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Ask HN: Best way to oppose Trump?
It's been only 8 days since Trump was sworn in as president and every passing day I find myself more and more disgusted and appalled by his racist and idiotic actions.

As a common citizen, what are the highest impact things I can do to oppose his actions?

Edit: Sorry about bringing up politics here but this is something that I feel cannot be ignored any longer. The reason I ask here is because I feel like there are some of the smartest people in the world who read HN and would love to get everyone's opinions.
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Indeed. Not everything needs to be connected to the internet. Plus, gotta be ever vigilant against Cylons! (It's been a long day.)
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Can you clarify this a bit? I don't understand your suggestion.
Looks like, most people here answer to the question "What tech stack are you excited about right now?".
Smartphone orders clog Starbucks shops
It will, ineffective, become so, though. Just like in Japan, near every pachinko parlor there is a window where you can trade your "prize" for cash, the underworld will set up shop right next door.
> Trying to discredit someone by saying at one point they were part of a majority that still dislikes the idea is like saying water is wet.

I think I give sufficient credit where it's due here, but it wasn't like he was an LGBT hero like many make him out to be. But I'll throw out all of the other good things I know about Obama, too: eased US-Cuba relations, commuted over a thousand sentences of nonviolent drug offenders + Chelsea Manning, shifted some land from the poorly managed BLM to the Forests Service, made it easier to get insurance with pre-existing conditions.. These are good things, but even in the case of the last three, there are huge strings attached. Like the fact that the commutations were only symbolic, because his administration prosecuted hundreds of thousands for the same 'crimes' and did nothing to fix the system. And the fact that the BLM still owns a third of the country west of the Mississippi. And the fact that ACA was terribly implemented and is an administrative nightmare.

And then there are the more 'pure' bad things. Foreign policy + surveillance (as discussed), executive overreach, killing US citizens without warrants, 0% interest rates + QE, trillion dollar deficits and no plan to address entitlements.

I was optimistic about some of Obama's rhetoric at one point, but quite frankly he is just arrogant and I don't fall for the self-righteous "great dad" persona. His pros come with strings attached and his cons are historically terrible, placing him amongst the worst Presidents of the last century history alongside Bush Jr., Bush Sr., Woodrow Wilson, Hoover, and FDR. Trying to restrain myself from putting half the presidents on this list. The point is that the average president is bad, and Obama was below average.

This debate probably won't get anywhere because we clearly place different emphases on the various points listed above, but I think it's fair to say this is a pretty comprehensive list of his main pros and cons.
Why do you think they want to come to the US again? Because it's so great where they came from and they agree with everything that's happening there?

You clearly have no idea what its like to put your shit in a box and move half way around the world.

Have you ever been to Iran? Anywhere near Iran? Do you know whether there's a difference between how the government treats people and how people treat each other there?

The only way to change your perspective is to go somewhere different. I wouldn't go to Iran right now because the US won't look kindly at you when you return, but somewhere like the Emirates or Qatar is a good start. Hard though, according to the State Department, only 36% of Americans have passports.
No, they were not similar.

Obama did not ever ban hundreds of thousands of valid green card or visa holders from re-entering the country where they currently reside full time. Which has also -- effectively -- made those still in the US subject to an exit visa.

As a result, he also did not sow mass chaos by springing a poorly communicated status change on people in the air coming to a country that had already provided them with documents for entry.
> And running out of O2 underwater leads to black outs, especially in shallow water as water pressure drops fastest when surfacing those last 10m-20m.

Because people swim faster when they're close to the top?
No, it's a constitutional issue in the sense that it's a constitutional issue: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3437026/Darweesh-...

"The petitioners have a strong likelihood of success in establishing that the removal of the petitioner and others similarly situated violates their rights to Due Process and Equal Protection guaranteed by the United States Constitution"
I didn't say it'd necessarily be less expensive (although it might end up being that once you factor in the costs of crime needed to obtain expensive drugs in the first place). I said it'd be better for the addicts, which to me seems pretty certain. I know if I had something that was slowly killing me and I couldn't afford treatment, I'd want help at some point. And by help, I mean forced rehab, preferably without a felony charge which will make it impossible for me to find decent work afterwards.
This has been recommended a number of times today: https://www.indivisibleguide.com
They were aware of the issue and may have stepped up alternative security measures during the outage.
Isn't this Pranayama?
How ethical raising prices is under these circumstances is not what is at question. I don't know why you keep raising this.

To be clear, Uber broke a strike in support of the immigrants and refugees, advertising that they were doing so. Taxis drivers stood in solidarity with the immigrants and refugees by halting service in and out of JFK. Uber sent drivers there. Surge pricing was just an implementation detail of their being scabs.

If you want to argue on behalf of Uber breaking this strike, please, go ahead.
> the Federalist Society is a libertarian leaning ...

The Federalist Society is establishment, movement arch-conservative. They are the legal wing of the elite, establishment conservative movement, with several Supreme Court Justices as members. If you look at the list of members here, you will see it is not libertarian or libertarian-leaning:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federalist_Society#Notable_mem...
It's fairly obvious from a reading of the text that Trump (or more likely Bannon) didn't consult any kind of lawyer or national security officer while crafting the order.

https://www.lawfareblog.com/malevolence-tempered-incompetenc...
> apt-get autoremove

You should be doing:

apt-get autoremove --purge

Otherwise you'll be leaving a lot of clutter around (obsolete configuration files).
> So Trump isn't so crazy on this whole wall issue ....

A wall can't stop fentanyl. A single gram of fentanyl is good enough for somewhere on the order of 10^5 doses. It is a trivial matter to smuggle a few grams of substance into a country, wall or no wall.

There are even stronger opioids making their appearance, such as carfentanil, which are 100 times stronger than even fentanyl. Only 19 grams of carfentanil a year are enough to satisfy current US medical demand for this substance.

Walls or Mexico cannot stop the war on drugs and the lopsided, perverse incentives it sets up, and the thousands of lives it ruins. That is entirely up to the American public and their representatives.
What do you mean by "over here"?

In France, Poland, Italy credit cards are common, as are debit ones. It does not make much of a difference, they draw money from your account either immediately or after some time. For all the typical cards, there is no" minimal payment", you may all the debt.
Here is the fun part. Everyone thinks Pranayama and Yoga are from Buddhism. But really it's from Hinduism (it is mentioned in Vedic scriptures). Buddhism adopted these techniques which invariably resulted in cultural appropriation.

However, it doesn't matter what the source is as long as the technique is useful for the end user.
Most "reliable sources of news" discredited themselves in the last couple of months. And the barrage was pretty onesided, too, wasn't it?

As for the barrage - again, how do you do that? Like creating bots on Twitter and Facebook and zillions of web sites doesn't mean people will read them.
In California if the traffic light breaks down then you're supposed to stop as if there was a stop sign; all the same rules apply.
And your comment is truly repulsive.

I have been fighting this for a year, far better with plain discussion than anyone I've seen with sticks and this isn't even my country. Your implications are disgusting and the nicest way I can find to tell it to you is to stuff it.

What I said in my comment (I'm guessing you were too busy looking for that quote instead of reading mine more carefully) is that focusing on holding people accountable is no good.

It will NOT bring you Clinton, Sanders or anyone else back and it will certainly NOT change people's minds.

It's fucking enraging that you do not understand that. I swear, some people here are pettier than Trump himself.
It's less that there are two types than it is that they're complementary aspects of a larger thing. You can avail yourself of one — to great (if incomplete) benefit, even — without availing yourself of any of the others.
How do microplastics get into the tissue? I sort of assumed extracting nutrients from the digestive tract was a chemical, molecular-scale process, and anything big enough to be meaningfully called a chunk of plastic would be ignored.
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How is this controversial for a company who wants to look good to everyone around the world? Perhaps it's controversial if you think Airbnb only cares about the U.S. market, however if you look more holistically then it's a tiny majority who might be bothered by this.
I never said I would oppose it if it affected me or someone I know. Even though from that position I might think the response is overdoing it, I still think that they could have logical justification for it.
This x1000
What Is Supplier Relationship Management?
I've seen a few references to this applying to people with dual citizenship too - is that true or is this only effecting permanent residents?
Yes, there is. Is it the norm? Not at all, but that doesn't change the fact that some people do use heroin in moderation and without it drastically impacting their lives.

This polarized look at heroin use further stigmatizes drug users and leads to those with problems (and casual users who are having trouble not letting it get out of hand) not getting the help they deserve.
Worth adding that finding is in worm brains.
So helping a defacto invading army and being targeted by the locals is now persecution? Scratch that, I guess I have a more narrow definition of what constitutes a valid refugee.

But yeah my bad I did miss that part of the article.
Trying to promote my product for the health industry in Australia
Is this code for, "we're ignoring the injunction"?
First put the drug cartels out of business by decriminalizing all recreational drugs including heroin. People will get drugs if they want them legal or illegal, tainted or not.

The next step is to provide safe injection and drug-exchange sites with immediately available drug counseling and detox. So an addict can trade 1g street-grade nasty drug for 1g medical-grade drug. Medical help needs to be available to swoop in right as they are coming down from the drug high. Hell, provide some free heroin to wean the drug addicts off of it on the condition that they participate in the detox programs.

This might sound like the unholy lovechild of libertarianism and nanny-state socialism, but I bet this ?pragmatic? approach will be cheaper in the long run, and centralize addiction/voluntary treatment in a location we [the people] can control. It would drastically cut down on ER visits from addicts, which is already a growing issue.
The particles are indeed very small. Smaller than what you would call a "chunk". What you might think of as a molecule (say H₂O) of course is smaller yet, but there are many proteins and larger-chain carbohydrates and lipids that pass into the body that are much larger.
Good. Glad to see that the government works once in a while.

If the tsa would fold up and go away, I would be the
happiest
Is this the post-post-political era of HN?
Kaspersky just worries me because of the Russian connections https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-03-19/cybersecu...

It's sort of like Cloudflare protecting against DDoS attacks while also protecting booters.
Ask HN: Which tool do you use to configure your DNS entries?
FWIW, we've been able to use NFS with sec=krb5 on both 14.04 and 16.04.
What an useless and asshole-ish response. I did vote and that ship sailed Nov. 8th. I'm obviously looking for ways to fight this now.
Sure definitely, but for the most part a government is tasked with protecting its own citizens. Not the entire world population. If that weren't the case then I'm sorry but no brownie points can be given as there are countless scores of individuals dying all over the world right now and we're not doing absolutely everything we can in our power to stop it.
Are they planning to force people on the platform to host refugees (paid, obviously)? I can see several practical problems with that; taking people from their home to a place where they do not speak the language or know the local culture and just dropping them off in standard residential housing can't end well for anybody. This also can't help AirBnB's case when it comes to NIMBYism.
Prioritizing attention in fast data: principles and promise
no it's not code. They are literally saying that.
"See Vancouver's Insite program for proof it works. It's been a huge economic and social success"

No - this is not true. OD's are at an all time high in the region [1]

It's a highly politicized issues and the entities behind it are strongly incented to make it seem as though it's working.

The only evidence of Insite 'working' is provided by them - and the data points they provide are selective, unscientific and definitely not objective.

There is no objective evidence to indicate that 'it's working'.

If it were a success - we should see number of users down, crime down, cleaner neighbourhood etc. - but no. None of that.

There has been no effect on the overall drug using population. There are no external metrics for success at all.

By 'success' Insite points to the 'number of ODs prevented' the number of 'addicts into programs' - but this assumes that those ODs would have resulted in death or would not have been dealt with otherwise, and that there are not other ways to get people into recovery programs.

Given the amount of $$$ being spent on the clinic, I'm very doubtful that we can claim any degree of success.

It boils down to a cleaner place to shoot up - that's about it.

I think it's worth keeping open as a 'point of experiment' so that we can try different methods of approach - but it's ripe to call it a 'success'.

When numbers of users is measurably down, crime is down, that area is safe to walk in during the day (it's not as of now) - then we can start claiming success.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/drug-overdose...
No, as the injunction only applied to travelers that were already in transit or currently detained.
But is there evidence that there would be a significant change? That hasn't been shown in California, Oregon, Washington, or Colorado, in the case of marijuana. Why would other drugs be different?
"Yesterday, less than one percent of the more than 325,000 international air travelers who arrive every day were inconvenienced while enhanced security measures were implemented."

I guess getting detained and denied entry into the country is "enhanced security measures"?
> The Department of Homeland Security will comply with judicial orders

says the opposite to me
Many more related techniques in this book:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/188192.Light_on_Pr_n_y_m...
>And what most people don't realize

Of course they realize it. White nationalism is building its own epistemology - we already have alternative facts, and soon we will have "American science" [0]. Eviscerating the liberal/globalist scientific/academic community isn't some sad unintended side effect, it's the core of what an electoral majority of this country believes with all its heart we should be doing with gusto.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik
Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Page
You appear to be correct. Wow.

I just saw this on my G+ stream: https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/T72eVRRHv39

Also wow.
California lawyers sue President Trump to repeal immigration order
Peter Thiel Says Immigration Order Does Not Constitute a 'Religious Test'
Python2 now compiles to Go.[0] It is quite the development and I consider it the future of Python. It's pretty great stuff, definitely recommend checking it out if you haven't already.

[0]https://github.com/google/grumpy
Sincerely, you're asking for ideas, and there are other opportunities to vote besides the past presidential elections. If you don't find that suggestion helpful or think it was offered in bad faith, just ignore it. Getting heated or snippy isn't going to do much to encourage others to submit ideas.

Edit to add: And being able to not react reflexively to every perceived slight is itself a good suggestion as it's going to make you more effective in dealing with a lot of the polarization that's out there.
Docker support is great on Windows! I'd definitely advise you to use Docker with Docker Compose. Docker Compose makes Docker function like Vagrant.

A novice can easily install Docker for Mac/Windows, it includes Docker Compose and even has a GUI that will guide users in setting up a hyperviser.
Note that he didn't ban Saudis who have a fairly well known record for state sponsored terrorism.

They also have lots of oil.
No foreign national in a foreign land, without ties to the United States

Permanent residents who have lived in the US for years and are travelling have no ties to the country? That's a stupid statement.
If someone expresses concern about something happening in America that is fundamentally immoral, unethical, un-American, and historically counterproductive, it ain't whining, it's called having principles and giving a shit about them. Nothing wrong with that.
> Microbeads didn't even contribute to the efficacy of the the product,

Increasing the coarseness of soaps absolutely helps their efficacy, especially for heavier oil and grime. There may be more environmentally friendly ways to do it, but microbeads were certainly useful in many cases.
Interesting that they finally gave a scope to the people impacted. 3200 people doesn't seem like chump change to me.

And I guess deporting people is the most enhanced security measure of them all. If we could deport everyone that lives in the US, I bet security would be pretty tight.
There was an article earlier this week on HN about the effects of stimulants on Chess Ability that was oddly consistent with this: https://worldchess.com/2017/01/25/special-report-new-study-f...

In particular, players would tend to lose on time more often when taking stimulants. When framed from the perspective of this article, that effect becomes "obvious".
These are autoremoved nowadays.
Wanna learn about vector? Just let Python do the work
Labeling something controversial isn't a value judgment, it's simply an observation that it's drawing or likely to draw a negative response from a large group of people. The President currently has a 30something percent approval rating. Companies generally try to avoid doing things that could potentially alienate a third of a market.

I'm glad Airbnb is doing this, and I think in the future it will be seen as an important show of goodwill. But the company is certainly taking a risk.
In regards to the smoke detectors, I love that your department does that! I think what finally drove me to realize how important working smoke detectors are, is that video of a modern room flashing over in like 3 minutes.

For those who haven't seen it, here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDNPhq5ggoE
"Opioid use is not inherently dangerous"

Yes, it is. It's extremely addictive, and is very well known to destroy lives.
Wonder how long it's going to take those guys at Cato to realize they are a bunch of useful idiots.
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It's not being snippy or heated. I would love to know what else I can do between now and 2018 and 2020.

Voting is the bare minimum we can do and I don't really need to post a HN thread to figure that out.
> what kind of changes that would entail for us

Sadly I would suspect a "flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long" trade-off so premature aging and early death!
None of us pointing out the hypocrisy are saying that we won't work with everyone else, nor are we trying to legitimize Trump's policies. The point is that if we get someone like Michelle Obama in 2020, we want people to still care about these same issues. Maybe pointing out the hypocrisy isn't the best way to do that, but what is?
We now have a government agency publicly disregarding an injunction by the Federal courts. This is bad. This goes far beyond this specific issue (which, while nasty, affects relatively few people). This sets a fucking awful precedent.

This cannot be allowed to happen. I would love to see everyone violating this injunction (and ordering others to do so) be put in jail, just as if I or anyone else were to violate such a court order.
While the previous poster is being a little flippant I don't think he's being totally unhelpful. If you want to send the message you are unhappy with Trump then on top of any protesting you do also make sure you get people to vote, when they can, against his policies. There are mid terms in less than two years so make sure the Republicans who support him take a hammering at the polls.
"No foreign national in a foreign land, without ties to the United States, has any unfettered right to demand entry into the United States"-- how about those with green cards and visas that we are already gave the right to live here to?
...isn't permanent residence a tie to the United States?
It was not just a "criticism about him". His business practices were PROVEN to be crooked, with a number of witnesses testifying about what happened in front of the courts.

And the fact that big companies sometimes do the same nowadays is a sign that they are doing something that is ethically very fishy, not the other way around.
I would leave a slight gap between the outer edge, it just feels claustrophobic when the blue and black parts touch. Also it needs some fancy speed up/slow down parts at the end of the exhale/inhale parts, it stops and starts too abruptly.

Otherwise it's pretty bang on.
There is no such implication for green card holders. In fact, DHS has said the exact opposite: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/28/airports-us-...

Citizens have freedom of entry into the country, there is no way they could be barred.
> Trump can do these things because the Congress has specifically authorized the president to do so.

Brighter liberals I know have complained that Obama and the Democrats in congress by passing these laws were handing the next Republican President the legal equivalent of a loaded gun.
Are they though? The last paragraph says they will comply. I think this says little new other than there being a lot of confusion everywhere.
Yes, but that doesn't change the fact that this executive order puts them solidly in the crosshairs. That's what makes the statement so ridiculous.