ESTheComposer

This guy is in every single crypto thread here spouting anti crypto nonsense. Don't expect an actual in depth take.

People in HN are in a massive bubble; you see it with other topics too. It's nice to look here for some tech sentiment and interesting article sometimes, but for most cutting edge stuff this forum is always full of naysayers.

Probably controversial but I did lose a ton of weight before my sense of smell and taste came back from COVID. Part of me wondered whether it would've been better for my long term physical health to have that sense of taste stay gone...on the flip side, my mental health would've suffered greatly. Food is such an amazing way to experience the world and other cultures.

> single individual

What? It was misinformation then but it might be true so its ok now? That means it wasn't misinformation then either.

Also who decides what is misinformation?

Interesting you just ignored the direct quote I gave of Fauci asking the NIH to put it down.

I'm pretty sure Twitter had pressure from the Virality Project which worked with Stanford and federal agencies so I think it's disingenuous to act as if they weren't denying anything or trying to play it down.

The China Virus thing has nothing to do with what I said

Man you are rewriting history for sure. Twitter was banning Wuhan lab theories as misinformation and Fauci's leaked emails show him asking the NIH to further "put down" the lab leak theories.

How are you defining medical consensus? Because if there are conflicting medical opinions and the vast majority don’t agree then I don’t think it’s correct to call it medical consensus.

As for the England thing you can deflect with the politics if you want, but many countries (some that pioneered dysphoria treatments) are cautioning against puberty blockers and that more research needs to be done.

https://ukom.no/rapporter/pasientsikkerhet-for-barn-og-unge-...

https://www.academie-medecine.fr/la-medecine-face-a-la-trans...

https://cass.independent-review.uk/publications/interim-repo...

And here is the study that I believe England is using where 43 out of 44 patients didn’t find any help with puberty blockers

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...

And here is a paper critiquing studies that have been done and accusing them of bias to promote a viewpoint

https://accpjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.100...

You can use emotional arguments all you want but the science from what I see doesn’t show an overall help with puberty blocking drugs and I don’t think we do have enough long term evidence for people who aren’t hitting early puberty and are taking these drugs. What you’re mentioning from the 80s is like saying it’s totally safe to give everyone who wants chemo chemo because it helps people who have cancer. Puberty blocking drugs are useful in specific use cases, but giving them to kids who feel they are the wrong gender (which by the way, things kids say and what they actually feel are so freaking varied and again, most kids don’t know wtf they’re talking about until they’re much older) does not have full scientific consensus.

How about you provide some links now to the OPs original argument of all the things they mentioned? If not then I think we’re done here as you are just throwing emotional argument after emotional argument as if the choice is between a shitty under researched drug on pre pubescent children who aren’t experiencing early onset puberty (which is the usage you’re talking about from the 80s) vs full on suicide.

Luckily you are mistaken that it is "medical consensus" and your opinion isn't the only valid one.

There are studies that show that hormone blockers don't actually decrease psychological distress (which is why England just said they're going to limit puberty suppressing drugs).

I think it's more interesting that people think children who can't possibly comprehend lifelong implications of most things are being given life altering drugs that don't have proper long term research is a good idea.

I don't personally think blocking puberty is a good thing for kids but I also think it's disingenuous to equate that with what the OP was posting.

If you think that is Texas being anti trans then so be it I guess

Can you provide a link to the law where it says receiving trans healthcare is a crime? Or are you talking about providing hormone blockers to kids?

Do you have any evidence whatsoever of this randomly happening without a crime being committed?

Did the reverse after living in CA.

The amount of homeless drugs and crime in the Bay made me immediately regret moving, but stayed for the $$$ for a bit.

Texas does many stupid things but so does CA and on top of that CA is expensive as hell to live in

HN is a very different userbase than Reddit. You have people here getting upvoted (or whatever its called on HN) saying they don't use mobile phones because they don't see the point etc. It's clear HN crowd doesn't represent the average person.

With that in mind, I fully expect most people here are using the bare bones web experience with JS disabled :)

Because the Camry is a pretty classic example of a car that goes forever and maintains its value. If someone wanted to replace their sedan for an electric one, the Model 3 is the closest bang for their buck they can get, and is also one of the top (right behind the Model Y) EVs in the US.

Granted the Model S is the real Sedan counterpart to the Camry, but I think it's interesting that a Camry is now at the point where it's more expensive than a Tesla. That was unimaginable to me years ago.

If I recall correctly, this source was criticized because their measurement for being "out of state" was that you haven't been in CA for 2 years or so. So if someone had come in 2+ years ago for the CA homeless benefits then they would be considered not out of state.

EDIT: I might be thinking of a different study, because going to that link shows that 65% were in LA county for 20 years supposedly: https://www.lahsa.org/documents?id=2059-2018-greater-los-ang...

I say supposedly because it doesn't mention how they got that information. If they used county records, it's a very different trust paradigm than if they just asked.

Yeah I get they're probably American but in their first experience they basically put down the US and in the same sentence imply other countries know better than us unmindful Americans, while also commenting in another post that the same Asian countries they praised have no concept of mindfulness when it comes to lines and that Americans do, and that they just go and yell in the Asian folks' faces if they dare cut in front of them in line.

Just seems like a weirdly hypocritical thing and also that they might be jumping on the "US is uncultured" bandwagon that you see on Reddit and other social media these days

I don't understand you, this post completely contradicts your original one.

Why make a snarky remark about how people from the US don't understand being mindful of others while at the same time commenting on how people in Asia don't seem to be mindful of others when it comes to lines, and then straight up saying that people in the US are mindful of that very same thing?

> I know that's a rare concept in the USA especially. Everyone only thinks of themselves then gets mad when that attitude is turned around on them.

I don't think I've ever been to a country where this isn't true, so not sure why you're singling out the US.

I think what I'm getting at is that the OP is really out of touch with reality if they think that $120 per meal for a couple is normal

$360 is only 3 dinners for 2 people?

Wow even in your wild response you are still not understanding my original comment. I likened your quote about photographers just hitting the button to how non tech people liken coding to just typing a few things. I didn't say you were being condescending against programmers.

Tbh it seems like you have some personal issues to work out with how far out of left field you've taken this. Good luck.

Way to go from 0 to 100, lying to slander you lol. Do you think I don't have anything better to do with my time than lie to slander an internet rando?

In terms of the comment, I don't know what to tell you, if anything it's ironic because my parent comment is the one that's flagged. You may call me out for whatever you wish.

You had a comment about how you obviously don't treat programmers like my parent comment suggested else you wouldn't be on this site, which I replied was not the point of my comment and that you had completely misread it.

EDIT: Turning on showdead on my profile shows that your comment is a dead comment now, so either you deleted it or it got flagged to death by other users as I didn't flag it.

I did not flag your comment and even flagged comments typically appear with [flagged]

Deleting your comment instead of owning your mistake is a bad look

These types of medications have been around since the 2000s, semaglutide (ozempic) specifically since 2012.

I started Wegovy about 5 months ago. The first couple months you feel sick but after it passes your appetite is extremely curbed (in a good way). Would highly recommend people to try it as it's made me healthier in pretty much every way.

> while all the photographer does is point the camera and click

You sound like every "I have an idea guy" that wants programmers to build their app. "It's totally easy, all you have to do is just build it!!!!"

I think you will find your anti javascript view is not a very common one and you might in fact be the one in a bubble.

I mean if you don't know a single person who can build a website in React than I would say that's more indicative of your unwillingness to learn new technology. There are tons of React developers so not sure why you think I'm in a bubble.

Also you have a very pessimistic view of websites and web apps, which is fine, it's your prerogative, but that's just your opinion.