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Actually, not quite. There are a whole lot of flashpoints coming up in Europe over the next 12-18 months. It's going to be very interesting.

I wrote about this here:

https://medium.com/@octskyward/ok-what-now-e3f64d38f7#.po6ym...

Briefly, the next steps are:

• The Geert Wilders trial in Netherlands. GW is the most popular politician in NL right now. He is on trial for what is essentially pure political speech, he asked a crowd if they wanted more/fewer Moroccans (i.e. visa policy), they said fewer, he said "OK we'll sort that out" or words to that effect. He is boycotting his own trial. If he is found guilty and punished, it's hard to believe this will go down well or hurt his support. Should be resolved by end of the month.

• Austria rerunning its presidential election. Last time the "far right" candidate Norbert Hofer lost to his Green/left wing opponent. But there was voter fraud and the vote was so close that the amount of fraud was larger than the margin of the win, so the courts required a rerun. If Hofer wins ... well, the President of the EU Commission has said Austria would be frozen out of the EU as a punishment for voting the wrong way. Should be resolved in December.

• General election in the Netherlands next year.

• Election in France, as you note.

• Towards the end of the year election in Germany. Very volatile politics there. Turkey is threatening to unleash a torrent of migration on Europe unless it gives Turkey what it wants, which the EU doesn't want to do. Germany's Trump equivalent (Frauke Petry) started losing support when the migrant crisis began slackening after the Turkey deal. If it collapses then AfD may see a resurgence in time for the election.

So 2017 is gonna be an interesting time.
Yes - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/03...
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I always wonder this, and especially now as I am again told I need to throw out a dishwasher due to a faulty logic-board, which costs more to purchase than a new machine.

Being a programmer, I am used to many open standards that allow easy replacement of failing hardware in relation to computers. This is possible due to open-standards around physical card sizes, IO buses, ports, and otherwise.

In an ideal world I could replace the logic-board of my dishwasher with a compliant board from any manufacturer. In my head I have a fantasy (a sad one maybe) where I create a business such as this for all consumer electronics, and reduce landfill by a large percent. As I know nothing about electronics and manufacturing this is highly unlikely!

Any info on this would be great, if not just to satisfy my curiosity.
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Trump's acceptance speech was quite magnanimous.

If he can pull off the things he mentioned in that speech then it's not going to be so bad.
How many times has the word "globalisation" been used in the comments ? Do you know what it means ? Does it have only one meaning ?

Just previously a subject was opened
"Why is electricity so hard to understand? (1989)"
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The problem was, if that is true, then Trump already defeated Bernie in the primaries. Those voters weren't going to vote for Hillary, Bernie needed them, but they were already attending Trump rallies.
I'm not sure you need to apologize and it doesn't look like you have been treated in a negative way.

I hope you don't consider this thread as "being treated in a negative way", it's a just discussion. EDIT: I really appreciate you replying. We are supposed to talk to you about it all, apparently, and it's good to have that discussion.
No, the interstates are a bigger joke. You'll see nothing, but make great time. What I've seen as someone originally from Ohio that's lived in NYC and Seattle the last 10 years is much of the culture is diluted because people move around and communities receive more outside influence than they did pre-WW2. I've seen too much to list here. The rural areas like where I grew up and the farm I was raised on are familiar. It's the faces of people and culture are familiar to me. And people do cling to religion and sometimes guns.

I've also lived in the wealthiest zip code on the upper east side and listened in on elitist ramblings as people discuss international finance in the corner Starbucks. Oblivious of the wider social impacts such topics have.

My day today is spent working in a technocracy that unfortunately over estimates merits and the ability of anyone to simply advance beyond their circumstance.

The culture exists, but it has Americanized over the years. Polish, Irish, German, Swiss, etc it all gets diluted from the European versions after 5 or 6 generations.
I thought about your text a few hours. Because some of it sounds really right, but somehow it also feels strange.

You say, if I understand you correctly, that the rural voter is the majority, and that we should finally start to listen to his needs, ideas, fears and dreams.

And I agree that we should listen to the majority and figure out how to make most people happy. But exactly this "rural voter" is not the one who educates himself (independent of the education he receives through his government a lot of learning happens after school). He has very simple needs and doesn't care about the details of how these interact with the needs of people who "tick differently". Sometimes when I talk to "rural folks" (have some in the family) they don't even seem to understand what they themselves want and need. They just know when they don't have it and then they are unhappy.

Therefore there is not much to learn from this "rural voter", or from talking to him. But his needs are obvious and simple as well. And we all know them already. Give him a job that exhausts him, give him a wife, 1-2 children, a tv, if possible a single family home. Keep the taxes low enough for him to provide for his family, fly or drive somewhere cheap in summer and make alcohol cheap enough for him to have some parties and a few beer on the weekend. Then he's happy and won't trouble any politician.

Thus, I would say the question is not about understanding them better but about rich and social enough to provide them what they need. And the funny thing is that the politicians on the right usually prefer the well off population and make politics for them, while the left tries to provide for the commoner, the "rural voter". That's the funny thing in my eyes, the "rural" voter hates the people who fight for him and loves the people who try to exploit him.
Where is all this wealth I get just for being white?
You think Trump is going to make people who do not like you now, like you? I mean, how is it forbidden for people to just not like things?
There is a kind of "simulation" here:

https://www.quora.com/If-every-state-of-the-USA-declared-war...
As an American software developer working perm in London for 5 years and now returning to California ( ;_; ) ,
I can say that salaries are 3-4 times higher in the US for the same role. Just converting the currencies.
It was exactly one comment from evancz, which says: "I don't want to readd this feature...I think it makes sense to continue discussion in this issue if you think there are valid use cases". Here [1] is the actual feature request.

The existence of a BDFL is irrelevant. This rejection is frustrating whether it comes from one person, or a committee, a peer, whatever, because it is arbitrary and unjustified. The feature wouldn't compromise the design philosophy nor its consistency. "I don't want this" is not a design philosophy, and neither is "your use case is invalid".

The use case is actually solid. Writing readable, maintainable code which is conceptually easy to understand in the span of a few paragraphs, like in the blog post.

[1] https://github.com/elm-lang/elm-compiler/issues/1283

PS. I'm certain evancz has a reasoning behind his wish to keep the feature out of Elm. He just doesn't communicate it, which makes the decision seem arbitrary.
"The Baltic Republics vs. the rest of the USSR."

Not good example. They were not voluntarily part of USSR (see Molotov-Ribentrop pact), Stalin sent a lot of them to Siberia. They have huge Russian minority too (remember Putin's policy for "protecting" russians in foreign countries). It it not easy for them to survive, they have to be as independent on russia as possible, so they have no other choice than integrate into international organizations.
America had several massive immigration flows before NATO existed. And several racist backlashes. For example, a backlash against the slightly-less-white people from Italy in the early 1900s. There's nothing new about the current backlash.
Those wanting a unlimited block size increase are mostly less technical and don't understand the difference between expanding and scaling.

If it slows nodes down exponentially as the chain gets too big then that isn't scalable.
I hear this a lot, but do you mean more IT/technician jobs than software engineering/developing?
I'm reasonably sensitive to class particulars and I'm pretty sure software engineering is middle class. Or at least, exactly the same as mechanical/design engineers
In my opinion Australia is one of the most monocultural countries in the world, and I have visited over 100 countries.

It is a monoculture because they basically exterminated natives like they were bunnies in order for some guys to take all the territory to themselves.

There is only one culture in Australia precisely because all the minorities are not significant. It is one thing to have a Muslim or two, completely different having tens of millions.

Who is the owner of the land in Australia? White families. I have a friend in Australia who has so much territory he needs a plane to move around it. It is normal there.

What makes Australia a great place to life is having a continent almost as big as the USA,with comparable natural resources, but with less than 13 times less population.

In a similar country like China there lives 65 times more population. In fact most of China is mountains so the actual density is even higher in populated places.
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People bashing retropie and says that this is a replacement for it but that is not true. It has only 30 games, no way of buying new games and (probably?) no controller support. If new nes had all this it would be an insta-buy for me but currently it is just a bad console.

I am all for supporting developers, hell I made a homebrew nes game and earned some money with it. But this thing is useless compared to what retropie does.

I would consider buying a second hand one just to use its case / controllers though.
yes it will... in worst case scenario, US will roll back to a state 20-30 years ago. by your descriptions, people were committing suicides en mass or were put down like feral animals or whatever the heck you meant with your emotional outcry.

It seems not so long ago when Obama was criticized for his inability to do many changes he promised to do, simply because the image of US president holding all the possible power in the US is an illusion, for a very long time.

Personally, I don't care much about his racism, bigotry etc, many powerful people are like that, they just don't admit it openly to the media. What I care about is long-term chances of mankind for survival on this beautiful little blue ball, the only home we will have as a mankind for a very, very long time.

And in this topic, he seemed... pretty horrible in every single way. well, fuck.
I think you misunderstood. He's talking about the feel of plugging in the controller. "The controller ports aren't as satisfyingly analog-feeling."
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Quite an interesting observation and detailed comment. Are the presentations/videos available on YouTube?
You confuse skill with high salary. If you're a part of HN community and work for a startup with some seed funding, good luck with (a) finding people (b) paying them $150k.

Not sure how you the want government to evaluate chemical, mechanical, aerospace etc. engineers. Right now it's formal education, since I think it's hard to do it objectively otherwise. For software engineers you expected USCIS will look at our ... GitHub accounts to evaluate it?

H1B as it is OK. Unfortunately big firms figured you can DDoS the application system and flood it with applications, get some people, underpay them and use them to replace more expensive and more qualified US people. This is a problem and it needs to be solved.

Read this article as an example: http://www.infoworld.com/article/3004501/h1b/proof-that-h-1b...
Pretty good. Lot's of opportunity for an American. Cost of living and taxes are very high, but then there is of course public healthcare, schools and education paid by taxes.

If that's OK with you, then go for it.
I disagree, since most criticisms has been focused on the corruption angle which is an aspect which the left side generally accuse the right of. One of the slogans of Hillary was that she wanted to take power back from the 1%, and it only further the message of falsehood and corruption when leaked conversation with wall-street came up in media.

It should also be mentioned that in a historically dirty campaign that focused less on what people wanted and more on whom they least wanted in office, gender, hair color and other less relevant aspect suddenly becomes more important. Obamas "Change we can believe in" and "Yes We Can" is more engaging than "I'm with her". Of 32 general election TV ads, 24 of those ads show or mention Trump. That explains to me why the left failed in this case, rather then the gender of the candidate.
I'm not, but I have a number of friends who are.
"Nigger" was coined by whites to denigrate blacks--just like "Boy" and a dozen other terms. Its use by blacks is ironic, its use by whites communicates hate. Willfully refusing to accept that a word intended to communicate white hate would strike blacks differently than it strikes white, well, yeah that is racist.
Telling people to "check their privilege" is pretty close to the worst way to advance any kind of meaningful dialogue, from what I've seen. Speaking that way manages to be simultaneously presumptuous, condescending and demeaning. I'll go out on a limb and posit that we should drop use of the term "privilege" altogether. All it leads to is an endless loop of arguments about: the nature (or existence) of "privilege", who is or isn't "privileged", and comparison of levels of "privilege". I have yet to see one of these discussions change anyone's mind, or lead to any increased understanding.
Are there post election statistics available?

Electoral votes from working class, rust belt states - Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin - are arguably the main reason Trump won, as Michael Moore predicted.
If this little wargame is to be played it would likely be a battle of attrition US warships deploy to restrain trade and cut off the CA economy... assuming the leadership isn't removed somehow by assassination or coup attempts.

CA is a big part of the US economy and culture, but in no way would I imagine that it could resist the rest of the 49 states.
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It was a terrible blunder, that might have cost her the election, and not because of the number of people she put in the basket.

It was a blunder because she called people deplorable. Had she talked about deplorable attitudes, she would have been on firm ground. I hope it doesn't sound like a fine distinction, because it isn't.

I voted for her; I am terrified of Trump -- rightly or wrongly, we'll now find out; but I knew this was a bad, bad mistake when she made it, right up there with Mitt Romney's infamous "47%" comment.

And yes, in my opinion, Trump made a lot more serious mistakes. But I am not totally surprised that a majority of Americans don't seem to agree with me.
I think a better example would be St Petersburg
How, exactly, have immigrants negatively affected American culture?
"Populism" is sort of a weasel word, but Law and Justice (in Poland) is arguably less populist than the party they replaced at power (Civic Platform), and certainly much less corrupt, whether you like their conservative outlook or not.
> Coming on the heels of BREXIT this is a trend.

This is also on the heels of Al Gore and John Kerry.

The track record of the Clinton-Blair center-right elite "neoliberal" machinery has pretty much been a failure now for 20+ years.

Obama wasn't part of that machinery (even though he immediately tacked center-right after getting elected).
I can damn well judge on FGM and other "primitive" practices as backward. Nothing is immune to criticism if the argument is valid. Granted there are many different types of cultural relativeism, but you decided by yourself to judge him as racist, I guess that means you are superior to him or something. Sounds like you're pretty racist.
Oh my god, a sane comment in this thread. God bless you.
I'm with a MarTech company based in Berlin and we're having a few vacancies atm.

We're also happy to support with relocation.

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I mean, if there was a State in the US where guns were realistically outlawed I'd move there too. Implying that is "white" flight is implying that white people are not major perpetrators of gun violence in America, which simply isn't true.

Gun violence in the US is a major problem and our gun ownership and sales policies are at the heart of it. I've considered moving my family away from it long before this horrifying outcome.
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I guess it will become a sort of inefficient, hyper-federalist system.
Syria, ISIS, and whole effin' arab spring, is something that was initially supported/not constrained enough by US. Yes, conflicts could be worse in middle east, but they could also... not be, if US and west generally just didn't meddle with crappy but relatively stable systems in place.
Strictly speaking it is; the coast runs to somewhere in the SW suburbs from memory.
Broken systems? They getting elected/voted is what you get when you ignore that people are not happy with how things are going.

However, you should always try to get your own opinion and try to search out for facts by yourself.
I hope they get replaced. I think that's the whole point of Trump; to give politics a good flush.
Well the whole reason that we have a representative democracy is that the average citizen has no idea how to run the country, so they elect more competent officials that represent their interests to do so. Obviously the flaw is that those same (on average) incompetent people are the ones who elect the leadership. But as far as I know we haven't come up with a better alternative. What do you propose then? A dictatorship? Authoritarian state?
This reminds me of Nassim Taleb's barbell risk management strategy: Avoid the middle in favor of the extremes. For investments, it means a combination of very conservative plus some high risk investments to win big. He applies it to many other areas, though, including health and politics.
Yes, that was / is an option. I actually did buy a bunch of books on the topic (beyond ones I already had in my collection for my own use), and bought a certification course training manual for a personal trainer certification. But I guess inertia turned out to be too powerful a factor to get around. I was making good money in tech, and I do actually enjoy it, and in the end the motivation to truly step away was never strong enough.
I think this attitude drove more people to trump. The real reasons most people voted for him were things like party loyalty, they dislike Hillary, perceived him as anti establishment etc etc.

People like you took the narrative from the big news networks of the mass numbers of bigots and racists and just ran with it. Problem was that story smelled like bull, which pushed more people to his camp.
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One of the most informative articles I have read about the divide between rural and urban America. Probably very true. Highly recommended.
But I think that's the difference in this election. Lower class people weren't voting Republican, they were voting for Trump. Trump was an outsider.

It's hard to say lower class people are voting against their own interests when the entire economic (Wall Street) and political establishments that they see as their opponents were completely behind Clinton. Who knows what Trump will end up doing, but they all knew what Clinton was going to do... more of the same.
And how is the WSJ's pro-immigration stance seen in the Republican party as a whole? Do pro-choice Republicans actually speak out and get much of a hearing on their pro-choice views at major Republican rallies? If so, what kind of reception do they get?
It's also linear extrapolation beyond everyone's individual abilities to react to the immmediate past. That at least is one thing our system enforces: the political cycle forces people to think about the presidency at least once every four years and the senate every two. A long term dip below progress is still possible insofar as the majority of the worlds population live nothing like the lucky minority.
interesting you missed Tokyo there. Japan imports 100% of food consumed regularly except for rice, which is expensive compared to overseas (about $5/kg). Other locally grown meats fruits etc are generally premium items.
I agree instant runoff would be better.

But the idea the US system wasn't designed to be democratic is a pretty gross exaggeration. You can't win without votes from "the peasants" no matter how much you spend to convince them. Otherwise Jeb Bush would be president-elect today.
I am an immense fan of BOTNS, it is perhaps the most cherished novel in my collection, several years after reading it I still haven't read another novel that has impacted me in a similar fashion (recommendations are welcome), however, while I don't object to your analysis of some of the book's themes, I think your connecting it to current political events is a pretty huge stretch and really only accurate in a somewhat superficial sense. Still, I can't say enough good things about that book so have an upvote.
The problem is that the modern day fascists like Trump, Le Pen etc. have become champions of the working class, which was traditionally left. And the left has been lost in its political correctness that it's completely alienated the working class. Getting left to pull their head out of their ass and get the working class back on their side is what you need to do. I wish I knew how though...
I'm sorry. I see now that I am unable to even understand how what I have said made you so upset, so all I can do is apologize.
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I'm not a smart person either, especially when it comes to solving all of the problems in the middle east. I'm honestly quite uninformed, apart from all the media coverage and mudslinging. Could you recommend some books that I should read?
You get what you deserve.
Why would I move to US/Silicon Valley ?
Is it because Donald Trump won ?
But what will change about taxes and freedom ?