Breefield

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Comment · 3 years ago
Gender affirming care for cis people—same as breast augmentation, hair transplants or hormonal/endocrine modifications.
Comment · 3 years ago
Thank you.
Comment · 3 years ago
You seriously misunderstand how hard it is to have sex reassignment surgery.

Even in states where beginning an HRT regimen is based on informed consent, there are many steps one must go through before having this procedure done. Multiple letters of recommendation from licensed therapists and having been on hormones for years. Not to mention the exorbitant costs even with insurance.

Your suggestion that one could Uber to another city and have SRS performed is a gross mischaracterization of the reality trans people face.

Comment · 3 years ago
I betcha it's https://gristleking.com, he's been advocating for paragliders to use LoRaWAN for a tertiary emergency communications network (primary being Garmin's Iridium network, then cell or perhaps iOS 14's GPS SOS).

The idea is to have multiple means of calling for help + tracking location when free-flying.

Comment · 4 years ago
I'd like a feature that reminds me of a particular piece of information at a logarithmic cadence so I can commit it to memory better by being reminded a few times within a few weeks/months, but then a nudge 6 months down the line, etc.
Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Why isn't it practical? Background noise makes it unreliable?
Comment · 4 years ago
Just a guess: given that LoRa operates on line of sight, when trying to update a gateways with sensor status (e.g. GPS position of tracked item) the operator won't be able to get realtime reports if the gateway isn't positioned at a high enough altitude relative to the sensor.

You can mitigate this by having many gateway/collectors at high points on buildings/hills, but bouncing signals off the moon seems like an interesting alternative for connectivity in low coverage locations...

Perhaps this is clear to you I'm just trying to think it through out loud.

Comment · 5 years ago
Biased but I've been at ClassPass for 6.5 years for a reason. Everyone has such great attitudes and work life balance is really excellent.

As someone working in the backend I'm super stoked to be able to work with Kotlin in our services.

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