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I'm fairly left wing and I couldn't care less about the 'elite' (as long as they pay taxes at a rate that is fair given their net worth like everyone else).

This "if you are left you support the elite" thing at least in the UK was a way of conjoining the left and the elite into a single entity so that you could say to Joe Bloggs "these people don't care about you" and it needs addressing by the left.

The lefts biggest problem (here) is they simply aren't addressing the concerns of their traditional voting block at all, they seem to be more concerned about in-fighting and political correctness, I'm all for political correctness but you can only focus on so many issues and some issues are simply more important (particularly if you want to win elections and if you aren't focused on that you are a debate society not a political party).

A simple reading of what the left has traditionally stood for should make it obvious that the left and the 'elites' are opposed purely on simple economic grounds, We want them to pay more taxes, they don't want to pay more taxes (which is to be expected, who does?).

Frankly the biggest issue in regards to politics in the UK is the media (and I don't just mean the majority of the print media that is hilariously and obviously biased towards whatever Murdoch wants) but the media as a whole, the drop in revenue from the move to internet news has meant that they have to sell click bait and "agendas" to get traffic so we end up with these horrible echo chambers of bias-confirmation.

Frankly I think we are heading into a really dark period of politics here and I don't see any way to stop it.
I think you are right. Here in Germany the Afd is also on the rise, who has a strong stand against refugees and the EU.

What is the common denominator? Obviously it is about globalism and culture, but maybe it has more to it?

I think none is really looking at the big picture. What are our values and how do democracies work? Do we in the west have the better system or where we just lucky? Currently the west is in a crisis. Everyone notices, that we loose on economic terms while China is winning. And groups from outside the west get more and more influence (most prominently Islam).

So how can we turn this around? One answer might be Trump, but there will probably be better solutions if we think about these issues.
Declining to enforce a law is in the brief of the executive branch - checks and balances.
Presumably, citation is requesting some factual evidence that this is true, not that people feel it is true.

Though both are important, if there's not actually a "War on Christmas" and Obama didn't actually rename the White House christmas tree the winter tree, but the new President has been cited by his son as running because those things did happen, then both these facts are interesting.

edit to add: something to look forward to, when Trump announces he's renamed the tree to the Christmas tree, even though it never got called anything else. I'm trying to imagine how they'll spin that without actually telling a blatant lie, probably just by making a big fuss about it and letting other people online lie about it.
Haven't been reading the Podesta emails eh? The Clinton campaign was polling on how effective it would be to criticize Obama because "Obama's father was a Muslim and Obama grew up as a Muslim in the world's most populace Islamic country."

Even Obama agrees with me here. He apparently confronted Clinton about it in 2007.
Some of the wikileaks stuff was dynamite. E.g., the DNC deliberately undermined Bernie Sanders' campaign! Lots of different media outlets covered it and would have done so if they had to get that content via fax and carrier pigeon. Most people consumed that second-hand, so there was no need to drive traffic to wikileaks itself.
Nobody is shoving abortions down anyone's throat. And no one is forcing anyone to enter into a same sex marriage.
Most of Lithuania was annexed by Russia by 1795, the final step in partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. 1800's was a period of Russification, revolts, and crushing of those revolts.

Then, in World War I, Lithuania gained independence again in 1918.

That's >120 years of occupation or foreign rule.

Then Lithuani lost independence again, to the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact in 1940, was rolled over twice in the course of WWII, and finally became independent again in 1991. That's another 50 years.

In Finland, we have a saying "We're not Swedes, we do not want to become Russians; let us be Finns". Same seems to apply to Baltic states.

I haven't followed up the development in Lithuania in particular, but Estonia had roughly the same population in 1959 as it had in 1939. The difference was that almost one third of the old population had been eradicated and replaced by Russians (and other Soviet nationals).

This is a fairly huge "integration effort", if we use that euphemism.
Great to see praise for Ubuntu Mono font... Whilst it was developed (and funded) for Ubuntu, it is released under a free licence, available on google docs and google fonts.

I'll give Operator Mono a try... but i absolutely love Ubuntu Mono.
Peter Thiel congratulates Trump: 'We have work to do'
I think the theory is, that Trump won by a not too big margin and many people thought that Sanders should have been nominated, but Clinton did somehow persuade the nominators. So the people who would have voted vor Sanders didn't vote or voted for Trump, because they felt cheated by Clinton.

So basically, the Democrats are corrupt and Clinton bought her nomination and deserve the loss. And if they weren't corrupt, hey would have won.
Obama, 2 weeks ago - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC1NGWM8gP8&feature=youtu.be...
Why? If you deeply disagree with everything the person stands for then why would you offer anything but opposition?

I get that you think that sometimes bipartisanism is needed, but this man's views seem so deeply offensive and dangerous to the rest of the modern world that trying to be "balanced" is actually just making holding those views seem acceptable.
True story, when in Europe the cheerers are the ultras we all get it as a sign that something is not going in the "right" (ironically right) direction.

Anyway, too many actors, too many variables too many things to come. Just wait and see!
If you mean Gene Wolfe's masterwork, then yes, there are interpretations/commentary available online.

If you meant the 'Wolfian World', I came up with that 2 days ago, so no.

I did clean up the essay, added some material, made it a bit more accessible to non-HN readers and put it here:

https://medium.com/@internaut_48577/peter-and-the-wolfe-b8de...

In fact about 1/4 of my comments on HN relate to the 'Technological Stagnation Hypothesis'. The TSN is rather hard to appreciate (for most people in our society it seems unbelievable, they just can't shift their mental model of a world with progress because their benchmarks for that are mostly faith based) but Peter Thiel has made many videos available explaining what it means, I think this is one of the best ones:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw-rxtwhzcY

The 'Wolfian World' is merely a way to look at our world sideways through a (brilliant) work of fiction with very similar themes to Peter Thiel's Technological Stagnation Hypothesis.
* Necessity of enforcing borders

* Enforcement of existing immigration law

* Lack of sufficient safeguards in voting process

* Fear of large, primarily-Muslim immigration leading to less safety within our borders

* Political correctness leading to unwillingness to address certain problems for what they are

Those are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. It's also tedious how voting for Trump is itself implied to be racist (because of the borderline-racist and racist things he's said), but that leaves out the context that the alternative was Hillary Clinton.
> 50 years by USSR + ~100 years by Russian Empire[0]

Lithuania in fact was part of Russian Empire. That does not classify it as occupation. There is no mention of occupation in your article, nor it is called an occupation by Lithuanian government. Also, it's a bad idea to revision 19th century Europe, as pretty much every country (that existed at that time in Europe) had done some pretty outrageous things then (by modern standards).

> Mass deportations[1] (5% of the population, most of whom died during severe Siberian winters)

Why are you bringing deportations into conversation about Soviet integration efforts? That obviously was a terrifying thing to do, but was completely irrelevant to russification/integration.

Also, the wiki article that you provide as a source quotes 28,000 that died in exile out of 130,000, that makes your statement about most of them dying in Siberian winters false (not that it has anything to do with this discussion anyway).

> total ban of press and schools in local language[2][3]

As for the press ban link, it's a bit misleading here, because what was actually banned in Russian Empire was Latin alphabet, which of course targeted newly acquired Polish/Lithuanian territories, but you were still allowed to publish books in Lithuanian language in cyrillics (and that was done). So, it was more of a language reform than a total ban of its usage.

In fact, this is pretty similar to how Japan after WWII tried to move from its Kanji hieroglyphical writing (which was associated with communist China) to romaji/latin (which was associated with their new allies - US).

> oppressive state police to prosecute or silently get rid of anybody standing against occupant government

Police in Russian Empire was ready to silently get rid of anybody standing against government, period. That has nothing to do whether that anybody happened to be/live in Vilnius or Moscow. Also, political oppression and scare tactics are pretty much irrelevant to discussion about russification/sovietization/integration efforts.
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Wog is the slang term you are looking for I believe
You seem to be confused about what it means to ban free speech.
Only tangentially related, but I'm amazed by the absolute value of the US deficit. The German federal deficit used to be around 10-20 billion € (now down to zero) and everyone was crying over how horribly high it is. (I know that Germany is smaller, but it has at least a fourth of the US population.)
> When pollsters call the preference falsification continues.

I don't buy this. Sam Wang had projected Clinton winning the popular vote by 4.0% (+/- .6%). She's currently projected to win the popular vote by about 1% (the Electoral College margin is an artifact of the electoral system and unrelated to voting preferences). That means that maybe 1 in 60 Americans voted differently from what the polls predicted. So, while the margin of error relative to the margin of victory [1] was pretty big, the margin of error relative to the electorate was fairly small. It doesn't seem that a whole lot of people were hiding their actual preferences prior to the election.

[1] "Victory" only in the narrow mathematical sense of winning the national popular vote, obviously.
That is what that programmer told me, isn't it? COBOL was designed for a specific purpose, and according to her, having used it for that exact purpose, it gets the job done. COBOL seems to be the language hackers love to hate, but there is a reason it is still around.

During my training I once had a supervisor who spent years writing reports in RPG on an AS/400. She had interesting stories to tell, but unfortunately, she was always far too busy to actually tell them. :-(
And the cities with the higher ranked clubs are bigger:

London, Manchester, Liverpool, all have multiple Premier league teams. Birmingham used to have a couple. Glasgow in the Scottish league has a couple.

You will find the same in all of Europe. Top teams are based in Paris, Madrid, Barcelona, Munich, Milan, Dortmund, Amsterdam, and so on.

Note that there are several teams whose names are suburbs rather than the main city.
Here you go.

https://medium.com/@internaut_48577/peter-and-the-wolfe-b8de...
This is not looking good for GoPro at all. The Karma hasn't had really good reviews from the very start, and once DJI released the Mavic it basically lost all chances of grabbing a significant portion of the market. Now this is adding to the injury.
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There are people on the other end of the screen who built the technology, and they have feelings :)

Being nice is good.
> some of the proposals about sending all the immigrants back to where they came from seem absurd

Oh come on. Nobody is calling for sending all immigrants back. Trump's wife is an immigrant... The questions are:

* Big one: What to do about illegal immigration.

* Smaller one: What to do about the widespread abuse of the h1b program. For example, FY 2015, Infosys [outsourcing Indian company] leads the h1b pack with 23k visas, whereas Google has 3k visas.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/11/06/us/outsourcing...

http://www.myvisajobs.com/Reports/2015-H1B-Visa-Sponsor.aspx
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Trump will deport ILEGAL immigrants. Four paragraphs based on a false premise.
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> conflating what Trump said about immigration with what his supporters have said about immigration

Please find me a single example of this. I haven't heard a single republican ever complain about legal immigration.
Bootstrapping is a great way to describe this.

But once every 5 or so years I remember and become fixated again on the fact that there's nothing underneath.

And the results aren't good.

So the idea is that two sentiments you express there contradict each other, in some sense.

i.e. If there really was 'nothing underneath', then the results would be, well, irrelevant.

And, then if you start from the second bit, the fact that you have a fairly strong feeling that a certain situation is not good (by the sounds of it) and therefore (by implication) believe that there is a certain way that things should be, is what 'goes underneath'.
Living in a foreign country is pretty tough. It's also pretty tough to try to do so illegally. It's not the sort of thing one undertakes lightly. As a criminal, moving to a country where you don't speak the language, where you face discrimination, where you have no social network, and an extremely well funded police force, would be a stupid move.

I was an illegal immigrant at one point. I couldn't make it work. Restricting people who want to come to a country to improve their lives is indefensible. If the word for that isn't "racism" it must be "stupidity".
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How does this work when the spectrogram is finite time slice?!
Maybe. It's possible that this self-obsessed ogre realises through the machinations of the political system that he can still be a "winner" without focusing on the accumulation of personal wealth.

Remember, from January he is running for a second term and he's set a hilariously high bar for himself. If he doesn't make his existing voter base very happy in 2-3 years, he's toast.
>Just try to explain to everyday people just how hard the problem is

A bit off topic but Computerphile / Tom Scott did an excellent video doing that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY
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It's happening everywhere. Started with India in 2014, Brexit in June 2016 and now USA with Trump. Possibly France in the upcoming elections (2017)?
What the OP is referring to is that in Melbourne you have neighbourhoods of people of Greek ethnicity and then adjacent to them neighbourhoods of people from former-Yugoslavia and then adjacent to that neighbourhoods of Sicilians, Chinese, Polish...etc. There is no single WASP culture. I think you already went completely off mark when you started thinking in terms of white and non-white.
I don't really see the difference, but it should be noted that given Clinton's minority support there weren't many minorities supporting third party candidates, and there was a significant third party candidate vote this year. In the primaries Clinton actually lost the white vote to Sanders, despite winning the minority vote 3 to 1. It also isn't as if Trump is popular, he is one of the most disliked politicians ever to get elected. So I think it is more correct to say Clinton had weak support from white voters.
Lithuania was occupied for ~120 years by Russia empire and ~50 years by communists. Other than that it's different religion, different language, different culture. Similarities of course exist and Russian people are fine people but I would like to emphasis that we don't want people in other countries think that we are the same so current aggressive government of Russia have "rights" to start trouble here again because we belong to their influence zone. F* that. Lithuania and Lithuanians are free and independent. I hope you understand why this kind of innocent "they are similar" is not perceived well here in Baltic. It plays right into Russian propaganda machine (they are very very good at it, divide and conquer experience for hundreds of years). Don't be naive - this trend that resulted in brexit and Trump was a direct result of Russian information war campaign. I think next target will be EU and there is a lot of material to work on for them - France, Italy, Greece on top of current trend and traction of marginal political groups. I think it was easy to initiate such a trend as those aggressive leftist ideologies which had support of political elites basically discredited itself as no sane person can look at some of those people and say - yeah right that is smart and totally make sense. And those people got an alternative to aggressive idiocy.
There are no major cultural or ethnic similarities
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Are you kidding me Balto-Slavic languages???
1. Latvian and Estonian belongs to Baltic language family.
2. Estonian language has also nothing to do with slavic language also as it's a branch in Finno-Ugric languages.

Also using wikipedia as a source of information is questionable. As the pages related to post-soviet era countries are propoganda war zone for Russia and the countries itself to promote the point of view needed.
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Food - yes, a lot. Folklore, traditions, etc - no. The only reason why russian culture was in Lithuania in, lets say, 1980, it's because we were occupied? Mostly nothing left when we regained our independance...
It's not wrong. You don't need a car in Germany to move between most cities. But you do need a car to get around in rural Germany, especially between small towns.

This was a bit of a culture clash for me when moving from a city of one million to a much smaller city of fifteen thousand. I was used to being able to take public transport to get everywhere and I can actually take the train to move between the two cities, but in the smaller city everybody has or shares a car.
I think this strongly reflects the hypocrisy of the modern society. On the outside (especially on social media, most people wanted to be seen as a liberal/ pseudo intellectual bashing Trump and his policies. But on the inside they seemed to have appreciated some of his policies or attitude or whatever, and went ahead and voted for him. It's hard to take anyone at face value just based on their social media profile.
I'm a bit worried about the small-time merchants and dealers.
They don't have enough money to pay the worker force or buy new stock of goods. I have a lot of friends who do manual labor in construction field, they usually receive a 500 rupee note at the end of the day, most of their bosses have ran out of 'cash in hand', they have bank balance, but they cannot withdraw it.
Lets hope that won't deeply effect the economy...... "You Should (Almost) Never Rewrite Your Software"
Hillary is a face of western corruption to much of the world.

No, to 99% of the rest of the world she's just a former Secretary of State and the wife of a former president whose era is often viewed through a nostalgic lens compared to current turmoil.

Fox News doesn't broadcast outside USA, you know.
Only jumped on the python train after I left finance but the reason we used an add-in is because you can build dynamic sheets with calculations that update when the inputs change (where the inputs were pulling from the database).

So you could build a sheet that pulls in portfolio holdings for yesterday where yesterday updates each day and then compute performance and risk stats referencing the data cells in the sheet and it would all update.

In that context it was just an easy way to build reports pulling data from a database but same applies to quickly doing one-off analysis in Excel pulling dynamic data from the database - guys in finance tend to not be programmers but they're really good at Excel.

The add-in approach was really useful too because you could create function that returns the holdings of a portfolio to an array of cells (an array formula) and have a drop-down box with all portfolios that fed the input of the formula so that when you change the combo box, it changed the portfolio data and then everything recalculated off the back of that :)
Yes, for Canadian citizens, relocating within a country.
Trump is not known for his consistency.
That's just more capital, though. They aren't invading the land itself by force because they need to be able to sell their stuff to other countries and an invasion can cause trade sanctions.
You seem to be attacking me for stating a fact. Who cares about why they are wealthy — people in the computer industry are astonishingly wealthy in historic or global terms.
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Seems most of your problems seem to stem from the fact that you are too lazy to learn the language of the country you want to move to. From your offensive tone with regards to the refugees I get the impression you would still be the kind of person to moan about immigrants not speaking english in the US too though, right?!

This comment is beyond parody.
The Media (and you it seems) almost immediately went into "where did we do wrong and what can we do better" mode. While that's a completely important thing to do, and appropriate for many problem situations, it isn't appropriate here. Here's why:

1. Clinton won the popular vote.

2. Economists think Trump is a bad idea, so on that level, the popular vote was not wrong.

3. The electoral college is outdated, was originally created because southern states wanted to keep slavery: http://time.com/4558510/electoral-college-history-slavery/

Unless the electoral college decides to vote with the American popular vote in this election, very bad things could happen:

* California could try to hold a referendum for succession from the U.S., if they're not too stoned to do so: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-protest-trump-20...

* Riots.

Don't blame yourselves. The electoral college and Trump's campaign taking advantage of it (and the F.B.I.) are the reason that things are going to go bad.
> You can't definitively judge probabilistic predictions based on just 1 event.

Well, unfortunately, we have 4 years to think about it.

My wife and I are already looking at immigrating. I'm actively sending resumes to other places. If I can't fix it, then I'll leave it to those that want it this way.

(I guess this is what it felt like when the regular Germans had Hitler voted into power?)
Sure it is, most of the problems I've seen described fall squarely in to "we went cost cutting all the way and got shit results - who could have guessed". If you hire cheap devs even by local standards then you get cheap devs, add to that the lack of proper management like you said because it would cost to do it properly and you get crap. Tech giants all have teams all over the world and it works OK, but they pay top rates for local standards and have proper management chain top down.

You can save money by outsourcing, but if you try to minimize expenses at all costs it shows in quality.