Re: [liberationtech] U.S. Department of State Technical Security Specialist

2019-02-28 Thread Stephen Michael Kellat
In the end, it remains amusing that people are worried about the impact caused by the possibilities of potential spying by diplomatic and security agencies. If you really want to be on the cutting edge relative to the US Government, you need to instead start thinking about how its taxation

[liberationtech] Everyone says low-income people need a digital identity, but why would they want that?

2019-02-28 Thread Yosem Companys
I haven't read the study below, but it looks fascinating. Longtime Stanford Liberationtech friend Ken Banks conducted the research. -- YC * Over the past few months our Social Impact team has been busy carrying out research across Africa, South East

[liberationtech] Zenroom: a VM for smart contracts in human language

2019-02-28 Thread Jaromil
dear readers, hoping is of interest for the good folks here, I'm sharing with you a milestone we have reached in the DECODE European flagship research project on blockchain technologies with the succesful implementation (next week entering BETA stage) of a small, compact and free software VM

Re: [liberationtech] Liberationtech list moving from Stanford to Liberationtech.org on Mon, Mar 4

2019-02-28 Thread Tanja Aitamurto
yes, please keep me on the list. thanks Tanja Aitamurto, PhD Assistant Professor Department of Communication University of Illinois at Chicago www.tanjaaitamurto.com On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:05 AM Yosem Companys wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Please join me in thanking Hapee and the rest of his

[liberationtech] Enroll in "AI for Everyone" today!

2019-02-28 Thread Yosem Companys
From: Andrew Ng https://www.coursera.org/learn/ai-for-everyone “AI for Everyone” is now available for you to take on Coursera. If you want your organization to become better at using AI, this is the course to tell everyone—especially your non-technical colleagues—to take. For non-engineers:

Re: [liberationtech] U.S. Department of State Technical Security Specialist

2019-02-28 Thread Yosem Companys
Of course, I totally agree with you on the importance of transparency. On Thu, Feb 28, 2019 at 3:27 AM Nathan Andrew Fain wrote: > Clarifications beyond cyber-defense would be necessary. Job posts for > government agencies require at least as much transparency as we would be > provided in a job

Re: [liberationtech] U.S. Department of State Technical Security Specialist

2019-02-28 Thread Nathan Andrew Fain
Clarifications beyond cyber-defense would be necessary. Job posts for government agencies require at least as much transparency as we would be provided in a job post for a human rights organization. It is the assumption that there are "good guys" that builds apathy. This apathy creates such cases