alienthrowaway

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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
> It's surprisingly common for PhD programs to restrict outside activities, although that's probably field dependent. It's also supervisor-dependent! After I was formally accepted into a post-grad program, I was talking to
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
There is much more funding being provided now, but it's far from enough sadly. In terms of policy, its much more egalitarian on paper in the sense that every student is supposed to study the same material, unfortunately there are sti
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
> Younger people put up with this but seniors know it’s nonsense and he was probably just tired of it all. You didn’t want to hire a software developer, you want a leetcoder Senior here! I'm doing the leetcode grind and in preparati
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
Comparing racism vintages is depressing as fuck, but I'll give it a go. I'm black too - I'll take casual racism over whatever the US has going on, which appears to be casual racism and a mix of disregard of, and generalized
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
Not only that, but the said-ancestors established a separate, impoverished, lower-quality education system to ensure that they'd be perpetually unskilled and incapable of competing for skilled jobs even if they wanted to talented. Di
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
> Affirmative action and other “right ideas” like this can only result in corruption and racial tensions. This is a no-win scenario: Apartheid was affirmative action for a minority, it resulted in corruption and racial tensions, to put
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
Labour is really cheap in South Africa. It's probably cheaper to employ someone to perform a task than it is to automate it, as is would be in Europe which has higher labour costs
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
Thank you for your candor! The socio-economic inequality in South Africa is staggering and its a powder-keg that's just waiting to be set off. Additionally, there is a wide chasm between black and white youth unemployment - I believe
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
> Yet the US is still the premier nation that everyone tries to immigrate to, because as a nation it actually works. Not really - the US looks really attractive from the outside - Hollywood propaganda probably does the heavy lifting. T
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I think the idea is not to perfectly blend in, but to get closer to that circle by being more relatable.
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
> I'm from a lower class background; I learned from early on to adapt my language to that of the upper/upper-middle class I have a similar background, but I can't say I adapt my language to that of upper classes. My accen
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
His sister gets tax-funded care, multiple times a day, freeing up his time to do farm work. The tax collector might be alright.
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
I am a tax payer - tax payers are also on the hook for food stamps and other costs that are a direct result of McJobs not paying enough.
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There are two ways to solve this "problem" (if you consider it to be one). Either cut the benefits, or raise the minimum wage (or pay above minimum wage). Personally, I'd rather have people dicking around, hunting and playi
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by alienthrowaway 5y ago
Speaking as someone from the developing world - ads have been excellent way for 1st-world eyeballs to subsidize access to information for the rest of the world - which is a net-positive from my selfish POV. Money from ads allows people who
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
There is something buried deeply in our minds that recoils at being treated unfairly. I have a good job, the pay is decent, the work is interesting - but I'm in the process of looking for a different job because I didn't get a pro
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
> What a miserable existence that must be. Bezos has always struck me as a man who cares about nothing else only his own personal wealth and success. On the contrary, he is probably very happy with the way things are. You may be buying i
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
> It’s human nature to follow only young influencers? Marketers have known this for years before the appearance of "influencers" - youth sells, and a young women have better cross-gender appeal than young men. Go ahead an open
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
> We disagree on strategy here Oh, absolutely - and that is fine. Additionally, we're probably having slightly different conversations - you appear specifically focused on only Github's renaming of the default branch, and I o
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
> Yes, there are many of these people, but my argument is that actions like this empower bad faith actors. My POV is that bad actors should never be a consideration - they are never going to be helpful whether you "empower" the
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
> If the goal is to change minds and open hearts then where appropriate, we should endeavor to communicate in ways that will be well received by those who need to hear the message. As another black SWE - I have to ask which hearts are
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
I'm not OP - that they explicitly mentioned this: >> The supply side was woefully mismanaged and didn't nearly keep up with the pace of the growth in demand.
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
> Did something recently happen to Eskom to make them incompetent? Demand for electricity consistently went up over the past 20+ years, with no matching increase in generation capacity. Maintenance of current power plants hasn't bee
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
> Are there not times that cityfolk don't rib countryfolk about growing up in poorer conditions in almost any country? This is exactly the problem: I did not grow up in the country or in "poorer conditions" like you assu
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
> Yes, racism exists, no doubt...Don't like it in the US? Go to Africa. Amazing. No thanks though - I'm staying put; I have what it takes, even if some people are slow to realize. I didn't get here by being mediocre.
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
> Honestly, I feel like I received more discrimination as a white, western European in the US than you did. What is the point of bringing this up - is this thread the oppression olympics/"Four Yorkshiremen" of discriminati
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by alienthrowaway 6y ago
I'm an immmigrant from a 3rd world country as well - I understand the phenomenon perfectly - it's not about "chastising anyone who doesn't attribute their success to privilege" - it's just pointing out the surv