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Re:My Institutional Review Board Nightmare
on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @09:23PM (#15129023)
Tuskegee syphilis experiment, ok. However, as bad as that was, no one was injected with syphilis.
Re:My Institutional Review Board Nightmare
on Tuesday August 29, 2017 @08:59PM (#15128912)
Who has ever done that?
Re:The British Ruby Conference has been cancelled
on Sunday November 18, 2012 @03:35PM (#4801582)
"Not all meritocracy is bad."
This is a reasonable thing to say now. We've come a long way.
Re:Holy Terror: The Rise of the Order of Assassins
on Saturday June 05, 2010 @06:58PM (#1407600)
Re:Secret language
on Monday January 04, 2010 @01:58AM (#1029929)
"Top of mind" doesn't quite sound native to me. The use of the ampersand like that seems Indian too. Finally the exclamation point is slight evidence.
Re:Understanding and dealing with overbearing Asian parents
on Monday January 04, 2010 @01:54AM (#1029924)
He has described symptoms well, but his explanations only make sense if you ignore other immigrant groups. Latin American immigrants come from similar range of poor, politically unstable backgrounds, yet their children aren't being driven to academic excellence by their parents. In fact, instead of outperforming the white American natives, they substantially underperform them. Why the difference?
Let me give an answer: it appears to be genetics. Why else are the very different experiences of mainland Chinese, Chinese Hong Kongers, Chinese people from Taiwan, Chinese people from Singapore, Chinese people from Indonesian and Malaysia resulting in only minor differences in average outcomes in the USA?
Re:Secret language
on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @05:56PM (#1023418)
OK, but to be fair to MS, this appears to have been written by a nonnative English speaker. Indian, I think. So there's another factor at work.
Re:The dark side of Dubai
on Tuesday December 01, 2009 @01:02AM (#969323)
I have a hard time believing this about Australians:
"...Madam made me work from 6am to 1am every day, with no day off. I was exhausted and pleaded for a break, but they just shouted: 'You came here to work, not sleep!' Then one day I just couldn't go on, and Madam beat me. She beat me with her fists and kicked me. "
District 9 is not an apartheid allegory
Re:Why I won't be at my high school reunion
on Friday July 17, 2009 @04:42PM (#710741)
but if you're suggesting
I'm not.
Re:Why I won't be at my high school reunion
on Friday July 17, 2009 @01:04PM (#710277)
I wasn't France in WWII, I was Britain.
Off topic: actually France and Britain attacked and declared war on Germany. So probably neither works as a metaphor for a victim of bullying.
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @04:07PM (#686543)
Which item in the guidelines does this blogger's writing violate?
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @04:02PM (#686537)
Of course you don't have to vote it up. But why was it killed?
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @03:34PM (#686511)
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @03:07PM (#686478)
Allen, everything from that domain is autokilled. Try it yourself. Here's one you can submit: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/reasons-for-being-cheerfu...
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:52PM (#686454)
Yes. But the article is question doesn't seem to be about politics: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-englis...
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:37PM (#686440)
I just tried submitting another article from his blog and again it was [dead] by the time I was redirected to the 'new' page, i.e. a few milliseconds. Here it is: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=686436
Try posting something from his site yourself, like this one: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2007/01/illuminating-map.html
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:13PM (#686409)
No, the article was auto-killed. The blogger is probably blacklisted for being racially insensitive or something. Yet here is an example of one of his posts that did well on HN and generated much interesting commentary: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=280544
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:10PM (#686408)
Yes, and thank you for reading the article. It is an interesting and important point.
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:09PM (#686407)
What is the political slant of that article?
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @02:08PM (#686405)
Can you point to one of his articles that is trollish, instead of just unPC?
Re:Ask HN: Objecting to stories being killed
on Friday July 03, 2009 @12:58PM (#686307)
There's also politically correct censorship going on, amazingly. This morning I submitted this: http://isteve.blogspot.com/2009/07/medias-bias-toward-englis... . It was dead on arrival, marked [dead] immediately, presumably because that blogger is "divisive" and "racially insensitive". Please read that and judge for yourself if it is interesting.
The decline of the art generation gap
Just how gullible is David Brooks? (on the Harlem miracle)
http://gothamschools.org/2009/05/08/just-how-gullible-is-david-brooks/
http://gothamschools.org/2009/05/08/just-how-gullible-is-david-brooks/
Re:Nate Silver: Does race affect votes?
on Sunday April 26, 2009 @03:18PM (#580309)
Yes, why did he choose 1996? 2004 is the more obvious choice.
Re:Nate Silver: Does race affect votes?
on Sunday April 26, 2009 @02:15PM (#580225)
Wrong. The most rural and white states in the country voted more for Obama than Kerry. Look at Montana, the Dakotas, Vermont, etc.
The people of Appalachia voted for McCain for the same reason blacks voted so heavily for Obama. He is one of their own in a way that Kerry was not. McCain is beligerent two fisted Scots Irish. http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/11/mccain-scots-irish-champi...
Shifty-looking sorts
Re:Icelandic logic behind the meltdown
on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @11:52PM (#503904)
Sailer agrees with you about the male/female thing. He's saying it doesn't seem to be a factor.
Re:Icelandic logic behind the meltdown
on Wednesday March 04, 2009 @07:13PM (#503630)
Sailer agrees with you about the male/female thing. He's saying it doesn't seem to be a factor.