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> 2. that book claims that multiculturalism exists to destroy white culture

> If you're going to argue that the above claim is a "lie", you are obliged to show where that lie is.

If you're going to claim that Thiel's book states that multiculturalism exists to destroy white culture, then aren't you obliged by your own logic to show proof of your claim?

I don't have a horse in this race, but it's irritating to see you make a claim and then say that any contradictor is required to show proof when you haven't actually done so yourself.
Why should that matter?

I'm not the OP, but I was 16 when Obama formed his administration, and I was uninvolved in politics at the time. Does that disqualify me from tracking and critiquing the Trump Administration?
I suspect you don't know many of the Ruby core committers. They're an incredibly jovial bunch. Aaron loves puns and word play, just check out his twitter feed: https://twitter.com/@tenderlove. After rereading it, I can see why their sense of humor may have been lost in transcription.
There's only one bed and there's only one prayer;
as I listen all night for your step on the stair.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TFWug6KlvMI
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Reading the article I understand that the agency who subcontract drivers for Amazon is making them "work illegal hours", not Amazon itself.

Now I am not saying that Amazon is not doing that, I am just saying that no evidence is presented on the fact that Amazon is aware of what is happening with the drivers.
We do like our roads and cars here.
I am really glad that e-commerce is taking off in India. The code factories model of relying entirely on foreign projects is not sustainable in the long run.

The problem however is that there aren't a lot of jobs for other kinds of engineering. I hope that changes soon too.
For example SMM (system management mode) code is certainly loaded and executed under any operating system. You have to just trust the mainboard vendor.

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

I'm not insinuating anything. All I know is that Lenovo broke our collective trust before, thinking they can get away with it.
All this countries don't rule the world. You are THE ruler. You must be much much much more aware of what you do with each step (let's for a minute ignore that you don't really care).

>Really? How, exactly, is "the world" affected by the legality or not of marijuana in the US?

It's simple. CA accepts -> other states accept because they look after CA & NY & TX -> UK accepts because in such things they look after USA -> EU accepts because in such things they do what USA & UK do -> Russia accepts because in such things they do what EU do (yes, it is true).

5-10 years for each step.
The problem is that although Donald Trump positioned himself as their champion what little he has talked about as far his intended proposals further erodes the remaining employment and wage protections in place for these workers. If he follows through with his trade policy as presented during the campaign the result is most likely that other countries will shift their trade and economic ties even more towards China meaning even further manufacturing job loss.

The issues these workers face are the result of economic and geopolitical forces which are not going to be reversed by Donald Trump, Republicans or Democrats. What will be interesting to see is what happens when the new policies end up worse or at best the same for them.

I assume the usual which is to blame some ever increasing collection of outsiders. That always ends well.
It's a crazy little place. If you want to spend more time in that rabbit hole, you'll be very interested in learning about why the UK FCO doesn't allow their staff on Pitcairn to bring children with them, and why visitors with children under 16 need to apply for a permit [1].

The story is just nuts. 1/3 of the male population of the island was indicted in 2004 (including the mayor) -- and were convicted of -- a number of sexual assaults against children. [2] If I'm not mistaken [citation needed] they had to build the jail to put them, then when they were released tear it down.

As you can probably tell I went down this rabbit hole when I first learned about Pitcairn too ^_^ I think visiting would be fascinating but I hear they turn down most requests.

[1] https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/pitcairn-island/ent...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_...
Incremental progress, yay!
Are we glossing over the fact that none of these drivers work for Amazon?

> A BBC reporter got a job with AHC services

I think the real issue at play here is the use of contract workers to skirt labour laws. Perhaps governments need to stop differentiating between part time and full time workers given the assumption everyone needs to make a living wage some how, even if it is through multiple "part time" jobs.

Just throwing out thoughts.
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But how do you define extreme? Consider this, believing non-whites are morally and intellectually inferior would be considered an extreme and fanatical position.

However this was not considered an extreme position in the 1800s because, unforutnately, it was the majority position.

The problem you are having is you are defining extreme with reference to what you and the people around you believe to be extreme and fanatical rather than defining it based on what the majority consider extreme and fanatical, and the best evidence we have for the majority view in America is a very recent poll.
The 11 is solid, but a little thick and chunky. The 13 is one of the nicest laptops I've used. I mean its no MacBook, but for $429 you get 12 hours of battery and a 1920x1080 screen.
My guess is that most of them will be "wildcards", people that have no political experience / ties whatsoever and were chosen because they were experts or at least moderately successful in their chosen field.

Thiel kind of fits that profile, ignoring his recent antics.
At some point he has to. He can't just impose term limits, and as I mentioned in another thread, term limits don't restore power to the voters unless gerrymandering and voter suppression are eliminated.

I don't see how he takes power away from the tea party, and the tea party is very much a bought party.
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Nice article and on the spot.

There is a difference between offshoring and cheap-shoring (i.e what I call offshoring at very low costs). Most of the bad experiences you get from India are a result of cheap-shoring. You get what you pay for. Cheapshoring undervalues good engineers and overvalues a lot of bad engineers.

I have seen this for almost 15 years (from the Indian side), and I don't like it. While some people see Indian IT as growing with the likes of Infosys, TCS, Wipro, etc - I personally saw that as crippling good CS talent in India. However, all that is coming to an end - probably sooner than later. These biggies will either have to trim down significantly or collapse under their own weight

If you want equivalently good engineers from India (as of now), be ready to pay half(45-50%) of the pay in US. So if you are paying 120K in the US, the same should cost you 54-60K USD when the engineer is in India. This will also reduce friction. One may get lucky in the early days hiring at cheaper costs, but sooner or later the good engineers will see their worth and will most likely leave instead of asking for a raise. You have to do your due-diligence selecting a worthy engineer - that is like finding a needle in a haystack.

If somebody chooses cheapshoring, they are planning for a higher cost that is at least more than the 50% mark mentioned and in most cases if you analyze retrospectively - it would have cost lower if you did not cheap-offshore in the first place. The release may seem less costly, but the maintenance and operating costs will ultimately outgrow.
Yeah, you're definitely not trying hard:

- http://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-tells-crowd-to-knock-th... "Knock the crap out of them" complete with video and offers to pay legal fees

- https://thinkprogress.org/donald-trump-my-fans-were-right-to... - "Maybe he should have been roughed up." on Fox and Friends

- https://www.yahoo.com/news/donald-trump-punch-him-in-the-fac... - "He's smiling [a protestor]. I'd like to punch him. Punch him right in the face."

I find it ... 'odd' ... that you can be so well-informed about DNC issues but have "no recollection" (I love that phrase, works so well when people are being hauled in front of Congress) of any specific issue of violence from Trump or the RNC.

In fact, here you go, someone's collated them all, with evidence:

http://mashable.com/2016/03/12/trump-rally-incite-violence/#...

At least nine video captured incidents:

- "I'll beat the crap out of you"

- "Part of the problem... is no-one wants to hurt each other any more."

- "The audience hit back. We need more of that."

and so on. and so on.

Yeah, no recollection. Because none of these events received much notice...
>That said, Feynman is famous for crediting the stepping away from work work and going back to joyous play, with making discoveries that lead to a Nobel prize. If he kept pushing himself and toiling on the busywork that Real Research was pushing on him, he'd never get anything done.

Hmm, I don't recall him ever saying that. Do you have a cite for that?

What I do recall is him saying he often worked on problems that served no greater purpose, essentially for the fun of it rather than any assumed utility. He may very well have been toiling for long hours on those problems.
Thanks for the love, but you'd be wrong, Keep calling names because you can't deal with "words" on the internet.
Does that really need to be said? I'm sure it's already in the employee handbook that you can't call people racial epithets or sexually harass people.

Try to put yourself in the mindset of a Trump voter working st GrubHub and receiving that email. That wouldn't make you a little bit nervous? Would you really say to yourself "oh, yeah, I see what he's saying here" or would you clam up and live in fear of being outed?
The prior generation of MBP didn't use USB-C for laptop charging, though, so nobody except Macbook Air users would be doing this.

(I don't know if all USB-C cables were required to be able to carry 87W, so I'd be slightly wary of reusing cables for that at the moment, too...)

edit: someone downthread pointed out that the laptop itself comes with the USB-C cable you'd use for this, so this makes more sense now.
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So if Trump's problem is only with illegal immigrants, I'm sure he and his supporters would be more than happy to relax immigration policy and regularize the illegal immigrants that are already in the U.S., thus solving the issue?
No one seriously believes that Lieberman was ever anything but a Democrat, so no.
May you rest in peace, Mr. Cohen.

It seems like so many of my favorite musicians and songwriters have passed in the last few years and its a struggle to figure out why. I'm a millenial with a wide taste in music from the early 20th century blues to contemporary EDM but it seems like the musicians whose talent you could just sense with every note and lyric are rapidly disappearing. I should be too young for this kind of cynicism but its an easy trap to fall into when comparing Dylan, Bowie, or Cohen to some song on the pop charts or an artist in the overwhelming field of independent musicians.

It's a sad day but I can't help but marvel at the universe. It is a kind of unique, rare beauty when a life-long artist like Bowie or Cohen close out their final chapter by releasing an album within weeks of their death.
Why not do what Twitter does and let the floodgates open I.e. Do no filtering?

I'm however doubtful that a "successful" social network would learn from struggling one. Well C'est la vie.
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Quite sensible. The more options the better
We work in a field where many decide to take advantage of their employees who are usually young, single and love working on their code. This is a ripe combination of exploiting naivety for commercial gain (if you think you make a lot coding, think about those higher up who are selling it).

On the negotiating side, I know a truly brilliant consultant who is way off at the higher end of salaries who negotiated to work only 7 months of the year. He would work 6 days a week and usually 14 hours a day but then wouldn't even touch a computer for almost 6 months. If some people want to work crazy hours they should be able to but they should demand appropriate remuneration for it and not sell their time and brainpower cheaply. And people who can get more done in less time should not be expected to work longer just because others are less productive.
So you think, by definition, no democracy could ever elect an extremist?
the Philippines:

"one of the starkest patterns I saw outsourcing there was their strong affinity to PHP. This isn't intended to be a derogatory... the LAMP stack is really appealing to folks who don't have much cash... the Microsoft stack... was simply much harder to find competence in. You'd go to a vendor and their default position was 'Yeah, we can do that in PHP and MySQL'"
What luck that his publicly well-reasoned move supporting trump played out as he detailed, the dumb asshole.
I recall a most amazing screen saver that was installed on a mid 90s mac which would build mountains one layer at a time. Pretty far off topic but I have often tried to find that screensaver and this wonderful writeup triggered a memory. I would stare at that screensaver for hours as a child.
Great comment.

A partial answer comes from something I've sometimes heard said about racism (which I don't fully agree with, but I recognize as having some value): that when those with less power disdain those with more power, it's not as bad as when those with more power disdain those with less power.

Concretely: Tuesday is the first time in a long time that many "elites" have had their lives affected by "white trash". But "white trash" pretty much constantly live with the results of tax, trade, and health care policies enacted by "elites". IMO "and they don't like you very much either" hurts more in the second case -- it almost always hurts more for those on the losing end of the power dynamic.
You guys are going to need to find a way to back off on the US politics. I have no idea how... it's all I can think about myself right now, but it's a poisonous topic.
Yes, his tax returns may very well indicate who he is doing business with and roughly on what terms.
California has access to all the West Coast trade-ports between the US and China. With these ports in place, we don't need to rust-belt states to ship-in goods. An our economy is centered information technology and entertainment, so we don't really need to worry about reduction of economically viable exported goods (all farmed and manufactured products will be consumed internally, thus bolstering that aspect of the California economy).
It has less to do with "the digital age" and more to do with governments ignoring large numbers of voters. This is what's supposed to happen when the ruling class gets out of touch.
First time hearing of Gun. Sounds very interesting! I'm a little confused about a few things though. Is Gun meant to run in the browser? If so how does it compare to PouchDB? And does syncing with peers just mean peer server nodes, or is there some WebRTC data channel stuff going on?
Excuse me if this is a stupid question, but when I downloaded the official Mac installer, it's not signed by anyone. I thought in this age we've all recognized that downloaded software should be signed, whether it's using GPG or Apple's signature mechanism? Is there a reason the Rust team decides not to sign their binaries?
Its what happens when people are brainwashed to believe you literally just helped elect hitler.
Nice. Wish I didn't have to click to see the price though.

It's also feels a bit long winded, with loads of info coming at you, tutorial inline and examples. Not sure if this is bad or good though, whatever converts right :)
I don't think that's true in most places though. In Australia we have crazy unaffordable house prices, and economists and politicians often say the problem is supply, but a group called LF economics did a study recently and found that our fastest growing markets were in oversupply for more than half the time the price has been rapidly rising.

As far as I can tell, the idea that it is a supply problem is just an assumption, assumed simply because neither neoclassical nor Austrian economics appear to have an understanding of credit and money creation by banks (through lending, which creates deposits) that lines up with how modern banks and the real-world monetary system works.

Some of the post-Keynesian models seem to match the real-world situation a lot more. The house prices seem to be so strongly distorted by speculation based on easy access to credit that the price statistics don't correlate almost at all with the supply surveys, but does strongly correlate to the amount of money created by lending. This explains pretty well what we're seeing, including how lowering interest rates will inflate asset prices instead of stimulating the real economy. But many people refuse to believe the data and the conclusions it leads to just on principal, because the idea of market prices not being set by supply and demand is blasphemy!
>But all the other vendors suck.

And you think the 40% margin has nothing to do with that?
Probably VRE. (Disclaimer: I own shares of VRE.)
I had exactly the same experience. And I would have strongly preferred that he didn't win. No one was willing to look at the situation clearly.

It's going to take the left a long time to grapple with this. I look forward to moving past the shock and outrage.
Can I encourage you to get in the habit of phrasing this in terms of "many (but by no means all) Japanese people", "many Japanese institutions", "many Japanese people in positions of authority", or similar? I think we probably see eye to eye on the scope of the problem, but it is unfortunate to turn it into Japan's problem, because it is very, very important that folks are not presented with the choice "You can either be authentically Japanese or reject racism _but not both_." There are a number of people who believe and instruct that that is a choice; people of good will should give them no aid or comfort.
7 years on the Dell Precision line with Fedora, amazing machines.

Fedora, given its leading edge nature, will have better hardware support than RHEL as the latest firmware will always come first to the former.
Yeah, I would gladly convert to using hosted VMs but I'll loose sync'd folders which I really need.
I mean, it's basically his platform, too. All the stuff about only doing anything abroad it other countries are paying the US...
This is some kind of creepy Randian thinking. The idea that playing developer-type leverage games make you "free" is a laughable fiction. Trump always called himself the King of Debt, and he owes many people, bigly. The banks were betting on Hillary because familiarity breeds contempt--they had already lost billions lending to him since the 80s. Just like the Trump Foundation, he hasn't put anything except his gold-painted name into s business for many years. Who does he owe: Putin, Russian oligarchs, Thiel, Mnuchin, 2nd and 3rd rate hucksters that bankroll his schemes (and pay him through his Foundation), and...who knows? He won't release his taxes. We just elected President the world's poorest billionaire, so you can bet everything will be for sale.
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It's safe to assume that most US universities with PhD programs have openings every year and they are going to sponsor you for a visa.

The difficult part is identifying professors that you'd like to work with.
This is not a decent answer to your question, but maybe something can be learned from the analysis company's website.

I guess they're pretty unlikely to give us much detail about their analysis models, secret sauce, proprietary approach, etc, but maybe there's something mildly interesting here:

https://cambridgeanalytica.org/datamodels

Cambridge Analytica claims to have a database of over 220 million Americans.
Most coders are learning on the job, or on HN, etc. Additionally, we tend to have more income mobility than a delivery driver.
So sad. I saw him in Manhattan. My wife got tickets as a Christmas present, knowing I had been excited when we were traveling in Barcelona and he was there that week. (Couldn't get tickets -- didn't even try.) So we showed up at Madison Square Garden and I had no idea what we were seeing -- and there were no markings to give away the surprise! It was not until the show started that I knew it was a Leonard Cohen concert. It was an awesome evening.

If you want a lover
I'll do anything you ask me to
And if you want another kind of love
I'll wear a mask for you
If you want a partner, take my hand, or
If you want to strike me down in anger
Here I stand
I'm your man
Most extremists do not consider their views extreme. It largely requires an outside view (literally as in another time or place, or figuratively as in the non-extremists colocated with them).

In particular, though, that view is demonstrably false. Anyone holding it can be considered an "extremist" just on the grounds of holding onto false beliefs (though falsification still has to occur).

A modern example is (not a majority view) the anti-vaxxer crowd.

Another one which is closer to a majority view (certainly a significant minority), is the anti-climate change crowd.

How about the anti-evolution crowd (which has a lot of overlap with the above two), a significant minority in the US as evidenced by our K-12 biology textbooks.
If it's any consolation, Gingrich supports space exploration, and is personally interested in the Mars Direct plan.
This "post-truth" does not need to be understood, it needs to be rejected, as hard as possible.
I'm saying that "extreme" and "extremist" are not things with an objective reality, but rather things defined with reference to an existing group. What is extreme for one group may not be extreme for another group.

An election is basically a poll of whose views the population supports. So any person elected by that population must be a person with views that said population does not find extreme.

I think this is a problem with modern liberalism in that "extreme" has become synonymous with "people who disagree with me" or "people who don't share my right kind of opinions"