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I would rather every American vote and Trump receive 99% of that vote, than what we have now.

I'm more committed to democracy than politics.
Can you give some examples of this “leave me alone” that they want to see enacted?
Of course he is. He and his companies are well loved by the American populace writ large.
I agree but in this case he won the popular vote and took the senate and house taboot.
Yea, works. The intent wasn't to cause panic or concern of that I am sure.
Yes clearly ISPs, OSs, and everyone involved who is making money should provide easier and better tools for protecting kids from adult content.

But a state mandated thing associated with my ID is... iffy.

People have perfectly good reasons for wanting to protect their privacy.
If you're making $8 and hour and get bumped up to $12, that's a 50% bump but you still can't afford to live and need a second job. Based on the job postings in my part of the US, that's pretty much standard.
Only one side is making positive claims in this thread.

I never made a claim that "all men do X" or that "shop talk and banter are fairly universal". I did point out that I and my friends do not mock our friends and colleagues.

Still avoiding positive claims, but here are some normative claims:

- I object to claiming that mocking is normal and acceptable in all groups of men
- some, not all, working class subcultures use mocking as a shibboleth
- this aspect of those subcultures is not a thing I think "we" should valorize
You did. His name is RFK Jr.
This is, largely, because a lot of republicans have a difficult time expressing their views without using tools like racism and misogyny.

Just take a look at the Trump rallies. Even if you agree with 100% of Trump's policies, look at how he talks about women. Could you repeat what he says in the workplace? No, you'd get fired. Not for being republican, but for sexual harassment.

If you were able to support anti-immigration policies without calling entire classes of people "garbage", then maybe people wouldn't get mad at you. But for a lot of republicans, they just can't do that. They don't know how to word their policy support without saying something incredibly offensive.

Or, for example, it's one thing if you're pro-life. But a lot of republicans will use words like "slut" and "whore", and even President Trump wants to "punish women". Again, this just isn't acceptable speech in most social situations.

Until your average republican and, hell, our president, figure out how to address these topics without being offensive, people will get offended.
The main factor driving safety is experience. I suspect shop talk does indeed correlate, but I think it's a mistake to assume causation. Put differently, the number of angry words thrown around being a major contributing factor to an accident response strains belief. It's experience.
It's a shame the standard texts are all 20 years old or more than way too heavy mathematically.

A little book for term rewriting would be a great new addition.
Yes, here is a very good breakdown of how polls were systematically wrong by the French guy who just made over $40mm of profit betting on Trump in the prediction markets:

https://x.com/visegrad24/status/1853818243003125934

He put Trump's true probability of winning at 90% and a win of the popular vote at 75%.
No, nothing would have changed if that happened. Republicans have no qualms about overtly breaking the law and abandoning their duty and decorum. If they did then Garland would be a sitting SCJ and Gorsuch wouldn't.
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I would think that the social policies of the federal Conservative Party place it in Centre-Right to Right. It’d be closer to what you mention if Peter MacKay or Erin O’Toole had no opposition in 2020.

I understand that your political views might see the Tories as Centre-Left, but your pegging of the PPC as centrist strikes me as mischaracterizing the present federal landscape.
This is already the case. American states have a lot of latitude in setting policy and governing themselves.
I believe what they mean is that using C safely requires skill and attention.
Ahhh yes, a calming old white man would've solved everything.

I guess we'll see in the next 4 years.
You mean the world does not deserve 4 years of no wars? Or you mean the world does not deserve free press to the point that the president didn't do anything other calling the news organization "fake news" for their non-stop hoaxes? BTW, is it even normal that dozens of organizations used exactly the same peculiar language like "sharp as a tack"?

On the other hand, do you think the world deserves that doctors like Jay Bhattacharya was blacklisted for simply raising questions about how school lockdowns might affect the nation's children.

I'm not so sure.
I don’t have an opinion on your first sentence but happy to try and engage in the second one…

As a Brit looking in from the outside, it’s hard for me to understand how choices have been made in this election, but if I were to attempt a charitable take, did Trump win because he tunes in to some sort of low level anger/resentment/frustration felt by a chunk of the population?

Whereas the Democrats, more polished perhaps as they are, have failed to make that connection sufficiently?

And that connection - or whatever it is that the population picks up on from Trump, outweighs the “obvious flaws” that his detractors may point towards?

Ie they don’t vote for him because of his hyperbole and “questionable” behaviour, they vote for him in spite of that - for other reasons.

I can see the Democrats didn’t help matters by pushing Biden to run when he clearly shouldn’t have, though perhaps it was the lesser of two evils at the time (from their point of view) given his proven record of being able to actually beat Trump.

Happy to be corrected if this is a bad or naive analysis!!
The actual lib-left side of tech evaporated. ACLU, EFF, even fedora-core atheists etc are a shell/joke of their former selves. The remaining ones (i.e. Stallman) back Bernie, Yang, or still buy into the green party.

I got mass downvoted earlier and a "talking to" from Dang in regards to me pointing out that a certain Ron Wyden having one bad vote about BDS/isreal isn't a good enough reason to throw the baby out with the bath water and turn against one of the only reliable techno-libertarians. This site is done with its purported liberalism.
I'm thinking like 100gal for 4 people. Not looking for an extended outage, but enough to ride out a natural disaster.
And in fact bug for bug compatible.
Not sure why you're being downvoted, as this is spot on.

The Democratic part has completely lost touch with the working class. Harris struggled to articulate any sort of economic policy other than "we're going to ban price gouging, give money to people to start businesses, and help people make down payments on houses" with no details. Meanwhile, they latched onto some of the most fringe culture war issues like making sure that trans men can compete in women's sports.

I voted for her because another Trump presidency is literally an existential threat to the country, but I saw this coming from a mile away.
Right. This is the biggest damage Trump can do because it lasts so long after his presidency.
I thought my point flowed nicely from yours, sorry you didn't like it. For me it's about not having these visions of grandure about us as some protectors of the universe and instead accept our tiny place in all this. For example even your concept that our consciousness is more important than slugs or rocks, is all rationalization on your part to make your place in the universe have some meaning. Anyway, I don't then use this fun thought experiments to justify not recycling or denying human impacting climate change if that was what put you off.
So even when the Christians don't vote in 4 years, they still get the things they want?

What do the people who are voting get?

I'd guess they get a government that via the Supreme court, gerrymandering, voter suppression, cowed media, doesn't represent their democratic interests.

Which is a bad thing.

There's abortion votes that passed the other day at state levels that will not be put into practice because Republicans don't want to.
Amy Klobuchar is probably the Democrats best example—she just once again significantly outperformed the other national Democratic candidate (Harris) in Minnesota. Personally I wouldn't trust Tulsi Gabbard to win anything. what the Dems need is someone who is a strong political force that has a track record of winning elections and winning over people who voted for Trump. I don't think gender is necessarily important but I do think that the results of Clinton and Harris against Trump should rightfully scare Dems away from that idea going forward.
Yeah, I'm aware. I don't need my own demotivating sentiment reflected back to me, thanks.
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Good points. I’ve always had negative preconceptions around secession, but I suppose that if the government fails to be productive in adding value to its people and the world, I can see the benefit in being broken up into smaller, more independent or interdependent components.

Appreciate your thoughts.
Agreed on Biden's ego being a problem, but when did he ever promise to be a one term president?
After Trump was shitting on the act, Mike Johnson said he plans to repeal the CHIPS act, but has since backpedalled.

I agree American manufacturing is important. I don't see how the Republicans voting records align with it.
> The best explanation I heard for the appeal of fascism was from someone on the far-right – that fascism is basically an immune response of a nation.

This is some really low-tier fascist apologia, in my opinion. Fascism isn't an immune response, it's a cancer. Once active in the host, it tries to sap it of whatever resources it can to enrich itself. Rooting out fascism has, historically, come at great personal and political cost to the countries that manage it.
nafta is effectively dead
So can "corporate talk" at a white collar job. There are days where I want to vomit after hearing about "stakeholders", "action items", and "alignment". I'd prefer crude jokes to that, even if they were directed at me.
> For prosecution, extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

I was thinking more along the lines of, for me to believe the claims.

No prosecution would have been necessary outside the court of public opinion. I mean if there is fraud, prosecute it no matter who did it. But Trump hired an investigator for the news cycle, and the guy found nothing.
> are really needed by the majority of customers?

Some companies want the space to grow into it. At my job, we just started getting into video decoding. AWS has elastic video processing services. Where as DO would cost way more to setup those services on our own.
> Ironically, the Democrats had a much more comprehensive policy position of course.

Given all the buzz around Project 2025, thats certainly not perceptually true _even to democrats_.

If Trump really had less comprehensive policy positions, then why did the media go on for months about this 1000-page policy document?

You cant have your cake and eat it too.
It's a good question (I don't like that you were downvoted). I've heard repeatedly that young men feel they cannot take care of their family. They can't afford a house, primarily. But there are other things. Men go to college at a much lower rate than women. Because of that, those men make less than their female counterparts (who went to college). This "the man makes less" is another part of the emasculation, when you add it to all the other things. And one of those things is the dating apps, which for many men is a terrible experience.
The Republican party is also flipping seats in the Senate and the House, yet you seem focused on Harris. It's not that people are voting for other Democratic candidates, the country is simply becoming more conservative as people leaning on left are simply not voting.
You can look through my recent post if you want, but I can contribute if given then chance. It's just hard to prove to people that I'm worth taking that chance on.
Well, that'll help with a lot :) But dealing with wave quantization requires dimensions that aren't neceessarily a multiple of 2, and often are a multiple of the number of SMs on a GPU (i.e. 132 on an H100)
Trumpism has proven that most American conservatives don't want that.

Republicans used to have a strong faction of fiscal hawks who advocated eliminating all the expensive non-military government spending: privatizing Medicare, cutting Social Security, etc. But Trump discovered that you can simply promise to eliminate the deficit while also promising to leave all those programs in place exactly as they are, and people will eat it up.

That left politicians like Paul Ryan in a weird place because they were pushing for a limited government that their constituents didn't want anymore.
> 2 - Illegal immigrants have changed the country for the worse and are taking jobs

> #2 in particular has been framed as being racist. There IS a good deal of racism mixed in there, but the truth is that low skilled illegal immigrants DO compete for many of the same jobs as lower-skilled Americans.

There is only one group for which that is true -- men without a high school diploma. Otherwise, immigrants are generally taking jobs that Americans won't do.

Case in point, picking produce at farms. The last time they cracked down on immigration, a lot of those farms had to spoil a lot of crops because no one would pick them.
One of the effects of a successful grift is that contrary facts don’t matter — in fact contrary facts just reinforce the grift by strengthening the us against them dynamic.
No nationalistic flamewar on HN, please, regardless of nation.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Amazing victory.

I am waiting for the final tally to understand how the Dems lost 15M votes from one election to the other.
> I sincerely doubt we are going to see Trump literally cancel elections

The logical path here is for red states to cancel elections and appoint electors to send in January 2029. The feds cannot do it themselves, but they do not need to.

The elections clause of the constitution does not apply to presidential elections, and all the constitution says about that is that the states may choose how to appoint electors, as long as it all happens on the same day.
Being from the USA, you cannot get asylum in the EU, no one is in danger there. Try Russia.
Yeah, OK, he was a center-left guy once, who embraced the grift like so many other did.
But they have done that and so a government mandated solution is warranted.
Biden is sunsetting a bit, but is he "put on a MAGA hat, bust out a big smile, and give a thumbs up for the camera" sunsetting?

Did Jill Biden wear a red dress to the polls on accident? Do we credit the idea that she, the First Lady, didn't look in the mirror and think about the political implications of primary colors in the USA?
> America is about to experience it's absolute Golden Age.

> 2026 will be the USA's 250th anniversary, we'll put men on the moon for the first time in 50+ years

lmao this is exactly everything that's wrong, we keep looking back at the real golden age and want to do things that are now meaningless to celebrate random anniversary numbers, just "because". Putting a man on the moon today won't have a fraction of the glitter it had back then, not even 1%

Look at the future, not the past
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> Why would the abortion message resonate with her when what's bothering her most is that she wants kids?

Anyone thinking about possibly becoming pregnant should absolutely be worried about whether their doctors will be able to save their lives when something goes wrong, which is very often. If you think "abortion" rights are only about unwanted pregnancies you've got far too narrow of an understanding of the reproductive process and what can go wrong. You think Nevaeh Crain's child was unwanted, or the many other women whose deaths were just like hers?

> they have abandoned any hopes of ever being able to own a home of their own

Project 2025 pretty much ensure affordable housing pretty much won't get built anywhere near jobs are. It doubles down on NIBY housing policies and prevents densification of areas. It doubles down on requiring a car to drive to work on a long commute. Maybe they'll be able to afford a new build in a suburb 70 miles from their jobs eventually.

> Issues like the economy

Looking forward to that new 20%+ sales tax on imported (read: most things) you buy. That'll really do a lot for the economy. Good choice.
Well you must not have been paying much attention then. It's straight from Kamala's ad:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaCPck2qDhk
Oddly enough, the copy I read as a child was a pre-press unbound proof, my dad had received for review purposes (he was a professor of computer science and a mathematician) he, my elder brothers and sisters my mother and I were all blown away by it. An amazing tour de force. Possibly the best pop Sci book of it's time. (4 of the six of us were in compsci and the other two in visual arts and music so almost any of it worked somewhere, somehow for us. All three fields right there in the title)
Not only is that the most reasonable interpretation of the words, it's the one he explicitly gave when asked [0]. The only way to arrive at the alternate interpretation is to be coming from a place where you already assume Trump is a threat to democracy.

I think there are reasons to have arrived at that place (Jan 6th), but this quote is not evidence for it unless wildly misinterpreted.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/jul/30/dona...
This is my take as well.

I was opposed to Biden dropping out because skipping the primary means you go into the general election without the real pulse of the voters in your party.

I think Democrats in general are putting far too much weight on survey based polls, and not enough on ballet box polls.

I wouldn't even rule out 2020 like you're doing - I think Biden is actually a very compelling candidate for a lot of folks that don't get much mention in typical democratic discussion circles. Religious, relatively socially conservative but economically left (traditional union left, not neo-liberal), white, male.

While people complained about it not being Sanders online - Sanders and Biden were fairly similar platforms in a lot of respects, with the difference being that corporate money was less hostile to Biden - and it's telling that they were the only two to take any significant percentage of the primary vote (no other candidate broke 3mm votes)

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Basically - I think there's a solid chance that despite the polling news around the first debate, Biden might have actually performed more strongly on election night.

As an extra note - As someone who was initially very critical of Biden... I have a lurking suspicion that he's going to be considered an excellent president in a historical context because he managed to invest heavily in infrastructure.
> Abortion is not a religious issue, it is an ethical issue.

Every person I have interacted with in nearly half a century who has expressed support for the criminalization of all or most abortions believes in the existence of souls and believes that human fetuses have souls and that it's the presence of a soul that is the basis for personhood and a right to life. Please direct me to a real person who supports the criminalization of all or most abortions and who does not believe in souls because I want them to explain to me why an unintelligent human fetus that lacks a fully formed central nervous system and any activity in its cerebral cortex has personhood and a right to life while a pig does not.

By the way, it's funny how people who say that opposition to abortion has nothing to do with religion are always religious:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38091407
Per the article:

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Why do you think you don't. It could be you who is deceived. Everyone thinks they are the person that sees things for what they are but it can't be true for all of us.
> I can see your point in the presidential race. For down ballot candidates though, I'd say exactly the opposite.

I agree, however, most people separate one from the other sparingly.
> To cut Intel some slack, this latest version overhauls their old architecture...

... and their 13th/14th generation processors had serious problems with overvoltage-induced failures - they clearly needed to step back and focus on reliability over performance.
My home country has 3 major parties each at about a quarter of the seats, the rest split between about half a dozen others. The various parties have very different views, only one of them I'd argue is "right wing" in the US sense, and they've all mostly learned to make compromises and not be too divisive, or they face a more moderate party taking their seats.

US two-party system really is the weird one.
If you are getting 125W at the wall on a PC at idle, your machine or operating system is extremely broken, or you are running atmosphere physics simulations all the time. The SoC on my Intel box typically drew < 1W as measured by RAPL. The 9950X draws about 18W measured the same way. Because of platform overhead the difference in terms of ratio is not that large but the Ryzen system is drawing about 40W at the wall when it's just sitting there.
This is a case of a home raid and tossing the house that resulted in the killing of a pet. If you don't think that is too much government power and abuse, I don't understand your world view.

In my ideal world, a govt. rep would reach out or knock, even with a warrant, to do an animal wellness check and remove the animal in case of abuse and to cite the owner and specify the correct forms needed to keep the squirrel.
> What has any Democrat done fro me, the poor and suffering?

That is a very good point

Is it conceivable that Republicans will be any better?

The hold big business has on the mechanisms of state in your country, that is the problem IMO
A viral rumor about FEMA ended in real threats of violence
This is vastly more pattern matching than term rewriting. In a term rewriting system you have no types for a start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rewriting
I disagree. Pointing to some of the more extreme beliefs held by the left on those topics has been very effective in pushing people away. My wife, active on Chinese social media, forwards me a lot of indignant videos about some of the things the left does. Ignoring the fact that many otherwise moderate people really dislike {IdPol or “wokeness” or DEI/CRT} is a huge factor in the election results.
Because when you show ID to buy age-restricted things in person, nobody is keeping a record of anything. A clerk looks at your ID and that's the end of it.

Online is a completely different beast on that count.
Jensen embraced AI way before that. CuDNN was released back in 2014. I remember being at ICLR in 2015, and there were three companies with booths: Google and Facebook who were recruiting, and NVIDIA was selling a 4 GPU desktop computer.
Sure, feel free to email me anytime :)

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Unison seems cool! I met some Unison folks a few years back and our visions didn't have much overlap. Nice people, but their fundamental design decisions with hashes/effects/etc are incompatible with the web I'm trying to build.