A lot of what Americans eat is kinda grim? I couldn't eat the sausage at the hotel breakfast in Little Rock this morning because it tasted like new vinyl smells.

Wrt Bangladesh... I imagine the job might be a little harder during Ramadan.

It's almost as if people are reading the article and critically evaluating the product.

Fwiw scams can be inspiring too if the sense of humour is evident, and/or the target of the scam are bad faith actors. (E.g.their earlier app "totally science") Blame the reporters for simply saying "it's ironic"?

It is _not_ a good business; the thing does not, and cannot, work.

Yes, same guy. He wrote a list of all his accomplishments, whining about his college rejections. Painfully pretentious individual.

Not enough virtue signaled?

https://www.cnn.com/2017/04/05/us/stanford-application-black...

"Even if there’s a 1% chance I continue my rate of success, wouldn’t they want to take the risk of being able to use my name in the future?"

lol

He should have just written #BLACKLIVESMATTER 100 times, because that's apparently all it takes to get into Stanford. Honestly though college essays are a bit of a joke, reviewing hundreds of them sounds like torture. The lack of rigor is probably the point though, since it gives the admissions process flexibility to ensure that legacy students get in and they meet their DEI targets.

(1) That is the paradigm of classification, don't knock it, and

(2) I did some work on a pre-product startup that wanted to build something like this about 10 years ago, when visual recognition was much less developed.

You must be joking.