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"As a European I prefer it much to the war mongering of Kelly that damaged Russian and European business and relations and just fosters hate."

Or maybe Russia damaged relations with EU itself by invading Ukraine and occupying it's part (Crimea)?
Newcastle voted remain, as did most major Uk cities. It was the surrounding hinterlands and rural areas that voted leave.
First - Trump is not Modi. Modi is much better and experienced leader than Trump (or Clinton). I like Trump too.

Second - The entire election season was nasty. US is now seeing the real face of democracy with diversity.

Third - The voters did not have a great choice. If the elections were to occur like India, it would have ended up in a hung parliament. And that would be the worst thing to happen.

Fourth - Would you like if your job is offshored for low-costs? NO!... or Would you like to see veterans, elders or seniors live unhappily? NO!... The US (govt) will not be able to stop offshoring without allowing lower minimum pay. The only way to do that is by applying protectionist measures that will work in the short term. And most-likely that would weaken the currency over a longer term.
Where to begin.. Milos Yiannopolous is a great example. Lauren Southern, Ben Shapiro at DePaul University. Roger Williams University banned a conservative student group, Condi Rice was disinvited from speaking at Rutgers commencement, Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali was disinvited from a commencement speech, Ari Fleisher was disinvited from Middlebury in 2002, Ann Coulter was disinvited by Cornell, John Brennan was disinvited by U Penn in 2016, Charles Murray disinvited by Virginia Tech in 2016, Peter Theil disinvited by Berkeley in 2014z

It goes on and on. See thefire.org/resources/disinvitation-database for a complete database of disinvitation attempts. The vast majority in the past several years have been from the Left.
> 2. You blame an entire race for your cousin being raped

You are putting words into his mouth. His description of the event was entirely about a fact.

Quote for reference.

> Oh and my 8-year old cousin was raped by an Arab teenager – I still don't know whether that's due to probability or whether he identifies to the Arabs-against-whites cause. It did change a lot for me.
I've tried this as I was really excited after hearing about fusions discontinuation and how incredibly poorly performing virtualbox IO and network is.

I found it to be even slower than virtualbox which I have no idea how this is possible. Tested on a late 2015 5k iMac top specced and a late 2015 MacBook top specced both running OSX 10.11 at the time.

I will re-test the latest version with MacOS 10.12.
Yes, should have said (2012).
It's a great point you make. Because we're not allowed to think like that, we can't talk about it. However, we do base our decisions on it. So here we are. Still not allowed to mention the elephant in the room. PC gone mad.
YouTubers making parody videos. Social Blade estimates a viral video of about 6m views could earn between $3k to $23k in ad revenue.
No but Twitter is already there, is unprecedented and it works.
On the other hand I wonder how many people voted for Clinton because she was a woman, I would wager that's not 0 as well.

Of course, I don't know whether the yea-woman outweighed the nay-woman.
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We'll see this week if the government can pull this off smoothly, that's the primary parameter to see how successful this campaign was.
> The rural voter who lost his job doesn't care about the theory of comparitive advantage.

This is am important point. Current system does not foster competition. As a migrant myself, I think the whole system is rigged to the benefit of chosen few mega corporation.

Taking UK as an example, Skilled immigration category was abolished few years back due to which I cannot apply for a visa and compete in free market for a salary. However, I am allowed to come to UK on a lower salary for nine years easily under company transfer scheme practically bounded to my employer with no option.

If allowed to compete as an individual, I would either compete for higher wages or go home. Current system just puts myself as well local at disadvantage to benefit chosen few.

The whole objective of free market and globalization is lost to greed and manipulation.
> SQL is not an implementation but a specification

For clarification, is the GP referring to Microsoft SQL Server when then they say 'SQL' or do they actually mean SQL?

Microsoft's product naming convention is confusing IMHO.
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If the London city-state's boundaries are determined by the Brexit vote, remember that Hillingdon (Heathrow), Uttlesford (Stanstead), Crawley (Gatwick) all voted to leave. Only Newham (London City Airport) was majority Remain.
Trump is looking to get about the same amount of votes as Romney.

Clinton is getting a lot less votes than Obama got.

So there is an alternative explanation there, that rather than one group of people getting sick of shrill accusations of racism, a different group of people just doesn't like Hilary Clinton all that much.
Kind of reminds me of the medieval Hanseatic League - city-states and merchant guilds around the Baltic Sea trading goods and culture (and providing for the defence of all that shipping) while the interior regions were more isolated.

Are we really all part of New Hansa?
On November 6, 2000, during his final pre-election stump speech, Bush explained his history of political triumph thusly: "They misunderesimated me."

What an idiot. American liberals made fun of him for that one for years.

It is worth considering that he didn't misspeak.

He did, however, deliberately cultivate the confusion. He understood the smug style.

W's was perhaps a more subtle dominating response to the Smug, but at this point we can't say it was different than Trump's. Both of them went to school with the Smug. They know what it represents both to itself and to the majority of the nation. Neither of them buy into it themselves, unlike e.g. Romney.

Democrats lose when the Republican candidate has an authentic and rhetorically effective response to the Smug. Now that it's happened twice, at least some Republicans will remember it the next time around. Democrats will either do the hard work of excising this from their ideology and communication, or they will lose in the same way again.
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After Brexit, the smugness continued. Remain supporters took the campaign for a revote that got millions of signatures as a sign people were regretting, but obviously the signatures mostly were from people who had voted to remain.

Still, "they regret it already" was the message spreading throughout Europe for a while. I recently saw some research stating that a very small percentage had changed their mind about the vote, and they came more or less equally from both sides. So no, no significant regret noticed.

Not sure why I'm writing this. It just seems that the people seeming to vote rationally are completely irrational when it comes to judging the other side. Did we collectively lose the skill of empathy?

We need to understand this or we'll be repeating these mistakes forever.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overview_of_gun_laws_by_nation has an incomplete list, but it notes Pakistan.
Yeah, the U.S. is a diverse place. Even the American people don't understand their own diversity, as you can see from the shock about the results of this election.
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I don't like to see comments labelling someone as disingenuous here. What I said was factual hence the downvote.
Yes, in the same way that Trump was chosen by US replicablican (and later, all) voters.

That said, it was a poor choice by the Democrats. They messed up. Whether it was the DNC or the rank-and-file democratic voters, IDK, but they somehow, in some way, managed to chose a more unwinnable candidate than the Republican Donald Trump.
>folklore and literature is different.
>traditions

Excuse me, but this is complete bullshit.

>some shared history

Unlike some other countries Ukraine was almost never independent.
Yep, they spend £600m a year on management consultants to tell them things they already know. Enough to run 8-9 large hospitals.

That's public money going to the private sector for no real benefit.
>A black guy selling "Make America Great Again" Merchandise. Like seriously. Saw him on CNN too

Probably you shouldn't watch CNN too much about politics.
Could sum1 write a GM script to replace all abbr.s with their ffs? The over use of abbr.s is one of the most XABs on Hacker News.

Could someone write a Grease Monkey script to replace all abbreviations with their full forms? The over use of abbreviations is one of the most extremely annoying behaviours on Hacker News.

(Thank you https://www.allacronyms.com/aa-search?q=annoying&cx=01082138...)
Noam Chomsky Predicted the Rise of Trump Six Years Ago
And can we judge an entire political opinion on the actions a of a tiny minority of people? If we are going to play that game, there are lots of great examples of similar nonsense from the Left.

Do we judge black people on the statements of Louis Farrakhan's anti-Jewish rhetoric? Or Jeramiah Wright's sermons? Or Jesse Jackson's corruption? Or even Hilary Clinton's corruption?
Ok, I'm trying to think of a silver lining of all this.

Trump and brexit are about bringing changes. For brexit to work, it has to be hard brexit, for Trump to work, he has to follow through the things he said. And they must show the changes they bring are good, for example, there need to be more jobs, less foreigner, working class people take home more money, etc. When my thought reached this point, I'm thinking: it's impossible for them to do it. They either bring the economy down and hurt more people, or they betray their supportors. Either way will spell disaster for this Trump/Brexit ideology and put an end to it.

Brexit/Trump fail => People support them realise they made a mistake => less people support far right Isolationism => we restore the happy central liberal world.

But then I realise how wrong I was, they don't have to make it work for everyone, they just need to please the people who supported them, which is only half of the country, they have the other half to screw over with. They CAN make it work in the short term for some people, like Hilter did between 1933-1939. But then what..?

So no silver lining after all.
While I agree with your point about cities. London is on the tidal stretch of the thames, and the second biggest port in the UK https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_ports_in_Europ...
> This is, perhaps, one of the reasons why the Baltic States are doing so much better than any other countries in the former USSR.

... not as important though as their location and size, which made possible for them to get into NATO and EU right after USSR collapse.
I don't think the polls can possibly tell us much about how such a fundamentally different campaign could have worked out. Certainly a Bernie ticket could well have retained the protest, 'try anything for a change' swing voters that swung away from the Democrats. However if anyone on the Democrat side could have won over republican leaners concerned about competent economic management and national security it was Hillary.
This was ignored when I tried to post it recently, but maybe now is the time for Brown U. Prof. of Political Economy Mark Blyth's discussion of "Global Trumpism" - the discontent with the establishment and general revolt against technocracy and globalism.

Full lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bkm2Vfj42FY

TL;DW 4min summary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzl4B3mrKQE
That is only partially true.

Before, your bubble usually was the people around you, physically. You had network news and the newspapers for your information. You could read books about other countries and systems. If you had cable, you could watch the 24 hour news at the time - Cspan and similar things.

The bubble has simply shifted and become slightly more obvious.

Which really disappoints me. I was all hopeful that the internet would broaden people's bubble, but that was 20+ years ago.
Yes, programming is a trade. Which is perfectly fine.
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"Why do russia need baltic states?"

Because Baltic states were part of Russian empire once and USSR later. Putin would be forever glorified in Russia and could rule till the end of days if he'd manage to "restore the glorious Russian Empire". Another reason is that Baltic countries stand as a gate to (old) Europe for Russia in both economical and military meaning.
I seriously doubt the republicans and Trump will be on the same page much. Plus the democrats are slightly stronger in the senate, so the filibuster should slow many changes down a bit.
Horseshit. "white male" isn't a culture. Culture is movies and religious holidays and cuisine and clothing and birthday songs and literature and public holidays and sporting events and driving style and living arrangements and art preferences and so on and so forth. I must have missed the meeting where we declared it verboten to sing Happy Birthday, wear blue jeans, and burn sausages on a mass-produced barbeque when we have a day off and the sun is out.

Culture is not "has white skin and a dick". That's a phenotype, not culture.
I'd be surprised if strategic redistricting doesn't happen within 4 years.
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I would be interested in an "ahem" remover, with the constraint that it should also work if the "ahem" is superimposed over other sound, e.g. music.
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Why is healthcare so expensive in the states? People seem to focus on private Heath insurance vs Obama care. But neither should be so expensive. Why are other countries able to provide way cheaper care?
Peaceful coexistence is all well and good, but if we're peacefully coexisting while Russia annexes more of, well, the world – that's not acceptable to many.
This article seems prophetic in hindsight. Especially this quote:

“The United States is extremely lucky that no honest, charismatic figure has arisen,” Chomsky went on. “Every charismatic figure is such an obvious crook that he destroys himself, like McCarthy or Nixon or the evangelist preachers. If somebody comes along who is charismatic and honest this country is in real trouble because of the frustration, disillusionment, the justified anger and the absence of any coherent response. What are people supposed to think if someone says ‘I have got an answer, we have an enemy’? There it was the Jews. Here it will be the illegal immigrants and the blacks. We will be told that white males are a persecuted minority. We will be told we have to defend ourselves and the honor of the nation. Military force will be exalted. People will be beaten up. This could become an overwhelming force. And if it happens it will be more dangerous than Germany. The United States is the world power. Germany was powerful but had more powerful antagonists. I don’t think all this is very far away. If the polls are accurate it is not the Republicans but the right-wing Republicans, the crazed Republicans, who will sweep the next election.”
They were a part of Russian Empire for quite some time. Also Latvian sharpshooters were the driving armed force behind communists.

Soviet state was a catastrophe you don't get to opt out.
I'm serious here: Can we make a "euuhmm" remover for Elon Musk? I love his vision, but can't stand his talks because he can't a word out without "euhmm"-ing it.
With the Senate and House controlled by Republicans, Trump has an enormous mandate now. Nothing stands in the way of his delivering on his campaign promises.

We know he loves to assign blame to anyone but himself. He doesn't take responsibility for mistakes. That's been proven over and over again, by everyone from business partners to former wives.

In four years when America hasn't become "great again", who is he going to blame? That's the really scary part to me. Electing a populist isn't when things go off the rails -- it's when the in-power populists start looking for scapegoats.
You aren't wrong, or not all wrong. However, you must consider a) that Nader made a very large difference in 2000, and b) that Trump got to run against Hillary Clinton. She is intelligent and able, but she has been a handy target for conservative media for twenty years now, and a good deal of that stuck with voters.

"Both of them went to school with the Smug"; well, yes, and some would find it curious that our populists come from Yale and Penn.
Ah okay, didn't know about Stanford. Thanks for the addition.
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I would love to add a tool that I helped develop and maintain called HelloBox. It's a tool for creating a community.

https://www.hellobox.co

You can create either a private or public community and I've seen a number of small teams using it to post questions, share links etc. Of course there are a number of similar tools available (many forum software, as an example), but we've built HelloBox to make things far easier + powerful to run your community. I think it might suit very nicely with co-working spaces where people need to ask questions, send messages or make an announcement.
If I remember correctly, it started as a pet project of some guy who wanted to tech himself some techniques.
It is a great aggregation of sources that is first filtered by geo (also holds remote positions), and then can be filtered deeper on other criteria such as skills/languages or visa-supporting employers.

Highly recommended.
> Nebraska abolishes the death penalty

Nebraska kept the death penalty, or more correctly, reinstated it.

http://journalstar.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-poli...

The vote was, do you want to repeal the repeal of the death penalty.
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The simple explanation is that the left won't touch socially conservative ideas, leaving the right free to pander to that base. Combine this with policies that look like tax cuts to the casual observer and you've got a winning formula, despite that fact that the socially conservative electorate isn't interested in libertarian capitalism at all.

Just look at how Trump changed his views on abortion to pander to the social conservatives, and as a consequence won huge evangelical support.

So the right has taken the attitude that they don't care about morals, they'll adopt any policy which allows them to win so they can go about pushing the agenda of liberal capitalism for the benefit of themselves. Sure, there are some genuine moralists on the right too - but none of those just won an election.
I think it's disingenuous to characterize a political stance of a continuation on policy as "liberal". That's what "conservative" means by any dictionary out there. These terms have become utterly useless.
The DNC's mistake was misunderestimating (sic) Trump. The media played their part too.
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> EDIT: also, the fact that during the >150 years occupation we've managed to stay separate nation (despite huge efforts by Russia to integrate us) and keep our identity strong, says a lot of how different we are.

There was no "150 years of occupation", AFAIK even Lithuania's government officially talks only about 50 years of occupation by USSR. And most of the countries that were part of USSR managed to keep their identities (basically everyone apart from Belarus), so integration efforts haven't really that "huge".
I realize this is subjective to you, but one of these is not like the others, as they say. Care to explain?
I am from Sweden and basically everyone here (except some immigrants) speak english very fluently. You would have no issues living in any Nordic country with only English.

I worked at a pretty international company before where there was several individuals whom had lived in Sweden for several years without even bothering to learn the language.

Don't be that guy or gal though, Swedes don't like it when you live here for years without learning anything. Norway is the same, same with Finland and Denmark.

You are welcome, if you ever consider moving I could probably give you some tips of potential employers!
> Also people seem to care a LOT about immigration and preserving their culture.

I believe their care about that because they have nothing else to look forward to.

(Lower-)Middle class in the West has been funding prosperity around the world (can't find the chart at the moment). Basically every social class everywhere in the world is better off than 30 years ago, except middle class in the Western world.

There is this generation that have less than their parents and know that their children will have even less. They cling to what they have, this nebulous identity/culture. And a bunch of populist politician is just happy to give them that.

What they really need is prosperity. Very few care about their neighbors beliefs when life is good. People living in cities like London demonstrate that: they are way more liberal because being liberal does not (seem to) cost them a lot.
The thing is that most of these folks were elected officials. So he'd have to get them voted out. He can, of course, not appoint them to seats and things like that.

Those that aren't politicians? Unless they are in a position where he has some control over their career, there isn't much he can do.
The extreme/regressive left was too busy frothing about white tyranny to pay attention to the true tyrant, Trump, "he'll never get voted in." At the same time, the majority of that vote was being called names. Hillary made the mistake of constructing her lies in order to gain favor with the loudest crowd.

I'm very far left and completely agree with you. The American left is an abysmal disgrace in terms of what I consider social progress. Instead of attempting to spread progressive thinking, the American left spreads hatred and name calling.

Next time try making friends and not enemies. More of this[1] and less of this[2].

[1]: http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/july/how-one-black-blues...
[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/liberal-but-not-tole...