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Ntagg | 9 years ago | on: GitHub Report Card

I replied to a couple other people, but to be clear, I didn't grant access to the GitHub Org. I only granted access to my own private repos (personal, non-work projects). I actually don't even have the ability to grant any permissions on the GitHub org :)

Ntagg | 9 years ago | on: GitHub Report Card

Heh. Yeah, I responded to clarify that I did not grant access to that Org.

Ntagg | 9 years ago | on: GitHub Report Card

Ah, good question! No, I did not request access to the GitHub private org.

Ntagg | 9 years ago | on: GitHub Report Card

I'm a Technical Product Manager at GitHub. I just took a look at this (pretty cool, maybe we should have deeper user metrics...). I saw a couple of comments about the 'write access' so I just figured I'd chime in and point out that it's a required scope to get all of the private contrib info out of the API. I definitely encourage people to be mindful of what access they grant, but for what it's worth I did it :)

Ntagg | 15 years ago | on: Google rolls out Social Search globally

I'm sure they've realized the real benefit here is that people will search Google, rather than typing in a domain, which leads to incremental traffic/searches/ad impressions.

Ntagg | 15 years ago | on: Ask HN: How's my pre-launch copy?

Well, I signed up for an invite. I like your "referral for reward" marketing strategy. Maybe include a "more" link to give info to people who want to find out what you're doing?

Ntagg | 15 years ago | on: Gabe Newell on Valve's business model

I love the concept of different monetezation strategies for different types of players. That's a game-changer (pun!). Love to watch how it's executed.

Ntagg | 15 years ago | on: How to be 100% sure your startup idea is good

It'd also be cool to give the start-ups ideas of what kind of perks they could offer early adopters. I thought lunch with a founder was a fun idea, but I had trouble thinking of perks that were genuinely worthwhile and incentivizing.

Ntagg | 15 years ago | on: Scott Adams: How to Tax the Rich

Let's say there are ten people in a room and they each give five dollars to an "elected" member who gets to redistribute that money, after which all the members re-vote on the next elected member. A savvy elected member would redistribute the money to five members, plus himself, thus perpetually stay in power and continue to receive the majority of votes.

I use this illustration to show that as long as one official or group gets to continue in power, they don't have incentive to do right by everyone; rather, they are incentivized to do well to only a slim majority.

The short-term problem this article presents is that our country's budget crisis demands a surplus contribution from the wealthy. For argument's sake, I'll admit it does.

The understated, long-term problem is that elected officials are personally motivated to spend their political power on getting re-elected, which only requires making a little more than half of their constituents satisfied.

My suggestion would be to stop allowing anyone to be re-elected. Once they know that their decisions don't have to be popular, they're free to make decisions that help long-term, even at short-term discomfort or dissatisfaction. There are obvious problems (how this reflects on their party, for example), but I think that there's a solution embedded in this line of reasoning.

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