lurr

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by lurr 9y ago
I didn't. I created an account for discussion.
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by lurr 9y ago
But I'm not asking for a comprehensive list, I'm asking what people are afraid to say. I think it's incredibly disingenuous to claim oppression, but also be unwilling to discuss it any further. I also think it does nothing to
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by lurr 9y ago
Well, I was on his side until now.
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by lurr 9y ago
> This used to be uncontroversial Lots of things used to be uncontroversial. Get with the times.
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by lurr 9y ago
Delegation, sign he deserves a promotion. Have you really never worked on a project where the golden boy was the face of everything and everyone else was ignored?
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by lurr 9y ago
For some reason Indians aren't Asian enough to be called Asian.
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by lurr 9y ago
Except they grew up their and the flora, fauna, etc... feels more like home. People who move from California to Seattle complain constantly about how horrible the weather is, for example.
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by lurr 9y ago
> I think that's a little unfair to characterize the Chinese government as uniquely nefarious It's not at all. We can still criticize the US government for their actions. You actually couldn't do that in China.
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by lurr 9y ago
I'm not. I want no part of living under totalitarianism.
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by lurr 9y ago
Huh, it is kind of hard to make an argument for the self evidence of our inalienable rights. Especially int he context of talking to someone who lives with tyranny and doesn't really care. > but projection of societal norms is kinda
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by lurr 9y ago
> a lot of younger Americans have adopted a sort of dark, distorted view of history that casts the US as a villainous entity Or they have adopted a realistic view of history. The US has done loads of shitty things. They have never had st
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by lurr 9y ago
> It's really confounding to me that the younger generations seems to have such a hard time with this. Oh look, more ageism on hacker news.
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by lurr 9y ago
> Disagreement shouldn't lead to downvote Actually PG said the opposite. I used to have the comment saved, but lost it in a format. Anyway, people also downvote because they are sick of talking about this.
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by lurr 9y ago
Yeah, amazing what can happen when you make an argument poorly and without thought to how your audience will react. Oh but citations. Good for you, that's a good bit of research. Sure the facts seem cherry picked and don't necessa
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by lurr 9y ago
Equally qualified is generally taken to mean they have comparable skills accross a broad spectrum of criteria. Maybe Al knows a bit more about vue.js but Marcy knows react. If I'm doing a project in Vue and I give Al more to do that&#x
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by lurr 9y ago
> social sciences You aren't allowed to reference social science studies because their aren't enough conservatives to make those fields "fair".
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by lurr 9y ago
> Women want children earlier (because menopause) women need to have children earlier. I don't see 70 year old men eagerly having kids all that often. Most people want to live to see their grandchildren. > I'm generalising
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by lurr 9y ago
Conservatives: "fair" is more important than factual or correctness. > As an aside I feel much less comfortable arguing this point after checking out your personal site and seeing that you write Debian packages. I really enjoy
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by lurr 9y ago
> especially when you consider that 95% of the professors in that field of study lean left. But they do research that should be repeatable and thus it doesn't matter. Unless you think they have implicit bias.
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by lurr 9y ago
Because women's lives revolve around maximizing their value to husbands. Yup, sounds completely reasonable. Hey, how come so many more women become doctors now? High stress job, takes a long time, I don't think it's any more
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by lurr 9y ago
> China is far more unwelcoming to hard-working immigrants I'm sorry, I thought we based policy on what we thought was right and not what totalitarian regimes in other countries do. Maybe try comparing to Canada or other comparable
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by lurr 9y ago
Actually it's pretty easily provable, you just need diversity numbers. Doesn't explain the "why" though.
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by lurr 9y ago
> But immigration should be a two way street Why? > if people decide to stay in the US they should try to assimilate oh I see. Apparently hte people who come to the US for school and try to live and work here right alongside you and m
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by lurr 9y ago
> We only allow 65,000 people to work in large corporations per year. There are many many more than that on H-1B. Plus you have OPT and L1. The bigger issue is being on an H-1B kind of sucks. If you get fired you're screwed. It&#x27
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by lurr 9y ago
> I don't mean this from a US nationalist or political perspective - I'm merely speculating on the economics. "I'm just asking questions"
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by lurr 9y ago
> Conservative socially does not have much to do with religion It does in the US. Absolutely does.
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by lurr 9y ago
> sadly leaving Why is it sad? They get to go back home instead of on the other side of the planet from the place they grew up, and they don't have to give up nearly as much to do it. Good for them. > My China-born colleagues see
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by lurr 9y ago
They are actively trying to pass laws on this.
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by lurr 9y ago
You don't believe in equal pay for equal work? You believe in ageism?
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by lurr 9y ago
Whereas fox remains as steadfastly committed to propaganda as ever. CBS should fire that guy.

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