Priorities! If everyone only had their priorities as clear as your mom, this world would be a lot calmer and happier place.

How come you're still not promoted?

Here, I'll do the honors. If you're lil's significant other, you're overqualified to be a welcome member to Hubski.

Another fun thing about Wikipedia is that there are page names protected from being used due to... overzealous fun-havers.

How about "Vader's Inhale" or "Vader's Exhale"? (from Russian Wikipedia prohibited names, translated)

The HQ is a blatant cash grab. It is going to cost $10 billion all said and done, IMO, once the bidding war is over. This is a trillion dollar company and $10 Billion is a rounding error. But the taxpayers are going to get soaked for a minimal gain.

Foxconn get $4 billion and it looks like the plant will create 13K jobs, most of those NOT the high paying jobs mentioned. And all the payroll taxes of these employees will go to Foxconn, not the government. $4 bill for 13K people? How much for 50K workers?

The EU bans these types of competitive bidding wars, and I wish we had a functional government in the US that did the same.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner's_dilemma

I added this as an addendum to a Pubski a while ago, and no-one bit.

I was teaching the preschoolers to say "I love you" in spanish, and then "I love you forever". A kid asked what the difference was, I told him. He asked what forever means, I told him. Then he asked "where does the love go when you die?", and after a while of not having any idea how to answer, I said "you keep it with you".

What would you say?

The greatest Instagram I've seen all year:

and mothafrick'n TURBO JETS on TRAINS in the sixties:

Not that I was hoping for much discussion, but I just think they're cool af.

Wow. Thanks. This article hit me hard. It meanders through thoughts I have had for a while now and although I don’t think I have really formed a fully-fledged opinion, I think it touches on a number of difficult yet important conversations.

In South Africa, segregation is like a corporeal thing: I don’t really have the words but I want to convey that it is something very tangible which permeates basically every part of life.

Here is where I grew up:

Here is where I live now:

Here is a random town in the middle of nowhere:

Basically every town in the country has the same scars.

There are some important things to note from these (particularly the Cape Town one) which I think are broadly similar to the American experience – spatial integration left to its own devices takes place in two ways: upward mobility of PoC, and gentrification of a few well-located areas. Note that it does not appear to occur through downwardly mobile whites (or even idealistic ones) moving into the townships. These dynamics are important because they reflect an imbalance which gives segregation a kind of self-sustaining momentum.

Schools are an obvious site of friction for this sort of thing – the place where a child’s future is supposedly shaped. And so the author hits on an important question when she considers where to send her kid: contributing to (racial) diversity in an affluent white school or contributing to (class?) diversity in a poor non-white school.

The first aligns with the upward mobility idea above and the second with the idealism situation. The comparison is not absolute but suffice to say in both cases there is an anabatic and a katabatic option. One appears to be rational, the other based on ideology:

One family, or even a few families, cannot transform a segregated school, but if none of us were willing to go into them, nothing would change.

The few segregated, high-poverty schools we hold up as exceptions are almost always headed by a singular principal like Roberta Davenport. But relying on one dynamic leader is a precarious means of ensuring a quality education.

This is of course the crux of the reasoning for that second option. I think on face value it’s a laudable idea. It’s certainly an important question in general: what if any active role should be played in the integrative “project” by those with choice, resources, social capital etc? (Imbedded in there is the equally quagmired issue of paternalism but I don’t want to go there)

But integration as a constitutional mandate, as justice for black and Latino children, as a moral righting of past wrongs, is no longer our country’s stated goal.

I agree here that this is troubling – as I said, integration left to progress organically has, I think, undesirable outcomes. At the least we can agree that it happens slowly.

In early spring 2015, the city’s Department of Education sent out notices telling 50 families that had applied to kindergarten at P.S. 8 that their children would be placed on the waiting list and instead guaranteed admission to P.S. 307. Distraught parents dashed off letters to school administrators and to their elected officials.

FWIW we get a lot of this sort of thing in SA too but it’s more often under the bracket of language (an added spanner in the works).

The author's description of what happens along the whole redistricting thing is reminiscent of the arguments around gentrification – what seems a positive change on the one axis might have unintended negative consequences on another. What I got from this story is another example of the deep web of complexity which I think is ultimately the reason why this segregation thing is so hard to beat.

True integration, true equality, requires a surrendering of advantage…

She gives this as a statement but I think it is probably the real site of debate on these sorts of issues – a debate which doesn’t look like being resolved any time soon.

I always just hope for more jokes in comment sections. Don't get me wrong I like well crafted, thoughtful responses - but I'm also a fan of a well crafted joke.

This makes me think about whether or not hubski is actually as small as it used to be. Maybe it was just me, but I felt like back in the day almost anyone who posted something got a reaction from someone else.

Then again when I first started on hubski I was making all kinds of shit like art blog posts on an old fake account and the #vaguequestionsbypablo shit. Good times :)

It seems like the quality of training is extremely high

That means a lot coming from you. I certainly think they do a great job. The most interesting part of all this is that it's hardly about my class, the entire detail is simultaneously focused on the upperclassmen that act as our cadre. While we do CFT the upperclassmen are completing their 'leadership detail' that they need to graduate. I saw a lot of incredible budding leaders, a lot of really sad power-trippers, and a lot of guys just doing their best to learn and develop.

The mans a legend among the E4 mafia.

If his career is ok after that, he will certainly be a legend in my eyes as well.

Also the face camo was obviously for fun, I never put any on but some kids just did it for the 'Gram. There is no running from ODA anyhow.

See you in fifteen years or so.

Another "don't overthink it" observation:

Women typically outperform men when it comes to investing because they simply don't fuck with it so much. Most investment professionals will tell you to rebalance your portfolio yearly. Fucking with it every six months can do damage even if you know what you're doing. I mean, sure - have some money to play with (I play with fake money, real money is too dear) but leave that shit alone for the most part.

I haven't read the "manifesto," but I do have an engineer title, and that title has moved past using numbers. And "planet scale" and "carrier class" apply similarly to utilities.

I was going to say the writer here is correct in skipping gender differences, but after putting my phone down for a few minutes (to clean up cat vomit) I want to come back to it.

Are men and women different? Yeah, probably. But where the manifesto writer failed was not recognizing the scale and scope of those differences.

I think the scale is tiny when talking on terms as broad as gender. And because it's tiny, there's tons of overlap. It's sort of like sports: at the elite level the best man is faster than the fastest woman. But once we move beyond the outlier best of the best, everyone starts blurring together.

And the scope is important, too. The writer here talks about this in section 2. Engineering isn't comparable to winning a race. It's far broader than that and requires more diverse skills, some of which women excel at.

When I think about the people I've worked with, there are a lot of white men, but there are non-whites and women throughout my career. And thinking about those fifty or hundred engineers (and quasi-engineers) I've worked with closely enough to judge? Being bad at one's engineering job isn't unique to any single qualifier.

A man trying to claim women aren't good at his job sounds like someone trying to justify why it's ok for him to be bad at his job.

Edit: I have read the manifesto now. The writer writes from the perspective of things like microaggressions being routinely discussed and criticized at Google. I can't speak to that. If it does exist, I can imagine it being exhausting to hear. Other than being unable to comment on the actual culture at Google, I have nothing to edit above. I have my doubts that culture actually exists outside of far left and far right (as a boogeyman) internet forums.