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If Trump goes through with his wide-sweeping tariffs, there will be trade wars. That goes for tech, too.

And keep in mind, if he installs nothing but loyalists and sycophants, who's to stop him from these half-baked ideas?
He wants to destroy democracy itself. It is literal explicit goal.
I was able to install a `caffeine` package with Apt on Linux. In that one the `caffeinate` command is supposed to be run with another command. While the `caffeine` command does what macOs `caffeinate` does.
People feeling disenfranchised and reaching for populists is a common issue throughout time.

I believe social media has widened the most extreme opinions and forced polarisation on most people, I can feel it with the UK too, where a very clearly corrupt government, with a revolving door of leadership: one losing the country enough money in 14 days to pay for the NHS for a decade… are being talked about favourably over a meek, awkward, slightly right of centre leader who happens to be wearing a red badge instead of a blue one.

Discourse is so swollen with bitter defence and snide attacks with soundbites of “sides”, I really do believe that its the fault of platforms showing the most divisive voices most often.

The thing that pushes me towards right for example, is seeing people dehumanising men for being men (not behaviours, just clear misandry against the gender) on social media so openly- and to much fanfare. I would otherwise be considered extremely left wing by UK standards.
Let's think it through.

If both are available to you, then no matter how crowded the roads will be, a car that drives you directly from A to B will be the better UX than a bus that drives you from somewhere near A to somewhere near B via C, D, E and F.

So the car could only be the worse experience if it is hard to get one (Because all the cars near you are occupied by other people) while a bus is easy to get into (Because there is one near you and you still fit in).

The vast majority of worldwide rides will continue to be done in individual cars. The extremely crowded situation that would make a bus the better experience is extremely rare. Most rides worldwide are definitely not done in that kind of environment. And the removal of parking spaces and the better routing self-driving cars allow will move even those environments more towards the individual car.
I have to give it to the CCP at least they're not Christians.
I think the lesson is you can't win an election with "Well they aren't like the other guy.."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trump_fake_electors_plot

It's a crazy read
I would respectfully suggest you check the results before commenting, but I know reading TFA isn’t all that popular anymore.

Trump is currently leading by over 5,000,000 votes and there does not appear to be momentum to change that lead in the remaining precincts.
> but really want to pay less in taxes and don't like transgender people.

I think that this election almost definitively demonstrates that trans issues are not important to the voters.

Or abortion, or misogyny, or social justice, etc.

There was a big turnout, after all.
Usually when I hear "they said it couldn't be done", it is used as triumphant downplay of legitimate critique. If you dig deeper that "couldn't be done" usually is in relation to some constraints or performance characteristics, which the "done" thing still does not meet, but the goalposts have already been moved.
It's a like a paradox of tolerance issue.

You have countries that are willing to turn a blind eye toward their tech companies when those companies ignore laws to grow.

In some ways it's "obvious" they'll outgrow companies from countries which have a culture of corporate adherence to laws.
You've missed the point, which is that painting one side as angelic and the other as evil is exactly what has led to this point.
Tariffs increase prices, for example.
Are you forgetting the whole removing classified documents and storing them in your club house thing?
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Reasons I think why Trump won:

- Biden's Inflation

- Fortunate timing

- Donald Trump is not too too old

- Israel/Gaza split Democratic Base

- Harris underestimated the podcasting world
I was just thinking the exact opposite, maybe the US needs to split into two nations. I was drawing border lines in my mind around central regions and wondering how things would pan out if they seceded. The lack of geographic continuity would be a problem for the coasts, but perhaps they could join Canada.
I think neural nets are just a subset of machine learning techniques.

I wonder what would have happened if we poured the same amount of money, talent and hardware into SVMs, random forests, KNN, etc.

I don't say that transformers, LLMs, deep learning and other great things that happened in the neural network space aren't very valuable, because they are.

But I think in the future we should also study other options which might be better suited than neural networks for some classes of problems.

Can a very large and expensive LLM do sentiment analysis or classification? Yes, it can. But so can simple SVMs and KNN and sometimes even better.

I saw some YouTube coders doing calls to OpenAI's o1 model for some very simple classification tasks. That isn't the best tool for the job.
I don't know how US elections work, for all I know all the Democrat states haven't finished being counted yet.
I don’t believe we can judge what happened just by looking at the majority opinion and give it merit, but I also can’t dismiss it as simply "stupidity."

Messages from certain leaders can resonate deeply with people. If a message is well-received by so many, it could mean the opposing side didn’t present a strong enough argument—basic politics.

In my persoanl view, the discourse needed to challenge figures like Trump is limited by U.S. politics, which is heavily influenced by corporate funding. This influence likely explains why the Democratic Party often seems unwilling to take bold stances.

Policies like stronger unions, better social protections, higher taxes for the wealthy, and a meaningful minimum wage increase are hard to promise if campaigns depend on corporate backing.
You mean the valid prosecution of crimes Trump committed, for which he was tried and convicted?
If he removed licenses from media companies that were critical of him, there would be approximately 0 media companies, and yet he's on track to win. One of the biggest takeaways from this election is that the populace largely doesn't trust the media.
The fonts are pixelated, but those pixels don't appear to align with the physical ones, so they're blurry in some places. Meanwhile, on a real 98 you either had crisp fonts, or neatly and consistently blurred by the CRT.
You would be a fool to think that an entire population is stupid. Perhaps a proportion sure but the deciding vote comes from a large proportion of the population that are by no means stupid. Democracy in theory is a form of distributed computation and just because you don't agree with the end result does not make every else stupid
Inflation. Record illegal immigration. Identity politics. Inflation. An anointed candidate. Perceived censorship. Inflation. Income inequality. Cover ups. Inflation.

I’m not saying Trump will fix any of this. I’m just saying people feel like PC culture has gone over the top while a 20oz Coke has tripled in price. Harris campaigned on “we’re not going back” but a lot of people would trade Trump’s insanity for housing prices of yore.
They should advocate for independence from Google and a good browser. These parasite efforts are just so disgusting.
Racism, and misogyny appear to be the deeper issues vs the more general and generous stupidity.
We’ve had four years of this man as President. This seems like FUD?
Structure:

We have a first pass the post voting system which only allows for two parties.

We have this thing called the electoral college that further obfuscates the popular will.

Both of these flawed systems disillusion millions of people every election cycle. People in non-swing states who have a minority opinion feel they have no voice, and often do not vote.

People who have serious issue with the two major parties have no viable method to express their political will.

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Media:

We have a highly polarized media environment where a large number of people only get their facts from highly biased sources. This can happen on "both sides" but it's particularly evident with conservative media such as Fox News. In this outlet, millions of people see an alternate reality to the one we live in. They don't see Trump's age-addled brain or his most offensive rhetoric.

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Policy:

Many people seem to think that the Democratic party is responsible for the inflation of the past 4 years. Many people seem to think that Trump stands for lower taxes for the working class, in ways that won't hurt them.

If we take Trump literally, he wants to deport many millions of people who live and work in this country peacefully, but do not have proper documentation. He wants to give Ukraine to Russia. I believe he is at best ambivalent to a national abortion ban. He doesn't show any support for combating climate change.

I'm probably leaving some points out, it's late.
I agree that tariffs aren't good econ policy. What are your views on grocery "price gouging"? Rent controls?
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True, "stupid" is a very imprecise term. But my main point was merely that epistemically, there is no validity to something just because a majority is behind it.
I don’t know, I guess? If you want to, you can hold just about any president under some criminal wrong doing. For whatever reason (certainly not political) we really needed to go after his overvaluing of real estate, and asking of recounts in a close election (why would he ever think a recount is worth it, it’s not like he could win the popular vote and all swing states). In retrospect, one could actually now make the argument that his hunch was right in questioning such a narrow election with an unprecedented voting pattern (Covid era mail in, it was quite new). I do sit here in awe and find myself saying “hmm, maybe he did have 25,000 votes somewhere this whole time, sure as hell found them tonight”. Makes you wonder.

He’s gonna do his tit for tat because he’s a simple man, not a great one, and certainly not an epic dictator.

I’m not defending him, I just think the grand dictator spin has always been nutty.
And: we don't care about ethics or looks as long as it serves us.
I agree that it's a clear message. The messaging the last time Trump won the election was that the electoral college was broken, Trump lost the popular vote, Americans deserve better.

8 years later, after all of this political baggage, prosecution, and media repudiation the Democrats managed to lose in resounding manner – not just the electoral college, but the senate, house, and popular vote.

This is after what is arguably a great Biden presidency, economy-wise. The Democrats have centered their entire identity for the last 8 years about being anti-Trump. There are no bright spots in the results for them, no messaging that they can hang their hat on, and build on going forward. From a base building perspective, this is brutal. The next election is square one for them.
I understand you sentiment. I was trying to offer an outsider's perspective.
It's like talking a Swede about what happens when you don't have health insurance. They will look at you confused. "What do you mean 'don't have health insurance'? That is impossible in Sweden."

Also, according to Wiki, IG Metall is <<the dominant metalworkers' union in Germany, making it the country's largest union as well as Europe's largest industrial union.>> I did some Google searches to find last few negotiations. It normally takes a couple of months. 2.5 years (NYT) is just... well... insane.
Trump is older than 2020 Biden.
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"I'm 50 shades of fucked up" if I recall correctly, which was as much forced as it was cringe. I never watched the film or read the books thankfully.
Grover Cleveland would like a word (also I think that Biden will be harder on Putin than Trump but idk)
well thats terrifying.

It would be a good horror story for halloween, but that was last week…
What? I would love to hear how that's true (although voting is over), but I suspect it's not.
Perhaps you could use the word "idiot" and refer to them as "idiots". The term has been used in a medico-legal context in the past to define a person's mental age.

That there is a divide between the two parties and the average intellectual ability of their supporters is a well-known fact. I'd contest that this is less of an issue than their racism.
Is there some statistical analysis on the reason people vote trump ? I refuse to believe the narrative that Americans are just a bunch of redneck retarded bigots.

Tried to Google it but all I find is a bunch of American news website like CNN and website like https://www.voterstudygroup.org/publication/the-five-types-t...

I'm trying to look beyond the propaganda, any idea if there has been scientific studies or anything remotely credible ?
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Ah, so Twitter had the more quality real-world signal; who would have thought? It seems "hate and disinformation" are just what people were feeling, and what they were thinking.
Those are only the crimes that have been committed and charged so far. Asking for and being granted immunity, retroactively, is pretty undemocratic. There are more crimes on their way.
Parallelism != speed.

If you have 128 cores you can compromise on being a bit slow. You can't compromise on being single-threaded though.
Literally, what are these people on about? He'll be out in 4 years chill
The people in cities vote blue, and people in rural areas vote red. I doubt you’re meeting the latter on trips
Openstack on k8s is basically giving up on openstack on openstack. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TripleO You need some kind of orchestration for the control plane. Either you create it from scratch or use something existing.
I think people underestimate the impact of misinformation platforms like Twitter and TikTok.
The prediction markets pretty closely tracked NYT's probability estimate, which seems like the best possible analysis of the available data (partial current results, complete past results, at the precinct level).

Anything else would have been surprising.
Can confirm. I was playing Unreal on my dual Voodoo2 SLI rig back in 1998.
What would you say if most of a population think that most of the population is stupid, themselves excluded?

Which seems to actually be the case quite often.
JunoCam[1] is not a scientific instrument on Juno. It was added just to make cool images like this for us to enjoy. I for one is happy for that.

Of course, data is data so there is some science planned using it.

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There's been times I've seen the HDD light blinking and I've thought to myself "You're running remote-desktop right now. Why do you need the hard disk so much?"
I think the ultimate answer as an American is that policy simply does not matter. For reference, here's a couple conflicting data points:

* Voters approved measures that would protect abortion in their state (with the exception of Florida, which only got 58% out of the 60%) needed. Said voters did not consistently vote for Kamala Harris.

* Another set of voters thought Kamala Harris was too progressive, and had no opinion on Donald Trump

* But at the same time, in local elections democratic candidates generally sweeped the ballots

I think ultimately the presidency is just an election purely on the basis of 'vibes' and whatever is directly in front of you. It doesn't matter if you can achieve your promises nor do said promises even really matter. And people vibe more with the reality TV president because they've already forgotten 2016-2020. Maybe Trump directly crashing the economy will be the thing to snap people out of it, maybe not.
Like that pandemic responce unit dismantled in 2018?
the message is America completely rejected the "establishment"
The EU beaurocracy is into self sabotage.

They don't promote a climate where European tech companies can grow and they hamper the usage of US tech companies products.
Let's see how the trade war of all trade wars will play out for average Joe down in Mississippi. All while social safety nets are disintegrating underneath his feet.

What's dangerous about this is not the plan itself, but that there won't be anyone to confront Trump about his half-baked, or downright disastrous plans.
Grover Cleveland would like a word. He won the popular vote 3 times in a row, but lost the EC vote in 1888.

Edit: I’m amazed all 3 replies to the parent comment used the phrasing “would like a word”.
I think we can all see that correcting to oligarchy/authoritarianism/fascism never works out well for any nation. I don't see your suggestion of a correction working out here either.
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I like this analysis because it highlights that airliners and their working cultures are the primary cause of these crashes. Quite often, unfortunately, the presenters only point at violations and waive their hands: "why on Earth?" But in reality, personell often skips procedures under the pressure of the management, and this works without consequences. In this Armavia case, the crew had an option to not fly at all, but I suspect, hesitated to delay, expecting being reprimanded (even if unjustly).
It's so scary! All those swirls are like planet size hurricanes. Had Jupiter been bigger, it would have been a star, and life on earth would not have existed. Gives me chills.
If you have access to the Economist this selection of reader's letters in response to their endorsement of Harris is quite enlightening.

https://www.economist.com/letters/2024/11/04/letters-to-the-...
These are beautiful! I wonder why they host the full resolution pictures on Flickr and not on their own servers though.
There was an Instagram account or YouTube channel that used to make funny videos of the films ending with the credits rolling at the exact point the title of the film was said—anyone have any recollection of that?
What is it a result of? I'm guessing: voters blamed post-covid global economic downturn on Biden because he was around at the time.

Erosion of democracy didn't seem to trouble the minds of the land of the free very much. I'm not too worried by Trump's second term, but I'm anxious about his third and fourth. One other issue is a fear of turning into Mexico, which people seem to think might happen by letting Mexicans in, but may yet be accomplished in a home-grown manner through insurrections and dismantling institutions.
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He literally said that. He said that if he wins, these are the last elections. He said that he wants to remove license to media that are critical of him. Trump said quite a lot. All it takes is to listen to what he is saying.

And the other thing to listen to what his primary voters - conservative evangelical Christians were saying they want for years. It is literally ridiculous how these people are saying exactly what they want, then they literally do what they said they will do, again and again. But somehow, I am supposed to assume they don't mean it, this time for a change.
The Elephant (2003) has my favorite Title drop, and of course, is not marked in this database. As I remember it, at some point in the movie we are shown a drawing of an elephant randomly hanging in the room of one of the protagonists. Both the drawing, and the main protagonists are easy to ignore, yet are the main subjects of the movie.
>I'm not sure of the exact reason

Left wing politics doesn't promote economic growth.
Wasn't the inflation done by Trump though? Not allowing Powell to raise rates and threatening to remove him?
I really wish your comment to be relevant.

There is probably no single thing that you could ascribe to 70M voters except that they vote. However, there are plenty of themes that are touted amongst supporters, many (all?) of which are easily shown to be false. Also, his biggest benefactors are people with a lot of money or influence... which are definitely not most of those 70M voters.

The man was convicted by a jury, impeached, and is known to have raped people. He is a known national security risk. ... the "critiques" are endless.

IMHO, to say that there is a useful message to be sent by electing him is naive at best. The fact that nobody can seem to discern that message despite truly trying is also telling.

Is the message, "people just want to watch the world burn?" Is it something else? As far as I can tell, nobody actually knows.

Meanwhile, he has declared victory before the votes are actually finalized. Is the probability high? Yes. Does it undermine the process? Also, yes.

Are there factors such as, "Kamala is a black female" at play? Almost definitely. Does Trump pander to groups that are covertly/overtly racist? Yes. Do all of his supporters understand/admit that? No.
My experience is that it's much simpler than that - all the money is in the Bay Area. Follow the money.
Oligarchs owning most of the media has to be a factor in voting in all this.

(Why else would they own such "lossmaking" businesses).
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> 50% of the population is stupid

That would be the charitable interpretation, the alternate is that they are knowingly misogynistic, deeply racist and have strong fascist leanings to follow a flawed corrupt politician with cult-like devotion.
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Housing prices and rent.
It's well documented that Americans are, on average, quite undereducated. And it's also quite well documented that most of the people that vote for Trump are poorly educated.

So, not stupidity, no. But a lack of education can look similar.

https://www.uneducatedamerica.com/useful-links
Do you support the dismantling of a free press?
How so ?
This is Brexit all over again.
You mean his sports car?
Very happy I visited Ukraine earlier this year. Won't be much left soon, unfortunately.
Arguably the next world war. The vibes are very 1913.
It's sad if that's tough.
Diversity of regulation and different languages/cultures. The US is a single, huge market with a largely shared culture and the same language. By contrast, an app that takes off in Germany has no guarantee of doing so in Italy or Slovakia.
What European country would you describe as having a left wing party in power over the last decade?
With these new additions it might make sense to have a synchronized block as in Java?
Dictator on day one in the land of the free with the biggest military of the world — but on the other hand the libs were really mad, so that was worth it, right?
Yes. Trump was too old in 2016 too.
Revisionist marketing should not be given a free pass.
Sure, you can manually do that. But my point is that pip doesn't do this automatically, and that is what makes so many Python projects essentially unusable without investing massive amounts of time into debugging. Good defaults and good standards matter a lot.
It's anecdotal, but the easiest way to understand them is to just travel to a conservative state and talk to them. Even if you won't agree, you'll see that they exist
The "no war" candidate is/was Trump.
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