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by kalvin 18y ago
Wow. FYI, this blog post is a straight quote/reproduction of the original article here: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/i-fell-in-l...
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by kalvin 18y ago
This is kind of like finding out who Deep Throat is-- H.M. is in every psych textbook but has never been named publicly. There are no (as far as I can tell) Google results for his name that predate his death. (! I would have said this was i
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by kalvin 18y ago
Sounds like time banks. http://www.timebanks.org/ "For every hour you spend doing something for someone in your community, you earn one Time Dollar. Then you have a Time Dollar to spend on having someone do something for you. It's that si
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H. M., an Unforgettable Amnesiac, Dies at 82(nytimes.com)
54 points by kalvin 18y ago|24 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
Ha, that's the exact opposite reasoning to Aza Raskin's "use undo instead of a warning"... this is "make it irreversible as a warning" http://www.alistapart.com/articles/neveruseawarning I think allowing a vote change here makes much more
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by kalvin 18y ago
Having created something that's made life (offline, RL) better for a huge, broad swath of people.
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by kalvin 18y ago
"At the same time, he argued that individual privacy rights must also be weighed against the public good. Citing the epidemic involving severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in recent years, he said technology would have helped health
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You're Leaving a Digital Trail. What About Privacy?(nytimes.com)
8 points by kalvin 18y ago|2 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
No need to be a fanatical Obama downmodder to see your use of the term "forced labor" as trolling. If you're unfamiliar with how the term is used-- though I don't think you are-- take a look at the first page of Google results for an idea.
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by kalvin 18y ago
Question: I've always wanted to see today's temperature in terms of yesterday's, so like, "it's going to be 5 degrees warmer." Anyone know if this service is already offered somewhere?
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by kalvin 18y ago
I was at the Union Square market in September and watched this guy in action a couple times (he takes 2-3 minutes to run through his entire spiel and demonstration-- which is incredibly impressive-- then sells about 20 of them, then repeats
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by kalvin 18y ago
A brand new, sealed, warrantied Macbook Pro (the previous version) can be had on eBay for $1200 shipped if you're willing to do the following and use both ebay and paypal: a) sign up for a Live.com cashback account, do a search for "wii" or
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by kalvin 18y ago
Same as you, except "a subsistence wage in the Bay Area" instead of "no salary" :) (see my profile)
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by kalvin 18y ago
Don't forget and install this on your jailbroken phone just yet-- apparently it updates the 3g baseband, and the 2g tool won't be ready for a while. http://blog.iphone-dev.org/
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by kalvin 18y ago
This is such an insightful comment. Applause. The Raganwald article: http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/01/what-ive-learned-from-sa... "This is the first part of “What I’ve Learned From Sales.” In this part, “Don’t Feed the Trolls,” I prese
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by kalvin 18y ago
That's funny, it's a routine complaint at Stanford that all the campus job fairs are filled with companies recruiting engineers and nobody else. :p Our system also rewards engineers way more than teachers, graduates who go into public servi
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by kalvin 18y ago
I call bullshit-- 1) Not a single source that can be googled. 2) The NSF gave the College Board 1.8 million two years ago to fund AP science courses: http://www.collegeboard.com/press/releases/51572.html 3) It's highly unlikely that eithe
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How Techies Can Improve Democracy(broadcast.oreilly.com)
1 points by kalvin 18y ago|0 comments
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by kalvin 18y ago
For the last month of the campaign, McCain's campaign attacked progressive taxation as redistributionist "socialism"... the OP is saying that Adam Smith supported progressive taxation, so that's why conservatives "would" smear Adam Smith.
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by kalvin 18y ago
I was looking for someone interested / with background in both "social entrepreneurship" (/nonprofits) and "consumer internet startups", which isn't exactly a huge intersection... I ended up finding a match through younoodle.com (it's a "so
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by kalvin 18y ago
It's always been interesting to hear people's responses to "how long do you think it would take to duplicate Facebook?" In general, the more experience/knowledge the person has, the longer they think it would take...
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by kalvin 18y ago
Stanford has a weekly speaker seminar class called Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders that has a free podcast. (You can't see the video unless you log in as a student, but hopefully that will change in the near future.) Not all of them are gre
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by kalvin 18y ago
What a cool/smart guy. The key insight: "Mr. Lee encourages innovators to ask themselves, “Would providing 80 percent of the capability at 1 percent of the cost be valuable to someone?” If the answer is yes, he says, pay attention. Trading
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by kalvin 18y ago
They're actually responsible for a lot of improvements to Memcached. Here's a list of things you should give them credit for: http://developers.facebook.com/opensource.php
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by kalvin 18y ago
I didn't even know it was possible to give a -1! Does that mean a moderator thought I was trolling? First-time user here, let me know if I'm violating a community standard and what's up with the -1... thanks.
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by kalvin 18y ago
Social security is not going to collapse unless the rest of the US goes first. It's no more an "obvious truth" than "global temperatures are going to rise 10 degrees by 2100." Yes, it could happen, but only if we do nothing policy-wise to f