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> Yeah, same here, but that's because we live in progressive bubbles.

Biden is a stopgap, he was what was required to get rid of Trump, which was job #1, a P1 if you will. A "progressive bubble" or other media-created marketing phrase is not a factor, it's a pure transaction: Trump has to go. People rose to the occasion this time.

> You cannot imagine someone actually liking Biden without being soft in the head

This isn't a fair interpretation of what they were saying, nor realistic. People are going to lament that a big part of Biden's support was functional, in order to get Trump out, but people complain about unchangeable things all the time. It's not significant.
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I think there’s two parts.

One is table stakes. What is the ROI of a website? Of showing up in Google organically? Of a well designed logo? On some level, customers expect to be able to find you. You need to show up, and show up well, at the point that customers are simply exploring. That’s fairly untraceable.

The other is distribution, holistically. Tesla might not have “marketing,” but they have showrooms, launch events, and referral programs. Every successful business started with precisely one highly effective way to acquire customers. Marketing, on some level, is about making sure that acquisition channel is working, start to end.

As companies grow, everything becomes muddy. Sure, Tesla or Walmart or whoever is probably unable to undertake how their marketing is effective, but they also can’t attribute success to every engineering project or accounting effort. That’s normal and true everywhere.
I don't think they accounted for it. These are people you can't poll
Biden said Biden has the most extensive voter fraud organization in history.
Codebases are, in my mind at least, a virtual space. I believe that one day programs will look like factory floors or cities. They will produce and consume physical analogues for values and types, which you can pick up and examine. Want to debug a function? Strap on your VR headset, teleport into its physically reified room and watch the execution. Tinker with the pipeline in real time.

I’ve been dreaming about this forever, and there have been many attempts, but with remote work and VR going mainstream I think someone will eventually build something usable and scalable.
Slowing down the testing. Children in cages. Family separation.
Nah.

We’re actually at an inflection point where before white men were the elite, no question, that was what it took to get in the door outside a few congressional districts.

Now it’s still mostly that but it takes more, and due to demographic shifts it will be that less and less. The right — belatedly (far too little far too late, and quite awkwardly) — has already started outreach to Latino and black communities. They will continue but it will take a while (what an embarrassment for the party of Lincoln. FFS.).

Obama was a lighting strike to those who assumed it would always be the old way, and Trump was the response to Obama.

Fortunately, that failed (unfortunately it took hundreds of thousands of dead Americans to convince enough Michiganders, Wisconsinites, Pennsylvanians (I’m sure about “Michiganders”, being one myself, no idea on the others) but at least it happened.)

The left, quite cleverly, responded with Biden, an old white guy in the classic mold. Literally: nothing to fear here, white peeps... but with Kamala as VP — a powerless position yet a powerful symbol (especially as the VP of a VP cum President).

So It’s the changing of the guard. Republicans can no longer simply ignore black and brown people (at best) or use them as bugaboos (and then Democrats won’t be able to simply count on their votes by not actively being racist). Once the powerful engage those groups they’ll find them not to be uniform, and (hopefully) that will lead to meaningful, nuanced, deep engagement... if that happens, there will no longer be such a thing as the “black vote”. (This is further along with Latinos, where some groups aren’t too overwhelmingly for one party or the other).

So...

Not really an existential crisis, at least not to my mind. It’s real progress. We can no longer force certain groups into blocks based on whether we actively believe they should be subjugated or just kinda ignore them.

Hallelujah.
then why not book in a Trump Hotel in the first place?

Hanlon's razor tells that it was a stupid mistake
> The only thing they say about flavor is that it’s classic - your granddad drank the same stuff.

And they fell into that by accident, after the infamous retreat from New Coke.
That's clearly why he did so much better with minorities this time then 2016 right?
Go will never have generics. mark my words.
The president is human and a civilian just like the rest of us shlubs. Don't forget that.
Why concentrate on anything? Heroin addicts who desire treatment will be welcome to it, but others will choose otherwise.
The senate is one mechanism, but its mere existence is not reason enough to consider it sufficient.
You've linked to the second interview he gave about Charlottesville. In his first statements[1] in an interview on August 12th, 2017, he famously didn't condemn white supremacists who murdered someone, saying instead that he condemns "egregious displays of hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides, on many sides".

Then, several days later in the second interview[2] on August 15th that you linked to, he equates the violent white nationalists that murdered someone with what he calls the "alt-left", the purported group that the murder victim belonged to, saying that he thinks there is blame on both sides. After asking for further clarification, he says that there were fine people on both sides. Only after further questioning, and in a separate statement, does he condemn white supremacists.

People were criticizing him for his initial equivocation on August 12th, comparing the white supremacists who murdered a person to the victims of their violence, and the fact that he didn't name or condemn white supremacists. In fact, when journalists asked him to condemn them, he walked away from the interview. He refused to differentiate between the two.

Then, on August 15th, he defends his initial comments through his continued equivocations in the second interview.

It isn't a hoax to criticize inappropriate equivocations, especially when it took him 4 days to muster out a condemnation, but still only after doubling down on the equivocations.

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/12/tr...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/politics/trump-alt-lef...
I guess it really depends on people's preferences on issues. It turned out more people hated Trump as a president than liking his presidency, and Trump supporters should accept such choice.

I weigh more on the culture side, and I'm abhorred that institutions can blatantly teach racism like critical race theory, which discriminates an entire race. I don't believe ACAB. I'm disgusted that Pelosi thinks that people can topple statues if they want, and AOC says "Is anyone archiving these Trump sycophants for when they try to downplay or deny their complicity in the future? ", and the media kept spreading hoaxes like "fine people on both sides". I certainly don't agree that different political views should be moralized. Well, none that that matters now, I guess. American people have decided that left view is what they want, and we should respect and accept the decision.
One of the 5% is the current and soon to be former president.
I tried retiring and it wasn't all that. Back to writing code. Zero stress since I don't even need the job.

All that stuff that I used to worry about, office politics, what technology to use, on and on, I just don't care.

If they walk me out the door tomorrow, so what. I've got enough money. As long as I get to choose between sitting on my ass in front of the computer and making money and sitting on my ass in front of the computer and making no money, the choice is clear.

No stress, all profit. How could there ever be burnout?

Everything is remote now anyway. I don't need to be in the work chat room all day, I can just write a fucking bot.
Why do you say “apparently”?

When we hear a claim and the reaction is “that’s incredible and unprecedented”, the reaction we should have should not be to accept that claim but to default to critical thinking.

In this case the public records are available and easy to access. It took me less than 10 minutes to get to primary sources. This an easily falsifiable claim.

The only way we enable the norm to be claims of stolen elections is by failing to access claims like these critically.

Again, I hold you and this community to a higher standard.
Will the least expensive license cover a million YouTube views?
I'm saying that both elections were decided based on hate of the opponent, not support for the winner. That's backwards from what it should be.
47 years of “experience” with nothing to show for it is not a good thing.
Maybe instead of "failing to conceptualise" they just have a different viewpoint. Why overcomplicate things? And the same is true of the whole censorship issue. People on the left just have different values and that is reflected in policy. That doesn't equate to a conspiracy to destroy freedom of speech.
> Something needs to restore faith in the process. If we lose that, we lose everything.

If the process results in electing white supremacist like Trump, shouldn't that cause people to "lose faith in the process?"

Biden's historic turnout and election is proof the US doesn't want fascism. If that doesn't restore faith in the process, I don't know what would...
The Saudi War on Yemen started in 2015, before Trump was even elected. How is he responsible for it?
For a long time, mainframes had hard disks with a set of heads on opposite sides of the platters. I'm not sure the use cases for spinning disks these days justify that kind of investment - they aren't (or shouldn't be) used in random-write-heavy workloads (as in frequently updated databases), but more for archival and, often, they sit behind a flash disk acting as a cache (I do that for my home server - a lot of write traffic never hits the disk because it's overwritten before being evicted from the flash)
Some people criticize Biden's charisma, but it goes to show that Americans have grown beyond the "popularity contest" that elections tend to be. They elected someone for what he stands for. This does not look like much, but it should be inspiring.
I wonder how much public opinion was impacted by Trump's tweets (one way or the other). I also wonder the magnitude of the impact of Twitter's actions. I sort of also wonder why some public figures are subject to fact checking and others are not.

Censoring really ought to be driven by the individual, not the platform. By getting involved in censoring certain parties, Twitter is implying here (whether intentionally or not) that its platform is a source of truth. That's a horrifying notion on its own. If anything my trust in Twitter (what little I had) is basically gone. It has nothing to do with politics. The minute a social media platform starts meddling with user content (especially the content of public figures, especially especially the current POTUS, whoever he is), I no longer believe anything I see on the platform.

It's hard enough to know what to believe without questioning the authenticity of people's statements.
I don't think I realized just how much this was wearing on me. I know there's steps to go before this is irrefutable, but the weight lifted is palpable and I didn't really think it would be given how many troubles we still face. I sincerely hope this is a step towards a healthier country. And for those that did not like Trump, but weren't thrilled with Biden, I hope Biden is a stepping stone towards even better candidates.
Meh, we've had lots of unexciting presidents in the past. In my own lifetime the only president I was ever actually excited about was Obama. I think the only thing that does eclipse that excitement IS not having Trump anymore. I disagree with the notion that we need to be excited about a president in general because that's what GOT us Trump. The president should be boring, and move the country forward like a normal, boring job. I yearn for a president that might pop up every 45 days (oh yeah he's the president and he's doing something). Instead of what we just had.

With Trump I feel like we dangerously moved towards having super celebrity presidents that are more interested in being King. I don't think the US should have a King. It should have someone that "PRESIDES" over governments boring ass functions.
> But American companies sell us our books and films (understatement), take cuts of our credit card payments, make us coffee, organize our taxis. All of this seems to be with preferential tax treatment. All of these things could be done without the US, but the US is our partner in peace, so it is tolerated.

Are you implying that America is exporting more than it imports from the EU? The US actually has a trade deficit with Europe.

https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c0003.html
>"...Trump has been extremely transparent that he only views events as how they will help or hurt him"

I'd say that this is the default behavior of majority of the population. Politicians do it probably even more. They just do not admit it.
Ranked choice voting (instant runoff) is flawed and confusing to explain to people.

Score voting or approval voting is simpler and has none of the non-monoticity of instant runoff.
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I think the point is, if everyone agrees Biden is just a stopgap, why didn't they just pick someone better?

For him to be a "stopgap" at all must imply that some Democrats today see him as the best end-game option, and we just need to "convince" them to be even more progressive
Democrats can only win at the margin of the electoral college. That margin is not progressive. The coastal Democratic strongholds are always going to vote blue. It makes absolutely no sense to adopt their platform.

Political game theory favors appealing to the margin and the margin is moderate. The margin doesn’t take an extreme stance on social issues a la San Francisco. Quite the opposite: they hear things like “defund the police” and liberals shouting down “all lives matter” and they feel rightfully as if Democrats are threatening their place in society. The progressive politics of exclusion and contempt are totally unfit to the task of winning the electorate just as much as the equivalent conservative extreme.
> You want the seats in the houses to dominate the media, not the figurehead.

Yea, so if you could let the media know, that would be great.
Would it still be cheaper than a similar SSD? Would it be cheaper than an SSD-augmented HD?
Maybe they should poll about what the person will vote, but rather what the persons opinions are in general and then estimate based on that who will they vote for.

I am betting Facebook or Google would be able to better calculate the outcome than any polling firm. Bring in all the data they collect on each internet user, I am sure they can model the likelihood of voting and where the user is leaning.
I can tell that you don't manage ad campaigns.

Marketers are cool if they don't find out it's more than half bots.

Notice how I worded the above sentence.
Leaders across the world are congratulating Biden and accepting the results. All of the US media is accepting the results. Even Fox News accepted the results. Most of the GOP is accepting the results.

One man-child's tantrum does not a country make. The few in power that are sticking with Trump right now are absolutely deluded. His voters are simply misinformed, but will accept the truth soon enough.

The results of the election are already certain. They've been certain for days, DDHQ (non-partisan) called them a long time ago and they were slow to do so. It is through an abundance of caution that news outlets waited to get past .5% margin in PA to call the results.

It doesn't matter that Trump is contesting the results. He has lost all semblance of support (a miracle he had any in the first place). He was golfing when the results were being announced, I don't think even he cares that much; he's just scared and trying to cling to power.

So no, we should not treat Trump differently: We should treat him as we would anyone throwing a tantrum like he does: Dismiss it and ignore it. The courts are dismissing it (8 cases lost/dismissed out of 8 filed), and the media is ignoring it. As long as the election is fair (which it was), and the results are correct (which they are), Biden is President. Let it be.
I am in agreement. The web was envisioned as a utopian place where information could flow freely, watering humanity to grow enlightened.

But it turned out that on the web, misinformation is cheaper to produce than true information, individuals—no matter how independently-minded—are no match for corporate and state actors that have vastly more resources and motivation to manipulate, and tribal identity is more powerful than abstract ideals.

What have we wrought?
>>I disagree, Democratic voters again did not get to choose their candidate. A candidate was selected for them.

This is quite wrong. Biden crushed Bernie in the primaries.
> left tries to mend their ways by refraining from pushing (mainly white, straight men, but also others, like the religious) many further from the Democratic party.

Genuine question: how can this be done without giving up on the people who don't match that description?
They provided the probability distribution. The fact that you can’t handle math and need some sort of absolute certainty for a future event is not 538’s problem.
> nobody I have talked to seriously voted for Joe Biden on his own merits.

Okay, I did, so you can't say that anymore. I didn't vote for him in the primary, but I voted for him in the general. There's good stuff here:

https://joebiden.com/joes-vision/

He's a centrist. I expect him to be right in the middle of the Democratic party. It's not as bold as I would like in some places and has things I don't like in others, but it's progress. It's substantive policy proposals to try to make headway on climate change, healthcare, covid19, jobs, and on and on.
There's nothing wrong with that. You can also decide to vote against one candidate by giving everyone else 99, and that's okay too.
> And then came Trump, telling us that we don't spend enough on Nato

Trump said it loudly and in plain terms, but this is a popular bipartisan view in the US. It is a fact that many wealthy NATO members do not meet the defense spending commitments that membership entails. Obama pressured NATO members to meet their obligations, and Biden will likely do so as well.

https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/obama-nato-pay-fair-s...
Can you connect a USB keyboard to the RPi 400?
Incredible! These would make perfect gifts for people who live in tiny houses.

How much is shipping and handling to Shinjuku?
Biden literally won the Democratic primary entirely due to the Black vote in South Carolina. Why act like they don't love him?
It might be representative... It's just that people didn't want to say they're voting for trump.
I was hoping for the Dem ticket that had a more anti-establishment leaning. Biden isn't a nemesis to big-tech like Trump is. He's an established politician who served while the Patriot act was in place. Seems scarier to me for increased surveillance and censorship.
Maybe it's just me, but when something like democratic elections for the dominant power of the World are at stake, a voting machine should be made a bit more solid and air tight.

For example, make it read only in a way that no updates and BS can be pushed remotely at anyone's convenience. And if it needs to be updated, have a usb terminal unlocked via a physical key that the officials will have with them. Download an update imagine to any USB, plug it in, et voila. Anything, anything other than live updates will be an improvement.
Why have conservatives been historically against abortion?
The republican party has no counterpart anywhere in the world. They are led by evangelical bigots and some of them even believe in QAnon conspiracy theories.
It is the hideous face of inbred de-evolution of philosophical and political ideas into fanatisms and childish naratives. They are not going away. Educate you population, separate church and state now, and maybe future trumps wont be able to do so much damage.
that is very factual indeed. children in cages and family separation are not a trump policy but an american policy and obama and previous president did it too.

that leaves us with covid testing. On June 21st, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McAnany was asked to verify if Trump had ordered testing to be slowed down. She responded, “No, he has not directed that. Any suggestion that testing has been curtailed is not rooted in fact.” She added, “The president was trying to expose what the media often times does, they ignore the fact that the US has more cases because we have more testing.” She added, “It’s a fact the media readily ignores.”

When asked to clarify that the comment Trump made about slowing down testing wasn’t true, McEnany responded, “It was a comment that he made in jest, a comment he made in passing, specifically with regard to the media coverage...when you test more people, you find more cases.” so not a fact.

see. im probably gonna be downvoted for this because people are not factual and just hate the guy and while there are reasons to hate him they need to be concrete and real
Waiting to starting the count until the window to vote is over seems like an inherently fair idea - it closes the information gap between absentee and day-of voters. Otherwise it’s like a game of Yankee Swap, where voting (or trading) last is best.
The Presidency in the US is a weak position compared to the Prime Minister in the UK. Outside of fighting wars, the President has to convince Congress to give them the authority and money to do anything. Even their Ambassadors have to approved by the Senate.
Knowing that it makes people in your line of work cringe makes marking newsletters as spam even more satisfying, so thank you for telling me this. I hope you all cringe so hard your faces get stuck like that.
They are really not contextual. Americans need to understand each others perspectives if they hope to ever come together. Understanding the political philosophies of liberalism, democratism, socialism, fascism, and anarchism is important. Those philosophies don't change from one country to the next, even if they translate into different sets of policies.
> No market can make any meaningful decision on what to do and where to go at any time out of day to day operation.

> Unfortunately the EU commission (and most of our governments) seem to believe

Maybe because people in EU commission are not that arrogant and ignorant to ignore the resource allocation problem and need for markets?

While subsidies could change the incentives and outcomes, they also imply some inefficiency which usually makes people worse off. Such matters are not black and white, you can't just steer the society with policies as you want totally ignoring economic effects policies produce.
I can hit a nail with a hammer, I can hit my thumb with a hammer in neither case does the hammer suck.
Isn't the current fuel (bunker fuel) already pretty foul?