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by jacoblyles 13y ago
You must not know a lot of Tea Partiers. Though to be fair, they are more "right-wing revolutionaries" than "conservatives" by any reasonable sense of the word.
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peer to peer DNS is possible (see: namecoin)
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To be fair, most of Eastern Europe was under the Soviet boot in my lifetime, and I'm only 30. I'm sure Eastern European residents are happy that their American allies are not letting their guard down re:Russia. Just because one
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Isn't partisan politics a wondrous thing?
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The Pauls, and other reps supported by Campaign for Liberty (Justin Amash).
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If the Supreme Court makes a ruling and nobody follows it, does it really have any power? If the legislature makes 10% as many rules as the executive, who really legislates? If branches of the executive insist on their "independence&qu
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Progressive California did a great job with its two PIPA-cosponsoring Senators. I don't know how the software industry gets rolled so badly in state politics.
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The present reality of our government's structure is certainly nothing like it claims in its charters and bylaws. America is best described as a post-democratic state. The permanent bureaucracy is the largest and most powerful branch o
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You don't see much American patriotism in California. If you never see your country's flag throughout the day, you don't have fascism.
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It's striking how much of modern political thinking comes down to branding.
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Meanwhile, it is a public fact that Cisco helped build the great firewall of China[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Peo...
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Can we have Erlang day again?
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I know this is late, but I don't base my opinion on just one data point. The bankruptcy of blue state pensions is a national phenomenon. Following the issue closely drives me more and more Republican, as does living in the one-party state t
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What kind of "rudimentary research" would you do to discover that the game wouldn't have the staying power of Words with Friends?
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Libertarians have been complaining about the USA's complicated health bureaucracy for decades. Hell, they've written dozens of books about it. It doesn't take a genius to find perverse incentives in US medical pricing schemes. But don't let
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
Coursera ( https://www.coursera.org/ ) is hiring in Mountain View, CA Coursera's mission is to make a college-level education available to everybody in the world. We currently offer over 300 classes from 60+ of the world's most prestigious
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The video game industry is very different, with terrible compensation and working conditions.
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The Case for Open Preprints in Biology(plosbiology.org)
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Open University: Coursera partners with 10 major state university systems(fastcompany.com)
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Walter Russell Mead's blog pretty regularly talks about state and local governance. The big pension disasters are heavily biased towards the blue states, and red states like Texas have seen heavy migration from blue staters looking for jobs
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That's certainly the impression that a person could get from watching lefty media. But I think it represents an advance in the lefty propaganda machine more than it represents a decline in the level of Republicans. All I want out of my gove
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It is to the point that companies with fat piles of money can't grow, because they can't find competent people to give the money to. Yes, they do send out linkedin emails and take recruiting trips all over the country.
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It's not necessarily pubic programs that are the problem. Unemployment among low-skill workers is still high[1]. I don't see how increasing competition for unskilled jobs is good for those already struggling workers suffering from a low-ski
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
That would be pretty smart in my book. Our position isn't very popular among DC politicos though. Their calculus is based more on reelection than good governance for people already living here.
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For $7,000 you can have an attorney do the paperwork for you. It's not chump change, but it's well within the reach of a funded startup.
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Most of the bad press seems to be FUD against Keystone XL which works because of the rich California liberals who don't care much about energy prices. Is the lesson that no Silicon Valley PAC can ever come close to a conservative cause?
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The Democrats are doing quite well politically at the moment, regardless of the quality of the governance they offer. They feel little pressure to change a winning formula.
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It's clear that a limiting factor on the growth of Silicon Valley is the availability of high-skill laborers. The labor shortage out here is insane. There are no unemployed competent computer programmers, and few unemployed incompetent pr
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10 US state university systems join Coursera(blog.coursera.org)
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by jacoblyles 13y ago
When did we as a society decide that anonymous transactions ought to be illegal? Because I would like to voice my opinion in the other way.

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