Libertarians/conservatives launch hackathon(lincolnlabs.com)

12 pointsby willstudiesvor 12 Jahren19 comments

Libertarians/conservatives launch hackathon

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

3 comments

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.

Terr_vor 12 Jahren

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

glenravor 12 Jahren

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

ethanavor 12 Jahren

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.

danopreyvor 12 Jahren

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.

nospecinterestsvor 12 Jahren

I would greatly disagree. Non-establishment repubs are not into empire building or attacking civil liberties and are clearly closer to libertarianism than the modern democrat. But both parties, overall, are mostly made up of establishment FDR progressives. At that point the D or the R is irrelevant.

armenarmenvor 12 Jahren

ditto

ef4vor 12 Jahren

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

ekoontzvor 12 Jahren

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!

xnamevor 12 Jahren

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

ekoontzvor 12 Jahren

Fair enough. What about the plantation land? Fair game for redistribution to the slaves, or would that be a violation of the plantation owners' property rights?

nospecinterestsvor 12 Jahren

You, just like everyone else, would have no clue as to what might have happened if President Lincoln were to have not been murdered. For all we know he would have given it back or more likely sold it off to pay for the war debt.

nospecinterestsvor 12 Jahren

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

danabensonvor 12 Jahren

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

T-Avor 12 Jahren

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...

Bugevor 12 Jahren

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

http://www.parabellumlabs.com/

itbehovor 12 Jahren

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?

mindcrimevor 12 Jahren

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.

hgavor 12 Jahren

While it doesn't explain why, the observation of Robert Conquest's 2nd Law of Politics does seem to be correct: "Any organization not explicitly right-wing sooner or later becomes left-wing."