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by fermienrico 6y ago
Timrit's actions are deeply unpleasant on Twitter. I don't care what side of the coin you're on - vile, contemptful behavior like this must be condemned. These people want to get famous and they're thirsty for social-mar
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by fermienrico 6y ago
VICE has been on a rampage of anti-US articles, day after day, video after video. It is no longer the VICE we know of early 2010s when it did factual reporting.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Hmm... if a company blackmails people into submission, exploiting their economic dependence - we wouldn't call that positive PR. Branding success is "I love this company." and investing in long term goodwill of the brand. T
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by fermienrico 6y ago
China has a branding problem. Instead of garnering support, building rapport through collaboration and mutual growth, their PR strategy is immature and misplaced at best, damaging and crippling at worst. Lashing out, isolationism, asymmetri
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Apple employees and their stance is to support diversity and inclusion, fully embracing it but turn a blind eye when they need to also talk about Xianjin and human rights abuses. Just shows that it’s all a dog and pony show.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
The number of posts with downvotes just shows how divisive and vengeful we’ve become. Can we get along and celebrate the simple thing that a brilliant computer scientist is being celebrated? The father of computing rather. What is wrong wit
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Replace extortion with rape. You'll quickly realize how absurd this argument is. They're breaking their own laws decided by their own people .
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by fermienrico 6y ago
That should not be justification for intimidation and flat out extortion. You're phrasing this as if it is OK and should be the expectation.
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H&M Is Erased from Chinese E-Commerce over Xinjiang Stance(wsj.com)
8 points by fermienrico 6y ago|0 comments
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Seems like you're the founder of Julia. Why such a knee jerk reaction? Did you read the benchmark page? The table of content is right at the top. Optics of this type of reaction is seen everywhere in the Julia community. My advice is t
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Are the performance claims of Julia greatly exaggerated? Julia loses almost consistently to Go, Crystal, Nim, Rust, Kotlin, Python (PyPy, Numpy): https://github.com/kostya/benchmarks Is this because of bad typing or t
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Come over and join us. We need some help with social policies of Europe and getting rid of the stupid ass imperial measurement system.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
By all means, hire every diverse candidate you can if they’re the best and the brightest. Diversity and inclusion is a sure fire way to hire mediocre people. Every culture and every race has some brilliant folks. Hire them.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
What are the downsides or criticisms of Svelte? This whole thread is like a giant bandwagon. Typical of JS crowd. 3 years later, everyone is going to jump on the next one.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
You might as well just scratch the entire animal kingdom off your favorites list, you're not going to like it very much.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
It's practical to call the collective states with joint borders. For example, "Lower 48 shipping" on Amazon is different rate.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
As superpower mascots go, I think the eagle turned out to be pretty much perfect. Large, powerful, masters of their environment, noble from a distance. Up close, intelligent, optimally utilizing resources through scavenging, leaving nothing
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by fermienrico 6y ago
It's amazing how this article presents a lot of information without saying anything much about them.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
This is the part that they didn't legislate.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Amazing! The first baloran pool song has a very interesting texture.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Native Windows XP + Excel was badass. No new features were needed. No one asked for anything else. It was feature complete. Have you tried running an older version of Excel (2007 era) even in a VM? It is lightning fast. No cell-movement ani
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Not with that attitude!
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by fermienrico 6y ago
EU has anemic salaries for my profession (software engineer). What’s the reason for this deficit? Why aren’t there any Silicon Valleys in the EU? Salary difference is so large, I would never move. Land is dirt cheap, housing is affordable a
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I recall indirect discussions with the locals. Basically job related "Would you ever move to Taiwan or Hong Kong?" and even "Would you move to United States?". This is to fresh graduates (~1-2 years into the job). The an
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by fermienrico 6y ago
I’ve spent months in China and often rural areas. What you’re saying is definitely not true, I’m not sure how to convince you though. I don’t remember specific stories. Nationalism is helluva drug. Just look at the HK situation.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Taiwan with nukes would lead to long term peace. South Korea used to house US nuclear arms until 1992 and they're re-considering it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Korea_and_weapons_of_mas...
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by fermienrico 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Chinese_sentiment US and Europe align within a few % when it comes to anti-China sentiments. US is 7th after Japan, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, UK and South Korea.
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by fermienrico 6y ago
> My guess is that the person who first said that didn't intend for the metaphor/description to be taken quite as literally as everyone ended up taking it. (Or they meant to mislead.) This is the problem. Why are they trying to
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by fermienrico 6y ago
New Yorker, I found, is always obtuse, long-winded prose that fill up 14 pages where the whole thing can be, if it was written like a normal article, summarized in no more than 3 pages. It is prose porn for writers and readers alike. If I w
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by fermienrico 6y ago
Just keep in mind, Switzerland has the population the size of SF Bay area for context.

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