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Globalism shuffled jobs around the world, and trade policies can change that to a modest extent -- one's trade policy can't change the fact that your citizens are too expensive versus Thailand or China. Tariffs against Mexico cannot make a Shenzhen. GM is not metaphorically coming back to Detroit.

US manufacturing employment is going down, and even if / when high tech manufacturing brings production back to the US, it will be robotic production. And with every company in the world racing for machine learning, I don't see how the future looks good for a specific generation of people in history too old to newly take up a globally competitive trade. Also, it's been mentioned around here that driving is one of the most frequent jobs in most states in the US, and that Uber recently made a deliver of beer by automated truck. Uber and every relevant company in the world is trying to destroy a category of worker from everywhere in the world.
Ignore democratic accountability at your peril. The EU is an institution that has plunged the Greek working classes into poverty, imposed un-elected technocratic rule on Italy, and horribly insulted the plebs of France, Holland and Ireland after they dared to vote against its treaties. I doubt the EU will be around in its present form in ten or twenty years. That's what will be crumbling.
What if part of the problem is bad technology like twitter which encourages sensationalist politics?
I thought I would write back because I really do empathise your points. I lived in France as an étranger for 18 years growing up in an english speaking household. I know I felt separated from the world around me with a culture/language barrier, I could never speak French as good as my mates, write dissertations with native expression, was pretty much told constantly I was shit at my normal French school...
Now I think about it, yeah, it was rough and it definitely shaped my character today, but so do many things, on a _daily_ basis. I just see this binary world trend where it's I'm black, I'm white, I'm gay,I'm strait, I'm Muslim, I'm Christian, I'm a man, I'm a woman..; I'm not saying that these traits are unimportant, it seems our classifying and labelling are going into turbo mode seeking to differentiate.
I mean common, if history has taught us nothing in the 4 hours a week at lycée we know that struggling and rejecting always costs more than gains - I know we are better than the easy way out.
Dude, your a smart guy, you will totally find a megababe girlfriend doing the volenteering community projects; only fat, mean ones on FN side. you know its true
I'm Portuguese and live near Lisbon (and used to work for a startup in Lisbon). If you're looking for high paying jobs, look elsewhere, as developer jobs here are around 1500€-1800€ / month (* 14 months, after taxes), way below what people are getting paid in other countries.

However, if you decide to live outside of Lisbon where rents are very high, that amount of money is enough for you to live well and even save some money if you're somewhat frugal. Also, the weather is usually quite nice here, and if you're into that kind of things, there's a booming tech scene is Lisbon (web summit is here for this week).

Unfortunately, most of the jobs people take here are on outsourcing companies, but there is an increasing number of jobs available on local startups. If you're planning to move here, check jobs in http://landing.jobs/ (mostly startups).
I know gaming is not the main pull of this, but would this be better than parallels and fusion for gaming?
Well Nate did predict back in May that the Cubs will win the World Series and Trump will win the election

https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/730251094614528000
I am pretty sure the voters tell that to the losing side each election. while its easy to lay claim that Sanders could have won it is anything but easy to prove. true he had support but not among groups known to show up to actually vote. he also did not have support of many Clinton voters and there is no guarantee he would get them.

The US is pretty consistent in flipping the White House. That in itself is amazing and a good thing. The sad part is all the hate that comes out on this site which is sadly typical of people not thinking but reacting
Are you by any chance using Nearline or Coldline storage? These offer lower average access time in exchange for a steep pricing discount: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/storage-classes

If not, drop me a line at jani at google dot com with a reference to your support case and I'll be happy to take a second look. (Yes, I work in Google Cloud Support.)

That said, we have very recently (as in, late October [1]) introduced a new pricing model for GCS with the explicit goal of reducing latency, and the SLA may be due for an update accordingly. I'll look into this.

[1] https://cloudplatform.googleblog.com/2016/10/introducing-Col...

Also, the HTTP 500 thing is specific to GCS only, other services like GCE [2] define downtime more broadly as "loss of external connectivity or persistent disk access".

[2] https://cloud.google.com/compute/sla
It was as much Stanford as the naval base.
Government in the US has been extremely dysfunctional for a while now, and Clinton is the embodiment of the establishment politician. This may explain why so many people were willing to vote for an outsider candidate, despite his obvious flaws.
we need to create something on internet more powerful than old nations !!
Just a quick nitpick regarding to cultural/ethnical similarity with Russia: although the Baltic states were part of Russian Empire, the local culture had also strong German influences. Up until end of 19th century the Baltic Germans were the ruling class (although the region was in Russian Empira). So the local culture was mix of German and Russian influences, which makes it somewhat different with rest of USSR states.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltic_Germans#Russia.27s_Balt...
It would have been workable, if not for one thing that Republicans have consistently promised their electorate for a long time now: a federal abortion ban. Liberals will not see anything including that as a legitimate "states rights" solution for themselves. Secession resolves this issue, and can even score points with the electorate on the right.
In my opinion the main issue here is that only 4% (roughly) of population is LGBT and the 96% have no right to tell them who to sleep with or marry. It is none of their business.
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"Or is the problem with democracy itself? Is it possible that the world is too complex for the average citizen to make an informed decision about it? "

I believe, that democracy lost it when started to serve minorities instead of majority. Of course people are getting angry, when majority of them elect government which then won't care about their problems, but about immigrants, sexual minorities, big business, elites etc. Democracy, by definition, is the government of majority, and when it stops serving majority, it loses its purpose. I don't have a solution to this problem, but hopefully somebody will find it sooner rather than later, because I'm afraid some very dark times might otherwise be ahead.
When it comes to radicalization, I would be much more worried over the long-term use of drone bombers. Some people have already incorporated drones into local lore (if you don't behave, a drone will get you), and from myth and lore it is a short step to define the operators as evil and create rhetoric that is used by radicalization. We saw a similar effect in art when England was under constant bombing during ww2. Several years of bombing can cause a rather radical effect on peoples mind, and I suspect studies on stress can confirm that. The wrong president being elected on the opposite side of the planet seems minor in comparison.

The climate aspect is indeed bad, even if many of the trade deals that trump oppose and Hillary was active in bringing forth was labeled as negative for the climate. Hillary was likely the lesser evil all in all, but hopefully in 4 years we can see an actually advocate for the environment and clean energy.
Nice to see praise of my city. As a research software engineer I am in the top 1 % percent here so it is definitely a good career choice here.

However, the cost of living is skyrocketing now in Prague compared to the rest of the country and our wages. For the cost of my small flat (60 m^2) I could buy two nice big houses in a smaller city just 60 km from here.
The irony to me about immigration violations is that a major factor in reducing them has been...NAFTA.

There is even currently a net migration of Mexicans back to Mexico.

http://www.pewhispanic.org/2015/11/19/more-mexicans-leaving-...

I'm not sure I count as part of the left, but as an atheist, I have no trouble understanding a fetus was as much a life as a new born as an honest and principled position. On the other hand, I'm not sure how you come to a political compromise with people that disagree with it (how do they reach out?).
It is worth to point out that the Lithuanian statehood started in XIII century. Way way earlier than the US statehood. It was once a largest country in Europe. Also, in XVI-XVIII centuries, together Poland it formed a union state with a progressive political system and the first codified constitution in modern European history.

So, I would not underestimate the centuries of cultural identity. This is, perhaps, one of the reasons why the Baltic States are doing so much better than any other countries in the former USSR.
Drill baby drill! It's going to be a wild ride.
Sinterklaas, St Nicholas, comes to the Netherlands in a steam boat from Spain this weekend, is here for a few weeks, and gives lots of presents to kids on 5 december. In the US his name lives on as Santa Claus. He is very old and wears a kind of bishop's clothes (http://www.bitesandstories.com/blog/2015/12/4/the-4-dutch-de... )

He has helpers known as Zwarte Piet, black Pete. In times past they punished bad kids, but nowadays they are a lot of fun, entertain kids, hand out candy, and they are the ones who bring the presents to kids, through the chimney.

Unfortunately since the 1850s, Zwarte Piet looks exactly like a stereotypical black slave and is played by white people using blackface: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/11/zwarte-piet-wi... .

Already since the 1960s there has been a movement to abolish this, but that has always been small.

Since 2010 or so some people from minority groups have been more vocal, saying they get called Zwarte Piet on the streets, that this is a racist tradition, and that it needs to go. Apologists claim that the blackness comes from travelling through the chimney (that's what children are usually told). Some lady from the United Nations Committee against Racism or so, a black woman from the Caribbean, appears to have looked at the situation for about five minutes and declared the whole practice clearly racist.

More and more voices currently say that we should gradually change Zwarte Piet -- why not have some black streaks in his face only (from the chimney), or use lots of different non-skin colors? It's not a huge change, children will be fine with it, and these people who feel discriminated obviously have at least some point. National TV has a daily program in the Sinterklaas period ("Sinterklaasjournaal") and they are very slowly changing Piet, for instance. This movement is especially big in Amsterdam and among the highly educated.

But a large part of the country is vehemently against it along the lines of "who are these outsiders to tell us to change our Dutch traditions", "if they don't like it why don't they go back to their own countries", calling people who argue for change traitors, and so on. Feelings are especially strong in more rural areas and among the non educated.

Now people who say they'll dress up their kids as Piet using just some streaks, or in a different color, receive death threats on the Internet in huge numbers. The discussion rages for almost the entire year now, not just in november/december. That the election is in march, not long after december, is pointed out as working in favour of Geert Wilders.

The first showing of this year's Sinterklaasjournaal is tonight, and the rumour is that it will have Piets of all kinds of colours. Sinterklaas arrives this saturday. I'm going to watch live with my kids, I would like to dress them as Piet with some streaks, but I really am too afraid of being beaten up. It'll be civil war in a few years...

It's a single silly issue that runs exactly along the dividing line of all these related things.
In what way do you feel their so called lack of objectivity has leaked into their model?

Even ignoring the model they basically called out this exact possibility at least twice in very recent articles. One saying that people where underestimating the likelihood of Trump winning the electoral college, despite losing the popular vote. And another pointing out that Trumps was within one standard polling error of winning the presidency and people where shouldn't ignore error margins on the published polls.
Tariffs can absolutely change the fact that your citizens are too expensive. You can argue that the consequences are not worth tariffs, but you can't say that they don't promote production in your country.
One should be careful about extrapolating a trend from two disparate data points.

Trump and Brexit have one major thing in common: they relied on surprisingly high turnout from white working class men for ostensibly right wing causes after a lot of anti-Establishment and anti-immigrant rhetoric.

They have a lot not in common, like pro-Brexit voters very strongly disapproving of Trump, Brexit being a popular political cause for over twenty years backed by a vast majority of the mainstream press which actually picked up momentum because Establishment and liberal free trade figures came out in favour of it, the demographics for Brexit voters being heavily skewed towards older people[1] in a way that Trump votes almost certainly weren't, and Trump evidently picking up a lot of "the incumbent party haven't done anything for us; let's vote for change" votes that aren't really related to the appeal of his wall or birther remarks to ex-Obama voters living in Mexican-free areas of Michigan. Trump's "Make American Great" again spiel might well resonate more with an unemployed ex-factory worker than a broadsheet article extolling the virtues of comparative advantage, but it certainly isn't the sort of practical protectionist plan he needs to deliver a permanently change the status quo position on globalisation, and his new supporters aren't going to stick around if he doesn't deliver something.

It's also clear that other relatively recent major Anglosphere elections haven't been a major success for the radical right.

[1]that campaign certainly wasn't won on subreddits
I am selling my US ETF holdings. I'm hoping for a bounce to get out at break even, but I'll clear whatever the price before Trump is sworn in. Presuming nothing world-endingly catastrophic happens, I'm pretty sure I'll pick it up on a discount later.
It's going to be needed.
> The large cities of the Midlands and North (Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle) went for Brexit

Manchester, Leeds and Newcastle all voted remain. Birmingham voted leave by 50.4%
I say the following with human empathy and don't want it to come across as flippant or insensitive (due to the nature of the method of communication): from what you've written it sounds like you could benefit from talking to a counselor or other mental health professional rather than voting for any particular candidate in an election

unfortunately mental health is all too often a taboo subject but it shouldn't and needn't be.

wish you the best
I mean, don't get me wrong, everyone makes mistakes, but you quitting cannot be a financial decision right? To make 120k, you need 15k day*rates to go. At 75$ for your rate, that's 200 days. With ~260 actual available days to work, you expect 77% efficiency? With the taxes, insurance and most importantly, the presumed availability of work .. There is no way.

I have been doing consulting for a while and as an advice, I would take the efficiency to be at most 50% so in OP's case would not accept less than $115/hour to quit my $120k job.
When I go to a Spanish festival, there is paella and salsa dancing. There aren't broadcasts that censorship is rife and the right to protest the government is being eliminated.

When I go to a Polish festival, there is sausages and beer. It isn't broadcast that the government has gone extreme right wing, that womens right to abortion is being removed and criminalised.

When I go to an Indian festival, there is curry and mendhi. It isn't broadcast that women have few rights, and (gang) rape is more common than it should be.

The point of these festivals are to celebrate the positives, not to focus on the negatives. They're celebrations not protests.
You might not get relocation costs, but you should seriously consider the UK.
A similar thing happened with Brexit, and the last UK General Election. Right-leaning voters just can't be bothered to identify themselves and get involved in debates about it. They just vote.
I may not completely understand the US primary system, but wasn't Clinton chosen by the US democrat voters? (She won the popular vote, not just because of the super-delegates).

I don't really understand why she won instead of Sanders, maybe he was too much on the left for many democrats?
Not true. Fivethirtyeight said repeatedly that Clinton's lead was within a standard polling error and that hence a Clinton defeat was about as likely as a Clinton landslide. They also pointed out over and over again, that the uncertainty in this election was higher than e.g. 4 years ago (Romney was given a 9% chance).

"To be honest, I’m kind of confused as to why people think it’s heretical for our model to give Trump a 1-in-3 chance — which does make him a fairly significant underdog, after all. There are a lot of ways to build models, and there are lots of factors that a model based on public polling, like ours, doesn’t consider.3 But the public polls — specifically including the highest-quality public polls — show a tight race in which turnout and late-deciding voters will determine the difference between a clear Clinton win, a narrow Clinton win and Trump finding his way to 270 electoral votes."

-- Nate Silvers on Nov 6

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/election-update-dont-ign...
Don't forget Ukraine, bro. Now we're trying to keep distance from Russia as far as we can. We had some shared history, but that's only because of our geographical proximity. Everything else - culture, traditions, ideas, language, folklore and literature is different.
Except the English, where our national flag has acquired connotations of racism.
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Only if you speak German and are able to deal with their not very welcoming nature, you might stand a chance. I know a couple of expats who had everything in their favor (language, skills, local connections) and after 5-10 years still decided to move to Austria and Germany.
> Yes, we do want to preserve the culture - not white culture but American culture.

I respect that that's how you think about it, and maybe that's even how Trump thinks about it; but I don't think you can credibly make such a blanket statement about Trump voters in general. There are still people in America who believe American culture is white American culture.

The arguments of the more moderate Brexit voters sounded similar to yours, but after the referendum they found out that an uncomfortably large number of their allies really are deeply bigoted. That in itself doesn't make their point invalid, but they can't claim that their opinion defines the whole movement.
I'm not a Trump supporter... far from it however looking at my HRC social media bubble it's clear that practically 95% of my social circle are way off base when it comes to their analysis of why Trump won, which is precisely why he did win. If you don't understand your 'enemy' you cannot organise against him... or in this case liberals are so out of touch of what life is like in less fortunate areas of the country that they cannot begin to communicate with the people that live there on a level playing field. We needed a more extreme version of Bernie but instead we got offered the status quo. Racism, which has always been a big problem, has very little to do with this election and the sooner we accept that the better for everyone. This is economic.
Brexit wasn't called by "economically depressed old Middle England". Everywhere outside of Scotland and the cities voted for it.
This is one of the things I don't understand about modern politics, morally conservative always seem to go towards extreme capitalism and morally progressives tend to go towards socialism.

A cynical and maybe excessively nasty answer is that people that just care about lower taxes have pandered to moral conservatives in order to get tax cutting representatives elected.

The more nuanced answer is probably that there has been a coalition for 30-40 years along those lines. I think over the next several elections, those alignments are going to shift in a big way. Trump doesn't come from the historic coalition, Sanders almost won as an outsider in the Democratic primary. The parties are not well aligned with the electorate.
No idea not a physicist I was merely providing a translation of the GP into plain English.
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Thank you for saying this. Currently studying CS and planning to study further because in a way I have to.

I should get off HN.
really? please provide a similar example to the despicable Birtherism movement on the right, which Trump himself championed btw
You are welcome to convince others with your expertise.
oh yeah? How about Kaliningrad, a military base, not being an enclave anymore?
Democracy is not the issue, the large country is. USA is way too large for it's own good. So it Russia and China.
Trump played as an outsider. And media, his own party and everyone treated him as pariah or an outsider. This just confirmed Trump's credibility in eyes of voters looking for outsiders. I'd say that's a large part of why he won.

EDIT: Sorry, hard to detect sarcasm.
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What I am most interested in going forward.

His cabinet. That will tell us where he really is going.
If he meets with both sides quickly.

Also, I want to see if President Obama is gracious today or not. He has a chance to make the transition smooth but at the same time his own rhetoric has not been encouraging as of late. If he poisons the well all bets are off
> Hang out more on subreddits you don't agree with.

Hanging out with people you don't agree with is one thing. Hanging out with people that want you to stop existing is an entirely different matter.

If people are willing to (vote to) cross that line, time for talk and bridging divides is not just over, it's suicidally naive to think otherwise.

I could go Godwin here, but you get the point.
I don't think that winning by a margin of 100-200K votes constitute a popular rejection or repudiation or a mandate for Trump to destroy the "Political Correctness" boogeyman.

Don't pat yourself on the back too, as this PC culture is not only exclusive to leftists but right wingers too have their own emotional buttons that when pushed right, they will be triggered and exhibit similar if not more intense behavior to those they openly despise and deride as SJWs on the left.