HistoryInAction

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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
Because this isn't a legislative issue, but rather a regulatory one. Bureaucrats aren't the most responsive to public pressure, in contrast with elected officials. That said, right now, we're in an awareness building phase, s
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
This. We don't have to agree with them on everything. We do have to respect them enough to use their language (think ./English/politics/Tea Party/ in contrast to ./English/tech/ . ) when communicating
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
I'll also point out that Sina (sinak) has been spearheading this effort, and while he has a job title at EFF, he's primarily independently coordinating the volunteer efforts of folks like us through https://taskforce.is
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
As far as I understand, the Sergeant at Arms can enforce IT mandates upon the various offices, no?
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by HistoryInAction 12y ago
Not quite so. The trends in the industrial north were already strikingly negative by '79, and the fears of the coal miners in that pre-Thatcher era were important factors in the fall of the Heath and Wilson ministries.
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
The Senate remains broadly interested in the data broker industry, so this dovetails with other ongoing policy issues.
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Up until the bridge scandal was proven to have legs (several months after it broke, mind you), Christie was winning the pre-primary money/fundraising race. He had solid inroads to both the Bush and Romney machines (aka traditional GOP)
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
There is also the National Interest Waiver for entrepreneurship for the EB-2 to further make the process easier: http://www.uscis.gov/news/public-releases-topic/business-imm...
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Ah, sorry, I wasn't clear. I've only heard that concern from political professionals on the left, not that the concern itself was associated with one side of the aisle or another. And correct, I've never thought about the eth
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Strong underline for the old-style print newspapers. But look to Brian X. Chen at NYT, Evelyn Rusli at WSJ who cover tech, even if it's just online. Keep in mind that the reviewing bureaucrats at USCIS have NEVER heard of TechCrunch, j
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
And yes, there is also political opposition from the left centered around the extra control investors would have if they also determine the immigration status of a founder. I don't understand that opposition, but I've run into it
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Oh, it's even worse than you think. The visa category (J-1) I investigated using for a similar proposal I pitched to 500 two years back is controlled by a small industry of academia-affiliated shops to place foreign students. DHS/
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Bradley nails it. I've looked into this in trying to implement startup visa since March 2011. The EB-5 requires the capital to be personally owned, as it's intended for wealthy individuals to invest in a local business, usually a
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Perhaps you're referring to the E-2 treaty investor visa rather than one of the EB green cards?
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Quite true. I am not a lawyer, but I help founders hack immigration while pursuing the general solution through passing immigration reform that includes a startup visa. For the O-1, you need to make the case that you're in the top 2-3%
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Interesting, especially in context of the FG Press announcement. Good luck!
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NSA paid $10 million for a backdoor into RSA encryption(theverge.com)
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
And keep in mind the unique structure of VA counties (especially in NoVA), where cities are carved out from their surrounding counties, which leads to deep pockets of blue (voting) and high income tax rates due to concentrated wealth not be
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Linus Pauling quit Caltech over this, having fought to the highest levels of the government to allow Tsien to visit his dying (father? grandfather?) in China. The man was accused of being a Communist so harshly, he decided he'd rather
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Actually, while the initial investigation of Path related to their poor information security and abusive use of user data to drive their viral coefficient, the fine specifically related to violations of COPPA. That law refers to extra priva
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
MailChimp is based out of there and GA Tech's Advanced Technology Development Center is pretty rad from what I hear.
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
We should loop in Elias Bizannes and the StartupBus crew
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Comprehensive immigration reform, at least the Senate bill, will implement green card sponsorship portability, which will fix this problem. You're completely right that H-1B portability was implemented, which happened in 2008 with the
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
That's correct. Under the current law, cloud-based storage is an implicit acceptance of giving up various privacy protections, under the principle of third-party disclosure. The principle summary is that if you share private informatio
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
In touch with Shane @ Startup Genome? http://www.startupgenome.com/
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
True, but I'm sure we can hack it: "Individual Athlete - Time needed to complete the event, competition or performance, not to exceed 5 years Individual Athlete –Increments of up to 5 years in order to continue or complete the eve
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
There are plenty of reputable lawyers, especially with the ACLU, who have been fighting in public courts against this secret parallel court structure. Early on, claims were simply thrown out due to "state secrets," presented in se
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Hmm, CALEA is really not the right law to be referencing. CALEA generally applies to wiretaps and specifically derives from telephony surveillance and is more relevant—and worrying—to a Twilio or SendHub, rather then DDG. It's more lik
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Hmm, that used to be my theory, but the data doesn't seem to support it. The rise in M&A as exit over IPO is the key metric I tracked in researching this. The inflection point seems to be around two years earlier than the 2002 pass
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by HistoryInAction 13y ago
Twice: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/08/nsl-gag-order-lifte...

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