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There was a lot of rallying on the republican side to go vote online. I didn't see a lot of that on the democrat side. Pundits mentioned a lack of Trump's ground game, but I think online networking effects of republicans urging others to vote helped him whereas the ground game helped Harris.

It was a close election. Possibly driven by the echo chambers people are in -- like seeing "I voted for Hilary" in left leaning sources and "I voted for Trump" in right leaning sources. Like when Anna Seltzer's poll came out the left ran with that but largely ignored the +10 poll for Trump that came out shortly after.

I personally try to vary my sources to counter the echo chamber effects. I don't always agree with everything that is said, I just want to try and understand what is going on.

I was seeing commentators on the left decrying the Puerto Recan joke, saying that it would hurt the Trump campaign. Then Biden made his comment about Trump supporters being garbage which the left dismissed. After that the right took it as a symbol, making memes about bins going to vote, Trump arriving to rallies in a garbage truck, people wearing bin bags to vote, etc. The left didn't see that going on, or dismissed things like the garbage truck as a stunt.

A similar thing with Trump's McDonald's stint. Both of these helped connect with regular workers, something that Harris didn't have. Something that the commentators on the left failed to see or understand.

I don't follow things like TikTok, but I heard a commentator mention how that helped women turn against Trump, especially amongst new voters. I suspect that due to the ranking algorithm and bubbles that this predominantly targetted democratic or left leaning voters as there were many women that voted for Trump.
Absolutely.

That being said I don't see EU being able to develop a consensus on this - even if just because of Orban and Fico being Trump allies.

Can't mess with them or Trump will raise hell.
I sent you a link for your review and reference, not because I couldn't name accomplishments. I prefer to respect the intellectual honesty of the person I speak with by providing citations for information they are unaware of.
No, it isn't. It emphasizes importance of Glorot initialization and ReLU.
What is this drivel?
A good dive into the history of the electoral college can be found at https://www.hks.harvard.edu/more/policycast/if-electoral-col...
> they were just pushing "get out the vote" but no substantial reasons as to why

Perhaps. But that's not their fault. Anecdotally, 100% of my left leaning friends and colleagues were pro-Harris but with no reason other than "not Trump." That's not a "message" the undecided independents can believe in. Imagine Pepsi's key msg to be "not Coke".

Frank Luntz just said on ABC News that Harris began to lose ground ~6 wks ago when she resorted to name calling. Didn't HRC make the same mistake? How do undecided independents build trust in someone who was so guarded (e.g., zero press conferences)? And wastes time with name calling instead of hammering home her vision?

It's gonna be another four yrs of left-hate for Trump. The DNC leadership won't own their failure (again). The Harris campaign won't own their bad decisions. It'll all be Trump's fault.

Their incompetence is Trump's fault? That's lack of accountability isn't working. Again.
Roughly half of Gen Z men believe men face anti-male discrimination at the hands of feminists, and a quarter say they experienced it directly themselves. That's a huge number and the latter number can only go upwards by the nature of the question. The numbers are also rising very fast. The primary place they experience that discrimination is their workplace or university, i.e. places that affect their economic wellbeing.

https://www.americansurveycenter.org/newsletter/why-young-me...

Nearly one in four Gen Z men say they have experienced discrimination or were subject to mistreatment simply because they were men, a rate far greater than older men.

In 2019, less than one-third of young men reported that men experienced some or a lot of discrimination in American society. Only four years later, close to half (45 percent) of young men now believe men are facing gender-based discrimination. For some young men, feminism has morphed from a commitment to gender equality to an ideology aimed at punishing men. That leads to predictable results, like half of men agreeing with the statement, “These days society seems to punish men just for acting like men.”
How the hell did Jane Street alumni end up creating FTX? (2022)
Yeah, I think that's it, or at least a large part of it. People were unhappy and when you're unhappy you vote out the incumbent (and in a two-party system there's only one other choice).

I also think that's the same reason the exact same guy was voted out four years ago. Pretty bizarre if true, so it's probably not the whole story.
This is what the election is teaching me: people don't care a lot about what you do, they care much more about what you say. You just have to make people feel good.
The price of eggs has gone up primarily due to bird flu, which doesn't care who you voted for.
what is title drops ? what doest it mean ?
You simply cannot trust that non-watermarked text was human generated. Laws can be broken. Companies are constantly being found in violation of the law.

You're trading the warm feeling of an illusion of trust for a total lack of awareness and protection against even the most mild attempt at obfuscation. This means that people who want to hurt or trick you, will have free reign to do it, even if it means your 90-year-old grandmother lacks the skill.
Okay. Sure. Mexico only has 120m people. You think that a third of their population walked into Texas and bought a house in Dallas? A quarter? Hell, ten percent?

Fine. I'll bring some of my own statistics. There might be ten million undocumented immigrants living in the United States total. There are fewer than half a million illegal border crossings a year; if the expected lifespan following an illegal border crossing is, I don't know, forty years, then it's obvious that the overwhelming majority of illegal border crossings don't convert to undocumented immigrants. These numbers are easily available on the relevant Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegal_immigration_to_the_Uni..., which itself has extensive citations from a wide variety of sources. Saying that there are "tens of millions crossing the border" is clearly and blatantly incorrect.

And, of course, that's not even getting into the real meat of the issue, that's just sarcastically calling out the surface-level lies. No, what I really want to say about illegal immigration is that undocumented immigrants commit fewer crimes than either documented immigrants or outright citizens, that they pay more taxes than they cost in government spending, that they do not affect job access or pay of legal residents, that they prevent offshoring, and that they contribute to GDP via spending and labor. Undocumented immigrants are, as far as I can tell, purely positive contributors to America at every level I look at, for the people working alongside them and going to school with them all the way up to the grandest statistics. If we truly wanted a healthy economy - if we wanted more citizens to have better jobs, if we wanted more money for education and healthcare, if we wanted less crime and less exploitation of labor - we would legalize all of them and invite more in after them.
AFAIK the initial prototype called nogil was developed by a person named Sam Gross who also wrote a detailed article [0] about it.

He also had a meeting with Python core. Notes from this meeting [1] by Łukasz Langa provide more high-level overview, so I think that they are a good starting point.

[0] https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/18CXhDb1ygxg-YXNBJNzf...

[1] https://lukasz.langa.pl/5d044f91-49c1-4170-aed1-62b6763e6ad0...
The comment I responded to could be interpreted as "America, I don't understand what you're doing" or "America, I disagree strongly with what you're doing". I was responding to the former.

I am simply unsurprised by the result. It was obvious for a long time that he had a good chance of winning and appealed to a lot of people. The result is likely going to show him winning the electoral college and the popular vote. Sounds like democracy doing its thing.
This comment is disgusting. Voting is what they did about it, and they still have their rights at risk.
Because any choice in a two party system is stupid to some degree, for most people. Most people’s beliefs don’t all line up exactly with one political party or the other. So every election is a compromise: which of your values must you prioritize? A whole lot of Americans aren’t doing well economically, they haven’t been doing well for decades, and under Biden they saw everything get more expensive. So they don’t like either side, and if you can convince them to vote, it’s only going to be for change. Kamala didn’t portray any change from Biden, so she lost.
Can you clarify what rights are being stripped away from women?
Ah. Yes. They are kissing the ring and making plans on how to survive.
> To declare an arbitrary date when a human being starts to be a human being is so hypocritical

How is that avoidable?

200,000 BC, were we still humans? 2 mya? 20?

Or for individuals, why care about a fertilised egg rather than (as per Monty Python) "every sperm is scared"?

No matter what we pick, it's arbitrary.
Commodities in the US are often cheap by European standards. Gas for $4/gallon is considered outrageously expensive in the US, meanwhile in the Netherlands it's close to €2/L, or $8/gallon.
> we don't want to help other countries at our short term cost (even if it is a long term gain for us)

It is not even that since what they basically propose is to dial down the war in Eastern Europe but get more involved in the war in Middle East and possibly soon in East Asia. That stance always seemed very confusing to me as a non-US person.
Because OP is talking about the side that lost. If you want to win, you probably need to change. This isn't about standards, it's about what works.
I, thankfully, don't live in the US. I know women who do, and they're terrified. What do you want them to do, mount an armed insurrection? Murder Trump? Firebomb the Republican-majority Capitol?
The tech team doesn’t want to give them the ability because it causes too many escalations. The legal team doesn’t want it because what if something goes wrong and someone sues? The customer experience team… wait, customer experience team? We don’t got no stinkin customer experience team. Those suckers only exist to give us money, and it’s been proven beyond a doubt that no matter how much we fuck with them they’ll keep buying the games anyway.
The Republican Party didn't hide the President of the United States from the public because he was no longer able to speak publicly.
The first time Trump was elected was a shock, but now we understand. It wasn't a simple mistake.
I have only few customers who use Google Workspace for their emails and only one who uses Dropbox for files. Initially (about 2002) companies moved away from U.S.-based cloud services. However, now I have an increasing number of customers who want to cancel cloud services entirely.
But for my customers, there is no alternative to Windows.
Does the US' engage with the repressive monarchies of the Middle East in the hope that they will democratize ?
Not American, not political, but this. What the hell is the left doing but focussing on a few ideological fringe fights?
The US is directly responsible for millions of deaths in the Middle East.

It's supporting Israel's genocide right now, and would have continued to do so whichever candidate won.

It's arming Saudi Arabia to help its war in Yemen.

It killed hundreds of thousands in Iraq and Afghanistan, and armed the Taliban before that (back when the USSR was also killing Afghans by the hundreds of thousands).

It participated in the coup against Iran's last democratic government (together with the UK), re-installing the deposed Shah (he was later deposed yet again, but this time by fundamentalist revolutionaries, instead of the democracy that had replaced him last time). Before the revolution, they the Shah with the start of nuclear tech, which formed the basis of the current Iran nuclear program. They then supported Saddam and had him attack Iran, before later losing control of him as well.

Now, the root cause of many of the worse issues in the Middle East is in fact not the USA, but the British Empire, which drew most of the insane borders of Middle East states that are causing problems to this day. But the USA proudly took on the mantle of main meddler in the region in the last 50-70 years.
"Explainable" is a strong word.

As a simple example, if you ask a question and part of the answer is directly quoted from a book from memory, that text is not computed/reasoned by the AI and so doesn't have an "explanation".

But I also suspect that any AGI would necessarily produce answers it can't explain. That's called intuition.
You don't think the democratic state Governors will step up if there's even a hint of that happening?

In the end a lot of the money and power is mostly in blue states.
Yeah, the conspiracy theories about this assassination atempt alone, gave a lot of votes to Trump.
Hell if I know.

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It's weird how when a company gets acquired by Oracle, everybody here understands that it's dead day 1 but it'll still take years for people to feel the effect.

Yet when it's about a country of 400 million, there's zero concept that shit takes time.

You understand that the full-scale invasion of Ukraine was greatly helped by Trump's previous presidency, for example, right?
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It’s right there in the last paragraph of the comment you’re replying to.
Were nukes launched after the Kursk offensive? That eas a bright red line if Russia ever had one.
yet it's almost the norm these days. Sick of hearing Steve Jobs invented smartphones when I personally was using a device with web and streaming music years before that.
The money in this election was mostly on Harris' side. It lost. It's not money that decided this election, it's hubris and bold face lying by a charlatan.
Yup, it definitely would.
I don't understand everything you're saying, probably because I am not involved in day to day US political discussion, but a few of your points seem wildly exaggerated or misunderstood.

No one is forcing anyone to turn any sons into daughters, are they? What you're really saying is that you don't want anyone to be allowed to change their gender. That's a quite prohibitive stance for a country that puts so much emphasis on freedom.

What's this "male perverts sharing locker room" stuff about? Who's campaigning for letting random adults into kids locker rooms?

Who's being forced to take an injection?
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Europe is currently experiencing a hard shift to the right because progressives keep lying and downplaying bad economy policies and illegal immigration. Yet somehow each party has their own scapegoat.
Here's one: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31065392>
So this guy supposedly found a loophole in the Constitution that would facilitate a legal transformation of the US into a dictatorship, and talked to Einstein about it, but the specific loophole/concern has never actually been published?

Sounds like clickbait was already alive and well in the 1940's.
> Do you also think neurons, muscle cells, etc are also not alive?

There is a difference between something being 'alive' (although I think the examples you give are dubious), and being a 'life'.
Political solutions for the rest of the world would appear to include increasing the amount of money you spend on your national defense and/or the amount of money you spend renting rooms at Trump International Hotel Washington D.C to curry favor.
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Calling republicans far right is the exact rhetoric that alienates and divides people. Take the next four years to try to find some common ground with the right.
> In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote.

Donald J. Trump, 07/28/24

Unbelievable.
> they don't care who wins, they just want peace.

And what happens when Russia invades again after a few years with a revitalized military?
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The template these autocratic personalities follow is not to abolish elections, but to make them pointless exercises full of blatant corruption, coercion (violent or otherwise), and manipulation.

It's counterproductive to make claims like what you're claiming, because their supporters and people on the fence will turn around and point out how you're wrong in 4 years, or whatever.

There's still elections in Russia, Turkey, etc. And those leaders are very popular.

But they're not democracies. Opposition is not really permitted. Where legal repression isn't in place, mob violence and the like is employed.

That's the template you can expect to see followed.
There is nothing inherently "Nazi" about being anti-illegal immigration. 30 years ago the left stood for a lot of anti immigration rhetoric.
I know, right? It's not mine. I don't really care for it either (except for the "kill at 9 months" thing), but it's interesting to see the two groups argue about it. Both seem to think they're undoubtedly 100% right, as a fact, etc.

Compromises must be made!
I mean take your pick: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/women-paid-price-tr... or just listen to his words... "I'm going to do it, whether the women like it or not".
It says she “Led the push for the Domestic Workers Bill of Rights Act, federal worker unionization”. Federal worker unionization is very undemocratic b/c federal employees essentially blackmail voters. They become untouchable.
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