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Mods – genuinely curious why the Eliezer Yudkowsky on Trump post was killed
https://www.facebook.com/yudkowsky/posts/10154746398729228?pnref=story

I caught it when it was on the front page and I thought it was one of the most interesting things I'd read about politics recently. I came back to find the link to send to someone and it was dead/flagged.
Yes.

A good overview from A.H.M. Jones, Augustus, from the first chapter, "The Breakdown of the Republic":

https://plus.google.com/104092656004159577193/posts/U7mLJYGy...

(The book is brief but the remainder is about as similarly dense as this overview -- if you're not already familiar with Roman history and particulars, there's not quite enough context to grab hold of. There are better, longer biographies which should be easier reading.)
Muh privelege...
As an aside, what happens in Python when you try to hash objects that contain circular references?
Indeed. Globalization is not the enemy. Overall wealth and productivity have gone up, up, up in the last 40 years. The problem is that a disproportionate share of the returns from that growth have gone into the pockets of the rich. There's about a zillion reasons why that happened, but there are also many ways to tackle the problem and improve the situation.
The US will be moving backwards in a lot of areas.
Both social and traditional news media are structured to cash in on unique/improbable/dramatic events automatically. Look forward to a surge of retrospectives from all sides competing for attention that is monetized through ad spend.

As far as the advertisers? The ad buyers will be able to funnel outraged/ecstatic dollars into various foundations and funds. The various big brands will most likely begin shipping "feel good, come together" style ads that ostensibly encourage "healing" while simultaneously improving brand perception/equity that drives sales.

The small fries are the bookies, the forex traders, and the merch hawkers.
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That's the shoving down the throat we're talking about. Thanks.
ReactJS introduced virtual DOM before Elm did (Elm first used virtual-dom a lib that was developped quite some time after the release of react, and now uses a new custom implementation)
redux was inspired by the "Elm architecture" where everything is global but composed by object/record keys at all levels of the tree.
For one Trump will give them at least one, more likely two even more Supreme Court Justices, so some of the most right-wing conservatives we've seen in the past half century will decide the law of the land for the next twenty to thirty years.

The Republicans will have control of all three branches of government for the next few years and there is a whole lot that they can do with that. As a foreigner, what worries me most is that American progress on climate change policy will be set back by another 15 to 20 years as Obama's progress will be erased and there is no progress to hope for until another Democrat is elected in four or eight years. Russia can also be expected to threaten Europe with more confidence; hopefully our defense spending will increase to pick up the slack.

The Democrats certainly brought this upon themselves. People say the primaries against Sanders were rigged, but really the problem wasn't that the DNC pushed Clinton. The problem was Clinton herself. Clinton soundly rejected Sanders' populist ideals when almost half of the party and a great number of independents supported them. All it took at that point were a few leaks and a letter from Comey to rip the blue collar worker's vote from her.
Oh wow. I would really like to be a fly on the wall to see what kind of mail the White House has been receiving for the last however many years...

Although it probably gets old after a week.
Isn't that the point of the parent post? The two regions are very different.
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> Trump won because uneducated white people voted together as a voting block.

Isn't that just called 'voting'?
I honestly cannot figure out which candidate should match which description.
> Okay, so now make a serious iOS app in Objective-C in "a few hours". As in, have one by this time tomorrow. See? It's crazy. That's not how it works.

But then making an iOS app requires picking up frameworks/libraries, not only learning Objective C, which was exactly GP's point:

>> Libraries and frameworks take a lot more time than languages.
City states and some sort of 'neo-medieval' organisation principle with lots of overlapping allegiances and identities.

There was an interesting article on this some time ago that broached some of these ideas:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329850-600-end-of-n...
And in California, music festivals and underground parties, all the swimming holes around Yuba, Tahoe (not the touristy stuff), countless other hippie hang-outs...

And that's just a specific sub-culture in NorCal. I'm sure tons of similar things exist around the US, but the California one is pretty awesome and does reach to other places in the world (Hawaii, Costa Rica, Bali, etc)
Wow, hah!

Aims pointopoint microwave link at NZ (if only... they don't work that far away :P)
Isn't America made up almost entirely of immigrants?
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But trump over performed with non-whites, and I think lots of people missed this. I think that people going very far into the racial data are on a wild goose chase. The fact is that clearly, voters did not think that stopping trump because he's a jerk was important enough to be the deciding factor. Clinton just campaigned badly. She couldn't credibly articulate a plan of change for America with Obama sitting as president, and made no effort to convince voters that the status quo was worth preserving. She was just running against Donald Trump, and the enthusiasm gap was enough for her to lose.
Sadly, elections everywhere are at least as much about charisma as they are about competence.

People usually vote for who they like, not for who's probably competent. Regardless of education.
Glad you like it, I think it's a fantastic city to be in if you have a good job. Of course, you won't make insane amounts of money like in London or the US but since you're European I guess you already have a similar mindset.

This is what I like over here:

- Big city but you can walk almost everywhere
- Weather is great
- Airport is 20min subway from city centre
- People are friendly, most speak some sort of english
- Tech scene is getting better every year
- No gentrification yet

There are advantages on being on central or northern europe instead, but if I was in my 20s I would definitely come to Lisbon.
I think it is more populism than far right.For example, in my country greece, under similar discontent, people voted the (supposed) "radical-left" party of Syriza.

The anti-globalization trend is very real though.
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This is not just a theoretical issue. In the past week we've been doing a bit more than 5 request/sec to Google Cloud Storage and according to NewRelic the average response time was 8 seconds! I.e. the service has been down and not been responding at all for large periods of time. I've been in contact with their support team and they've refused to reimburse us anything.
Manchester voted 60% to Remain. The other districts except Trafford mostly voted Leave.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-36617781

I suspect what we're seeing here isn't actually even cities vs everywhere else. I suspect this correlation is obfuscating the real connecting variable which is age.

Young people live in cities. As they get married, buy houses and have children they move out into the suburbs.

Young people tend to vote left wing and be more supportive of the 'elite'. Older people tend to be more conservative and, apparently, more willing to give the 'elite' a good kicking.
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Ah yes, the return of the Russian boogeyman.

Agreements like NATO do not promote peace. It's easy to be too aggressive when you have big friends who you can drag into your fights.

As crappy as trump is IMO there is a little more hope for peace. Hillary is such a hawk conflict was all but guaranteed under her administration
I personally believe Clinton was almost uniquely qualified as the only democrat that could lose this election from Trump. The political establishment underestimates the underlying resentment.
"The winners know that they’re winning but have been very slow to realize that the losers know that they’re losing and are enraged about the fact."
The linked article, put in hash words but look beyond that, was written after the Brexit poll, but it is as relevant here:
"Corrupt elites always try to persuade people to continue to submit to their dominance in exchange for protection from forces that are even worse. That’s their game. But at some point, they themselves, and their prevailing order, become so destructive, so deceitful, so toxic, that their victims are willing to gamble that the alternatives will not be worse, or at least, they decide to embrace the satisfaction of spitting in the faces of those who have displayed nothing but contempt and condescension for them.

"There is no single, unifying explanation for Brexit, Trumpism, or the growing extremism of various stripes throughout the West, but this sense of angry impotence — an inability to see any option other than smashing those responsible for their plight — is undoubtedly a major factor. As Bevins put it, supporters of Trump, Brexit, and other anti-establishment movements “are motivated not so much by whether they think the projects will actually work, but more by their desire to say FUCK YOU” to those they believe (with very good reason) have failed them"

https://theintercept.com/2016/06/25/brexit-is-only-the-lates...
You think "playing Trump in the debates" would garner votes for Bernie? Ha. Trump supporters were never going anywhere. No matter what Bernie said. Having Bernie as the candidate would only cause democrats to vote Trump or independent.

You need to step outside of your bubble and look at the real world. Bernie had no chance against Trump - at least Hillary did.
> This election is about establishment vs anti-establishment. People over globalisation. Remember Bernie Sanders?

I don't understand the point you are making. If people beat globalization, if voters want anti-establishment more than establishment, shouldn't Bernie have won?
I think the market will self correct shortly.
I call this "there must be a name for this type of paradox" paradox.
That's really interesting. I'm guessing they're doing it to save money. The idea of premature optimization comes to mind, but this is one area where the investment really does need to be made, and will be worth it in the long run - once it's set up it's unlikely to be changed for decades (!!).

I'm wondering if it's something nonfinancial, but I (honestly) can't figure out what it could be.
Name calling doesn't sway votes is exactly the opposite of what every power hungry politician is going to take away from this.
> Give me luck with finding a girlfriend

How is this related to politics? Genuinely curious since you bring this up as the first way for a political party or movement to win you 'back'.
Everywhere around you. You have a indoor plumbing and electricity and always-on internet, correct? You eat three squares a day, right? In global terms, you are likely to be quite wealthy. Most software developers easily make it into the world's top 5%, if not the top 1%.
Not true here in France or most of Europe, for that matter.

The only people happy about Trump is ultra-right wing/neo nazi panopticon of odd figures - Wilders, Le Pen, Farage, Orban ... Really the "crème de la crème" of Europe. And, of course, Putin.

The rest is worried now - people are seriously questioning what happens, for example with NATO, after Trump's remarks on not unconditionally supporting the allies. Is Trump going to divide Europe between himself and Putin, e.g. in exchange for Syria? Is Putin going to have a free hand to invade Baltics now? What about Ukraine, Moldavia? Are we going to go back to the Iron Curtain era where Soviet "borders" were the ones with West Germany? These are serious issues which you don't feel on the other side of the Atlantic, but for us living there it is a big deal.

What about business? Trump made some remarks about erecting trade barriers to protect American markets. So, of course, this concerns us too.

On the other hand, the misogynist, racist, xenophobic BS he was producing during the last few months is mostly seen as disgusting, but finally mostly your internal problem. I am sure someone like Merkel is not going to be personally happy to have to sit next to him at some official function, but people do respect the result of the election and are professionals. GWB was not seen as the sharpest tool in the shed in Europe neither but everyone survived it.

Clinton was seen as a continuation of the US policies, so naturally people would have preferred her - nobody likes to rock the boat too much when it comes to foreign policy or business. Trump is seen as unpredictable, unreadable and incompetent in this regard, unfortunately.
Come on, how many time in your entire life did you need this ?

For set, it's a bit more annoying. But for dicts. twice in 10 years maybe ?
Many would rejoice in the fact that is actually moving. Backwards and forwards to many in this election is a matter of opinion.
Well the image of the establishment lining up against trump was one of his greatest gifts.
That twitter thing you just linked, did you read the replies under it?

I'm not 100% sure of the context. But it looks like it's fake.

@SRowntreeNews @WALTBACON Dude that's a fake account. Don't RT that garbage.

@aobrien7 good catch, thanks

@SRowntreeNews This is fake, @michaeldweiss. Part of disinfo network spreading false rumors. They were very active during Euro soccer riots.

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If thats case aren't you just perpetuating a narrative about Trump supporters being a bunch of racist bigots, when in this case its made up BS????

This is exactly what pissed off a lot of regular people and got them to the polls IMO.
Many democracies in Europe have or have had extreme right nationalists/fascists in power and much of the same trajectory happened. Uttering that there might be problems with immigration policies was a complete taboo as the extreme right made extremely strict (and thus different) policies there a major point of their discourse.

But what happens when you don't discuss a subject that the voters consider (right or not - that's not even the issue!) important and worrying?

It wasn't until the subject was considered debatable by more centrist parties that this rise was halted, or at least coupled with less worrying ideologies.
Bernie lost the primary fair and square. He was basically an unknown when he started. More Dems voted for Hillary. I voted for Bernie. He did a lot better than I ever thought he would. He was a progressive in a center left party.
for the most part, we all watched the same 3 news networks and read the same newspapers.
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One example would be the adoption of European, and "ethnic" literature in lieu of the American literary canon -- even in American Literature courses! There's a comment about this by the late Andrew Breitbart, you can google it. (He studied American Literature.)

That's just one example, there are literally millions. Here's another way of looking at it:

- if a African American outwardly expresses his cultural origins and identity, this is called "affirmative" -- a word with positive connotations;
- if an Italian American expresses ties to his cultural origins, it's considered less inspiring, but still ok
- if an white European American expresses pride at his cultural heritage, then he's usually derided as nativist, racist, xenophobic, or, worst of all -- an old fogey.
Pull on your big kid pants and maybe admin your own servers?
That moment after a senior or technical lead is ripping a piece of code to pieces for about half an hour while you keep your best poker face, then git blaming the file to show him he's actually the author.

Had it last week and it was priceless.
Out of curiosity, what was the specific reason?
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I agree. I didn't mean to start a PC war, just noticed that the term seemed out of place.
He is highlighting the difference between these regions within the Soviet Union so what's the point of you comment other than signalling political correctness?

I believe that this election signals if anything, a popular rejection of political correctness to the point where discussions can't be had anymore.
Jimmy Carter: "If we succumb to a dream world, we'll wake up to a nightmare."

Trump: "I make the best nightmares."
I think it helps a lot to try to understand the universe from an engineering perspective, thus by posing the question "How would I build a universe?"
The apparent obvious answer is : as an N dimensional matrix where each cell executes some code.

With such a setup, effects like gravity, are more probable to be emergent effects.

Another consideration is that in such a setup the only thing that matters is the state of the matrix, in other words there is no time, just iterations.

So my 2 cents are: gravity should be explained as an emergent phenomenon, and time should be removed from all equations that try to explain the underlying fabric of reality.
I'd argue that checks and balances are very much a good thing. Less gets done overall but at least one side/person/party/opinion can't get pushed through without resistance if too many people oppose it.

Then again, Trump didn't just win the election, Republicans also won majority in the House and Senate. So it's going to be a lot easier for Trump to push policies through than it was for Obama.
Looking at the brackets in original post it's mostly Lisp
Trump won the popular vote too.
Kaine was probably promised the VC role when he resigned from the DNC and was succeeded by Debbie Wasserman Schultz. As far as I remember he even recommended her for the post. Everything was in place for a Hillary nomination except Berney...
> the Great Filter

There had better be some serious conviction behind you. If you are aware of the great filter, then you better go get a job at SpaceX and work 100 hours for the rest of your life. We have about 20 or so years to set ourselves up for the future before it is too late.

EDIT: Just want to clarify that I'm not mad, it's just that if you realize what the Great Filter is, and you're not hopelessly selfish, that you should be working all the time to help get us safely across it. The universe hangs in the balance, friend.
To be honest, you had a blank slate and could have told whatever story you wanted to about yourself. You chose to tell this one, which basically makes the case that you are entitled and bitter.
The Republicans have congress, which is different than Trump having congress.
This is the fundamental problem with assigning probabilities to events that will only happen once. It doesn't make any sense!
Exactly. And it's not exactly groundbreaking news, so shame on the Democrats for going for Clinton and shame on her for not giving up after being defeated by Obama in 2008.
I wonder if facebook and google could've built a better model. Prediction based on polling doesn't seem as reliable compared to what people post to their newsfeed or search for.
Trump destroyed the GOP and the DNC. He's the third party.
Often your culture isn't apparent and to you at all until you have extended exposure to another one.

And even then, it's hard to pin down.

I, for one, notice that Australians are quite different from Americans and Brits. And of course even more so from the multitude of Asian, South American and European cultures.
Most fascinating for me as an outsider, is that perhaps, maybe, Americans decided to go against status quo, to vote against the establishment.
Maybe for the US, not for everywhere: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_League_System
don't understand why this comment gets down voted.
Really? I think it's fairly obvious that no one knows what it means, and that OP is asking for peoples opinions.
Pence is the VP which constitutionally has next to no power (Lookup VP John Nance) President-elect Trump will be running the executive via his cabinet appointments. It'll be Governor Christie, who's running the transition and finding those cabinet appointments, that you should be pinning your hopes on.
Sectarianism in Scotland was and continues to be a long running backlash in some areas against Irish immigration.
But wait!

Why would you bit-shift the result of a logical comparison?

This code makes no sense, it's wrong, and should be rewritten.
Well, it was quite clear that DNC turned against Bernie from the start of the campaign for the primaries.
Why should investors pay attention to Mongolia?
"Comparitive advantage" was about growing bananas in the tropics vs the tundra.

What we've had for the last three generations is a race to the bottom.
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lol are you ex-military? that was surprisingly insightful.
Why?

Do you actually think anything bad will happen if you ate for a month sans one micronutrient will permanently damage you?
Go back far enough, sure. Most people go back to one or two generations after when their ancestors first came to America to set the bar for who's an immigrant.

It's like Ann Coulter's tweet last night where she said nobody should be able to vote unless all 4 of their grandparents were born in America - and then had to put her foot in her mouth when people pointed out that this would disqualify Donald Trump.
>Do you have examples of the left in the US banning free speech for those that think differently from them?

https://twitter.com/CHSommers/status/783426266380668928
A good lens to look at it might be that the industrial output of the US was a major factor in WW2.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_production_during_Wor...

The US produced more of an awful lot of the categories there. I guess it really shows up in the Navy.
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Rejecting a programming language feature because you find it constraining is just ignoring history. Arguments similar to yours have been used to dismiss Garbage Collection, type systems, and even the use of high-level languages, all of which were very successful precisely because they constrain the set of programs you can write.

Also, why all the hate? As you said, neither you or the TypeScript community have any reason to feel threatened by Elm, which nevertheless has had a very positive influence on the mainstream JavaScript community (look at Redux).

The only impact your comment could have is discouraging the Elm community from furthering its valuable research in the field of web development. Please write constructively next time.
> Public schools (the ones that are free) represent very little amount of the Masters Degree

I think you're talking about business schools. Almost all reputable engineering schools are virtually free, as well as all universities.
It also didn't help that Hillary didn't have any results in countering that narrative. She just hunkered down, said things about her background which sounded very politician-y, and kept the spotlight on trump. Turns out this was a terrible strategy.