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Which was what I said without the examples: as long as your freedoms don't take away from the freedom of others.

I am for paying taxes to have a standing army, so I don't have to protect my own border, but I guess the line between libertarianism and socialism is that I don't want government trying to legislate intelligence, or non-precedentedly passing prophylactic measures for "my own good"; I'd like to decide those things on my own.

I fail to see how policing occupancy is just in this case, but there are those who have decided their are limits to how much wealth you can have and how you can spend it. They know what's best for you.

So if the owner sells the $1 million dollar home, what a "poor" person can snatch it at $750k? I'd like to see the logical conclusion to this thinking.

Given these are 85% Canadian-owned, how is it a measure against the 15% foreign-owned properties? And isn't xenophobia part of that type of legislation?
>The press I saw served mainly as a gigantic megaphone used to amplify a river of Trump bullshit 24/7.

We probably weren't watching the same media then. Because all the established press and TV channels rooted for Hillary or against Trump.

Still, they couldn't silence his presence entirely, but then again, why should they? After all, it was what tons of people wanted and voted for.
Uh, the situations are not analogous.

People.cn is the website of the [People's Daily][1], which is a longstanding, official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party. Not figuratively or in the sense of having a slant or something, but it's literally the Party's official newspaper.

It's tempting to equate it to Voice of America, but even VoR is managed quite differently. There's not a direct equivalent in the US press, because the systems work differently.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Daily
Some honest questions: Do you think it's worth polling at all? Do you think it's possible they made honest mistakes in their models? If you're voting in the election, you're going to have an opinion. Is it possible to work on polling honestly while being an eligible voter?

Personally, I think polling is worthwhile. I think it's possible they made honest (and sometimes incompetent, but not malicious) mistakes, and acknowledge that attempting to predict the outcome of a future event is inherently difficult. I think it is possible to do honest work while still voting.
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Stoyanov's "OO JavaScript" is probably one of the best books on advanced programming in JS. It packs quite a punch, includes lots of concise examples and incredibly well structured. It really emphasizes the flexibility and power of prototypes; Stoyanov shows there are dozens ways to skin the proverbial cat. I haven't read the second edition of the book though. But I really liked the first one.
I'd never heard of gun before, but the project looks interesting. I see there's a few videos in the main repo's readme, so I'll be checking em out.

Any comments on how it compares to something like PouchDB [0]?

What are examples of good use-cases where you'd want to reach for something like gun?

Although I've looked into stuff like CouchDB and NoSQL databases, I can never intuitively wrap my head around it. For most problems that cross my mind, my first response is usually "Postgres sounds perfect for this". Does anyone have suggestions for resources that discuss this in a way that's approachable?

While looking through their docs and wiki, one of my questions was: how do you protect yourself from invalid data and all the related "baddies"? They have a wiki entry on the subject of authn and authz [1], but unfortunately it doesn't look like they included a complete example. In another wiki entry [2] they mention an authorization filter, but don't go into more detail.

[0] https://pouchdb.com/

[1] https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/Security%2C-Authentication...

[2] https://github.com/amark/gun/wiki/Mesh-Network-Messaging-Alg...
> Yes, he has said things that are very pro-renewable. Even his pro-coal stance is pro "clean" coal. A "clean" requirement for coal-based energy sources will effectively make it less economically viable relative to other energy sources.

How is removing regulations from the EPA going to focus on "clean" coal? Trump is going to remove regulations.
If you would (sensibly) like to dispute Japan's tranquil monoculturalism on a message board thread or elsewhere, a better approach to take is "Japan is often described as a monocultural country but it is not." This is true, novel, and gives you the opportunity to drop e.g. a citation for Sugitomo's An Introduction to Japanese Society, which is a really excellent academic text, or Making Common Sense of Japan, which is sadly out of print but a fantastic book qua book. (30 second example: Japan has large ethnic minorities like e.g. Koreans whose experience is often materially different than that of people who are ethnically Japanese; the discourse of Japanese monoculturalism margainalizes their experience and, for bonus points, makes their lives materially worse. Japan has religious minorities; you might sensibly predict life is difficult for them; you might sensibly predict this implies that e.g. no Japanese PMs come from religious minorities; you got one of those two predictions correct.)

I'd politely double down on encouraging you to not attempt to win this argument by saying "Japan actually is a monoculture and that culture's core is racism." People will believe you. This is materially less true than the not-a-monoculture argument and, separate from the truth of it, it is internally and externally a dangerous thing to have be believed.
>When you're offered a chance to get something you want by throwing minorities to the wolves, and you take it because hey, no skin off my nose, that's racism. That's evil. It's low-key evil distinct from actively advocating slavery or painting swastikas on walls, but it's more than mere "apathy" to racial issues.

What about apathy to foreign policy issues? Or is racism not racism when it concerns attacks on people abroad? Hillary has been consistently and vehemently pro-war and pro-"interventions" at every chance she got.
You apparently haven't read up on the history of Paypal...?
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With Peter Thiel ascending to the TRump Cabinet, his extremely worrying ideas about women's and minority rights are extremely worrying:

https://www.cato-unbound.org/2009/04/13/peter-thiel/education-libertarian

What is up with this?

Best I can tell, Libertarianism is a kind of an explanation of why there are poor people, and how not to feel bad about it. I may be wrong!
Good to see a conservative government put up a Libertarian gay tech person as CTO of USA.
Commerce isn't as simple as importing and exporting physical goods. Broad sanctions could, for example, prevent American companies from spending money on ads with Google, or American engineers from moving to California to work for them.
There are many points where I disagree, and I wrote several but prefer to keep it short.

This is a tax to gather funds, and the housing situation is a collateral.

This tax revenue is not going to be used towards any cause, let alone efficiently, to reduce the housing problem.

If this tax is levied, and then economists see that it is ineffectual to housing, or even makes it worse, but the tax does produce revenue, it will not be reversed.

If the housing situation improves in the future either because of this tax, or because of market conditions (like more dwelling units being built, or change in global trends of property) this tax will not be removed.

This extra tax revenue does not come with a reduction of taxes in other areas.(it is not a shift of the tax burden, its an increase).

A short list to at least question the intentions and effects of such policy:

1) There is an ill-shaped enemy that must pay (Rich foreigners)
2) It uses a justification that applies to many other use cases but its only applied here (we can decide to tax you on what you do with your property, and the only one we do right now is to you X group, because you do Y.)
3) It doesnt represent an understanding or a solution to the underlying problem.
What evidence do you have that that is true? Looking at his career experience on Wikipedia suggests the exact opposite. Not to mention it's a win for LGBT causes which he is known to be a supporter of.
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Still better than President Hillary Cliton who was taking money directly from Saudi Barberia.
Apple were already using USB for the PPC iBooks, and continued that with the Macbook - Linux has always complained that it can't find a PS/2 controller on x86 Apples. But USB is poor from a power management perspective, and so input devices on low power systems are frequently run over SPI instead. Apple began this with the Macbook (which is basically a tablet shaped like a laptop) and have started extending it across their entire mobile range. There are entirely sound reasons for doing this, and it's not unique to Apple.
Ims ure it is true but only one side has a dominant control over internet services.
Isn't that what the person you are replying to is essentially saying? That it's both sides, not just the right?
https://vimeo.com/56002315 is an hour-long documentary about his performance there, with lots of footage of the show itself.
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I do not know if the prices were different in the past, but 13" laptops previously used a 60W power adapter, while the 15" used an 80W
You seem to think grsec isn't in Linux due to the politics of submitting patches, grsec hasn't submitted piecemeal patches and their attitude is to derail conversations into name-calling. I recommend reading the comments in: http://lwn.net/Articles/663474/ or really anything where grsec team interacts with people. You can be the most intelligent human alive but if you cannot interact with people in a productive way it doesn't matter.
The polls were not that far off. If 1 in 100 Trump voters had gone for Clinton instead she would have won.

I think polling is pretty broken though. A lot has changed from 20 years ago when everyone had a landline phone.
You've got it backwards. People imbue meaning into the medium.

Also, saying the comment you replied to is "poor understanding" is both not supported by anything you shared, since your argument is as factual as theirs, and obnoxious. Keep it to yourself, please.
Because some of us might enjoy the ruby stack and are willing to pay the few extra bucks for better servers?

Why does everything have to be black and white anyway.
To be fair, fraud in Western research is prevalent as well.

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-cancer-idUSBRE82R1...
>While I'd like to have generics in go, one of the upsides of the lack of generics is that your code becomes less idiosyncratic and more idiomatic.

Idiomatic is only good if the idioms are good. Historically for lots of languages, and I would include Go there, the prevalent idioms were crap.

E.g. Java circa 2000-2007 and the J2EE factory-singleton-factory-proxy-singleton-XML crapfest.

Or PHP and the "devil may care" attitude of pre-Composer PHP codebases (including big ones like Wordpress).

Or the tons of broken ways of working with Javascript until the community regained some sanity in the last 5-6 years.
Florida is leaving us anyway. In 2030, the average IQ of what used to be Florida is bound to increase due to all the dolphins and whales swimming about.
Literally every presidential victory is delivered by the electoral college, as has been required by the US Constitution since long before Donald Trump was a dirty thought. What is to discuss? For that matter, what is being obfuscated?
> Do you really think a politician appealing to an imagined past is somehow unique or novel or goes unrecognized by the press? "Make X Great Again" is the oldest political slogan, ever.

Can you restate this. I cannot parse all of what you're saying.

I think I have the gist of it so I'll make this comment:

Thiel is very consistent. He is not insane.

I have been watching the guy talk, reading his essays for a decade. I don't know him personally, but I do know his ideas. They stay the same. It is a coherant worldview that does explain his actions in a concrete way.

"Opportunist" is not a good characterization of Thiel.

An opportunist is somebody who can go back and forth, a weathervane. Thiel has very concrete, fixed ideas of what is going on. He does not think reality is subjective. Just objective with many complex interwoven layers.

In other words, his actions are not random. They are guided by a central narrative. That is what my essay is trying to explain. It is extremely difficult because most people simply do not really grasp what he is saying, the concepts just slide out of their brains because their frame of reference is utterly orthogonal to Thiel's one.
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I think the moral of that story is not work life balance. It's that you should work crazy, just don't forget to take a break when you're stuck.

For example, I worked all day today (true story), trying to figure out some algorithm. I got stuck. So I took a walk. And it just came to me while I was taking the walk. Now I'm back and am back to work and it's super productive.

If I worked like 3 hours and then went out to meet friends, have dinner, go watch some musical, and came back. I literally wouldn't have had time to even get to this point.

Back to Archimedes, "The breakthrough came" only because he put his time in, and it just synthesized in his brain when he finally took a break. If Archimedes was a "40 hour work week" guy, he probably wouldn't have got to that state.
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Oh, wow, this sounds super illegal. Particularly if he re-buys at a lower price.
> In many areas, there aren't a plethora of jobs, and changing jobs when living paycheck to paycheck is a massive risk, you could easily lose the roof over your head.

And that is precisely they should thank for the job they have in first place. Being entitled brats would only mean those jobs will go to some asian who is willing to work harder longer and for less.
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>Classic. All languages stink, somewhere.

Which, as information is content-less.

All languages might stink "somewhere", but there are absolutely better and worse languages, and it's not just a matter of different tradeoffs.

You can give 10 language writers a set of the same tradeoffs to strive for, even hand them in order: it doesn't mean that the 10 resulting languages will be of the same quality.
I don't see why facebook is attempting to manipulate its users at all nor how anyone thinks this is acceptable.

If people spread misinformation, than the way to stop it is to spread correct information.

If facebook takes a more active role in shaping peoples' perceptions, i think it would be incredibly immoral and I would hope the company tanks.
The claim is not "climate science isn't (real because it has science in the name)", but "(climate science isn't real) (because it has science in the name)". That is, the name is being used as a reason to discount it.
Rates near zero is part of the reason the stock market has been on a tear the last few years. It also was a driver of the housing bubble.

It didn't cause the hyperinflation that a lot of people thought would come, but the Great Depression is Bernanke's area of expertise, and he had sound theoretical reasons to believe QE wouldn't spark serious inflation.
Before the election (when all the Democrats thought they would be in control): We need to accept the election results. Protesting the decision hurts our democracy.

After they lose: Massive protests and a desire to secede from the the US.

If Republicans would have protested or suggested a secession after a Hillary win, they would be called 'sexist'. Democrats are sore losers. Republicans endured 8 years of Obama and never protested like this.

Instead of shunning half the country, figure out why you lost.
I suppose we'll have to get used to stuff like this. With UTF8 it's really no different from regular words. Even the Go tour has an example of writing go in Chinese, I think.
They said much the same of Ronald Reagan. I'm no fan of either Reagan or Trump - but I think they both had the stamina for the office.
True. I loved the movie, but couldn't understand the ending of the it. Was he hallucinating? Did he have nervous breakdown?
Labeling something "misinformation" is not an objective act, period.

Facebook will be engaging in censorship if they pursue this.
To me that's less of an issue than a statement like "if Trump is elected Jesus will return."
It's reasonable to not trust a media outlet until it's earned your trust. Until then, cross check with the source material, as more often than not, journalists spin and filter the information in their product.

By the way, Snopes is not a common forum and is edited by a very small team. It is a single point of failure and is easily biased. No one entity should be the gatekeeper of truth.
Intelectual Property (especially patents and copyrights) should also be taxed at 1% of their assessed/declared value. And a single infringer should never be liable for more than the assessed value.

Not because patents are empty, but because this would create the incentive for patent owners to assess a real value to them, and not "bajillion dollars", which they do now.
Polls are useful for the campaign as part of media optimization and field strategy. In terms of value to the electorate, I think polls are anti-value: they are presented to generate response, be it entertainment or motivation. The electorate needs to held accountable for turnout, not tricked into it. I don't believe in requiring voting, but I despise the methods used to GOTV. Either you possess civic engagement or you don't
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I look forward to moving past the shock, but never the outrage. I am pleased to think that the outrage is just getting started. What I mean by that is something like the feeling expressed by Jean Paul Sartre, in his novel Troubled Sleep, about World War II.

In the novel, Germany invades France, but the French soldiers don't truly understand that they are at war.

The Germans destroy village after village, but the French soldiers don't truly understand that they are at war.

With superior tanks and airplanes, the Germans quickly defeat the French, but the French soldiers don't truly understand that they are at war.

The French are forced to surrender, but the French soldiers don't truly understand that they are at war.

The French soldiers are taken to a temporary prison camp, but they don't truly understand they are at war.

A rumor spreads among them that Hitler has decided to send them home to their families. The soldiers are cheered. Some even praise Hitler for his graciousness in victory. They don't realize they are actually at war.

At the end of the novel, the Germans order the French soldiers onto trains. The trains start moving. It is understood by the soldiers that if the trains go north, to Germany, then they are being sent to slave labor camps, but if the train turns south, then they are being sent home to their families.

In the final scene, the train comes to a fork, where it must go north or south. The soldiers watch anxiously. And then train turns north, toward Germany. And then, finally, the French soldiers realize they are at war.

I feel like this election was a bit like that, for many weak liberals who thought that it was okay to be "centrist." I feel like they are finally waking up to the fact that this is a war.

This is the only upside that I find in this election.
I'm the furthest thing from a Trump supporter, but it is a significant leap to take his believe that a judge with Mexican heritage would be biased against him due to his anti-Mexican agenda, and turn that into an opposition of all people of Mexican descent. Trump has said some despicable things, but saying that a person of Mexican descent might be biased against him because he's basically a dick to Mexico seems reasonably logical. Now, claiming that that's grounds for the judge to recuse himself is quite a stretch, but I don't personally see it as racist. I also think that stretching to label questionable things as racist is counter-productive; it dilutes the meaning, and makes it more difficult to call out the extreme, blatant racism that's going elsewhere.
It is a macro that just helps you define a type that implements the appropriate traits so of course it works with the rest of the world. No-one outside the crate that uses it even needs to notice, as one could just write out the definition by hand.
Variations of that statement are commonly being written or voiced in the mainstream media post election. So apparently it does do well. Van Jones, on national TV, called it "whitelash" and openly described Trump's election as a racist response to Obama's Presidency. The post election has been one mainstream media tirade after another about the racist white voters.
I can't make a car in the middle of a Volkswagen factory either, whats your point?
Big Tech needs to start receiving the same level of scrutiny Big Banks do. Trump wants to crack down on Amazon -- a good first step.
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Well, it was started via the initiation of force. Which is one of only two sins in libertarianism, so if someone is a consistent libertarian they can't advocate for that as the way to get going.
EDIT: Like seriously, why would an investor buy property and not rent it out at all? Just lose money?
If I have to take a wild guess. It's associating IBM/Third Reich with how Facebook and Twitter have enabled Trump to become president through distribution of false news and uniting the alternative right.
While you're right in quite a few areas, I have only had one package delivered by OnTrac. Literally everything else is USPS or UPS (and maybe one FedEx)
>> Is the wellbeing of these offshore workers his charity? Why should clifanatic EVER be put in the position of saving the offshore workers that his boss hired?

But that is _not_ what the GP is saying. You're creating a strawman argument where The Boss forces his employees to stay late in office while the 'labour' gets to work within his time.

If anything, based on the work timings mentioned in his post - the work-life balance of the offshore employees is screwed and not of clifanatic's him/herself.
Obama saying "we" is not referring to his administration?

What do you think "we" refers to?
For decades the strongest core of such policies you're describing was the southern Democrat.
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My wife once worked for an Australian company which was having enterprise software customized by an Indian company. The time zone was definitely an issue, compounded by the fact that (due to rush hour and other factors) the Indian company kept relatively late office hours (~10am to 7pm local time).

The net effect was that if she sent an email during the day, the earliest she could expect a response from the Indian office was about 3pm Perth time, which realistically (giving an hour turnaround time) meant one round of communication in per day unless she stayed back past 5pm.
Yes, but that was before the realignment when the racist white southern conservative faction of the Democratic Party, that had been it's core prior to the New Deal Coalition, abandoned the party over Johnson's support of civil rights and became the base of the Republican Party.

Has nothing to do with the Left Wing.
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