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Abortion and infanticide First let's start with some basics with regard to bodily autonomy. While the right to refuse a medical treatment is very valuable that is not the same as the right to access any medical treatment you want regardless of consequences. I believe that the government has the...

About algorithmic stable coins Major stable-coins like USDT and USDC are centralized. The advantage of that centralization is that then you can actually back it with the actual thing that it is pegged too. The disadvantage is that then you have to trust the central authority to actually hold up...

Deponzi schemes Unlike amway and other garbage crypto actually worked for making many people rich. You do not even have to do any work. You can just sit back and wait for someone to pump the scam-coin you invested into. This requires the coin you bought to actually get pumped which is far from...

Lesser known technical issues with crypto The most severe is the CAP theorem showing that in order to scale a digital currency you need to centralize it. https://cryptographics.info/cryptographics/blockchain/cap-theorem/ That more or less dooms the concept of having some decentralized currency...

Bitcoin = wannabe gold You may have noticed that crypto pushers often use coins of gold coins trying to equate that to their favorite crypto. Instead of mining for real gold that can be used for real things bitcoin wastes electricity to for useless calculations. Bitcoin uses artificial scarcity...

Update from kopite7kimi Bad 'news' with regard to the 4070 and to a less extent the 4080. Nothing with regard to the potential ti models. Still no good news with regard to power consumption. RTX 4070 (old rumored specs) AD104 60 7680 12 GiB G6 18Gbps 192bit...

Did the scammer just give me his phone-number? I found no details when i tried looking the number up. He propably did put effort into making sure the number had no clear connection with his real identity (might be the phone number of someone else such as a scam-victim). He may have some banking...

Children do not have adult responsibilities like paying bills and having to work and this is why they are happier i guess. You may have noticed that economically well-off people often still display traits associated with children (like influences making react videos) and this is because they...

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APA paper: people are mentally capable but not mature at 16 They used this to argue against draconian punishments against young people while also supporting allowing young people to consent to abortion. This of course doesn't make sense...

About "maturity" What people (including researchers) call "maturity" is typically about views (such as rape being bad) rather than being able to make good decisions. For example if you look at the questions at https://howadultareyou.com/ we see that many questions is about what you believe and...

When i tried looking up studies regarding this i found it very difficult to find any decent studies where they actually measured the real-world performance of teens vs adults. Often studies are brain-scans (unclear what if anything that tells us) or it doesn't actually measure how smart the...

About social skills People who fail in life are often told that they need to improve their social skills. What i realized is that the whole notion of "social skills" often ignore the reality of social interactions. Let's say i get contacted by someone trying to sell me something i do not need...

The centaur It moves like king + knight A centaur can force mate against a bishop. A centaur can force mate against 2 knights. A centaur and a knight can force mate against a rook. Allowing promotion to centaur would make promotion to other non-queen pieces the best move less often...

Pawns can move in 2 direction (laterally) and capture in 3 directions (diagonally) pawns has to move in at least one direction towards one of your opponents sides. https://www.omnichess.club/variant/7f73f19e-b13d-4854-8df9-d7d0e272091b Yellow: where white pawns can capture dark green: where...

Society isn't nearly as meritocratic as peterson like to claim Take Donald Trump for example. Trump inherited loads of money and got elected by appealing to low-IQ voters. Was he a competent leader? of course not. Peterson fails to understand how society generally does not reward people for...

Giving people a false sense of meaning Peterson like to complain about nihilism and pretends that he is providing real meaning to people. In reality what he is basically a new iteration of christianity, there is nothing scientific about this. Not only does Peterson fail to combat nihilism but...

Peterson comes out as a transphobe This is not surprising given his antics with regard to bill C-16 (where most disagreed with his interpretation including the courts) but when he did that he did have plausible deniability. Peterson has generally avoided giving a clear explanation to what he...

Twin studies In most cases where one of the identical twin pursue medical transition the other twin does not. http://www.hawaii.edu/PCSS/biblio/articles/2010to2014/2013-transsexuality.html https://sci-hub.hkvisa.net/10.1080/15532739.2013.750222

Is low dose E to blame for disappointing results in some studies? In this analysis MtF HRT was found to reduce distress but results are not as great as i expected so we need to figure out what went wrong here. Feel free to look at this publication and see if you find any issues with it...