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by bananalychee 1y ago
Assimilation as most people understand it does not necessitate an immigrant become completely indistinguishable from a native citizen. There are some baseline expectations that are not always met right now, such as learning the official lan
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by bananalychee 1y ago
That's why I expressed a generalization and not a universal statement. You don't have to prop up a strawman to express disagreement.
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Fighting antisemitism is clearly not the true motive behind this ideological "war", just as denazification was clearly not the motive for Russia's invasion of Ukraine; it's just a convenient excuse to target institutions
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Western tastes favor intense flavors, so tamari may provide better balance than standard (koikuchi) soy sauce in that sense, but in Japanese cooking, "richness" is not necessarily a desirable characteristic, and tamari would overw
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by bananalychee 1y ago
I paid for a service that gave me useful insights into my ancestry and health profile, and it cost me less than 30 minutes with a teledoc and a basic blood test. I opted out of keeping my sample in storage and using the data for research at
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by bananalychee 1y ago
This reminds me of the adage: "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people." There are some insights there, but the article is tainted by envy and self-righteousness.
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by bananalychee 1y ago
How much in retail value? I've seen a few small companies that have all their manufacturing operations in China pass on tariffs at cost transparently, and for those that have already adjusted to the current rates, the surcharge is much
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by bananalychee 1y ago
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by bananalychee 1y ago
In my understanding, the Obama administration expelled 2.5 million illegal immigrants under the same emergency powers now being invoked by the Trump administration and did bypass standards of "due process" being raised today to bl
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Not really. I want law and order to be upheld for the benefit of the broader society. If this can't happen due to systematic obstruction, then it's not a violation of my principles to be less critical of toeing a line I'd oth
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by bananalychee 1y ago
My disillusion with credentialism reached its peak when I published my first paper as an undergraduate student. That paper was based on a project I'd worked on part-time for maybe half of a semester. After my professor pushed for me to
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by bananalychee 1y ago
It's those with your attitude, in a state of constant smug denial, who look like tools right now. We'll see how it goes in a few years, but I doubt that will change. The constant goalpost-shifting as LLMs keep getting better and b
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by bananalychee 1y ago
China has a high-speed rail network whose size spans about half of the United States'. Some old US cities had better transit systems in the 1950s than they do now. No one expects every US city to be on the level of Tokyo, but there is
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by bananalychee 1y ago
I think people fixate on the directionality too much, at this point it is a self-reinforcing cycle. I don't know how to break it, but I'm not optimistic about the half-hearted attempts of some countries to address it via subsidies
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Is the cost of child care a cause, or is it a symptom of a deeper problem? The decline in the fertility rate is not an isolated phenomenon, and it spans many disparate cultures. I know this opens a can of worms, but perhaps we should be mor
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by bananalychee 1y ago
This poll is being propped up as evidence that people don't actually want to work in a factory, yet more people voiced interest in doing so than are currently, by an order of magnitude. If you believe there's a disconnect between
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Tangential comment, but I now see people adding disclaimers reiterating their political affiliation to their posts regularly and I want to say that you shouldn't have to justify bilateral criticism. It doesn't imply equal magnitud
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by bananalychee 1y ago
HN has a good model for technical discussions, and the fact that it's a forum with a limited scope whose audience mostly consists of technology professionals probably helps a lot in filtering low-effort posting (not to downplay the rol
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by bananalychee 1y ago
The pompous tone of your comment exemplifies what actually makes most social media platforms awful, which is how people act on them. Inconsistent moderation is everywhere, and most people getting banned from X absolutely deserve it. If yo
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Both standardized tests and IQ highly correlate with success in higher education and career over a lifetime. Harvard's performance and reputation have tanked as a result of its anti-meritocratic policies, and the market is indeed respo
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by bananalychee 1y ago
Can't even be penniless these days, you need a fancy electronic device, a data plan and reliable access to an outlet before you can beg for charity. Sad world.
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by bananalychee 2y ago
Well do you care about results or not? Because if climate change is such an urgent threat to face, it seems like all efforts should be directed towards the lowest-hanging fruit and making the most possible impact with the resources that you
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by bananalychee 2y ago
I've been in secondary, but didn't have it described to me that way. I would not call it detainment without clarifying it because I associate that word with incarceration, but I am also reluctant to travel knowing the odds of that
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by bananalychee 2y ago
"Detained" as in sent to secondary inspection, or actually arrested?
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by bananalychee 2y ago
As much as HN posters like to pretend they're above them, it's not an exaggeration to say that this site is now about as political as Reddit or Bluesky and votes like them. Depending on the thread, your comments will be downgraded
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by bananalychee 2y ago
Looks much better. The current map is a nightmare for readability, especially when you're squinting from a distance trying to read it inside a subway vehicle without encroaching on the personal space of someone sitting below it. For ac
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by bananalychee 2y ago
To me it just sounds like you're holding interrogators to an unreasonably high standard in order to deny the findings of the study. If we're talking about statistical aggregates, knowing that the average person lacks the knowledge
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by bananalychee 2y ago
Do the goalposts have to keep moving until we can no longer find any gap in common knowledge or eccentric behavior in AI? If so, what does that say about eccentric human beings?
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by bananalychee 2y ago
Crime rates from immigrant populations are highly dependent on where the immigrants come from, and the US tends to do a better job at integration than European countries in recent years. Not that the US did not experience problems with immi
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by bananalychee 2y ago
The UK and Australia are ahead of countries like France in restricting freedom, so this sounds like a poor attempt to avoid complimenting the US specifically.

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