alexgieg

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by alexgieg 4d ago
The UN kinda already did. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) is part of the UN. Its ITU-T H.350 recommendations include a famous one for instant messaging: XMPP. It's not only encrypted but also fully decentralized. Which
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by alexgieg 7d ago
True, but here things went a little differently. Carriers here charged per SMS sent, and had plans with things like "includes 100 messages per month for free!!!" and extra SMS packages sold at a discount compared to the standard p
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by alexgieg 7d ago
Alas, in my country WhatsApp is obligatory. Everyone uses it, businesses and banks included, and no one, at all, uses SMS. Most don't even know what SMS is for, all they know is they get random spam by their ISP, and sometimes 2FA bubb
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by alexgieg 8d ago
On the first point, shouldn't the government officials who deliberately withheld the information they had of the water containing lead be prosecuted for attempted murder then? On the second, why did they write it then? Just because the
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by alexgieg 9d ago
Isn't lying about the fact there's lead in water and telling them it's safe to drink a way for a government to "deprive you of life"? I mean, if any such lie, plus the associated loss of life, is allowed, government
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by alexgieg 11d ago
There's also the relevant details that we don't live at a time in which being extremely muscular and full of aggressiveness (which is what the testosterone policy was meant to cause) makes one a good soldier. Being healthy and abl
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by alexgieg 19d ago
US courts have made many decisions that go against the US Constitution. This is an example. Notice the US Constitution says Congress cannot do that, period. And it doesn't limit that only to laws concerning US citizens, differently f
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by alexgieg 1mo ago
If the US wants to be the most powerful country in the world, so that if benefits the most from a non-stop flux of wealth moving in from outside, that involves a cost, tiny as it might be. The US decided that paying that cost of $0.10 in ex
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
First and foremost, you're incurring in a slippery slope. Do you want reality, as complex as it may be, or merely to win an argument? Second, you don't see it because you don't care for their problem, otherwise you'd ei
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
Yes, you did understand what I meant, don't be disingenuous. As for the second part, you imply they were failing at that. Can you describe those failures?
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
No, it's first a matter of different connectomes. Their brains are physically those of the opposite gender, as shown by several studies using advanced neuroimaging and by autopsies. The mental/psychological effects of those brains
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
Try knowing some in real life. I know dozens, and it's really hard not to think of them as psychologically being of the opposite gender. This tracks with the fact that neuroimaging of trans brains shows that the areas in which male and
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
Could you link to recent peer-reviewed meta-studies of medical literature showing "gender dysphoria often resolves itself as the process of puberty and natural maturation unfolds"?
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
Who are you to decide this for them, beyond and above the professional psychiatrists and psychologists who evaluate them based on actual science, and their own parents' informed decision?
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
Puberty blockers aren't amputations; they're reversible medication-based treatments. Amputation can only be opted for after the transgender individual reaches adulthood. The right-wing sociopathic influencers and politicians you o
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
Studies about this show that regret among teens who've received puberty blockers is around 1%. The other 99% are extremely happy with it in the very long term. Suicide attempts and successful suicides among teens denied puberty blocker
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
Depends on what's being compared. Being a billionaire is understood as having a net worth of $1 bi, so we ought to compare the net worth of the median someone at retirement. If that someone are Americans, that's $200k, so 5k times
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
Billionaires, evidently. Why else would they deserve a million times what you make in your entire lifetime, weren't for the fact they're a million times more productive than you? In fact, if one were to die tomorrow that'd be
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
It helps to understand how Russian-style corruption works. The system there is entirely hierarchical. Think organized Mafia as seen in movies, but but much wider both vertically and horizontally. In that system, as an individual, you have o
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by alexgieg 2mo ago
Which risks? Mega corps have access to guaranteed bailout by governments as they're considered National Security concern, plus massive lobbying departments to buy all the laws they need to favor themselves over most potential competito
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by alexgieg 3mo ago
As I remember, Kagi's index isn't entirely its own. They do some crawling themselves, but they still rely heavily on purchasing search results from Microsoft and Google to complement their own.
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by alexgieg 3mo ago
Then please correct me on the above. Are gated free speech zones a thing, and do Americans obey that? If no, what are the news talking about when they show those? If yes, why do Americans submit to this? And is carrying guns into protests a
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by alexgieg 3mo ago
I'm not American and don't know much about how protests are done in the US. From my perspective what you describe sounds extremely weird, in a cultural shock kind of way. I mean, how is it that, in the US, one can carry actual gun
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by alexgieg 3mo ago
What the sentencing calls attempted murder, the defendants are describing as one of the protesters watching a police officer preparing to shoot another protester who was running away on their back, and thus shooting in the direction of the
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by alexgieg 3mo ago
Many countries don't use SMS, they use WhatsApp, for almost everything, from chatting with family and friends, to business contacts, to talking with your bank manager, to medical appointments, to 2FA, and even to transfer money. That&#
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by alexgieg 3mo ago
Those are pre-requisites, but not enough. You also need society to have local cultures, as well as the culture at large, that actively oppose such behavior as immoral and/or shameful, with enforcement by peers. This I say based on two
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by alexgieg 4mo ago
I noticed it as LLM-written by the middle of the second paragraph. The text is filled with classic rhetorical structures LLMs love making, especially the "it isn't X, it's Y" and "not A, not B, not C, but D" pa
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by alexgieg 5mo ago
I'd suggest cheap Android-based Chinese e-Ink e-readers if you want flexibility. My current one is a Bigme B6, which was for sale in my country a few months ago. Their main advantage is providing access to all e-reading apps available
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by alexgieg 6mo ago
I checked the numbers. OpenOffice reports about 230,000 downloads a week. LibreOffice, in contrast, reports about 1,000,000 downloads a week. Those are both direct downloads from their respective websites, thus not counting Linux distributi
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by alexgieg 6mo ago
That didn't use to be the case. In the US many laws were approved in the 1930s that forced businesses to keep stakeholders in mind, not just shareholders. That led the US to become the global powerhouse it became, and its middle class

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