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by rapicastillo 11y ago
Yes, I understand. But I thought I'd put my 2cents on the difference between what I did if I didn't have a green card. And how it differs with a corporation/big donors/super PACs or a foreign gov't giving assistance
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by rapicastillo 11y ago
That's a great thing to think about. IMHO, it's about worth and intent - as with any. And as with any software development, it's all relative. For me - personally - coding the map was a way for me to practice leaflet, which I
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by rapicastillo 11y ago
Hi! I'm the immigrant in the story. For what it's worth I'm permanent resident, not allowed to vote. Furthermore, it's seen as an in-kind contribution, just like when you help building a stage for the campaign, only in o
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
If anyone in Google is interested, you guys might want to check out Jure Leskovec's works on blog influence. I think it has the capability to solve the junk-farming issue.
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
Apple comes to mind, app-wise.
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
Based on the comments from the site, there's a Streisand effect looming.
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
This is the exact same thing i am planning to do. i am currently in a lavish tech consultancy firm, but the whole idea of being a "resource" is really stagnating my brain, and also objectivizes humanity. I still can't stand being called a r
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
cool. This is like the Middle Earth's Der Untergang (The Downfall)
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
Touche! I always get frustrated upon knowing that the answer is blurred and I go "Ack expertsexchange"
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
I somewhat hate the fact that websites had to spoonfeed almost everything to the user. Quora does look rudimentary, but it gets the job done. i think the simplicity is not ugly, but rather clean. I would love to see a site whose part of the
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
Here's my twocents: I think BAs and PMs are for the management side of the industry. Currently with big payout, however plateaued. While programmers are on the innovation path, who will eventually (co-)create a really great startup. In the
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
If we go with the fact that Anonymous is infact a true distributed environment, then the replacement mechanism will be very easy. I think Anonymous is a kind of humanized group-comm architecture sans a coordinator.
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by rapicastillo 16y ago
On a related note, what he was trying to do reminded me of a Kaggle.com winner on social networks, deanonymizing social networks: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/shmat_oak09.pdf . The latter, of course, is better than gut feel. Also, his