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turtlecloud··on Harvard University Won’t Require SAT, ACT for Admissions Next Year
That’s what most minorities feel like most of time lol. Imagine being a Latino guy in a school that majority white.
turtlecloud··on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
In general, Americans can name more professional sports stars than politicians

Pro Sports is not just entertainment. It serves a psychological purpose for the masses.

turtlecloud··on Asian American Discrimination in Harvard Admissions [pdf]
Great. Now give Asian Americans affirmative action in the NBA.

Any mental gymnastics used to support affirmative action in business or schooling should also apply to sports. If I hear someone complaining about lack of representation of X in certain field I will gladly point at NBA and Asian Americans ask them out that.

turtlecloud··on Websites have evolved back to static HTML/CSS/JS files
The reason for choosing new technology on the developers part is for job security. If everything were still php you would have outsourced his job to India ages ago. The fact is that the developers need to do this because of the ding dongs mbas in management.
turtlecloud··on Early humans in Africa may have interbred with an extinct species: new research
my suspicion is that the out of Africa theory was promoted since it was more PC. Nowadays the "scientific theories" are all political.
turtlecloud··on The Yang Gang and Its Bots
According to the latest national Emerson poll today, Yang is in #4 with 8% support.

The thing with exponential growth is that by the time you realize it, it is too late

turtlecloud··on The Yang Gang and Its Bots
Yes - from my experience managing bots, low IQ people and bots are pretty much indistinguishable, if looking purely at user behavior.
turtlecloud··on The Yang Gang and Its Bots
How many startup people have actually read “Zero to One” by Peter Thiel?

Yang has gone from 0 to 1 and is going to see exponential growth as Iowa gets closer. All these articles are people who have a distorted views of reality and chalk up his support as bots in order to fit their world view. The most likely reason from my observation is bias against Asian American men in leadership positions.

turtlecloud··on The Yang Gang and Its Bots
Polls have outdated models that don’t accurately reflect the age of social media. Prior polling models don’t work with the changing environment. For example most the people they poll are in landlines and 65+ yrs old.

Also polls are politicized now.

turtlecloud··on The Yang Gang and Its Bots
Yang campaign is actually seeing exponential growth. Thus the increase in smear articles.

The establishment is running through mental gymnastic excercise to rationalize these results. Thus them calling all supporters bots

turtlecloud··on The economic effects of automation
Well since the population of the US also increased, the actual decline would be much more pronounced if population had remained constant.
turtlecloud··on ICANN extracts $20m signing fee for $1bn dot-com price increases
Who else do you think? Globalists of course.
turtlecloud··on Thousands of Google’s cafeteria workers have unionized
some people don't want to create a servant caste despite all the pressure from Sundar Pichai to recreate Indian society in Google HQ.
turtlecloud··on Boeing CEO ousted as 737 Max crisis deepens
nah they were planning for Hanukkah
turtlecloud··on Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank
its a feature not a bug
turtlecloud··on How Google uses blacklists, algorithm tweaks and contractors for search results
why would that be wrong? if most people are searching for the truth wouldn't it be better to give them both sides of the issue and have them decide for themselves? Why is Google deciding why that specific Hillary query is taboo? And who gave them that right?
turtlecloud··on When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)
the boomer can always refinance to the 3% - not sure what you are getting at here.
turtlecloud··on US debt surpasses $23T for first time
Current gov has no interest in paying off debt. All conspiracy theories lead to the elites plundering the existing system and then defaulting. This will lead to the collapse of the USD and a new digital currency will take its place.
turtlecloud··on US debt surpasses $23T for first time
WW2 where most of Europe was destroyed. Contrary to what mainstream media will say is that a large part of it was Germany unable to pay war reparations from WW1 and entering stages of hyper inflation during Weimar Republic. This of course led to a certain party that was really against international bankers. After the resulting chaos we have Pax Americana.
turtlecloud··on Epstein's injuries look more like murder than suicide, noted pathologist says
most likely the power line to the cameras were cut or interfered with. They should both be on the same network and it should not be difficult to disable if knowing about the security system before hand.
turtlecloud··on Rising California Gasoline Prices Highlight Growing Divide in U.S.
That’s why we need to enforce borders.
turtlecloud··on Andrew Yang's ideas on automation and mass unemployment are not based in reality
Just more of a smear against Yang. The establishment is afraid.

Also the tint of anti Asian American racism - similar to SV when the hiring team or management group tries to talk themselves into finding reasons to not like a qualified candidate that does not fit the mold of the obediant Asian worker drone. Usually done insidiously to cast doubt on a person's character etc.

turtlecloud··on Blizzard Employees Staged a Walkout to Protest Banned Pro-Hong Kong Gamer
If you mention jury nullification, you most definitely will not be selected to be a juror.
turtlecloud··on China laying tracks for 1,000km/h maglev trains
yep - once u factor in the TSA body shakedown and traffic to airport, then it about evens out air travel.
turtlecloud··on Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
A lot of the data I believe is from the Hillel membership / Jewish org membership numbers.

It is intentionally difficult to find and requires legwork since I believe it is intentionally obfuscated.

turtlecloud··on Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
The data set and lawsuit excludes international students. This is primarily for asian Americans.
turtlecloud··on Federal Judge Upholds Harvard's Race-Conscious Admissions Process
If Harvard did not race balance then every year the race % would be different - there should be enough of all races to pick a class of competent people. Why is it that 1 year a class can’t be primarily black or Asian? Before the lawsuit EVERY year the race ratio was almost exactly the same.

Secondly, why doesn’t Harvard just admit Asian Americans that score poorly to bring the Average down and chalk it up to amazing character?

turtlecloud··on Pizza robot makes 300 pizzas per hour
Ok will hire an overseas person for 1/10 your salary.
turtlecloud··on Kickstarter doubles down on its anti-union stance
On one hand you have good companies. On the other hand you have terrible companies. Same thing with unions - some of them are good and some of them are bad.
turtlecloud··on Culture Fit Interview Questions
I believe UBI to drastically change the style of responses to these questions.
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