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Would you be willing to articulate your argument for Trump here? I promise not to argue against you, and certainly not to slur you. Can't speak for anyone else, though.

We now HAVE Trump coming in as US president, so frankly I'd welcome a bit of hope that he might be good. I can't promise to agree with you, but I'm very willing to listen to arguments from those who hold opposing positions to mine.
How difficult would it be to get a job in Japan without knowing the language?

It must be imperative in daily life, but how about in the work environment?
I find it appalling that suddenly Hilary was portrayed as some kind of saviour by the media just because she is not as bad as Trump.

Well, sorry for believing that elections are about choosing the good candidate, not voting against the bad candidate.

If there is one single person to blame for these elections outcome, that person is Hilary Clinton, she put America and the World in danger when she used her grip on the DNC to push Bernie Sanders aside during the primaries, although it was clear that the people desperately wanted change. That was the key moment in these elections that got Donald Trump elected.
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Respect to LinkedIn as they don't play by rules of idiots. Shame on Google etc who supports and promotes censorship by accepting the rules of censorship
Neither is PS/2, which also being a synchronous serial interface with very low overhead, does share many characteristics with SPI at the physical layer:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS/2_port#Legacy_port_status_a...

The PS/2 interface saves power due to its interrupt-driven nature compared to USB which requires periodic polling, so it is a popular interface for laptops' internal keyboards and pointing devices

The major difference is that PS/2 is a de-facto standard up to the application layer/software interface, while the MacBook SPI protocol is unique to Apple.
Notes to myself: Lense–Thirring field, GINGERino project.
Consider this; if those kids that would normally avoid scouts/guide were now forced to go because their parents saw reports of this study, then the effects could very well be negative, in turn cancelling out or even reversing the reported overall beneficial effects.
Hillary was a poor candidate because she was a neo-liberal who had nothing to offer to the midwestern working class, and quite frankly took them for granted (she visited Wisconsin exactly zero times during the election, apparently she was too busy visiting The Hamptons and Martha's Vineyard).

It's funny that people are raging at the midwest because it's been, for the past few decades, quite blue. Hillary just assumed that they were With Her (even though she clearly wasn't With Them) and now they are at fault for not giving her the votes she felt she was owed.
I still live in rural Wisconsin. I wanted to disagree from the title but after reading it I really can't.

And I agree, we're not special. Rural Wisconsin went Obama in 2008. I didn't see a deluge of articles discussing the implications of the rural people. Wisconsin has been pretty close to the US vote, as a whole, for years. If your candidate wants to sway that vote maybe they should travel to the state at least once in the campaign. Well, it's just a thought.
I am not criticising then CLI, but the actual repo which feels like the first class in first year of CS. cp, ls, stat, zip... nom much you can repeat or compose there.
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1 Aliexpress thinks Im in russia

2 Aliexpress.com tries to make tons of UDP connections, WebRTC? (unable to disable in desktop chrome)
Yeah sure, all I have done so far is:

1. Google Form for posting a job
2. refugeejobs.wordpress.com at WordPress
3. Fujobee.com and .eu at GoDaddy
4. fujobee@gmail.com at Gmail

Regarding Gmail: I'm using fujobee+.....@gmail.com to test (and possibly also automate) a few things.
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Regarding popular election, "mandate" and "only 25% voted for him", it seems that all people who are now dissatisfied have voted for Clinton. Which suggests that the 50% who didn't vote maybe don't oppose Trump that much.

I observed that leftists have a tendency to systematically overestimate their numbers, influence and the amount of agreement or even familiarity with their ideas among the public.
Family planning, to allow people to choose, is a far, far different proposition from the one you put forward.

In order to limit population growth you think people should stop having kids in order to be better able to play host to newcomers.

It's a position almost beyond parody and so far out of touch with human wants and needs. I repeat - are you human?

Your figures are interesting but not conclusive, over half of population growth between 1991 and 2014 was due to migration. The latter years of that period saw far higher rates than the early and middle years, and it continues to be over 300k pa, according to the ONS.

Regardless, I'll say again, you're not talking to a die hard brexiter or Trump supporter. I voted to stay in the EU, for a start.

You're talking to someone who thinks that the bigotry of calling anyone that disagrees with you a racist is political poison, and that it will continue to set back progressive politics.
Fine, replace tribe with nation then, and my point still stands. If you want it more concrete, I'm willing to narrow it down to: most european nations until the 20th century disallowed women from joining the armed forces or attend university.

I'm not aware that other regions handled things very differently, apart from a few outliers, but happy to learn about them.

One interesting example is Israel, where women had serve in the army since the foundation of the the state. Even more interesting when considering the huge loss of life due to the holocaust.
There are over seven billion people on this planet. Knowing all of them as humans is simply impossible. To function in the modern world we have to be willing to categorize, to make snap judgements, to, putting it bluntly, be prejudiced. I mean you could pick who you talk to at a conference (say) at random, and there's certainly value in talking to a spread of people. But ultimately there are people you'll gain more or less from talking to, because your interests and theirs align or don't. So you'll look at superficial characteristics like what they're wearing, because that's all the information you have to go on, and you'll try to make the best guess you can about who would be best to talk to. And it's inevitable that you'll sometimes get it wrong. But there is no alternative; making judgements based on incomplete information is just life, all we can do is try and make those judgements as well and as fairly as possible.
I said if you are an American and a true patriot. Of course you can be a patriot of another country.
Nobody's ignoring this data, it actually poses a lot of interesting questions like why is that difference only present in about half of OECD countries, why does the difference only occur after a certain age (that varies per country), why do boys overpopulate both ends of the bell curve, how much is biology vs society, etc.

The data isn't politically charged, but the interpretation can be.
Have these unfortunate souls considered moving to closer to where productive economic activity is happening, and performing labor in exchange for money, which may be exchanged for goods and services?
If you look hard enough, you will find it everywhere. But, its the amount of effort you have to do to see these events that makes the difference.
Thanks for your response! In Europe, the first country you register yourself as a refugee is the country you will have to stay in. However, it would be more useful to let them move to other countries within the EU (which I can easily do as a European citizen) if there's a perfect job match.
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In one case we got audio tapes, the other transcripts from wall street meetings. testimonies in media vs emails. Statement on rallies vs arms deals and handshakes.

What we got is mathematically 4 realities. Both slander campaigns could be more or less true, in which the two most hated candidates in the world was really poor candidates for the two biggest parties in the united states. Both slander campaigns could be wrong, in which the voters where tricked by two political parties which should have known better to not bet a political election on slander. The two remaining options that only one slander campaign is wrong, is really only believed within the bubbles. It is very unlikely that anyone will be converted who already aren't.
"I'll lower the rent until I can find someone to pay more" is the very definition of free market; a free market in which rent rates stabilize downwards, as socially desirable.

Attempting to rent the house for a shorter time is simply going to restrict the target market to transient residents who plan to move away shortly (e.g. students), which is rather orthogonal to being rich or poor.

Owners need to seek a balance between not renting at all, or renting very cheaply, and accepting longer-term contracts; it's never a unilateral decision.
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> the author is from Middle America; there is no 'they', it's 'we'

Yeah, playing Uncle Tom isn't just for black folks any more.
No, I am not. You seem to be projecting opinions onto me that there's no support for in my comment.

I was answering someone who questioned whether there was even a single example of complaints about legal immigration.

And I personally have come across people that wanted to do much worse than deport legal immigrants.
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Fair point, thank-you. That taken into consideration, would you say there is no harm in at least adding Breitbart to the basket of news media sources? Which could also include CNN, who's anchors also could all very well have been candidates for chairman of Clinton's campaign.
In Lisp the "catch" part could be "handler-bind", which could invoke a restart (skip element, or use-value). This requires the called function to establish a restart, but the good news is that it removes the burden of the decision from the innermost part.
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Many always love to poo poo the idea that there is strong media bias to one side yet each election simply demonstrates it. Where is the correction? Where are those press people from the sixties and seventies that dogged all politicians regardless of party.

the problem is they operate in an echo chamber. they truly do think they are better than those they present the news too and therefor beyond criticism. this alone keeps them from acknowledging any criticism, whether deserved or not.

the press needs to keep the bias to the editorial pages. newspapers should not be endorsing candidates, instead they need to list the claimed views of candidates with their current and past actions. report, not distort
As a "liberal", and one (from the sounds of it) who would likely disagree with many of your political stances, I am in complete agreement with what you have said here.
I the forces that drove this election's media failure centre almost entirely around the problems with polling data, not a inherent problem with journalism.

The journalists were working with the best data that they had available. If a journalist is told that there is only a small chance of a candidate being elected, it is not surprising that they don't necessarily take his chances seriously.

Credit to 538 though, for putting Clinton's chances sub-70% in the final week (returning to to 70% on the final day) and for repeatedly warning of the lack of certainty given the lack of good quality polls.
There are people saying that US needs harsher laws in the comment section of nearly every article on major US websites, so I would take that with a grain of salt.

Also - "measly" 12 years? I understand the upheaval if he got 3 or 6 years - but 12 is an issue?
Unit tests can help with designing a testable API, not necessarily a usable, performant, secure, etc API.

Design remains design, there is no quick implementation trick that makes it simple.
Consider also the massive increase in complexity with any electronic system, coming from paper ballots.
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I agree with most of the points here, but some stuff is misleading. For example the "you have to rebuild after everything that code change" is ridiculous. Just use "COPY SRC/ /app" In your dockerfile, and in dev mount SRC/ as a volume over /app. There, hot reloading sorted for development.

Don't get me wrong, docker is one of the most frustrating technologies I've used (partly because it shows such promise), but a lot of the problems he describes can be sorted with the most cursory Google.
That comment described an attitude that reaches the very top of the modern left, as the many accusations of sexism against anyone who didn't vote for Clinton show.

Identity politics means judging someone first and foremost by their race, gender, and sexuality. That's the attitude that leads many to "find it more virtuous to hire a wealthy black man or a wealthy white woman than to hire a poor white man".
The difference is that China has made epic investments in education and training, while the US, the UK, and some other Western countries have worked hard to make education and training more expensive and less accessible.

There's also been a hollowing out of independent inquiry in Western academia, and its replacement by a for-profit-only paper production sweatshop, with universities becoming corporations that have no respect for their employees and only care about short term profitability.

I think we're probably somewhere close to parity now. Both systems are broken in their different ways, but the bottom line for investors is that the Chinese system has a lot more potential to grow than the system in the US.

Trump is likely to make things worse rather than better. I suspect he literally doesn't understand what scientific and technological research is, never mind appreciate why it needs to be supported.
I think it's important to view this piece in the context of the recent election, where the median Trump supporter had a higher income than the median Clinton supporter.

Yes, rural poverty is a thing and we should provide compassion and assistance to everyone trying to escape it. But that's not the family described in the article (who clearly did have the resources to visit DC), and it's not what swung the election. Trump got the votes of a huge number of middle-class, older white people, who have had many opportunities to venture out of their bubbles, to get to know their country better, to reach out to immigrants and the vulnerable in their own communities, and have just never bothered.

We should hold ourselves to a higher standard, and work to empathize with the "cultural anxieties" driving rural Trump voters, just as they have never worked to understand the anxieties of their coastal/urban counterparts, let alone those of blacks, Muslims, and other persecuted minorities. But we shouldn't idolize them as "real America". They are a part of it, yes, but the real America is a much bigger, more diverse and welcoming place.
I hate how intrusive the Windows Defender is, it automatically deleted some executables of mine I know to be clean (false positives). Just disable that beast entirely, seriously (group policy or regedit). Makes your PC much snappier. Defender is my biggest gripe with Windows 10.

Having anti-viruses installed is for fools. I just upload every single executable to VirusTotal.com and make sure I know the source I downloaded it from - this is far superior to any anti-virus and doesn't slow down your PC.

I said this when Windows 10 was new and I got tons of downvotes. I say it again because it still holds true and needs to be said.
What you say is exactly what happened. If people wanted so much not to elect Trump, they could vote for Sanders, and I am somehow sure Sanders would won the presidential elections. And in my opinion, he would be best bet for America that is shaken by many things right now. Seeing wealthy, white people, from America (mostly artists and to some extent engineers), crying all over the internet how everything is doomed and unfair is making me nausea. Guess what?

My country was destroyed by provoked civil war and NATO bombing after that. (Bill Clinton played big part in that) After that we have chosen new government, everything was going to be better, new economy, new young smart people, then our prime minister (who was the bastion of those changes and reforms) got assassinated. And after that? After that we got same shitty government that was during the 90s (right/extremists, radical party), and now they "are" pro-EU oriented. So much bullshit, country elected the party that was the worst possible choice, that nobody from circles of my family, friends and people I know didn't even dare to think of as a leading party. And it happened. And guess what, you live with it! How? Well, country is people, not one man. Sure it is bad, it hurts, but you live your life following your own internal compass, not somebody else's.
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> The truth as always lies somewhere in the middle

Not always

http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Balance_fallacy
Sidekiq fetches jobs same as how Resque fetches, which is based on what is easy to do in Redis: LPOP. It's been that way since day one.

Adding reliable fetching is much, much harder than you think. It's taken me years to get it right.
Why was the original HN title (which was also the heading for the article) changed? This (new) one doesn't convey the sentiments of the article.
I don't think Trump was the only one running such a campaign. How else would you describe the resounding message from the Clinton campaign that a vote for Trump is a vote for "racism, sexism, homophobia", etc..?

Both Trump and Clinton's campaigns seem successful - there was less voter turnout than in 2012. However, the angles they took seem to have reshuffled support in a way that ended up with Trump winning.
Funny thing is that I installed ubuntu on my parents very old laptop (from 2001) that lost Windows XP support and it works really well. No virus until now.

I replaced the Graphical User Interface with a lighter one though to maintain decent performances.
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PS/2 isn't high enough bandwidth to support decent multitouch, which is why most modern PC touchpads come up in PS/2 mode and then transition to SPI.
Linked at the end is this article: https://thehftguy.wordpress.com/2016/11/01/docker-in-product...

As someone starting considering Docker (and possibly Swarm), these seem to be pretty serious criticisms. Any experiences to corroborate / counter these two posts? Going by what's written here it would be suicide to use Docker, but many people are...
And what about the labour these unfortunate souls are already performing? Should all farmers and workers become web developers?
I'm not too familiar with this area of PC hardware, but it does seem like their AHCI controller can be configured to act like a PCI bridge with an NVMe device on the other side of it.
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A great read indeed, but I don't think it explains anything. All it left me with were more questions: "why, oh my god, why???"

In the end, all those examples (except forkable?) are just glorified directories. They also do payment, which makes them so attractive for investors (finger in the real money stream, not just hoping for crumbs tossed to yet another ads service), but also comes with the responsibility to think about non-fixed cost, something that much of the startup bubble seems to have forgotten that it even exits. I hope that I'm the end, lean directory specialists, payment specialists and so on will keep the upper hand. Food delivery is not Amazon, where even if I order from marketplace I would love to forget that I'm not really dealing with Amazon. In food delivery, even if I do the transaction through an aggregator service, I'm all interested in the individual kitchen and would ideally about the aggregator service. Buying on Amazon marketplace I would prefer to get the goods from Amazon directly instead of some nameless seller, buying from a food aggregator I would prefer it if the transaction convenience would be available directly from the individual kitchen.
Thanks for your insights. It seems where we disagree is on your point of Breitbart and Drudge being 'right-biased'. To me they come across as simply more dedicated to reporting the truth and principled in their commitment to reporting said truth regardless of implications or contradictions to the status quo who are often downright misleading and deceitful; this most recent election campaign serving as a magnification of that.
Sure it is possible, and it was there, but the U.S. got rid of the draft after Vietnam war.

And meeting everyone of your age cohort in the army conscription service is a revealing experience, I can assure you. More so than elementary school, because schools are like the areas where the pupils live; there is less diversity. To meet everyone is an experience.

On the other hand, nowadays countries with conscription (like where I live, Finland) are not quite the same. The army here is more picky that before, so you actually don't see everyone. For instance, when I entered service (1986), only 2-3 % entered the alternative civilian service and 1-2 % were disqualified. Now 7 % go to civilian service and 2-3 % are disqualified (for medical reasons, etc).

Thus, you have less pacifists in the army, and drug users and career criminals are excluded. The same would surely apply in the U.S. even if it had conscription.
Trump didnt rally more people than previous republican candidates. he even rallied LESS. It's just that Clinton was a pathetic choice.
I'm curious:

> I have never been able to properly explain the rationale to a liberal

Have you ever had explained the liberal rationale to you and did you understand it?

I'm wondering if it works one way, or everyone struggles to understand the other. Thanks.
>In fact, it is a synchronous serial protocol just like SPI, so what appears to have happened with these MacBooks is that Apple basically reinvented PS/2 in their own "Think Different" way.

Ugh. Almost everybody uses SPI for touchpads these days, although they frequently also provide a PS/2 compatibility mode. Apple don't care about working with stock operating systems other than their own (the Bootcamp installer injects additional drivers for Windows), so they decided not to bother.
It was. Corresponding reddit thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/bt4ox/chomsky_the...
Java and PHP are traditionally the most popular introductory languages being taught in CS courses (CE students are usually taught C).

I see some schools switching to Python as an introduction course. But generally, the pace at which the educational system move to update their curriculum is glacial. Heck, I even see some schools still teaching VB6!
Those things already apply to Facebook users. Facebook is actually proposing active censorship here.
Perhaps the article should rephrase it as "it's very complicated to learn how to do it properly, and not obvious when you're doing it wrong".

My experience with Docker is that Google searches often turn up with configurations that other Google searches will say are a bad idea. There don't seem to be any kind of well-documented emergent best practices.
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It helps me gain status even more if I can plant false information in others.