I actually worked with them to develop a fake SAT test. It was released, and they had an online competition where they gave $26k to the highest scoring test taker.

How did you end up working with them? Super jealous!

They actually contacted me based on my Upwork.com profile. At the time, I think I was the top search result for SAT or SAT verbal.

Hey I know you~

I'm looking for something like this, but for infographics.

Ohhh - okay. I can build that for you - what's the use case? That would help me judge the quality of the infographic!

Oh, just saw this! It's for creating infographics for practice materials for standardized tests, like the ACT and SAT. The style looks like this: https://prepmaven.com/blog/test-prep/sat-math-charts-and-gra...

Bangkok, Thailand

I am going to move there in a month, will be glad to meet then.

... I mean, karaoke's pretty popular. This might actually make me switch to Apple Music.

Yeah.. I don't have loyalty to who streams me music so which app offers the most extras I will just get that one

Either I'm burnt out or jaded and cranky but I thought the same.

Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money by Kojin Karatani. Awesome interdisciplinary work that let me understand some mathematics (coming from a background in Philosophy and Literature).

Architecture as Metaphor by Kojin Karatani.

This is great, thanks.

I just used this to order a book via Book Depository, and I'm somewhat concerned. The site never asked me where I wanted to have the book shipped, and just assumed I wanted it delivered to the address associated with my PayPal account, when in fact it was a gift. There was no way to change the delivery address after the order was placed. I had to send a message manually explaining the situation. :(

I guess Amazon, for all its faults, has a few things going for it.

I'm sorry about that, that seems to be a flaw with their 'Checkout with Paypal' process. Hopefully it all gets resolved for you quickly.

An alien reading articles and comments on hacker news would probably assume that most racism is actually directed at white people.

When it comes to university selection criteria for example, Asians and white people are indeed the most discriminated against.

An Asian or white person must score substantially higher than a Hispanic or black person to achieve entrance into the same university.

I'm actually a college admissions consultant and this doesn't really tell the whole story. For one, university admissions at selective colleges are holistic, so "scores" doesn't really mean very much, especially since many schools are now test optional.

You also lump Asians and white people together in a way that's inaccurate. In fact, by some accounts, white people are the largest beneficiaries of current college admissions practices at top universities, thanks to legacy admissions practices / donations, a preference for athletes, and race-based admissions policies.

I recognize the last two of these may seem counterintuitive, so I'll explain. With regards to athletics, the sports represented at top schools lean heavily towards those played in affluent, predominately white areas — think squash, crew and tennis.

With regards to race-based admissions, yes Hispanics and black people benefit (to be fair, they almost never benefit from legacy), but the real "victims" are Asians, whose representation at Ivy League schools has remained flat since around 1990, in spite of the fact that the Asian American population has almost tripled over the same time period.

Here are some Facebook posts made by Allyn Gibson (son of the store owners / same guy who chased the black shoplifter):

“I wasn’t racist ever … but this ** and the way people treat me now because I am “white” is racist and is making me racist,” Allyn Jr. wrote. “I don’t owe a damn person a damn thing. If these lazy *** want to start working then they could earn their own money. That’s what my family does for money… work.”

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So yes, he is a racist, and the family could well be. Just thought I'd throw that out there.

When people are attacked because of their race, they do tend to become racist as a self-defense mechanism.

See: the Rule of Goats.

"if people treat me bad and call me racist by being white, then I'm racist" is not a definition of real racism.

Is another case of: "if all is racism, then nobody is racist". The term has been abused to defend thievery, so now is devoid of any real meaning. This is a big problem in itself.

This case has really not much of anything to do with whether Allyn Gibson is racist. You can't sue someone for calling you racist.