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Former Floridian who've lived all over the country and couldn't agree with you more. It's not just it's in the South. Texans are far better and nicer than the average Floridian. Th…

You also have to account for both cultures placing a very strong emphasis on education. Judaism is defined by the Torah and Rabbis are scholars. Chinese and other East Asians are s…

I would be careful with "even in China there is now an elite that dresses in suits and engages in trade unencumbered by rules and regulations that protect the millions that are pre…

This might shock the HN community but from my years of mentoring poor performing and under privileged high school students in the Bay Area (i.e. mostly from East Palo Alto), educat…

I would be very skeptical since the same would apply to Chinese Americans too among others.

Unless they can control for all other factors or at least most of them, any explanation is going to look pretty silly.

Wow. Whoever put the list of Muslim Nobel Laureates in the article is a bit of a prick. Let's pit one group of people vs. the other.

"Martin Luther King didn't live in a world where we imprison innocent men in legal limbo without trial or habeas corpus, or where we officially sanctioned torture and the oubliette…

In other news, VMware has announced plans to accept only Square payments for all $4 billion of its revenue.

Can people stop taking one data point and using that to extrapolate to a large group? This is pretty bad journalism. Sure, OK story telling but it's not exactly the truth.

Yale CS alum here (DC 04). Yale unfortunately tends to be on the extreme side of theories and fundamentals. Having some more practical experience helps those theories and fundament…

That would be his point if he said "Ivy Leagues don't matter". But if we agree that someone from Waterloo stands out then credentials do matter. If I was looking for candidates, I …

Haha! Nice. Yeah this is just pandering to the HN crowd. Also, come on, put some effort into that article. Say something that hasn't been said already.

"Yale teaches computer science quite well (I'm a graduate!)" Same here (DC' 04) but from my experience places like Waterloo produce graduates that are phenomenal compared to Yale. …

"Big companies don't try to copy unsuccessful ideas, it never happens." Have you ever worked at a big company? Big companies are so dysfunctional. It's not that the individuals are…

The post is narrowly focused. Unless the author plans to make no friends with anyone at a place where most people spend more than half of his awake hours, his plan is insufficient …

You know what the irony of the situation is? Cabbies have argued against companies like Uber and advocated the more regulated method of doing business because they say that cabs ca…

Cabbies can also get paid more if Uber takes a smaller cut for the time being. That would have been a good PR move too. This is a bit of a wasted opportunity to get good PR.

Knock 1.3 billion off that number because FB is blocked in China.

The thing is that had he actually did that, I would have a more positive view of working for FB. I would be impressed by the caliber of people who work there -- people who're capab…

A not-so-subtle pretend recruiting/bragging piece, except perhaps it had the reverse effect on me. #1 reason I won't want to work at Facebook so I can avoid smug, not-so-witty, imm…

The number of Asians (East and South) registered with the registry is quite low in the US. When it comes to bone marrow matches, race/ethnicity actually matters a lot. Please consi…

Yuck. I know you meant that with the best intentions but your comment came out really snobby. Are finance and consulting valuable fields or should they just be abolished altogether…

That's pretty much what I am doing now but it seems like a waste of time. Essentially I'm trading my time for some extra money and benefits while distracting me from where I really…

I'm currently employed at a large software corporation that treats me well but where I am incredibly bored by the things I do. The environment doesn't fit my personality. I have le…