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Forgive me for getting political, but I think Trump was a good non-tech example of 'good because it's new'. Without a voting record and few concrete policies people were free to project their hopes on to him.

I have also noticed the 'dangerous/frightening because it's new' bias. I don't understand why it flips one way or the other. People are weird! :)

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This seems very apt to me.

I voted for Trump, and found my justification after I had decided that I would probably do so. The bottom line was that I wasn't going to vote for Clinton and Trump was the only other viable option.

I've also chosen relatively untested libraries for projects because I'd already used the more mature choice for another project and hated it :)

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