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This is patently untrue. All this navel gazing in this thread is bizarre and forgets the past 30 years of political history in America.

You'll (Americans) have long ceased to have a conversation with each other.

People seem to have forgotten the many decades of Fox News (when there was no internet), the steady movement of debate from policy to stuff like "birthers", tea parties, gun boats, creationism, and so on.

The larger debate has been going south for decades. Why do you think people weren't violently sick when a person who would count as a boorish Buffoon 20 years ago, became the republican candidate?

There never was any debate or meeting in the first place!

Today liberals are frightened and incandescently angry. As a result they are turning to the same kind of language and radicalization any group does in such a situation.

People aren't going to be going away from liberalism - they're going to be more militantly liberal in order to meet conservative forces.
> During the first two years of his presidency his party controlled both houses of Congress.

Not with the votes to break a Senate filibuster, but it's worth noting that something of an infrastructure bill was passed at that time (as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which also included non-infrastructure stimulus), with no Republican votes in the House and exactly the number (3) of Republican votes minimally necessary to break a filibuster in the Senate.
Ah, it's not white privilege anymore, now the term du jour is white fragility. I can't keep up with this stuff...
What about the probability distribution of the fact that you are a carrot?
So using the user's phone just for auth, akin to cards? Nice idea!
...because knowing assembly is actually useful to a high level developer? If it were, then yes, I'd say they should know assembly too. But I know assembly; I've written entire published games in assembly language.

To expand on what you are saying: If you're doing "high level development" on a business app in C++ 11 then knowing assembly and having been through a bog-standard undergraduate CS Compiler Development course will actually help you use a whole bunch of things in the C++ standard library, because you can easily guess about how such things would be implemented from first principles. Otherwise, things like smart pointers are just "magic" and just need to be used in a bunch of disconnected abstruse ways. Having the first principles knowledge lets you easily know when to use another shared_ptr, when to use a reference, and when not to use one -- all just from first principles, no arbitrary memorization required!

Hell, having that kind of knowledge even benefited someone working in Smalltalk back in the day.
The article you site claims the maximizing shareholder revenue is not a legal obligation of corporation. It further observes that "we evolved from a society in which corporate interests were largely aligned with those of broader public purpose into a state where crony capitalism, accounting fraud, and corporate predation are predominant characteristics".

So the article you link to strengthens the point of the parent that facebook is not in business for the public good but for private interests that are strongly at odds with public interests.
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Ok, you object to be using what appears to be a categorical label rather than engaging directly with the comment. That's fair, though "despicable" seems rather judgemental
Out of curiosity, are there strong reasons to leverage GPUs in standard web application development from a general-purpose standpoint? Can I leverage this to enhance a general-purpose server or database? If so, anywhere I can read more?

Always interested in what kinds of things one can do when new offerings like this are made.
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Running a bit late here, but Bertha is widely considered by informed laypeople in Seattle to be the wrong solution: two smaller TBMs would have been better. The Big Bertha solution is widely considered to have been picked as a part of civic pride "a yuge tunnel!!!" rather than on engineering concerns.

I'd suggest looking at the Sound Transit "ST2" tunnel boring project, it's been massively simpler in execution.
Where supply is constrained I can't see any other outcome.

More social housing would probably have a better result.
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I thought the article applied to real life very well.

You often procrastinate by overthinking and overplanning when the best approach to check off that item on the to-do list is to just do it.

silver bullet == not acting in hopes to eventually come up with a magical solution

lead bullet == the solution is dull but obvious, you just do it
What's worse, being a racist or being called a racist?

If it's the former, being called a racist is a valuable thing. It's somebody telling you that you have advertently or inadvertently acted in a manner that is prejudiced against an ethnic group in a way that perpetuates societal imbalances (racism). Now you get an opportunity to fix it.

Apologize, then stop doing what you were called out for. Now you'll neither be a racist or called one.

Great! Everybody wins.
I agree. iirc, turnouts were average for Republicans, but the Democrats lost the election by not voting.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.
I think it's worth noting that this article and thread has created a space where inclusion and pacifism are being over-valued (and a lot of pitying and white-knight behavior is supported).

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with being divisive around an ISSUE. Clearly defining sides is constructive in creating a productive debate.

The problem is when judgement and divisiveness expands beyond ISSUES to PEOPLE.
This draft law is for show only. It's not going to be enacted; it's being pushed by Ron Wyden, a Democrat who's far more progressive than the rest of his party, and in a Congress that's totally controlled by Republicans, with an America-first Republican in the White House. There isn't a chance this law will be passed. He might as well be promoting a bill to introduce single-payer socialized medicine in the US along with a Universal Basic Income.
The fact that you are using the term "hysteria" tells me that you've been reading your own brand of fake news ("get it? They are hysterical, like women on their period! harharhar!").

Maybe if you are intellectually honest and discuss topics instead of talking points, you might get a different response. I've had some pleasant discussions with Trump supporters when we actually talked about real problems (not imagined terrorizing hordes, which is a manifestation of the right's own 'hysteria') and Trump's proposed solutions would or would not fix them. The ones that come straight away with "THE MEDIA IS MAKING EVERYTHING UP!!!"... not so much.
GC and Azure are great tools and I see many people complaining about the lack of them on DeployStack, but they are quite advanced options comparing to other services, so they don't really fit well in, let's say the 'Hosting' category (they have much more tools than just hosting, they could replace your whole tech stack). And I wanted DeployStack to be used as "choose your own tech stack" - if you need only hosting, those are the companies that are good and cheap with just hosting. If you already have a website but need to get some statistics - here are tools for uptime monitoring and here are some for analytics.
Anyway, thanks for mentioning GC and Azure, I will keep that in mind and try to add some more advanced sections in the future, where they would fit perfectly.
Interesting quote from your link:

> Lazonick discusses how we evolved from a society in which corporate interests were largely aligned with those of broader public purpose into a state where crony capitalism, accounting fraud, and corporate predation are predominant characteristics.

On the contrary, aligning anyone's interests with those of the broader public is often against the natural state of things. There are many ways for groups of people, whether they're corporations or marauding bands of knights, to benefit at the expense of the broader public. In fact, straightforward theft, fraud, violence, oppression, slavery, monopolization, deception, sabotage, and other anti-competitive practices are historically among the easiest and most common ways to profit.

"Businesses thriving by creating value for everyone" is not a natural system. The only reason capitalism works at all is because we have a strong government that enforces laws and regulations to make most alternative forms of profit illegal. So of course we should expect an arms race, where businesses attempt to find loopholes where they can profit without creating value. The monetary incentives are too high for people not to try.
> Is there a fair way of denigrating Trump supporters?

Yes, by realizing that he won because of his economics, not his social positions. The rust belt votes of economic issues, which allowed him to win. The poor in the area lean to whoever will help them not be poor, or at least say they'll try. Clinton embodied the status quo, Trump was change. They might not have liked him, and in fact a sizable majority do not, but realizing it was a pick of the lesser of two equals hopefully restores some sympathy for the other side, which is sorely needed today.
What stood out to me was actually the first comment:

> He says true but unpopular things. If you can’t talk about
> problems, you can’t fix them.

My take on Trump would rather be, that he says false but poular things (popular in the literal sense, not necessarily what is popular in the media).
"The basic question is: would you pay $1 a month to keep in touch with friends without ads?"

No, I would pay hundreds of dollars to keep in touch with friends without external entities stalking-spying my interactions with them.

Not just friends but employees and partners. I want a communication channel that is mine, not American, NSA owned.

I mean I already pay thousands of dollars a year inviting friends to my house, to the restaurant, organizing trips to cities like Paris or Venice or St. Petersburg with them.

In each of those interactions, there is no microphone recording anything I say, a video camera controlling all of my movements.

But FB is increasingly taking all the information, for example storing trip pictures becoming a private archive of people's lives bigger and more dangerous than Stasi as they are developing in fact private life dossiers that could be used against anyone when for example you run for competing against the people in power.
> Facebook has no incentive to remove or alter this content in any way, other than to avoid illegal content that could produce lawsuits.

In the short term, you're right. In the long term, you aren't. The long view is that people will get tired of reactionary content, and as that happens the credibility and utility of Facebook as a platform will drop, as will its profits. Since Mark has control of Facebook, he has the advantage of being able to operate on long time horizons (and has demonstrated his ability and willingness to do that). So he (and Facebook) have every incentive to fix this issue, and it seems like they're working hard to try and get it done.
My iMac 2011 doesn't work with GPU Cycles but that's OK. And I've successfuly boosted render times by renting the multicore VPS by the hour already (commandline, specify different frame range on each machine to render).
Exactly this. My facebook newsfeed is full of worthless content, which, though once fun and interesting is now a commodity (cat videos, for example)

As someone in my mid twenties, I spend far more time on instagram and snapchat than on facebook. If facebook was to disappear tomorrow, it'd probably be okay with me. Imagine for a second if Facebook hadn't acquired Instagram. Attention shifts very quickly in the digital world, quicker than a lot of people think.
It's fascinating to me how many of the likes listed are feelings-based arguments and how many of the nervous/dislikes are more based on specific events and evidence.

Granted, as noted they are narratives so it's hard to say if that's some kind of bias in how it's put together or even my own bias in reading it.

Even still, it struck me as interesting how much more cold and logical the dislikes/nervous items were in their appraisal of a presidential candidate.
Ha! I'm also a Salt Lake native transplant to San Fran. In Utah, I am a socialist pinko commie. In San Francisco I'm (apparently) somewhere between a libertarian and a tea party republican.

At least, that's my story. I'm exaggerating for effect, and in the spirit of fun. But I was literally publicly berated at work once on the company forum for not being liberal enough, not having views consistent with California democrats, and not contributing enough money to the party.

I never feared for my job though, that's awful. I could have actually been a conservative and I wouldn't have had to worry. There were conservatives in the company, though they did keep rather quiet about their views.

Someone who makes a blanket statement about firing anyone with impure thoughts... it happens, but let's hope it was only a moment of weakness or anger on your friend's part.
Show me where Trump is racist. Show me just one example.
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How is it useless and unhelpful? I am pointing out that people voted for Trump because they lack basic empathy and understanding towards other people's real problems. I like recreational shooting and was an NRA member for two years, enough to develop a serious dislike of 2nd amendment obsessives. Prioritizing your hobby over women's rights is disgusting.
Are you trying https instead of http? It's only hosted on http (because they use Google Blogger with a custom domain name)
discord has become so much more than a gaming comms platform now. And rightfully so. It is an amazing platform.
I agree that violence isn't the answer.

However, my main beef with Milo (and why I would support peaceful protesting about his talks) is his specific and public harassment of specific people. This is the main example https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/trans-student-harasse....

I'm personally very pro free speech(not just from a government censorship standpoint, but as a general principle) and therefore am fine with him saying horrible things about groups of people and still being invited.

I am not fine with personal attacks/harassment.
I don't want them on a 'per-application' basis.

The older macs, you could have f-key 'default' with the other options activated by holding the FN key, or reverse it, so that the brightness/etc were default, and f-keys activated by holding down the FN key.

There is no option to just have f-keys defaulted, with other touchbar stuff activated by FN key. For people who simply want standard f-keys as default all the time (like you could have in the previous macs), there is no option right now.
> I vote according to my pet wedge issue (usually guns or abortion), sorry.

As much as I agree with the left on both these issues... I would rather give up on these as politically untenable rather than lose every other issue to Republicans.

I don't know if this would just lead to other wedge issues ad infinitum, and I don't know how you would get that idea through a democratic primary (though there are christian democrats), and then motivate the democratic base to vote for you...

But if there are wedge issues that could swing large chunks of the electorate, it might be worth just giving in on a few specific issues until public opinion changes.
I don't think it is really trying to sell the position, it's trying to find quality engineers who aren't looking.

Really talented engineers already have jobs and may not be actively looking to move, but if the right opportunity for the right company presents itself then they might consider it.
Yes, they are different, but from an economic perspective they're very similar, which is what the OP was talking about.
Unless you are using Geforces, which are much cheaper than 5k$ and have near performance (single-precision).
If that's the case then it will probably devour itself, you can't have business without customers.
> People seem to have forgotten the many decades of Fox News (when there was no internet),

Fox News was founded in 1996; the internet started being publicly popular in 1994-1995 (and had been around for decades earlier); there were not any decades of Fox News when there was no internet.
Every non-GUI linux program I want to run works just fine on WSL

Most gui programs seem to work ok as well, though you do need an X-server running on Windows (e.g. the one in MobaXTerm does the job)
>Ideas very similar to globalization have a long history in socialist thought.

Yes, it's important to note that Hitler started out as a Socialist, at the dawn of Socialist thought. He differed with them on the idea of globalization and multiculturalism. As it turns out that's a pretty huge ideological split, and in Hitler's case, it became a violent one. He basically said: "screw you guys, I'm going to start my own Socialist Party - with blackjack, and hookers. And racial purity, global war, and genocide."

That's why you get rightwingers accusing the Left of being "Nazis" because the "Z" in the NAZI acronym stood for the German word for Socialism.

As the Nazis began to gain ground in Germany; they used propaganda tools to tell Germans what they wanted to hear: "you're a 'master race', and all others are inferior", and "We'll get rid of these foreign influences, and degenerates of other races, who are the cause of all your problems!"

At the time, REAL socialists ran counter protests, and would even riot at Nazi meetings and demonstrations, and there was a lot of civil violence over this issue. (Which is today, romanticized heavily by the far-left, anarchist, and 'antifa' movements). In their minds, WWII was a large-scale playing out of this conflict, between Soviet Socialists, and German Nazis, who lost. The result was the bombing of much of Europe (and especially Berlin) to Rubble. Millions dead.

The rise of America's free-enterprise system was seen as a repudiation of these two extremes of thought (Socialism vs Nazism). And became an extreme viewpoint all it's own. It became what the Socialists, and Nazis were rebelling against, and now we're repeating the whole thing all over again.

I think anyone who thinks they are "left wing" AND anti-globalist, is ignorant of history, and quite confused. Part of that is due to the anti-globalist propaganda, which mostly uses the argument: "these foreigners are causing all your problems - let's build a wall and get rid of them". (can't really argue for 'racial superiority'; because it's so easily disproven - very nearly nobody who thinks they're "Aryan" can actually trace their ancestry back long enough to make a case that they're not a mongrel just like the rest of us - the only way they can accept this ideology is to be in denial).
I want the text snippets to be shown inline. I'm fine with Slack owning the image assets, because I don't have to worry about permissions the way I would if I uploaded them somewhere else (unless it was to some other internal tool).

I've been on IRC since 1993, and I'm an accomplished programmer. I still find setting up and configuring ZNC and an IRC client complicated, error-error prone, and confusing. And it doesn't always work - sometimes it quits working for no reason and I have to restart things.
It's great that those prominent figures are discussing difficult questions openly. That can only result in good things for our society. However, not all of us have such luxury. For most of us, merely asking the initial questions to start a difficult/challenging conversation can have very bad consequences in the current climate.

If you've got a job as a coder at a SV company, you'd better be extremely careful about starting a conversation with coworkers at lunch about how concerned you are by how acceptable honor killings seem to be in Muslim-majority societies. Starting such a conversation could get you ostracized, fired, or worse, which is unfortunate because that's precisely the kind of bad idea (honor killings) which need to be challenged, and which are of very real and very immediate importance at this time.
BBC is state-controlled media with a vested interest in shaping your perception, for better or for worse.
I'm confused, the google cost is $0.70/minute not $0.70/hour correct? Aka it is $42.00/hour?
Yeah, this is a perfect example of micro-optimization being unnecessary. Not only will you not see performance issues from this in the real world, it might cause problems down the road, because since it isn't set by default this way, some apps may not expect it and behave erroneously.

But it's neat information to have in the back of your head.
I'm not sure what that middle part means. A lot of businesses were started recently that would not have been viable without the ACA. If we expand the safety net, more people can take chances, and there will be more (in absolute numbers) wild successes which can be taxed to fund the safety nets. There's probably diminishing returns somewhere but I don't think we're near it yet.
I think that it goes both ways: take Fox and Friends instead of Maher, and you get exactly the same kind of reaction. I'm not sure why you are singling out "liberal ideology" here, when my favorite new joke is a rehash of an old one: "how can you tell if a person is a Trump supporter? Don't worry, they'll tell you!".
> They are illegal because the system is so broken. There's a market demand for those people, and they're moving here to work, by and large.

> Just because something is set in law does not make it morally right.

...and neither does "the market."
Ask HN: What is the best way to decide what books to read?
Recently I've been going to the library and really digging it, but I feel like judging books by their cover is pretty inefficient. How do you decide what books to read?
I think one of the most under-mentioned features of vim is that a line is one of its fundamental units.

Suppose you want to move a few lines of code from one function to another in a regular GUI text editor. If you select these lines with a mouse you need to be careful about exactly where you click to start highlighting and where you end highlighting. Do you start from the beginning of the first line or from the end of the previous line? Do you include the new line at the end? (Can you even?) Then, when you paste, where do you paste? Do you just put the cursor on the line you want to paste before and paste? Or do you put the cursor at the end of the line you want to paste after, hit enter and then paste? Oops, you did it wrong and now this the first line isn't indented at all, or now you have two lines of code on one line.

After a while you figure out where you need start and end the selection, and where you need to paste, but it's still easy to mess up.

This isn't an issue in vim. Using Visual Line mode selecting and pasting is super simple. 'V' to enter visual line mode, 'j' and 'k' to highlight everything you want (and 'o' to switch which end of block you're moving!), 'y' to yank (copy) or 'd' to delete. Then put the cursor _anywhere on the line_ that you want to paste after and hit 'p'.

The ease of use is one thing, but I also think it makes more sense to have an entire line be a fundamental unit. When you're editing code, you're usually moving codes around or editing single lines. I rarely copy and paste just one part of a line to another, and I think in most cases it's easier to just paste the line and change the parts I don't want.