Joshua Spivak is a senior fellow at the Hugh L. Carey Institute for Government Reform at Wagner College.

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Nova Spivak, founder of the web tool Twine, has described Alpha as having the potential to be as important to the web as Google.

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"This would be throwing money to get a theoretical race, " said Joshua Spivak, a recall expert and senior fellow at Wagner College in New York.

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Spivak recommends going out one month, known as the front month.

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