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Myths about prison growth(slate.com)
4 points by kalvin 18y ago|0 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
I'm much more likely to read and upvote longer comments, especially when there's lots of comments in a thread, because my eye catches on them and I generally think that if someone wrote a long comment they must have put in some effort. So i
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Xkcd - Boyfriend - Statistically Significant Other(xkcd.com)
5 points by kalvin 18y ago|1 comments
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Microsoft's Photosynth, the best thing to happen to photography since the digital camera.(slate.com)
11 points by kalvin 18y ago|3 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
If you're interested in the intersection of tech startups and social entrepreneurship like I am... check this out. (Disclaimer: I work here)
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For-profit activism startup in SF(economist.com)
3 points by kalvin 18y ago|1 comments
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Why the world's economic leaders at Davos blame the the system instead of themselves(slate.com)
2 points by kalvin 18y ago|2 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
I can't agree with this comment enough-- on every other site you feel like they just want as much of your money as possible. Craigslist feels like your favorite uncle made you a website, and it may be a bit simple, but you can feel the TLC
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The frat boy ships out(economist.com)
28 points by kalvin 18y ago|15 comments
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One Room Configured 24 Ways(nytimes.com)
42 points by kalvin 18y ago|15 comments
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Environmentalist Creates Uproar at Oil-Lease Auction by Running Up Prices(washingtonpost.com)
21 points by kalvin 18y ago|26 comments
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In Venting, a Computer Visionary Educates(nytimes.com)
15 points by kalvin 18y ago|6 comments
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Data Analysts Captivated by Power of R(nytimes.com)
82 points by kalvin 18y ago|69 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
Pretty awesome guy, good article. 'The screen reader is calibrated to speak at roughly triple the speed of a normal voice. To the untrained ear, the output is incomprehensible, but it allows Mr. Raman to “read” at roughly the same speed as
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Google's T.V. Raman: For the Blind, Technology Does What a Guide Dog Can’t(nytimes.com)
7 points by kalvin 18y ago|2 comments
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Can iStanford Take on Facebook Mobile?(time.com)
3 points by kalvin 18y ago|0 comments
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Why not start the weekend on Wednesday?(slate.com)
4 points by kalvin 18y ago|0 comments
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No Furnaces but Heat Aplenty In Innovative ‘Passive Houses’(nytimes.com)
35 points by kalvin 18y ago|12 comments
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The Dollar Shift: Chinese Pockets Filled as Americans’ Emptied(nytimes.com)
20 points by kalvin 18y ago|14 comments
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The Last Traffic Jam - The Atlantic (October 1972)(theatlantic.com)
2 points by kalvin 18y ago|0 comments
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Economic analysis of religion: The Invisible Hand of God(slate.com)
4 points by kalvin 18y ago|2 comments
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That He Not Busy Being Born Is Busy Dying(daringfireball.net)
19 points by kalvin 18y ago|3 comments
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Obama's Chief Speechwriter, 27, Works on Inaugural Address While Making His Own Transition(washingtonpost.com)
65 points by kalvin 18y ago|46 comments
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PBS: Secret history of the credit card(pbs.org)
76 points by kalvin 18y ago|71 comments
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Undrln (new social news site for "advertising, marketing, and design")(undrln.com)
13 points by kalvin 18y ago|18 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
Thought this might be useful: If you're exporting to vCards and importing to your address book, and want to retain first/middle/last name so you can merge w/existing contacts, here's a regexp (for Textmate). Find: FN:(\S+) ((\S+( \S+)?) )?(
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by kalvin 18y ago
Awesome. And regardless of whether this is "legal" according to FB's TOS, I'm incredulous if you think it's anything but perfectly ethical to copy the phone numbers of your friends to your own computer.
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by kalvin 18y ago
The quote about assigning jobs to engineers instead of lobbyists is what intrigued me most-- I wonder to what degree that actually happened/happens. "Refrigerators consume a lot of energy; all alone, they account for almost fifteen per cent
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Steve Chu: Consider the Refrigerator(newyorker.com)
2 points by kalvin 18y ago|1 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
I think prize economics is really interesting... though practically speaking, there's probably a limited class of problems that could be better solved by using prizes. (I think "the auto industry" will do just fine without any kind of prize

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