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New comment by Ralfp in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

Ralfp — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:21:28 +0000

Noting that you use exclusively gender critical sources (and some very poor ones to add, like Littman's "study") while also having history of blaming "wokism", I seriously doubt you have given this subject a fair consideration.

Interesingly, so called "gender critical" movement is increasingly pivoting to other conservative or plainly reactionary talking points. For example, the book you are recommending makes a thinly veilded point that "promoters of trans ideology" are rich jewish men, key figure among them being George Soros.

Kishwer Falkner who was big proponent of trans people segregation during her EHRC leadership recently turned to anti abortion activism. And plenty of LGB sans TQ people I've talked to are big fans of "we are normal gays who limit our orientation to the bedroom" talking points while also leaning conservative or reactionary themselves.

New comment by Ralfp in "Sneaky spam in conversational replies to blog posts"

Ralfp — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:24:52 +0000

I’ve been seeing this kind of spam on forums all the way back in 2004. I wonder if it was a feature in Xrumer or whatever they used to post spam back then.

YouTube suggests videos of animals killing for Python programming searches

Ralfp — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 15:34:05 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Bobcatous/status/2041901924077699484

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47691644

Points: 4

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New comment by Ralfp in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

Ralfp — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:08:25 +0000

Media research points to transgender topic being spun primarily by traditional media and social media as a political wedge issue to mobilize right-leaning voters, akin to abortion rights before:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/16/us/politics/transgender-c...

https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/Anti-trans-attitudes...

https://www.mediamatters.org/facebook/right-dominating-faceb...

New comment by Ralfp in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

Ralfp — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 02:01:09 +0000

Can you explain what „gender ideology” is supposed to mean?

The primary issue with Genspect is poor scientific rigour applied to their publications, as I have shown above. Pretty much „if it fits our platform, we will spread it”.

New comment by Ralfp in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

Ralfp — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:55:00 +0000

It is not.

Lisa Littmans research behind „rapid onset gender dysphoria” is a survey amongst parents recruited on three anti-trans internet sites and communities:

https://psychcentral.com/lib/there-is-no-evidence-that-rapid...

    The study was based on 256 responses to an online survey of parents recruited from these three websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_c...

That by itself means its heavily biased research on a weak sample.

„Stats for Gender” site is ran by Genspect, which is also a biased source on the subject:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genspect

New comment by Ralfp in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

Ralfp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 22:26:07 +0000

In 2017 Johns Hopkins Hospital has reopened its transgender care clinic as the Johns Hopkins Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health.

2022 research into Hospital's archives found the decision to cease operation in 1979 was political, not evidence based:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36191317/

> *70%-80% of children who expressed transgender feelings, overtime, lost those feelings.

This number most likely comes from a study that classified girls as transgender based on behaviors like preference to wear their hair short of wear pants instead of dresses or skirt:

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21216800/

Those children did not self-identify as transgender and further more, research could not contact 41% of them for the follow up:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-end-of-the-desistance_b_8...

New comment by Ralfp in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

Ralfp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:18:49 +0000

It is high because primarily a minority stress of being a transgender person in unaccepting environment:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266656032...

New comment by Ralfp in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

Ralfp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:14:06 +0000

Why is it okay for OP to question authority in the subject matter while me pointing out they research it more isn't?

I have also pointed out that regret rates for transition are within 2%.

New comment by Ralfp in "Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events"

Ralfp — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 20:57:40 +0000

Have you considered that due to their education and research those people may know more on the subject than you do?

Regret rates for transition remain notoriously low (within 2%) with main reasons for regret stated to be transitioning too late or environmental lack of acceptance or support.

Besides, despite some orgs claiming there is a "transgender trend", we are just not seeing this in the data.

New comment by Ralfp in "Phishing Attempt from notifications(at)github.com"

Ralfp — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:11:01 +0000

Also got hit by it just now. Looks like its widespread as search returns hundreds of issues like this.

New comment by Ralfp in "Identity protection firm Aura suffers data breach exposing 900 000 records"

Ralfp — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:10:28 +0000

Oh sweet, its the service that scam-busting youtubers were advertising as secure way to protect your personal data.

New comment by Ralfp in "Python 3.15's JIT is now back on track"

Ralfp — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:56:08 +0000

It looks like ARM picked up plenty of those folk and pays them to continue this work.

New comment by Ralfp in "Python: The Optimization Ladder"

Ralfp — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 12:58:09 +0000

    CPython 3.13 went further with an experimental copy-and-patch JIT compiler -- a lightweight JIT that stitches together pre-compiled machine code templates instead of generating code from scratch. It's not a full optimizing JIT like V8's TurboFan or a tracing JIT like PyPy's;

Good news. Python 3.15 adapts Pypy tracing approach to JIT and there are real performance gains now:

https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/139109

https://doesjitgobrrr.com/?goals=5,10

New comment by Ralfp in "I stopped following the news"

Ralfp — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 09:32:34 +0000

Because not everything is done as EU law. Frequently its an executive order or a directive passed down from national minister or other govt official to their branch or other branches to make their base happy at expense of people currently blamed for govt’s failures.

Eg. no law in Poland regulates legal gender change process. But there is a series of directves for courts on how this should be addressed issued by whoever is in the govt at the moment. One govt issued a directive that those are low prority, other that spouse and children should have a power to veto, another that actually those are high priority and then govt-appointed judges in the supreme court decided to veto the veto and implement new procedure altogether. And none of this is in the law - just directives for judges from pliticans and higher judges.

Does JIT Go Brrr?

Ralfp — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 14:01:41 +0000

Article URL: https://doesjitgobrrr.com/?goals=5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46354170

Points: 1

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Our Commitment to Your Ongoing Success with Discourse

Ralfp — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:30:09 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.discourse.org/2025/12/our-commitment-to-your-ongoing-success-with-discourse/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46194277

Points: 3

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New comment by Ralfp in "YouTube AI error costs creator his channel over alleged link to Japanese account"

Ralfp — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 18:34:52 +0000

We've had services like that. But US competition employing thousands of people and churning billions in budgets killed them off.

JerryRigEverything: My Pixel 10 Pro Fold Exploded – Caught Live on Camera[video]

Ralfp — Tue, 14 Oct 2025 20:22:43 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uS90jakOuw

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45584344

Points: 17

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New comment by Ralfp in "Analytical review of depression and suicidality from finasteride"

Ralfp — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 08:31:59 +0000

Min helps with growing back and strenghtening hairs, but it doesnt stop hair loss on its own.