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by alephnan 5y ago
> I would also hope that customer service is awesome all the time, but saying the greeter was not nice enough is a pretty specific dog whistle. You're probably white and haven't experienced casual racism that exists at Wal-mar
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by alephnan 5y ago
> both North and South Korea continue to have a dominant anti-Japanese sentiment I've learned it's extremely difficult to find Samsung products on the shelves in Japan. The conglomerates in East Asian are intertwined with polit
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by alephnan 5y ago
Maybe it's less ironic since Microsoft's company values doesn't include "don't be evil".
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by alephnan 5y ago
> you don't shop at the lower cost store, because the greeter was having a bad day and was not nice enough to you People at Wal-mart have a bad day all the time. It's about the customer service. I have less anxiety knowing that
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by alephnan 5y ago
> Except maybe the views, why would you want to live there? I agree. And yet cost of renting / owning in Dumbo is higher than Manhattan and other places.
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by alephnan 5y ago
> Is there a way to fuzz non-string inputs? Fuzzing usually revolves around strings because of escape characters, escape sequences. There is a much larger set of string characters than there are for the 10 or so numeric digits. Numbers d
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by alephnan 5y ago
> I’m not convinced that even when working from home I’d want to live anywhere other than Manhattan if I could choose. It finally makes sense for a salaried person to live in Dumbo. Before, it was way too inconvenient
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by alephnan 5y ago
Supply and demand. Everyone has a capable smart phone now. This removes the middle market for cameras, and only the pro/prosumer high end cameras which adds all sorts of bells and whistles.
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by alephnan 5y ago
I went to school in Seattle and had a Singaporean trustfund baby friend who always reiterated “everyone deserves to get a masters degree”. She would constantly fly to different cities every weekend on her own (parent’s) dime to volunteer fo
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by alephnan 5y ago
Paywalled
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by alephnan 5y ago
In Japan, Home Depot Gardening Section / Military / Retrofuturistic Chic is turned a relatively high-end design aesthetic. Think Restoration Hardware https://www.dulton.jp/onlineshop/
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by alephnan 5y ago
The hypocrisy in employees is when they continue to reap the financial benefits of their institutions. The cliche “you can’t expect a person to know a subject if their salary depends on not knowing it.” Ignorance is not a valid excuse when
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by alephnan 5y ago
> to Governments as sales tax Does Twitter circumvent taxes from ad revenue ?
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by alephnan 5y ago
> It is absolutely infuriating that the woke left wants to remove agency from experiences like mine and assume we are all stupid and unable to figure out how to succeed in a system... I don't understand how the woke left thinks its
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by alephnan 5y ago
Really confusing statement to parse. Would have been easier to read as "A six figure job making memes at a legit company" I originally read the statement as a six-figure meme, which is making a job.
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by alephnan 5y ago
> American data collection culture And that can't be challenged? In some dictatorships, the government can claim 95% of the election votes went to the incumbent. The US unemployment rate published by the Bureau of Labor does not ref
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by alephnan 5y ago
> You're offering your cultural awareness about international students, and implying that I might not have any. I suppose this prose issues from your conversational instincts. Yes. When you start out with "What about Asians?&qu
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by alephnan 5y ago
You're arguing that Asians are not disadvantaged because of English is their second language. You're reiterating the model minority narrative. That is why I am drilling down the demographic because you are being toxic by bucketing
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by alephnan 5y ago
Which Asians are you talking about? Vietnamese Americans that have much lower educational attainment rates than whites? Or international students from China that in recent decades comprise primarily of multi-millionaire families? If you&#x2
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by alephnan 5y ago
The reading passages include cultural elements from history and social sciences that are Western / US centric. Compared to American students, I expect that Chinese student would have volumes more knowledge on Chinese literature and Eur
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by alephnan 5y ago
It seems HN has been downtrending ( no pun intended ) this way. This pattern is evident in posts criticizing the social justice climate dominating tech. Meanwhile, ad hominem attacks against Donald Trump are tolerated and even encouraged (
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by alephnan 5y ago
Putting more weight on the math section than the reading/writing section which favors native speakers and those with more social context to interpret reading passages.
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by alephnan 5y ago
Because minorities may not have English as their first language.
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by alephnan 5y ago
Does that mean minorities inherited lower aptitude?
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by alephnan 5y ago
If you're white with English being your first and only language.
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by alephnan 5y ago
It’s not quite fair. SAT scores are strongly correlated to your parent’s income level.
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by alephnan 5y ago
Reminded me of the Behavioral Despair experiment on the psychology of hope https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioural_despair_test
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by alephnan 5y ago
> Leaving aside the fact that Hamas isn’t for blowing up commercial airliners, the identity it chose for a Hamas representative was bizarre. Ahmed Yurlanov?
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by alephnan 5y ago
Are they expressing their opinions when they correct minorities on what the minority experience is actually like? How does it make sense when the most privileged people the ones mansplaining privilege to others? What is the difference betwe
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by alephnan 5y ago
As I said, White liberals are the white supremacists dictating to minorities what they ought to believe.

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