https://medium.com/equality-includes-you/what-white-people-can-do-for-racial-justice-f2d18b0e0234
To do: ask my local NAACP branch if they think this is a good list. (I’m guessing the answer will be “yes”.)
Or not. Here’s a counterpoint: https://twitter.com/LilyBolourian/status/1266058333997367296?s=20
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1253511322202976256.html
Education, work, apprenticeship, overloading.
Interesting how urban Texas and Arizona are.
FiveThirtyEight’s partisan lean and urbanization index for each state»
| STATE | PARTISAN LEAN | URBANIZATION INDEX | STATE | PARTISAN LEAN | URBANIZATION INDEX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | D+22 | 12.56 | North Carolina | R+5 | 10.32 |
| New Jersey | D+13 | 12.24 | Missouri | R+19 | 10.20 |
| California | D+24 | 12.19 | Nebraska | R+24 | 10.20 |
| Massachusetts | D+29 | 11.84 | Tennessee | R+28 | 10.20 |
| Nevada | R+1 | 11.77 | Wisconsin | R+1 | 10.19 |
| Rhode Island | D+26 | 11.72 | Louisiana | R+17 | 10.18 |
| Maryland | D+23 | 11.71 | Kansas | R+23 | 10.12 |
| Illinois | D+13 | 11.62 | South Carolina | R+17 | 10.11 |
| Florida | R+5 | 11.46 | Oklahoma | R+34 | 9.94 |
| Connecticut | D+11 | 11.41 | New Hampshire | R+2 | 9.92 |
| Arizona | R+9 | 11.30 | New Mexico | D+7 | 9.90 |
| Texas | R+17 | 11.17 | Kentucky | R+23 | 9.79 |
| Colorado | D+1 | 11.15 | Alabama | R+27 | 9.61 |
| Pennsylvania | R+1 | 11.15 | Idaho | R+35 | 9.59 |
| Washington | D+12 | 11.12 | Iowa | R+6 | 9.59 |
| Hawaii | D+36 | 11.09 | Arkansas | R+24 | 9.26 |
| Delaware | D+14 | 11.01 | West Virginia | R+30 | 9.11 |
| Utah | R+31 | 10.96 | North Dakota | R+33 | 9.05 |
| Virginia | EVEN | 10.91 | Maine | D+5 | 9.04 |
| Ohio | R+7 | 10.88 | Mississippi | R+15 | 8.91 |
| Michigan | D+1 | 10.81 | Vermont | D+24 | 8.84 |
| Oregon | D+9 | 10.71 | Alaska | R+15 | 8.74 |
| Georgia | R+12 | 10.55 | South Dakota | R+31 | 8.73 |
| Minnesota | D+2 | 10.46 | Montana | R+18 | 8.47 |
| Indiana | R+18 | 10.41 | Wyoming | R+47 | 8.26 |
(Don’t know how important it is that 538’s partisan lean figures don’t include 2018 election. That election seems to have been a Pretty Big Deal.)
Now, couple that with whatever per-state COVID-19 stats you like. I’m assuming cold-weather states like Alaska and Vermont have a lot of people indoors (i.e., in close proximity), but Mississippi might a good rural state to track. Or West Virginia, if you think structural racism might affect the figures. Or both, really, MS and WV.
Pinning this. I had to look it up for about the 3rd or 4th time.
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/oil-and-petroleum-products/use-of-oil.php
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Energy/My-plan-for-fighting-climate-change
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/10/18/men-of-the-world-you-are-not-the-weather/
I feel like I should pin this. Annual Cri De Coeur Week.
Another one of my “I should have pinned this long ago” posts.
«A summary of the economic policies that won a thumbs-up from our broad spectrum of economists — and would probably prove toxic to any actual presidential candidate.»
http://www.openculture.com/2014/11/mahatma-gandhis-list-of-the-7-social-sins.html
Probably worth pinning this.
Politics without principles.
Wealth without work.
Pleasure without conscience.
Knowledge without character.
Commerce without morality.
Science without humanity.
Worship without sacrifice.
“What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
Hashmaps are O(1). The number of people who don’t know this is astonishing.
Function documentation should include pre- and postconditions and invariants (since actual Design by Contract can be problematic due to side effects in call trees). I guess if you’re going to do real DBC, you should only access primitive data members without making function calls.
Logic does not belong in the database.
Caching is good. (Maybe these last two are indications that I’m not working at the right company.)
Developer documentation is worth the effort.
Slack (and MS Teams) is terrible. See above. Curation is worth the effort.
Long ‘switch’ statements are bad. Dispatch lookup tables are (probably) better.
Seems like a classic memo by Lin Wells (forwarded by Donald Rumsfeld to George W. Bush) in 2001 regarding the upcoming quadrennial review by… the Department of Defense?
(Five months later, 9/11 occurred.)
