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I feel the same way about Hillary: She defended a rapist husband, used the government as her personal piggy bank, used the mainstream media as her attack dog, and conspired against all of her enemies, and tried to steal the white house.
We also have PC culture run amok. Trump is a big 'Fuck You' many intelligent Americans have been waiting for, for many years. It has nothing to do with racism, sexism, or xenophobia.
The saddest thing? The fact that Wikileaks had to bring many of this to light. Julian Assange still hasn't been heard from since his power was cut at the embassy.
These articles were written by the left-leaning mainstream media and repeated ad nauseam over social media.
I see people that still believe that Trump is going to deport all of the 'Brown people'. There isn't one instance where he said this. The media created this fear through lies and propaganda and made Trump out to be a monster.
They are mostly to blame for all of the violence and protests we are seeing today.
But a Trump win still won't force them to tell us the truth. I'm just glad that the American people did.
Do you actually think this is the only way the government knows that an attack took place from a foreign actor?
Botnets exist and our government knows full well that it's an infected machine and not the user of that machine that's attacking websites on the Internet.
"And Trump's cybersecurity advisor (General Flynn) doesn't think it's possible that the FBI could scan 650,000 emails from Anthony Weiner's computer to search for known recipients, keywords, or to de-duplicate the corpus.[1]"
In 8 days? I'm suspect as well that they could actually comb through all of the required emails in only 8 days. I'm not sure if you are intentionally trying to mislead with your comment, but the link you provided doesn't show us that he didn't think the government could do it. Only that it seems unlikely that the government could get through all of the emails in 8 days.
"Where have you been for the past decade?"
Living through the Obama administration and his piss-poor policies on user privacy. My point was that I am trying to be optimistic about Trump's presidency and I hope these things change.
"Even if you don't think your metadata is worth getting worked up about, thermal scopes, your electrical usage, sniff dogs on your front porch, stingrays that affect all cell phone users within their radius. And everything is digital, so there is potential for future abuse both within and without the agency that collects the data."
I don't even want my Metadata being used by the government. I am 100% for privacy of US citizens.
How can we trust online voting? If you think bad foreign actors somehow control the election now, it will be much worse when it's all online.
"In order to cast my vote, I open my phone, and scroll over to the United States Government Voting App. It has a red badge on it that says 312. I click on the app and log in. It says, “Today you have 312 laws you have to vote on.” I read through each law and hit yes, no, yes, no, yes no. At the end of the day, my vote and everyone else’s are tallied up, and the law passes or not."
How do we prove that you are actually a citizen of the US (or even of the state)? The government is notoriously bad at online security.
Making it too easy also leaves me with a bad taste in my mouth. It will be so easy to make snap judgements and quick decisions when voting through an app. There should be at least some effort (besides clicking a few boxes) put forth to vote.
Technology has changed, but human nature hasn't. A fast way to a dictatorship would be a direct democracy.
...including links and comments on HN. Maybe HN needs to filter out the fake stuff too?
A friend's opinion is many more times effective than a random, fake, news article.
Are we going to start silencing opinion, because it's not factual? Almost nothing comes down to just True and False.
It feels like we are stating to go into dangerous territory, where we allow sites like Facebook to determine the truth for us.
Those jobs are gone forever. We are now a global economy and trying to bring those jobs back will be a race to the bottom.
Trump has proposed a lower tax burden on small business owners. This will make it easier to start a company and give many businesses a way to hire more employees.
We should be concentrating on ways to bring more businesses into the US and less restrictions/lower taxes is a great start.
There are so many stories, like this, that are based on fake information.
I feel like investigative journalism is dead.
When his first speech came out about immigration, he said he wants to deport illegal immigrants (which is actually already law). The media turned it into just 'immigrants' and we now have entire groups of legal immigrants that are afraid Trump will deport them. Did nobody watch the speech or does the mainstream media have problems comprehending English?
There is anti-Trump violence growing in the US and people have been assaulted and harassed for even saying they supported him. The protests aren't 'peaceful', they are riots.
This is all ignored on the news, however. The only thing they can spew out is the story about the girl that got her Hijab pulled, which turned out to be fake. MSNBC still reports it as fact.
Will Facebook ban links to MSNBC for this fake story?
This is exactly why half the country voted Trump into office. Even now, you still can't figure out that it was your own fault and want to blame the rest of American for losing the election.
The other irony is complaining about bias and marginalizing and then painting an entire group of people (Trump supports) as 'racists' and 'islamaphobes'.
It really shows me that all of the people that claim we need more 'love' and 'peace' are just using it for political gain and power. When they don't get what they want, the fangs come out.
You want understanding and compassion when it comes to gay marriage and the transgender community, but give none of it in return.
If you mean just using and nothing more, it's not really true. Junkies don't get arrested for only getting high. It usually involves some other crime like robbery or petty theft.
Legalizing these drugs won't really solve the issue. Opiates are already legal, but expensive. Most addicts start out with the expensive prescriptions and then end up getting street drugs like heroin because it's so much cheaper. Street drugs will always be there because people the government always needs their cut through taxes.
"I do know that treatment instead of jail is a good thing."
..but to what end? If a person chooses over and over to take drugs, It's their freedom to take them, but also their responsibility to figure out a treatment plan.
I'm really tired of people demanding they can do what they want with their body and then demanding that I pay money to fix all of the negative consequences that comes along with it.
You must not be from the US or ever tried to get a gun. I can't order a gun through the mail, for instance. It needs to be sent to a regulated dealer and I will have to go through a background check.
"I am curious just how deep the "firearms business" goes on the dark web."
According to many of the ant-gun advocates in the US, you can just order it online with no checks or problems. But the reality is much different.
Rules? Russian and Chinese hackers aren't going to care about any rules of conduct. As long as our government isn't spying on its own citizens without warrants, I really don't care what they do in terms of hacking the computers of foreign actors.
This is actually a really good cyber security plan.
The reason they are hard to find is because most aren't willing to be paid under market value for the small chance that your startup will succeed. If a unicorn employee is smart, they will found their own company.
I don't know if I would consider myself a 'unicorn employee', but I made many other people rich over the years because I was able to easily switch hats and get the job done.
The reward was sacrifice and hard work for a salary that was beneath the current market value and having to switch jobs every few years when either the company folded or was bought out and the employees were replaced.
At one company, the stock I received in exchange for the lower salary was devalued to nothing a few months later when the company owner created a brand new LLC and dumped all the stock that had been given out to employees.
As someone that doesn't do any drugs, I'm all for drug legalization.
However, there needs to be limits. I should be able to fire someone that is high on the job, for instance. Driving a motor vehicle while under the influence should also be illegal.
'altering your conciousness' can directly harm the people around you and they have the right to not be harmed by your personal choices.
"How can we get the government to respect our right to put anything in our body that we want to?"
Another issue is health care: Should the government continue to pour tons of money into allowing you to kill yourself with drugs?
"I'm kind of rambling, but this is what comes to mind when I see these types of articles."
You never mention firearms, which is another primary business on the dark web. Are you also fine with anyone being able to buy a weapon at any time?
I've seen at least 6 instances ofTrump supporters getting beaten up and attacked because of their beliefs.
So please stop making it seem like the people on the left are all about love and unity.
This election has proven to me that the 'love Trumps hate' mantra that has been going around isn't actually true. It only applies to people with certain political beliefs.
If you don't agree with them, you are less than human. It makes violence much easier to justify.
Other advertisers have been doing this for decades and there isn't really any way to stop it.
People here always talk about annoying online advertisements. Is it fine now that you will most likely get ads on Facebook for products that you will never buy?
Lots of people are also not self-starters. They need a boss telling them what to do or they will do nothing or surf HN/Reddit all day.
One partnership I attempted had this result. It ended up being a boss/employee role where I had to dole out the assignments and 9 times out of 10, if I didn't push my partner, the projects wouldn't actually get done at all.
We actually did end up finishing the project (which is the only reason I stayed), but ran into more roadblocks. My ex-partner then ended up telling me that he just wanted to get a job and that he didn't want to work on the company anymore.
It's been a year and he is still unemployed and living on savings in his parent's basement (before working on our project, he was an engineer at a large company for over a decade).
When choosing a co-founder, the person needs to be a self-starter and have skin in the game (lots of time or money). If they don't, they will not feel compelled to stay and will most likely leave during the bad times.
I wish we had a world where pseudo-intellectuals don't turn into complete children and throw tantrums and try to cheat when they lose in a fair fight.
I see the same behavior from my 6 year old son.
I have been told multiple time that it's not a place for 'politics'.
It seems many people only want Democracy when they get what they want.
PHP 7.X is the latest release. It has some nice features like type hinting, major speedups to the core language, and a whole host of other things.
It still has many things that could be improved (no language is perfect), but I still use it for the back-end of most web sites/apps. It's been battle tested by many major sites and still gets the job done.
Many people hate PHP because it's cool to do so. New fad languages and frameworks aren't always the best thing for a new project. Especially when they haven't been thoroughly tested in a production environment.
After they lose: Massive protests and a desire to secede from the the US.
If Republicans would have protested or suggested a secession after a Hillary win, they would be called 'sexist'. Democrats are sore losers. Republicans endured 8 years of Obama and never protested like this.
Instead of shunning half the country, figure out why you lost.
Contrary to popular belief, Trump doesn't hate you, nor is he trying to kick out all of the immigrants.
If anything, this campaign should show us just how much mis-information has been purported by the media.
"mainly due to my ethnicity and having gone to a no-name college"
Stop blaming ethnicity on your own inabilities. VC will gladly give you money if they can make a good ROI on your startup/company. They don't really care about race or what college you attended.