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Comment · 2 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I did something like this for "fun" a number of years ago: https://github.com/magni-/visa-waiver-program/pull/2/files
There was a lot of media noise about this bill, and it was frustratingly difficult to figure out what it actually did.
Comment · 10 years ago
That's great. Congrats. You worked hard, you lucked out a bit (we all luck out to some degree, once again this isn't a personal attack), and you got ahead in life. You're right to be proud of that.
White privilege isn't saying you didn't deserve any of that. It's just about appreciating that, despite how it may seem to you, you had some luck with the dice, some luck that you wouldn't have had, had you been black (once again, everything else being equal).
I'm not talking about a basic income (I do think it makes sense in today's society, but that's a whole separate issue).
"Sending the elevator back down" doesn't mean giving out handouts. It doesn't mean hiring people because of their gender or race. It doesn't mean discriminating against white men. It means acknowledging your biases and working to counter those. It's about giving others the same opportunities (specifically, the same benefit of the doubt) you had.
Comment · 10 years ago
It's sad that the majority of the discussion from this post is people misunderstanding the term "white privilege" and getting so defensive about it.
Changing topics: that was a great read. The links were also great reads and rereads. What do people think of Joel's six mistakes from the "great software takes ten years", sixteen years later? http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000017.html
Comment · 10 years ago
Your whole argument is a strawman. "I didn't grow up a millionaire" doesn't mean that your life would have been the same had you been black, all else equal.
Take a step back and don't be so defensive: "white privilege" isn't a personal attack. It's only meant to raise awareness, awareness that you clearly need, based on your post.
Comment · 10 years ago
That's what it's like here in Japan: http://www.tokyobybike.com/2013/11/how-to-register-your-bicy...
Comment · 10 years ago
Yeah, that's an old map, since it still has Fab (instead of Venmo/PayPal, which took over their old office and then some).
Comment · 10 years ago
If you're a programmer, you can write FizzBuzz. Whenever I do a first technical screen, I always start with FizzBuzz - explicitly telling the interviewee it's just to warm them in before we get to the real stuff. No trick there.
Comment · 11 years ago
Any plans for a Windows Phone port? :) https://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?t=10576&sid=2a7ec2c7...
Comment · 12 years ago
China doesn't care about ideology. It cares about having a buffer state instead of US troops on its borders.
When I studied in Chile a decade ago, everyone knew about this. They were quite proud of being part of the origin of the modern strawberry. I never did find any white strawberries myself though.
Also, Frézier's name is amusingly a homonym of the name for the strawberry plant in French (fraisier), and not only that, but etymologically comes from the word for strawberry itself (https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http%3A%2F%...)