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I think that says more about you than everyone else. I would walk halfway across town for slightly better bbq. Ultimately what is there to life than improving the quality of your experience. The issue is what consitutes better BBQ is completely subjective. So we might start from opposite sides of town and try and get to each others nearby BBQ ribs place. That's just human nature. With respect to "frameworks" some of this tends to be kind of centric to how you program. For the last decade most of my work isn't within any framework because its algorithmic with only a need for string IO and some parsers. Perl 6 for that is the framework.
> How could I sit in a nice café in London, writing this, without wanting to run away

So true, but where would you run to? Even the Antarctic is melting due to "made-up" climate change.
Intellectual arrogance is just as ineffective as plain ignorance.
because he agrees with the Alberta oil sands people that lesbians are hot?
Thanks. The chances we'll hear the perspective from a javascript dev with no haskell exp are slim though.
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I assume he's referring to a lot of blue collar workers getting the shit end of the stick on trade deals. It's the rust belt that carried him to the presidency after all.
Point happily taken, and I didn't mean that you were an asshole but rather that the comment was a case of being an asshole or at least easily read that way.

This happens a lot on HN and we know it's unintentional, just as we know that the people who upvote such comments aren't doing so maliciously. Unfortunately, positive parts can add up to a negative whole, and good intentions aren't enough. It's a systemic problem, not a personal one.
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Back in the day it was via the News Election Service, which was a joint venture of the major news networks and AP. These volunteers (I was one of them) would go down to the voting precinct and once the votes were counted, the election officials would announce the totals for each candidate. They would write down and then phone in these results to a central office. There was a computer automated system at the other end that would ingest the results.
I'm not going to get into this discussion. You're welcome to have your opinion, but I don't think all Trump's objectors are against Israel.
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And Silver had repeatedly stated that the reasons the odds were higher for trump in his models than in others was the much larger number of undecided voters than in past elections. It's somewhat apparent that a large chunk "undecided" voters were actually Trump supporters, perhaps afraid of being labeled as "deplorable".

Maybe the result of maligning (and I'm using the term loosely here) the opposition voters results in statistically significant polling errors (echos of Brexit). Maybe word clouds can be used to suggest a lean toward one side of the error? An embarrassment index of sorts? I dunno.

Obviously not really a win for Silver, but I'll give him credit for being more conservative in his estimates than other models. You work with the data you have.
> "There are issue like abortion, that to me are like the holocaust. I know most don't agree with me on that, and I can understand that they don't see a fetus as a life, I get it. But imagine for a second that you were firmly convinced that a fetus was as much a life as a new born."

Okay, so here I am - lifelong progressive Democrat. And I'll open up to this discussion.

So, I'm believing that at the moment of conception a full viable life is formed. And that life has the full rights and protections afforded by the State (both federal and all levels beneath).

Let's start with the simple route - the parents are happy to have the child, are financially capable, and medically sound for delivery. In this nothing is different from how it is today. A healthy child is born to a happy family.

Our differences seem to come from all the complications in the process.

Let's start with an understandable one - the life of the mother is in danger if she delivers the child. This is a horrifying decision. Does the state force the delivery of the child and thus condemn the mother to death? Is not one of the roles of modern medicine to protect people from death? This is, after all, why we now give birth in hospitals.

So, before I go further arguing with myself - what's your rationale as a conservative Christian on that scenario? Is it really as simple as "protect the child's life at all costs"?

For what it's worth - I don't think anyone's an idiot for being on the conservative side. I think a lot of the issues we struggle with in this day and age (such as abortion) are just far more complicated and intricate than most give credit for.
I don't know why anyone listens to social science "experts" at all without asking significant methodological questions in the future.

I keep hearing how it is unbelievable how there is a 55% approval rating of the current sitting president and yet...

If it were me I guess I would be asking how exactly yet another made-up "fact" is calculated / rendered believable rather than just parroting more nonsense.
I agree, but want to point out that it is not just blue collar jobs being off-shored. Many white-collar jobs (software development included) are being off-shored, too.
Yes exactly.

When I first saw the karma I was intrigued especially because of the removable gimbal but then DJI announced the Mavic Pro and it is just generations ahead of the Karma even thought the gimbal is fixed.

Karma doesn't have any of the flight intelligence that the Mavic has which is very disappointing.
Update: Markets are up, so no alpha for me. Curse you, efficient markets full of traders just as smart as me!
what is the feature you're talking about? I don't see any innovation in elm on the order of a GC or a type system. Perhaps you're referring to Elm's "feature" of removing the ability to create abstractions away from the programmer so that everything must be done by copy-paste and brute force.
When talking about culture like this, it is always easy to venture into the ordinary, meaningless differences. But I will provide some examples. Together they maybe form a picture.

Germans have that klischee about being punctual and organized, no? Well, it is true, and it is very different in France. Meetings don't start on time, even in the workplace. But also when you meet up with friends, you don't have to be there on time, and it is seldom expected. It is not as crazy as in Africa or latin america, but if you meet in a bar at 7pm people will arrive 7:15 or 7:30. That was difficult in the beginning. Of course, also happens in Germany, but to a lesser extent.

This translates to other things: I was the first PhD student of my french professor who actually finished his thesis before the deadline. We made a plan, I sticked to it. She fully expected we would run late and was quite surprised. Also, in the international project I was working on, our french colleagues had the tendency to not fully respect the deadlines. That was actually a positive thing, because the deadlines were crazy and instead work was always done when needed, not when the plan saw it fit, leading to a better work distribution.

Food. The coffee is different in France. Meals take longer, also the lunch break does. Entrée, main course, dessert – way more common to have it all. There is a whole restaurant culture in France that is way different than in Germany, with people of the middle class eating in restaurants every week at least once, and with many many more restaurant than in an equally sized german town.

There is also a difference in how people dress. Depends on the place and setting of course, and you can't easily compare Berlin and Paris anyway. But still, it is noticeable also in other cities. There is another standard.

The thing with friends is hard to describe and it also changes anyway depending on age and setting, no matter where you are probably. And I won't go into the topic of women. Something else then: You have in France these really friendly french men who really talk a lot. Very easy to talk to, as they will just start the conversation and help you along, which is quite nice when you meet new colleagues. But in Germany that would mean that someone is really interested in becoming a friend. Here it is just the default for some, it means nothing special.
I think that attitude sums up the problem nicely.

Anyone that disagrees with my take on this issue is a moron.

I disagree fundamentally - if you stop regarding the 'other side' as 'other', as stupid, as meritless, and start to consider their opinions when making policy, well we might make progress.
> all the things you said

Fuck yeah?
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> with a possibility of the Supreme Court majority

... possibility? They already have it. He gets to pick Scalia's replacement and that's 5-4. If Ginsburg or Breyer can't make it 4-8 more years (and Ginsburg is 84), then it'll be a guarantee for the next 30+ years, minimum.
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Come on, be realistic. The guy would say anything to get votes. He is just like my Swedish politicians [0]. So what will the US and the rest of the world get? I don't know. You don't know. I'm not even certain that Trump knows.

I hope, as an European, Trump will be pro NATO enough to keep Putin from invading more countries...

Let's hope that Trump will look at who buys US stuff and who doesn't. And Russia is too badly managed to have a good economy and be a good partner for trade.

Nothing positive about Clinton implied, either.

[0] The Swedish ex communists have declared themselves a feminist party -- but stamp it as "racist" when immigrant women have problems with oppression in the immigrant areas... :-) They are courting the intolerant immigrant votes. I would dare anyone to find any more hypocritical political example anywhere, but... sadly, there certainly are.
If you want to write anything non-trivial in Elm you need to use native modules though because the language doesn't give you access to any of it's "magic"
Global city-states need to become independent with open immigration, separate from the Nations which should enforce strong immigration controls to maintain the native population & culture.
Thoughts on the election:
For the past year, I've have been made to feel stupid (only the uneducated back Trump), violent (we cause rioting), abusive (can't treat women correctly), uncool (Lady Gaga tells me), and you name it. Fake patriots are everywhere and they did not even have the courage to explain what this was all about.

Last night was nothing short of a miracle. God stepped in and brought the victory over all the lying, cheating polling stations and managers. It was amazing. Trump won even though they had totally rigged it against him!

There is still a lot left to do. And just like finding out your best friend is not perfect, Trump has a lot to learn. He needs our future support and prayers. There is so much corruption and he is not experienced with this. Many will claim to be on his side (people "love" winners) and it will take time to identify the fakes.

The news media is lying to you. Think for yourselves.
> Here in California, some of the proposals about sending all the immigrants back to where they came from seem absurd.

FYI, I'm not aware of anyone proposing to send all immigrants back, only undocumented (also known as "illegal") immigrants. Like it or not, the current laws are such that people in that category are not here legally, so if we truly are a nation of laws, those laws should be upheld, no?

If you don't agree with the law, vote to change it rather than act as if the law just doesn't exist.

To single out a certain group of people and act as if laws don't apply to them in a country that is otherwise built on laws is to deprive them (and all of us) of one of the most fundamental American virtues. Whether we agree with the laws or not, if we don't uphold them, we cease to be a free country (it's the laws that keep us free, after all). It's absurd to believe otherwise.

Or, you know, we can keep going down the rabbit hole of selectively enforcing laws, and we can ignore your vote too because some people don't agree with it; the voting laws are just words on paper.
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It will be interesting to see if people leave specially if announcements were made on FB/Twitter. The convenience of online medium and harshness of offline life can't be beat.
I don't think you really have your finger on the pulse of most voters.

I can tell you as someone in silicon valley who sort of vaguely supports trump, that I have been essentially not permitted to talk about it. What's the benefit to it? Why would I speak up and engage in a conversation? Any talk of Trump here isn't actually a real debate. It's everyone around you saying "Trump supporters are racists and bigots. They are disgusting."

Nobody _actually_ wants to hear any arguments from the other side. So I sit with my mouth closed. It's better than losing my friends and having my coworkers ostracize me for my political views. Which maybe they would have the chance to change if they were willing to listen, but aren't.

I know so many people like myself. I was surprised with the result of the election, but not surprised at the fact that there was a surprise like this. Places like SV don't know how many Trump supporters there are or even _why_ they really support him, because they've essentially put their hands over their eyes and their ears and spun in circles shouting "Trump is racist! You are racist!"
I don't understand why the Professional class struggles with this simple concept so much. Just look at the angst on HN about H1B IT workers undercutting US IT workers (and those are legal!). I would imagine this group's priorities would dramatically change if boatloads of Eastern European software engineers were arriving illegally in Silicon Valley and accepting salaries at half of their own. Then try to be concerned with lofty concepts such as "inclusiveness!" "stronger together!" "immigration!" when you're out of work due to ongoing violations of the law that half the country seems perfectly okay with. And on top of that, they call you racist for pointing it out!
>Also people seem to care a LOT about immigration and preserving their culture. Instead of patronising these people it's time we tried to understand their concerns and try to assuage them.

Many of the people that care so much about immigration and preserving their culture are the grandchildren of immigrants. It's very much an attitude of "I got mine, you can go F yourself".
I totally agree that the division and tribalism on US politics is terrible. The threats, disrespect and alienation between both sides are not okay, and both sides are guilty of that. It's the fruits of the toxic and hostile political culture in the US, and it's gotten continuously worse over the past 20 years. I don't think there was this kind of hostility in the 1980s (though I admit I'm too young to be sure about that).
Well, Latvia and Lithuania are not Slavic in culture, save the culture pushed on to them via Russian domination. Their languages are related to each other, but are completely different to the Russian (and other Slavic languages) being in a different branch of Indo-European, with almost the same relationship as say, French and Dutch have with each other. Their folk culture has similar roots, but then so does the culture of say, Romania - another Eastern country in Europe that is not Slavic. I know a bunch of Latvians, and they are very different to the Poles, Bulgarians, Czechs and Russians I know, both ethnically and in attitude to life in general.

To be honest, even lumping the Slavic cultures together isn't really satisfactory, because even the Czech/Slovaks I know are culturally quite different to the Poles, and they are from a similar region in Europe and speak languages that are relatively close to each other.

Estonia is even less related. Their language is in a different language family, same as Finnish, and their culture is again very different to Russian.
Yep, that was the secret sauce.

They had reporters, viewers, executives that were one both sides of the issue. So one this one thing it wound up..."fair and balanced".

Anytime a bunch of like-minded people reports on something, you'll wind up with a sideways story.
Notably, the Canadians in my various social media feeds were not talking about moving back.
You think Evan is just waiting around for the right abstraction to dawn on him? It's been years with not one bit of code written in the direction of adding a mechanism for abstraction in the language (whether that be typeclasses or something else)
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They'll try, but I don't think very many countries will be interested in taking them.
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Don't worry, Trump has it all figured out. He'll build a seawall all around Florida, and make climate change pay for it.
No, they aren't; though culture grows through them and around them. They're the result of government policies. Soviet apartment blocks aren't culture either.
I don't mean to sound offensive but you do understand how the US election system works, right?

It is possible to win the popular vote but lose the election. I don't think anyone is spinning the fact she won the popular vote to mean she should've won.

The President is elected by the electoral college who aren't directed by popular vote but by electorates.
> Last night was nothing short of a miracle

Honest question: Why are you on Hacker News?
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I've been thinking about this too. He might have no no history in government, but the years of selling himself and his name have made him damn near the perfect politician.
Very well put. I've been extremely turned off by everything you described but couldn't put words to it that well.
My wife is a non-Western immigrant (English is her third language). She says she's never faced any discrimination and many people assumes she was born here (in Toronto). Non-white people are very common and very accepted in Toronto.
It sacrifices type safety without offering enough value to be worth that - especially given that the model also eliminates useful stack traces. It forces non-distributed applications to pay the price of an API designed for distributed ones. Its FSM model doesn't offer the conciseness it should.
Fiscal policy is much more likely to raise velocity of money than "excess reserves" are.
But, if people keep using your software (or, for comparison, music), then there does seem to be value in it. Why then, shouldn't you be compensated for the work it took?
The Euro zone is also thinking about abolishing the 500 Euro bills to make dealing with "black money" a bit harder.

I just don't really see that it would have such big impact. Sure, 500 E in 100 euro bills takes up 5 times more space (thickness is the same), which makes it harder to transport and easier to find. But still.

Just for the sake of curiosity, the height of 1 Million Euros:

100 Euro notes = 1 meter

500 Euro notes = 20 cm

(Dimensions are 147 * 82 * 1 vs 160 * 82 * 1 mm, so not that much difference)

I'm just not sure if that would actually have a meaningful impact.
> Then watch how quickly right wingers jumps down your throat for not being politically correct.

I heard a great phrase on This American Life last week: Patriotically Correct. The Trumpian inverse of politically correct.
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I live in India. Talked to lot of friends and every single one lauded the move. Of course it is a bit inconvenient, but everyone are ready to sacrifice it in long term. But I live in a city. It would be a bit more inconvenient in villages. But I am sure they will adjust as everyone are used to giving and taking credits in smaller villages.

But the mood might not be very bright in business communities(And there is chance you talked to them).

Remember in India only 3% of the population pay taxes (Yea 3%, really shocking. Many small and medium businesses don't file tax. This move will ultimately make them move cash into the bank and could later bring them into tax bracket.

Edit: reference for % population paying taxes http://bit.ly/2fDR7by
I know some Trump supporters who are neither racist nor homophobic nor misogynistic. I also know Hillary voters who will drop the "N" word talking about blacks. You can't really divine who a person is by who they vote for.
It's really not that bad. It's mainly there to make sure companies don't alienate Quebec's native french speaker. You can do fine in the Qc tech industry even if you barely understand french (Source: personal experience)
"You may be right that limits may be placed on when an abortion can be obtained."

For the women in my life, abortion rights are important rights. Having the government restrict their access to this safe, legal medical procedure is a scary invasion of state power into the doctor-patient relationship.

I care about the women in my life, so when they care about access to abortion, I care about it in sympathy.

"... diabetics will not be able to afford their medication, etc."

Before the ACA, I was uninsurable, thanks to having had my gallbladder out several years prior. "Pre-existing condition." The ACA allowed me to buy health insurance again.

If they repeal that, I'm likely to lose access to the U.S. health care system.

That scares me, personally.

Lots of things about this are scary, because they affect my life and the lives of people I care about.
As much as the media tried to make this about racism vs liberalism, I don't think it was really about that.

Yes, it's a snub that the pro-Trump wing doesn't give a shit about women and minorities and LGBT. That much is clear. No matter what, to vote Trump you have to see certain people as "acceptable losses".

And yes, Trump is backed by a lot of vitriolic racists.

But the key thing, I think, that won Trump the presidency was anti-globalism, and the fact that he's a gigantic asshole.

Americans wanted an asshole. Pro-Trump voters see him like Apple saw Steve Jobs - the guy who cut through the BS and saw simple problems with simple solutions, and demanded that those problems be fixed.

Faced with the problem of America's increasingly anemic industrial jobs, the political wing and the press collectively said "we're okay with this". Trump said insane things like making Apple build stuff in the USA and pulling out of trade agreements.

Faced with terrorism in Europe, the press and the left collectively said "well there's not much we can do about that, we have to take care of the refugees". Trump said "screw the refugees, I'm closing the border and kicking out the muslims".

Trump offers simple, brutal solutions to complex problems. His solutions are generally pretty stupid, but they sound like solutions, which is better than the complex rationalizations we hear from everyone else.

This also explains why his opinion on the middle-east oscillates between "let's just pull out and let them kill each other" and "let's just carpet-bomb the crap out of ISIS". Simple, brutal solutions.
TIL that you can be an intellectually challenged, racist, misogynistic, lying, tax dodging sex pest and still be president of the USA.
It's all okay. You're allowed to be a racist now.