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by klenwell 13y ago
For one influential academic answer to this question, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Anxiety_of_Influence
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by klenwell 13y ago
One of the interesting points I heard made in discussion of the Arab Spring is that it's not the poor but more privileged classes that generally spark revolutions. Here's the Wall Street Journal on the subject (I think I originall
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by klenwell 13y ago
Ah yes, the undeserving poor. Alfred P. Doolittle gave a pretty good accounting of what they might do with it in Shaw's Pygmalion: I ask you, what am I? I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that
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by klenwell 13y ago
If you received a cut of any revenue for an ad that you appeared in (sort of like AdSense), is this something you would opt into? I'm assuming this isn't part of the deal. But that would make it more interesting. Edit: Oh, it&#x27
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by klenwell 13y ago
Tweetdeck best solved this issue for me on my phone. The widget felt just right as it allowed me to divide my feed up into 4 or 5 useful columns and I was able to periodically check in at what seemed like the right rate. I really felt I was
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by klenwell 13y ago
I was under the impression that the Yogi was able to reject everything because he had disciplined his mind to become a self-activating dopamine dispenser. Isn't there a neuroscientific study somewhere that points to this?
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by klenwell 13y ago
#4 has also been abetted by the decline in state investment in higher education. A generation ago, I felt I got a great a deal paying $1000/quarter at a UC school. Registration for community college, where I started, was capped (capped
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by klenwell 13y ago
If you can't wait until then, you can also look for it online using PublicRadioFan.com: http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgibin/program.pl?programid=28 This is especially useful with the NPR app.
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by klenwell 13y ago
This is the only moral I've found in this story so far. It all seems so tragic and arbitrary. I used to drive through the intersection Andrew Scott Reisse was hit almost every day (until major road construction re-routed me). It's part of w
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When Patents Attack – Part Two(thisamericanlife.org)
75 points by klenwell 13y ago|13 comments
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by klenwell 13y ago
It's more about money. This data is worth a lot of money to marketers, retailers, pharmaceutical companies, etc. They have no incentive to share it freely or, I suspect, at a price reasonable to most individual consumers. (Maybe I'm wrong h
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by klenwell 13y ago
A trivial example from my own recent experience: getting my highlights and notes out of the Amazon Kindle app on my phone. Amazon could make these available through a simple RSS feed or export feature, but they don't. The only way I can get
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What's Your Price? Blurring The Line Between Online Dating and Prostitution(slate.com)
1 points by klenwell 13y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 13y ago
Found this interesting from the Wikipedia article: An attempt was made in the 1970s to commercialize the ability of the fruit to turn unsweet foods into sweet foods without a caloric penalty, but ended in failure when the U.S. Food and Dru
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by klenwell 13y ago
She makes one point in her piece that struck me as novel: "Nine weeks later, the final surgery is completed with the reconstruction of the breasts with an implant. There have been many advances in this procedure in the last few years, and t
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Why do movie theaters charge the same price for popular films as for clunkers?(nytimes.com)
1 points by klenwell 13y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 14y ago
Agreed. Caption below screenshot of homepage for new Warner Bros service sums up the lunacy of this: The Netflix competition heats up, for the 55+ demographic.
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Whose MP3s Are They, Anyway?(npr.org)
1 points by klenwell 14y ago|0 comments
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How a Leafy Folk Remedy Stopped Bedbugs in Their Tracks(nytimes.com)
47 points by klenwell 14y ago|27 comments
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by klenwell 14y ago
On the way to Mars, there was a flash and the screen went white. I guess I didn't make it.
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by klenwell 14y ago
The point here is that this drug hasn't been tested for its safety, much less its efficacy. It is still at an early testing stage. The researchers seem to have a reasonable theory for why they believe it will be effective. But molecular bio
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Ask HN: Team training for writing better tests for code
1 points by klenwell 14y ago|0 comments
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by klenwell 14y ago
Here's some pythonesque pseudo-code that might do it: for tweet in twitter_api.latest_tweets(): phonetic_tweet = convert_tweet_to_phonemes(tweet) if is_iambic(phonetic_tweet): end_rhymes = extract_
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by klenwell 14y ago
I have to admit I had the same feeling. In the book that inspired a movie based on a true story, Nareen is James Lasdun writing a memoir while stalking a student named Nareen.
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by klenwell 14y ago
I'm on board with the Vine revolution. Two questions: 1. When is there going to be an Android app? 2. Where can I find an (Android) phone-or-tablet-friendly version of one of these websites?
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Can Subscription Model Save Small-Town Movie Theaters?(latimes.com)
31 points by klenwell 14y ago|14 comments
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by klenwell 14y ago
Now might be a good time to recommend Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class for anyone who hasn't read it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Class One of my touchstones for understanding the modern world.
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by klenwell 14y ago
Malcolm Gladwell outlined the Black Swan strategy Taleb used at Empirica in this New Yorker article from way back in 2002: http://www.gladwell.com/2002/2002_04_29_a_blowingup.htm Here's the part that resonated with me: "We cannot blow u
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by klenwell 14y ago
In his excellent book, Phantoms in the Brain, V.S. Ramachandran describes a case of Capgras Syndrome where a son could no longer recognize his parents in person, only on the phone. His explanation (summarizing crudely here) was that the pat
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by klenwell 14y ago
I was teasing, too. There is no real evidence of a significant pattern of voter fraud. The outcry is just part of a media campaign by right-wing organizations to justify legal measures intended to suppress voter turnout among Democratic con

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