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So yes, if you are a Republican with a Republican representative then calling them to voice your displeasure about Donald Trump's behavior may be beneficial. Otherwise it probably won't do much unless there really is massive numbers.

You would seriously have to be blind to not realize the the current path of policies is simply incorrect policies that will lead to harm. For example instead of paying for a wall, Mexico will just pay for better ports as Donald Trump and the fools that voted for him seem to forget they have coastal shipping access to both Europe and Asia. Not to mention all of South and Central America.

That's the problem. Replacing social security with private retirement funds is a debate about which is better. With pluses and minuses on both sides. And guess what? The combination of 401k's IRAs and Social Security kind of does that. See how that works? Its actually saner than people want to believe. Same with things like how health care is run. Its not like we have some kind of socialist utopian system. Its a compromise. Or taxation with our 15% cap gains. Both sides have different opinions but both are at least based in some kind of functional reality where they might actually work. And the reality is that they are both a little bit right so in the end we typically wind up someone in the middle despite how it looks.

Stupid crap like building a wall is just plain incorrect policy. I mean if you even asked experts in border security, they would not suggest just building a giant wall. Its like what a 7 year old would suggest. What you would actually have is very similar to what we currently have. Its pretty easy to see a group of people running across the open desert and intercept them with the technology we currently have.

That is the big difference between what is happening now and what is typical in US politics.

DC had a very small inaugural turnout and very large protest the day after. I was trying to give some perspective.

I believe it was about 90% in Chicago. San Fransisco was over 90%. New York City had a large margin. We are talking approximately 45 of the 50 largest cities in the country did not vote for Donald Trump.

I took high school civics. I know how the rules work. Im just telling you that civil unrest usually happens when people feel like the rules are unjust and they have little or no power to change it through the democratic process. So Im simply trying to shed some light on it to people who may not understand why people might feel that way.

Is it really that surprising there is a fair amount of visible decent?

In Washington, DC Donald Trump won 4% of the vote.

Is it not surprising those people feel a bit underrepresented right now and might turn to alternative means of flexing their massive majority in the areas they specifically live?

This period of peacefulness is a recent phenomenon. One of the big pacifiers of democracy is that people accept the result because the majority voted for it. When you have a situation when 46% of the population is pushing an agenda that at least 48% of the population is strongly against. That group often starts to look for alternative ways to flex its majority power.

Especially when you realize that in large urban areas we are looking at 25% to 70% type splits in some cases.

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The proper thing to do would be to select that element before the scroll and pass that into the event. Otherwise performance would still be awful.

Obviously that is just a toy example that doesn't really have a point(like you correctly stated), but it was to illustrate the constant riding of sizzle to select things over and over again, killing performance.

EDIT: Downvotes prove the point. Take a look at the sizzle cache for yourself. The fact that so many people misunderstand jQuery enough for this to get significantly downvoted on a site where the average competency of developer is probably a bit higher than in the wild shows you exactly the horror that jQuery was for mobile performance.

Although, maybe that means there really aren't many skilled web developers on this site anyway. Because the people who downvoted this are completely wrong so maybe I shouldn't assume there is much talent around here.

The constant traversing of the DOM over and over and over again to re-select jQuery DOM objects. Sure you can write that correctly. But I rarely if ever saw anyone to the point that when I would, most developers who typically worked in jQuery would be confused.

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jQuery(which was really sizzle) was a plague because it allowed garbage developers to search the entire DOM over and over and over again(aka get shit done bro). This would clobber the performance in mobile devices because JavaScript is single threaded and lead to the idea that JavaScript itself was unsuited for mobile applications.

Sorry, its garbage for anything but spicing up a WordPress site.

Working for yourself or in more functional economies that actually have things like workers rights is a different story altogether.

There are fewer accountants today because of tax software and Excel spreadsheets. They are still needed for more complex and unique situations, but there will be a lot fewer of them. The local H&R Block uses lower paid "Tax Preparers" instead.

There are a lot of research done about Walmart and about when the store moved into town there were not fewer jobs, but somehow the area got poorer. What they found was that the local community leaders(small business owners, lawyers, accountants) were automated away and/or moved to Walmart headquarters.

http://aese.psu.edu/nercrd/economic-development/for-research...

Is one I could find, but that also references other papers in the field.

This leads to me understand that like Walmart, the simple human physical labor jobs will remain long after the more skilled positions. The main reason, I believe, is that software is simply cheaper than hardware(robots) so highly skilled positions which require software not hardware to remove will be the first to go. This is exacerbated by the fact that the software replaceable jobs are the highest paid and therefore the most profitable to remove.

The Swiss I've known have been some of the most thoughtful and intelligent people I've had the pleasure of working with. Just saying that it's probably not the best country to use as an example even if they have done a lot recently to reform their economy away from the banking system.

Why would you intentionally attempt to misinform your fellow citizens?

2. December 3, 2008. That's when that article was published about giving notice and starting to find replacements. Same as every other president does.

3. Serious question. Are you paid to do what you are doing right now? I have a really hard time understanding why you would post that link which is specifically framed to spread misinformation as it is about a completely different point in the presidency. Seriously, this is your country. Why would you intentionally attempt to misinform your fellow citizens?

EDIT: I expect a response. You said Obama did the "exact same thing". Which is an outright falsehood and posted an link that is from a different period to intentionally misinform people. In some countries what you just did would be considered a crime.

I mean, kind of. You don't really need much controller logic most of the time anymore. Last Rails backend I wrote probably involved personally writing a few lines of code here and there. Generally, I'm just pushing a JSON object back and forth. Auth and emails can just be 3rd party. The vast majority of controller type behavior ends up client side at this point. Partly, because its way simpler to scale with you push as much processing to the client as you can. Also, look at something like Firebase or Hoodie as examples of simple stores that require no backend logic.

Its not that Rails and Symfony are useless, I use them all the time, its just that they are kind of dated concepts. Heck even Wordpress solves a specific problem on the backend enough to be useful sometimes. That said Drupal at this point is such a dated concept(superseded by things like Rails and Symfony many years ago) that is should no longer be used.

Sure distribution can have issues, but do you have any references for simple possession as training and test data?

Suburbs are much, much, much cheaper than urban areas when they are not near high income employment or have quality school districts. Suburbs near(meaning commute time) high income employment and quality schools are as expensive, if not more expensive as urban areas when controlled for square footage.

That said, the use of the all too common dismissive comment stating that if you are not physically doing something about it then you are part of the problem is caveman thinking.

Actively fighting and protesting can do more harm than good. Freedom of speech is sometimes more about combined civil public discourse as opposed to aggressive and manipulative tactics of seizing power and pushing propaganda as you have suggested.

We are talking 50 cents a bucket. Pennies per item. There is not a lot of room for automation to undercut.

Workers in decision making and diagnosis type roles cost significantly more and mostly only require software(not hardware) to replace. Think about how much a doctor gets paid per cancer diagnosis? Or per cancer treatment prescribed?

Diagnosing doctors will be replaced way before migrant farm labor disappears.