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Please stop calling people you don't agree with racist and sexist. It's wrong, it's mean, and it does not seem to have the desired effect.

Human beings are basically good. We are trying to go about our lives and do the best we can. The vast majority of us are neither sexist nor racist.
In practice, American companies who hire foreigners on H1B don’t bother.

I’m guessing, evaluating a university diploma is a well-known routine. Proofing that work experience counts as equivalent is less common, and hence unknown to the lawyers/accountants who do that paperwork.

If you don’t have an education but are exceptionally talented, O-1 “Extraordinary Ability” might be easier than H1B.
It's important to realize that no voter imagines how US military actions do or don't coordinate or synchronize with US big corp action. That kind of stuff never shows up in the political discourse. Politicians aren't riling up Americans with talk of how military boosts economy. Nobody makes that connection on TV.

From my understanding, some industries depend tightly on the military, and not bolstering your own national industries would be a mistake as all the big global players cheat with nationalistic help.

People aren't going to get more or less imperialism. From George Bush Sr, to Bill Clinton, to George Bush Jr, to Barack Obama, when has the US military + international big corp coordination ever stopped, much less shown variability between presidents? When a president is elected, is there a sweep through the US armed forces command structure? No. Is there a sweep through industry? No. Is there a sweep through the CIA? No. National bureaucracies make plans longer than 4 years, and their programs don't stop executing in-between elections.

What I'm really worried about is what happens in a winner-takes all branches of government scenario, especially when conceivably the majority of the population supports different policies. It makes sense for the ruling party to do a makeover of power, as the GOP has tended toward redistricting as a strategy, and I think that's exactly what's going to happen.

Donald Trump cannot be an independent leader because no ruler manages bureaucracy alone. You must always listen to the bureaucracy machine because it has too many aspects that you don't understand but is someone else's little kingdom. And that's why Donald Trump is nominating all Washington insiders. It's not like Donald Trump decided, "Why not try for business elites through my network, instead of classical Washington?" Nope, didn't happen.
The only reason they had it in their pocket was because of corruption in the first place.
I was born and live in Lithuania. No, we don't have much in common with Russia. Sure, being occupied by Russia left some scars, but culturally and ethnically we are totally separate nation. USA and Mexico has about the same in common as we do with Russia. There are big Russian minorities in Estonia and Latvia, smaller in Lithuania, but that's another topic.

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.
I would advocate for using standardized test scores. If you're a smart dropout, even high school dropout, you could take the tests within just a few weeks.

Perhaps there does need to be some kind of flexibility for people who are not native English speakers. For example, a very high math score should be able to compensate for low verbal scores.

Using degrees seems like the worst possible option, since the standards are so low these days, and the trend is for the standards to go even lower.
After Brexit, I waited for the inevitable market overreaction. I took long positions in British ETFs. When the market recovered from the post-Brexit slump, I made money.

I'm betting that Trump isn't the disaster that the markets are currently predicting. I plan to do the same thing today.
I recall reading the post when it was published, and thought it was very powerful, although I had some quibbles with the details and the tone. I mean, the author was broadly right, sure, but...

Also interesting to recall: The amount of disagreements and personal insults the author got for the piece.

And another: Rensin was let go from Vox shortly after writing the piece for tweeting "If Trump comes to your town, start a riot."

In any case, in retrospect...he nailed it.

(Disclaimer: Supported Clinton, although with major qualms.)
Wrong. Soviet Union was the first country which publicly recognised Latvia's independence back in 1920s. Yep, then they took it back in 1940s.
The only policy position he really made clear that would affect SV was that he said he would find a way to severely punish Apple for making their devices in China.

Whether he follows through and has congressional support is to be seen.
Russia never "took" Eastern Ukraine, even today. It mostly sat on the sidelines whilst a civil war between pro-EU and pro-Russian forces played itself out, at most sending weapons and special forces just like the West did.
My parents came from Yugoslavia but I certainly wouldn't have been offended. I could give you information if I find that yours is wrong in some aspect but trying to guilt trip you for some offence that you certainly didn't intend to give seems wrong to me.
We didn't fight a civil war to ban slavery, we fought a civil war because a bunch of states seceded from the Union.

They were seceding proactively to protect slavery which was in their mind threatened; we weren't fighting the war to ban slavery but to prevent them from leaving.
So you elected a politically inexperienced criminal instead. Brilliant.
How well connected is Holmes that there are still no criminal charges or even a criminal investigation?

This is stark constrast to little people put in prison or harassed for any small transgression.

Seriously this is in healthcare with tons of rules and regulations covering every minutae as any well developed country would have. How can it be remotely possible Theranos has not run foul of any of these rules by deception, fraud and endangering the public?

What does this tell us about the american legal system and rule of law if the well connected are systematically spared or loopholes intentionally left like in the banking crisis and now.

This is not about retribution or seeing bankers or Holmes suffer, its about a civilised and not feudal justice system. Currently it does seem there is a completely different set of rules in operation for the rich and privileged.
JavaScript maps can have object keys, you're just using objects as dictionaries. Objects in python don't typically have non-string keys.

```js
var m = new Map();
var o = {}; // some object
m.set(o, 5);
m.get(o); // 5
```
"my friend and I decided to hackathon our way through an app to help us learn how to play guitar."

this sounds like a great way to never learn to play guitar
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Isn't that a fairly concise description of the Republican platform? They usually want to limit the size of the federal government, moving power to the individual states. States are larger than cities, but it's the same idea.

I'm actually a little confused why liberals want to push everything up to the federal level. They have total control over many states like New York and California, and it seems like they could accomplish their goals more efficiently if they weren't sharing senate seats with Alabama on key issues.

You get less federal funding for programs if the federal taxes are cut, but given California's salaries and population you're probably paying more than your fair share anyways.
>aren't very well informed

>easily taken in by his crap

pretty big words for someone who just posted this:

>"... Her baggage isn't even her own baggage; people have been attacking and hating her for decades, apparently only for having the gall to be an ambitious woman in politics ..."

while ignoring/not being aware about all the bad stuff she pulled off/wanted to pull off (i.e. war, making gay marriage illegal, destroyed documents ...)
There is something odd on that example. An Italian-American is a white European, Italian-American.
"was" sorry its still an issue people still get knifed at old firm games.
Fine with me.

The mindset most Americans have bought into is ridiculous to me. The idea that we should let our leaders waste fortunes wreaking havoc on the world out of fear that the Russian or Chinese boogeyman will rise is getting old.
its brilliant. It has gnome and he loves it - he says its better than hunting through "my programs".

Windows 10 and Gnome have fairly convergent UI. And all the software is already built into Linux
As far as I remember in last 30 years wars in Middle east has escalated chiefly by republicans (Bush gang).
The check and balance is that he has to get all those people to agree with him. Certainly on major issues where he aligns with Republican philosophy that might happen. But he's not a dictator that can do as he will tomorrow. If he decided he wants to transfer the entire U.S. treasury into his personal bank account he wouldn't be able to.

Certainly I doubt our founders thought an entire political party would control every single branch of government. But even if it does the only things that can be accomplished need to be agreed upon by that large group of people. If the will of the people is to elect a group of people into those positions that all hold the same philosophy and values, then that's just democracy. It's what we voted for. I don't know if any party has controlled all three branches of government at once, but it's not like that negates the principle of checks and balances
No, because they never had any ties to Russia to begin with.
I've never disagreed with Carville. He did something similar in 1992 and knows what he's talking about.
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come and join guys ...downloadable vids and photosets to ur pc..make vids on recoomendations the way u like it
Yes when I worked in Edinburgh for a few months all the developers who where from London all commented about how few non white people we saw.
Crimea? Sebastopol port has always been part of Russia and the center of their fleet because it does not get frozen in Winter like other ports.

Having ships under frozen water is the same as not having ships at all.

Easter Ukraine? It is were the industry of Ukraine is. It is very near Russia and as most of Russia is plain, it is very easy to invade the country(Russia) from it.

Russia wants to have a buffer around their country in the same way the US does not let anybody to have military bases and missiles near the country, like in Cuba.
I think people are sick and tired of the attacks on Free Expression that come from the left. It culminated in Frankenstein's Monsters like "trigglypuff״.
If it was anti-Establishment, then why did voters re-elect Congress who had a 9% approval rating, and who quite literally, are the permanent establishment, because they're gerrymandered and not term limited like the President, who changes every 8 years?

I don't buy it. anti-Establishment is the story progressives tell themselves, that the Trump voters would have been Sanders voters. But Sanders voters believe bankers and corporations have fucked over their jobs, and Trump voters think Mexicans and minorities are to blame. There might be some overlap, but telling yourself this was merely about anti-Establishment and "draining the swamp" doesn't explain why incumbents scored a huge victory tonite.
What a wonderful piece, thank you both author and ghosh very much!

The IYI, in my opinion, misses the most important opportunity which is to learn from bad predictions. Especially when predictions are about something big and smart, like nation.
They must have a very good data team to have forecasted the result so much in advance ;)
>Get out of your bubble.

Would it be a stretch to say the "bubbling" that happens on the internet plays a role in causing these divides?
I think you are making a great assessment and that is what fears me. I don't think your words are pretty useful on HackerNews folks in general.

My thoughts as a Swede is that I don't actually give a fuck if your president is a turd. His view on immigrations doesn't scare me, his view on NATO doesn't really scare me.
Trump say he is going to invest in fossile fuels THAT scares me A LOT.

The future already looks super dark and leaders like Obama shed a tiny light on that things would turn out for the better. But now when two of the worlds largest countries doesn't really care (USA and Russia) I mean wtf. It doesn't matter what the rest of the world does if these two giants will fuck it up anyway.

Time to be a climate prepper.
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It's a general portrait. I'm speaking as a Bernie supporter. Probably most salient, which I think was Peter Thiel's decisive issue, is her seeming to be pro-war and the enthusiastic support of the arms industry (biggest arms deal in history to Saudi Arabia, exports doubled under tenure, etc.), and probably the worst here was showing how she, even against the wishes of many Obama insiders, pursued regime change in Libya to have an 'accomplishment' to campaign on. Then, it would probably be the connections with corruption, via "pay-to-play" as they referred to it through the Clinton Foundation while SOS (particularly with Gulf States), and, after revelations of DWS's corrupt actions in the DNC, the seeming impunity to promote her. Maybe a final concerning image to a Bernie supporter was her position as a cog among the big banks (most poignant here was Wall Street's list for Obama's cabinet, who in fact came to be the cabinet). Arguably it's more about the DC establishment than HRC, and this characterization of her should be taken to task, but this was, in my opinion, the portrait left by WikiLeaks.
No, I'm upset because this is SPAM. I did not subscribe to their mailing list, I did not "give" the address to them to email to. It's a HARVESTED email address.

Do you have the same dismissive attitude when it comes to viagra spam?

Credit where credit is due, I suppose: somebody from Hyper.sh contacted me, apologized for lapse of judgment. IOW even they don't agree with you here.
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>I have a brother. Due to circumstances, I can call him a "stupid idiot" and he will know that I'm not serious and I respect him. However if a stranger calls him the same thing, he will take offense. Is that an unfair double standard?

I wouldn't call my brother 'stupid idiot' in public (neither would I in private by the way). I don't care what you do in private. Though, that's another topic.

When black people call other black people nigga, they don't mean it ironically or as an exaggeration. It is just a word which means black person and which is used only by black people. That's like calling someone 'bro', that's not like calling someone 'stupid idiot'.
You act as if isolationism is this new thing that Donald Trump invented.

The U.S. didn't start playing this role of World Power until it got dragged into two World Wars that were born out of nationalism and isolationism.

If the U.S. retreats from its role in the world, Russia, China, and Iran will be more than happy to fill the vacuum of power.
So different indeed that the comparison is meaningless. That is my point. If you're going to draw conclusions from comparisons -- like the OP did with his coast/interior thing -- the things you're comparing have to be at least somewhat similar.
Exactly. It makes no sense. The story is similar with regard to Irish cultural heritage.

Actually, it does make sense if you look at it through the right lens.

"Oppressed" => affirmative
"Hegemonic" => racist, bad

AFAICT, this is how the calculation works. And to be fair, it's not entirely without merit. It just seems to me the pendulum -- which was too far in the pro-European heritage direction before -- has now swung too far in the "European/White bad, everything else good" direction.
What proves you that I don't deserve a better consideration? It is certainly possible from what I said to depict me as a bad guy through generalizations, but that would only be generalizations. What if I did give a lot and kept being told off, wouldn't that be unfair?
Most of the things written in past few years about diversity. The western culture is evil, because it was built by white men.

Regardless of the merit, when you have actual white men talking like that, it seems a tad self-destructive.
The OP was trying to generalize and make conclusions about culture, politics and economy based on geography -- coast vs interior -- of regions of a larger whole. But the USSR was not a nation or a homogenous union and Estonia (for instance) having been invaded, illegally annexed and made part of the USSR at one point does not in any way make it comparable to Russia.

The point: there are a lot of very fundamental differences between these countries that are arguably more important and that would more easily account for differences in politics and economics other than geography.

(Besides, Russia has coastline, too...)

I want people to know when they rely on things that are wrong to prove a point, because that probably renders the point at least partially invalid. You can dismiss that as "signalling political correctness" but it is nevertheless the truth, and on a US-centric forum like this I think many are not aware of the situation.
The problem with this reasoning (and by extension, any system where there's a possibility to opt out of healthcare) is that if you have a serious ailment that you can't afford to treat, we have to let you die.

But I believe even in the USA you will get (emergency) treatment and the bills racked up, right?
You're reading too much into what the poster is trying to say, and attaching some kind of baggage to the phrase.

The point isn't that only youngsters can enjoy video games, nor that video games are inherently immature, nor that the act of growing up necessitates that someone lose interest in gaming, nor that adults can't enjoy games.

The point is that video games are something the poster enjoyed as a youngster but no longer enjoys as an adult. That's all "growing up" means. You could s/video games/*/g, and it would still just be part of "growing up".
> It's all for making themselves feel better.

Right-wing politics is not much different in that regard.
If there is one thing I have learnt in my career, it's that you can't fix a social problem with a technical solution.
The Internet made Trump
No, I don't. I have no idea what part of my comment made you think so and what kind of mental jumps you've performed to come to this strange conclusion.
This is a common technique of the Left. Someone mentions illegal immigration and that gets twisted to compare it with legal immigigration.
+1 Totally agree.

Democrats lost this. She was deep in Benghazi / Emails / Foundations .. which is all public. Trump might have same picture, but its not public not even his Tax record ! Bravo to american public !

Its a slap to the democratic establishment for not understanding the dynamics. Bernie or for that matter Elizabeth would have been right candidates.

I also think Hillary used a lot of other celebs for campaign - Beyonce, Perry, Michelle / Obama, Muslim family ... rather than talking about her strong points / achievements (none ?), and I saw the women card thrown a lot. On the other side it was just Trump and his bullshit.
"The knowing know that police reform, that abortion rights, that labor unions are important, but go no further: What is important, after all, is to signal that you know these things."

This is an amazing observation. The 'smug style' doesn't actually contribute to the amelioration of these issues. Even for some things the lack of individual commitment betrays unseriousness, e.g. abortion rights - most people protesting federal defunding of PP would NEVER imagine to actually cut a check themselves, whereas there are principled libertarians, for example, who would be for ending funding PP using other people's money while donating to the organization themselves. Ms. Clinton's talks in front of Black Lives Matter audiences was notably bereft of any reference to police accountability (which is the one truly important thing) but instead offers feel-good solutions like broadly 'ending racism', 'sensitivity training', 'community policing'.
This is only for determining the genre of a book - the adage, 'never judge a book by its cover' more refers to the quality of the content.
Yes, political deadlock looks plausible in the Netherlands after the next election.

I haven't heard of Zwarte Piet. Could you describe that a bit more please? It sounds interesting.
In countries outside of the US, the opinion seems to be almost unanimously that the US is moving backwards.

From what I hear, people expect the US to be:

- A lot less friendly place for women, people of color and other minorities.

- Preferring hateful rhetoric.

- Dismissing scientific facts.

- Bankrupting the less fortunate that need healthcare.

- Enlarging the divide between rich and poor, via tax cuts for the rich.

- Less friendly to fellow NATO members, trade partners, neighbors.

I don't know how anyone can read this and see this as a progression.
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The better more workable suggestion for these times is for the Federal Government to give the states back more of their individual powers. The Republican party is certainly more open to that vs. the Democrats.
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Having listened to a bunch of WWII podcasts recently, it struck me how the people who fled Germany once the Nazis came into power — ridiculed as they were by their friends and relatives! — were the most likely to weather that horrible conflict.

Maybe it's a stretch — or maybe not — but in the end it's just branch prediction. Australia sounds nice.
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:) Studying some philosophy myself right now. Fun stuff if taught well.
Oh the elites are headed towards a globalised world however that does not mean they need to include every country or people.

However what is happening in Europe if not the US is that people are pushing back against their governments and the elites because they are tired of being run over by the ideals of a group which suffers none of the negatives of the choices they force on others.

The elite, the political class and those connected to it do talk down to the masses, trying to embarrass or even intimidate them into accepting the needs of the elite. This means lower labor costs, more dependents on government, and long term more locked in votes. This ends up forcing the already pressed lower and middle classes further into an economic malaise they cannot escape. Worse any negatives, from loss of jobs and opportunities or worse, crime and violence, is confined to their areas as the elite tend to live in a very protected environment.

With regards to the US, at least we have been consistent in flipping the White House every eight years or so. It is pretty remarkable. However Democrats have been actually fighting a losing battle for a long time and not modifying their message but instead becoming more heated. By that I mean they are losing control over vast parts of the country with regards to the House and Senate but more importantly they lost a lot of governorship and local governments all of which feed upward
Ah, i guess it is a rootless one. I never really thought (directly) about it.

I've never cared where my ancestors came from. I always like the idea of an America that was always changing who it was.
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They are white collar as well, I just singled out software engineers because it is a type of job that is well know to be outsourced. Not sure if that is as true if oil or mechanical engineers.