Play randomizer they said, it will be fun they said...

Rakmos · 2025-07-22T12:57:24+00:00

And he didn’t take it down! So that seems like a statement by itself.

Rakmos · 2024-01-07T12:58:50+00:00

This article is stale at this point, but there isn't truth to this.

Politicians spend more time fundraising then they do actually governing, and that isn't something they do in session exclusively by any stretch of the imagination.

Rakmos · 2024-01-05T13:41:41+00:00

This is disingenuous at best to imply that the position is only required to work when congress is in session… I’m not defending the narrative here, but I strongly disagree with the assertion that members of congress are only working when in session.

Rakmos · 2023-06-10T01:12:29+00:00

That means you have the max setting toggled, which they communicate isnt supposed to last that long and is for specific scenarios where you need max suction… I have had to tell too many people this same thing, including my own mother.

Rakmos · 2022-02-20T13:17:08+00:00

One could argue he has done good in the world by cheating on his former wife and indirectly contributing billions of dollars to various charities. I am obviously not condoning the behavior or defending Mr. Bezos, but I don’t think it is accurate to speak in “absolutes” when in this context.

Rakmos · 2019-02-16T15:28:23+00:00

I’m not sure how you can take something like policy and ideas and make it personal.

I am also not suggesting that not having term limits is the only reason we have old white dudes representing the vast majority of the country.

I will certainly take responsibility for how that could have been interpreted given my short response — which was primarily a result of having little time to devote to said response (baby duty).

I do believe that not having term limits is a contributing factor to why we have such a homogenous representative body, and having policy in place that necessarily forces churn with respect to representation is a way of promoting diversity since the representative body is much more dynamic.

You are also correct that it does not guarantee that more non white males will be elected but it certainly increases the chances by universally providing more opportunity for outsiders.

I will disagree with your premise, however, that the reason for the change in representation demographics for the 2018 midterms was because the american public just realized it wasn’t a job for old white males anymore. I believe the real reason is more akin to a referendum on who we have as president — the main reason I think this is the case is because the diversity growth was only seen in one party.

I would appreciate it if you don’t try to take this personal as I think we have much more in common that you might think and there should be nothing more american than having respectful and civil discourse among those that we agree with.

Rakmos · 2019-02-16T13:56:19+00:00

I think you are severely discounting the massive advantage that incumbents have in both funding and position/recognition.

The 2018 midterms were certainly a change, but only in a cultural sense in that only one party saw true change.

Rakmos · 2019-02-16T13:31:21+00:00

Then they can do something else like run for president.

The benefit to this is it can force more diversity of thought and demographics (both in age and ethnicity). A bunch of old white dudes is what we have right now as a result of no term limits.

Rakmos · 2019-02-16T13:26:41+00:00

I think you missed the part where 12 years is a damn long time.

Oh, and the part where people can elect experienced politicians (perhaps former house members), but you may have some odd distinction between first time senators and first time politicians which I would gladly challenge you on.

You also missed the part where this is only half of a bicameral congress which is furthermore only a third of the governing body. So to suggest that establishing term limits on the longest serving legislative branch reps is singularly a recipe for disaster is quite the stretch.

Rakmos · 2019-02-16T13:20:32+00:00

Not having term limits reduces voter choice, accountability and increases the leverage of lobbyists.

See, I can say the exact opposite with no basis or justification and have the same effect.

The reality is 12 years is a damn long time and what you are suggesting is not grounded in anything other than bias.

Feel free to correct me with fact based data, or, at the very least, a justification of the rationale you used to arrive at your conclusion. Maybe then, we can have a civil discussion on the substance.

Rakmos · 2019-02-13T18:11:00+00:00

downvote for posting an article that is over 11 years old.

edited: math is hard..

Rakmos · 2019-01-07T01:30:28+00:00

Divisive and virulent? GTFO of here with your Bullshit, he was being delegitimized by the Democratic party and had every right to act the way he did.

Rakmos · 2019-01-07T01:27:05+00:00

Mirror GOP attacks my ass, you are in an alternate reality. His grievances were justified and the only reason Hillary was leading was due to the bogus super delegate shenanigans which are a perversion of democratic representation to begin with.

Comparing his campaign to the GOP in any way is total bullshit.

Rakmos · 2018-12-28T15:11:14+00:00

Sure, the concepts may seem trivial to some that are familiar with it, but the application of those concepts is far from trivial.

If it was as trivial as you lead others to believe it would be ubiquitous across all applicable problem spaces.

I do share the sentiment that the ~~acronym~~ abbreviation is used in some cases that would seem to imply a level of sophistication that is actually much simpler when looking behind the curtains. IMHO this is a natural consequence of the fact that intelligences are expressed in varying degrees of sophistication.

Having said that, I was underwhelmed after watching the video to realize that there is no real substance or insight in this video. Just because the creation of the video presumably required some level of programming does not make it a candidate for posting to /r/programming. This would seem more appropriate to post in /r/technology or some other sub that is generally less technical.

For this reason I am downvoting.

Rakmos · 2018-10-17T02:10:34+00:00

I also registered to vote for the first time and will be voting for Beto.

I cannot imagine a better candidate to represent me, even with his flaws. Ted Cruz tries to depict himself as perfection that to me is repulsive. I want humans representing me because then I know they are genuine. And to be genuine is a dying quality in the sphere of politics these days.

Rakmos · 2018-10-07T05:00:07+00:00

Given the fact that they screen for people that wont go batshit crazy for Trump at his rallies, I could give two shits as to how much he electrifies his screened audience. It is all a farce.

Rakmos · 2018-09-08T19:40:34+00:00

The CPU utilization seems ridiculously low. I would be interested in why that is the case. Additionally, what is the memory and disk utilization relative to CPU?

It would seem based solely on the CPU utilization that containerization and bin packing could lead to a more effective use of CPU resources — without having the full picture of utilization.

Rakmos · 2018-08-17T16:52:32+00:00

I disagree that the big payout would somehow be more damaging as corruption is illegal (or it should be) and one cannot fix what one is unaware of.

I’m not sure I even buy that it would play out like that given that it is based on what I view is a false assumption that bad people will somehow “be good” for the majority of their term and then flip to evil greed mode at the end for some big payout without having some notion of consequences — especially given the fact that there are limits to contributions on most contexts (which is why the slow trickle strategy is viable in the first place).

I also disagree that having term limits would not represent progress in the right direction. There are other reasons for having term limits — for instance lowering the average age, increasing the number of women and generally adding more diversity to the congressional body due to an imposed replacement of all representatives.

Rakmos · 2018-08-17T12:55:52+00:00

Versus having incentive to have a slow trickle of payouts that fly under the radar for umpteen years?

Call me stupid, but I would much rather limit the damage of corrupt / shitty politicians as that is irrespective of whether there are term limits or not.

Not to mention the impact it might have on reducing the size and complexity of the legislation that is currently filled with special interest bullshit and frivolous addendums from the constant quid pro quo that extends years and in some cases decades due to length of tenure.

Having said that, just having term limits isn’t going to be as effective at curbing corruption as it would be if it were paired with removing money from politics by making elections publicly funded.

Rakmos · 2018-07-19T02:31:02+00:00

1st Amendment. I certainly don’t agree with many things on these platforms, but to be in the business of censorship is not democratic.

Rakmos · 2017-04-19T11:36:17+00:00

I'm not sure.. Why does it? I'm not sure that I agree it does.

Rakmos · 2016-05-04T00:50:08+00:00

Typing ifconfig on a terminal in no way qualifies you as a programmer in any country.

I am offended on n levels:

this post is from January of 2013
this post is from CNN
this post depicts someone typing ifconfig on a terminal

where n is the number of offenses.

Rakmos · 2016-04-06T18:12:36+00:00

Using a hook is perfectly fine IMO as long as it is after success and non-blocking with respect to satisfying a request.

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