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New comment by jrs99 in "Apple Waits as App Developers Study Who’s Buying Its Watch"

jrs99 — Mon, 20 Jul 2015 11:05:03 +0000

What about receiving calls wherever you are?

New comment by jrs99 in "Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief"

jrs99 — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 22:35:53 +0000

calling obama a monkey is different from calling george w. bush a monkey regardless of intention.

New comment by jrs99 in "Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief"

jrs99 — Sat, 11 Jul 2015 00:05:56 +0000

Certainly if you want to denigrate someone and you bring up their gender or ethnicity, it can be sexist or racist.

New comment by jrs99 in "Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief"

jrs99 — Fri, 10 Jul 2015 23:52:28 +0000

Regardless of the intention, they ARE both chinese. So is it really a stretch to see a racist element to this nick name? It is racist by default. I'm not saying that it is a greatly offensive nickname or even unfunny, but for someone to call it racist is not at all a stretch.

New comment by jrs99 in "Did you buy that latte 2 hours ago? Think about leaving the coffee shop"

jrs99 — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 01:06:51 +0000

He's also fine with it when the shop's not busy.

The problem is definitely not the store. The problem is that people are trained by starbucks to treat all cafes like this. His cafe, instantly to me, suggests that it's NOT okay to camp out with my laptop all day there.

New comment by jrs99 in "“AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming during customer’s free trial period”"

jrs99 — Mon, 22 Jun 2015 05:14:30 +0000

that they wouldn't pay artists initially is pretty bad press, to me, at least. Even with the 180, apple doesn't look good here, in my opinion.

swift has a lot of influence on her fans. It's not a minor threat that apple is facing.

New comment by jrs99 in "How Beats Tricks You into Thinking It Makes a Premium Product"

jrs99 — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 05:15:56 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZWXPrfjkWg

New comment by jrs99 in "Africa Dwarfs China, Europe and the U.S"

jrs99 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:55:45 +0000

American businesses exploit Americans. Do you really think they would have qualms about exploiting Africans?

New comment by jrs99 in "Africa Dwarfs China, Europe and the U.S"

jrs99 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:43:06 +0000

what they're doing is making up a new hypothetical continent consisting of the US, China, Europe, India, Japan and comparing that to Africa.

I think it works to show how big Africa is.

But yes, if you compare countries, you can take comparisons further, and it would be more practical.

New comment by jrs99 in "Africa Dwarfs China, Europe and the U.S"

jrs99 — Wed, 17 Jun 2015 14:27:29 +0000

i like the africa comparisons here:

http://www.texasmonthly.com/daily-post/how-big-texas-compare...

the last line might help people understand why people compare these things:

"If you’re the right kind of nerd, you can probably do this forever and not get bored"

New comment by jrs99 in "A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself"

jrs99 — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:36:05 +0000

To be on the same tier of racism as the United States, Japan has to start lynching its minorities.

New comment by jrs99 in "A beauty contest winner making Japan look at itself"

jrs99 — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 16:33:21 +0000

Are you also a minority in the US? Did you live in different areas in the US? Were you physically attacked because of your race or sexual orientation in Japan?

Because if you're going by "casual daily encounters" that seem racist to you, do you ever wonder if a minority in 21st century america experiences the same?

New comment by jrs99 in "Why Apple is obsessed with gold: It's all about Asia"

jrs99 — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 10:25:42 +0000

it's a huge compromise, since no one outside of china would ever by a gold macbook.

Instead of Silver, Slate, and Gold for macbook colors, Apple should have gone with Silver, Slate and Green.

New comment by jrs99 in "NeXT Logo Presentation by Paul Rand to Steve Jobs [pdf]"

jrs99 — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:01:03 +0000

i'll go a step further and say he's never made a good logo. Ever.

New comment by jrs99 in "NeXT Logo Presentation by Paul Rand to Steve Jobs [pdf]"

jrs99 — Sun, 26 Apr 2015 08:57:33 +0000

It's as subjective as claiming that Bieber is the greatest musician of all time.

New comment by jrs99 in "100 Days as a Black Man in Silicon Valley"

jrs99 — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 14:07:44 +0000

why even bother with someone who claims they've never seen research that proves discrimination in tech? That there's no discrimination against blacks who want to open up small businesses? Or claims that no one wants to diversify nursing? Less than a minute on google and I've found research that concludes there is discrimination in tech, that blacks face discrimination from banks when starting small businesses, and a handful of articles about diversity in nursing just on the first page of google results for that topic.

New comment by jrs99 in "100 Days as a Black Man in Silicon Valley"

jrs99 — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:44:50 +0000

he says people ARE aware that UNC-CH is a good college. but that "few realize the University of Georgia is a Top 30 law school and Top 5 for my master’s program."

That sounds pretty understandable to me. I don't feel like there's anything wrong with that.

New comment by jrs99 in "Amazon Goes After Dropbox, Google, Microsoft with Unlimited Cloud Drive Storage"

jrs99 — Thu, 26 Mar 2015 16:56:43 +0000

They should call it Blockbuster-style Unlimited Storage.

New comment by jrs99 in "Can a city really ban cars from its streets? (2014)"

jrs99 — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:45:37 +0000

or you could just not mind the downvotes whether they are misunderstood, accidental, or random.

New comment by jrs99 in "Can a city really ban cars from its streets? (2014)"

jrs99 — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 18:33:00 +0000

it is hard to imagine right now, but if you made cars completely illegal except for maybe emergency vehicles, i do believe that we would see a lot of creative solutions pop up for transporting bulk items or large items like furniture.