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by siedes 7y ago
For the good of the world, I hope you are right. I admit I did get a bit too passioniate in the earlier post.
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by siedes 7y ago
I respectfully disagree that waning respect for America in this context illustrates what you say it does. Chinese culture is fundamentally opposed to American culture, and those things you mention, open democracy, religious and cultural tol
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by siedes 7y ago
Maybe it's a good thing. Moving away from seeing America as an economic goldrush where everyone can come and "get theirs", and more toward a place where people actually live in. This is my home, not an all you can eat buffet.
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Ask HN: Too Good to Go for the United States?
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by siedes 7y ago
It would be slightly harder. What I'm looking out for here is voice distortion and the unnatural flow of speech, and it's present in every Faux recording. It's just unnatural compared to how JR normally sounds.
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by siedes 7y ago
It was easy to figure out which are the fakes, but I am very impressed and spooked at the idea of this technology improving, then getting into the wrong hands.
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by siedes 7y ago
That's exactly what I mean though, your conclusion that Asians are better off than other minorities just because you saw a bunch of Asians in your elite college (who were most likely foreigners coming to study abroad anyway and not Ame
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by siedes 7y ago
Also Asian myself. There has never really been a place for us on either side of the political spectrum. The left does not treat us as they do with other minorities, so they don't care about screwing us over while the right generally on
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by siedes 7y ago
We'll have nonviolent prison cities separate from the violent ones. :)
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by siedes 7y ago
Good thing in Japan, even if one or two people litter, there's at least 100 other fine people who will be there to pick up after you happily without even thinking about it. Man I'd love that here in the US
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by siedes 7y ago
What if we had prison cities where prisoners can live "freely" and have their own economies and stuff? Let's see how they like trying to live normal lives with other people who have no qualms about stealing and killing to get
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by siedes 7y ago
Incentive for who though? For the homeless and very poor, who probably will not even be the ones purchasing those bottles(at least at the same rate as those in higher economic classes) in the first place? We need to make it worth it for the
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by siedes 7y ago
A small deposit is no incentive. Now if it were a significant amount like $.50-$1.00 per bottle you recycle, then you'd have people literally racing to get those bottles. Then just increase the price on the drinks itself by a bit to ma
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by siedes 7y ago
How do we convince other cultures to adapt to the new culture though? Any such efforts would be drowned out by cries of racism and cultural erasure or whatever they're calling it nowadays.
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by siedes 7y ago
"And personally, I'm willing to pay extra for lab-grown." I believe this mindset amongst thoughtful consumers like yourself only do harm. Like with other trendy foods that get popularized for health or whatever reason, it inc
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by siedes 7y ago
We have laws to punish bad behavior after it happens , while they have a culture that reinforces good behavior from the start. Nowadays, it seems like trying to enforce good/proper behavior in the U.S. would be taken as an affront to
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by siedes 7y ago
In South Korea, when you order from certain places for certain types of food, they come in actual containers/tupperwares that you just leave outside your door and someone from the restaurant will come pick it up at some point. I don&#x
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by siedes 7y ago
>"Why wouldn’t we want to know the citizenship of the people living in the country? " I think he told us that answer already. His politics benefits from noncitizens being counted in the census, so it would be problematic if suc
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by siedes 7y ago
>Yet I know for a fact that if you dropped them in Southside Chicago, where my family is from, they would suddenly know better than to behave like this. They wouldn't toss their gang signs around or speak that word… ever. And that i
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by siedes 7y ago
Considering that most people on HN are self-starters who had to learn things on their own whether by necessity or just because they preferred it that way, it may not be so obvious that a good number of people are not able to have that kind
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by siedes 7y ago
Tipping is horrible and incentivizes the worker to prioritize people who tip/ are likely to tip and underperform for people who do not/or are likely not to. You can see this play out in the food service industry and it is horrible
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by siedes 7y ago
That's what happens when you have a culture that so heavily looks down on people who work these kinds of jobs. Failures who couldn't make it in school work at Mcdonalds they say, and failures they'll get, making their burgers
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by siedes 7y ago
Why would anyone become a white male in today's political climate? If anything, the concern would be white males turning themselves into minorities to get racial benefits. :-)
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by siedes 7y ago
I see no reason why they would assemble anything in California, with its high cost of living and higher minimum wage, when they could just design and assemble everything in their own backyard for way cheaper. Cool slogan though. Does anyone
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by siedes 8y ago
"Why people in East Asian countries wear surgical masks in public (2014)" would seem to be a more accurate title. As others say, in Japan specifically, it is a cultural-courtesy thing and is about not getting others sick rather th
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by siedes 8y ago
I had a similar idea, but a feed for posts/comments related to those posts from various places on the web like reddit, forums, imageboards, etc. What would really be great is a integrated night/darkmode for your night readers like
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by siedes 8y ago
Anyone find a privacy policy anywhere? I went to the mother site listed at the bottom, but it is entirely in Russian. Tried translating privacy to Russian and searching various terms, but getting nothing. Edit: nvm I found it "Bashuplo
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by siedes 8y ago
Is CNN shocked that when you search for books related to vaccines, you get books related to vaccines? Or are they insinuating that it is Amazon's job to decide what ideas/opinions are allowed to be sold on their marketplace and as
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by siedes 8y ago
I find that these meat substitutes, vegetarian, and vegan options do not do very well because often times they are not only inferior in taste, but they cost way more. I do not see many people changing their mindsets until they can make thes
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by siedes 8y ago
Too educated to fail. :-)

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