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by wkimeria 7y ago
lol! I knew the sarcasm would go over peoples heads.
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by wkimeria 7y ago
If you are black, and you don't consent to a search, you are probably getting arrested for "resisting arrest" (I've had it happen to a friend). It's a lose-lose situation.
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by wkimeria 7y ago
This made me lol! I'm black, I've had my share of "random" unfair and plain scary interactions with police, but until people actually begun seeing the proof I would always get variations of "A cop would not behave t
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by wkimeria 8y ago
The book is terrific. I read it a few years ago, and then re-read it again last year. You will leave with a healthy regard for John Vaillant's writing, the men of Tiger team, and a healthy regard/fear/respect of tigers.
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by wkimeria 10y ago
Heh! My wife and I (she's white, I'm black) unintentionally did this kind of testing in the Boston rental market in the mid 2000s. It was pretty disheartening (the weird thing is that once we stopped using real estate agents and
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by wkimeria 10y ago
I think Airbnb (even leaving out the ‘skirting regulation’ stuff) is pretty much primed for discrimination. As soon as you require a photo of users you are doing that. It’s interesting to compare Airbnb and Uber (another company I’m leery o
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by wkimeria 10y ago
I had a 2000 Acura Integra that I bought used (the model is essentially a gussied up Civic) that I loved and drove for 10 years. Loved that car. Comfy reliable etc. I bought a 2007 Honda Civic Ex because we needed 2 cars. Its a nice car, bu
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by wkimeria 10y ago
Maybe she's telling the truth and the bike had a disappearing twin?
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by wkimeria 11y ago
This is a brilliant idea
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by wkimeria 11y ago
Do employees at your company write all their code on whiteboards, without access to documentation, the internet and etc. And then when they have perfected the code they transfer it to a computer? If not, then you are not really interviewing
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by wkimeria 11y ago
I don't think the minimum weight limit (I think 14.9 lbs), is much of a big deal. In fact, not having it would temp companies to push the envelope beyond what is safe. I've seen bikes that at 12 lbs (I think BH has one) and that i
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by wkimeria 11y ago
Agreeing with people who comment just how important watts are in cycling. I used to race (never made it out of CAT 5 cause I suck on hills, though I’m a very strong sprinter but I hate crits). Even a few watts can make a difference. Its the
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by wkimeria 11y ago
1 point by wkimeria 6 hours ago Kudos to him. The tendency of people to refuse to understand what "Black Lives Matter" means is infuriating. I love Arthur Chu's Tweet some time ago on this https://twitter.com/
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by wkimeria 11y ago
Kudos to him. The tendency of people to refuse to understand what "Black Lives Matter" means is infuriating. I love Arthur Chu's Tweet some time ago on this https://twitter.com/arthur_affect/status/5
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by wkimeria 11y ago
Sorry, this is weak sauce, especially "When interpreting the words and actions of others, participants should always assume good intentions". Here is what a comprehensive Code of Conduct looks like (from NodeJS) https:/&#x2
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by wkimeria 11y ago
I don't think the effect goes the other way (a lot of people habor anti-black unconscious bias, even black people). Re anonymizing the names, I think there are a bunch of startup companies that provide such a service (i.e. https:&#x2F
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by wkimeria 11y ago
This comment right here (thankfully, its been downvoted) is a good example of what the problem is and the environment that women face in the workplace
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by wkimeria 11y ago
In the old days, I thin NT 4, SQL 6.5, you could call out to the OS from SQL triggers. I created a SQL trigger on a test/database/test table that did netsend to a co-worker/friends machine with "You have performed an inv
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by wkimeria 11y ago
I owned a 12 Inch Dobsonian (design named after John Dobson) telescope (Skywatcher Collapsible Dob). I don't have anything to contribute other than that as a life long amateur astronomer my first view through my telescope (and then at
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by wkimeria 11y ago
No, sometimes pay is the original issue. But if they choose to leave, do not offer them money to stay. Any employee who stays is not being very smart, the only interest the company has in paying you more is keeping you long enough to train
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by wkimeria 11y ago
^ This is why unconscious bias training is so important/effective. We all have biases, and what works is surfacing them from the unconscious to the conscious so we can deal with them.
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by wkimeria 11y ago
So what body language was James Blake showing when he was tackled by police, or Amadou Diallo when he was shot 41 times by plainclothes cops. It's amazing to me the lengths people will go to justify racism.
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by wkimeria 11y ago
Sorry, but this is such a dumb argument. I'm black, I dress conservatively, similar to my white friends, we share the same socio-economic background, but yet the treatment we get from the police is vastly different (random 'dwb&#x
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by wkimeria 11y ago
Heh, You don’t even have to dress differently, just change your skin color. I dress conservatively, similar to my white friends who share the same socio-economic profile, but our experiences with the police have been vastly different (I’m i
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by wkimeria 11y ago
By chance, is your wife blonde? I have found that I get a more negative reaction if I am in the company of a blonde woman. Heh, yes she is. And I second you on State Troopers, in the Northeastern/Boston Globe profiling study, they br
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by wkimeria 11y ago
Another datapoint (Apologies for the wall of text) I've also had a few DWBs (Driving While Black, which is ironic cause my friends tell me I drive like an old grandma, adhere to the speed limit etc). Keep in mind that the only ticket I
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by wkimeria 11y ago
Lets just take this one line "Why is that? Because African Americans have an average IQ of 85 and only 11-16% have an IQ > 100 (the national average)." As someone with an interest in this (both as an African and someone who mea
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by wkimeria 11y ago
Yeah, I've had a number of WWB/DWB stops, and in one case a cop pointed a gun at me and forced me to the ground. My crime, jogging in the majority white neighborhood I lived in (there was no active crime in progress, the cop decid
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by wkimeria 12y ago
That was my problem with it too.
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by wkimeria 12y ago
I think saying that cars are limited to the citys elites is overstating the case a bit. There are quite a few middle class families with cars. The problem is twofold 1: The collapse of the public bus system (KBS or Kenya Bus Service) in the

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