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qtplatypus··on Bella Thorne, OnlyFans and the battle over monetising content
So basically what Kizuna Ai pretends to be but for real?
qtplatypus··on Police across Canada are using predictive policing algorithms, report finds
The accessed names, addresses and medical status. These are all PII and medical information has even higher level of privacy. You want people to use medical services in confidential, it is safer for everyone that if someone suspects that they have an infectious disease that they have the appropriate medical help.

This is why Drs records and the like are very difficult for people to get, even law enforcement.

qtplatypus··on Police across Canada are using predictive policing algorithms, report finds
Which is why you shouldn’t assume people are going to act in good faith. If acting in good faith was universal then we wouldn’t need any form os]f security at all. This is why you have to build systems that assume that there will be bad actors.
qtplatypus··on Airline pilots landing at LAX report “a guy in jetpack” flying alongside them
I am pretty sure that ATC is trained to sound calm. I’ve been listening to ATC recordings at the worse the emergency is the more calm the controller is. I think it is deliberate to help the pilot concentrate and not panic.
qtplatypus··on Information on the revocation of WinRAR 5.91 digital certificate
Also this file (if it existed) was used to justify a business critical decision. Why wasn’t there a paper trail for this file. Why wasn’t this data archived?
qtplatypus··on Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google
They couldn’t bring a copyright claim because they don’t own an exclusive license.
qtplatypus··on Court dismisses Genius lawsuit over lyrics-scraping by Google
The problem is because the form of unfair competition is copying the copyright act takes charge and the claim must be made under copyright law.
qtplatypus··on Australia fast-tracks plan to send solar power to Singapore
Also Australia has large amounts of unpopulated flat land. Something that Malaysia doesn’t have.
qtplatypus··on Australia fast-tracks plan to send solar power to Singapore
Household power prices are not the same as the wholesale rate. Indeed sometimes the wholesale rate is negative. South Australia is $73.25/MWh
qtplatypus··on Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias
I would argue that it is censoring. By being more lenient to right wing sources compared to other sources who carry out the same infraction you create a bias and are censoring in favour of those right wing sources.
qtplatypus··on YouTube: Community contributions will be discontinued across all channels
YouTube runs at a loss. If it was spun off from google it would not be viable.
qtplatypus··on MI6 tried to intervene independent court by stopping judge seeing legal papers
My understanding is that expate communication with the judge or a judges staff in a court case is not legal (unless allowed under very specific situations).
qtplatypus··on FCC Fines HobbyKing Nearly $3M for Marketing Unauthorized Drone Transmitters
Yeah. You can;t just say “no one complained so there wasn’t a problem” licensing radio spectrum is a very expensive.
qtplatypus··on Hundreds petition to retract paper they call “unscholarly, overtly racist”
Looking for errors in the paper is exactly what peer review and retraction is for. Even if it mimics the form of an academic paper it doesn’t progress the debate if all it is using is already discredited or unsupported. As other commentators have pointed out the cites that he uses are way out of date and this isn’t advancing the field.

It serves no ones to repetitively rebut the same mistakes over and over again. While at the same time such papers lend false credibility to damaging ideas.

qtplatypus··on Hundreds petition to retract paper they call “unscholarly, overtly racist”
So what if the tone is good. The arguments that he made are not supported by the evidence.
qtplatypus··on How did anyone do math in Roman numerals? (2017)
Is zero a number isn’t just a semantic splitting of hairs but has an important outcome. If zero is a number then you can do arithmetic to it. In particular having the concept of zero as a number that you can do maths with is a prerequisite for algebra.
qtplatypus··on You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform (2013)
What happens in places that have no sunrise. For example northern Canada during the winter?
qtplatypus··on New iOS privacy feature may end an era of personalized ads
Can I say “Good”.
qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
I am going by Blackless‘s research. Even if that figure is wrong Klinefelter syndrome occurs at rate 1-2 per thousand which means that your estimate of one in ten thousand is way out.
qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
And in the Dominican Republic intersex people are common. It still misses the point though. You can’t dismiss people because they are a minority.
qtplatypus··on Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware
Yes. We already have lots of problem with invasive species.
qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
What dragonwriter is writing isn't Critical Gender Theory. In critical gender theory the idea that there exists a gender identity that is independent of society does not exist. See https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage?handle=hein.journals/...

As to classifying what dragonwriter has written as hokem people would find it more convening if you gave an actual argument.

qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
1.7% of the population are intersex. 2% of the population are blond.

Are blonds genetic abnormalities? Can I say “No people have blonde hair” and dismiss all the blonds?

qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
This is speculation but if the boy had higher levels of T his body could have already been producing a higher then average amount of estrogen.
qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
Trans men are not offered estrogen. Which is what the parent is saying.
qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
And a child born without hips? Are they genderless?
qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
However he is exactly wrong. Check the dictionary “ either of the two sexes (male and female), especially when considered with reference to social and cultural differences rather than biological ones”. Gender is the term used when talking about the social construction.
qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
In social science the word “gender” is used to refer to the social construction of male and female in order to distinguish it from “sex” which is the physiological makeup of ones body.

Physiological sex can be further broken down into ones Anatomical sex, ones chromosomal sex and ones hormonal sex.

However it is possible to have anatomically male genitalia and XX chromosomes as well as all other combinations. To ignore this is to ignore biology.

qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
It seems this young man has perfectly rational reason to be enraged at authority.
qtplatypus··on Boy, 16, was given estrogen at L.A. juvenile hall, suit says
However “Common sense” is often wrong. That is why you can’t treat people based on whatever hunch you have. Also you would hope that common sense and basic medial ethics would make you avoid violating the Nuremberg code.
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