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Re: All Look Same?

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Post by christophilus »

michaelteter wrote: post #13

11/18 :) What’s really wild to me is having spent time in both Mexico and Thailand, I have seen some people in Mexico that could have a twin in Thailand. That was really unexpected.

My Vietnamese friend and I once went to a Philippine food festival. Most of the Filipino people there tried to talk to my friend in Tagalog. He’d talk back to them in Vietnamese. Granted, he doesn’t look Vietnamese to me, either. He looks like an islander.

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Post by throwaway2037 »

Twenty five years ago, I lived in San Francisco. This website was "talk of the town" for a quick minute. The real trick is looking at people's hair styles. In my experience, fashion indicates one's ethnicity/nationality much more than face shape alone. Think about a blond Italian from northern Italy, vs a blond German from southern Germany. They will have wildly different fashion styles (clothes and hair). The same for a Londoner and a Parisian.

Re: All Look Same?

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Post by throwaway2037 »

michaelteter wrote: post #13

11/18 :) What’s really wild to me is having spent time in both Mexico and Thailand, I have seen some people in Mexico that could have a twin in Thailand. That was really unexpected.

This is a really interesting comment. Sometimes when I see photos of native people from South America (especially anything Amazonian), they do look a bit South East Asian to me. Do you think those people that you saw in Mexico were mixed (or fully) native (not European by descent)?

Re: All Look Same?

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Post by throwaway2037 »

aprentic wrote: post #12
throwawayk7h wrote: post #5

I got 6/18 for the faces ("Obviously, very bad.") I thought I would get at least 50%. Interestingly, of the ones I felt very sure about, I did much better (got about 4 out of those 6).

I'm not sure it's bad at all. China has around 1.5 billion people and officially recognizes 55 ethnicities. Some of them look more like non Chinese people than like I he Chinese ethnicities.

    > officially recognizes 55 ethnicities
Once you get a bit deeper, you realize the whole "we are mostly Han Chinese" (Google says 91%!) is a total farce. They is just too much genetic and cultural diversity across 1+ billion people to call them a single ethnicity. Conservatively, I would say it is more like 250+ ethnolinguistic groups within the Han Chinese. Indonesia is about 1000+, but it is an island nation, so there will naturally be much more ethnolinguistic groups.

Re: All Look Same?

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Post by FinnKuhn »

I got a bit more than average correct, but they all looked like New Yorkers from the early 2000s to me if I'm honest. Maybe it's because I'm watching Castle right now, or it is indeed because fashion and stylistic choices tell a lot more about when and where someone is from.

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Post by missingdays »

KPGv2 wrote: post #39
geor9e wrote: 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.

So people waited for 20 seconds to load each page?

Re: All Look Same?

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Post by codingdave »

missingdays wrote: post #67
KPGv2 wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

So people waited for 20 seconds to load each page?

Yes. The tolerance for slow-loading pages has shrunk dramatically since the early days of the web. Admittedly, 20 seconds was pushing it and people tried to reduce image sizes and such things to make it faster. But I recall in the late 90s, when I was selling CMS software to IBM, they had a rule that all pages needed to load within 3 seconds, and that was considered fast in those days.

Re: All Look Same?

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Post by zemvpferreira »

stevage wrote: post #31

I got 3/18. I'm not sure what to think of that. I live in a city full of Asian people, international students, tourists etc etc. One of my best friends in high school was Korean. One of my closest friends at uni was Japanese. One of my close friends now is Chinese. Is it good or bad? I don't know.

It’s nothing. This is not a test to take a value judgement from.
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