Libertarians/conservatives launch hackathon

http://lincolnlabs.com/conferences/reboot/hackathon/

by willstudies • 12 years ago

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danabenson• 12 years ago

I'd be interested in hearing from a hacker planning on attending this conference, their rationale?

T-A• 12 years ago

Judging by the "WHO" and "WHAT" halfway down the site, they are looking for the answer to this: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/when-t...

Buge• 12 years ago

I heard a talk by this group saying they were the answer.

http://www.parabellumlabs.com/

itbeho• 12 years ago

Just curious, but are things so tilted to the left here on HN that supporting a different political view/platform needs to be justified somehow?

mindcrime2• 12 years ago

I don't know, but HN has clearly begun to skew more and more to the "left" (in the modern, American sense of the term) over the past few years. I'd say it's been really marked over about the past 2 years. Why that is, is hard to say.

mindcrime2• 12 years ago

Meh... as a Libertarian, I'd be disinclined to attend this, just because it seems to be perpetuating the myth that Libertarians are somehow innately more aligned with Conservatives than Liberals. In reality, Libertarians agree with Liberals on many things, and disagree with them on many, and likewise for Conservatives. And, IMO, the modern Libertarian mindset is a natural successor to the Classical Liberal mindset and is the actual modern Liberalism.

I, for one, certainly do not self-identify as a Conservative in any way, shape, form or fashion.

armenarmen• 12 years ago

ditto

Terr_• 12 years ago

"Libertarian" is sometimes the refuge of "I'm a conservative but don't want to endorse all Republicans"-people.

glenra• 12 years ago

It's also sometimes the refuge of "I'm a liberal but I know some economics." :-)

ethana• 12 years ago

I think small l libertarians see liberals as supporters of both empire building and social welfare, so they'd align themselves with the lesser of two evils.

danoprey• 12 years ago

And we tend to see conservatives of supporters of both empire building and attacks on civil liberties. In no way clearly the lesser of two evils.

ef4• 12 years ago

The naming was a bit jarring to me since "Lincoln Lab" is MIT's massive off-campus, DoD-funded research complex.

ekoontz2• 12 years ago

Lincoln seems like an odd choice for a libertarian role model. He suspended habeas corpus and expropriated the Southerners' private property (their slaves, plantations, etc). If he hadn't been assasinated, all of that plantation land would have likely have been divied up among the former slaves. Spreading the wealth, the horror!

xname• 12 years ago

I don't think any libertarian would consider slaves as private property.

nospecinterests3• 12 years ago

Never mind the fact that President Lincoln was the first Republican president and that that might have something to do with it.

Libertarians/conservatives launch hackathon

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