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by r_smart 10y ago
To me this is a really interesting problem. Imagine for a moment that you became the president. The people you pick to do things is really important. You have to choose from: People you've relied on who will need time to build expertis
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Holy shit. I just made a peer comment to yours talking about how I think Trump's campaign used technology really effectively, but I had no idea about any of this. Any sense for how Clinton's campaign compared on a tech front? I ge
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I've been saying that had Clinton run her campaign the way Trump did, she would have been lauded as being a political genius who had learned to embrace being a political candidate in the age of the internet. I've run into some goo
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>small states and small districts generally get an unjust magnitude of political power The electoral college exists for a reason: precisely to protect the interests of the minority of people who don't live in cities from the whims o
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>I am not calling Trump a facist but hand-waving away racist policies like deporting all Mexicans (Trump didn't say that, but it was taken that way) or disallowing all Muslims (again, Trump didn't say that but it was taken that
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Thanks for the link. I figure you're probably right, but you never know when someone is going to surprise you with something interesting. I try to give everyone a fair hearing if they care to put a decent argument together :)
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I hadn't heard about this. Can you point me to a source? Are you talking about this year's election?
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Barbell: Rogue 2.0 bar (cheap at $250, perfectly fine for newbie) Power cage [0] Realistically, the most expensive part of the setup was...the weights. Shipping that shit costs a lot, and they're not cheap to begin with. I bought some
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I bought a power cage and a barbell so I could lift in my basement. Wasn't a huge fan of the gym either. Never enough squat racks, and I felt bad locking one down for an hour.
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Last year I got into lifting for the first time ever (I'm 35). I got on a program, just doing a couple of heavy compound lifts three days a week, and the change for me has been night and day. It doesn't take much time to learn how
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My pleasure. Having these kinds of conversations is why I'm here :) Don't take the difficulty of finding good information as a self criticism. At least in theory, the reason these organizations exist is to to inform you and be us
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I don't know of any measures of bias, and as you're kind of indicating, you kind of can't trust those either. Anybody more interested in being informed rather than supporting their ideological tribalism is in a really bad spo
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|Breitbart might use "words" and "paragraphs" from other sources I basically read the sources. I prefer primary sources anyway. I rely on the fact that they have a different ideological slant from myself to keep me quest
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Just the combination of the headline and the image below it are enough to get me to close the tab on this one. I'm getting really tired of the constant accusations of racism, and this immediately set off my 'upcoming bullshit&#x27
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Maybe it's my history with all but becoming a journalist, but I find NPR's reporting to be really obviously biased, and quite shoddy as well. I think your overall point is spot on, but only holds true for people with similar polit
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The heart of the problem is that what people think they're getting probably isn't going to match up with what they actually get. I don't think RCV is really any worse or better than FPTP (well it's probably a little bett
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They identified as being anarcho-capitalist. I'm willing to accept the premise that 0.1% of the population subscribes to that ideology. I suspect their claim is that there should be no 'economy for everyone', but I don't
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People just frequently complain when a candidate didn't get 50% of the popular vote in an election. I think it's silly, but it's common. Many people's argument in favor of this initiative is seeing that 50% number. If it
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There are some good comments critiquing ranked choice voting from people who seem much more informed / involved than I am. I suggest you just scroll through the comments a bit rather than get it from me (if you can't find them, I&
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Most of the comments here are focused on climate change denial and smattering of evolution denial. It often gets painted that science denial (and evolution denial) is something that conservatives do, that liberals are the tribe of science.
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Hey, I'm also from Maine! There's at least two of us here! I voted against the initiative, mostly because as I understand it, it still doesn't necessarily create majority candidates and because there's a good chance it&#
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Yeah, maybe I just got lucky? Maybe I have a higher tolerance? Maybe we have different political affiliations that make you more sensitive to it than me? I couldn't find the specific comment I was referring to, I think they've ha
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Well, I didn't say it was all wine and roses :) I'd also like to point out I've seen a lot of people calling Trump voters racist, sexist, homophobic, fascists. Let's not pretend like there's something uniquely toxic
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If you visit r/the_donald today, you'll see a lot of this sentiment. I think it's been easy to forget that regardless of political identity, most of us agree on a lot of things. Like anyone in power, he should be held to acco
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Yes, for example one of the first things he talked about in his victory speech was helping out the inner cities. He must not know that there are high populations of black people in those areas.
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In the spirit of your comment, I'd like to suggest a massive income raise for elected federal officials. The leader of the free world makes something like $400k / year. If we were willing to give them more, it might reduce the tem
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This is a really important point. Currently both parties (and voters) strategize based around the rules that are in place. Once the rules change, the strategies will change too. You'll still lose elections, and you'll still end up
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Yeah, it sounds like you guys clearly made the right move in changing that. I am also neutral about state machines. Some times I run into one and I love it, other times, it just seems terrible. One of the projects at work has a state machin
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Interesting, I've never heard of that (though I may just know it by another name). I'll have to look it up!
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In general, the consideration for bit fields is that your program will run slower but consume less memory. It's usually my opinion that we want to run as fast as possible while not running out of memory, so I'd say in general bit

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