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this is such a prototypical example of utter western bullshit. Likely near zero understanding of politics, just grew up with the words "democracy" being shoved into your ears repeatedly.

Do you really believe that China's 1.3 billion people would be better off if the country just switched itself to American styled "democracy"? Look at who our democracy just elected.

are you serious? It's crazy to see point blank the effects of western brainwashing on people. Open your eyes. What China is doing is nowhere close to colonization

don't forget America's president is also a billionaire!

lol, such brainwashing

amazing how brainwashed you are

True, if you're working alone. But 5, 50, 500, 5000 artists trying to paint on the same canvas? Then the game is significantly changed.

They might've had really experienced mysql dbas. While postgres does seem to be as nice, in my experience, it's harder to find people who truly understand it, vs people who truly understand mysql. Not saying mysql is better, but there's more (deep) experience for it out there.

Nice, can you describe some of the interesting elements Elixir brought to development experience? How would you compare it to your previous tool of choice?

Great to see Elixir getting more use!

I don't understand how "in that sense" qualifies the meaning differently. That does "that sense" refer to exactly?

I'm not saying the racism the author has experienced is right, it sucks, it's wrong, and I actually know how he feels because I have had similar experiences with race in my own life. But I have read A LOT of arguments on HN trying to downplay or outright deny racism in tech, when that black engineering leader at Twitter quit, and for the combative white people there, who seemed to refuse to deny that racism existed here, but sympathize with this white guy here, let me ask you this:

Why should sushi restaurants lower their standards and let this white guy into their established restaurant, just for the sake of diversity? Sushi restaurants are all for equality, but we would never want them to lower their standards and serve lower quality food right? Also, if this white guy really wants to get in, he needs to change his culture. That laziness, loudness, and lack of respect for tradition will never get him anywhere in the sushi world.

lol, i would hesitate before calling a 5,000 year old culture "superficial". It makes you look superficial.

Coffee is one specific species of a bean, roasted, and brewed with varying amounts of hot water, milk, chocolate, and maybe a few other ingredients.

There are endless species of fish, with wildly different tastes (salmon, vs tuna, vs tuna belly, vs monkfish liver, vs catfish, don't tell me you can't taste a difference). In addition to fish, there are crustaceans (crab, shrimp, lobster, etc), mollusks (oyster, clam, squid, octopus, cuttlefish), and probably other major animal types I'm omitting.

The comparison is not adequate, sushi is inherently more diverse than coffee.

lol the amount of bias you have towards your own culture is astounding.

Taste and smell is a HUGELY sensitive skill. I don't doubt that changing the "tiniest detail in a paint" could "totally change the emotions", but for someone who doesn't really appreciate visual art nearly as much as food or music, I could be as easily dismissive towards it as you were towards food.

To further counter your arguments, if you A/B tested some modern art in a museum vs some art you bought in a walmart, and it was on the same medium (same quality canvas, etc), people would randomly choose one or the other as "better".

+1, I was gonna post about this quote. Extremely short sighted and offensive.

> they literally bring nothing to the table besides being Asian

Thanks for qualifying any Asian person as being nothing more than their race. I know it wasn't intentional, and the discrimination you face sucks, but please think more deeply when you write about race, especially races other than your own.

Lol, I wouldn't call it out as pride. There might simply be no reason to change. Ideas have been expressed in the written language for thousands of years, and I believe that it's probably as efficient as English. Very different, but similar levels of efficiency. Would it be "pride" if Chinese people questioned why English was full of inconsistencies and why don't they just change those aspects of the language?

At the same time, English is a required subject in Chinese, and hopefully as that improves, people here will get the pros (and cons) of both systems.

Characters aren't necessary words. In Chinese, a lot of phrases are expressed in groupings of 2 characters and 4 characters.

Especially in these 4 character groupings, you can find a lot of efficiency and elegance. It expresses ideas & meaning that would take 20-100 words to fully express.

Hey wpietri, thanks for writing this comment. Sometimes, I read through threads like these, and see a lot of vocal white people saying shit that makes me lose hope for the future. White people are in charge in this country, and any change will require them to back it. Reading this helps undo some of that despair, and gives me some hope for the future.

Thank you, and keep being exactly what minorities need right now.

ser2k's comment seems pretty concrete to me.

literally never discussed the idea of a quota in this particular thread, so you're jumping to conclusions here.

So Eric Gardner probably deserved to get choked out because he sold cigarettes illegally on a street? And Michael Brown was probably a thug, so deserved to die?

Tech builds the product that these people use. It makes sense for a representation of those users to be building the product.

I'm Chinese, and I don't appreciate your attempt at pitting Asians against Blacks.

Ya, the idea sounds terrible if you just think about it for a split second:

Most Black Americans are descended from slaves. And their slave owners forced their family name on them. Slave owners were white. So these names will register as white names.

Completely destroys any accuracy concerning Black people.

Huge upvote here. As much as we would like to forget about race in America, the fact is: Race Matters.

The way people look at you, talk to you (or ignore you), talk about you, extend invites, etc..that ALL changes with your race.

Wow, trying to redefine racial diversity as racism.

Having a different skin color makes a HUGE impact on the way you experience life, especially in America. Holding all other things equal, that alone will give you a different outlook on life, and likely different ideas too.

You honestly think it's "worth questioning how a black person would think differently"?

Different experiences yield different points of view yield different ideas

Twitter definitely has a relocation program. And in general, engineers move to the Bay Area in order to work at companies like Twitter.

Ya I find that westerners in general have a REALLY hard time dealing with the success of China in the past 30 years, all of which springs from undemocratic policy. All media articles I read about China are ridiculously spun to grasp at straws for flaws in the government, while glossing over the tremendous good that the government has done for the people.

Plenty of godfilled cultures have compromised just as many if not more violations of the sanctity of human life. Take your god away from me, and help yourself instead.

China's success is DEFINITELY because of the policies they put in place.

Population growth at China's scale is not a "pretty old problem". It's literally the largest population in the history of the world. No one, not even the U.S. government has an idea of what to do there. Then, add in the fact that when these policies were made, China had not even been through an industrial revolution and just had a MASSIVE famine (20-40 million deaths), I think the decision to have a one-child policy made a lot of sense.