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Re:When Americans Lost Faith in the News on Thursday February 02, 2023 @12:38PM (#34630148)
>I'll take real professional journalism over amateur internet commentary any day.

This is a /r/selfawarewolves-tier post. Bravo.

>Anytime I hear people generically blaming "The Media" for everything I just roll my eyes.

My post specifically outline multiple instance where the media dropped the ball. It by definition is not "generically blaming."

Re:Ask HN: What's your unpopular tech, programming opinion on Monday January 30, 2023 @03:49PM (#34586166)
The madness that is overlay networking and other brainfuck networking stacks that are normalized now due to Kubernetes and Docker are horrific. Moving to micro-VMs with each one having it's own unique IP and leveraging basic networking has paid us off in spades.
Florida outranks California, Oregon, Washington, New Mexico, etc. in public school education rankings. They'll fare better than those states for sure.

[0] https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/public-scho...

Re:Ask HN: Why Is Everything Declining? on Saturday January 28, 2023 @04:32PM (#34562157)
Points 1, 2, and 6 are why every generation eventually figures out why suburbs exist.
Which is exactly why there's a gigantic push for gender ideology and whiteness studies. Those steeped in the ideology are truly uneducated and will vote for those pushing these beliefs, and they're pro-open immigration so the better workers will flood in.

It's a win/won for the capitalist owner class.

That probably explains everything! I've never deployed WordPress, but it's everywhere! Thanks
>and the tendency of people to move out of states with laws that oppress them

This is categorically false. More people are moving to states like Texas, Florida, and Georgia than states like California and New York. Blacks are moving in droves back to the South.

https://archive.is/O426q

Apache serving 21%?! What kind of websites use Apache in 2022? I haven't deployed a site on that dinosaur in over a decade at this rate. Nor have I used it as a reverse proxy in that timeframe.
Re:Sudo Replacement on Saturday January 28, 2023 @12:51PM (#34559743)
>It feels like I'm reading a mentally ill extremelly schizophrenic write-up on the recent sudo vulnerabilities

It doesn't feel like it, you are. You are reading a mentally ill extremely schizophrenic write-up on the recent sudo vulnerabilities

Re:E-girl influencers are trying to get Gen Z into the military on Wednesday January 25, 2023 @05:17PM (#34524934)
Guess the DoD couldn't find enough Emmas with two moms to fill their ranks.

https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2021/05/20/comment-...

>iT's NoT a PiPeLiNe PrObLeM!

Opinion piece by leftist Karen

Former editor at Woman's Day

All pronouns welcome[0]

"Here's your chance to nominate queer women and non binary people who are making an impact"[1]

Every time. It's all so tiresome.

[0] https://twitter.com/KathleenEDavis

[1] https://twitter.com/KathleenEDavis/status/161362741211319911...

>I asked a friend who just left med school. He laughed and said yes there's lots of evidence supporting this in his profession alone.

I just asked a friend who is a professor of medicine. She laughed and said no there's no evidence supporting this in her profession alone.

>He suggested you pick up a copy of "Principles of Transgender Medicine and Surgery" ISBN 1138857009 which was a required for one of his courses.

A book that covers transgender care for mentally ill men doesn't magically make them female. They are still human males, and will always be human males.

>It has hundreds of references by MDs,PHDs and the like on the medical side alone.

None of the MDs disagree with the fact that "gender affirming care" is for human males or females, and their biology is most definitely male or female. The grievance studies PhDs are not experts in science.

>He did agree that quantity is not quality and recommended to use "Directory of Open Access Journals" to access a large amount of peer reviewed research that does establish the science.

There are none that establish "the science", there is no science backing any of it. Again, grievance studies papers are not science.

>You should contact everyone referenced in the book/research papers and let them know they're incorrect

"You should contact Hitler and Goebbels and let them know they're incorrect about the Jews."

>Having an open mind to learn more information is not a weakness

I agree.

>I work in data science adjacent and it's fascinating to see new information being uncovered all the time that does fill in missing information about everything we know - or don't know.

Data science is not biology. There is no missing information. Humans are mammals, humans are sexually dimorphic and produce two gametes. The earth is round, not flat.

>I've noticed the poster in question has a tendency to incorrectly frame opinions as fact.

Inconvenient facts that go against the narrative are not opinions.

>Er, no.

Er, yes.

>While you may believe what you wish, the scientific AND medical AND psychological community disagrees with your assertion.

No they don't. "Scientific" is meaningless here, grievance studies are not science. Medical field deals with male and female humans, such is basic biology still taught in all university medical schools. Current medical books also cover male and female specific physiology (because there are only two types).

>There's more research happening into it in the past 10 years than in the past 100 years with some interesting research.

Quantity != quality. There were a lot of publications in the USSR that stated genetics was a false Western ploy.

>Unfortunately people are operating off 50+ years of knowledge

Some basic findings and facts don't change. The fact that we're carbon based organisms is 50+ old. The fact that we're sexually dimorphic mammals is 50+ year old.

>elementary schools or via religion.

Yes, Newchurch is definitely working this way.

>I don't expect this is an area of study for you, so that's probably why you're not aware of these advances.

There are no advances. You don't need to concentrate in an "area of study" to understand the fact that humans are sexually dimorphic. Grievance studies are not an "expert" field.

>At one point in time people thought the earth was flat or that people were only righthanded. I'm glad to part of the scientific community that embraces increasing knowledge regardless of how it challenges preconcieved notions.

And that science was settled decades/centuries ago, much like the fact that humans are male/female mammals. Thanks for making this point for me.

>Regardless, your claims relating to Lysenko are extremely hyperbolic at best

No at all, they're spot on.

>There's lots of evidence going back to egyptian times supporting the science behind this.

No there isn't. There isn't any science behind this to begin with.

>Unfortunately most people only see the surface level sound bites thrown out in the media and make up their mind based on that - or what their own religion has pushed forward.

Exactly right.

>I suspect that fifty years from now we will have built on all the existing knowledge (including historical) and have a more refined understanding put together.

Hopefully we'll continue with the knowledge of science based biological facts that are no longer in vogue: humans are a dimorphic species that come in male in female. That is what science has taught us.

Fifty years from now we'll look back at this time the same way we look back at Lysenkoism. Sad to see science has been so corrupted by the religion of Newchurch [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23630390

Except it's incorrect. The best system is a "ducted ductless" system that circulates and filters air throughout the house.
Re:A Supermarket Visit Brought Down the Soviet Union on Monday January 16, 2023 @10:00PM (#34408664)
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There were multiple car lengths of room when the Tesla started merging. The other car was so far back it wasn't close to the blindspot. Americans do not adjust their speed or following distance to the conditions. They drive like they have some sort of right to a road free of obstructions and to drive at the speed limit or above, no matter the circumstances.
This. 100% this. Americans feel entitled to their sociopathic culturally bankrupt sanctified selfishness, and it reflects everywhere. Nothing and no one beyond their self is worth anything. It's reflected everywhere.
Exactly this. Asking American drivers to do that is just too much apparently.
The Tesla had its turn signal on for a solid 5 seconds before impact. I blame the asshole that was in the far left lane going way too fast and not slowing down (just letting off the accelerator when the Tesla signalled would have prevented the accident) when someone is trying to enter. Then they brake way too late. Everyone behind that first vehicle is also to blame for following too closely at too fast of a speed and braking too late.
That is incorrect. The EU/UK are on 230V at 50Hz at residential service entry. The point does not stand.
That is incorrect. The EU/UK are on 230V at 50Hz at residential service entry.
Voltage to residential main electrical service panels in the United States is 240V. Major appliances run on 240V circuits.

So when you install a 400A panel in the US, it's 400A*240V which is 96,000W.

Re:In Lebanon, solar power is booming on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:21PM (#34333821)
In Africa for sure. People kept digging up phone lines and phone infrastructure to sell the copper. Service was always down, or spotty at best. Cell sites were easier to secure (they're defended like military installations, razor wire and all) from scavengers, and you need a lot less of them to service a large number of people.

Source: I've spent a lot of time in West Africa.

Re:A US federal agency is considering a ban on gas stoves on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @08:14PM (#34333739)
Induction > gas any day of the week. Early induction ranges definitely had quality problems, but now even an average induction range is super nice.
Re:Tesla Vehicle Safety Report on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @04:25PM (#34331733)
>Well, if you want to know why some people are rear ending a Tesla, it's because it's far more unpredictable than a human driver.

How unpredictable is a solid 5 seconds of the Tesla signaling it's lane change then slowing down? I blame the asshole that was in the far left lane going way too fast and not slowing down (just letting off the accelerator when the Tesla signalled would have prevented the accident) when someone is trying to enter. Then they brake way too late. Everyone behind that first vehicle is also to blame for following too closely at too fast of a speed.

Re:College Fired a Professor for Showing a Painting of Muhammad on Saturday January 07, 2023 @09:40PM (#34295454)
It's extremely "progressive". Leftist baizuos are so common it's become a meme [0]. It became expected behavior for far leftists in the US.

[0] https://img.ifunny.co/images/e73e5a1bb4730d79965d1a4860878e5...

This isn't true. Fittings are built to a standard spec, and things like PVC and PEX fittings are relatively brand new.

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