Amazing but I'm a little bit frustrated at the username he chose. 'PresidentObama'. One day he will no longer be president and then maybe he will understand the difference between identity and value.
I think US Presidents keep their title.
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#52Amazing but I'm a little bit frustrated at the username he chose. 'PresidentObama'. One day he will no longer be president and then maybe he will understand the difference between identity and value.
I believe you do not lose that title after you step down. Bill Clinton is still referred to as President Clinton. And its not just for Presidents either, same holds true with other posts. Mitt Romney was Governor of Massachusetts from 2002 to 2006 but he was still referred to as Governor Romney during the 2012 Presidential election.
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#53Amazing but I'm a little bit frustrated at the username he chose. 'PresidentObama'. One day he will no longer be president and then maybe he will understand the difference between identity and value.
I think US Presidents keep their title.
I read somewhere that president is the one job where that is not supposed to happen, I.E. you revert to your previous title (for Obama Senator). I have never observed this to happen in real life.
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
In general I want more politicians to be engineers or math/science types. Right now they're 95% lawyers, so they don't really represent the rest of society. I'm an engineer-type so I want to be better represented, I guess. I think it could happen. If Aaron Swartz had lived, I think he may have eventually run for office. We still have some in the HN community who could enter politics.
Could you not consider legislatures programmers as well? Programmers create software. Lawyers create law.
> Programmers create software. Lawyers create law.
That's the reason I don't consider legislatures to be programmers.
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#55Amazing but I'm a little bit frustrated at the username he chose. 'PresidentObama'. One day he will no longer be president and then maybe he will understand the difference between identity and value.
I think US Presidents keep their title.
Not officially. But most people and the media tend to make that mistake. If you are talking about something someone did as president then it is OK to say something like "while in office President Clinton did...", but if you're talking about something Bill Clinton did after leaving office you should say "Mr Clinton" or "Former President Clinton"
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#56It'd be interesting to see a system where a government had a GitHub and people could submit laws as pull-requests
The laws would never pass the Travis CI tests.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll try. I think the founders got an impressive amount of the "free and open nation" concepts right. I think the Sears and Roebuck Catalog was an effective tool in its time. I would rather order from an online store than the Sears and Roebuck Catalog. It'll be faster, more responsive, more transparent experience. The store owners intend it and the internet as a medium allows it to a greater extent than was previousl…
I think you're on the right track, but it's a bit more complicated than just 'moving to github'. For example, majority voting isn't always the best solution to every problem. Should court cases be decided like a reddit link where most people don't read the content, or the highest comment is a stupid pun? I have no doubt that our institutions need to be updated and/or replaced, but it will likely have to be done piece…
Good points.
I think the jury system works so well because 12 people in a room eliminates the need for web speed to a large extent.
Court cases should not be decided but facebook upvotes.
On the other side, I work in the medical field and I see decades of lost progress because "this is so important it should be heavily regulated" which has the opposite effect.
So...what's so important that is shouldn't be facebook upvote decided and will the "super important issues" system we replace it with be scalable and transparent enough to do the job?
I'll think on this. It seems like both answers aren't good enough.
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#58I'm trying to find the CIA torture program repository.
I need to report a fairly serious bug.
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#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'll try. I think the founders got an impressive amount of the "free and open nation" concepts right. I think the Sears and Roebuck Catalog was an effective tool in its time. I would rather order from an online store than the Sears and Roebuck Catalog. It'll be faster, more responsive, more transparent experience. The store owners intend it and the internet as a medium allows it to a greater extent than was previousl…
I think you're on the right track, but it's a bit more complicated than just 'moving to github'. For example, majority voting isn't always the best solution to every problem. Should court cases be decided like a reddit link where most people don't read the content, or the highest comment is a stupid pun? I have no doubt that our institutions need to be updated and/or replaced, but it will likely have to be done piece…
Reddit is a perfect example on why democracy fails.
If you culture/condition humans to behave/act stupid to appeal to one another for affection, you garner no substance or value. Their deltas are null.
Perhaps a new society/culture/civilization derived from a categorical intelligence is needed. Then we could analyze our resources, grow our culture based off this data, and evolve ourselves out of the current stupidity that exists today.
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#60Reddit is the perfect example on why democracy fails.
If you culture/condition humans to behave/act stupid to appeal to one another for affection, you garner no substance or value. Their deltas are null.
Perhaps a new society/culture/civilization derived from a categorical intelligence is needed.
Then we could analyze our resources, grow our culture based off this data, and evolve ourselves out of the current stupidity that exists today.