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It saddens me that y'all seem to think that Obama and his people somehow stand for the left wing in the United States.

We have a small, but distinct left wing here. You can find it in magazines like Jacobin or Current Affairs. You can find it in many backers of Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. Or in Occupy.

But Obama? The left in the United States has spent eight years yelling bloody murder about his spying, his favors to the banksters, and his corporate giveaways. Obama's era has feature apthe combination of "not fighting hard for the good stuff he says he wants" and "fighting very hard for the bad stuff he wants". Don't lump him in with us.

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I know Tom, and I can personally attest to his smarts, passion, and personal warmth. Really excited and proud to see this on the frontpage.

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##What I'm looking for

I'm a developer / data scientist hybrid with a Masters and a background from Wikimedia (Wikipedia). Right now, I'm focusing on learning best practices for software engineering -- with a side of machine learning. With the right team, I'd also love to work on application security, data science, and deep backend/OS development. The most important thing for me is putting roots down, committing to something for the long-haul, and having an enjoyable and stimulating time doing good work with good colleagues.

##A bit more about me:

I founded a technical startup, joined as an early co-founder of another, and most importantly, served as the data scientist and engineer for the fundraising team at Wikimedia. Those banners you sometimes see on Wikipedia asking for money -- I wrote the backend to analyze, collate, validate, and explain the results to the non-technical staff who tested them. Now, for the first time, the Wikimedia Fundraising team has a clean and visually attractive record of the results and lessons of almost every test run since 2010 till this day.

Exactly.

Is Gnome an Operating System? Is Unity? Then why is "Quantum OS" one?

This might be what you're looking for: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/post/the-histor...

Very briefly:

In the mid years of Bush, the D Senate filibustered more than usual in regards to nominations of non-Supreme Court judges.

In 2006, when Democrats took the Senate, the Republicans started filibustering up a storm. But no one in the press noticed because Bush would have veto'd anyway, so the balance of power didn't shift.

As soon as Obama was elected, the Republican Senate had an internal meeting where they agreed to filibuster everything all the time -- legislation, judges, executive appointments, everything. Even legislation they supported, just to throw a wrench into the plans. It was a momentous change. The press failed to point it out or make an issue out of it. And here we are.

D's lost 8, R's gained 8 in the latest election.

Assuming no new R's vote right, that gets us to a vote of 50 / 50, with Biden getting the deciding vote. However, in the modern filibustering Senate, 41 Senators can kill any bill.

So in theory, if everyone who voted for the bill hangs tight, they could destroy any new legislation, including PATRIOT ACT reauthorization.

However, I'd be quite surprised if neither of these things happen: 1. McConnell decides the filibuster no longer works for him, so he kills it. 2. Obama puts remarkable pressure on fellow D's and they buckle.

But theoretically, we have all the votes we need. And if 1 new R senator joins the anti-NSA caucus (and all the D Senators hang tight, and all the D senators are good on the issue), they wouldn't even be a minority -- they'd have 51 votes.

Hope that makes sense.

Nice of the article to clearly lay out the partisan divisions here. None of that "blame both sides" bs.

The vote: All D's voted right except Bill Nelson of Florida. All R's voted wrong except Cruz, Lee, Heller, Paul, and Murkowski.

Where "right" means "for the overhaul bill" and "wrong" means the opposite.

You'll also notice that this bill got way over 50 votes, but still failed due to the modern filibuster.

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After founding my first startup, I used to work at the Wikimedia Foundation, then took time off to travel the country, work on a few social good projects, and join my friend's startup. Now I'm ready to jump back into a full-time commitment.

Are you a company that makes a product you're dang proud of? Are you full of friendly, smart, supportive people? Can you honestly say with a straight face that the world is better off because you exist? If you said yes to those three questions, we should talk.

Moxie, you're an (inter)national treasure. Thanks for helping us filter out the bullshit.

I'm with Richard Stallman on this. http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2013/02/04/fixing-too-...

Banks have way too much power in both our politics and economy. We have to change that.

I canceled my paid account because of the appointment. Dropbox is still kicking around as a free option, but I'm okay with that because they're losing money on my business.

When I get some free time I'll fully switch to SpiderOak as well.

AOSP?

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I'm looking for something worthy to join up with full-time. I'm founded an app startup, worked as a data scientist at Wikipedia, and organized consumers at an international corporate accountability NGO.

My interests are in undermining the power of unaccountable entrenched organizations, full-spectrum data science, and working in a genuine and friendly environment.

In for $50 and a T-shirt.

2$? Where do you get domain names that cheap?

I don't understand. Can you link me to a thing that will teach me to understand, please?

I noticed this the other day. It's pretty exciting!

Slick site.