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by ks2048 2y ago
Who's calling Trump a fascist? For one, John Kelly, the right-wing Marine General, Trump's former chief of staff. "Project 2025" may be unhinged, but in what sense is it a conspiracy theory? It's right out in the o
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by ks2048 2y ago
"not Trump" basically worked for Biden in 2020. I don't think Harris lost by name calling. Name calling works great for Trump. She just wasn't that strong a candidate.
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by ks2048 2y ago
There will be a lot of second-guessing for what she should have done. The fact is they need to nominate candidates who would do well in such a situation and it's not clear that she would have. I think Walz would have done well on Roga
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by ks2048 2y ago
> The dems will likely stop anointing people. You assume the dems will learn from this loss, which is a big assumption. > We never have to sit through a Trump election campaign again. If Trump is alive and well in 2028, I'm sure
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by ks2048 2y ago
I think that's mainly why Biden won in 2020.
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by ks2048 2y ago
Of course 50% of the population is not stupid. It's much higher than that.
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by ks2048 2y ago
Have you seen how Trump describes half the country? It worked for him.
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by ks2048 2y ago
Yes, they do hide Trump's health reports from the public - or rather he never releases any information like other presidents do. Hell, he GOT SHOT and never gave any details of what happened. I agree that Democrats denying Biden'
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by ks2048 2y ago
I think this is the middle of the end. The beginning of the end was probably 2000-2001.
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by ks2048 2y ago
You can read why Trump's former chief of staff, John Kelly (right wing Marine General) called him a fascist, https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/24/trump-fascis...
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by ks2048 2y ago
Trump doesn't care about anything but himself, of course. But the judges he appoints do. And if his first term is repeated, he'll again just appoint the far-right judges that republicans hand to him. You're right, some things
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by ks2048 2y ago
I think this could be correct if only look at what they say rather than what they do. We'll see if Republicans in control are anti-war, anti-elite, pro free speech, pro-working class, anti-large-corps, etc. I know where I'd place
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by ks2048 2y ago
I don't see a connection between "career politicians" and non-"productive societies". Corrupt societies can be corrupted by career politicians or a revolving door of temporary politicians.
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by ks2048 2y ago
I agree that the price of groceries probably decided the election. But I don't see how Trump had any "strong policy that people can believe in". There was just anti-status-quo amongst the 10% of votes that are up-for-grabs at
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by ks2048 2y ago
I believe people who claim he will "end democracy" do not believe he will literally put an end to elections. Many places widely considered "undemocratic" also have elections. > They definitely won't be allowed to
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by ks2048 2y ago
He said many times very explicitly he will be a dictator on day one. We'll find out in a few months what the means exactly. I honestly don't know.
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by ks2048 2y ago
No, way back in 2000, the Supreme Court prevented a recount of votes in Florida.
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by ks2048 2y ago
I agree there are a lot of right wing, libertarian types, but I'm guessing just voting by the HN crowd would be a Harris landslide over Trump. For example, donations for Alphabet employees was supposedly 89% to democrats, 11% to republ
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by ks2048 2y ago
It's funny how "populism" has a shifting definition (as I see it). Your comment implies populism is the opposite of democracy. While it's literal meaning seems to be exactly democratic (doing what the populous wants).
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by ks2048 2y ago
I agree, although I read somewhere prediction markets in 2016 had Clinton by a wide margin. I don’t have a reference for that and obviously they would have been tiny markets by comparison to today.
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by ks2048 2y ago
Like others here, I find the way this article discusses things a bit odd. I think a more interesting question is to emphasize SYNTAX (the word doesn’t seem to appear in the article). Which languages have special syntax that maps to an AST n
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by ks2048 2y ago
I agree. It seems like counting lines of generated code is like counting bytes/instructions of compiled code - who cares? If “code” becomes prompts, then AI should lead to much smaller code than before. I’m aware that the difference is
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by ks2048 2y ago
No need to get depressed about an idea with zero evidence.
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by ks2048 2y ago
Merriam-Webster dictionary definition of “sketch” (2): a brief description (as of a person) or outline
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by ks2048 2y ago
“Parse all the words in the following sentences”. What does that mean? Give the part-of-speech for each word?
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by ks2048 2y ago
Do any relatively-popular languages avoid “two colors” by essentially making everything async?
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by ks2048 2y ago
Yeah, that makes sense. But I wonder, going forward, what is the relationship between "building abstractions/libraries" vs "Using LLMs"? For your example, "How do I accept a drag and dropped file in JS?" -
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by ks2048 2y ago
Simon, (if you’re reading), if you “like programming”, is there any point that you get depressed about LLMs doing all the fun stuff that you wanted to do? I see some arguments about high-level languages, eg “I’d rather program in Python tha
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by ks2048 2y ago
You're right, some Indians don't have the recognition they deserve, but if it makes you feel better, few "western" mathematicians or scientists are household names either.
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by ks2048 2y ago
The word “bureaucrats” is funny. Why is it in the title? It seems to be used only when people want to cast a negative light on people employed by governments. This is about potential treaties to preserve nature. Of course it will be govern

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