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by woodhull 10y ago
Do you really think that the techno-capitalist libertarian utopia that many in silicon valley seem to be trying to build is a-political, immune from regulation or popular backlash? Anything political or critical of YC already gets disappear
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by woodhull 10y ago
How is this ethical: YC funds Vote.org as part of YC S16. Vote.org is a voter registration platform broadly similar to VotePlz, but with fewer emojis. Sam Altman spends his summer advising vote.org in his role as a YC Partner. Soon after de
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by woodhull 10y ago
I've found that PRs against terraform tend to languish for months at a time with no feedback from hashicorp.
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by woodhull 10y ago
I know the hashicorp stack fairly well as we run packer and terraform to provision our production environment and we've considered rolling out consul. I'm so glad you're killing a product. My complaint has always been that ha
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Tech Giants Face Off Against 18F(govtech.com)
179 points by woodhull 10y ago|85 comments
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Sex and Startups(medium.com)
2 points by woodhull 11y ago|0 comments
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by woodhull 11y ago
We've been running this open source code in production for about a year. Works great, but not sure it's really news...
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by woodhull 11y ago
We've run into this as well. It's absurd that a company of their size has no support ticketing system. There have been occasions when we've had to rely on personal relationships with staff at Stripe to simply get an email res
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by woodhull 11y ago
Remote - Contract - Dev Ops We're looking for a devops contractor to build a long term relationship with. We build organizing software for progressive not-for-profit organizations: http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/ Expe
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by woodhull 12y ago
We do this twice a year. Just got back from a week with the team in Brazil.
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by woodhull 12y ago
The NSA almost certainly has staff posing as Amazon Web Services employees. They would be negligent not to have infiltrated the company.
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by woodhull 12y ago
ControlShift - www.controlshiftlabs.com - Brooklyn / REMOTE ControlShift Labs is hiring a software engineer to support the improvement and continued development of our product that millions of people have used to fight for change in th
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by woodhull 12y ago
This sort of cloud scale thinking about power usage/performance is how we'll clean up the environmental record of the data center industry. Think about how this sort of thing when applied to AWS ElastiCache would reduce the coal f
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by woodhull 12y ago
ControlShift Labs - Remote Team (Global). Ruby/Rails or DevOps - Freelance Contractor or Full Time. http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/ What we do: We build a set of software tools that online advocacy organizations use
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by woodhull 12y ago
If nothing else, use the hardware to mine bitcoins and convert to cache for more runway.
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by woodhull 12y ago
ControlShift Labs: http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/ (NYC or remote) We're a strong technical team building software products to help non-profits engage their members participate in their missions in meaningful ways on
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by woodhull 13y ago
How does this compare with Epoxy for Backbone.js?
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by woodhull 13y ago
Join us -- we're a tiny but growing team in Brooklyn, Albany and Buenos Aires, building software for activism: http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/careers/
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GiveDirectly hiring a first CTO(givedirectly.org)
1 points by woodhull 13y ago|0 comments
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by woodhull 13y ago
ControlShift Labs, a provider of open-source tools for activism is hiring a software engineer - anywhere with time zone overlap with New York City. Good salary, benefits: http://www.controlshiftlabs.com/careers/
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by woodhull 13y ago
Found a reference, in this WSJ editorial: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732382300457859... and Daily Caller piece: http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/26/consumer-financial-prot
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by woodhull 13y ago
Can you post a citation here? Googling, all I can find are references to a database of consumer complaints that people have proactively made to the agency about Credit Card companies being abusive. That work seems like good digital governme
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by woodhull 13y ago
This is awesome! Thanks for being such a leader.
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MIT Report is a whitewash. My Statement in Response(tarensk.tumblr.com)
381 points by woodhull 13y ago|197 comments
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by woodhull 13y ago
term limits do not address the problem of money in politics. They just create a bigger incentive for a revolving door between industry and legislative office.
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by woodhull 13y ago
It's actually really easy to fix with publicly funded elections, or other campaign finance reform.
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by woodhull 14y ago
Actually, the petition site is a clever way to harvest email addresses which the administration can then use to market it's policies back to constituents.
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Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself?(slate.com)
106 points by woodhull 14y ago|44 comments
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by woodhull 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that GiveWell (whom I adore) wouldn't like Watsi very much. It doesn't maximize the utility of donations to spend lots of money saving the lives of a handful of people vs. other interventions that can save the lives of many
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by woodhull 14y ago
Orca and systems like it are also not particularly relevant to electoral outcomes, compared to all of the other things that campaigns use/build.

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