Re:Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram
by ZachPruckowski on Sunday April 14, 2013 @12:03PM
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The problem is that political parties are fueled by donations, and it's hard to get people to donate for something like that. Not to mention you'd be competing with local/state/House/Senate elections with actual candidates for that fundraising money. I've donated politically in the past and even having only given small amounts, I still get emails daily and calls monthly asking me to donate to about half a dozen groups (many of which I've never donated to). Heck, wounded firefighters and cancer-striken kids have a low conversion rate for their fundraising - "money for technical systems to help a candidate to be named later" is even worse.
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Re:Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram
by saraid216 on Sunday April 14, 2013 @02:34PM
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This will seem a bit OT, but it is relevant: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pallotta_the_way_we_think_about...
I'm bothered that we as a society have trouble recognizing the point and purpose of overhead.
Re:Obama Campaign AWS Infrastructure In One Diagram
by bonertruck on Sunday April 14, 2013 @01:34PM
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The DNC does the job of folding any successful and reusable parts from the campaign into a continuing technology stack.