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by nurspouse 6y ago
> Cubes and open office are bad enough but hotdesking is the next step. It's not that simple. I worked with hotdesking at Intel. Those workstations, although still small, were bigger than the (assigned) ones I saw at Google and Face
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by nurspouse 6y ago
> Several of the engineers I worked with a few years ago left Intel (for the company I work at) after they switched to hotdesking to save money on facilities. Throwaway account as I work there, but I'd like to make some minor correc
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by nurspouse 7y ago
> If you "solve racism", then redlining and white flight still exist? I think he means that it will be replaced by something else and the end results will be the same. A lot of problems we attribute to racism will be there du
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by nurspouse 7y ago
Heh. Throwaway account of sorts here. I too am a South Asian who has been in the US for quite a while, and have lived in both red and blue states. I used to live in South Asia and the Middle East. In my experience, Americans (of all races,
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by nurspouse 8y ago
>I think you misunderstood me -- I agree with you. Nah, I was mostly hijacking your comment to bring the perspective forward for discussion. Reading the rest of your comment we're pretty much in agreement. >I've even had a l
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by nurspouse 8y ago
Rephrased statements are in the comment above yours. I think I had others but can't recall them. May be a quirk of my browser...? I could edit the comment above yours just fine though.
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by nurspouse 8y ago
A few poorly phrased statements in my comment, and even though HN allows me to edit, none of my edits are showing. Some things I'd restate: >Nevertheless, an African American who adopts the notion that he is incomplete from a cultur
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by nurspouse 8y ago
>I bring this up because to your point, being without culture is similar to being disembodied and being traumatized - one needs to reclaim a sense of belonging our background so that one can feel at peace and resolved. For example, I str