skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
/pol/ and /b/ are now a majority of 4chan. It's going to take a few more months/years but 4chan is well on the way to become /pol/: the website.
The US hegemony hasn't provided any benefit to anybody, except if you count millions of dead people as a benefit.

Did the impoverishment of the middle class happen before, after, or during the US hegemony?

Did the large scale wars of the past 30 years happen before, after or during US hegemony?

Did the international terrorism escalation happen bwfore, after or during the US hegemony?

The west especially is poorer and less safe.

Trump was simply the final nail in the coffin.

I think people are just connecting dots here.

I really hope Biden will realise it.
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The side with proven ballot harvesters in MN?
Or as his contemporary French lawyer / philosopher Joseph de Maistre said: Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite (Every nation gets the government it deserves)
The US is not and was never supposed to be a popular vote democracy. The founding fathers recognized the dangers of populism and subsequently made sure that the government is a republic.
what's more interesting in the discussion is how much attention trump is still getting, rather than the winner, biden. we're more relieved by trump leaving than biden entering. trump being such a poor leader still overshadows how mediocre biden is.

it's still uncertain what biden will be doing, other than occupying the white house, of any substance for the next 4 years. he talks a lot about unity, but isn't reputed to be a unifying force, so that seems an unlikely pillar of his presidency. he recites a litany of standard democratic policy positions, but without any real conviction (even "bidencare" is clichéd already).

does he do anything to moderate political and economic consolidations that have been so detrimental to prosperity and unity over (at least) the last 40 years? doubtful, unfortunately.
> But I'd like to believe that most are misled, misinformed, yet good people. I know my neighbor is one in fact.

Something I have found increasingly frustrating is this childish attitude that saying “so-and-so is a bad person” means “so-and-so will always be a bad person and can do nothing to change for the better.” Simplistically separating people by “inherent nature” leads to us not calling a spade a spade when someone is being a bad person, and means bad people can’t ever actually appreciate the scope and impact of their misdeeds.

People who voted for Trump did so for reasons that were, by and large, morally outrageous. We don’t need to treat them like lost sheep who were incapable of understanding what Trump represents. There were a shocking number of horrendously terrible people in Germany and Rwanda, and most didn’t go to jail when the genocide ended. After WW2 it was really hard to find a German who would say they voted for the Nazis, and I am sure many or those millions of people led upstanding lives. That doesn’t make their decision to vote for the racist strongman retrospectively defensible.

(There’s also the related problem of “he can’t be a bad person, he’s nice to me!”)
Three US presidents born in a 4 month period in 1946.

[edit] - You have to be 35 or older to be president, which for people born in 1946 would be 1981. Clinton was president for 8 years, Bush for 8, Trump for 4, so 20. For the majority of the time since people born in 1946 were eligible to be president, they have been.
As Obama’s vice president he’s responsible for more deaths and warmongering that donald trump. The Obama administration was blowing up wedding parties weekly with drone strikes
The duopoly has more to do with the bias of first past the post voting than the population demographics. The electoral college exists for the express purpose of preventing population centers from running the country with no regard to the rural population.
That whole exchange is very different than what I have seen. Its actually alarming how reasonable he sounds in this clip. Believe me, I think he was an awful president, and I voted against him twice, but this is what I wish my liberal peers would admit about our own bias.

Are there evidence-based ratings for different publications? And is that the kind of thing that could be done at all objectively? If not objectively, at least methodically?
IMHO if you ask Americans bluntly if they’d be willing to end democracy so that their candidate remains in power, you’d get only a small percentage agreeing.

What actually happened was that large numbers of voters are stuck in a filter bubble and their only news sources were telling them the election was being stolen. So by supporting Trump they probably thought they were defending democracy.

Of course, those particular news stories were pure lies. But we should focus on the peddlers of lies more than those who were duped by them.
Politics always exists in a context and one can't make rational decisions in politics without that context. I think our society suffers greatly because people don't know history.
> Want to ban group X which is fighting with group Y in a tit-for-tat skirmish over decades? How do you decide who is right? How do you decide truth?

I think there is a difference between ‘right vs wrong’ and ‘factually correct vs incorrect’.

Platforms like Twitter will rarely be in a position to decide right/wrong, because in many opposed discussion both sides will use the platform.

On the factual correctness, platforms can more easily take a stance in high impact cases. I would assume that they’d have out the same warnings on Biden’s Twitter if he had said ‘I won’ on Tuesday.

That leaves a challenge: how do you decide what’s a fact? For example on the vote count. Most outlets say the reported figures are fact, but it implies trusting the process of counting and reporting. Removing that implied trust means others can take ‘there is fraud!’ as fact just as well.

Twitter seems to use the mainstream media (eg AP predicting the election outcome) as a base of trust (and so do I). But I’ve come to realize that once you don’t trust the media, it is easy to believe in another set of facts (that are true for you), and suddenly (to you) it seems Twitter is censoring.

I hope people will find and trust each other again.
It seems you're the actual monkey.
Also space policy. Trump-Pence space policy has been tremendously successful.
Does anyone know about the future for Confluence?
Doesn't the actual election happen later? If I recall in 2000, they had some trouble until December with Al Gore.
Do you have anything to contribute to this conversation other than quibbling with definitions?
The coronavirus pandemic and how the Trump administration handled it was likely the proximate cause for Trump losing the election.

If things were indeed normal or he acted like a leader to minimize deaths, he likely would have won reelection.
Who changed the H1b visa rules so brown immigrants had to be paid a fair wage? The same guy who hates foreigners?
Does Spotify use the same AES key for all songs?

Deezer is doing weird stuff in comparison. A friend told me that each song has every third block of 2048 bytes encrypted using blowfish. The key is derived from the hex md5 of the song ID, xor the same hex md5 but with a Ceasar cipher shift of 16, xor a hard-coded secret. The initialization vector is 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7.
I agree with you for devices where the user should be considered 'trusted' - I like to tinker too.

But I think there are use-cases where this is legitimate, for example, ticket readers mounted on public transport where anyone could tamper with them out-of-hours, or a utility meter installed in my house where I might want to change the way it records consumption to get out of paying. Likewise, a payment terminal taking card payments in a restaurant - as a diner I'd quite like some assurance that someone couldn't tamper with it to record card details for example.
If you look at the protection log and follow the links, the request which led to that full protection is interesting: "Temporary full protection: The article is going crazy with everyone trying to add their version to the lead. There is so much edit conflicting it took me eight tries to bring the article back to a neutral version. Would anyone consider a few hours of full protection to let things calm down?"
The party will take care of that for you. Shhh.
Nano might fit the definition, but
100micron (0.1mm) is visible with an ordinary microscope, so no electron microscope needed.
Wouldn't "looking at the let" take some cpu time?
Except for the things he broke that cannot be repaired. The people dead from COVID. The children separated from their parents.

What a cold and callus interpretation of a man that did real damage to thousands of people.
Because, saying "look at the other guy" isn't a solution
I really wish that a failed impeachment would result in new elections for the House and President. Seems like the only logical conclusion when the democratic chamber of the legislature and the pseudo-democratic executive are at odds.
My condolences to all the Americans for voting Biden into the president's office. Please enjoy the remains your economic prosperity and peace while they last.

Also: sign up your children for Chinese lessons, they'll need it.
> Were they really?

I'm no linguist, but every time I've looked into this the answer has been yes. Though there is this weird trend to heavily suggest otherwise even in supposed serious sources, which has given me a major chip on my shoulder on this issue.

What they have is proto-writing. The Mayans have full writing, supposedly, and Aztec "script" seems to look like the Mayan's so many assume it must be the same, when it is not at all. Proto-writing pictograms are not at all like cuneiform or Chinese characters. There's no word, for example, for the to be verb in any Aztec script/pictogram. What nouns you can say exist are only what any picture anywhere would have. You can't say "Tototl was feeling despondent on the rainy day of 5th reed" and have someone else read that thought a century later because there are no words to construct a spoken sentence like such. The best you could do is draw a mural with a guy, with rebus device to suggest his name, surrounded by rain, hoping to convey such a sentence. But at that point you're just guessing.

It changes things a lot. I was reading the blurb on that Fifth Sun book and they were getting quite romantic suggesting a narrative of the true forgotten story of the Aztec in their own words the Spanish conquerors didn't want you to know! That's so dishonest to a naive audience. Whatever scholarship they are doing it has to be a combination of post-colonial recordings of oral history, post-colonial Spanish or Spanish influenced contemporary writings, and archeology. There is no other way.
This is pure aimless, embarrasing reaching
Of course not.
This phenomenon us known since May, my estimation is about 20% of such false positive PCR tests. It's getting cold, people are getting symptoms, and the rate of asymptomatic cases is 90%. So a lot of people are getting tested now, but had an infection months ago. The PCR tests still picks up the pieces now.

Every PCR positive cannot be called new infection, because both might be false. Not new, and not infected.

That's why everybody is putting the much better and cheaper antigen tests forward. Only when that is positive, a PCR test needs to be done. Antibody tests are highly unreliable, but antigen tests have no false positives. China tested a whole 5 mill city in a few days with antigen tests, Slovakia tested their entire population in two weekends.
Is there any evidence any of this data has been available - let alone been used - for a campaign in any of the states that do preprocess mail-in votes? Because doing so in order to shift a few ten thousand votes would leave quite a bit of a trace.
While we’ll just use the data center version, we have customers who will be forced to abandon Jira due to legal or contractual requirements, because they only require maybe 5 or 10 licenses, but can’t use the cloud version.

I have to assume that Atlassian have some internal number regarding how many customers they expect to lose.
One involves the media and free speech, while the other involves the state and federal government fairly conducting an election. They are completely unrelated.
I do not accept Twitter as my authority on what is objectively factual correct.

Do you?
It still works. Even if they give you that screen you can quickly download again.
Other countries handle it just fine with popular votes.

E.g., South Korea has a presidential election every 5 years, congressional election every 4 years, and gubernatorial(?) election every 4 years (staggered in the middle between congressional elections). In this way, a government losing popular support quickly finds itself surrounded by elected officers from opposing parties.
Trump has not created the virus and followed the independent advice of Dr. Fauci. The UK, Spain and Belgium (all with the advantage of socialized healthcare) did even worse judging by per capita deaths. So he can't be that bad.
I also think its quite disingenuous to compare his handling of the virus to the suffering and deaths caused by wars that only serve to establish economic and power advantages.
He didn't miss Covid, he had a plan, but it wasn't the right plan. To be honest, no one could make plans, only bets.

He wanted to use the pandemic as a way to boost nationalism. The evil virus from China vs America's freedom. Turned out, China handled the situation pretty well and blaming them for everything turned out more difficult than expected. And America didn't deliver, the drug industry couldn't find a treatment, and worse, one of the most effective mitigations, masks, rely on imports from China.

Had an American lab found an effective treatment, had a convincing argument been found against China, the situation would have been different for the elections. But how could one know? Trump just lost his bet.
I wonder what Biden is going to do about the coronavirus. Trumps denials don’t work but the things people expect Biden to do (mask mandates etc.) aren’t a magical solution either.
> Democrats removed the filibuster

Remember that Mitch McConnell, once he had the majority, stopped processing federal judge nominees from Obama for two years.

* https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/how-mcconnell-and...

* https://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/mitch-mcconnell-judge...

This also assume that McConnell wouldn't have just done the same. Remember that this is the same fellow that said both "no appointments in an election year" to "we're appointing with less that 30 days until the election".

McConnell is a political nihilist:

> It was already becoming clear that, in the political world of Mitch McConnell, convictions and campaign pledges were fungible things, easily tossed aside. Throughout his career, as the Republican Party veered right, and then further right, McConnell moved with it. “It’s always been about power, the political game, and it’s never been about the core values that drive political life,” John Yarmuth, Kentucky’s lone Democratic congressman, told Alec MacGillis, author of the 2014 McConnell biography The Cynic. “There has never been anything that interested him other than winning elections.”

* https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/mitc...

> “Trump is about winning the day, or even the hour. McConnell plays the long game. He’s sensitive to the political realities. His North Star is continuing as Majority Leader—it’s really the only thing for him. He’s patient, sly, and will obfuscate to make less apparent the ways he’s moving toward a goal.” The two men also have different political orientations: “Trump is a populist—he’s not just anti-élitist, he’s anti-institutionalist.” As for McConnell, “no one with a straight face would ever call him a populist—Trump came to drain the swamp, and now he’s working with the biggest swamp creature of them all.”

* https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/20/how-mitch-mcco...

Remember McConnell (and the GOP) were also all about austerity during Obama's terms (when economy could have used economic stimulus). Then, when Trump got in, it was all about tax cuts which caused all sorts of deficit/debt issues—when the economy did not need any help (2017).
Being a centrist doesn't magically save you from being in an information bubble.
That is a very interesting point of view. I fully agree with it, I think it will be an existential threat to the country as we know it now.

Do you think that the bipartidism is to blame, amongst other factors? If there were more options then some of the most radical electorate will have their own candidate and it could help divide the support they get at the Chambers.

Also smaller parties could help in having more negotiation for bills and laws.
US deaths: 234,034
US population: 330,052,960
Death rate per million: 709

US deaths minus NY: 200,248
NY population: 310,674,858
Death rate per million: 644

You'd have to remove NJ and Connecticut (the top three states) to make much of a difference.
Not saying we can’t verify, but the idea that a Russian op would be focused on getting Biden elected is hilarious.
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> Look around and tell me that the general middle class American is worst off than they were in any other decade of modern America

Funny, my whole generation has basically given up on basics like owning a house completely. But we got cool tech gadgets so it all evens out?
The sentiment underlying your comment is an important one. While it's essential to see the goodness in people, it's also essential that we are honest about bad behavior. Regardless of their goodness, or them being misled or misinformed, > 35% of the electorate has been unwavering in supporting/advocating/justifying behaviors that are

> fundamentally lawless and anti-democratic

If my neighbor, who I believe is a good person, is abusing their spouse, it is absolutely necessary to call the abuse for what it is.
> It should be made easier to prosecute a president for illegal activity.

It’s already easy. The House made their case and the Senate disagreed. The same thing happens in real court (prosecution makes a case and jury disagrees). It absolutely should not be so easy that the house alone can remove the president with a simple majority.

> Things like showing tax returns should be formalized.

Why? Anything really insidious isn’t going to be on a return anyway. And if it’s required for the President, why not literally every other government position?
I don't like this metaphor at all. What are the features? The meals? Every day, the same meals? With clear recipes and easy estimating when they're done. Hundreds of features everyday and doing the dishes pretty much resets everything to a perfect clean slate for the next iteration of hundreds of features. Everything else needed for the features, stove, fridge, utensils, deteriorates on a totally different timescale, years and are always completely replaced.

I think the embedded video raises a very good argument that metaphors is dangerous and can/does shape thinking. So I don't want this to catch on and get people arguing with their stakeholders about "we need to do the dishes" when there are heavy refactorings that need to be done. :/
There is a split ortholinear keyboard which looks pretty similar to this one: https://www.zsa.io/moonlander/
How do you feel your daily neuroscience work is more interesting to you than your previous EE work?
The brain fascinates me and sometimes I think of a similar change.
Can’t you just firewall it? I imagine you’d lose support though.
Sounds about right, I might have a gander just because - bound to have some gold nuggets of crazy to peruse!
Fundamentally, their purpose is to win reelection campaigns while upholding the US constitution

If advancing the interests of people outside the US to the detriment of US citizens accomplishes that, it's well within their purpose.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Estate

Not an official one, but certainly one of political influence:

“Though it is not formally recognized as a part of a political system, it [News Media] wields significant indirect social influence.”

The media “shifts ground” - in this case making it very hard for President Trump to continue to frame the issue in a way to suit himself.
On the other hand, Obamacare passed.

I don't think we can say in advance what will and won't be blocked. But on the news today they pointed out that Biden has literally spent decades working in the Senate. So if anyone has across-the-aisle relationships, it would be him.

Anyways, again: we cannot say in advance what's going to happen next.
Of course, they had observers in place already, so this was a transparent effort to delay and create ambiguity.
Is this your first election? This has never been the case before (even in 2000 when the media got it wrong due to Florida). Why would or should it be the case now?
way too much for one comment.

https://www.businessinsider.com/authoritarianism-experts-say...

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-09-10/trump-...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/nov/01/democracy-fasc...
They act upon it, too[1][2][3].

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/trump-admin-s-adopti...

[2] https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/4/24/21234532/trump-admi...

[3] https://www.texastribune.org/2020/10/14/texas-social-workers...
Lazy load and transition in your React images with some WebGL GLSL niceness
> a years-long record of racist policies

Trump gained significant ground among racial minorities. So...IDK how to square that with your characterization of his 4 years of policies.

PS. Lest you think the right has a monopoly on racism, I point you no further than California's attempted repeal of discrimination law (Prop 209).

This is the same sort of inflated rhetoric/tribalism the grandparent was speaking of.
Thats why they invented the mute button :)
> But there's a catch. You have to build a BFF for each individual frontend.

Bullshit. I've built a lot of REST APIs and every time mobile apps were reusing API without any issues.
Censorship is not defined as something just a government does. And free speech is more fundamental than the US’s first amendment. Censorship is still censorship when big tech does it and the left’s embrace of it is scary and despicable.
Ironically Trump was one of the major pushers of the birther story.
What country in the world could conqueror America? You would need a better blue water navy and the ability to sustain 3 thousand miles supply lines over contested waters.

As for dividing the US, I hope the lesson of this election is that you shouldn't assume what you see online is representative of the real US - otherwise it would have been a landslide for Biden.
Germany is doing quite okay.
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the higher the price the more worthwhile to crack it or cheat it. price it so it can be affordable, revenue positive, and not worth cracking for most crackers.