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I suspect if you looked for statistics on corruption perception, and in local faith in locally produced products, you’d see a situation where the Japanese trust their compatriots and the Chinese severely mistrust theirs.

> Then the only way to reconcile it is to have the government pay.

Sure, and ideally through an additional corporate tax based on overall wage cost for a business. Seems like a daft expense not to mutualise against at a national level, rather than what is today essentially a corporate lottery.

They don’t. They use a visa waiver program. The author was unable to make use of the visa waiver program having been flagged. As a result, now the author does need a visa.

> Elevating English while denigrating all other languages has been a pillar of English and American nationalism for well over a hundred years

I wonder if there’s a country without a manufactured language where that’s not true.

Here’s to the crazy ones

Many words starting with n and with gs in them are just color descriptions. Shortened versions of Japanese and Pakistani are offensive in some countries but not others. The Thai word for Indian is “visitor” as in “not from here, will go home soon”. Plenty of words with innocuous meanings pick up offensive meanings.

Does “Desi” work in this case? Is it offensive for a white guy to say?

> Sadly, there are a number of incumbent commercial interests

This sentence basically sums up all that’s wrong with America in 2018.

Does NRI apply to people without Indian citizenship?

I bet the spending power of non-India Indians in the rest of the world is huge.

The impressive bit here is how network effects and brand recognition can save you from God-awful tech

I came here to write the same thing, so have an upvote. Tinder’s iOS app is such a gigantic travesty of engineering that I’m honestly surprised to hear they have an actual engineering team.

Mutton means goat for the vast majority of people involved in the preparation of South Asian cuisine. That native English speakers use the terms differently when talking about cutlets and ribs has zero bearing on how you should expect your curry to be labelled.

> But for goat

I believe the marketing term for this in much of the world is _mutton_

If the technicians want credit, they should put it into the contract. If their input into it is a bought-and-sold commodity, which it seems to be, then they’re being paid in lieu of credit. Ghost writers will get paid different amounts depending on if they get to self-attribute or not.

This is basically the plot (in my opinion, anyway) of Exit Through the Gift Shop

OMFG BREAD IS PALEO NOW! My life just got better

If you believe university rankings (a big if) then the UK’s universities are — on average — dramatically better than those in the rest of Europe.

> But more to the point, blockchains are useful now

For about 1/20 of the applications they are suggested for, best I can tell.

Same thing that happened to British handgun owners, presumably, or people who really enjoy dynamite fishing.

They all include the proviso that it’s discrimination based on a belief of relative superiority, do they not?

Turns out if you fallaciously conflate terms, you can call anyone anything you like.

> You find racial discrimination acceptable

Clearly.

> Is it a good goal etc

It’s not a goal, it’s a tool to combat systemic racism.

> Do you find virtue

Here’s what I think:

I think there’s no inherent genetic gender or race component that should impact outcomes in people’s relative success. If you believe there is, you are literally a racist or a sexist, by the very definitions of those terms. Given that, if you can predict a group of people’s outcomes based on their race or gender, there is an inequality of opportunity. I believe that the inequality of opportunity should be tackled.

I believe that tackling this is an urgent issue. I believe that affirmative action — like setting up these funds — is a working solution.

Sure, nobody enjoys seeing their relative privilege diminish.

Yes, it’s literally racial discrimination. That’s what it says on the tin. “At the very least” implies this is a form of racism, which it’s not.

It is neither racist or sexist, as it makes no comment at all on relative superiority of race or gender.

> This is not a trade-war issue

There’s certainly plausible deniability that it isn’t, I’ll give you that. Is it extra leverage that will almost certainly come into play? Yes, it’s also that.

I’d really love to be able to view cycles more easily in this graph

Hardly a homogenous group

I initially thought this was satire based on 3rd party apps reading your email