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>trashing the economy,

The economy, or by Trump's barometer, the stock market, would have been fine. The Fed juiced the economy and then some, SPY is currently trading at pre-COVID all time highs.

Secondly, it's much harder to pin the blame on ~230,000 Americans dead to negligence if Trump actually took some action. Even if COVID came back in full force, you could then say that we have successfully flattened the curve and are now much better at treating the virus.
> You are consciousness and exist only in the present moment.

Perhaps not the time/place to ask but did anyone ever investigate how this can be true given that information needs a small amount of time to travel between neurons? Aren't we actually living in a time-interval rather than a time-point?
Sounds great. I got an Rpi 4 this year, my first contact with this world. I'm happy with my tv/media box (that I also use as generic linux cli environment)
It was 20ft, arguably too close for sustained proximity.

Citation: https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2020/11/05/philadelphia-co...
His campaign was 'not vigorous' as you called it because of the pandemic
True, but on a deeper level NATO most of all serves US interests, and Joe Biden will grumble but happily continue to subsidize the defense of member nations.

These days NATO is most clearly recognized as a list of countries that the USA as global military hegemon is ready to go to war to defend, and this is hugely beneficial to a country that wants to be a global military hegemon. Wars are expensive and ideally you don’t want to fight any. The existence of an organization like NATO means that (a) none of the member nations are going to fight each other, (b) none of the member nations are going to try to rival the military hegemon, (c) nobody outside of the organization is going to start a war with any of the members. For a military hegemon whose main interest is ensuring global peace so that it can continue to reap the rewards of a global economic system that it is also hegemon over, getting to mark off a large chunk of the developed world as “no wars here” is well worth paying for. In a very, very loose sense it’s sorta like an olden-days imperial power with tributaries, but the “tribute” is realized in the form of the fact that the US government’s position as military and economic hegemon means that it can manufacture dollars for free and other countries will trade goods and services for them.

On top of that, concentrating the defense spending of the alliance within the US is good for the US economy and critically important for maintaining the R&D efforts that the US military relies on to maintain a technological edge over potential rivals outside of the alliance.
Sure, but it's pretty clear that certain candidates get more backing from the DNC mothership and the media than others. In turn, this affects voter perception.
You are talking about Sprecher's modification to the original Kolmogorov-Arnold theorem, right? This version, and its implications, have been a lingering wondering for me for quite a while. Are you aware of any research on 3-layer networks where the unknown transfer function is also learnable? I suspect such an approach does not result in good models (otherwise we would have known about them!), but I can not articulate why. Where exactly does the K-A reasoning fail when we try to apply it in practice?
I'd bet it has more to do with how little sleep candidates running for president tend to get. I'll be interested to see if he perks up after a few nights of really good rest. He can take a short break while his transition team does most of the legwork and brings him decisions to be made. He has no need to do any rallies for a bit.
The strong Latino vote for Trump in Florida may change the demographics story we’ve believed in the past.
This is primarily bacause California has a much larger population. You can add North and South Dakota in this group as well.
Is it fair if people can be restricted from competing in the property markets by people who faced no such restrictions themselves when acquiring that land capital. Zoning licensing, etc.

The elephant in the room is that for most people the majority of their net worth is tied up in housing (property) and as interest rates drop the nominal value of this property increases way faster than the nominal wages of labor. This property can then be used to create information insensitive debt that ignores any notion of liquidity at an artificially higher nominal value. This debt is then used to pay wage-labor who increasingly cannot acquire property themselves. At the end of the day, only real property is wealth (land, ip rights, equity, collectibles, and machinery) and labor is denied the opportunity to earn a larger share of property themselves. Any solution is politically difficult.
Sometimes it’s necessary to make sacrifices to try to stop an evil regime. This is one of those times, and besides war then there’s no other solution besides trying to isolate China from the rest of the world and hurt their economy. Trump went a long way towards achieving that goal.

It would of course be ideal if EU and all democratic countries got together, but they (just like Biden) unfortunately have no interest in doing so. Biden believe that it’s USA’s self-interest to see China prosper.
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How famous does one have to be to get this special treatment? Or is it just for political candidates?

(I'm firmly in the "Their platform, their rules" camp, so I agree that Twitter CAN do this, I'm really just curious as to why people think they SHOULD).
It should work just fine. I've plugged two keyboards at once into plenty of linux systems.
They did pick someone - him. Let's not forget he was the nominee because he won the primaries meaning he was considered the best of the contestants. Not everybody is as progressive as Sanders and not everybody liked Sanders tone
Replace "purely" with "mostly", if you want to be pedantic. Even if ortholinear keyboards don't completely eliminate lateral motion, there's still a rather large reduction in it - which is what matters.
Thank you, I needed a laugh.
I legitimately like Biden. I think he was the best candidate for the current moment.

People have a tendency towards "visionary" politicians, who arrive with agendas and strive to make them reality. Politicians who "flip flop" are derided, because changing your position is a sign that you never had real ideals.

But I think we have this backwards—in a representative democracy, the job of a politician is to represent the electorate! The ideal politician, then, would be an empty vessel, who was willing to move to wherever the people are.

And that's exactly who Biden is. He's always been a centrist democrat, but his "center" moves alongside his party. Biden also believes that governing is fundamentally about building coalitions, not smothering the other side.

I am worried that Republicans may simply be unwilling to make any deals, no matter how hard Biden tries or what compromises he's willing to make. But, if anyone can do it—and that's a very, very big "if"—then Biden probably can.
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C will never ever be replaced. It's just not happening.
AIUI teenagers in USA start school early so they can reuse the same school buses for younger children, it's a cost cutting measure most of all
The dose makes the poison.

Everyone who has encountered the smell of urine has inhaled some ammonia fumes too.
I'd score Trump a zero.
I'm talking about Connecticut compromise, which created the electoral college, not the 3/5 compromise.
> when you say "Amoral" some facts backing it up would be appreciated

It depends on the definition of amoral that each one has

For many people, dating porn stars while married would be a good definition... but some adults have open marriages, that's true.

Most people in the planet would say that snatching babies from their parents (and basically laughing about it) is definitely amoral. Double bonus if you do it while accusing other to conspire to kidnap children without showing any proof of that.

And telling citizens for months to go out unprotected in the middle of a potentially lethal disease, when you are fully aware of the danger and after more than 200.000 people died for this disease, is not much better.
No, this is not in the constitution. But regardless, two-thirds of the supreme court are Republican appointees.
That’s the narrative, but Biden consistently distanced himself from those comments (“Listen, I beat the socialist!”) and the GOP seems to think that anyone to the left of Mitt Romney is a communist. I think Biden’s intentional lack of attention to Latinx voters did more harm than any actual Democratic position.
Neat little project, was impressed it understood castling.

https://imgur.com/a/B6dBBRC shame it doesn't recognise mate (unless I missed it somewhere).
Democrats = welfare capitalism

Republicans = neo-feudalism

So since that's the only choice you get you might as well vote for dems and at least get some food stamps.
> 3. Germany spends quite a lot on foreign aid, which 'could' be understood as a risk preventing defense spending.

I was skeptical, so I looked it up. You are correct—Germany does spend a large percentage of its GNI on foreign aid [0]. However, as you put it 'could.' Ultimately you are comparing apples and oranges. Defense spending is different from foreign aid spending, although they may be related. So, this is not a strong argument IMHO.

> 1. The 2% target is a non-binding guideline.

Not fulfilling a non-binding obligation is also not a strong argument. It's a non-binding obligation for me to to wash my hands at home after touching raw chicken. It would still be irresponsible of me not to.

> 2. Germany has (for some time) a plan in place to increase the defense budget to meet the 2% target. It will increase on a year-by-year basis.

IMHO this is your strongest argument, but the fact that the level is not there yet after so many years of NATO, leaves the policy rightly open to criticism.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_development_aid_countr...
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I voted for Biden but lets get it clear, Trump evicts poor people (black or white) for not paying rent and Harris locked up more black people for minor drug offenses than Trump ever did.
Idk, a lot of the back office apps I build are basically glorified forms with some content pages / dashboard. You really don't always need a framework.
I agree, but I don’t think one needs to be particularly overall right-leaning to be right-leaning in a specific facet, and GP was specifically speaking about (and only about) the law and order aspect.
the result was definitely not certain. there was more outstanding votes than the leader's margin, and it wasn't clear what the composition of those votes was. it was definitely very likely that they would follow the trend of the rest of the state, but it could have come to pass that the late-arriving absentee ballots or provisionals in PA broke very differently to the early-arriving absentee ballots. They called it when the first sample of outstanding allegheny county ballots were counted and made it clear that the rest of those votes were going to trend as expected.

the networks have to balance a late call giving fodder to conspiracy theorists with an early or uncertain call also giving fodder to conspiracy theorists. they don't want to be doing anything that could promote a narrative claiming the networks are trying to influence the election for biden.
Unfortunately, calling someone a racist always involves a degree of mind reading that’s impossible to prove.

You’re claiming that his racist remarks prove he holds racist beliefs. It’s possible that his racist remarks are driven entirely by his desire to appear blasphemous and be divisive.
Nowadays you still interface with COM through PowerShell scripting, and it is pretty nifty.
Trump did in fact inherit a good economy from Obama, but that's not really what I was talking about. I was talking about actions, not so much where the economy was.
Na, those votes were coming regardless of the loon running
At least read the Wikpiedia summary of the Mueller Report[0] if you don't have the time to read the whole document.

The 'Russia hoax' produced multiple criminal charges, both of Russians for interfering in the 2016 election, and of several Americans for obstructing the DoJ's attempts to investigate the possibility of people in the Trump orbit conspiring with the Russian government.

It has been factually established that Russia interfered with the 2016 election. The only question -- which cannot be answered because people in the Trump orbit lied to investigators and concealed evidence -- is whether the Trump campaign actively conspired with Russian entities beyond Trump openly asking for their help to access H. Clinton's 'emails.'

Take a step back, take a deep breath, and remember that some issues are a lot clearer than intentionally obfuscatory Republican narratives make them out to be.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mueller_report
I like your thinking!
Globalization was a choice. It was a choice forced on part of the world as part of Pax Americana. If the USA had not done so, the world would be badly vastly different.
What moral calculus allows deaths from a pandemic, even if the by-product of negligence and mismanagement, to be placed on the same moral plane as deaths from bombs, drones, tanks and bullets, or the displacement of tens of millions of people from the War on Terror, or the slave markets and anarchy that still persist after the NATO bombing of Libya championed by Hillary Clinton and Samantha Power, or the world’s worst humanitarian crisis from the U.S.-supported bombing campaign of Yemen that began under Obama?

- Glenn Greenwald
> I personally try to always generate my data as SSVs

That's great. I generate my data using either ZSVs or sometimes ΩSVs
The selfie on a roof marked "Paris, France" is nowhere near Paris. Looks like some big city in or near Russia. Marketing "evidence" with false advertising feels... wrong.
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An NAACP award that had nothing to do with him being a racist or not:

> Trump was among the first group of Americans to be given the award, which recognized people from a variety of ethnic backgrounds who have made significant contributions to the country, Otto Coca, communications director for the Ellis Island Honors Society told The Associated Press Monday. But Trump was honored for his work as a successful developer in New York City and his German heritage, Coca said, not for helping inner city youth.

From: https://apnews.com/article/2601590439
Yes, caching is a pro FOR GraphQl, not against it.
For democrats who chose him during his primaries, his #1 quality was that he was a moderate/centrist. The democrat party isn't only made up of leftists/progressives. There were a considerable number of democrats who were scared of Bernie and turned off by his supporters.

For GOP/Independents who voted Biden, his #1 quality was also that he was moderate and a close second was that he was not divisive.
You're overlooking the most chilling explanation of all: The Simpsons are bending reality to make their predictions come true.

Seriously though, "The best way to predict the future is to create it" as Alan Kay once said, and there are cases of science fiction inspiring technologists to create actual products and inventions.
Yes, and in return us Europeans agree to spend the vast majority of that budget on US arms. I'm thinking of multi-billion dollar nuclear subs and $100m aircraft. Then we allow tax free access to our markets and allow the US to skim a charge off all of our payments. To me that is the naivety of the Trumpist policy on Europe, it is only looking at the costs.
oh god no, not more of that
The fine people video you watched was a cleverly edited hoax. In the same breath, without prompting he said he wasn't referring to neo-nazis or white supremacists who should be "condemned totally.". Here's the proof:

https://finepeople.org/

Here's a compilation of 38 times he condemned racism and white supremacy.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Bd0cMmBvqWc

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it appears you've been systematically misled on this issue.
That would only happen once wouldn’t it? Someone would probably explain what was going on.
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You're welcome, sorry if I came across strangely.

It's just that I think people forget that the office of the President, while important, is a civilian executive position. It is unlike Chief Justice, or a 3* General, which require lifetime commitments to achieve.

I believe it was intentional that the office of the President to be public and administrative, more like that of a mayor than of a king.

And that's what we shouldn't lose sight of.
Globalization is good in the aggregate but it does affect negatively some communities. The solution is not to stop globalization but to implement public policies to counter the negative effects.
In a "First past the post" electoral system, It's always more advantageous for the 3rd party to merge with the first or second party.

New Zealand changed away from First Past the Post to Mixed Member Proportional in order to fix that

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_repr...

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

I'm not sure how you'd implement it, particularly at the senate level.
I haven't used WADL, but WSDL stands for Web Services Definition Language and is an amazing way to define endpoints and messages with type safety. From these you can generate bindings for pretty much any language or protocol that has a generator (and there are plenty, but probably not for the cool kids^TM 'golang' and 'rust').

One of the reasons it fell out of use is XML is verbose and typesafety is not cool anymore.
> In other words, there is nothing inappropriate about Twitter putting disclaimers on objectively factually incorrect statements.

Not necessarily inappropriate, but it might be ineffective. I don't know if this has already occurred but I'd bet a great deal of money that those click-through warnings about blatant or dangerous falsehoods will become a badge of honor among twitter conservatives, if they haven't already.
I don't use an iPhone/etc so I'm curious, do they block remote desktop applications?
It's a strange distinction. I read through this page and still don't understand the difference between Server and Data Center. <shrug>

https://www.atlassian.com/blog/jira-software/server-vs-data-...
Trump being racist is not an objective fact.

Calling someone a racist always involves a degree of mind reading that’s impossible to prove.

You’re claiming that his racist remarks prove he holds racist beliefs. It’s possible that his racist remarks are driven entirely by his desire to appear blasphemous and be divisive.
No, AI can’t predict the outcome of the election
NATO is supposed to be an alliance, not a protection agreement. And what is the point of an alliance if your country doesn't have a worthwhile army? Why can't you be asked to hold up your end? Asking you to hold up your end is not "demanding tribute."
The Republican party was under a consent decree to prohibit it from attempting to prevent minorities from voting, but once enough Republican justices were installed on the supreme court the consent decree was terminated. The court also voided the most effective parts of the voting rights act, which further allowed the GOP to suppress voter turnout among demographics likely to vote Democratic.

The preponderance of partisan, Republican, judges on the supreme court is very much part of the problem.
> His continual refusal to condemn white supremacy,

There exists compilation videos of him condemning white supremacy.

> or “very fine people on both sides”.

This is a hoax that has been debunked and can be easily debunked again by anyone who cares by looking up that video, rewind to a few seconds before that quote and listening to a few seconds after the quote.

So this is actually a good proof of what was mentioned above: while Trump wasn't a nice guy he's been under constant misinformation attacks on top of that. No wonder he looks like a really bad guy!
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The allies, just like Biden, have no interest in standing up to China. Tariffs definitely work, because if they’re high enough then companies will be forced to leave to setup shop elsewhere (such as Vietnam).

You can also see that China’s GDP growth (in 2019) was the lowest it’s been since 1990 (2020 will no doubt be much lower), and their reputation around the world is at an all-time low.

It’s also worth noting that the administration did a lot more to stand up to China besides tariffs (but tariffs that force companies to leave will of course hurt them the most).
I'll post this scenario here again just to get your opinion on it -- you have good thoughts.

Here's the scenario as it plays now: many 'grassroots' movements are reified when a bus comes to pick a group of people up, hands them a template ballot of who to vote for, then brings them to the polls to vote, and finally ends the ride with a dinner and party back at the place.

First, this is legal, at least where I'm from, and is a common way to 'get out the vote.'

Second, this implicitly has a built in rate-limiter because I need the physical voter to be present and to go into the booth alone.

However! This time, I don't have to bus you to the polls... I can host a party at my house to request all of your ballots come to me, where I fill them out and copy your signature from the party / event. OR I do this over the course of a few months, and still have all the ballots directed to me, still copy your signature from the form we filled out together. Or even worse, I use hacked data to request a ballot on your behalf because you never show up to the polls anyway.

To me, that's an extreme vulnerability -- that means beyond it not being rate limited, the physical person is no longer needed to fill out their own ballot. Not only this... there was always the chance someone could go 'off script' and vote for who they wanted for and just get the free meal. Now, they are guaranteed to be the way you wanted because you filled them out.

^ I've known people go on buses to get meals and vote 'off script'

And finally, the reason 'this hasn't happened until now' is because most mail in voting was for absentee voting (in the battle ground states) and never done at this scale where you could have a whole community request ballots to one address almost undetected. (yes this is detectable post-fact, but damage is done and intent is there on both sides.)
You are not going to find racial activists who deny the first fact. The second "fact" seems to fly over the whole "and other factors". That's the entire point of the statement.
> People rose to the occasion this time.

A bit nitpicky, but I think it's important: "people" cannot be really considered responsible for the win. If just 1.5 voters every hundred had flipped side, Trump would have won. At this point, with the results so close, who wins the elections is basically a coin toss- which arguably isn't a terrible thing in democracy, as it means that the parties compete fiercely and almost optimally for votes. But still in the end the outcome of these elections seems due mostly to chance.
Beto, hands down. But he never stood a snowball’s chance because of how stupid the FPTP-imposed primaries are. You need to out-left or out-right all other candidates your party puts forward to get their backing for the real elections. It’s a recipe for disaster.
how silly