing that group. I think there is currency in identity these days, to your earlier points, and some wish to spend others' currency for themselves.
Agreed. The most important take, IMHO, is that you have structured/disciplined way to do things, and do it everywhere.

It could lead to a lot of code (the part about all that validations upfront), but having a distinct and regular style surely is a benefit for a large-sh team, that look like is the focus.

For a smaller one, some of this stuff can be different, but the point is well argued.
Does the median american even benefit from these sorts of things? I would guess not at all, but I'm sure for the 1% the regulatory environment is extremely favorable. Someone working with their hands doesn't care much about national financial policy, since it has very little practical effect on their life vs. something like a national healthcare policy, which they would use regularly throughout their lives.
did they actually dump their bitcoin? If yes I'd agree that it deserves attention but I don't think that's the case. Probably for that reason Elon actually posted in May or whatever that they have not sold their coins.

Unless you can show that he actually mislead users for financial gain I don't think you're going to get authorities involved.
We changed the URL from https://elpais.com/economia/2021-06-23/el-fundador-del-antiv... to the most neutral English-language article that was easy to Google.
The Lisp that was popularly taught in school (Scheme) is mostly functional though. Functional doesn't mean that mutating state is impossible, just that it is discouraged.
I honestly don't like this line of thought. I got nothing against you personally, just against the general idea, which I also see expressed as "natural talent". Let me explain.

I have had a pretty tough life, never had much of a privileged situation, but I achieved things people express jealousy over very frequently, and it's often attributed to "being a genius" instead of the actual effort and sacrifices it took.

That line of thought reduces all the effort me and others had to go through to "luck". It wasn't us, it was the genes that helped us out. It's dehumanizing the person and their achievements and reducing them to a perceived "luck of the draw" that maybe if you examine the case in detail you might find out there's no luck at all in there. It was our own choices and priorities what got us somewhere, not some funky "luck".

This works both ways too. How do you encourage someone that is sad because they can't do the things you can do? You can't precisely tell them "if you weren't playing videogames all day you could also learn these things" without looking like a complete asshole. I wish this "genetic superiority" argument just vanished so we can let people's decisions and efforts shine through. Similarly, people assumes you don't need help ever because "you are a genius", you can figure it out.

My genes aren't even that good. I got a genetic syndrome that will cut my life short anytime just like it did to my only brother. I really don't want to hear how lucky I am for my genetics, it just makes me furious when I remember medical science has told me I am living on borrowed time and I just came out of a close call from gangrene due to tissues tearing up randomly. You can probably understand why I think this myth, in regards to "things you can do in life" really upsets me. I've witnessed people with Down's syndrome learn things an Average Joe considers difficult, and according to that myth that should be impossible, all because they really wanted to do the thing.

Again, I'm not attacking you and I'm positive you don't have any bad intent in your belief, but you can probably see why I'd disagree with the notion. It's troubling, really, and it diminishes accomplishments done voluntarily to luck. Genetics don't give you desire or the ability to compromise, that's all on the personality, and people needs to see this. There would be way less people beating themselves down over not being a genius and they would instead see that they can't rise as high because they aren't really willing. But you can change that, unlike your genes. By removing that mental lock that makes people believe they don't have what it takes, I'm sure more people would accept their shortcomings and improve on them, instead of leaving it as some hypothetical act of God they cannot possibly overcome.
In academic discourse, there is no consensus on whether or not TERF constitutes a slur.

But if we want to be accommodating to those who take offense with the term, we can use the term Gender Critical.
Interesting, thanks! Although I supposed it doesn't really speak to whether it was initially embraced (by the identified niche group) before being rejected.
he was wanted for murder in Belize....
Unfortunately like Shkreli, Trump, etc., he has amassed an army of angry young extremely online men who hung on his every word, and will now descend on the comments section.