David Ernst dsernst

signal-mod-tools

Better group chats

The Catalyst

Friend asks: Wanna be a co admin of $one_of_our_signal_group_thread?

My reply: Not especially… but I am interested in building decentralized moderation tools for signal

Them: That sounds interesting

Values in Collaborators:

sincerity
cleverness
resourcefulness
good engineering skills

anti-values

dishonesty

Liquid — Real Political Representation  
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www.liquid.vote  

Reclaim your voice in government.  
Hold politicians accountable.  
Remove corruption.

ApprovalVotingForPresident.com

What is Approval Voting?

This is how we do it now:

This is how we could be doing it:

Goal: An algorithm to calculate an elected legislator's "Representation Score".

Legislative agenda

We have a set of legislative bills, uniquely identified with keys like "2016-11-01-160553" or "2017-03-07-170089", that are the agenda items of a jurisdiction's legislature.

The set grows by 40 bills per week on average. As of 2017-03-12, it has 602 elements.

Each bill has a 1-week window in which it can be voted upon by the citizens in the jurisdiction via the Liquid platform.

Voter registration

Proof-of-Vote: A Simple Cryptosystem for Secure Internet Voting

by David Ernst, www.liquid.us

A method to democratically vote online, that provably ensures to the individual voter that their vote was cast and counted correctly, without tampering, while still protecting their vote privacy.

Note: This is designed for our issue-based liquid democracy platform, not traditional elections.

Goals:

How to arrange a complex linked list?

Given a singly linked list like this:

[
  {
    uid: 'a',
    full_name: 'Angela Augustine',
 next: 'c',

	// Run this script to check our files for type errors
	// using our existing tsconfig.json settings
	//
	// Usage: node typecheck.js
	//

	const fs = require('fs')
	const stripJsonComments = require('strip-json-comments')
	const tsConfig = JSON.parse(stripJsonComments(fs.readFileSync('./tsconfig.json', 'utf8')))
	const { exec } = require('child_process')

	function getCityByZip(zip) {
	fetch(`https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address=${zip}`)
	.then(response => response.json())
	.then(response => response.results[0].formatted_address)
	.then(console.log)
	}