helixten (u/helixten)

helixten commented on ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral techcrunch.com/2025/07/01... · Posted by u/exiguus

csto12 · 2 months ago

I think it’s important to take a second and reflect that in 2025 America we need an app like this at all.

helixten · 2 months ago

This is very American, The Green Book guided Black travelers to safe businesses during Jim Crow. The Underground Railroad was literally an information network to help enslaved people reach freedom. During WWII, communities helped hide Japanese Americans from internment. LGBTQ+ people created networks to find safe spaces during decades of criminalization. Native communities have long shared information about safe passage and resources.

helixten commented on An origin trial for a new HTML <permission> element (2024) developer.chrome.com/blog... · Posted by u/tentacleuno

Robdel12 · 3 months ago

I really dislike when this happens. Completely side steps the standards process and puts forth an API that will have to be now considered since it’s in use. Chrome has done this before, too, I’m pretty sure with web components. Leading to the mess that they are.

helixten · 3 months ago

This is part of the standards process. Incubation happened here https://github.com/WICG/PEPC now on to Origin Trials before Standardization

helixten commented on A biased test kept Black people from getting a kidney transplant apnews.com/article/kidney... · Posted by u/khasan222

branon · a year ago

> Race isn’t a biological factor like age, sex or weight — it’s a social construct.

Interesting conjecture there AP, but I don't buy it. Surely race is a biological factor. Maybe not for kidney health specifically but wouldn't race be inextricably tied to a person's biology, heritage, medical history?

Race is determined at birth by parents' biology, therefore is biological. Not _everything_ that makes people different from one another is a purely social construct.

Don't black people get sickle cell at higher rates than other races? Race is important in a lot of medical contexts.

Great that they fixed the kidney thing but don't throw the baby out with the bathwater, or the next headline will be "excess deaths due to incorrect treatment of <condition> for <race>".

By all means if the race-based heuristics are unsound, throw them out, but the article makes mention of a bunch more that are under scrutiny. Are they really all inaccurate or are we discounting biology in favor of social justice?

helixten · a year ago

Sickle cell disease is caused by a mutation in the HBB gene, not by belonging to a specific race. Race is a social construct, meaning it's defined by social factors rather than strictly biological ones. Since someone who is Black in the US often has about 20% European ancestry, how does this compare to someone who is directly from an African country? Where is the line?

helixten commented on Charted: 50 Years of Music Industry Revenues, by Format visualcapitalist.com/musi... · Posted by u/atlasunshrugged

slg · 2 years ago

Why is ad supported streaming considered a sale but radio isn't?

helixten · 2 years ago

If I am not mistaken, over the air radio does not have to pay royalties.

helixten commented on Microsoft Fast Design fast.design/docs/introduc... · Posted by u/no_wizard

sroussey · 5 years ago

Ionic Stencil let’s you wrap webcomponents and turn them into React, Vue, or Angular components. MS should use that or do something of a similar nature. Otherwise there is a impedance mismatch between this and what most or used to.

helixten · 5 years ago

Not quite, Ionic Stencil is library to helps build webcomponents. Since fast.design are webcomponents, they can be used in any with any framework, no wrapping required.