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Re: All Look Same?

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post #34
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Obviously, random chance... It's a bit ignorant/racist to expect people from different countries to look distinctly different (fashion notwithstanding), when genetics are so overlapping

The about page at https://alllooksame.com/about/ seems to indicate that the author who is of Japanese descent is not able to differentiate between them himself and made this website to test the assumption In any case, I thought the "you all look the same" racist trope is that east asian people look similar to one another individually ? is there an actual expectation of being able to tell the actual ethnicity/countrie…

> is there an actual expectation of being able to tell the actual ethnicity/countries apart?

Facial structure, there are some obvious ones in ALS. But generally speaking, it's fashion that gives it away. I can spot a (relatively recent) Japanese immigrant from a hundred feet away by her clothes. It's a bit like if you see someone in Europe with a baseball cap, you can be almost certain they're American. Sandals with socks? German. Etc.

Re: All Look Same?

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You forgot to add North East Indians to this list

Why would you think a site trying to compare Chinese, Japanese and Koreans has forgotten about India of all places? They must've also completely forgotten Mongolia, all nations of SE Asia and Russia's Far East exist.

Re: All Look Same?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

12 years ago from last submission (2 points) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7446493

2026 minus 2014 is 12 years

Thanks! I'm sure that's what gnabgib meant so I have taken the liberty of correcting the typo.

Re: All Look Same?

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post #33

It's too slow. It takes at least five seconds to load the next picture after you answer. You should probably just preload all the pictures client-side. I wasn't able to get through it.

Right? I was thinking how come it takes such a simple site to load. Then I saw the footer, it's 25 years old.

Re: All Look Same?

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post #39
post #33

It's too slow. It takes at least five seconds to load the next picture after you answer. You should probably just preload all the pictures client-side. I wasn't able to get through it.

It's a 25-year old website and most people were on slow dial-up connection. No one would've stuck around for 17 images to be pre-loaded.

That's not what preload is for. You don't wait for the extra images on the first page. You start loading them after the page is complete, so that the next page loads faster.
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