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The name reminds me of Big Bismuth!

He writes: "Of course if that’s a major problem, then offering 2FA logins and password verification via cell phone wouldn’t make much sense either."

But this is not necessarily true, as spoofing a source phone number of an SMS is a lot easier than receiving an SMS that was sent to another number.

Firebase seems back up for us now.

Works for me

Wow @ptsneves, that sounds really cool. Could you give me a consultation on video streaming? I want to implement this into my product. If so, please write to my username at gmail. Thank you!

If this is backed by Twilio cloud webRTC API, I believe that does not support more that 50 people at a time watching the video

Whittaker organized a walkout to protest the way that allegations of sexual assault were mishandled. Is there evidence that she also organized the petition related to the external AI ethics group in Google?

Not really.

The BBC is a pretty independent body, and criticizes the government often. RT is a propaganda arm of the government and is under its direct control, as all mass media in Russia now (with few exceptions).

Never regretted quitting. Every time regretted not quitting sooner.

Yep. This is precisely what Mayday.US is fighting.

More specifically, the experiment is about how to sway voters on the issue of money in politics. I particularly like this page for the big picture: https://mayday.us/the-plan/

Looking back, thinking about where we've come from against this plan from May 1st I'm pretty amazed. But of course, there is a lot more work ahead.

A lot of the media narrative around the election is "which party controls the senate" and so they would not necessarily cover non-partisan Mayday.

But we have gotten a LOT of media coverage.

This is a blog post I happen to really like: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-foster/the-impact-inves...

And here is an in-depth example of analysis of a race Mayday is involved in: http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/is-michigan-s-most-p...

Overall, we have mostly positive feedback about Stripe, and have been happy with the usability for our users as well as on the back end. It's been especially great for mobile.

Our audience is heavily from the tech community, and people like seeing the latest technology used on a site. I remember at least one email coming in to that effect.

We were in two primaries, and our candidate won in one of them, in another he moved from 9% to 24 or so of the vote.

Today is the day we learn more. Hopefully some of our candidates will win. Another important factor to keep in mind is that this an experiment. The knowledge we generate about what it takes to move elections on this issue, and the attention we have brought to the issue of money in politics are an important part of our goals.

(Disclaimer: I work for Mayday)

From our users, the most feedback we have heard about this functionality is: "I want to change my card details, but it keeps bringing up my old card"

The solution is to put the cursor in the card number box and hit delete, but this is not obvious in the UI.

I am not aware of Mayday users raising the concern that their details have been saved.

Check out https://mayday.us/the-plan and also http://reform.to/#/reforms for specific pieces of legislation that will be the 1st step in addressing the problem.

Hey all, unfortunately (but also fortunately), we are full up to capacity for this event. Please contact me if you are interested in other ways you can support teamdemocracy.us, or have a fantastic idea you want to hack on. My gmail is my username here.

Tyranny of the majority is still better than any other system humanity has so far come up with.

Some of the suggested hacks are listed at the link. They will not, by themselves, get rid of the NSA, but they are reasonable steps that the anti-corruption movement can take at this time to raise awareness and build momentum.

You can join in and start working on the BIG problems you listed, or you can say this cannot be done and do your own idea which seems to be about hiring lawyers.

Some media reform and education reform can be imagined that would help with this problem. However, no such reform can actually be enacted while our lawmakers are dependent on their funders instead of common sense or the wishes of the people.

Very good points. In fact, transparency legislation in California failed by one vote just this week. Check out California Clean Money Campaign (who are also working with us on the hackathon event).

My point here is that the system is locked down as long as money controls it. We cannot release state control over the economy until we get money out of politics.

The corruption goes both ways: politicians depend on donor money, but to get the donor money they have to create complex legislation to extort with.

There is a great story in Republic: Lost about Al Gore and early internet regulation where the senators essentially say: "If we leave this unregulated, how will we make money off these guys?"

From where we are now, we have to work to reduce the influence of money on politics before any other reform can be approached sensibly.

The threat to democracy from closed electronic voting systems is well documented. But why do these systems get put in place? Could it have some connection with political donations by companies that manufacture the machines, such as Diebold?

Our political system cannot reach unbiased, good decisions about what types of voting systems to implement if it's being swayed by big donors.

We have to hack to get money out of politics, so that our politics don't get hacked!