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by Tainnor 2y ago
We're speaking English here and not Greek.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Legally, no. But prior to Trump, every single US president had served either in a political office or in the military. It just seems unreasonable to assume that knowing how to govern isn't an important qualification for the job of actu
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by Tainnor 2y ago
I'm aware, having taken Ancient Greek in high school, thank you very much. Meanings shift. An aristocracy is not a meritocracy and is mostly distinguished by its reliance on social status instead of actual merit. See e.g.: https:&#x2F
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by Tainnor 2y ago
It would be aristocracy if you had to be born into it. Now, I'll admit that the US system of mostly only very rich people getting access to top universities is not exactly fair - but you can in principle become a politician no matter y
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> But I don't think that would not derail the discussion. Pretty much any comparison with a dictator leads to painful discussion. Yes, but when the dictator is also someone who orchestrated the holocaust, the discussion becomes all
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Statistics show that Israel/Palestine wasn't really an important issue for voters on either side.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
I wish people didn't use the Hitler comparison because it always derails discussion (almost everyone is better than Hitler, even Trump). There are however enough other cases throughout history of people being elected and then becoming
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by Tainnor 2y ago
I understand that this appears to make sense for a lot of people but to me a president should... actually be qualified to be a president. Otherwise, it's as if you had a string of bad CTOs and then decide to hire a gardener with no tec
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by Tainnor 2y ago
While I agree with you that there are different ways of structuring democracies and that parts of US democracy seem... in need of an update, even "better" democracies can't fully prevent a slide into authoritarianism. It has
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by Tainnor 2y ago
From a European perspective, many here are very worried that Trump is going to end support for Ukraine and that Putin will be allowed free reign.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
My point precisely. We seem to forget Churchill's famous dictum that "no one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms t
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Not an American, but it's wild to me how anyone could describe Kamala as "0.1% less bad". She's an accomplished politician.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Just FYI, you come across as extremely antagonistic in the way you're conveying your message. The underlying tone seems to be "you're stupid".
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by Tainnor 2y ago
That is correct.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> Prosecuting Trump in court is not dirty fight. It is something that should have happen I agree, but I call it "dirty fight" because that's what it's perceived as by the Trump supporters.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
800 VCs backed Kamala Harris. There has been some rightward shift, yes, but probably not enough to offset the general vibe.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> his past performance is terrible by all measures. Which was partially a good thing, since he failed to dismantle Obamacare or build a wall at the Mexican border, even though those were two very explicit campaign promises. Who knows wha
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Spain has had a left-wing government for a while, and the current German one could maybe be described as centre-left. Agreeing with you though that the EU as a whole isn't really "left-wing".
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by Tainnor 2y ago
I honestly think that Elon Musk is just on a personal vendetta against anyone who bruised his ego. He can't stand that he was called out for his Thai diver "pedophile" comment or that his trans daughter openly disavows him. H
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> people dehumanising men for being men Is this something you do actually experience in real life though? Because I'm with you that social media is part of the problem. When I was using Twitter, many years ago, I also saw a lot of t
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by Tainnor 2y ago
What "dirty fight" are you envisioning? Prosecuting Trump in court doesn't appear to work and is disparaged as "lawfare". Biden calling Trump voters trash apparently backfires, but nothing Trump or his campaign says
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by Tainnor 2y ago
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 Slova
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by Tainnor 2y ago
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.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
The current results are unfortunately such a blowout that Trump may very well be winning the popular vote. I guess this is what OP was referring to.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
In 2020, he told his then vice president Mike Pence not to certify the electoral vote count which gave Joe Biden the victory in the presidential race. Pence ignored this order. Had he not done so, it would have meant a constitutional crisis
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by Tainnor 2y ago
You're right to point out that this kind of rhetoric isn't really in the spirit of HN. On the other hand, it's a fallacy to assume that there must be merit to an argument just because it's championed by a majority. I&#x2
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by Tainnor 2y ago
If you have one team per service, yes. In many companies, you may have one team and 10 services though. I wish I was making this up.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
> Then what was the point? Resume chasing and trying to paper over the fact that you don't understand architecture, plus bad tooling that e.g. doesn't properly support incremental compilation and so makes monoliths painful.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Scala, Kotlin and even modern Java.
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by Tainnor 2y ago
Most of the time it's bad engineering caused by other engineers.

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