mpiedrav

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Developer from San José, Costa Rica.

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Comment · 6 years ago
OP here. HN moderators are right in flagging the post. Not because of the content of the Wikipedia article, but because of the plenty of vitriolic comments it caused. Their posting policy probably has to do with such situations.

The idea was to consider the historical criticism of capitalism in a modern setting (e.g., how effective is the market in addressing economic inequality?). The discussion got out of control, though.

Comment · 6 years ago
From "Sonda" (1977-1989), a Polish science show.
Comment · 6 years ago
What about an app by some permanent federal election commission? Several countries have a Supreme Electoral Court, which is independent of political parties.

For instance, in Costa Rica (3.4 million voters) we just elected mayors nationwide and received trustworthy results within a couple of hours (reported using a party-independent app).

Caucuses are also run by the Supreme Electoral Court. Kind of an Election-as-a-service.

Comment · 6 years ago
Perhaps Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" and Sedgewick's (Knuth's student) "An Introduction to the Analysis of Algorithms".

Also, Ben-Ari's "Mathematical Logic for Computer Science" and Pierce's "Software Foundations".

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