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by corin_ 6y ago
Those aren't necessarily examples of Western companies displaying "aggressive levels of cultural ignorance", just examples that they've not penetrated the Japanese market (which I don't disagree, can be caused by
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by corin_ 6y ago
It got auto collapsed because it's a reply to my comment that got flagged and killed. Almost certainly users flagging it (although oddly it's also positively upvoted) not a mod decision.
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by corin_ 6y ago
For most non-racists, it goes without saying that race-related violence is unacceptable. Sadly it also happens often enough that we aren't going to tweet/write a comment saying "this is bad" every single time it happens.
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by corin_ 6y ago
> It's the same thing as saying "the n word" to me The difference IMO is that one is a reminder to anyone listening that they should never use that word, whereas the other is a normalisation or hearing it. I'm certa
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by corin_ 6y ago
The victim's family specifically requested that the journalist repeat the phrase used in full. The journalist/editors obviously made the choice, but they chose to go by the family's wishes rather than by the general consensus
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by corin_ 6y ago
Yes you're right, sorry if anyone read my comment to imply that BBC actively used that word to describe a black person themselves. But it's pretty much accepted in the UK and especially UK media that if reporting on it, you say &q
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by corin_ 6y ago
Alternative doesn't have to mean it offers exactly the same - for example a bike is an alternative travel option compared to a bus.
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by corin_ 6y ago
I'm aware of the naming (I'm English and was educated here), but writing for HN's international audience it's easier to use universally understood terms rather than ones you need to understand our system to recognise. FY
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by corin_ 6y ago
Even down-weighting the entire national cohort... some kids have seen grades go from C (or B/C in one case) to U! A fail grade for an exam they weren't allowed to take. That would be an improvement if your luck of the draw was
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by corin_ 6y ago
At least a couple of places, including one of Oxford Uni's colleges, have agreed to take anyone who was offered a conditional place, and there has been a hashtag trending on Twitter of #HonourTheOffer I expect many more to follow, so i
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by corin_ 6y ago
Isn't that due to the attempted curbing of grade inflation working well? As far as I know they haven't returned to actually grading on a curve ranking like they did decades ago, in theory if next year every student somehow handed
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by corin_ 6y ago
> Key facts: students are always ranked and graded on a curve. Student populations have a fixed number of grades awarded every year, etc. I'm pretty sure that's not correct, please find a source suggesting that. There have be
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by corin_ 6y ago
The problem with mock exams is that they don't follow any national rules on how they're used. Some schools do them in November, some in March. Some teachers mark them having not been trained in A Level marking. Some schools may do
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by corin_ 6y ago
I can't find that data easily, if I'm bored tomorrow I might try to do the research myself - all the data is available but raw not top level overview at https://www.compare-school-performance.service.gov.uk/downlo.
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by corin_ 6y ago
Independant schools (private schools) received 4.7% more A/A* grades than they did in 2019. The most common type of non-private school, Secondary Comprehensive, received only 2% more A/A* grades than in 2019. The algorithm didn&#x
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by corin_ 6y ago
I completely agree that the system put in place is poor and that it causing an accidental bias is very feasible. But if you're going to put this system in place, with months of planning, you should make damn sure that it isn't mas
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by corin_ 6y ago
Two things worth noting that the article doesn't go into... 1) "The year-on-year rise in proportion of students achieving A or A+ grades was much higher at independent schools than state comprehensives" https://w
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by corin_ 6y ago
Surely it depends on how the decision to look both ways was made? If you do it out of instinct and immediately think "oh yeah, forgot I only need to look one way" then it wasn't logical. But if you know it's one way, yet
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by corin_ 6y ago
I don't water fast so I can't speak about that specifically, but I can give a good answer on oral rehydration mixtures in general. Here's the TLDR I have in a notes file on my phone: A drink made with 6 level teaspoons of su
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by corin_ 6y ago
Obviously having people that care about the work they do is a positive thing, but there are plenty of people in plenty of industries managing to do a good job despite only being in it for the money. It might not be a good business decision
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by corin_ 6y ago
This interesting story that I hadn't realised (although I was quite young when I last saw it) came out a couple of days ago: "The Matrix director: I'm glad film recognised as trans metaphor" https://www.thegua
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by corin_ 6y ago
I don't have data to answer how much of what causes this, but certainly there seem to be some very savvy ad strategy decisions on the Republican side such as this: https://twitter.com/kevinroose/status/1290739
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by corin_ 6y ago
There's no evidence or even speculation (outside of random people guessing) that there was anything terrorism related (I assume that's what you were implying) going on with why it was there. Just corrupt and/or useless people
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by corin_ 6y ago
A bit of an over-simplification. A fair trade could cause the stock to rise if people think it will likely be unfair, or if people think that TikTok will be run better and more valuable in MS' hands, or that there's some synergy w
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by corin_ 6y ago
I agree that it can be approached from non-scientific angles (I'd hazard a guess that any subject that can be considered scientific can be approached unscientifically - sometimes for good reasons, sometimes not), but I think(?) you&#x2
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by corin_ 6y ago
I may well be misunderstanding a definition of science, but no I wasn't confusing it with "good". I don't know what the best definition of science is, but here's the first one Google suggests: > "the intell
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by corin_ 6y ago
Why does our not fully (or even close to fully) understanding how the brain works mean conscious vs subconscious is unscientific? Is all mental health research unscientific based on the same logic? My understanding is that it's conclus
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by corin_ 6y ago
Facebook were accused of exactly this in one line of questioning to Zuckerberg during last week's congressional hearing. Though I'm not sure if the implication was that they had done something illegal, or that they had done someth
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by corin_ 6y ago
If Kodak CEO had called me before and said "pssst, buy shares they're going to shoot up tomorrow" would I be completely fine legally to follow his tip? Or can both sides get prosecuted, with one being an accessory to the othe
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by corin_ 6y ago
They were replying on the subject of whether targeted ads are effective or not. Whether they should be allowed is a different matter, but while companies are collecting your data it's not reasonable to ask advertisers to disadvantage

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