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All historic impeachment votes were (edit: almost entirely) along partisan lines: Clinton, Trump, and Johnson.

Nixon was potentially going to be bipartisan, which is why he resigned first — so we’ll never know for sure.
Trump has a lot of power now. "Republican kingmaker" they say.

But, within the next 4 years, he will continue discrediting himself. I'm quite sure millions of people will still follow his lead, but it'll slowly get smaller and smaller.

I think he will be a Rudy Giuliani type figure. Mostly an angry barking dog that people don't take as seriously anymore, just like before he was president.
It's not the purpose of the elected representatives of the US to advance the interests of people outside the US to the detriment of US citizens.
Citation for my belief in a hypothetical? Sorry, not possible.
We’ll know in January after the two Georgia seats are up for another vote. Right now, no.
The newest Watch Dogs is set in London, I believe. I've only watched the trailer, though.
I think all drugs legal or not currently (including Alcohol, even beer etc. And Cigarettes) should only be sold in pharmacies and all should require a proof of IQ test as kind of a driving license.
> letting go of the democratic ideal that every person's vote has the same weight

USA has already let go of it, as convicted felons don't have a right to vote.
Atlassian's new strategy has been discussed three weeks ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24805748
US hegemony is already gone.
My perception is whoever think that since Trump is gone we can wipe the plate clean and go back to the good old way, is wrong.
Hey my friend, don't be like that :) Everyone here wanna have great conversations and learn more about stuff... These kind of comments creates tons of unnecessary noise.

However I will bite the bait, please show to us how :)
Exactly, Trump was just a symptom and a lightning rod. The GOP and their supporters is where the true problems lie.

Trump was nothing without their support. The focus on Trump is wrong I think, don't let yourself be distracted by him.
Hi there. You are comparing one fraction where the denominator is the number of total eligible voters with another fraction where the denominator is the number of registered voters. The post claims turnout jumped 30%. This is false.

I’m genuinely interested in understanding how we can agree on this, so could you tell me how you feel about this explanation?
Oh, I see. Thanks for responding!
He did however through incompetence and neglect see more Amerians die from Covid during his tenure than a whole lot of wars.
This is a very western view, you have war criminals as former presidents. This was not the worst of the US. You have people bombing weddings and you find this to be the worst.
Just curious, can you Please give some examples of his authoritarian tendencies?
Not disagreeing but curious what metrics you’re using to gauge progress
Freedom of speech must have limits.

The classic analogy is that a person shouldn't be allowed to shout "FIRE" and thereby cause panic in a crowded theater, when there is no such fire. The right of the one person to (falsely) speak is outweighed by the right of the many people present to their own safety.

Trump saying "I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!" [1] is clearly equivalent to shouting "FIRE". He has not won the election, he does not have more popular votes or more electoral college votes, and he has presented no proof or substantive argument to contradict this narrative.

That Twitter should put a warning label on statements from powerful people that are objectively false is really the least they can do. To let Trump spread lies without any comment before now has been wholly irresponsible. I wish that Twitter didn't provide a platform for misinformation in the first place.

[1] https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13250998450450718...
It’s not about legitimacy, it’s about misleading people about your veil of objectivity when your biases, yes even AP leans left, come out through your authors and published work.
Any information about how they were made? Are there any interest pages that go into detail about his process with more depth? Thanks :)
I really hate to sidetrack this discussion with an obvious political rant, but it's important to remember the CIA was intimately involved in creating the crack epidemic in the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_involvement_in_Contra_coca...
Globalization has lifted billions from poverty. While it didn't benefit the US middle class in a direct, more money in their pockets way, it did likely prevent horrific wars that ravaged the world in the last century. It's bad business to nuke your customers. So the US middle class did benefit from not being drafted into the global mega-conflicts we avoided.

Also, why is US hegemony a good thing? What good is it for the 96% of the world that is not the US? Does it even benefit anyone outside the US ruling class?
Anyone else not getting Trump's real Twitter account on search anymore for the past few days?

"Trump Twitter"

Obviously @realdonaldtrump is normally top, with preview.
> ...as fewer and fewer customers use it

Somehow I doubt that customer preference is the reason.

Atlassian just wants to be the next Oracle; their self-hosted version now starts at $40000 per year.
Twitter didnt hide Trump's tweets because they disagreed, the hid them because they were unsubstantiated falsehoods, that could have a deleterious effect on peoples faith in the process itself. They would have hidden Biden's too, if he did something along those lines.
I'm not sure those are new ideas, people have wanted to get out of the middle east since even the bush era, and china has been increasing its sphere of influence and on the road to be second super power for a while now. Similarly whether or not globalization is good for the working class or just makes the rich get richer has been publicly debated the entire time i have been alive.

I think the main difference is that trump decided to take tactical action on these positions without regards for the strategic long term consequences, which other presidents have been unwilling to do (except the globalisation point, i think most previous really liked globalisation and werent just worried about the consequences)
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I think you misunderstand. Its the co-existance of two claimed factual realities. You simply pick the one which is the factual reality, which relies on looking at facts.

If someone says 'the election is rigged', the least they have to do is produce evidence. In the absence of that evidence, that's not a factual statement.
I would be surprised if as many as half of those who voted for him believed that they were voting to either kill democracy or rewarding immoral behaviour.

Perhaps I’m overly-cynical, but in my (limited) experience, most people just don’t pay enough attention for such motivations — or even expectations — to be plausible.
It's been bizarre to watch this develop, and yet somehow urbanization accelerates anyway.

The more technology and communication humanity develops, the more it clusters into small pieces of land with exorbitant rents.

Something just seems off.
> clearly unsuitable candidate.

If people vote for a candidate and the candidate meets the eligibility requirements in the constitution, he/she is suitable. That’s it.

If you want to change the constitution to say that only Democrats can be elected president (this election ended up falling right down party lines again), I think you’re gonna have a hard time getting that through Congress.
California hasn't had 2 Republican Senators at the same time since 1971. California became Democrat when the Republican Party realigned to the Southern Strategy, not because of campaigning.
> His term also (further) exposed big flaws in the way we put people on the Supreme Court. We should go back to the old system of a 2/3 majority required. No more 50/50 simple majority, as the Democrats instituted a while back. I find that a disaster.

Senate Republicans were the ones who lowered the requirement for Supreme Court confirmations to a simple majority, not the Democrats[0]. Senate Democrats had reduced the threshold for presidential appointments excluding the Supreme Court as a result of chronic filibustering by the Republican congress during Obama’s term[1].

I agree with you that something needs to be done about SCOTUS nominations. It’s clear to me that the stakes are currently way too high. Turning the court into a political football has created an incredibly dangerous situation that risks undermining its authority and the rule of law.

[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/06/us/politics/neil-gorsuch-...

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/01/fac...
How boring.
The end of US egemony could be good for the middle class outside of the US, especially South America and the Middle East.

Not saying it will, but that during the unrivaled US egemony after the end of the cold war things have been worse for the middle/poor segment of society, especially in the west.

Could be a coincidence, could be bad luck, could be a correlation.
Who has replaced the US in this regard?

I think you can make a strong case US hegemony may be in decline, but it’s harder to claim it’s gone
Primesense never made a ToF sensor. When they were bought by Apple they had a Structured Light sensor on the market and apparently had a MEMS-mirror LiDAR sensor in the labs.

Despite the name, ToF sensor typically means using modulated flood illumination and phase shift to compute the depth. It's conceptually very simple but suffers multi-path errors and poor efficiency. Real Time-of-Flight sensors (that measure depth by timing light) are typically called LiDAR. These typically collect many pointwise independent measurements.

The LiDAR inside the iPad Pro and the iPhone Pro is solid state (no moving parts, not even a MEMS mirror). It was developed by Sony and they are now selling it to Apple.
I was a black teenager living on the South Side of Chicago during that time, and the media crack obsession was largely hysterics, and sometimes outright fiction (as with "crack babies.")
> The only explanation they can come up with is voter fraud which has not been found to be a widescale problem by nearly every group that has looked into it.

Not "nearly" every group. Every group. Election fraud is effectively nonexistent.
Anyone who’s just been living life and not obsessively reading CNN will tell you that the last 4 years have been pretty ordinary and fine.
Presumably "the US working class". Globalization has enriched the wealthiest Americans and the global poor at the expense of working Americans, and that's a pretty awful charity program IMO.
Ummm, absolutely not. Pollsters universally stated they either had "adjusted their models" after being embarrassed in 2016, or that the "hidden Trump voter" was a myth (usually combined with "Trump fans won't shut up about how much they support him"). Poll results were repeatedly presented as forecasts of actual election results.
Shall we convene a panel with myself, Dave Chappelle, and you, and debate the meaning of “First one not working out”? You’re completely ignoring my and his intended meaning, which is that restricting speech pushes people toward violence.
I didn’t claim conspiracy, but the media doesn’t decide elections.

Trump is definitely an outsider.
From the article/blog post:

> The VC industry does not follow the American Rule. The unwritten rule is founders must pay for their own attorneys’ fees, plus their VC’s legal fees, up to a negotiated cap.

So, if you did just read the first few sentences, you would have known why the author claims this aspect to be un-American.
Pennsylvania was already segregating the ballots, the order just ensures it. They were NOT a part of the count yet.
Why would there need to be more than one post?
Whatever his style, Trump didn't start any wars during his term. Lets see if Biden will do as well.
Sure, if some engineers told you "we are putting this person on Mars with a 99.9 probability", and the rocket in fact reaches Venus, the engineers are incompetent.

Also, polling in most European countries doesn't go this far wrong, on almost all polls. So it's not like "accurate polling is impossible", it's just the polls in the US that seem to have some problem (though there have been some spectacular failures in other countries as well, which itself may lead to some thoughts on the value of polls in general).
Demanding a stop to vote counting mid-election.

I want to live in a country where we accept the results of a democratic process instead of spreading conspiracy theories, and yes, that goes for the Russia collusion conspiracy theories and the general "we're going to burn this mf-er to the ground if the election doesn't go our way" sentiments as well.
It was both the sample (read actual reports from pollsters on how hard it is to get a sample these days... people DO NOT want to participate in polls) and an underestimate of the number of voters the Republicans would get to the polls. If your LV model is wrong you are really flying blind and for various reasons both parties activated a ton of voters this cycle so we had an electorate that no one was able to model well. The last time this large of an electorate turned out (in terms of percentage of eligible voters) they were deciding between William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan.
Some drugs do cause problems like alcohol, but for other drugs issues come from legal status rather than drugs themselves. I know plenty of people who take cannabis multiple times a day and they have great lives.
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As a non american, the way people describe american judges by their partisan leanings seems really messsed up to me. I would describe that as not how a judicary should work.
make no mistake, trump did nothing intentionally for the nation's best interests, because he was unable to see beyond himself. he's the quintessential selfish actor, and that behavior has been repudiated by the electorate at large.
I felt that way about Jira while I was using it. The new job uses an in-house thing that they scraped together in the ‘90s.

It’s much worse than Jira.
What about all those people that claimed to have definitive proofs on twitter and on television and then it turned out that they had no knowledge of the facts?

The broad statements might have some supporting fact but along the way some (Brian Stelter I think) have theorized that Trump was a Russian agent since the soviet union.
Except he appointed a bunch of justices up and down the spectrum and will have influenced this for many years to come..
Why would we keep breeding the same number of horses after switching to cars?
True, it's important to remember that every president for the last couple decades except Trump has involved us in some new armed conflict, mostly with poor results for the country. I hope that Biden will continue on this front where Trump left off.
Jack didn’t decide what’s true, in fact lies are posted to Twitter by users everyday.

He just decided that these particular lies are too unreasonable for him to help spread them.
Trump has been blatantly slandered by the mainstream media as racist evil orange man, it was 4 years of '1984' style brainwashing by the left.

One of the big reasons for voting Trump was standing up against this propaganda machine.
I personally subscribe to the idea that week need to kill the self serving two party duopoly[0]

Part of the problem is the candidates the parties are fielding. I know lots of people who view trump, clinton and biden as corrupt. None of them are good candidates.

0. https://freakonomics.com/podcast/politics-industry/
I appreciate your centrist views!

I think the loss of nuance to our political discussions is a disaster ...and I only see it getting worse. I believe there are good ideas on both sides of the aisle, but often feel like the only one with that viewpoint.

How can we fix this?
Try react but nextjs. I find it conceptually easier
The US eleven aircraft carrier battle groups tend to disagree.
Trump running would be their worst nightmare and a boon for Democrats. Very old, super-unfiltered and record-breaking as the first national candidate to run from prison (not out of the question). He could easily be the Ross Perot version 2.0 that nobody wants.
High odds he will be the first holographic president ever. He's a uniter and not a divider. One day he will resurect from the crypt to whisper sweet affirmations on live TV about unity, sugar and spice and everything nice, and get claps from a parking lot of empty cars.
I've been told that every vote matters
In 2000 it was bad because the call was done for something too close (hundreds of votes) that hadn't finalized and the controversy that followed was around how close that state was not that states had been called.

The differences in the "close" states needed to push past 270 are nearly 100x that and multiple would need to flip to matter. The only remaining thing that's actually close to watch is how much over 270 Biden ends up with at this point.
US foreign policy was affected, though not by his tweets. Dipping out of the Paris Agreement, starting a trade war with China, cozying up with Russia which has a chilling effect with historical allies, almost starting a war with Iran right before the pandemic hit its stride
This is such a damning list.

At some point, reporting on polls when they have this bad of a track-record serves no journalistic purpose and just confuses the public. Like, the discussions people were having in the days before the election about Biden's strength barely resembles reality.

I respect FiveThirtyEight and their work, and I do think they're intellectually honest and generally speaking good at their jobs. But they can only be as good as their sources, and when the sources are this terrible, they shouldn't be reported on this, and not given the statistical and scientific sheen of authenticity 538 gives them. Like, that site is starting to have a net negative influence on the world, and when that is the case with a journalistic institution, what are you even doing?
This isn’t and end, it’s a new beginning. Talk is cheap, and if Biden wants to heal the nation he’s going to need to walk the line between disparate groups. Go back to first principles on what it means to be an American, adapt it for 2020, and make more room at the table for people who will debate and compromise instead of point and shame.
From what I see, the polarization is continuing to grow, and with Trump grabbing 70 million votes even when his gov failed majestically at beating the virus, the next few years is going to ne interesting.
He's not deciding. Just observing and reacting.
This same problem does not exist in many places where urbanization is much further along than it is here, which would lead me to question whether it was the primary factor at work.
It's probably worse: they want abortions illegal and gays back in the closet. Look at the packing of the SC.
Trump's most underrated feat during his presidency. We will see how Biden fare on that, starting the count on two (?).
I'm intrigued by what you wrote about CNAME records. Could you elaborate on that briefly?
I'm from NJ and most people Ive spoken to about it over the last 25 years have shared the general sentiment that weed should legal, and that drug addicts are ill and are already punishing themselves enough. Including people from different backgrounds that agreed nothing else. Though as someone else commented, it was very different in the 80s and early 90s, but that could also just be how i remember it because I was a child and noone had the internet.
It doesn't stop providers from hosting it unmodified, or with modifications that they don't care about releasing—that's why Mongo switched from it, because other providers just provided hosting for it unmodified.
Yes but we have to decide if they are the only ones that matter.

Is it right, or wise in the long term, to use our position of power to stop the growth of wealth in non-developed countries? On the other hand, do we have any sort of obligation to elevate the standards of living of people in non-developed countries, especially when it may impact the standards of people living in our borders?

There is a moral question to be answered, especially given our purported system of values and the way in which the wealthy and wealthy countries came to be as such.

I'm not staking out a position or trying to shame anyone. I'm just saying I think it is the underlying question we should be thinking about to decide how we judge globalization and its effects.
Can you describe a set of facts that are within the realm of reasonable possibility under the current set of circumstances that would substantially change the outcome?

> The quip about freedom of speech is really unnecessary. One can criticize the media while recognizing the importance of individual free speech

Live by the sword, die by the sword. How about Citizen's United, instead?
Nice to know, thank you!
Read up on Italian courts and prosecutors for some perspective.
I believe he was an active US senator at the time (2015-2016). I forget if he was majority leader or minority whip, it if that was during a different part of his tenure.

I do agree that it seemed somewhat isolated in official statements. I did hear quite a few individuals in my personal life believe/state that since the system was compromised that must mean the votes/count must have been changed.

I can see how the fraud claim is popular - if you're losing the popular vote consistently due to (simplistically) higher urban population, you might look for something to use as an excuse. This makes an easy excuse since in your constituent areas (rural) you would have the observation bias that almost everyone you know voted for your candidate and still lost. Sloppy voting system maintenance supplies plenty of anecdotal things to point to, like dead people kn the voting role.
Everyone would be surprised if Trump wins, because at this point it is so mathematically improbable that even gun-shy decision desks at major news networks are able to make the call without fearing they will look like idiots. Recounts have never moved a state election more than a thousand votes that I am aware of and Trump is behind by tens of thousands in the states that matter. Lawsuits won't do anything, because no on has standing to prevent someone else from legitimately voting according to the rules in place at the time of election, nor of preventing someone else from counting those votes as legally mandated.

Trump lost, get over it.
With the slow "CCP"-ifciation of US tech platforms… the distinction between entities that incorporate under the jurisdiction of a government and the government that outsources lots of work to said companies is kind of a philosophical one.

War has already started… and it's not as simple as pretty lines drawn on maps to demarcate sides… or ballots dropped off for whose favorite candidate.
Think about this: countries when during elections riot on the streets happen, the incumbing foment a civil war and refuse to admit he's lost the elections, are usually bombed by USA.