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by genderwhy 4y ago
For sure, but also I don't want "Joe's Discount Basement Insulin" to be on the market. I do think we should allow imports of medicines from some places in the world as long as they meet a verifiable safety standard.
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by genderwhy 4y ago
This is great news. Honestly, I hope to see more nationalization of widely used services (or whatever the equivalent word for nationalization is at state or municipal levels.) Municipal broadband, power, roads, schools, post, housing, and h
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Walmart needs to either earn a profit or use the item as a loss leader to earn a profit elsewhere. A government can provide services without expecting them to be profitable. (See: roads, licensing, schools, transit, etc.) There's no re
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by genderwhy 4y ago
"All these safety regulations slow down the free market! Anyone should be able to make and sell insulin! If it's poisonous, people just won't buy that!"
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Thanks. That's the opposite (the government is protecting corporate interests too much) of what the usual "It's the feds fault" usually implies.
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by genderwhy 4y ago
[Citation very much needed]
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by genderwhy 4y ago
I assume this is a joke about autistic folks disliking change?
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by genderwhy 4y ago
You should understand that your definition is out of date, but I'll respond: > If somebody has coping strategies that effectively mask their autism (in the early childhood/developmental stage specifically), they DO NOT HAVE aut
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Science has improved, yes. We've discovered there are many people who are able to produce a set of coping strategies that effectively mask their autism. This is what science does -- we continuously challenge what we know and change o
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Welcome to being a senior dev. Your job is teaching, coaching, and developing others. Because the better and faster you do so, the better and faster the team will be at achieving your visions. You have the opportunity to set the direction
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Let me tell you about the Luddites. People hear "Luddites" and think "Anti-Technology, backwards mentality! Closed Minded!" No. The Luddites were highly trained, technical workers who had built careers around being loom
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Have you seen cops? Cops know one thing -- doing violence. They are already terrible at handling folks with mental health needs, folks who aren't neurotypical, folks from other countries or cultures... I don't want them anywhere
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by genderwhy 4y ago
I mean, no, right? Obviously no? Is this even a question? I can think of many significant countercultures across all sorts of political spectrums?
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Discord is not a "chat app". That's a pretty narrow view on how it is both used and vended. It's a communications app, at a minimum, and people use it for audio, video, chat, events, and a bunch of other stuff that may r
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Yep. Housing is the big one. And transit.
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Trains can't cover long distances? Surely that's a typo -- trains can cover incredible distances... And they can change routes within their network. So yes, there's some cost to get train stations and tracks built, but afterw
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by genderwhy 4y ago
WotC licenses some of their content using the Open Gaming License. It ostensibly covers both the rules* of D&D as well as key elements of the setting -- particular monsters, characters, place names, spells, etc. That license has allowed
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by genderwhy 4y ago
When you don't spend the time and money on preventative care as a society, you end up spending much, much more on emergency care. I feel like this has been quantitatively demonstrated again and again, but it's somehow still a poli
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by genderwhy 4y ago
People are saying 'ventilate'. Makes sense. I've got a resin printer in a large room with a crossbreeze, but I'd like to put in some more forced ventilation. Is there a quick thing I can buy that's got a small hood,
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by genderwhy 4y ago
I'm not an expert, but my understanding is that the normal levels of inhibitions and reading social cues aren't present in many stalking cases. There is a belief that if they are just persistent enough, their target will see their
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by genderwhy 4y ago
I object specifically to this: > Saying "there's no way to avoid the bias" is just an excuse to get away with being biased And specifically to the implied idea that there is an unbiased target that is achievable.
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by genderwhy 4y ago
If you set this expectation up front, and explain the premise, this rules. If you simply present problems to students without this caveat, you are being needlessly cruel. It seems like the author found a good approach.
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by genderwhy 4y ago
Banning this is the right move for the wrong reasons, imo. TikTok (and Youtube shorts) are both terribly addictive and we should make sure we understand their impacts on developing (and developed) minds before just opening the floodgates to
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by genderwhy 4y ago
> The goal is to be as unbiased as possible given that limited amount of effort. So you are therefore biased. You have a finite set of resources, and you are choosing to allocate them in a particular way. That is bias . You could equall
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by genderwhy 4y ago
The approach you describe has the problem that it's asking majority people about the experiences of minority folks -- for instance, if you ask a statistically significant sample of the population about what it is like to be a trans man
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by genderwhy 4y ago
You cannot describe a procedure that collects a representative sample without introducing bias. What does representative mean? Who decides what it means? Who gets to set the parameters of over vs under sampling? Let's say that white na
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by genderwhy 4y ago
I was asserting that the parent comment was misremembering, misquoting, or mistaken. There are no claims that "Matrix multiplication is racist". There are claims regarding multiplication tables. So the parent probably meant &quo
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by genderwhy 4y ago
The pattern is the point. I don't think people are going to catch on because it's fun for them to ride the wave. If the man on the tv tells me M&Ms are not sexy anymore and that's bad, I have a week of outrage over it bef
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by genderwhy 4y ago
So it should be allowed to implicitly trained to favor one political view over another? There's no way to avoid the bias, whether it's because you chose a different training set, reinforced different pathways, or put blocks in pla
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by genderwhy 4y ago
I believe the general claim is that multiplication tables, and more specifically, the manner in which they are taught could disadvantage particular communities. Culturally, not every community handles rote memorization the same. There&#x2

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