You must believe that US companies are trying to enter and stay in hostile markets out of the sheer kindness of their hearts. Have you considered that not being present in the second biggest market by GDP may actually be a massive liability by creating a massive opportunity for competitors that will be far better adapted to stricter regulatory conditions? You could just as well advise US car manufacturers to stick to building cars like the Cybertruck and ignore markets that consider it unsafe.
They could, it could be a blessing for competitors in the EU.
But they won't because the EU is a huge market and money speaks, while that happens they need to comply with the laws. Stop breaking the laws and you stop being fined, it's pretty simple for multi-billion/low-trillion market cap companies, innit?
I’d love alternatives that work well, but having used the said Chinese ones, I got no choice but to stick to the behemoths. Telegram may eat a bit into the messaging dominance, but that’s it.
I’m sorry to disappoint you but the EU is unable to create any usable alternatives to US tech chiefly due to lack of SWE talent (among other things). Anyone remotely competent sees the 40k senior SWE salaries offered by European tech companies and immediately crawls through glass just to work at a mid-tier company in the Northern California area of the United States.
I believe that would be true (after food, housing, healthcare, taxes, child-care, etc) only for a very narrow band of senior SWE's. And you are still not considering employment protection. And for junior or mid-level SWE's, not at all true for the overwhelming majority.
Huh no. I'd never work in the US. I won't even visit there as long as the current regime is in place (and the mandatory social media declaration, which I believe is more bipartisan).
I even moved to a lower wage country in Europe even to a pay cut, money isn't everything. Quality of life is. I won't live in a country that is anti-LGBT and with such a culture glorifying toxic masculinity. And at the same time giving a huge middle finger to the world by having the most polluting country in the world per capita quit climate change reduction efforts.
I don't think you understand how badly Trump has destroyed the reputation and goodwill of the US to the rest of the world in just one year. Everyone I know is actively trying to disconnect from US products and services (though admittedly I am in more activist circles)
And salaries here are a lot higher than that. Even here in a lower-wage country. Also, I don't need a car where I live which scraps a whole category of expenses, healthcare is free and I have protections in case I get fired.
Because it gives governments authority to pick and choose which sites to ban or allow, it’s a mechanism that can accommodate political coercion and subterfuge. The platforms can now be de-platformed.
It’s no longer user-to-user websites, its user-to government-to-user.
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This looks interesting! Is there a way to reach out more directly? (It’s my understanding that regular submission systems as getting pummeled by bots..)
I'm surprised that's the case, I'll ask hiring team to take a look based on your username. If it's the same username on github, then that'll help. Sorry that happened.
I think after having learnt about public benefit corporations, any company that now tells me "they have a mission" is giving me a false bag of goods because now I know there is this legal instrument to codify your mission into your profit motives.
I suggest keeping an eye out. We have regular internships and positions for those out of college. For eng, we’re backfilling right now with a focus on seniors. But our general need is for contributors who can work with our stack. Our code is all public. AI code generation and skill with the frameworks we need is our general trajectory.
I have been wondering how much other tools like NGP treat engineering as opportunity vs offshore cost center. Do you have any sense if other groups are also building out a strong engineering culture?
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When I read "disrupt the corrupt two-party system," I wondered if you were pushing for voting reforms such as ranked-choice voting that make it easier for third-party candidates to win.
It seems like that's not the main focus of your org, but I was pleased to see a reference to RCV in your blog: [0]
I live in Australia and we have preferential voting. We also don't vote for a president but the prime minister is decided by majority of seats in house of representatives.
It still ends up mostly being a 2 party thing. Supporting your team is deep rooted. However at least there is the potential for a third party to get in.
But it suffers from the same statistical issue. If a quarter of voters vote green but equally across seats then that popular vote is not represented in the number of seats.
It is a vote of a vote still.
I wonder if we can move away from representation purely on where you live.
Where you live means something. City vs. Countryside. Poor neighbourhoods vs. Rich. But if your issue is suffered by many but you don't all cluster together in latitude and longitude then that issue has less weight.
The system while better is biased towards parties who can get the majority of individual constituencies based on geographic location. It relies on localized monocultures to get democracy for smaller parties. But that doesn't happen.
House of representatives is not designed to provide proportional representation based on aggregate % vote country wide. Senate is more aligned that way and it's reflected in the numbers, in AU:
no mention of any system-level strategy on the website. this may as well be another lobbying group.
pumping more candidates (even good ones) into a busted system is like increasing the flow rate into a cracked bucket. good metrics showing how much more is going in, with little attention paid to how much is flowing out.
i do appreciate the ambition to change things at a higher level, but there is nothing resembling significant disruption here.
my suggestion would be to identify a single, core point of systemic leverage that can actually make a demonstrable change to the way things operate (i.e. patch the bucket or, better still, replace it). for example, if you can get a sensible cap put on the amount of funds that can be given in support of a political campaign (yeah, i know, good luck with that) or can instigate a nationwide movement for proportional representation, or tie up the practice of gerrymandering, that might get momentum for a bigger step.
i'm sure there is lots i don't know about the role and potential for independents in the US (i live elsewhere), but the principle still holes that a problem must be solved by a higher level of complexity than the one that created it.
so i implore you, don't stop what you are doing, but try to find the next step up into systems thinking or, even better, meta-systematic strategy, which is actually what is needed for serious political reform.
there are, of course, many ways to shoot down my argument, and it is true to some extent that 'policy is personnel', but the level of systemic failure evidenced in recent years makes me think that such an initiative, while valuable in itself, cannot flourish in the way it needs to in order to be effective
That’s interesting feedback about there not being a system level strategy communicated on the site. I’ll pass that along. Thanks for pointing that out.
It’s very much a system level strategy, but more by way of democratized technology as opposed to head on disruption. I asked the same questions when I joined.
We want to provide powerful technology to candidates that are not going to be supported by the two main parties. And we have some other qualifications, like not taking corporate money. The more that independent candidates can succeed and win, the more we normalize the electorate expecting something that isn’t just to two main parties. In a way, it’s the electorate that we are trying to empower by supporting viable alternatives to the current system.
I’m glad there is interest in what we’re doing. I think we are on track too, making increasing impacts and I am excited about our growing team.
Yeah, one of the problems is that many states have onerous ballot access laws. Even established 3rd parties often have to regain ballot access and jump through hoops the larger 2 don't.
who do I have to pay to get my resume read by a human? I am really excited about sr full stack role here - 9 years experience, ms cs, most of my work at startups
I'm completely aware you're joking, but I've got people damn mad at me for making the "who do I have to pay/bribe around here" joke that I avoid it like the plague these days.
Sorry for the triteness, will improve my humor game in following months! (The 2021 vs 2025 interview parody video that I watched lately is pretty amazing...)
I gave our hiring team a heads up about this thread as a source for candidates. Could you drop a comment if you don’t get the human reply you’re expecting in a while? Really appreciate you taking an interest, and I hope that we’re showing respect to folks like you in our process.
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I love what you're doing and was going to submit for the PM role. I'm having an issue with the 'Application' part -- doesn't seem to be loading the form!
Hi, I sent out an email but it failed to deliver to danny.marcano [at] goodparty.org. I also tried without the period, but it still failed. Do you have another good email contact?
Unable to apply as I'm based in Singapore- but software for political candidates was not what I had in mind! Super cool- if you could wave a wand, is there any other platform or product that you think can help the US political system?
One that comes to mind is a participatory budgeting game much like SimCity. The game let locals to actually do their own budgets based on local info. Some much economically can be optimized if all locals knows about how the money are spend.
Of course something like that would really take control out of hands of ones on top at the budget committees in DC and fees for their friends.
Decentralization will generate much much more wealth for most people, but it will take control away from a few that are in control.
its usually signature drives to get on ballots, getting media coverage, getting into debates, and general fundraising that are locking the third parties out... i would tackle the media coverage + fundraising angles first.
The user experience is sluggish and looks/feels dated. Under the hood, the code and tech stack is old. Options like sigma (and many others like it) look, feel and perform like up to date tech
