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A lot of the dynamics were very similar to the Brexit vote in the U.K.,” which also took many commentators by surprise.

Hillary Clinton’s campaign, he said, forgot the motto that Bill Clinton had won the presidency with in 1992: “It’s the economy, stupid.”

Donald Trump was a stealth 3rd party candidate, riding on a wave produced by demographic changes and the falling fortunes of a large demographic. He's down with OPP -- where OPP means "Other Person's Party." He's used other people's money to further himself. This time, he used the Republican Party, but historically, he should be compared to other 3rd party candidates.

The media producing class in this country is out of touch with a whopping huge fraction of the populace which is going from majority middle class status to minority lower class. Not only is the media producing class out of touch, many of them on the political left actively villify and denigrate them. Seriously, what did they expect?

The degree to which the upper-middle class is out of touch, concerned with fripperies, and denigrating of the lower classes in the Bay Area is starting to look like a bunch of tropes from French Revolution period dramas. Programmers and technorati -- This means you!
> This money funnels back to the US to pay salaries, taxes and dividends.

Or rather to Bermuda, to fill the 0.5% tax-free accounts. So the sheep farmers are screwed and everyone else is screwed too. This is why people reject free trade (or think they do that by voting someone like Trump, which is another topic).
Are any TN visa holders worried about Trump wanting to withdraw from NAFTA?
I hate Trump, but some of this isn't actually that bad sounding. I have some doubts though if such a divisive and hated guy can manage to get stuff through though. He has not made himself into a person people want to cooperate with.

For some things though, he makes the problem sound way simpler than it is. E.g. removing existing regulations when introducing an new one and reducing government employees.

We got a right wing government in Norway thinking much along these lines promising removal of red tape, fewer public sector employees etc.

They failed. Reality is just a lot more complicated. Instead they have resorted to stupid tricks to make it look as if they are reducing public sector employees. They more some employees to other organizations which are not technically part of government. They they can make the statistics look pretty. But they are still paying for the services of these people.

The problem with e.g. reducing public sector employees is that every new government has big ambitions they want to happen YESTERDAY. That can only happen by public sector employees making it happen. The more ambitious your changes, the more new bureaucrats you frequently need to hire to get this done.

New ambitions typically also means a lot more rules and regulations have to be added.

I know this problem well from Software development. We want to reduce the number of useless lines of code. Except from users and managers there is a tremendous pressure and incentive for new functionality to be added. That means more lines of code not less.

Laws and regulations will be the same. People want the new stuff. They don't want to hear that you spent all this time removing stuff which doesn't really give anybody anything new, except a nice refactored law book.

Likely you are going to need to hire lots of people to actually start cutting down on regulation. Identifying what can be removed and figuring out how the rephrase things requires actual work, which somebody has to do. And if they are doing that they are not implementing the new policies of the administration.
I really dont care to change anyone's mind. That hasnt been possible in years anyway.

I caucused for my candidate, I did my civic duty.

We're a nation of mouthbreathers who cant be reliably counted up to read the front page of a fucking newspaper, let alone do real research about presidential candidates let alone downballot measures.

I'm not commenting out of desire for change, I'm incensed.

My daughters are going to suffer because of 50 million assholes, and another 50 million more assholes who couldnt be bothered to get off their asses to vote.

You tell your kids that bullies dont win, you tell them to do their homework, that being prepared counts, you tell them that they have an even chance, as a woman in a modern world.

Well, Bob, the Trump electorate put the lie to all of that.

And I'm fucking pissed off about it.

I see literally NO common ground with anyone who could look past Trump's character to pull the lever for him.

To me, they ARE deplorables, and willful ignorance isnt an excuse.
Please add a 2015 to the title :)
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'clean coal' can also mean coal burned without harmful particulates/elements entering the atmosphere. CO2 is not really a 'dirty' emission.
:face_palm:

is there hope? can anyone confirm?
Pedantic nit: it's the Democratic Party. Its members are Democrats.
Agreed. I'm working on an API where most of the endpoints are RESTful, but there's a handful where it makes total sense to break the rules in order to make everyone's lives easier.
McKay uses something very close to this (as you said) theoretical value as the starting point of its calculations for how much can effectively be extracted.
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I'm willing to bet that most of the money used to build that 245-mile wall came from the US (via aids).

Perhaps Trump should ask Israel for help in building his wall.
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Total land area needed to power the world on solar alone: http://i.imgur.com/Jg31dfw.png

Source: http://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-solar-panels-to-pow...

EDIT: Solar is a better investment than the S&P500. If US corporations were looking for some place to invest those trillions of dollars they won't repatriate [1], seems like renewables would be a perfect fit.

"Eight of the biggest U.S. technology companies added a combined $69 billion to their stockpiled offshore profits over the past year, even as some corporations in other industries felt pressure to bring cash back home.

Microsoft Corp., Apple Inc., Google Inc. and five other tech firms now account for more than a fifth of the $2.10 trillion in profits that U.S. companies are holding overseas, according to a Bloomberg News review of the securities filings of 304 corporations. The total amount held outside the U.S. by the companies was up 8 percent from the previous year, though 58 companies reported smaller stockpiles."

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-04/u-s-compan...
> “His odds were very badly underestimated,” he said. “Trump voters were not being captured by the polls. A lot of the dynamics were very similar to the Brexit vote in the U.K.,” which also took many commentators by surprise.

The real takeaway for me is figuring why this is the case — how could / can we change the polls to be more robust?

To some degree, perhaps the polls influence the outcome of the election. For example, if people on the edge of voting or not think Clinton will win by a healthy margin, they might not actually bother to vote.
Near as I can tell, his second campaign chief Paul Manafort.
I don't see anyone claiming he is original, so what is the objection?
Ah. I remember long ago reading an article where someone... pranked public transport with changing the direction of a railroad tramway switch - basically, right before the train would lock the switch by passing over a detector, the prankster would switch the switch, and the train had to reverse in order to switch the switch to the correct direction.
Some coal can be "cleaner" in the sense that it has, for example, less sulfur, and therefore creates less of certain pollutants when burned.

But the real problem is the carbon, which when burned produces CO2. If you take the carbon out of coal, you don't have coal anymore.
Well, that's one way to get all of Mexico hooked on Bitcoin.
I didn't vote for Trump nor Clinton. Although I'm right-leaning on most issues, I am in the perplexed camp of why 50% of voters selected Trump. I was sure Hillary was going to win.

I'm especially bewildered why deeply religious, evangelical Christians I know were big on Trump. He's such a sinner by biblical standards, the love for the guy didn't make sense - I thought it'd be hypocrisy to support the guy. For most, they told me the single issue for them was the supreme court nominees that Trump was promising to put forward. But, in discussing what Trump was going to do once elected, the level of projection of their goodness onto Trump seemed to go to delusional, fantasy-land places.

What I'm coming to realize is that, being upper middle-class puts me completely out of touch culturally with the 50% that voted for Trump. The book Coming Apart, by Charles Murray is really helping me understand what is going on in America and what a cloistered life I've led.
The person I am replying to claims DT's message is clear, so I was hoping they might explain the part that I cannot understand.
Wow. I'm a Spotify on Linux user and I've been trying to track down this issue for months. System Load Indicator showed huge write spikes, but they were brief enough that I hadn't yet caught the culprit red-handed in iotop. They bring I/O to a crawl for a second or two though.

Look what I found with a `cat /proc/$pid/io` on the main spotify process:

rchar: 315169616727
wchar: 236191291851
syscr: 320352243
syscw: 330963886
read_bytes: 945213440
write_bytes: 230711586816
cancelled_write_bytes: 51481772032

That's 230GB written over 6 days of uptime. Granted, some of that is to the network, to an audio device, or just normal download caching. Still...good grief.
Trump criticized an American-born judge for his Mexican heritage - he's not just against illegal immigration.
Well if we had a sane government, we could try rolling out new policies to randomly selected regions and cities first. We could use prediction markets to predict the effects of policies before implementing them.
Also notable that they mentioned repeatedly that:

1. Polls in key swing states like Michigan have been consistently bad over the years, and there hasn't been a lot of high quality polling in those states during the election, which meant there was a lot of uncertainty in those states.

2. State polls tend to be correlated. That means if the polling is off in Michigan, it'd probably be off in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin as well, and in the same direction. And, what a shock, all of them were tipping point states, and all of them had polling errors that swung in Trump's favour.

3. Trump was well within the polling error of winning by election time. That is, while FiveThirtyEight had Hillary with 2-1 odds, that was with significant errors bars due to uncertainty, and it runs both ways.

To be honest, listening to their podcast and reading their posts, I was preparing myself for a potential Trump win.
A little late, but yes, this is a common complaint among conservatives. Most colleges teach things like science, diversity, and critical thinking, which are at odds with the Christian nationalism that pervades conservatism.
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"7.Discourage offshoring. Should've been doing that along with maintaining a strong industrial base domestically. A huge chunk of our economy is financial engineering. Need more real stuff."

I am from India, and here is my observation. Why do American voters expect their "politicians"(be it democrat/republican) to stop offshoring, when these guys seem to have absolutely have no control over individual companies doing that ? Isnt offshoring an individual company/corp's prerogative ? The voter expectations and the laws, look mutually exclusive to me.
Trump railed against the system that allowed politicians to be bought. It turns out his solution is to term limit congress. Sounds like treating a symptom not the root cause.
China has been doing some pretty complex deals with countries all across Africa - financing and building hydroelectric dams and other massive infrastructure buildouts. These are long-term deals that often include concessions for oil or other natural resources, so it's difficult to pin them down to a clear surplus/deficit.
Actually as far as Immigration goes, I don't think Thiel is great champion to pick. Even tho he himself was born in Germany, he has in fact donated millions of dollars to NumbersUSA, a lobbying organization that seeks to reduce US immigration to pre-1965 levels.
Can any politician be taken literally, though? How did Obama's promises on the revolving door between lobbyists and his administration work out? Or his promise on health insurance premiums? These promises aren't the exception, they are the rule. Politicians (almost) always have to lie to win. So Trump not being specific as to what he will do seems unlikely to be any different to interpret than if he made very specific plans.
I could not agree more. People really need to let go of the provocative candidate Trump (the stock market did today) and focus on the impact that's coming.

As much as his path to the nomination and then the presidency is a surprise, his call for unity was more presidential than he's ever been. I think it would be short-sighted to immediately discount his presidency as a failure without seeing the people and actions that he puts into place.
AIPAC.
Will December 1 see Twitter posting an executive position under HN's "who's hiring?" post?
America has a lot of pent up energy right now. It's a good time to rewatch Les Deplorables. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMYNfQlf1H8
Well let us be honest here. Electing politicians hasn't exactly been doing us that much good. If anything we have learned we cannot accept their word at all.

I am of the opinion that politicians corrupted themselves by selling their ability to shape the laws that govern the country and decide who is punished and who is rewarded.
Or if the exact same intermediate files are being overwritten over and over again, wouldn't a RAMDrive be a good place for them?
What you said implies that "clean coal" is indeed possible. It's just less efficient due to the capture. The GP implied that it's not a thing.
For a month long-period with your first time out of the country and by yourself, choosing an English-native country simplifies a lot of things.

Perhaps consider Australia or New Zealand (or both).

Melbourne is a cheery, relaxed, wonderful and relatively inexpensive city.
First, the statute we are discussing doesn't make it a crime to impersonate a postal carrier. It makes it a crime to "wear[] the uniform [...] prescribed by the Postal Service to be worn by letter carriers". I think we can both agree there is a fundamental difference between someone impersonating a cop (who has wide discretion to order people to stop, detain them, search them or interrogate them) and someone dressing up like a letter carrier.

Second, it is already illegal to forge correspondence correspondence from the IRS. Why make people who, for whatever reason, want to dress up like Cliff Clavin subject to six months in federal prison? Similarly, I agree mail fraud is real and one can abuse the mail for nefarious means, however again mail fraud is illegal and, in respect to your example, mailing anthrax the people is also already illegal.

I suppose the problem I'm trying to highlight here is a tendency for government, at times, to create laws that are, at best, silly, and, more often, harmfully over-broad in short-sighted attempts to stop behavior that is (or can be) readily addressed by existing laws. It can lead to harmful side effects[1][2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overcharging_(law)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Swartz
A good reason would be if you have a Premium account and want to listen to something better than 128kbps MP3s.
http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21709923-there-risk-trade...:

> He promises to label China a currency manipulator, but the only consequence of that would be that America would have to engage China in talks on the currency’s value, which would have no practical effect.

The downside is pissing off China, which the US needs to get along. There is no upside -- China won't change its behavior because of a label.
I hope you don't work for an online publisher/advertiser. The amount of waste their software generates is absolutely staggering.
The narrative pushing is too much. I still cant believe how much of asian indian and asian community voted for him in philadelphia very unexpected.
Presumably it results in an error, but if the return value isn't checked then that's fine.
No, "clean coal" refers to carbon capture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_capture_and_storage
You're right, I read "USC section ..." and skipped to the description. Should have posted my rant elsewhere in the topic :)

Still though, I think it's helpful to point out that the legal nature of regulations allows them to move faster and reduce internal complexity while the legal code is mostly append only.
Go to Greece: it's cheap, people are incredibly friendly and warm; the food is delicious and there is a huge historical heritage
You would be wrong i believe, because it seems that everyone, and not just the deplorables voted trump. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/white-voters...
It's an electoral system problem. From a game theory standpoint there is no reason to ever vote third party.

If we'd had a more nuanced system that allowed voting negative in addition to positive... pretty sure Johnson would have won.
It's a misdemeanor and gets you a criminal record. But so does a speeding ticket in states like Maryland or Georgia where all moving violations are misdemeaors.
Any chance you checked out the coworking scene while you were there?
I grew up in "flyover country" as it has been so lovingly labeled by the coastal urbanites, and I would agree that the media is completely out of touch with a huge portion of the country.

Many of these people are decent but weren't offered even lip-service by the Democratic candidate or party. You have Hillary treating them like second class citizens offering them a lower minimum wage than urbanites, for example. Why should people who have been historically neglected maintain this situation?

This isn't permanent though. I've mentioned in other posts on other subjects that the "New Economy" needs to align its interests with those who have been left behind. You get their kids into dynamic programs that offer them an opportunity to share in the largesse generated by innovation and they will become more generous and open and integrated with the rest of the country.
I read it and even tried to search for his name because apparently he has made important contributions to Linux (he links /usr/src/linux/CREDITS as his CV so...), but couldn't find anything specifically about his work.

Do you happen to know what does he work/has worked on regarding Linux?
A very flawed argument above. I assume it's to mean that since Clinton won a majority of votes from lower income people, which factory workers would fall under, the only factory workers that voted for Trump are high-paid ones, which would code in MATLAB.
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No I'm insinuating that serious talk of miracles by God seems antithetical to the strong scientific slant on this site.
I don't expect you to agree-with or understand this, now or in the near future but perhaps he/she was thinking along these valid lines:

"The Intellectual Yet Idiot" from "Skin in the Game" by Nassim Taleb

https://medium.com/@nntaleb/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211...
Lightroom is on Android now:

http://www.theverge.com/2016/11/9/13577740/adobe-lightroom-a...

If you have a recent Chromebook, they can run Android apps =):

https://support.google.com/chromebook/answer/7021273?hl=en
Consul is brilliant. But we then have to provision it to EC2 instances in cluster somehowe. Do you know the way how to minimize maintenace effort there? Especially with Autoscaling in in ECS?
You can find enough to pass nearly 10 via the first hit on Google.

http://www.freedomworks.org/content/19-ridiculous-federal-cr...
>> And of course no mention of Bush/Cheney and the private email server saga.

This actually gave me a good laugh thank you. Invoking Bush close to a decade after he left office while simultaneously giving his own candidate a pass for using an unsecured email server.

The funny thing is all you see and hear on hacker news is stories about companies getting hacked all the SV techies calling them stupid and morons. Then you have their candidate doing the same thing and suddenly its ok??

I never understood that logic.
Can't disagree with you on that. However it's very likely that most of his voters took him seriously. It's not likely that they are all bigoted idiots, and in fact, they were not: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/nov/09/white-voters...
I started doing full-time freelance a few months ago (really independent contracting, not project-based freelance). My initial clients came from companies in my network who I'd met with before and know needed dev work. There's also been some traction with referrals, but working with someone who already knows you and is familiar with your work simplifies a lot.

[And I'll second that the dev marketplace sites are a waste of time. Anyone I've mentioned it to has echoed similar thoughts except for the one-off non-technical person who wants to get a simple job, like converting a json file to an Excel spreadsheet, etc done for cheap.]
> If he runs the goverment as efficiently as he did his campagin (less than $5/vote)

I don't know if you realize, but Trump's definition of efficiency is ripping off people he has leverage off, now he will have several degrees of freedom to rip off not only tax players but governments.

I have a strong feeling that the plan he has to make Mexico pay for the wall involves leverage with the NAFTA redefinition... He might miscalculate this though, Mexico is not as dependent of USA as it used to be
10,000 lines is supposed to be 'big'? wtf?

I write something like 25kLoC/year (of shipping code, generally very complex stuff) and I don't even program full-time. The two projects I am working on now are 35kloc (the smaller one) and 250kloc (the medium-sized one).

If someone thinks 10kloc is big, I have a hard time thinking of that person as a professional programmer.

(Numbers listed here exclude blank lines and comments.)
But emails though
Despite being an independent left leaning liberal, I welcome this proposal, if they can actually implement it.

I see wide-spread exploitation of the "Sanctuary City" Law in San Francisco, especially in the Restaurants, Construction site and Janitorial jobs.

The Sanctuary Law, for those that don't know, forbids the Feds from asking employers about the immigration status of the employees / workers. This has caused 100s and 1000s of (mostly mexican and hispanic) undocumented immigrants to arrive and live in Sanctuary Cities (like San Francisco, LA, etc) and strain the local public services, while simultaneously being exploited by their employers.

Most get paid less than minimum wage (some even as low as 8$ / hour instead of the $13.75 min wage in SF), women get abused, sexually harassed etc (in restaurant jobs).
I agree with much of your statement here. However, an unintended side-effect is you may end up prohibiting a lot of behavior that isn't the one you originally wanted to address and end up with an extremely broad set of laws that have the potential to be applied arbitrarily.
I agree with you regarding the business perspective.

I don't think the efficiency of his campaign is directly applicable, more I would say his ability to seize an advantage (the media's strong dislike of him) where others would not have even known there was an advantage to be had is the real takeaway.

A crucial skill for negotiating.
Isn't the purpose of a land tax to encourage the most productive use of land? So if we value wilderness, then a tax break seems like the correct way to facilitate that.
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