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We're at about one legislature for every 30k people. It was one per 20k in 1973, one per 12k in 1919, one per 6k in 1889, and less than one in 2k when Minnesota was a territory in …

I originally agreed with you, but I've struggled communicating how RCV works to rural Minnesota. I've found more personal success communicating this model.

"We" is going a long way here. I have yet to meet someone in rural Minnesota that is aware of this problem, and that there are alternative solutions like this one. But to your main…

I think the number of representatives per election district is a really interesting mathematical/social problem in democracy, and I’m interested in what this audience has to say.

PS: if you have a contact for Governor Ventura, please help connect us.

If you live in Minnesota, please consider helping me transform rural politics. I’m the chair of the Agrarian Party of Minnesota [1], and candidate for the 20B legislative seat. Ple…

Those initial leaves are its cotyledons [0], and they are part of the seed embryo. These leaves often die off shortly after the emergence of the plant's first true leaves, but appa…

Love the Rebuilding Rails concept! I'm doing a very similar thing in Ruby, focused more on "web application development from first principles" ( https://theodorekimble.ck.page/e0bb…

Outreach ( https://www.outreach.io ) | Software Engineer | Seattle | ONSITE I found Outreach last year on a "Who is hiring?" thread myself and joined the team shortly thereafter. I…

That's my main use case. I've got my personal blog [1] setup as a Static Website Manager repository and connected to my personal AWS S3 bucket. Whenever I need to make a little cha…

Good news. We're using Jekyll 3 at Static Website Manager [1], but we're moving to support older specific versions as well as custom Gemfiles. [1]: https://www.staticwebsitemanager…

I recently launched Static Website Manager ( https://www.staticwebsitemanager.com ) which aims bring static sites to a non-technical market. Would love to chat more if you have que…

Thanks, and totally understandable. I'm still considering what to offer in a more affordable plan for these types of low-usage/low-traffic sites. Would you be opposed to a plan tha…

There's a growing market of tools solving this problem. We launched https://www.staticwebsitemanager.com recently, which provides a CMS on top of your Jekyll static site. Plus, eac…

There's definitely a point at which an actual web app makes sense. But I think there's also a large category of websites that have been built as dynamic apps even though they’re up…

OP here. I want to sincerely thank the whole Hacker News community -- I haven’t participated much in the comments lately, but the insight, wisdom and support I continuely gain from…

I agree completely. I'm working on a static website CMS that I hope to release soon. I think there's a lot of room for the static website market to grow, particularly alongside pro…

Seattle WA, Remote|Local, Full-Time|Contract|Part-Time Stack: Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL/Titan, Heroku/AWS, UI/UX tools Resume: http://www.theodorekimble.com/resume.pdf Contact: mai…

Deleuzian materialists on HN! Deleuze and de Landa were my primary inspirations during graduate architecture school. I wrote about how such thinking might be incorporated into a we…

SEEKING FREELANCER - Based in Minneapolis, Remote OK for the right candidate Our startup is looking for a front-end engineer or designer to join our team on a contract basis (for n…