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Re:Electron is flash for the desktop (2016) on Wednesday February 13, 2019 @01:34PM (#19155415)
Like system-wide PTT to use Discord as an example.
It's a bit like asking why there isn't a Straight Pride Month, really. Men in science haven't really been categorically underrepresented/excluded from science the way women ever have.
You're talking about telling people to "go to college" when food security is a daily problem they have to deal with, never mind affording SAT/ACT test prep/exam fees, and I'm not going to even bother with AP/SAT Subject Tests, probably things you took part in. And some of these people do go to college, but I very much doubt that the subset of colleges they applied to had much overlap with yours.
Effective altruism is the Gospel of Wealth for the new millennium.
Fairly reductive to pin their success on just these things and not more structural issues that even you would probably acknowledge exist. Obviously some succeed despite that, but that's not really the point of the article or your own comment, and you seem to have arrived at this conclusion before even considering the deeper reasons for why this happens.
Re:Open source RISC-V implemented from scratch in one night on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @09:44AM (#17868145)
... like my banks?

I actually like/need to use websites that use javascript, imagine that

Re:The Bitter Regrets of a Useless Chinese Daughter on Friday August 24, 2018 @09:35AM (#17834828)
you're looking at this from a strictly Western perspective, this story was fairly similar something my mother went through when my grandfather in Shanghai had a heart attack, and anybody with a similar background can tell you this is something they've either personally felt or seen in a close family member.
Re:Risks of Cryptocurrencies [pdf] on Tuesday July 24, 2018 @03:03PM (#17603972)
1. its not new

2. its demonstrably shit