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whammywon··on 62% Say the Political Climate (US) Prevents Them from Sharing Political Views
I think your assertion that Trump voters are ashamed of their views (or ashamed of sharing their views) is totally incorrect.

The Trump supporters that I've spoken with stand by their views 100%, but don't think it's worth the hassle of arguing with progressives. Most recognize that Trump is not a good guy, but they feel his campaign platform was what the country needed. For many right-leaning people, I personally think many who voted for him were voting for what they considered to be the lesser of two evils.

In my experience if you have an opinion that doesn't fall in line with progressives then you're labeled (as TheAdamAndChe noted) an *-ist. We figure its easier to avoid the headache of being shouted down and labeled something we aren't.

As an example of this, wecan agree with the sentiment "black lives matter" but disagree with the BLM organization then we're called racist. All of this despite the fact that our reasoning could be the fact that the organization's leaders are self-admitted "trained" Marxists or that it pushes intersectional/identitarian politics with its platform. What's more, any attempt I've made or seen others try to make at having a conversation with those that we disagree with ideologically ends in shouting, ad hominem attacks, and in some cases pushing false narratives to our employers in an attempt to (quite literally) ruin our lives. Ironically the ones that refuse to have civil discourse with us seem to pride themselves on how tolerant and open-minded they are. And all of this happens because we disagree on a few key issues.

whammywon··on Facebook forcing moderators to log every second of day
So I guess at that point "wait time" just becomes a vanity metric? Or to show their clients "we only make callers wait X amount of time compared to our competitors"?
whammywon··on Show HN: Beef, a new performance-oriented programming language
In keeping with this, Python also has something similar: https://www.python.org/
whammywon··on Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?
Awesome. Congrats on your success, and thank you for your response!
whammywon··on Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?
That's awesome! I've always thought the idea of programming VSTs/VSTIs was interesting.

Can you link to any resources you used in learning to build them?

whammywon··on A bug I wish I hadn't caught
Xbox Live lets you change your gamertag, and I believe PSN does as well.

Pretty sure you have to pay to do it, but there are definitely services that let you change your user name.

whammywon··on Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS
Awesome! I haven't used Tailwind for any big projects (yet!) but I _have_ tinkered with it, and I really like it.

Good work!

whammywon··on Ask HN: How to freelance with niche programming languages?
Sure. We're one of the largest lawn/garden/agriculture distributors in the Southeastern United States.

But there seems to be a lot of other companies that rely on legacy RPG. "The Four Hundred" from IT Jungle seems to be a good resource to IBM i-related information.

https://www.itjungle.com/newsletter/tfh/

whammywon··on Ask HN: How to freelance with niche programming languages?
I can't speak to COBOL-based businesses, but I work for a large company that uses primarily RPG ILE. Five of our eight programmers have passed retirement age, but are still holding on. Once they decide to leave the company, we'll will be in a tight spot. I can only imagine its the same way at a lot of other RPG shops.

All this is to say, +1 for consulting/freelancing for legacy tech.

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