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Actually it does not contradict the absolutely correct portrayal of him as a racist.

1. He did not speak of India and Indians in the same way he did Mexico and Mexicans, of which was textbook racism, i.e. generalizing negative stereotypes based on ethnicity, promotion of conspiracy theories, etc. 2. Racism applies to attitudes/beliefs towards individual ethnicities, not all of them together. 3. Being cordial/friendly to individual members does not trump (pun intended) discriminatory attitudes towards the race as a whole. "I can't be a racist, I have a black friend!"

No, both are bad ideas that don't solve the problem and actually make it worse.

Term limits: Does nothing to stop poor/corrupt lawmakers from holding office while also limiting the amount of domain knowledge present in Congress.

Lobbying ban: A shorter one already exists that is routinely ignored or skirted by claiming a different title/role while still being a lobbyist. Extending the ban is just asking for more people to flaunt it. The real solution is to aggressively enforce the ban or better yet, try and reduce the role of money in politics as much as possible. I doubt the latter is likely given the bank accounts of the cabinet appointees.

"Well, guess what if people on either side of the political spectrum hadn't been so bloody arrogant we'd have neither Brexit nor Trump today. More importantly, people wouldn't believe some nonsense they read in the news if they were treated as actual, thinking human beings."

Arrogance didn't create this. Racism and Xenophobia? Yep. The destruction of confidence in government and the politicians who work there? Yep. A willingness to believe anything that confirms your current worldview? Yep.

The idea that people believe in things like "Pizzagate" because "they're not treated nicely" is nonsense and an attempt to shift blame onto those who don't deserve it.

The police kill ~1000 a year in the street, with another ~800 when held in police custody (as was the case the year after Sandra Bland died).

But your point is a bit of a strawman. You can still have dishonest/aggressive/sexist/racist behavior that does not result in death.

I just got this book ~2 weeks ago and am using it in conjunction with udacity's course. Python Machine Learning (PML) is more low-level, math intensive, and hands on than udacity and other resources I'm using.

Thus far Udacity's course fits your explanation of using sklearn docs, tweaking inputs, etc. while PML provides a technical explanation of weighting with perceptrons and then you hand-write a perceptron learning algorithm.

And the coverage of Hillary wasn't?

Unfortunately your explanation is not correct. For example, it does not explain the extensive coverage of Donald Trump that was used to get clicks and sell copy, despite his violation of everything liberals hold dear...

Early in the campaign, Trump acknowledged his media advantage. “I’ve gotten so much free advertising, it’s like nothing I’d have expected,” he told the New York Times in September. “When you look at cable television, a lot of the programs are 100% Trump, so why would you need more Trump during the commercial breaks?”[1]

[1]http://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-has-gotten-nearly-3-b...

http://www.politico.com/blogs/on-media/2016/02/les-moonves-t...

As opposed to sending children to substandard charter schools under the guise of school choice, while really wanting to redirect tax dollars to weaken unions and enrich private actors?

The real answer is, of course, to fix the "substandard public schools", but that would require addressing the underlying poverty, which one side doesn't want to do and the other refuses to acknowledge exists (unless it's needed to shame teachers for strikes/walkouts).

"The lesson that a lot of anti-Trumpers appear to have taken away from this election is that the electoral college is bad because it lets people who don't live on the coasts have a say too"

The arrogance and entitlement of middle america is really getting to be too much. Now your votes should count more just "so you can have a say too".

Maybe you shouldn't have abandoned unions, maybe you shouldn't have abandoned the left, maybe you shouldn't have expected the GOP to place your interests first. It's been almost 50 years since "The Silent Majority" and apparently nothing's changed.

Maybe the problem isn't everyone else. Maybe the problem is you.

What they understand, that you don't, is that arms are not the only means to resistance and that they are not a particularly effective one at that.

Furthermore they are watching the Black Lives Matter movement (which you apparently have never heard of) and how the 2nd Amendment Crowd (not all, but probably most) is responding by expressing their support for state violence.

Personally I'm not a fan of gun control (guns are overrated) but I also laugh at suggestions like yours in light of how subservient and ingratiating the 2nd Amendment zealots are towards the police and military.

Sorry but I will not write any code for you.

Furthermore, after providing ZERO feedback in the past when I have provided github links, offline code samples, personalized cover sheets, etc. to prospective employers this also will not be done. I'm not going to worry and beat myself up because you can't be bothered to provide feedback even when requested to do so.

Homework for programming jobs is just like homework for school: it is not used to judge competency but to demonstrate that your time is not your own as it belongs to someone else. In the case of programming jobs the homework assignment also acts as a filter to weed out employees who will not be properly subservient to the employer.

That's why you drill down when a statement sounds like it came from a blog/book/screencast.

While I agree it's frustrating dealing with someone like this, often times it's easy to pick out the statements/topics that the person is regurgitating.

13" Late 2013 Retina MacBook Pro. 2.4 GHZ,i5,8GB.

Haven't had any major (or even minor) issues. I've enjoyed using the trackpad (and learning about it, sometimes by accident!) and the backlit keyboard is nice when I would use it outside in the evening. Light and very portable, far more comfortable on my lap than my previous machines. Only real complaint is the lack of a cd/dvd drive.

I guess then the next time someone (perhaps even yourself) argues "they're trying to take our guns away" you will point to the 2016 Crypto Wars to show them that they're wrong...