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by zhemao 10y ago
Imzy is not, nor attempting to be, a safe space by that definition. From the article: "You can get your feelings hurt. You can't get death threats." So far, most of the people that have received bans were like the people who
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by zhemao 10y ago
Well here are the rules: https://www.imzy.com/community-policy I think those are fairly clear. Granted there are always going to be grey areas. I agree that effective moderation is hard. I'm sure the site admins are co
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by zhemao 10y ago
Why? It rhymes with whimsy.
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by zhemao 10y ago
> Freedom of speech can also not be legislated upon, you can ban people but they will just move on to exercise it some other place or way. And freedom to insult or berate or "troll" is still speech, it conveys meaning, it canno
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by zhemao 10y ago
What does being Muslim have to do with it? People of any religion are free to express their opinion on gay marriage. Now if they said all gay people should be stoned, that would be another thing. > You are still welcome to express your o
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by zhemao 10y ago
How did Obama's endorsement of Clinton interfere with people's choices? There's nothing that says you have to listen to him. And how could he not endorse his own party's candidate? And since Clinton served in his adminis
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by zhemao 10y ago
The vast majority of communities are user-created, so it's kind of expected that there would be a long tail of community size, especially since there aren't any "default" communities like on Reddit. I think the most popu
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by zhemao 10y ago
Reminds me of the book. "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". Early education is generally where people get most of their socialization and first learn about conflict resolution.
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by zhemao 10y ago
It's the opposite of why some people are leaving Reddit. But judging by the number of people who have come to the site from Reddit, it's clear that it is the reason a lot of people are leaving Reddit.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Well, it's a good thing that Imzy is not that. Have a look at their community policy. https://www.imzy.com/community-policy Most of those things are also ostensibly prohibited on Reddit. It's just that Reddit&#x27
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by zhemao 10y ago
I thought it would be fun to do the math on this one. A 12-pack of coca cola cans is $5.00 USD. So 10K would buy 24K cans of coca cola. If that was their yearly soda budget, it would be 66 cans per day. So yeah, obviously an absurd amount f
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by zhemao 10y ago
Did you read to the end of the article? > The engineers focused on building product never noticed when the company had grown into something different than what they first joined. The sodas were just the wake-up call. As for why engineers
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by zhemao 10y ago
I think this article casts some doubt on whether the one-child policy was actually successful at reducing population growth. It certainly reduced the birth rate in urban areas where enforcement was stronger. But it seems like rural families
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by zhemao 10y ago
Especially since the poster is likely not a native English speaker.
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> But this kid stood up to his own family, and lawyers hired by his family If I'm reading the article correctly, the lawyers who harassed him were hired by the company and not by his grandfather. The only lawyers his family hired we
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by zhemao 10y ago
Well, some of them will be, but not by choice.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Your argument is that mercantilism works better because East Asian nations have better public transportation and railway networks than the US? Last time I checked, GDP per capita and labor productivity in the US greatly exceeds that of Chin
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by zhemao 10y ago
I actually had the opposite impression. Tried to write my Chinese name but couldn't figure out which pieces to put together. There seem to be a lot of shorthand radicals but not enough basic strokes.
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by zhemao 10y ago
1. I'm sure they are more rigorous than the education major in the US, which is pretty much a joke. I agree that the way we train teachers has to be revamped. 2. I never said that Asian students are less curious. From interacting with
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by zhemao 10y ago
It doesn't seem like this is a problem with self-esteem. The problem is that American schools don't have good educational standards or trained teachers. In the countries that rank ahead of us in the international assessments, even
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by zhemao 10y ago
Because it's not meant to rank children against each other. It's meant to tell the parents and students how they are doing compared to the standard. If they have not met the goal, then something needs to change. If they have met t
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by zhemao 10y ago
Yes, you scan or insert your card when entering the station from which you are departing and then scan again when exiting the destination station. But you are only charged on exit because the fare is calculated based on the distance between
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by zhemao 10y ago
Salvatore Sanfillipo. the author of Redis, has a very good post about how he is more reserved when speaking in English as opposed to his native Italian. http://antirez.com/news/61
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by zhemao 10y ago
There's a lot of conclusions being drawn here and not much data analysis. Just going off the chart, it seems that poor college grads are more likely to be in the top half of the income distribution, while rich college dropouts are more
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by zhemao 10y ago
> He was certainly a privateer, but I'm not aware of any out-and-out piracy To the English he was a privateer. To the Spanish he was a pirate. =P And Francis Drake also oversaw the massacre of 600 surrendered Irish rebels and civili
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by zhemao 10y ago
Didn't he keep a copy of his own employment contract? If it's the only copy, shouldn't that be the one that has legal force?
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by zhemao 10y ago
Two queues on the escalator is how it's supposed to be everywhere. In big cities in the US, people generally obey the rule "walk on the left, stand on the right." But sometimes you get chuckleheads like one guy who stood righ
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by zhemao 10y ago
Yeah, citation definitely needed. One of these groups is emigrating to places far from home in large numbers. The other is not.
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by zhemao 10y ago
Well that's more reasonable. Essentially what it looks like in our office here in the US. But there are more bins than that in the picture, so for the plastic/cans, you'd need to spend time sorting out the aluminum, plastic,
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by zhemao 10y ago
> The queue paragraph was interesting because that is one thing we Germans don't do very well compared to other countries Maybe not compared to the British, but everybody is better at queueing than Chinese. Have you ever been to Chi

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