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What can Silicon Valley do to make America great again? - There will be higher tariffs for China imports. The US needs to make more of its own stuff. Start planning on moving manufacturing to the US for sales in the US. Don't use Shentzen as much. Plan on exporting to China, and expect some help from the Government if China's government gives you problems. The US needs to get its imports and exports balanced. - The w…
Why terrorize these people? A path to legal citizenship is infinitely more humane, intelligent, and beneficial to all concerned.
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> Distrust of the establishment (of which HRC was the perfect embodiment) This is what is so amazing to me: there was a massive surge in anti-establishment sentiment, from Sanders on the left to Trump on the right. It was unparalleled in my lifetime. Yet the DNC decided to run a candidate who is basically the epitome of Washington establishment? It's embarrassing.
But, the DNC is the establishment, so why would they do anything other than run an establishment candidate? And how much power does the DNC actually have over which candidate is run? That is decided in the primaries (see: RNC's control over which candidate was nominated).
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the electoral college is not the problem, FPTP is the problem
What is this? Is it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-past-the-post_voting ?
Four years ago, I wrote a sort-of tongue-in-cheek story for Kuro5hin.org (RIP) titled "Humanity's Second-Best Hope" [1]. I pointed out that the Democratic president had failed to deliver on the Change he had promised, and shared my faint hope that maybe Mitt Romney was a "political gladiator" who'd flip on the plutocracy once he was elected. [1] http://www.TaxiWars.org/humanitys-second-best-hope/ Alas, Mitt Romney wa…
The "Master persuader" series explains in great detail why and why trump won. It also explains how and why everyone got it wrong. great series.
http://blog.dilbert.com/post/139541975641/the-trump-master-p...
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Predictions: - @POTUS twitter account is going to start tweeting at 3AM - I think illegal immigration enforcement could see the most drastic and immediate change. To my knowledge the status quo is not legislated in any way, and was created by preventing enforcement rather than any legal means. When low-skill unemployment bottoms out the motivation will start to weaken. - whatever was done by Obama by executive order,…
They have literally announced they're going to try to undo Roe v. Wade and repeal all LGTBQ protections they can. Like, that literally already happened. So I think we're already past the "[won't] enact or seek to promote any racist or sexist policies". I suspect that's because Trump has effectively delegated the entire office of President to Pence.
We buried the previous thread on this because, at almost 2000 comments, it was pegging the server. If you'd like to read it, and don't intend to comment, you could help your fellow users by logging out first, so we can serve you the page from cache: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12907201 . If you do intend to comment, please take extra care to do so civilly and substantively, in the spirit of this site. Most p…
I'm very disappointed that the other thread was effectively buried. I kept looking on the first few pages and only clicked on this one by chance. Please spin up more resources? This is a major topic that will affect a huge number of people.
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>they were racist, sexist, or Islamophobic This is a big issue here, and something that I don't feel that many democrats seem to understand. It wasn't a race issue, it was an immigration issue since many illegal immigrants have taken American jobs. It isn't sexist to acknowledge differences in the genders. It isn't islamophobic to see cultural issues with Islam that would cause integration issues, especially with a l…
> It isn't sexist to acknowledge differences in the genders. You know that is emphatically not the kind of statement that people were concerned with when they were talking about Trump's sexism.
The only sexism I've seen this election has been from the hillary camp. Wouldn't it be nice to have a female president? wink wink
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Those old jobs are never coming back.
I'm not so sure about that. Robots will not be immediately cost-effective for all production and it may be 30 years before they permeate manufacturing. Until then humans will serve. I've complained on HN about the low quality of many goods (e.g., nail clippers) and about how the supply chain to US consumers today is no better than it was in my youth more than 50 years ago. Most of you were not yet around to know what…
Would you provide some examples of the countries you're thinking of? My inclination is that it's more a function of demand for cheap products and unwillingness to pay more for better quality even while complaining about the quality of what some are willing to pay for. Also, the generalization that all (or most) products coming out of a country are of equal in quality. Two counter examples come to mind as well. Japan and China have both been a source of cheap, low-quality goods during the last century, and both also produce some very high quality goods as well. I've also purchased very low-quality "Made in USA" products.
And things change, including "unique social and political histories". Is it more accurate and useful to think of differences in QC in a general way or to look more closely at the incentives and circumstances at work?
If I've mischaracterized your views, please do point it out, as that's not my intent. Thanks!
The cognitive dissonance required to be a trump supporter is quite amazing. For example states that legalized weed but voted for trump.
Trump isn't against weed?
please tell me more