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> how could it be anything other than a "bad thing" in this context?

"X lead to Y which is bad" is not the same as "X is bad". For example, relative abundance of high-calorie food led to obesity epidemics in the US. Is pointing out this fact means one wants Americans to starve to death? Or just pointing out some things have consequences, some of which are not good, even if things themselves are good? There's no law of nature that says consequences of something we consider good all must be good, and it's often not so.

> Why would you want him in government?

Because he knows how dangerous is raw democracy to freedom, just as folks who made the Constitution knew and thus made specific restrictions on the democratic powers of the Congress? You know, all that "Congress shall make no law"?
You're asking me to guess how he would respond to a hypothetical situation, so I will respectfully decline to do so as I am certainly not qualified.
It's the new Black Friday in China
The subthread you are replying to didn't mention Clinton. Didn't talk about Clinton. Didn't even say the word "Clinton" once. Yet your reply is entirely about Clinton. Why?

You'll find that a lot of people in this community actively dislike Clinton. But after the election, she is now essentially irrelevant. So talking about her doesn't advance anything - talking about the upcoming president, however...
Wow! Such a sad news. He was one of the greatest and his songs were timeless.

One of my favorites is "Everybody Knows": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd23UVID7k

You will be missed.

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I dont do anything on facebook at all, i just happen to scroll through my feed every other week when i just went online to contact one of the few people that i cant reach otherwise.

Well there you go again: at last count 1.26 billion people check Facebook daily, and they're not all American. The figures in German speaking countries are huge too, your personal usage is simply not very representative of most people's.
This isn't actually the case now is it? Are you confusing corporate income tax with personal income tax? Normally if you're renting a place out you'd be doing it through a hold co. As the rental income would be your main business income it would be tax at the very low Canadian Controlled Small Business rate; not the general rate.

Even if you were to take the unwise, for both legal and tax reason, choice to not use a hold co, income from rent is FUNDAMENTALLY different from regular income. In that, if you make a loss, you can claim it. That's just not possible with regular income. I.e., if you rental unit is unprofitable, it reduces your taxes in general -- potentially applied in future years. This is not the with "active" income.
Not as much as could go wrong with a fission reaction.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12926684.
Apparently, the "certainly implement" part was a misattribution. But if you follow the analysis in the article you posted, it's quite clear that Trump basically does favor the idea of such a registry -- and that yes, it would be mandatory for all "legal" entries into the country:

Friday, Nov. 20

The next day, an MSNBC reporter asked Trump, "Should there be a database or system that tracks Muslims in this country?"

"There should be a lot of systems," Trump responded. "Beyond databases. I mean, we should have a lot of systems."

Trump then digressed to talk about a wall along the southern border, before the reporter interjected, "But that’s something your White House would like to implement."

"I would certainly implement that. Absolutely," Trump said.

Here, we’re not clear if Trump is talking about implementing a wall or implementing a database.

But a few seconds later, when asked how he would register people into a database, Trump said, "It would just be good management."

Finally, the reporter asked if Muslims would legally have to be part of the database.

"They have to be — they have to be," Trump said. "Let me just tell you: The key is people can come to the country, but they have to come legally."
Full quote:

"The 1920s were the last decade in American history during which one could be genuinely optimistic about politics. Since 1920, the vast increase in welfare beneficiaries and the extension of the franchise to women — two constituencies that are notoriously tough for libertarians — have rendered the notion of “capitalist democracy” into an oxymoron."

So if you break down his line of reasoning:

- 1920s were good because one could be optimistic about politics

- This changed when welfare programs were expanded and women were granted the right to vote

- Therefore, granting women the right to vote was a bad thing

I mean I dunno, regardless of how I read it, I can't extract any positive meaning from anything he said. He even said that he no longer believes freedom and democracy are compatible. So yeah...
He didn't suggest they were incompatible, he suggested that they haven't gone hand in hand, which they haven't. You could just as easily imply that he thinks libertarianism has marketed itself poorly to women.
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The guys who wrote the universal declaration of human rights seem to disagree with you.

"Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status."

"All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination."
could you elaborate? i think this is my ignorance. The one shop that I worked in that insisted on 'mocks' meant that i wrote some code, then ran that code on some inputs, recorded the outputs, and then wrote a harness which validated that those inputs matched the outputs.

which meant that changes to the code might result in a failed mock, but didn't say anything about coverage or correctness. i can't imagine a more useless testing strategy.

is that what mockist TDD is commonly understood to be?
You're ignoring his follow up clarification:

"It would be absurd to suggest that women’s votes will be taken away or that this would solve the political problems that vex us. While I don’t think any class of people should be disenfranchised, I have little hope that voting will make things better."
His life was full of very low notes. And excellent ones at that.
I will be hesitate to use this to my work although it do support Node.js and Ruby on Rails.
In my personal morality: Torture is an absolute evil. Military engagements to kill armed combatants that kill innocents is a relative evil. Surveillance is a relative evil.

Trump is the Torture Candidate. He's on record, he loves torture. He said it on the campaign trail. He could have been Orange Bernie and I would have refused to vote for him.
We detached this flagged subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12926866 and marked it off-topic.
The quote explicitly names "women getting the vote" as one of the factors that has turned ".. democracy" into an "oxymoron".

Picking and choosing in or out groups is not "democracy".
I have had a lot of similar thoughts recently. If you think of this historically -- soon after mass-communication technologies were first invented, they were eventually abused, the radio propaganda of WWII being one of the best examples.

Laws were introduced, and corporations grew up around these technologies, the producers of the content became professionalized, and by doing it full time, some of them even developed ethics and standards of behavior.

Now, that old media has been destroyed by new technology. The new technology is fundamentally superior in terms of the volume of information that can be transmitted, and it is both push and pull. However, the old media's "checks and balances" were also destroyed, and that is having incredibly negative consequences.

I think there are some concrete, simple, technical steps that Facebook & browser vendors can do:

* Before allowing you to share an article from a source that is of questionable trustworthiness, it should show you a warning message: "This site is known to contain untrue content." They might also consider adding an alert next to links from these sites when they are being displayed in the news feed. I think technically, this problem is not that different from the way that email systems deal with spam.

* Similarly, the way that browser vendors show you an alert before allowing you to navigate to sites that contain viruses, etc, the browser can show you an alert message before taking you to a site that is known to have untrue content. And just like you see a red error message when visiting a site that doesn't have a proper SSL setup, this could appear for sites that are untrustworthy.

Don't underestimate the psychological power of strategically placed small red warning messages over time.

Obviously making the decisions of what goes on the list will be a highly political affair, but what is nice to realize is that, unlike the government, all these technologies are developed by private companies and given to their users for free. If you keep the bar for what is considered "lying" pretty high, most educated professional people (who are the employees of these companies) would be able to agree on which things to warn about.

Additionally, the "social media" space has greatly matured and consolidated. There is no longer really a direct competitor to Facebook. Facebook & browser vendors now have the opportunity and, the responsibility to innovate in this area. I think they can do a lot without really impacting their bottom line.

Don't allow yourself to get sucked into the problem of how computers might be able to determine "truth" -- that, is absolutely unsolvable. We will not be able to censor the CNN, the NYTimes or even Fox News (in general). However, there are many dark corners of the internet that are actually pretty influential, that could be toned down with this approach.
Wow, that's a pretty nonsensical semantic. Thankfully, Rust is fairly sensible.
You missed my point. I was giving an example of a rightful exercise over one's own private property leading to market prices increasing. You don't own the market and the extent to which you have a right to influence it is limited to whatever influence your own offers, bids, purchases and sales have.

Maybe there's a justification for an empty home tax, but I don't see it in your argument.
Thiel has some extremish views, but I generally regard him as intelligent and thoughtful.

"He seems intelligent and thoughtful, but has scarily extremist views" might be a better angle to take.
Is there a kind of "political correctness" that refuses the acknowledgment of facts and likelihoods that sound similar to irrational dismissal? Does that kind prevent people from hearing the following things which I think most people would agree to be true?

-Donald Trump says he wants to completely deregulate the banking industry, which will most likely, in the long term, lead to a crisis on par with or greater than the last banking crisis in 2008. That will probably harm most YC companies in just about every sector, and will negatively influence the value of YC's holdings.

-Donald Trump and Paul Ryan plan to strip approximately 20 million people of health insurance, and millions more of food stamps, decimating our already weak safety net for the poor. He will do more harm to the poor and disadvantaged in his first six months than YC's non-profit efforts have ever achieved and maybe will ever achieve, probably by orders of magnitude.

-Donald Trump is part of a movement to dismantle pluralism in the United States, including the marginalization of immigrants and their descendants. He has stated, and his followers are now performing, an antipathy toward people from other countries, and views their economic success as directly opposed to the success of white Americans. YC is a network that includes many diverse people of all backgrounds, including many immigrants. These people will be persecuted by Trumps followers and oppressed by his government.

-Donald Trump has appointed a "climate skeptic," which means, "dangersous liar," to head the Environmental Protection Agency Transition. He has already sent out many other signals that he intends to cease any US efforts to combat Global Warming, which will have the effect of destabilizing the various international agreements that might have ameliorated its effects. It currently seems likely that Trump will single-handedly prevent the world from achieving a viable response to this threat for another four years. This gravely threatens the entire world, and will cause rippling suffering around the world. Every person who interacts with Y Combinator and their descendants will be unambiguously worse off because of this.

YC should not reject Thiel because "he holds opposing political beliefs." YC should reject Thiel, cut off all relationship with him, publicly condemn him, because he has joined an organization, the Donald Trump Administration, which has stated its intentions to do massive harm to YC and the people of the world. If YC continues its relationship with Thiel, if it fails to acknowledge its association with him as a black mark on its standing among people of conscience, and if it does not muster all of its leverage, economic and otherwise, in the fight to curtail the power of Thiel's organization (The Trump Administration), than they are part of a problem that should terrify anyone who prefers economic growth, the reduction of human suffering, political freedom and the viability of earth as a home for humanity.

Now is a test for many people and institutions in American life. YC doesn't have many days left before it has failed.
If it will operate with no js at all, then it is also more compatible with some security requirements I have.
Don't get me wrong, I've always been a big fan of JavaScript, warts and all. However, in this particular instance, what should have been a simple server rendered login page was written with a full SPA application development mindset.
Amazon drivers “work illegal hours”
And he got to live to 82, it's hard to say it's too early.
I don't understand how a gay man can support a political party who's platform wants to reverse marriage equality.
And who shall I say is calling?

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You will be missed but never forgotten.
Did you look at his reasoning for saying that?

Are you able to make an argument disagreeing with those reasons or would you prefer to just cherry pick quotes to present a narrative that confirms your world view?
Sad for the artistic loss but also glad he died at peace after a rich life spent doing what he loved till the last moment. He joins a special list, alongside Hintjens who also passed recently, of those who manage to strip the dread from death and stress the importance of 'tidying up' over passive acceptance as one enters the final days.

“The big change is the proximity to death,” he said. “I am a tidy kind of guy. I like to tie up the strings if I can. If I can’t, also, that’s O.K. But my natural thrust is to finish things that I’ve begun.”

“For some odd reason,” he went on, “I have all my marbles, so far. I have many resources, some cultivated on a personal level, but circumstantial, too: my daughter and her children live downstairs, and my son lives two blocks down the street. So I am extremely blessed. I have an assistant who is devoted and skillful. I have a friend like Bob and another friend or two who make my life very rich. So in a certain sense I’ve never had it better. . . . At a certain point, if you still have your marbles and are not faced with serious financial challenges, you have a chance to put your house in order. It’s a cliché, but it’s underestimated as an analgesic on all levels. Putting your house in order, if you can do it, is one of the most comforting activities, and the benefits of it are incalculable.” [0]

[0] http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/10/17/leonard-cohen-m...
He's probably going to be the propaganda tsar since he's known for suing the press.
I remember that game! Mini black hole starts gobbling up planet Earth. :) And the voxels.
Great, another climate change denier https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-views-of-the-Thiel-Founda...
How is Thiel's support for Trump consistent with Trump's stance on climate change? It's one of the largest dangers faced by the world, and I don't see how ignoring it is like "fixing the alzheimer of politics"
That's not what people mean when they refer to the "safety" of a language.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_safety

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_safety

http://tobyho.com/2008/03/30/how-safe-is-your-programming/

The fact that people consider "security releases" for compilers/runtimes to be normal and acceptable is actually extremely alarming to me, but it's different from language safety.
>>blaming the Democrats for the Trump presidency is an oxymoron.

Not really. The dems sabotaged their only electable candidate. I'm not upset about the Trump presidency only because I had come to terms with it as soon as I realised Hillary was going to screw over Bernie and basically guarantee a Trump presidency. Never before has an 'I told so' felt so unsatisfactory. Besides I'm not even sure a Hillary presidency would have been more palatable given her track record.
At the time of my post, it was accurate. Proof http://i.imgur.com/4AWBt2N.png
Yes, it's the same old "I have black friends, too".
The pr(o|e)mise of UI is that, since you no longer need to sit at a desk retyping TPS reports in order to put food on the table, you are freed to raise horses, or sell homemade candles and jellies, or study poetry, or teach gardening, or sail off to the Canary Islands and research birds, or even do freelance accountancy if that suits you. Or just devote all your time to raising your kids.

In other words, to pick your own purpose: to be able to contribute to society (and the economy) in a way that you actually might enjoy instead of whatever stupid job you can manage to find where you live.

I don't know that this vision of every mom-and-pop becoming an entrepreneur would actually work out that way -- few things work out the way they sound on paper -- but it sounds better than people getting so upset they just want to burn it all down.
> In the event that he really does turn into Hitler, I promise to stand up to stop him along with all the other people who will.

Well, that's nice - although you just agreed to something you believe won't happen.

I don't believe he will, either; but are you standing up to what his electorate is doing?

http://nymag.com/thecut/2016/11/trump-voters-threatened-wome...

Take it from someone who saw what Brexit did to the UK: Your country, by electing someone with an unpleasant set of views on race/religion, has implicitly given free reign to people with even more unpleasant views on those to do whatever they want and not fear repercussions because... after all, they've been told they're in the majority now.

I suspect it's easier to promise to stand up to the "as close to 0 as you can mathematically get" than to address problems that are happening today.
get ready to be surprised.
I'm not saying there's no chance he'll do those things. I'm saying that it's not certain enough to obligate people to not cooperate with him.

(Also, if the Holocaust had only consisted of mass deportations it wouldn't be nearly as bad or remembered. Have some perspective.)
That is your opinion and you are entitled to it but I disagree. Put Hillary in a balance with Trump and by far she is the better candidate. When people are willing to believe in the Father of Lies, even after you show them recorded evidence, they are a lost cause. It is really hard to cure willful ignorance. Hillary has also lied, I admit it, but it is not even on the same league of Trump.

The Democrats' fault (and mine too) was in believing that people of the United States were better than this.

Up to this point I used to honestly believe that justice always prevailed, some how. That the morality of the people of the United States was strong. Stupid, idealistic, naive me. I really hurts my heart but at least my eyes have been opened. You can do almost anything you want, lie with impunity, grab woman by the pus*y, assault them, defraud people, etc. etc. and as long as you have money and good connections it is very likely you will get away with it.

It is a hard pill to swallow, but at least I've learned my lesson and will live accordingly.

And of course, if the republicans again destroy the economy like Bush did in 2008 everybody will comeback crying to the Democrats to fix it and then blame them for everything once things are going OK again.
Going Godwin again doesn't make the argument any better.

This is what all those news articles lately have been about. You're too insulated from the rest of the country if you seriously think ~50% of the nation just voted for Hitler. That card's played out... every Republican's been [expletive] Hitler if you listen to the Democrats. That's election propaganda. Time to put that away. I mean, ideally we wouldn't all swallow it in the first place, but time to put it away.
Also see the Rivest and Smith secure voting protocols:

http://rangevoting.org/RivSmiPRshort.html
"pay per play" is the game he has always played, that's why people like him can be fined for the many of his scandals[0] but still end up profitable in the long shot.

[0]http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/donald-t...
It is "off-topic" how exactly?

This is a misuse of flags, and instead you auto-zapped it.
> Put Hillary in a balance with Trump and by far she is the better candidate

Then why am I dealing with "President-elect" Donald Trump?

> The Democrats' fault (and mine too) was in believing that people of the United States were better than this.

Nooooooo, your fault was not understanding what millions of Americans are going through that would force them to vote for the opponent. The blame lies solely with that mindset.

You expected people to put social issues ahead of their anxiety over economic survival. How ignorant is that idea? If you do not reflect, if you do not get comfortable with the idea of compromise and understanding those who did not vote the way you wanted, you will be doomed to fail.

With age comes wisdom.
Thiel is smart enough to support Trump from the beginning despite all the disagreement from his circles. Although I think he is somewhat an extremist but with a vision. I think there will be change, and in good way.
Its precisely because of SJW outrage cultures ridiculous juvenile comparisons to Hitler of anyone who disagrees with the narrative that these claims have zero shock value and no one takes them seriously anymore.

The same can be said of racism, sexism, misogyny etc.

You have done more to de-stigmatize these words then the people who espouse the ideology have ever been able to do. It has made the accusation in itself a clownish eye rolling gesture to the general public. Rather then something to take seriously.

No one with any credibility is going to compare the President elect of the United States to Hitler. Its a pantomime act that the disgraced 'Media' and Twitter nobodies do to entertain one another.
You should add language pads to your sick sleeve. Never4get.
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