champagneben's comments

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Hong Kong: UK makes citizenship offer to residents

Seems to me that they immigrated to another country because of a specific type of cultural phenomenon that was happening in their country of origin resulting from immigration. Maybe the same type of phenomenon is not happening in their country of choice? Doesn't seem sarcastic at all.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: YouTube bans Stefan Molyneux, David Duke, Richard Spencer for hate speech

In the majority... in the United States?

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Reddit shuts down subreddits including r/The_Donald and r/ChapoTrapHouse

How was anything I said racist? I'm genuinely curious. And what are the guidelines on HN for this kind of language?

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: How are you holding up?

This isn't meant to be a provocative question: What's the messaging from India been like?

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: The Silicon Oligarchy

>He explicitly reused a racist phrase to suggest the black protesters should be shot down.

I thought the consensus was that the looters were mostly young out-of-states whites? And to insinuate that the President had read some 1940s Florida mayor's (sorry, I can't remember who the saying is originally attributed to) speeches and knew the connotations of that phrase is ridiculous.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: For black CEOs in Silicon Valley, humiliation is a part of doing business

But surely it can be harmful? Perhaps women aren't encouraged to get into racing sports and get potentially lucrative careers out of it. Imagine the same sentence with computers - or programming! - replacing driving. Many a heated discussion has been had on these forums about a certain man and his memo.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: How Japanese Americans Built a ‘Useful American Life’ in 1940s Chicago

Somehow I hadn't really thought about whether the discrimination in university admissions against Asian Americans in general affects all sub-groups, like Japanese Americans for example. Is this the case?

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: California bans private prisons and immigration detention centers (2019)

Would you say this is true outside of the US as well? Does the moral hazard get introduced with lobbying, or do you find it to be problematic on its own?

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Growing Independence

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted. If the text had said white person, it would have obviously been racist.

Perhaps because sexism in this instance is completely acceptable? I'm not objecting to that, by the way.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: A New Cold War Has Begun (2019)

When Germans elect a Chancellor who doesn't make sure that Germany meet their NATO commitments are they being disrespectful to their allies? I understand that the comment may come off a bit incendiary, but I'm genuinely asking.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Uber Eats removes delivery fee for Black-owned restaurants

Are black restaurant owners an oppressed group?

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Climb Mount Improbable: Evolvable Critters in JavaScript

Why do you think his "musings" are wrong? Seems like something very obvious to me, but I'm a complete lay person in this regard.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Joe Rogan Is the New Mainstream Media

Do these folks on the left feel the same way about marching with anti-semites? I didn't hear much about that on the left.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Opt-outs highlight the tension between privacy and revenue at Twitter

This could set a really perverse incentive for people to start monetising their followers.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Factors associated with Covid-19 deaths in records of 17M adult NHS patients

I would imagine that the sun is hotter and shows itself more often in India and Pakistan - hence the darker complexion.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Trading Is Hazardous to Your Wealth [pdf] (2000)

>If markets were truly random, you might expect 50% of day traders to lose money, not 90%.

Only if the humans were making decision to buy and sell randomly.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: Bill Gates Has Regrets

It might be harder for some to accept it now, given that it might hurt their preferred political outcome.

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: School districts are sending WiFi-equipped buses to poor and rural neighborhoods

Feel free to not respond as this might be too personal, but I'm very interested. Does your wife keep in contact with her mother? Presumably yes, as you have gotten to know them?

champagneben | 5 years ago | on: How Stripe Designs Websites (2017)

From the second sentence: "Good contrast makes it easier for people with visual impairments to use products."

champagneben | 6 years ago | on: ICANN board withholds consent for a change of control of the .org registry

>4. Don't offer large salaries to anyone. The role shouldn't attract people who care about salaries, even if it means you don't attract the "best talent". That "best talent" was probably going to wreck the organisation anyway.

Is this necessarily the right move? I have a vague recollection of reading about Singapore and their approach to attaining top talent to the public sector with high wages. I could be totally wrong!