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santisiri

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About santisiri

Founder of the Democracy Earth Foundation, a Y Combinator backed non-profit providing incorruptible digital governance for communities, corporations, cities & nations. Founding peer of Partido de la Red (The Net Party), a political party that aims to improve representation with candidates committed to citizens requests online. An advocate of Bitcoin since 2011 helping startups, e-commerce sites and nonprofits to adopt it and a partner of Bitex.la, the largest Bitcoin exchange in Latin America. In 2007 founded Popego, a pioneering big data research lab acquired by Brazilian boo-box in 2011. Co-founded the Argentine Game Developers Association in 2001. Elected as Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. Contributes in radio and television. His first book 'Hacktivismo'​ was published in 2015 by Random House.

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/santisiri; my proof: https://keybase.io/santisiri/sigs/WKzELqE_Nd4rqQg25aE80U8Ih4ly0RZEJMvZ8HlpQR8 ]

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    that’s why it’s a voting mechanism and not based on artificial intelligence. only humans can acknowledge other humans. in the original paper is referred to as “attention mining”.

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    Comment #13447781

    That's what the first chart in the article showing twitter conversations throughout all of 2016 regarding the election aims to prove.

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    Comment #13176350

    the manifesto in the README is from 1996, a classic cryptonarchist text. that said: the main thing you want to battle in politics is corruption, and we had plenty of experience fac…

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    hi hackernews, i'm the founder of http://democracy.earth and lead coder of http://sovereign.software . happy to answer any questions and doubts regarding this project (and past one…

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    Comment #13173293

    absolutely right.. actually we could've gone with a GPL license, yet we want to make sure the greatest degree of freedom is embedded in the rights to use this software and MIT's si…

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    Comment #13173284

    i remember first time i was pointed to it. classic cryptoanarchist manifesto in silicon valley written by grateful dead lyricist. has that san francisco spirit in it. yes, i'm awar…

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    Comment #12918025

    Hey folks, I'm lead developer of Sovereign (and YC alumni, winter batch 2015) and also original creator of DemocracyOS. In the light of recent events, we released the source code o…

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    Comment #9247794

    Thanks for acknowledging my point. Busy day today! Bye

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    Comment #9247274

    I replied from a Mobile App. Stats are for Buenos Aires city, that's where we run. Im proving that you never been into a slum. You've said "personal experience is statically insign…

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    Comment #9246032

    Oh, I forgot: 93% of < 30 year olds access social media at least once a week in Buenos Aires.

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    Comment #9246029

    Stats? 72% of the Homes of Buenos Aires have Internet access. Of those, 88% with broadband access. source: INDEC. National stats often used by Google too in Argentina (they where l…

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    Comment #9245986

    It just proves that you have never been in a slum from Buenos Aires. And yes, denying a rant with a rant speaks for itself. :)

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    Comment #9245975

    Just had this epiphany: DemocracyOS's name is intrinsically democratic.

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    Comment #9245963

    A great challenge we face is precisely this. Today DemocracyOS is strong at a local city-level. We don't believe we are ready for Federal level yet as we must understand how checks…