burgers

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by burgers 12y ago
> We just want to be with white people. I don't know. If someone told me "I just want to be with white people", I would think they were racist. That said, the word racism definitely has multiple and nuanced meanings at t
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by burgers 12y ago
I'm not sure what part of my link talked about being white.
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by burgers 12y ago
No, I was just trying to point out how racist you sound. Saying things like "my white friends"? Seriously? I now just realized that you are a very stereotyping person and exactly the kind of person that makes these okCupid release
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by burgers 12y ago
So I guess the KKK isn't racist. Interesting... > "We're not racists," Chambers told CNN Monday. "We just want to be with white people. If that's a crime, then I don't know. It's all right to be b
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by burgers 12y ago
> people in the general public will use this kind of thing to say stuff like, "I read online that they did this study about Latino men and it said that they all think black women are ugly". Maybe you should go back and read w
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by burgers 12y ago
This has nothing to do with my "fantasyland" or wanting everyone to be equal. Its about making racial and other generalizations without publishing the full data with it. Racial and gender generalizations are dangerous things for a
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by burgers 12y ago
No, I think if they are going to make the generalizations, they need to publish the data they used to make those generalizations. Its the fact that okCupids data is private and proprietary combined with the publishing of correlations that i
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by burgers 12y ago
So while its fun to play around with data, these are not real insights. The very idea that they can think some metric you've gathered via an online app can determine whether someone finds someone else attractive is goofy. But then publ
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by burgers 12y ago
When you publicly disclose the results, without any way for the data to be peer reviewed? Absolutely.
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by burgers 12y ago
The spookiest thing is not the data or the experiments, but the off the cuff conclusions. For example: > As a group, for instance, Latino men rated Latinas as 13 percent more attractive than the average for the site, while they rated Af
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by burgers 12y ago
Not to speak for the comment you are replying to, but in my experience it likely means that those that worried more about the startup than themselves ended up worse off than those that looked out for there own best interests first.
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by burgers 12y ago
> even if your company isn’t tech-heavy (such as Dinnr). I feel like this would be a giant red flag to me. You are essentially a logistics startup, and you believe this is not "tech-heavy". Logistics is likely one of the most
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by burgers 12y ago
It isn't a ponzi scheme because Amazon isn't dependent on new share purchases to keep running. It is a fully functioning operation that is in the black. It just isn't generating any real profits above its costs. Amazon is wor
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India’s $33 Smartphone Sales Surge(blogs.wsj.com)
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by burgers 12y ago
So were political activists and other people "forced" to go to the Gulag? Or, like US citizens who live in poverty for being artists, did they "choose" to do something the government did not want and faced a punishment f
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by burgers 12y ago
But maybe people who ended up in the Gulag were because they chose not to go along with what the state wanted them to do? It seems quite obvious that the United States strongly discourages going into any other field outside of economics. Th
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by burgers 12y ago
Well, if you read the article, you would have read about two students, 1 went to Dartmouth and the other went to Yale. The former worked at a bar, if I remember correctly and the latter worked at the airport. Neither graduated with economic
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by burgers 12y ago
You may want to read what I wrote one more time. I did not say that those outside of finance deal with lack of food, safety and health. I stated that if one has less money than someone else, they are much more likely to have to deal with th
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by burgers 12y ago
That's kind of my point. How is forcing that indie developer in live in Alaska, much different from the Soviets shipping someone off to Siberia because they didn't get with the plan? Finance will continue to grow as the preferred
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by burgers 12y ago
> Economics, conversely, is as popular as beer, topping all majors at Harvard, Dartmouth, Princeton and Penn. In what Deresiewicz calls “a stunning convergence,” it was the top major at 26 of the nation’s top 40 universities and college
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by burgers 12y ago
I don't know if this is as much a mock ad against a particular company(those are the ones that typically come off petty) and more about trying to relay to the consumer there is more to life than a touchscreen device. This ties into IKE
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by burgers 12y ago
> and also a tool they can bring in during their most important exam. This is the most important part. Cheating is probably the primary reason these are used and not computers/smartphones etc. That is their niche. Test taking. Wit
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by burgers 12y ago
"Make something people with money want." /FTFY
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by burgers 12y ago
I can sum this up so very simply. The way to make the most money is to get as close to money as possible. Hence why finance is such a lucrative career. We are seeing the obvious flaws of capitalism now that capital is no longer tied to low
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by burgers 12y ago
I made an earlier comment about that perception you have. You are likely and upper class US citizen who looks down on things like taxis and the bus. If "providing value" means playing into stereotypes, then I guess you are correct
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by burgers 12y ago
Interesting, so you are more of the, I use self checkout because I'd rather not deal with a person type. That is definitely another part of how Uber is successful. For example having to think about tipping etc.
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by burgers 12y ago
> The average taxi driver wouldn't make it as an Uber driver, only the superior drivers can sustain a 4.6+ rating. Then why is that many taxi drivers drive for Uber as well? Where are you getting these numbers? Or are you maybe ju
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by burgers 12y ago
This is absolutely untrue. I have taken taxis very often in many US cities including SF while I lived in the Bay Area. Many drivers drive for both taxi services and Uber depending on the day. How is the same exact driver suddenly dangerous
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by burgers 12y ago
In the US especially, automobiles are a symbol of economic status. I have not driven for the majority of my adult life and when people discover this they often think I am poor, lower class or lost my license due to drinking and driving etc.
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by burgers 12y ago
Partly, because I'm disappointed I won't be able to try it, and partly out of curiosity, what was the reason for not just making this an HTML5 web app? Was there some functionality you couldn't get from Web APIs?

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