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by duncangh 1y ago
I'm thinking the terms would be several weeks max similar to jury duty. Families could be sequestered with them and could definitely work around civic pillars like school and harvest or tourism seasons maybe
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by duncangh 1y ago
Hi HN, I've been thinking about this for months now and with each pass I find myself more enamored with it as a mode of achieving representative democracy. Interested to hear your thoughts. I think this would be an entire constitutiona
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To Save America's Democracy We Should End Elections(duncangh.com)
14 points by duncangh 1y ago|18 comments
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by duncangh 1y ago
Let's randomly summon citizens to serve brief terms as legislators. It's less crazy than it sounds and even if it weren't it still sounds better than what we've got. For the people by the people. You're already dest
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by duncangh 1y ago
Amazon will add any information to the UX like a hoarder adding trinkets to their collection from the gift store. It's kind of endearing, really
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by duncangh 3y ago
What is the best source of government data on the H1B program (e.g total visas per year, count by industry / job function, nationality of recipient counts)? Also, do you know of any original sources / documents which discuss the f
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by duncangh 5y ago
Lmao this is great because on my "virtual on-site" final round of interviews at Amazon, the fire alarm of the person who was interviewing me went off. She switched to audio on the call and continued to try to work through the litt
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by duncangh 6y ago
This is absolutely incredible. I will not be working all day because of this. Neat seeing the different forms of civic infrastructure around the world. E.g. in Spain, they have traffic lights that blink on green when about to change. Could
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by duncangh 7y ago
And I just cancelled all my Kubernetes side projects on GCP