The book is available there for free -- there are some articles that some many not agree with politically, so pick the chapters you want to read first :)
> Github also appears to share infrastructure between public and private repositories, making their paid clients as susceptible to downtime as their free users. This means Github is essentially charging companies and developers for not publishing their private code to the rest of the world, but not offering any kind of SLA for uptime.
This might depend on the level of service you pay for, or perhaps what actually goes down. I've had access to GitHub enterprise while github.com was down.
"What's being debated is who should be recognized as married for official purposes"
It shouldn't make a difference whether or not someone is married... you know, equal protection under the law. The solution to things like survivor benefits and the others you mentioned (and you're right, Amash doesn't mention this solution) is to simply have private contracts that people decide upon themselves.
"If he opposed DOMA, and instead introduced legislation to abolish all government recognition of marriage, I'd give him kudos for that!"
I think it split into two parts when some intelligent people were talking about the dangers of Keynesianism and some idiots thought they were talking about Kenyans.
This was previously on amashforcongress.com; I found it searching for his views on this issue.
"I believe in the sanctity of traditional marriage, and I oppose government efforts to redefine this private, religious institution."
This seems like a safe way of him saying that the government should not have any say in what constitutes a marriage, but that he is personally against it. There's nothing wrong with disliking something, but not wanting to force your will onto others.