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USGS Develops Twitter-Based Earthquake Detection System(ecopolitology.org)
3 points by siavosh 17y ago|0 comments
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Google real-time search: 6 min. to spot quake(news.cnet.com)
1 points by siavosh 17y ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 17y ago
It's kind of harsh to say "in exchange for nothing." Monetary policy for all its controversy is still a tool, that at times averts depressions...
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by siavosh 17y ago
frankly it's not business that's sexy, making tons of money is. i used to work on wallstreet, and i can assure you the people there are smart enough, well connected enough, and greedy enough to find new ways to make fortunes again, in fact
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For Search, Murdoch Looks to a Deal With Microsoft(bits.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by siavosh 17y ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 17y ago
I've been in NYC for the past 3 years, and about to move to SF in a couple weeks. Here's a reflection of nyc I've been working on: My first vivid image of New York City was from Salinger's A Catcher in the Rye. It was an intimidating and cl
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Journalism Rules Are Bent in News Coverage From Iran(nytimes.com)
5 points by siavosh 17y ago|0 comments
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Google's Values at Work in Africa(businessweek.com)
5 points by siavosh 17y ago|0 comments
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Iranian government using crowd-sourcing to identify protesters(iran.whyweprotest.net)
25 points by siavosh 17y ago|8 comments
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by siavosh 17y ago
first, what exactly is meant by wall street here? big finance companies in NYC, hedge funds in china, venture capital firms in SF? second, 'wall street' serves many roles. i assume what's meant here is the early funding of the so called cre
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by siavosh 17y ago
"Chatham House and the Institute of Iranian Studies at the University of Saint Andrews said that in two conservative provinces, Mazandaran and Yazd, the number of votes cast exceeded the number of eligible voters." "The study also said that
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by siavosh 17y ago
i think the reason some people are throwing around the cia/black-ops hypothesis is that all they've ever heard about iran is in the last couple years. which basically meant pursuit of nuclear weapons and a holocaust denying Ahmadinejad. but
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by siavosh 17y ago
agreed. ever since i started playing around with GAE, i keep getting disappointed at the fine print of its limitations. its almost useless to do any kind of meaningful reporting from the datastore and i'm sure even this task api as you ment
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by siavosh 17y ago
about time
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by siavosh 17y ago
i wonder how the Chinese government is viewing the technology empowered protests in Iran. both governments have invested a great deal in censoring all media. and now with so many tools to go around these filters and essentially create leade
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by siavosh 17y ago
well my concern is that it could be used as propaganda inside Iran trying to link the protests to foreign powers. but for domestic transparancy, to your point, is great.
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by siavosh 17y ago
bravo to the State Dept. and twitter but I wish they made the request more discretely.
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by siavosh 17y ago
Interesting to note that in the '79 revolution, people were already finding creative ways to secretly copy and distribute revolutionary literature throughout Iran through spreading the leaders' speeches through letters, phone, cassette tape
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Iran Protesters Using Tech To Skirt Curbs(cbsnews.com)
1 points by siavosh 17y ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 17y ago
A good counterpoint: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06...
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Limits of populist technologies: Iranian crackdown
1 points by siavosh 17y ago|1 comments
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Kiva 3rd party app galery(kiva.org)
1 points by siavosh 17y ago|0 comments
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by siavosh 17y ago
It will be interesting to see if the delinquency/default rate of domestic loans is less than or greater than international micro-loans which are reported to be at only about 2%
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by siavosh 17y ago
I made this site using data provided by Kiva.org's REST api. It attempts to predict daily the "social impact" of new Kiva.org micro-loan request. More details in the About section. Would love to hear feedback. Technical specifics: Python/D
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Kivuntu.com attempting to measure the "social good" of Kiva loans(kivuntu.com)
1 points by siavosh 17y ago|1 comments