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Re:My father was IBM’s first black software engineer by GhettoMaestro on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:23PM (#21044054)
Chill out.

The reason the original commenter doesn't like it is because said behavior is cheating. Injecting race as an attribute doesn't change the fact that the behavior is cheating.

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Re:My father was IBM’s first black software engineer by anon1m0us on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:32PM (#21044095)
AirBnB doesn't cheat? Uber? Facebook? Cheating and breaking rules is lauded in Silicon Valley, dare I say admired in entrepreneurs.

Black employees though, not so much.

This is racism.

EDIT: Before you start nitpicking my examples: http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html

"They delight in breaking rules..."

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Re:My father was IBM’s first black software engineer by GhettoMaestro on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:39PM (#21044131)
All 3 of those companies you mentioned are pieces of shit and I do not endorse their various elements of cheating. If you admire them, you're stupid and morally stunted.

Stop trying to make everything about race. It is all so tiresome.

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Re:My father was IBM’s first black software engineer by nickpeterson on Sunday September 22, 2019 @05:43PM (#21044159)
Those companies are also wrong then. Stop justifying poor ethics by pointing at other examples of poor ethics, it's a race to the bottom.
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