patrickyan

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by patrickyan 9y ago
Seems like it's just exploiting the Instagram/"aesthetics" crowd who are too lazy/dumb/rich to go to a nursery. LA has a ton of nurseries, and fiddle leaf fig trees can be found for $60 (4 ft) and $150 (6ft). A
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by patrickyan 9y ago
That's just the zaibatsu/keiretsu/chaebol system. Samsung also does everything from shopping malls to credit cards to heavy industry.
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by patrickyan 9y ago
The memo literally lists the biological/psychological traits of men and women that may have caused the gender gap in tech. (He tries to clarify that he is talking on a population level and not talking about individuals)
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by patrickyan 9y ago
The point of diversity isn't to force everyone to think men and women are identical in every capacity. The point of diversity is to create a desired environment with different kinds of people.
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by patrickyan 9y ago
As the other person said, that's a false equivalency. This memo directly affected the workplace environment by saying one group of people had less aptitude for working there. The examples you give are just groups who are seeking certai
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by patrickyan 9y ago
Public shaming is the only way to get any customer service at all for many shitty companies.
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by patrickyan 9y ago
It's on the employee to prove that the company fired them illegally. For example, if the employee had an email showing that their boss said "I hate X because he's black" then the employee would probably win.
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by patrickyan 10y ago
Giuliani said on national television that Trump asked him how he could legally ban Muslims. He boasted that he came up with the idea that banning countries would be legal because it's based on nationality, not religion. When asked why
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by patrickyan 10y ago
Just don't tip. I don't know anyone who actually tips in Lyft.
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by patrickyan 10y ago
That's only because America is shitty at implementing public transportation. Tokyo and Seoul are fucking amazing. NYC subway is actually amazingly convenient despite being run down and disgusting. There's no reason to take an Uber
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by patrickyan 11y ago
Might actually be a per package/delivery rate that they estimate to be $18-25 per hour. I highly doubt Amazon would pay an hourly wage when some people might only do one delivery per hour. It's just marketing to attract people, ju
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by patrickyan 11y ago
You can use a service like Doorman in SF or Parcel in NYC. UPS also has MyChoice.
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NYU startup CrashDwell helps students sublet safely in NYC w/o craigslist scams(crashdwell.com)
3 points by patrickyan 13y ago|1 comments
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by patrickyan 15y ago
IIRC only one photograph was stretched, while the others were the correct aspect ratio.
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by patrickyan 15y ago
Chocolat ( http://chocolatapp.com ) seems like a promising replacement for TextMate, since TextMate 2 is vaporware. Lots of bugs right now though.