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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?”

So, you think the Chinese culture is “decades behind” the American culture? That sounds racist to me.

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

Move fast and break things.

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.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could all live like they did back before civilization was corrupted by western intruders?

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 t…

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 $800…

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 sc…

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 …

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 …

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 pr…