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pseudalopex··on Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children
They meant trans people should be allowed hormone replacement therapy before legal adulthood seemingly.
pseudalopex··on Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49126491
pseudalopex··on Puberty blockers trial can start recruiting children
> This is equally true when you don't intervene.

The effects of puberty blockers can be reversed much more than the effects of puberty.

pseudalopex··on Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism
Some people opposed removal of ugly structures because they had other significance does not prove no people opposed construction of ugly structures because they were ugly.
pseudalopex··on Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism
The article required a subscription. And archives did not have it.
pseudalopex··on Why ugly buildings create NIMBYism
> I’ve sat through enough city public hearings to know what the author claims isn’t true.

> People don’t care if the building is gorgeous; they will still oppose it simply because they hate new homes in their neighborhood.

I read enough of the article to know what you claimed they claimed was not what they claimed. The 2nd paragraph said Ugliness is probably not a major driver of opposition to development by local people. But there is strong circumstantial evidence that ugliness is sometimes a major driver of opposition among people who live nowhere near the development in question.

Many buildings are not ugly and not gorgeous.

> Aside: the reasons new buildings are bland is because no two people agree on what is ‘beautiful’; second, delays due to zoning and endless regulations already make it difficult for a project to pencil even before spending much money on the facade.

New buildings are bland or ugly because this costs less. Everyone's lists of beautiful buildings would differ by 1 at least could be true but is not relevant. It is impossible to design a building most people would not say is ugly would be relevant but is not true.

pseudalopex··on AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy
These people were not told what model answered the questions.
pseudalopex··on The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Edit out swipes.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

pseudalopex··on I Stopped “Creating Content”
Life is not 1 game with 2 ends. And everyone dies.
pseudalopex··on My husbands suicide shows theres something very wrong with US insurance industry
> Not sure why this is downvoted.

Almost certainly guarantees was very false. The review said The absolute risk of dying by suicide in offspring of suicide decedents ranged from 0.23 to 2.9% (mean 0.87%; median 0.56%) in the included cohort studies.

Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.[1] Unless the facehugger has just laid an egg in your gut, suicide is never rational was not thoughtful and substantive.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

pseudalopex··on Turn And Face The Strange
dijksterhuis said their point was your tone. Not your AGI opinion.
pseudalopex··on Turn And Face The Strange
He called it A heartfelt provocation.
pseudalopex··on The Hitler Salute Was Never German
Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff part of the time, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

pseudalopex··on The whole premise of checking for human writing is daft
Ghost writing is fraud.
pseudalopex··on I regret migrating to Codeberg
You are American? American non profit associations must have officers and a board of directors.
pseudalopex··on Most Americans say "not in my backyard" to AI data centers
Removing salt from ocean water is costly.
pseudalopex··on Clarity didn't work, trying mysterianism (2012)
> It stands to reason that the people who took the earring off were less happy and made worse decisions than the people who kept it on for the rest of their lives.

No. It always tells you what will make you happiest. "Better for you if you take me off."

pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
KeepassXC gave users this choice. And was threatened to be blocked for it.[1]

[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...

pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
> KeepassXC is free, open source, and supports passkeys.

KeepassXC was threatened to be blocked.[1]

[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...

pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
1 of gortok's points was I don’t know whether each website/app that has set up Passkeys has decided the answers to those questions in the same way as the others.
pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
> This list just shows some which do not actually implement the spec correctly.

KeepassXC was threatened to be blocked.[1]

[1] https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/10407#iss...

pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
> It’s up to you to decide whether protecting yourself from being tricked into exporting your passkeys is worth sacrificing your ability to read them.

Until a relying party uses attestation to decide this for you.

pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
> As for attestation, the good news is that Apple always returns 0s for the attestation ID (because Apple, like you, opposes it as a side channel), and so any public site/app that insists on attestation would reject all Apple devices.

The bad news is this could change.

pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
dotancohen would not be allowed to store Passkeys private keys in a Keepass database in the case thewebguyd specified. Relying parties would block password managers which allowed this.
pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
> If I have to go get the backup out of "secure" storage each time I want to add a new Passkey it's not really a backup.

Yes.

> even if it was just within only the purview of a single manufacturer

> Heck, make it a value-added service that the manufacturer has to initiate and tie it to some real-world identity verification.

No.

pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
> Passkeys are just passwords that require a password manager.

Passkeys are passwords which allow a relying party to control what password manager you can use.[1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46305566

pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
People who say users should not be able to export keys are not confused. They believe users should not be able to export keys.
pseudalopex··on Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Just have the 2nd device when you create any account. But have it away from the 1st device always. Just update 10s or 100s of accounts for every new device. Just never use sites which allows 1 Passkey.
pseudalopex··on ECC and DDR5
Intel and AMD segmented the market. Workstations and servers use registered memory. Desktops use unregistered memory. Most desktop motherboards or CPUs do not support ECC. And most people who want ECC want reliable more than fast. So ECC unregistered above standard speed memory is made and priced for a niche. But this would change if ECC was standard.
pseudalopex··on LG monitors silently install software through Windows Update without consent
The purpose was to discourage comments which added nothing I thought.
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