EntropyIsAHoax

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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
At least in large cities, lots of (mostly young) people are already fully on board with a largely car-free future. It's increasingly common to dream of not owning a car at all, instead of having a dream car. All of my american friends
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
It looks like the outboard "wing" is on the windward side. Is it actually a counterweight to prevent the vehicle from tipping over in the wind? I would have expected it to be more like a sideboard on a sailboat being a sort of lee
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
Wealthy landowners are not a marginalized group
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
No. Communists are not nazis. Communists do not advocate for the extermination of any marginalized group. I made it very clear that the opinion being expressed matters here, so I'm not sure why you'd think this is inconsistent?
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
So you suggest that everyone can express any opinion, no matter how inflammatory, without any repercussions? To be honest I find an absolute stance on that ridiculous. The questions I would ask are: - what kinds of speech are unacceptable?
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
Ah yes. A famous best-selling author featured in the BBC is completely censored and her career is wrecked because... she got some angry tweets? What are you talking about?
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
Do you have a source on that?
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
If someone is convinced that black people are inferior to white people, I want them to be afraid to express that. I don't care about hearing evidence on certain subjects, and I want there to be societal repercussions for disagreeing ab
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
> > Not every thought that goes through a person's mind the need be put out into the open immediately. > > Straw man. Doesn't sound like a straw man to me. What is self-censorship if not thinking through what you want
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
How so? I personally prefer to live in a world where expressing certain opinions in public is socially unacceptable and will make you an outcast. For example, I don't want to hear anyone's transphobic opinions, as is the case with
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
No it does not. Just another generic "person with huge public reach complains about being criticized for their bigotry" article from the BBC. Somehow these people never see the irony about articles like this being in the biggest n
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
I've always loved math, but one class I didn't expect to like as much as I did was The History of Mathematics. The mathematical content was usually very basic of course, but putting all the things I was learning in my other classe
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
As a fellow ADHD-er, the way I handled this as a student was to customize my note-taking system. My whole life people had told me how to take notes in an extremely structured way, and insisted they must be detailed. That required so much fo
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
I don't mean to say the devs have any ill intent. Just pointing out the reality it has trouble with feminine voices. Like veidr points out in response to my comments, implicit bias is a big issue. Probably they originally trained the w
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
They are: https://mycroft.ai/blog/hey-mycroft-listen-to-me/ Although it hasn't gotten better from my perspective. But until I searched for this, I was totally unaware they've provided an easy way to trai
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
This is actually how Mycroft handles it, more or less. The wakeword ("hey Mycroft") is done on-device, but everything you say after that is sent to a speech-to-text API. That text is then routed to the appropriate skill to handle.
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
Yes. It reliably responds to the wakeword ("hey Mycroft") from men, and only responds about 50% of the time to women. When my sister visits, it almost never responded to her for example. And in my personal experience, I used to ha
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
Depends on what it's used for imo. I've got the same setup and--apart from some sexism in the voice recognition--the basics work flawlessly. Once it's up and running it's trivial to set timers, check the weather, do basi
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
> having had the flu a couple times in my life I know that it sucks but it's still only a couple of days of misery Because you've been lucky. The flu can and does kill healthy young people. I cannot understand why you would val
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
I make an above median software dev salary, I definitely spend time considering $100 vs $0. Also, I now live in a country where I don't pay for most healthcare, so the default is free, which means when I encounter unexpected costs in h
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
> probably only worth getting if you're especially vulnerable I also grew up in the US and came away with the exact opposite impression. Every year from when I was in grade school through university there was a massive push to get e
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
Do you have ADHD? I don't know if there's actual evidence whether it's related, but I often hear this from people with ADHD
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
This paper casts doubt on the current evidence for "completely reversible" as well as their efficacy without really providing evidence of the opposite. I would invite you to read further studies showing that puberty blockers are s
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
Also this is a source from 2021 estimating the regret rate for gender affirming surgery is ~1% https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8099405/ From 2021 (more recent than 2018 as your #4 source) and not
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
From number 3: > increased time since last gender-affirming surgery was associated with reduced mental health treatment (adjusted odds ratio=0.92, 95% CI=0.87, 0.98). > In this first total population study of transgender individuals w
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
Are you trying to say that people under 18 should never receive any surgery because they can't consent? This comment chain is about gender affirming surgeries and _doctors_, not DIY HRT so I won't respond to that
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
It is hard to find good numbers on detrans minors, simply because there are so few minors who transition in the first place. But here's one study showing that the regret rate for gender affirming surgery in general is ~1% https:/
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
Except that people undergoing these surgeries do so willingly, face massive barriers to ensure they are thinking clearly and understand the consequences, show minimal regret rates, often have to undergo extensive psychological counseling be
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
And the supreme court is set to severely weaken the Indian Child Welfare Act within the next year. We are likely to see even more native children basically kidnapped like this as a result
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by EntropyIsAHoax 4y ago
It's seemed pretty obvious to me that the military's recruitment issues are just because young people morally object to it. I (25) grew up in the shadow of 9/11, seeing the US invade other countries on false premises for oil,

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