https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ite-asian-bias
https://i.imgur.com/EHU07wQ.png
I actually been hearing rumbles from university classmates about this happening on the tech hiring side, at first I thought it was sour grapes but wow I guess its real.

https://i.imgur.com/pL5Bh4O.png

Yep, it’s positive discrimination I believe the term is. May not be politically correct to say but if I have 10 candidates for a software developer job odds are at most 3 will be women. If all three of them suck why should I have to hire an inferior candidate?

And for reference, last time we hired a male and female candidate the female was by far the best hire :) She quit for more money, the other moved on.

Competence, drive, and being a HR check-mark is a great path to success. Did she also have an impressive github history?

I was sure the term was "reverse discrimination"

For those who weren't born yet, this was a most famous case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent..._Cal._v._Bakke

Have you guys ever drove Vancouver to Winnipeg? It's good until Calgary and gets progressively worse and worse and once you get to Brandon you just want to give up. What a boring drive...

I appreciate flying so much more now.

So it’s 10:20 here in the center if the Universe and there is no snow, no rain and there’s barely any wind, I just went out for a 5km run and it’s actually quite pleasant.

I mean, it's sort of a historically revisionist argument. A lot of Canada and the US is built on what is essentially slave labour from Asian (including South Asian) countries up until the mid 1900s. Men would be brought over, work for a few years, then sent back if they survived. They were ineligible for citizenship. Women were rarely allowed to come over. So if in the decades since Asian/Indian American and Canadian males were able to truly consider themselves as American/Canadian, they have been able to turn themselves around, that doesn't mean they aren't disadvantaged. Similarly, the definition of white has changed pretty quickly: what was it only a few decades ago that the Irish (or Italians, I forget) were ruining society?

But that argument doesn't play as well with people, I guess

11:30pm here and it's snowing here. Sticking to cars but not to the roads....yet....lol

I could so a lunch mini do on the 10th. Assuming I can get my flight pass to work I'll land the night before.

TFW the (LH) GA asks you to check your rollaboard because "it's full" but the overhead bins aren't even ⅓ full :rolleyes:

I didn't do it :cool:

March 3 is a no go for me. 10 is possible.

Both YVR and YHZ is a stretch on the same day, even for you, no?

Oops. Forgot what I had quoted. A week off and I don't know how to use FT any more :p

YVR is easy March 10.

I'd prefer 14 days notice for YHZ, to allow easy IKK, but I'm game.

You know with time zones you could do YHZ in the morning and YVR in the evening. Though transferring through YOW/YYZ in March .. eeek.