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> Sorry, but stereotypes exist for a reason

Because for very good reasons relating to survival in a no-tech world with dangers around every corner, the human brain jumps to over-generalities.

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Generalisations can be a fantastic time-saver. I optimise for efficiency. If my false-positive rate is too high then maybe the data my brain has trained on is poor. But from what I've seen so far, and from what I've heard from other people, the data my mental model has been trained on is fairly representative across the board in this instance.

Trash commit freqs, unlike crime stats, are filtered not through institutions but through one's own mind. Granted, one can carry a lot of biases in what they look at and what they notice, but this issue applies to all heuristics in general.

That said, I used to carry a lot of… biases against Indian developers since that's what all the Chinese programmers talk about on Weibo and Telegram. I have seen a lot of impressive folks since then, so I don't really have that particular generalisation any more.

Heck, Chinese ppl would do the same 薅羊毛 thing if our mail service was less shitty. We even have js devs charging people in cash and stars for documentation. That's what you learn from living in no community.

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