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> I can't just go and easily chuck an impure calendar control in my code.

Actually, you can... as long as you properly isolate the control. Here is a prof of concept that does just that:

https://github.com/fredcy/elm-polymer-calendar
I'm a white male in a very predominantly white European country. The argument you make sounds familiar to me. When I hear people lament the cultural oppression of the white male, what I really hear is: "Here's what white males think and do in this country, why won't you let us be what we are?"

This gives me the creeps something awful, because I'd rather not have some traditionalist's concept of white male identity imposed upon me simply because I belong to the same demographics, in many ways, as they do.

Trying to cultivate, maintain and respect a culture seems to me to usually come with a healthy dose of thou-shalt-not-do. I prefer to think for myself, so I'm not really very sympathetic.
>Nobody is shoving abortions down anyone's throat.

You are on people who didn't asked to be conceived. Make your choice before this point or with plan B. Extreme cases should go through a panel.
It's funny how people think Trump lies about everything, except the promises they hate.
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I'm not from or in the USA, you know.
When Obama entered office there was a good slice of the population that genuinely disagreed with his policy, but because of his landslide victory and his overwhelming support in both houses of congress he just moved forwards with his agenda, and the opposition became very bitter, it took the next six years for those on the other side just to listen to anything he had to say as as a result major internal crisis were not dealt with as effectively as they could have been.

There were at least two major issues that could have made significant progress if Obama had tread a more middle of the road path in his first term. Gun Violence and Police Brutality. Thats saying nothing of the immigration crisis going on with minors fleeing south America en mass.

Later in his tenure I see a different Obama who just looks to be just as disenfranchised with the political system of America as the American people and I hope the lesson everyone can take away is the first priority of any ruling party should be to build bridges to the opposition, not ram through their policy's. If that is the case it is the job of the opposition to facilitate finding and pursuing common ground not just opposing everything, if you oppose everything you will just harden the differences and places where people do agree will be ignored for the sake of signaling
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I think the situation in Wales is that the South and East are more cosmopolitan, lots of immigrants going back many years. The West and North less so.

Similarly in Scotland I think the major urban areas dominate, where populations are more diverse. But rural populations away from communications and conurbations seem far less accepting of [large groups of] migrants.

Similarly in the UK poorer populations that might feel threatened by incomers seeking low-skilled jobs (eg due to poor language skills) seem less welcoming of migrants.

Personally I think the whole "culture" aspect is a red herring and what people really care about is their own wealth. I mean the UK's history is epitomised by outside influences either due to invasion of Britain or British invasion and Empire.

Personally I think to survive and meet the needs of everyone the West will need give up some of its luxuries, get rid of our need to own everything we use, move away from the disposable lifestyle.

In short my analysis is it's liberal just greed that drives this whole thing - 'I deserve wealth but other people don't'.

Does that idea fit in other geographies or not?
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Yes, sure, why not. But will Trump and Brexit actually help the common man, or were the IYIs actually correct? It's possible to be disconnected and overconfident and yet still get the right answer.
When will people learn that polls and "projections" from mainstream media etc are ridiculously wrong on this.

They were wrong on Brexit. They were wrong on Trump. Maybe once more countries have results like this the polsters and media will start actually engaging with real people.
Appreciate the examples. Yeah, that looks almost like a 4GL compared to regular mainframe programming. A lot more powerful.

"Since I was there, I figured I might as well learn something I couldn't learn anywhere else as easily. Still, people looked to me as if I was mad. "You want to be on a mainframe team? Why?". Dude. Big computers. Millions of users. What the hell?"

I like your style. Same excuse I had for trying (but failing sigh) to get onto a team with SGI NUMA machines. They were confused about why I'd want to do tedious work tweaking numerical applications. For 256 CPU's and 3TB of RAM in one machine? Obviously...?

Note: I imagined it had time in between jobs and a quota system not designed with people like me in mind, too. ;)
Gonna have to disagree with that one. The left is very pro social programs to help the poor which includes the homeless, the right wants them to pull themselves up by their bootstraps. The ACLU fight in court for the free speech rights of racist organizations[1].

[1] https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-em-defends-kkks-right-free-sp...

>Not sure how Christianity is shoved down your throat.

Stuff like this - http://www.npr.org/2012/02/14/146538958/rhode-island-distric...

>What are you afraid of?

Being forced by my government to adhere to a religion I don't want to adhere to. Things like forcing my children prey in school. Being a second class citizen.

>Christmas?

I'm not afraid of Christmas but I don't personally celebrate Christmas (not even in a secular way) and I'd like to keep it that way. I'd also like anyone to celebrate any holiday they would like to celebrate, including Christmas if they want.

> Accidentally going to mass?

Being forced to go to mass.

I think Christianity is harmful but I don't wish to tell other people what to do with their lives and I respect their right to practice whatever VooDoo they want to practice.
>here are actually themes in the Bible that talk about a "worker deserving his wage", and "if a man doesn't work he doesn't eat".

wow some fantastic turns of logic you are using.

Christian means Christ-like. did Christ preach social darwinism, or did he spend his time with prostitutes and lepers?

Did Christ preach having the poor fend for themselves, or did he feed the hungry?

Did Christ praise the wealthy, or does he say "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God."

You can of course interpret your religion as you see fit, but in my eyes, right wing politics is incompatible with being Christ-like.
For some meaning of "limited subsection of the general population".

I had 12000 followers for a twitter account about a specific football club - a specific subsection but not a technical or media one.

I used to randomly look at my followers and while many were "highly invested tech and media people" - the majority were just people who wanted to stay up to date (in particular I used to live-tweet during games which lots of people really enjoyed).

That was a few years ago though - personally I rarely use Twitter any more.
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Did these people even consider the third party candidate?
Why jump from Hillary to Trump?
> I'm yet to hear Hillary's version of "I can walk right up to men and grab them on the cock".

"Keep your mouth shut about my husband raping you, or you'll be sorry." I mean yeah, I know she was savvy enough not to let herself be caught on tape saying it, so it never happened, and the multiple women attesting it are liars and they're bought and they're liars. Clearly some barnyard language is the really reprehensible thing here.

And he's far from the only one to suggest she merits indictment. Do you remember Comey's first final statement on the email investigation? The one in which he said, boiled down, that while he'd absolutely recommend anyone else who'd done the same be indicted, this was, for reasons
left as an exercise to the reader, a special case?
I develop for Android and iOS, and I usually create the iOS app first. Publish it to the market and kinda try to feel how the market responds, if its positive I make the Android down the road. If its negative, I try to add functionality and launch version 2. If its also negative, then I just kill the app.

Main issue with Android for me as a sole developer is, fragmentation and lack of paying users.
The fragmentation part is really horrible, I have hired people to test my app extensively and regardless of how flawless I think my app is upon launch it crashes and burns. Designing an app for all the different screen sizes are extremely difficult. Testing on emulator is never adaquate.

As mentioned in the slide, iOS users pay for the app if they like it. When it comes to Android-users there is a get-everything-free culture. You can argue that if people won't buy then its the developers fault for not creating a good enough product, but I do believe its shared fault here.
Interesting. I will probably sign up soon as I'm looking to get into more contract/freelance work and it seems like a better place to get gigs rather than Upwork. A few questions: How many companies are there currently using this? What is the screening process by the panel like?

Just a tip, I would change the background image behind the "Hire a Dev Captain" signup. The white text gets lost on the background of that image.
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Yeah. Right.
Please give examples of how this is working well in other countries with case studies. It does not appear to be a technically innovative product, just bundling of some open-source products together.
And from the looks of it, it was Clinton's campaign pushing liberal media to focus on the crazy outliers of the Republican candidates. Backfire it did.
>Have you actually checked your privilege?

I'd check my privilege but President Trump already cashed it. /s

Please never use that condescending phrase again. As last nights election shows, a lot of people are tired of being condescended to.
I really like the idea. It has a very short timeframe, four months - is that doable?

Not much information about the person or company behind it. $150 is a lot to give without knowing more about who's behind it. I'm tempted to fund it anyway.
Congratulations to the party that supports corporate profits over clean water, clean air, health, wealth and mental health of the working class, religion over science and education, and power over empowerment. We'll know what it's like for the Republicans to rule the world for four years, and the who just had his staff convicted will now pick Trump's staff.
What happened or didn't happen to the people running the site between 2004 and now when GWB was re-elected? You'd think that you should be shoring up the website seeing spikes for a while, and it's been over 10 years since that site crash and populations haven't gotten an order of magnitude higher exactly.
> You have to wonder how long 'Obamacare' is going to last now with a Republican president, congress and senate...

I don't think the Republicans have enough people in the Senate to block filibusters. So I assume the Democrats will use the filibuster to block repeals of the healthcare law.
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the first point is totally wrong for a start, what happened to bush and the 22m emails on his server?
They ended up firing the author.
* Yet again, Americans didn't even consider the third party. They aren't even allowed to debate.
I think the difference is that if you say those things at a Republican rally you know what you're getting into. The thing that I think is really off-putting about a certain brand of political correctness (which include the post by puranjay) is when well-meaning people with no ill-intention are chastised as ignorant at best, bigots at worst. For example the post by puranjay, what exactly does he want? It's not reasonable to expect everyone to know everything about every other culture. It's just going to make people resentful.
As if Canada is far enough away. Good luck.
And I sense that this tendency to call the surrounding lands "hinterland" is one of the things that offended people and made them vote for Brexit.

(At least in my ear the word is often used in a pejorative manner).
Correct me if I'm wrong but lots of people here seem to think that Europe is some kind of progressive booming social-democratic economy/society with free health/education and all. The trend here IMHO is exactly the same trend that put Trump in office - only in Europe (having some more historic experience with such things) we do things a bit more hardcore. Extreme right wings (fascists) are getting more and more power, nationalistic views abound in all states, welfare state is being dismantled, etc. Our 'Mexicans' equivalent are people fleeing from war zones (Syria, Afganistan, etc) that get dumped in buffer Southern states (mainly Italy/Greece). Economy is in shambles for most countries (add in the terrible lock-ins caused by common currency). Each state is mostly looking after its own interests when there are big issues (war) at EU periphery.
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Do I need to go on?
Fleeing USA for EU is like jumping a flaming ship for a ship that is half-sunk.

My 2 cents.
Funny you say globalization has failed when we've had a corporate global economy for decades that has sent worker wages down in more-developed countries and corporate profits skyrocketing in more-developed countries. Believe me, these global corporations love the Republicans more than the Democrats; their profits come first, the people come last.
I could never move there because the Taco Bell's come with french fries in their combo meals. Nothing I encountered shocked my cultural sensibilities more.
I've heard that the people in the US who have developed a math phobia or who think that they have an inability to understand math self-determine this fact after particularly tough math concepts are being taught. IIRC, learning fractions is one of the first of those, and creates the largest cohort.

I believe it. I've known a lot of adults who don't quite get fractions. They generally also have no trouble working with money and giving change, but no ability to understand interest, especially compound interest. Somehow, the educational system is failing here, not the kid.
>says a lot of how different we are. //

Yet we all live and love, eat drink, sleep. We all laugh and cry, breed and bleed.

Humanity needs to focus on what unifies us rather than what separates us.
If it happens once every 8 years I can understand that the wouldn't care much. Do you expect them to employ expensive services that would cost them a lot of money to stop that just for one day? It's government, they just live with it.
> This is clearly the real disconnect. I think things are going just fine
My filthy tories voting friends do actually agree that police, nhs, fire services, etc are worth spending money on. I think the Tories have lost sight of what is important to their supporters.
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Obama only had 7 weeks of legislative power. That's how long his party had enough votes to overcome the filibuster in the Senate. Criticizing him for not getting enough done is nonsensical.
If you're going to install a 2nd OS on your Mac for gaming purposes (where you want as much performance as possible) you might as well just dual boot it with BootCamp.

I've not used this before, but it sounds like it's fast, but you'll still have the overhead of running 2 OS's at the same time.
Repealing NAFTA gets rid of the bulk of your legal Canadians and Mexicans on TN status, which is I'd imagine how the bulk of them are there given the low cost, ease and lack of caps of the program.
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Can you clarify what your point is? I don't know how to answer the question, because springs don't store inches. If you are making a point about why the spring/inches analogy was bad, I'd like to hear it.
Trump has said many things that contradict reality. These are clearly lies. Trump has said many things that contradict other things that he has said. These indicate more lies. Trump has made many promises regarding policy. There is no reason to believe these to be lies. I am hopeful that they are, but it is just a hope.
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> This is why I agreed with Sama and not removing Thiel from YC. We have to listen to the other side and empathize so we can understand. Without that we all lose.

I think the point of opposing Thiel at YC have been lost on HN. It wasn't mainly about politics or opinions. Trump is less to the right than many other candidates and the politically viable opinions of Thiel isn't particularly controversial either. It was about the downside of the "bet" on Trump.

At the RNC Trump had roughly a 40% chance of winning the election according to 538. Thiel spent a couple of million usd and some of his time to have a 40% chance of being "friends" with the most powerful person in the world. That's a huge upside with almost no downside, especially if Trump lost, and therefor an easy bet to make.

If there were more downside Thiel would have had a harder time to make this bet and would have had to be more certain on his decision. Favoring more long term behavior in the political process. Instead just ran one of the cheapest political campaigns you can imagine.

All in all this together with other similar "investment" makes a fairly bad precedent for silicon valley in mixing politics and money.
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> C isn't just a formal specification

No, C IS just a formal specification.

What you are talking about is C on your particular compiler on your particular platform. If you are writing C code just to be used for that scenario then you can use all of the implementation understanding you want.

If, however, you want to write C that will have consistent behaviour across multiple compilers and multiple platforms, then you need to limit yourself to the behaviours that the standard guarantees. Otherwise the compiler behaviour may change and your program behaviour will change.

Even between different versions of the same compiler implementation defined behaviour can change (although assumptions about sizes probably won't).
>15 minutes is a totally reasonable estimate [coming from Haskell]. The author can without doubt write a large project in Elm.

Well, all right. In general I would say that is not true even for languages that are close, but there are exceptions and I suppose I can take your word for it.
> Baltic languages are very clearly distinct from Slavic ones

No, they are not and you're picture is not an argument for this claim. There are differences between Baltic and Slavic languages, sure, but grammatically they are very close. Rules of conjugation/declension are similar, word formation works the same, punctuation rules are almost exactly same, capitalization is similar, word order is close enough that it can be used interchangeably. It's easy to see how that could happen, given long shared history. Denying facts because of your political points is just ridiculous.

> All older ladies I know do not watch Russian television and don't understand Russian language well enough to do so.

You're right, I shouldn't have used that hyperbole. Of course not everyone is watching Russian TV, but in Riga most older people definitely do. And by older I mean >40 years, not necessary seniors. If you live in Riga and haven't met any of them, you probably just are very picky about people you communicate with.
i'm glad, it seemed people were making this about general acceptance, or tolerance, but this is more importantly an incarceration issue

and i worried negative apathy would play a role.. i'm free of any concerns of my own being arrested for this so why vote it legal or illegal.. but i'm glad criminality of cannabis will cease
Canada is not about to be run by a bullying sex pest and his running mate, the man who thinks the way to cure gay people is electroshock therapy. There is literally no comparison. Refugees do not care about whether they could earn more.
I would say that this (US portion) crowd has been hit negatively by immigration: H1B ring any bells? Can anyone other than CEOs hoping for cheap labor argue that scaling back H1B would be a bad thing?
Sweden, seriously? You guys should be grateful ;)

And the biggest CO₂ emitter is China, not the US or Russia. Aactually, pulling industry back to the US could reduce global CO₂ output if efficiency was made more of a priority than in China due to higher labor and energy costs.
Are you f-ing kidding me? You really believe the left uses free speech to ban free speech?
> I know New Zealand is a deeply racist country

Yeah? I'd be interested in some reading about that. I always thought we were not perfect (who is?) but OK, certainly compared to other countries with similar cultural makeups (i.e. the Maori have been treated not amazingly, but not remotely as bad as the US / Can / Aus treatment of their indigenous people).

FWIW: I come from a massive place of ignorance about this, being a white aucklander in CS. Interested in reading more.
> Also the west seem to have lost its debate culture.

That, more than anything.
Talk to more Republicans in more demographics. They want to severely restrict what is considered legal immigration, because they have a problem with certain types of people being here legally.
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> What convinced you to make these predictions?

I think this because I believe a great deal of what we call society is cyclical. We're at a point where I think many old ideas are about to be revived.

Talking explicitly about the last prediction will probably get me a hellban but my email is in my profile if you wanted me to elaborate.

> And how far ahead of these events did you predict them?

This is rough, I didn't keep a notebook for them. To do it properly like Scott Alexander I'd have to state a probability and some limit so a failed prediction couldn't be weaseled into a 'prophesy'. To the best of my memory it is this:

In the case of Brexit, at least six months, maybe a year. In the case of Trump, close to half a year. In the case of the same sex marriage, as soon as I heard it proposed, I don't remember when that was. And the civil conflict prediction is about 1-2 years old. Those are highly random difficult to predict events. I think I would have put it into a 'Five Year Plan', and 2016 would be Year 3, so that's 2 years 2 months to go. I increased my confidence when I found out the CIA had the same prognosis on civil conflict in Europe for the same time period.
Repealing NAFTA sends back all Canadians and Mexicans on TN status.
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For the Trumpocalypse, I'm just carefully timing my purchases of SPY and a couple of others.

My general strategy is to accumulate SPY and a few other securities, so in reality I'm just reallocating my broader portfolio in the direction of SPY right now, and moving some purchases from the future to today.
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