To be fair, the Trump team targeted the electoral college win. If they had targeted the popular vote, i.e. campaigning in states that they wouldn't win outright, but could garner votes, they most likely would have won the popular vote. Meaning they could have won that game if they had tried.
Correct. The popular vote is meaningless for the same reason who is leading after 500 meters in a 10k is meaningless. Nobody is trying to win the popular vote. Most of the voting eligible population doesn’t vote, and we don’t necessarily know which way things would break if folks campaigned for those votes.
Yea, when companies really want to lower the cost, they implement directly with the bank, like say JP Morgan. That makes authorize.net even seem good. Stripe is really a pleasure to work with as a developer.
Yup, just did this. Got an extra master suite, and 1.75 more bathrooms with much bigger yard and garage for $1100 less. And neighbors that actually talk to you. Not to mention half the price for gas and food. Oh, and the swings aren't chained up. Good-bye LA, I will not miss you one bit.
It's things like this that keep me living in the big city. I can have a mental break, run around naked for 8 hours and be back to normal with no one ever realizing anything happened.
Me too; two weeks ago I traded a small house in Cap Hill, Seattle for a lot more space and friendly neighbors in more rural Washington about 20 minutes from the city. Loving it!
Learning what questions to ask into Google is a critical aspect. Most of the time, coding is the process of writing some code, and then debugging it. Knowing to ask, my graphql endpoint is failing with a status of 500, vs. my graphql doesn't work. The first will help you narrow down the issue, the second is far too generic. I have been coding for over 20 years now, and I feel it is rinse and repeat in terms of hitting a roadblock, and finding the answer. Also, a lottttttt of patience. You might take two hours to figure out something that ends up being really trivial, and then you have that moment of feeling good that you solved it, and then you are right back into the next hurdle.
Google falls down flat unless you know "magic words". Example... let's say you want to be able to mark up a web page to highlight some aspect of it, like using a highlighter on a newspaper... you can't google hypertext markup... you have to go for "annotation"
Growing Google-fu is like getting good at smelling bad code, it takes experience, which you get via frustration and the application of gumption.
Could be the problem in America is the drug problem, the glorification of the drug culture, the glorification of gangsters, the glorification of violence in sports and video games. I wouldn't put these issues squarely on the police officers in our country. When the number one hit record in your country is WAP (I'll let you look up that one), maybe the policing isn't your biggest problem.
To an extent. Ultimately, the US problem is insecure employment, bullshit jobs, income inequality, and multiple generations of compounding wealth inequality. People without opportunity turn to destructive behaviors, including glorifying gangsters because they are the only people they see in their neighborhoods who have any kind of wealth or self-determination.
Poor communities didn't turn into the kind of places you describe until after the jobs went away. I do not see this as a racial issue, however.
Poor communities in the US have broadly similar attitudes, and social problems, regardless of their ethnic identity. That problem hit urban African American communities many decades ago and is hitting rural white communities now.
People need money and personally meaningful work. Unless they have it, things go wrong. When people don't have it for generations, ghettos and violence are what you get.
This was one of my tops. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fucxG-he2qU Keith Hernandez, Emmitt Smith, and Walt Frazier. There were older commercials for this, but Emmitt was just soo funny in it. "Ohhh it's bad"
Yes, the 'global warming' piece is almost comical in that almost every person in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles, year in year out buy the latest iPhone and every tech gadget imaginable. The carbon footprints of these are huge. To then have the argument that we need to do something about climate change is so hypocritical. Just do proper forest management and keep the climate change for a different topic is my opinion on it. Because, if people really cared about global warming by lowering their usage of things, this is the wrong state to ever even come close to doing it.
