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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by analogmemory on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:45AM (#13616728)
Jesus, get some coffee or something. 34 Grand Prize Winners out of 1300 isn't something to scoff at. Considering his situation. It's not like he's being coddled with a participation trophy like some white kid in Beverly Hills.
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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by relics443 on Friday February 10, 2017 @11:49AM (#13616768)
It makes it sound as if he's a champion coder at Google, because it's lacking context. It's a clickbait title to drive views towards an exploitation piece (not necessarily negative exploitation, but still exploitation).
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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by fundameen on Friday February 10, 2017 @04:03PM (#13618866)
"rich kid" not "white kid"...
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Re:Google Code-In winner whose Cameroon hometown is cut off ... by pizza on Friday February 10, 2017 @06:51PM (#13619967)
some numbers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverly_Hills,_California#Demo...

census says >80% are white and the typical household income was nearly ~$90k, too. That isn't a bad thing because of Beverly Hills per se, but it does seem typical of wealth not flowing freely enough in this country.

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