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Desistance, i.e. "being convinced out of transness" is perfectly common, as mentioned in the article. I'm not aware of any studies on how therapy can affect this, but even if the t…

> Versioning APIs I hear this recommended quite frequently, but I don't see it practiced much, nor do I really understand what is being recommended. No matter how you wrote your fi…

Except he did play him, and only after that loss did he withdraw from the tournament and refuse to play with him again. The implication is clear to all that Carlsen suspects foul p…

According to the article, users can opt-in to end-to-end encryption, so it's not true that this is "out of our control".

That regurgitated code exists on Github exists under an MIT license: https://github.com/jethrodaniel/fast_inv_sqrt "jethrodaniel" does not appear to have the copyright to offer tha…

I agree with your general point, but I have to add that that example "compromise" sounds highly unsatisfactory for the wife. Not only does she have to accept the dirty dishes, but …

In my experience cold starts don't affect the p99 if you have substantial traffic, because you have enough lambdas consistently running that cold start rate is ~0.1%. P99.9 also ma…

Do you have any solution for RSS to Kindle? I would happily pay to have my RSS feeds delivered straight to my Kindle. In fact I just today paid for https://app.newslettertokindle.c…

Good point. I guess the reason the author finds removing from lists to be relevant is because there is no Set structure in the Go standard library. They should use a `map[t]bool`, …

Presumably once the kinks are worked out of this process, it could be merged into the main release of Signal. No second app required.

It depends how paranoid you are. If you believe your audio is so valuable that Amazon would create a separate hardware model for you and those like you, and would succeed in keepin…

Only if you place no value on paying off your ISA. Once the ISA is paid off, the "cliff" disappears. Obviously this is quite different to taxes.

Different in important ways. There is no risk of ruin from an ISA: if you aren't earning you don't have to pay. The idea is also that this aligns the school's incentives with the s…

No you're incorrect, and drawing a false distinction between spending company money on growth instead of profits, and other business expenses. There is no distinction for tax purpo…

There are legitimate reasons for a valuable company to make little to no profits. Namely re-investment in growth. Your proposal would make it impossible for businesses to spend tod…

And EasyJet made £430m in profit last year. http://corporate.easyjet.com/investors/results-centre

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but it seems to me that it's the consumer, not Amazon, that's being asked to pay extra fees. The consumer bought an Audiobook, Amazon wants to provide r…

Why is it important? In either case, the correct course of action is to treat the password as insecure.

Uber has no moat, so cannot possibly exploit a monopoly. The hardest part of their service to replicate is the drivers, and since they're all contractors they are free to work for …

This is a common sentiment, but seems wrong to me. It doesn't take a genius to recognise a spam or phishing email either, and yet no company has created a perfect email filter. It'…

Times Square billboards still sell for thousands of dollars a day. Do you have any evidence for your beliefs?

NYC minimum wage is https://www.ny.gov/new-york-states-minimum-wage/new-york-sta...

I think you'll find that many famous tyrants were funded by taxes.

I think you're massively overstating the effects of gerrymandering. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026137941... > while Republican and Democratic gerrymandering…

Yes, but it then explains that escape analysis allows the runtime to avoid creating the Object entirely with scalar replacement. It's written in a confusing way, which is why I fel…