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Could very well have been a factor. I gave up on it quickly. Repeatedly crashing renders it an unnecessary annoyance. VirtualBox works well enough, is stable and reliable, and Veertu doesn't distinguish itself enough to merit the pain in switching.
If someone walked in to my office, pointed at me and said "I'll do that guys job for half the price" I would wonder two things: 1) Can he do this job as well as I can? 2) If he can, why would he accept half of what I am under-payed?
I can think of several things, from cultural long term changes, rhetoric and acknowledge of human struggle, to smaller changes on the local level.

We could start by not calling them privileged, demeaning them in their struggle. Acknowledging peoples struggle in life is often the first step in helping a demographic, be that women, black, white, immigrant, American born, or what have you.

As cultural changes, one would be to lower the harm from being unemployed. For men, too much of social value and social opportunity is tied to being employed and having a high earning potential.
In 2008, McCain voters were very disappointed but didn't experience the total loss of emotional control I've witnessed last night and this morning.

This article is a rare expression of maturity.
Well, we could see a cultural revolution style event where elites are persecuted. I don't think that's likely with trump, given that his rhetoric focuses on immigrants, but if there is another trump after him, it could happen. The problems for the white working class aren't going away. Trump is going to make them worse, and they will be even angrier at the next go around.
This. Canadian salaries are low, compared to the US. They're much better than Europe.
"a demagogue with authoritarian tendencies that considers the norms of a liberal democracy to be a inconvenience and subordinate to the needs of order "

You know she lost right?
Education helps the young, at least as our systems are built.

The people vocalizing their opinion by voting for Trump are beyond the age where education can be the key (old dogs and new tricks, etc.). There isn't a will to go to an educational program. There is a will to work and support yourself, but no work for them to do...

/because we can't get our shit together and fund infrastructure programs

//Not bitter.
When/where can we start buying seeds? I'm gonna jump on this train. I bet I can barter my weed for those delicious giant oranges dangling off my neighbor's tree.
Well, we will see how that will go for them, I guess. But, I'm no longer going to support them, at least.

The fact is that no one wants their unskilled, uneducated labor.
I think this is because of France's progressive income tax rates. In Russia we still have flat scale.
"their" jobs .. it was never theirs to begin with, mate
Clinton's concession speech
However, in light of the DNC email leaks, the Democrat Party's elite seemed to sandbag Bernie, who many believe (citing polls from before the primary) would have given Trump a run for his money. And honestly, this was the Democrats' election to lose, and they did nothing to win it. So I will blame them. I will blame them for going with a candidate that is firmly "establishment" when the general consensus among the public is that the "establishment" has overstayed their welcome. I will blame them for expecting the appeal of having "the first X president" to work the same as it did for Obama.
As this election shows many in the middle class aren't fans of Obamacare. Maybe it isn't a boon to them as many people claim. The middle class are finding high deducable plans that increase in price by 25% each year and when it becomes too unaffordable for them, they are forced to drop it and they are fined. You'd be pissed off too.
Possible. But so would've Clinton.
Trump won because he turned the Rust Belt. It hasn't gone Republican in decades. People are voting because they've been left behind.
For better or worse, Trump's probably the next president... The weird part about this election, is the electoral college could still pull a fast one on us and elect someone else.

There are quite a few of electors and governors who REALLY hate Trump.

If anyone's curious, the elector college votes in December[1].

Edit: I don't think this will happen, but in a world where Trump won, anything is possible.

[1] https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/electoral-college/...
even if that's true, that's hardly a reason to suppress books on the subject.
No ruler manages bureaucracy alone. Trump will have to bring in classical Washington. We'd like to think that Trump will perform a full-on house cleaning, sourcing principally from his business connections, but the reality is that everyone needs classical Washington because each person you bring on is a king of his little fiefdom in the NSA, CIA, FBI, armed forces, etc.
And the pay much less.
Trump doesn't strike me as a culture warrior, and since MJ's relevance to law-and-order issues is rather low compared to stop-and-frisk or BLM, his approach might not be all that different from the present one.
Those principles might make sense in isolation, but we know that being poor and uneducated leads to being racist.
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I say we Canadians build a wall and make America pay for it.
Why wouldn't 3 be easy, given the makeup of the Senate and House?
Every politician must be a demagogue to some degree, but Trump appeared to say one thing to one group, and then the next day, say the direct opposite to another group. It's a matter of degree. What does he _actually_ stand for? Nobody truly knows.
Does anyone know how Facebook servers are handling all this content?
>Our neighbors to the north. Canada.

Recreational use isn't legal here (though enforcement varies, depending on where you are). Medical use has been for a while. The current government is likely to table legislation sometime next year, but no one knows yet what form it will take.
Growing for personal use is legal. I don't know the legality of seed trade.
This attitude of categorizing large amounts of ppl "creepy ppl in small town" and refusing to see / accept that they have legitmate issues and greivanes is exactly why HRC lost. We can not just cut of or forget about a large portion of our nation bc we do not agree with them or we are not better than the Donald.

Of all ppl, HN should see this as an opprotunity. Large pain points of rural america = massive startup opprotunites.
It's tough. I've been trying to find a pen pal who can give me some reasonable arguments for Donald Trump for the last few weeks, to no avail.

Not living in the US, I don't really meet people who support Donald Trump. I'm probably living in a bubble, which isn't a great feeling--but at the same time, it's hard to credit the democratic process when you can't understand the alternative view.

No doubt this is a symptom of polarization. Maybe this is the famed "filter bubble". In an ideal world one would imagine social media would help bridge that gap, but I'm unsure it has.
Most tech stocks are falling after Trump win. But Twitter is up
Here in Spain the 12th of October is remembered as the day Chris Columbus found the new continent but somehow the left is disgusted by the fact that there were some degree of imperialism and colonialism.
FFS its our history and we should not deny it. We should learn from it, see what was good, what was bad, and celebrate the date because it was a important mark in this world.
The people with troll-ish tendencies woke up?
Given that the race was pretty close, I wonder if we have Peter Thiel to thank for this result. Personally, I have a feeling that Trump would lose without Thiel's support.
> . Yeah, there are some loud one saying some ridiculous things, but I refuse to believe that close to half the country hates people of color and wants to completely isolate us from the rest of the world by closing our borders. It just can't be true.

You've never been to the deep south, much the south, have you?

> 2. I believed he was the candidate with the biggest chance of winning that would bring about the biggest amount of disruption and change

Anyone who believes Trump can change things is delusional and has very little, if any grasp, of how power works. Obama was voted in on the promise of change, as all we got was a watered down health care bill and the ability for gays to get married. The ACA probably won't be repealed any time because the Republicans do not have complete control. He will do a few things, and non-White, nonchristian people will suffer, but by in large things will stay the same. The simple fact is that the people who get you elected are not the same people you need to work with to enact legislation.
It's like 1930s Germany all over again, except that Muslims are the new Jews. You'd think we would have learned from last time a racist, populist demagogue gained control of a nation.

(Yes, I'm aware that "Godwin's Law invoked". In this case, it's actually relevant.)
Actually the same happened in my country. I was thinking if this is a property of voting system. I like this one https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant-runoff_voting which theoretically helps to choose compromise candidate for most of the voters. But it is just my opinion I don't know how this works in reality.
I welcome you to reread my comment.

What I essentially said was that nobody should be forced to work for unfair compensation. If this compensation can not be reached, we should accept that there will be less work created, instead of enforcing this compensation at the expense of our other more important civil rights.
> The alternative for most of those people is dying of famine and extreme poverty. Nobody is forcing them to work in those factories

So if I read you well, you are saying that it's either they die of hunger, either they work in those factories. That sounds a bit like a false choice, of course they are forced to work in those factories, otherwise they die!

The government of China is getting billions of $ because west firms make chinese people work for almost nothing. So chinese gov. isn't going to change anything, it's going so well for them that way. So the west firm are in fact encouraging those very poor conditions of work, they are NOT improving the living of those people.
FYI it is not legal in Canada. While barely enforced for small amounts, you can still be arrested.
That's what I'm wondering about this whole thing - by what metrics can we test MAGA? I'm beginning to feel like this is Obama 2.0 when it comes to a revolution - in 4 to 8 years we will look back and go "huh, pretty much business as normal". I'm not worried about a random scapegoat, but I do just see this fizzling, and the anger and division being there again in 4 years time.
How much does calculating the approx time of posting for every comment add to the total load?

If it’s significant then you could ship the UTC posting time to the client & calculate the displayed value in Javascript & eliminate that particular part of the load at least, which in turn might enable more caching internally.

(You’ve probably looked at this already though.)
It is highly telling that pharma stocks are strongly up following the Trump victory.

Investors believe that drug prices and healthcare costs will reap increasing profits to shareholders in the next four years.
I think the Indian government might be overestimating its ability to determine what "money" is. The Iraqi Swiss dinar is a great example of how a currency in circulation can maintain (even increase) its value despite being no longer officially endorsed.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraqi_Swiss_dinar
It pegged the server with... 2000 comments?

Does HN run on a raspberry Pi or something?
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Hillary has been recorded to be racist herself. She also went from being pro civil union, no pro gay marriage to pro gay marriage - after the fact. Beyond that seems very weird. The lying about 'landing under sniper fire', her weird convulsion-like episodes and the fact that people are repeatedly fired from their jobs for talking about it.

Political donations are not supposed to be tax deductible and yet the Clinton Foundation carries on existence as a 501c3; double dipping so that a majority of her income as one of the most wealthy politicians comes in tax deductible while she pays not taxes on it.

In light of the blatant collusion and conflicts of interest released in her emails she should've been barred from running in the first place.
I've been talking to a few liberal friends this morning who have no frame of reference outside of living on one of the USA's coasts all their lives.

The perceptual bubbles are very real for both sides, and to someone who has been on both sides of the aisle - they're terrifying; because breaking through the bubble is exceptionally hard and costly, doubly so if that person is already an established adult.
This is exactly what I mean. Clinton really lost a lot of support by only going after social issues that, for all intents and purposes, have already been solved. Sure, there are a lot of racist people who voted for Trump! But there is ample law and policy in place to protect the rights of minorities and LGBT.

Trump went after issues that actually matter. Be careful, I'm not saying LGBT rights and racism don't matter, I'm just saying they aren't really the centerfold of America anymore.
Sure but I don't think the solution is to get rid of Obamacare, the solution is to fix it. And even getting rid of only Obamacare would be preferable compared to all the damage he could do.
With all due respect, what specific policy changes do you expect that will address their job outsourcing, demeaning of existence, and lowered wages (?!? seriously?).

I see democrats with specific answers to all of these questions and none from Trump. I mean, OK: we lost, you won. But that also means you need to govern now and not just shitpost. Wat do?
Given that the campaign was so divisive and acrimonious, what makes you think the losing side is just going to say 'ok' and get on board?
If they think he's going to be as bad as they say surely they should do everything to frustrate him? Same as the Republicans did to Obama.

It's naive to think that just because the vote is in that it's over, look at the UK and Brexit.
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Sigh, the only think positive I can imagine coming out of this is that now, I get four years I can make fun of how stupid American's are.

As the country descends into chaos and non of Trump's promises comes truth I can sit in my couch and keep repeating: "I told you so!"

Good thing Republican's get all the power. Now they fully own all the shit that is to come. They wont be able to blame that on anybody else.

I think Brexit and the Trump victory has hammered home that democracy in its current form doesn't work. It has no mechanism to protect itself against stupidity and ignorance.

Or perhaps it is a warning to every country about what happens when economic inequality gets too bad. Before you know it the crazies will grab power.

I hope the rich elites are horrified today. Because they have created this monster, by consistently funding efforts working against the interests of the middle class and eroding it. Now it has blown up in their face.

I almost feel a slight schadenfreude over the trade wars which will follow with China and Mexico and all the businesses which will lose money over this.
millions lost their health coverage when premiums and deductibles skyrocketed
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Please don't talk for all europeans.
That's great. But she was still the nominee and they had two choices. They got one of them. If they didn't want him and didn't vote for her, then they're fucking idiots.
Right, but the prediction isn't about the "closeness" of the election in some ideal sense, it's about the distribution of electoral votes. That's why the site is called fivethirtyeight.
Yes, we have already established that you are clueless.
coal isn't even economically viable with current natural gas and oil prices.
Perhaps? I'm not sure what you're alluding to. Regardless, startups are often attuned to many social issues much more closely than traditional companies, and I can't help but agree that this is a huge discouragement for forward-looking businesses.
3 is on the table but wouldn't be easy

It would seem with a republican congress that it would be easy. Why do you think otherwise?
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This is the kind of elitist, holier-than-thou, attitude that created a silent majority in the first place. There's probably a middle ground here that you're alienating by using such crude stereotypes.
Typically white people don't vote together.
I think it's an interesting issue because Trump pretty much stands for nothing that could help those people. Maybe the nth time is a charm and the incoming tax breaks for the wealthy will eventually trickle down, but I doubt it.
Emigrating.
Can you explain to me what direction the country voted to move in? I'm really really trying to understand but all I see for the Trump voters is more economic pain under Trumps policies and I think will ultimately lead to more division as they dig their heels in as more time passes where they don't see the change they want. Trump supporters were sold the idea that illegal immigrants, legal immigrants, non-white people, muslims and gay people were a threat to the country and their livelihood. Removing these "threats" as Donald Trump has proposed will only benefit those at the top. So where does that leave us? Putting the screws to the perceived threats even more?
I am not saying this out of anger or angst. If that was done the civility of the disenfranchised electorate, which showed up in force this election, would erode and devolve into violence at a pace that would astound those on the left.
If anyone's seriously considering moving out of the US due to the results of an election: do it. Get the fuck out so real patriots can focus on fixing things without all the bitching.
I wonder what it would look like if you took the percentages that voted for each candidate and scaled it to the population of the state, and then used that to total the scaled popular vote?

Of course, there's many problems with that, foremost being that you can't assume that those that didn't vote did so in the same relative percentages of support that those that did vote. For example, I imagine there's a higher percentage of Democrats/Clinton supporters in CA and NY that didn't vote compared to the alternatives, and the opposite is likely true of predominantly red states.
This.

And somewhat ironically, if Hillary had won people would be telling those disenfranchised voters who broke for Trump to listen to the will of the people. That it was time to man/woman up. But because they lost they now feel like they lost all.

That feeling is what drove Trump voters --they have lost their way of life. The one where one didn't have to have a graduate degree to have a stable and dependable income --but these people don't have them means to "run to Canada (or Mexico)".

And Bernie warned the Hillary campaign of this but she thought she had white women in the bag as well as thinking Hispanics voting democratic would pull it out for her.
One hopes. But people did vote for whom he appeared to be. Even if it was an act, that is, to me, a scary thought.
Indeed, and with regards to the environment, it's particularly worrying that Trump intends to reverse all the progress made so far in the US on addressing climate change.

(Though to be honest, that's one of my lesser worries concerning a Trump presidency. Along with increasing discrimination and divisiveness within the US, it's likely his proposed foreign policy changes will enable Putin to annex further regions of Eastern Europe.)
He is aware and called the governorships and state governments that Democrats do hold "next to nothing"
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Well, this is what I told, but I agree, this wording is more understandable.
I dedicated most of my post trying to describe how much Sam Wang was assured despite "just" a 4% margin, how big it actually is. That may have clouded my real point.

In my last paragraph, I tried to put forth a theory that leaves the preference interpretation valid. What do you think about it?
The reason people are demonizing Trump supporters is because they ran on a ticket of undoing just about all of the progress that many had fought hard for over the past eight years. LGBTQ rights are likely out the window, as is any hope at gender equality or income equality. So forgive me if I have no sympathy whatsoever for those that are being "demonized" on social media, as they likely aren't going to have to face any actual consequences for this decision.
Until the generation that is driving it dies off, so probably ~20 years.

I'm being flippant, but--look at the vote splits by age. Young voters in the UK overwhelmingly voted against Brexit. Young voters in the U.S. overwhelmingly voted against Trump.

The voice of populism today is the voice of economic and cultural disenfranchisement. It is difficult to re-employ millions of 60-year-old folks whose skills are out of date. It is difficult to get 60-year-old folks who have spent their lives in a homogeneous town, to accept multicultural diversity.

They are crying out for help and success again, and we'll continue down this course as a society until we either give it to them, or they leave us.
Compare it to US immigration also, where I got 6 years and easily over $20,000 in employer-paid costs in, and didn't even get to the green card stage.

[EDIT] Overstated cost, ran the numbers it's $20-25K.
I ended up using C-s. Unfortunately C-j is taken over by vim-tmux-navigator (which I don't mind at all).
2 is a good point, but I don't think 1 is correct.

I've heard that Cuba has the best doctors, and they often play a crucial role in emergency aid to other countries.

For quality of health care overall, the US is just a solid middle ranker when it comes to life expectancy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe... That's only one metric, of course, but it seems like an important one.

It seems like the US pays about 3x more (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...) for moderately worse outcomes.
People voted in the way that best expressed their beliefs given the choice as presented. If they'd voted remain, the government wouldn't have said "Oh I guess that was a poorly defined referendum, let's work out a proper plan and have another." they'd have used it as an excuse to ignore the issue.
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