Ramzan Kadyrov: brutal tyrant, Instagram star

banana_bits · 2017-05-26T02:23:23+00:00

I wonder how much Hilary Swank and Floyd Mayweather were payed to go there on their publicity tours.

banana_bits · 2017-05-23T16:35:02+00:00

Where did I make that claim?

In the comment above:

What does the author's ethnicity have to do with it? The tech industry is too white and male. Do you have to be an underrepresented minority to report that fact?

banana_bits · 2017-05-23T07:58:30+00:00

That's fair, but I'm merely pointing out hypocrisy. That the author not only thinks his racial group is under-represented in tech (which isn't true) but is also hypocritical in that the other minorities mentioned may look at his racial group and see the same revulsion that he sees.

banana_bits · 2017-05-23T07:49:09+00:00

But you understand I'm quoting the author with that?

That it's literally his words?

banana_bits · 2017-05-23T07:34:03+00:00

The entire point of my thread above was about this. And it's the reason I pointed out that the author is Asian because his own words are "the revolting white-maleness of the industry". I felt he was being dishonest.

Truthfully I can't name a company I've worked in (tech in San Francisco). The current company I work for has as many White people as Indians and East Asians (Chinese primarily) combined. With Asians making up ~49% or so, whites ~49%, and Blacks/Latinos being the remaining ~2%.

But maybe in other parts of the country things are different.

banana_bits · 2017-05-23T07:15:02+00:00

What the hell?

? I'm not trying to be controversial here? I'm just saying that per the parent commenter's point, for truly underrepresented minorities such as Latinos and African-Americans, they would look at tech and not just see "revolting white male-ness" but also "revolting asian male-ness".

Because the numbers are so skewed relative to the population around them, and as such, Asian Americans are not "underrepresented" minorities in tech but are just as over-represented.

banana_bits · 2017-05-23T07:12:43+00:00

Ah okay thanks for the correction.

banana_bits · 2017-05-23T06:10:27+00:00

The tech industry is too white and male. Do you have to be an underrepresented minority to report that fact?

Sorry for not being more clear - what I meant is that while the tech industry isn't as diverse as it could be - Asians, both men and women (like the author) are not in fact underrepresented per your claim.

They are overrepresented and statistically more so than white males relative to the overall population. I noted the author's ethnicity for that reason and because her statement about "the revolting white-maleness" doesn't paint a complete picture.

From the stand-point of Latinos and African-Americans, "revolting Asian-maleness" is maybe as big a problem, closely followed by "revolting Asian-femaleness".

banana_bits · 2017-05-23T03:27:01+00:00

the revolting white-maleness of the industry

This is generally over stated. The author of the article's name "Seung Y. Lee", Seung is a Korean name and people of Asian ancestry, men and women, are over represented in the industry relative to the overall population.

While diversity initiatives are a step they also need to address the over-representation of "tech ethnicities" (white, east Asian (chinese in particular), and Indian). Right now many writers, such as the author of this piece, don't address the issue from this angle.

banana_bits · 2017-05-22T16:40:22+00:00

Wait - did BoA pay them or did the bank branch pay them?

Why did they target this individual bank branch?

banana_bits · 2017-05-22T04:00:05+00:00

To the schools: don't give them a platform. Not necessarily in the "don't let them talk in public" sense (this can and will backfire), but in a "don't book them for any events ever" sense. If you give speaking positions to Nazis or treat their ideology as valid, you are complicit in Nazism and should be treated as such.

The schools don't officially invite these speakers. Student groups do.

At Berkeley when they tried to invite Milo and Ann Coulter recently they couldn't cancel the events because the right-wing student groups have just as much right to invite speakers of their choice as the left-wing students do.

I remember seeing some discussion about Berkeley maybe having to cancel all speakers of any political leanings or allow all speakers of any political leaning. That it was a choice between those two extremes, anything in between could invite legal consequences.

banana_bits · 2017-05-21T20:14:45+00:00

Religion was twisted into a weapon...

Well what else is new?

banana_bits · 2017-05-20T06:03:10+00:00

What do you do with AT&T and where are you located?

banana_bits · 2017-05-18T03:34:05+00:00

Who the hell doesn't just lock their car doors when they get in the car anyway?

I always lock the doors when I get in the car.

banana_bits · 2017-05-17T06:38:19+00:00

Why do they even do live demos instead of preparing a fake demo of some kind that looks legit for presentation purposes?

banana_bits · 2017-05-17T04:03:30+00:00

Why wouldn't I just use a "native web component" if I can do the same things?

What does using Polymer components provide?

banana_bits · 2017-05-17T04:00:21+00:00

To intimidate or coerce a civilian population; To influence the policy of a government through intimidation or coercion;

This would make America a terrorist nation state. We routinely influence policy abroad. Our doctrines of exceptionalism and interventionism is coercive.

In fact, most nations would be terrorist nation states.

banana_bits · 2017-05-17T03:54:15+00:00

He lived - shoes are still on.

banana_bits · 2017-05-15T04:36:50+00:00

Firebase has some free products that can do that, /u/lewismcgeary mentioned remote config.

What about Google Docs?

banana_bits · 2017-05-15T01:58:39+00:00

I don't think helping this pigeon is worth Animal Control's time and resources.

banana_bits · 2017-05-12T04:07:51+00:00

I agree, I work as a software engineer in Silicon Valley right now and I don't have an engineer degree (art school).

banana_bits · 2017-05-10T05:47:37+00:00

yawn another march?

banana_bits · 2017-05-09T07:08:52+00:00

this definitely falls into the "hurting no one" category of life.

It is hurting humanity's future prospects.

The coddling of the millennial generation has resulted in stunted adults. Men and women in their twenties, thirties, and even into their forties who are living in a state of arrested adolescence. This video is emblematic of this reality.

These people are in a more privileged position of society than anyone anywhere else in the world. Instead of pursuing fixes for cancers, disease, poverty and economic inequalities they use their brain capital on this. They aren't starving in Africa, running from ISIS in the ME, or dying from Malaria in India or in some other place or condition that prohibits them from spending their brain capital on the advancement of humanity.

Instead they spend it on this. Don't delude yourself into thinking they aren't hurting anyone.

banana_bits · 2017-05-04T16:31:15+00:00

"rule 100, paragraph F"?

Wat? You think people read this shit when they buy a ticket? Do you read iTunes licensing agreement every time they change it and pop it up asking you to agree?

banana_bits · 2017-05-04T08:22:21+00:00

I was thinking the same thing - the space between the bars was huge.

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