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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by statictype on Monday September 26, 2016 @09:50PM (#12586998)
Some of the comments here are laughable - "I also had to deal with clueless south asians once so I understand how it is".

Seriously?

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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by paulddraper on Monday September 26, 2016 @11:48PM (#12587317)
Uh...me too.

I don't know what you think is weird....some have a similar hiring experience to what Palantir did (depending on the truthfulness of allegations, of course).

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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by statictype on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:01AM (#12587360)
some have a similar hiring experience to what Palantir did

... which is completely irrelevant to whether Palantir is on the right side of this issue.

If a police department was reported as displaying bias against blacks or muslims, would it be reasonable to respond with "I've had issues with blacks and muslims in law enforcement too"?

Now consider the fact that Palantir does a lot of work for intelligence agencies...

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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by Chris2048 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:18AM (#12589717)
> If a police department was reported as displaying bias against blacks or muslims, would it be reasonable to respond with "I've had issues with blacks and muslims in law enforcement too"?

But this has no context. What kind of bias, what kind of issues. The example wrt asians has this context.

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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by cup on Monday September 26, 2016 @10:43PM (#12587157)
The general HN users idea of race, discrimination or anything outside the realms of general whiteness is pretty dire.
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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by Chris2048 on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @10:19AM (#12589736)
What is "general whiteness"? Some kind of disqualifier?
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Re:U.S. regulators accuse Palantir of bias against Asians by bitter-pill on Tuesday September 27, 2016 @12:43AM (#12587485)
Its amazing how many closet racists are on HN. So very sad.
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