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I have seen this argument against African Americans made several times (mostly by asians). As an outsider , I cant stop thinking how shallow the argument is. Here is a counter argument. First, am not American. Am from Kenya. When kids join highschool in kenya, they need to sit a nationwide exam. Total score out of 500. For kids in Nairobi and other well established cities, they will need to get at least 400 marks out of the 500 to get a spot in a national highschool (which are the top of the top public schools) while kids from “rural” and marginalised areas, the cut off point for them can be as low as 350 marks. These are the kids who have pastoralists families that probably move constantly, or stay in areas where its too hot they only attend classes for 4 hrs a day. They most likely dont have electricity, no water etc. Its therefore only fair for their cutoff point to be different from a child who grew up in the city (like me) with access to all modern day life necessities including luxuries like private tuition. Now back to America, would the same argument not be made for black Americans (or any other ethnic groups or even people from other “rural” regions that are marginalised to have their cut off point be different from people from well established regions? That’s what equality is all about. Being able to identify such disparities and create solutions as permanent solutions are sort after.

Is there a link to view if you dont mind sharing. This is just purely out of curiosity.

Everyday between 10pm to 12am which is my "reading time" where I get to go through the news, a bunch of tech sites like gizmodo,theverge,techspot,etc. Then I check out HN last because it takes longer to go through the front pages.

If by any chance you would like help better testing it, I have so many parked domains that I would like to have them on asap. Is there is any other way I can contact you or you can reach me on nash at hoopsup dot com

I like this and all the best. I have access to close to 50 idle domains I will try see how I can put them to use. Is there a way to customize the news such that it is relevant to each domain?

Am working on a travel site focused on showing places with activities and having detailed information from how to get there to pricing since most of information on google is outdated. I had stopped working on it after reading some threads here on why disrupting travel is very difficult but seems easy to a texh person looking for ideas and I almost shelved it. Then I remembered most commenters on here are from western countries that are probably reaching a saturation point of ideas in that almost any app imaginable already exists. Anyway, the renewed interest has made me start from scratch trying to collect the data. Anyone who would be interested in joining me and be the coder while i focus on the rest, i’d be glad to team up. Focus is on building an extensive trip planner which you can view a location and add to “cart” and at the end see the total coast of the trip. This can be helpful a lot for solo travelers. East Africa is still a popular destination. Reach me on ninaformke at g mail

I have always found Firefox to have a very ugly interface. I don’t know what exactly to point out. I also don’t like how it handles multiple profiles I wish they just ripped how chromium handles it. But despite those 2 things that I really hate about Firefox, I went on and switched to it 2 months ago. Simply creating a new profile and importing the data from the related chrome profile. Took a bit of getting used to but so far I don’t think I’ll switch back to chrome. On mobile though, its harder purely for lack of profiles.

Am not a programmer but I think I am in that phase myself. Especially also being an African, I tend to think the adoption of technology in our markets is quite slow & the effort needed to implement a tech based product takes more time & a lot of marketing to just kick off. I have created a company that wants to digitize all forms of analog data & do offline archival. But then the doubts has kicked in. Will I crack the market? Most importantly, how will I crack it. It eats me up even more knowing that I have no competition whatsoever. Its now my full time job & I feel stuck. I think of pivoting but that will be just another project left undone so I have to keep pushing on.