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I wholly agree with you in sentiment that context matters, but how the hell is that article equivalent to the one here lol, I have to ask

Your article has to do with white farmers specifically targeted by the black government of Zimbabwe, literal racism, so the race of the farmers is actually relevant.

By all means you're right and I would agree. It's just that, if we are going to go with the diversity thing, we should uphold it equally and fairly. There is no avoiding natural majorities where we can't help it. But in the realm of green cards and work visas where they are limited and we CAN help it, I think avoiding incentivizing or allowing for majorities to form that will become problematic(and then too big to be helped later on) is a good thing.

That sounds nice and all but the DMV analogy does not hold up. Think about if there were no limits by country population, India has more people and therefore the most applicants, so we would be mainly giving limited numbers of work visas to Indians while others would have no chance.

Imagine if there was a company with a white CEO who was only hiring/putting other whites into high level positions because they happen to be in a majority white area. If that makes you cringe, you should have the same reaction regarding this.

Diversity = various countries/peoples around the world getting a fair chance

Not diversity = Only Indians get work visas

>the next Zucc

That's more of an insult nowadays than a compliment, no?

You can't go wrong with any of the thicker Thinkpads like the P series(I personally use a P50 now), but that does come with lesser portability. With the thin and light models like the X1 Carbon, there's probably some level of compromise to get the laptops that thin, but I'm sure it's still miles ahead your current Macbook's keyboard.

Other notable mentions: LG Gram, XPS (2018/2019 models)

Even if you're right, I don't think people want a system that benefits a group of people just because they have a bigger population than others. It's the same reason why diversity quotas are pushed for, because we can't have companies only hiring or promoting into leadership positions people who happen to look like them. It is in line with those principles that we would not want to have a system where Indians are being severely advantaged compared to other minorities just because they have a huge population.

Well said.

Another factor is that not everyone, especially women, do not want to leave themselves open to strangers to bother or even harass them. The best way to do that these days is to be busy on your phone, or to put on some ear/headphones in public. Looking busy is almost a must on public transit or else you risk looking like prey to unwanted solicitations.

I think most patients are ultimately making the best choices for them in good faith and we should assume so unless provided evidence otherwise. I have a Vietnamese friend with an older, non-English speaking parent who can only be helped by a Vietnamese doctor. Sure you can have interpreters, but that's not always the most convenient. There is also another element to this that has to do with race/genetics, which I will argue for only as a devil's advocate. People from different cultures/races are well, different. An Indian doctor will have the most intuitive sense for diagnosing an Indian patient. And even if that isn't factually true, if the patient believes it, is it wrong for them to pursue the option they think is best for them? If we outlaw or punish people for making the choice they believe is best for them in good faith, would we not then be liable for any negative outcome that should result from that?

He's probably saying if prostitution was legal and normalized in our society, there could be an outlet for men who can't get sex any other way, which could curb their tendency to go shoot up innocent people.

It's easy to become emotional and not realize that 8chan != one of it's boards. Going after 8chan for that one board, is like going after Facebook because one of it's users goes on a rampage. Or blaming a whole group of people for the actions of one. When you get to this point, you are no better than the racists/Nazis you're attacking.

No, you need to do a ML-powered "This Anecdote Doesn't Exist" instead. Could provide a lot of amusement for HN.

I like the spirit of the article, but being poor does not resolve you of personal responsibility. You do not have a pass to commit crime because you make under a certain amount a year. There are definitely a great number of poor people in this world who have no one to blame but themselves or their family/upbringing. I think that a civilized country should have a good safety net for everyone equally, even if their poverty was their own fault. There should be no shame there. People make mistakes. People are sometimes in the wrong place at the wrong time. We should still help them even if it was their fault. I dislike this mindset in America that people get what they deserve and if they made a mistake, they should suffer for it.

You just need a normal container with vents which are fairly common and some tape that tears when the container is opened.

Maybe this is one problem that VR can solve. Virtually simulated suicides? Virtually simulated anything. You don't have to die or hurt yourself, try X in a safe simulation first to see if you really want to go through with it.

>UV damage is scary.

Can you expand on that? Curious to know through your experience.

I'm from California ;). I'm just saying, urbanites have no one to blame but themselves for the influx of shitty, uncivilized tourists everywhere. After making fun of people for not being traveled and not having a passport, did you really not expect more and more people wanting to travel so that they don't get made fun of or because they really fell for the thought that traveling would make them a better person?

You are right. People typically won't know how good they have it until they are separated from it, either temporarily or permanently.

Why buy lavender if you can just be a photographer/instagrammer and steal them? Pretty fields are what brings potential buyers to their farm in the first place, no?

Uncomfortable is an understatement. Being smart/geeky is their identity, the "self" that they see within, and it is something that separated them from the jocks. Seeing someone who looks like a jock but is smart/geeky must be like a punch in the face. The thing that made them who they are, the thing that they were made fun of and bullied so much for, is now so casually adopted by the people who did the bullying. It is similar to the feeling when male gamers see female gamers who portray themselves as geeky gamers or whatever after for years making fun of those geeky virgins and their video games.

Personally, I am with you and don't believe they are entitled anything.

But essentially this basically comes down to gentrification vs preserving culture. Do we value cities as money-making assembly lines where all the workers are replaceable or do we value cities as a living thing, with the culture(s) as their bloodline that makes those cities what they are and gives them their appeal? Do I want to keep my neighborhood as it is, for my children to grow up as I did, or should I just let anyone come and change it, for better or worse?

I wonder if Elon's facial hair is also a transplant.

>Instead residents write open letters about how they moved here in 1976 and under no circumstances will allow their neighborhood to be different than back then.

I think this is the hardest thing to reconcile. I mean it's easy to get riled up against some rich white NIMBYs doing this kind of thing, but now replace those rich whites with x minority like Mexican-Americans who have lived in their Mexican-American majority Southern Californian neighborhood all their life in the same homes they've always been in. Imagine ripping on them for trying to preserve their neighborhood and therefore their culture. And for what? To make it possible for more people to move in and potentially make things worse for the people already there? If it's a minority-majority neighborhood, making it possible for more whites to move in is gentrification. How do you argue for that?

I'm not saying I agree with any of this by the way, just playing devil's advocate.

It's a meme to make fun of Americans in "flyover countries" for not having passports. People who have only lived in the place they were born are made fun of for not being traveled, and therefore not cultured.

Is it a surprise then that more and more people want to travel in order to signal that they aren't an uncultured, passport-less hillbilly? The key thing to note here is that someone who does not have any regard for their environment and other people will be the same whether they're in Kansas or in Paris. Often, they'll be even worse, since it's not home that they're trashing up.

We need to make it so cringe to behave like this that people will stop doing it naturally to distance themselves from those people. I already look down on people like this myself. People in the West do not utilize societal shaming enough I feel, so much focus on individuality that people are forced to tolerate that some people are terrible humans because otherwise they'll be on the side of NAZIS or whatever for wanting people to be civilized.

I think it's already trending that way, but the effects are slow to arrival.

Thats the equivalent of asking girls to dress unsexily to prevent harrassment/rape. Those farmers have a right to maintain their beautiful and appealing environments without having them messed with by tourists and other idiots.

>"Goof programmer"

What did you just call me?!

Sounds like a brand of instant ramen.

Bicycle theft thing is just one example. I was giving various examples of how culture played a role in influencing the environment. I never said Japanese people are Not Like Us and "therefore don't steal".

Your personal belief that Americans are exceptionally unlikely to steal your stuff is your belief to have. But I would still not leave my bike out for the Americans who do steal to take it and then have the other Americans who don't steal victim shame me "Oh, well why did you leave your bike out?"

It's just totally different man, culture is a hell of a drug. Maybe generally, if you're a lucky person, most people are honest, but A LOT aren't, and I'm not gonna be the one to drop my guard in America. I'll leave that to you and others.

And you are here, blaming the customers instead of DoorDash for taking money intended for the dashers?? Might as well go pick up the thing myself, or hell, just make my own food at that point, then neither you or the company will receive even a cent. It is disingenuous to characterize the customers here as masters and the dashers as servants. You provide a service of your own will and customers pay for it.

You are one American. Generally, in American culture, the things I described are commonplace and par for the course while in East Asian countries (or other smaller, homogenous countries) not so much. If it does happen sometimes in those places, it is generally far less acceptable while in America you must simply accept it and factor it into the cost of operation. Having lived here all my life, it is funny to see anyone deny it.

And I am not surprised vandalism and graffiti occurs in Brazil, India, and Paris by the way. I would group those places in the same realm as the U.S.