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by nooron 6y ago
If choosing to certify the more proportionately anomalous Livonia and not Detroit, disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of Black voters while accepting White voters, is not a form of racism, I don’t know what is. I don’t throw the word ar
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by nooron 6y ago
There are small and infrequently consequential anomalies in every election, in every state. A physical corollary of this fact is that most recounts at the statewide level result in perhaps ~100 ballots changing. That's because voter fr
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by nooron 6y ago
Hello, I have worked on campaigns in Detroit and throughout the state, so I have some clarity on the ways in which the city and the state’s elections can be fraught. If the supposed anomalies in voting patterns amounted to meaningful miscon
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Ask HN: Any TikTok Ads Experience?
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by nooron 6y ago
It shills a little hard for Salesforce IIRC but "Predictable Revenue" was very helpful for me. "Never Split the Difference" is good even if it leans a little hard on a single rhetorical device, and it offers really easy
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by nooron 6y ago
Yeah for sure. I found the post I made about it (01/24/2014) but I am going to have to dig through my messages/HD to find the screenshot. I'll post when I'm done w/ work
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by nooron 6y ago
Two anecdotes on FB Groups: First, I think the most-missed story about the 2016 election is the role that Groups played in Bernie Sander’s ascendance. The volume of meme content and direct voter contact that I received from Bernie volunteer
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by nooron 6y ago
Could you explain how you know he had a grudge against the DNC, and how you know he had access to these materials?
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by nooron 6y ago
Hey, I wanted to tell you I worked deep in the Democratic Party's technology operations for several years. I didn't know Seth but I know plenty of people who did. What you are saying is nonsense. I can't prove a negative, but
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The Rise of a Hindu Vigilante in the Age of WhatsApp(wired.com)
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by nooron 7y ago
You are right, in the deepest recesses there is crossover. Stripe, media companies/FB for ad buys, Microsoft Azure, AWS. It is very rare anywhere else.
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by nooron 7y ago
I agree with all this. To your point, NationBuilder has been nearly shut out of the Democratic Party at anything above the local level as a result of serving Trump in 2016.
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by nooron 7y ago
Hey, I appreciate your comment and I'm happy to share. It is very hard to make into a real business, very few people have succeeded. You do it because you believe in a cause or a candidate or a party. As far as why people don't se
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by nooron 7y ago
I'll do my best, but I'll probably disappoint! A friend of mine who works in politics told someone in the IDP that I might be helpful because my company makes software for Democratic political campaigns. I had a conversation with
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by nooron 7y ago
That's very sweet, my cousin's dog was named Shadow. I hope it goes well for her.
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by nooron 7y ago
I think you are 100% right, it is a very tight deadline with very few manhours. I did not advance far enough in the proposal process to learn their budget but that sounds plausible to me.
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by nooron 7y ago
Hey, I'm really glad you asked, and I'm happy to share. The reason that most people start companies in politics is because they have strong political leanings. You do it because you believe strongly in something or someone and wan
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by nooron 7y ago
tmpz22, where do you work in this space? I started Tuesday Company. I would love to talk more with you and hear about your experiences, I am sure we have a lot in common.
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by nooron 7y ago
There is a very small pool of engineers who work full-time in politics because it is a small and highly cyclical industry with extraordinarily small margins. I have personally worked with many competing campaigns and nearly all vendors in t
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by nooron 7y ago
I started a company that was asked to write a proposal to make what became the app that failed last night. I declined because it was outside of our core skillset. You can read my prior comments or look at my profile to validate this. If you
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by nooron 7y ago
Hey, this is exactly why I keep it by my bed with a bottle of Soylent. The first thing I do when I wake up every day is take it and chug the Soylent to make sure I've got enough nutrition for it to work well. It helps a lot, I would ea
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by nooron 7y ago
Hey, are you referring to the SUAD Device? I am thinking about getting one and curious if there is an alternative. I have heard mixed things about their quality. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us.
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by nooron 7y ago
I also work in this and strongly agree.
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by nooron 7y ago
I don't think this is a fair characterization of the situation, regardless of whether one likes AOC or not. AOC cannot personally say no to Amazon opening an office because that is not how the government works. Amazon asked for large t
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by nooron 7y ago
I think there is strong contrary evidence for this claim. Please don’t think I’m shilling for Likud when I share it, I’m also very opposed to US foreign adventurism. Invading Iraq was broadly popular among Americans with strong interests in
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by nooron 7y ago
I hear your point. I agree we have been completely unsuccessful in Afghanistan. My point is that the commenter is naive in making this about Israel. American support for invading after 9/11 was foolish, but it was also extremely high.
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by nooron 7y ago
Hey, I don’t think anyone was invading Afghanistan on behalf of Israel, nor would anyone consider Afghanistan a significant security risk to Israel. This is a poor read of the situation
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by nooron 7y ago
I work in digital for the Democratic Party. You are correct. If you look at my comment history you’ll see me affirming this.
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by nooron 7y ago
I do not believe that a crypto that would be a viable substitute would be deflationary. I am observing that the most popular crypto today is bitcoin, that it is deflationary, that (many of) its fans like that property, and that it would be
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by nooron 7y ago
A more or less open voting ledger already exists without a blockchain. You can go to your Secretary of State and buy the record of voting in your state for somewhere between 0 and a few thousand dollars. You could also buy it from a private

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