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Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 1) 84

No to be clear I think you simply do not understand my argument, either from ignorance or purpose. I understand your argument fine, hell I am only half disagreeing with you but I dont even think you understand that. You cant understand that or you might be forced to actually address mt greater point and not just the 1in of surface on it.

But hey, you're a Trump voter, why do I have any expectations?

Comment No not exactly (Score 1) 371

Again sex is not binary it is much more complex.

It's not a mutation per se but a difference in how genomes get expressed.

That said it wouldn't be entirely inappropriate in the cases of gender dysphoria to call it a birth defect. Since it is something you are born with that causes a uncomfortable medical situation.

Because I played a bit of Warhammer 40K I met several trans girls. Seriously go play Warhammer you will meet some trans girls.

There was always a bit of friction between the trans girls and the gay community because when the two of them got together for support groups the gay community was primarily focused on activism while the trans groups were focused on general support group stuff for medical reasons. Basically the details of their transition.

In practice this means that yes as our technology advances trans people will more or less go away because we'll figure out the exact specifics that cause gender dysphoria.

My advice as far as understanding all this is think of this, imagine going to work and everyone looks at you funny because of how you are dressed. The next day you come in wearing a floral print dress and everyone calms down and treats you better but you feel very very uncomfortable in that dress right? That's gender dysphoria. When society forces you to express gender characteristics that don't match the ones you feel natural it causes substantial discomfort mentally. I don't know about women but it's something any man can easily imagine provided they have any imagination whatsoever which being a nerd I would expect that you do.

It's not just about cross-dressing imagine getting treated poorly because you're not in a floral print dress and aren't wearing makeup. And imagine what you would feel like if you just had to dress like that every single day to fit in with everybody else. That's gender dysphoria.

It's a medical condition that has a specific treatment plan and it's certainly true there are means of treating it today are ridiculously primitive and if our society somehow doesn't collapse they will gradually get better and better until it's just not a thing anymore.

But getting back to calling out a birth defect that's a loaded phrase because dropping defect implies the person in question is inherently defective. That might not have been your intention but you picked up on it from somewhere and you should be aware of it. Basically you want to avoid those kind of negative medical terms because outside of medicine they tend to get misused to dehumanize people.

It's the same reason we stopped saying retard. It became a way of dehumanizing people and after world War II we learned that dehumanizing people is extremely dangerous.

Comment Re:I won't forget (Score 1) 58

It might be crazy to think that I make technology purchase decisions, not just for myself but for more than one company.

And what's your decision? Have you decided your company is going back to typewriters? Your "AI companies" cover the entire industry. If your idea is an industry wide boycott you probably won't be making purchasing decisions for any company in the future.

Comment Vibe coding isn't done by real developers (Score 2) 21

It's done by whatever schlub worked for the cheapest on weekends in between other work.

The goal of vibe coating, or realistically letting generative AI build software for you out of stolen assets, is to not have to pay somebody who can actually write applications properly.

So it's going to be slap dash. As the saying goes, fast, cheap, good pick two. Or in the case of genai I guess you get cheap at least. For now anyway.

Comment Re:Financing (Score 2) 84

The "loans" are 100% state funded loans by the Danish government who is footing 100% of the bill. The idea of tolls was largely due to the realisation that non-Danish people will be some of the biggest beneficiaries and that socialism only works if costs are distributed among the society itself, and not just half of it.

Comment Re:Meanwhile (Score 2) 84

When you're hard right everything looks extreme left. The democrats haven't moved in the slightest with Obama, and Biden sharing the same spot on the political compass as Carter did in the 70s. Heck they are significantly more right wing that Truman, Johnson or Wilson. In fact the only outlier was Clinton who was slightly more rightwing than the rest, but still occupies the center left of the political compass.

How about less Fox News for you and more actual intelligent material.

Comment Re:Rethinking our approach (Score 1) 96

> /qh->0,uzLCb!51Wlcha4:a?@4Nmr:&^

Well, it's not secure any more!

Tabilizer, do NOT use that password!

> Of course, you'll never be able to remember it. Which is why you store it in a password-keeper, encrypted with a strong passphrase (the only thing you do need to remember) and using a strong encryption algorithm like AES256.

That's the theory. The part I love is that you practically have to store all your passwords in the cloud to make this feasible for most people, which is its own can of worms.

In practice, weaker passwords coupled with TOTP tends to be a better solution, if you can persuade people to use TOTP. If your passwords are compromized, change them before your TOTP keys are, and vice versa.

Comment Re:This whole AI thing is ridiculous (Score 1) 58

No, there isn't a free market. Corporate interests want ALL of supply so you don't get any.

That is still a free market, the problem is you're seeing it through a lens of someone who hasn't got enough money to play in that market. Their dollar is worth as much as yours, the only problem is they have more of said dollars.

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