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Tell me what you think about Muslims. Are they bad too?

Is your stance, “all cultures are good, unless the culture is different from mine?”

I bet the looks-like-tin-ceiling acoustic tile costs more than the white hospital-style stuff.

This is bad regulation. Moving on.

I loved Mr. Rogers, and several other PBS shows.

I can also understand why we might not want to spend government money to produce the shows.

The US laws do not apply in China.

This fact is mentioned in the article.

Americans don’t like to acknowledge that other cultures have different aaproaches to business. Why is the implication is that these practices are wrong?

This shows the benefits of local government. I think this is a bad policy. Fortunately, I also don’t live in San Jose. If I did, I’d try to elect new local politicians.

I hope I’m never in a spot where I have to grovel for my job, via some peer review judgement, instead of leaving for a better job.

In 1996, the New York Times reported that recycling is often just expensive virtue signaling.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/1996/06/30/magazine/recycling-is-...

Yes, but when they used purely merit-based standards, some groups consistently scored lower than other groups. That was deemed unacceptable, so discrimination was reintroduced to the process.

Don’t forget the political risks of accepting crypto credit card transactions. I can see the post-crash Senate panel now:

Senator: what volume did you process?

Bank CEO: about $800M, madam.

Senator: $800M. And that didn’t concern you?

Bank CEO: well it was within parameters, madam

Senator: let me read you a letter from a single mother who bought $2000 of coins...

Etc.

My how times change.

Years ago, when Google was young, their recruiters contacted me. Their pitch: We only hire the best of the best. We’re focused on top students, from the top schools. The interviews are hard, and most people fail.

Today, it seems Google’s pitch is: Okay, we need to top-off this demographic bucket, and you’re in that bucket. Will you help us even-out this demographic pie chart?

This is from December 2017.

Swimming 4 laps requires skill, not fitness.

Also, most people don’t know how to swim. When you ask a person if they know how to swim, when you’re headed to the beach, you’ll get:

1 Sometimes: no way, I stay out of the water

2 Usually: uh, sure, yup, I can swim

3 Rarely: Totally, I used to be on a team.

My favorite follow up to #2 is “could you swim 4 laps in a pool without ever touching the bottom or stopping to take a break? That usually prompts a “what are you crazy, no way that’s super hard” response. Then I inform the person that they do not know how to swim, and that they should be extra careful.

In the interview, he talks a lot about the difficulty of navigating the regulations.

Perhaps his criticisms of those regulations are valid — but those regulations exist because of previous problems.

In many cases, the same people who scream, “banking sucks” would also scream if their bank failed due to a reason that some existing regulation would have prevented.

Why is this question downvoted? People disagree with my view that the punishment is small in relation to the size of the scam?

Anybody have a guess why Elizabeth Holmes got such a small punishment for running such a massive scam?

Am I alone in being able to hear both Yanny and Laurel in the sound?

This is political noise, so some representatives can say “I voted for Net Neutrality.”

Step 1: Worry about a serious problem.

Step 2: Virtual signal with a supposed solution.

Step 3: Mock anybody who criticizes that solution (but who also worries about the serious problem).

This article is written from the viewpoint of the US urban dweller.

Clever and unethical aren’t disjoint. Lotta clever thieves and scammers.

It always makes me smile when I see the hoard of people proudly step forward, and boast, “oh yes, here are examples of how I’ve cheated various systems!!”

Which is fine. That’s human nature.

But. No shame.

Is your position that we should adjust all past judgements to match current laws?

You’re arguing by straw man analogies. Weak technique.

If Roe v Wade is overturned, I assume you would support the imprisonment of all past violators?

I don’t support vacating the weed charges. I support legalization of weed and its products —- I think schedule 1 is wrong.

But people who broke the law (and got caught) when it was illegal are law breakers.

As Joey Diaz says —- if you got busted for weed, you’re a momo.

If Seattle voters approve the vacating, then so be it. That’s their prerogative. I don’t support it though.

Vanilla chess is tremendously captivating. I think only a narrow segment of hyper experts crave a variant.

How have you extended cultural norms about gender roles into one group (China) “crushing the other out of existence?”

In what ways is China attempting to suggest changes to Western culture?