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Yeah, that's a pretty fucking ableist thing to say, so maybe you could just not say it.


To be fair, the article was published in 2001.


If only we'd known back in 2001 that we were living in the bad old days when governments were irresponsible! At the time, we thought the new, shiny future had arrived!

Of course, we don't need to worry about this today, because the new, shiny future has arrived.


Pretty crappy that "Gender" is a two-choice radio button. Literally gender binary.


My mistake. Fixed.


That's an improvement, thank you :)


Now you can be an attack helicopter.


I want to be a Donut. Can't be mad at a donut.


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Well if you are gender fluid then select what you identify as at the moment of filling the spreadsheet.

Or better yet select what your employer sees you as, if you are a 6'3" male with a neckbeared your employer thinks you are a man regardless if you identify yourself as male, female, neither or a walrus.


Identity politics aren't really the point of this exercise.


Surprisingly, this is the first troll I've seen on HN.


After enough downvotes I think the bad posts just disappear from view. I'm not 100% sure how it works.


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Please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News.


Literally how the whole world works.


That doesn’t mean it’s a good thing.


Well apart from a minority that don't.


This is why we are getting a Trump presidency.


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