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2,324karma·110submissions·September 29, 2009
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Here's the problem: after the 2001 anthrax scare, all mail sent to Congress has become incredibly delayed (on the order of weeks) while it gets tested and radiated. What some lobbying campaigns have d…
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For me it's always The Underdog by Spoon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1hZVDLkJDc I've never heard a song that better sums up the feeling of building something incredible.…
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Sorry about that - skimmed the page and totally missed the original. Mea culpa
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You can listen to the whole show here:
http://podcast.thisamericanlife.org/podcast/441.mp3
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As a former copyright activist, we used to hold up "Happy Birthday To You" as the quintessential example of everyday activities that were copyright infringements, like when Lawrence Lessig went throug…
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Fridge built a really amazing product - Social groupware for people outside of Facebook. I'll be sad to see it go. I wonder if the team is going to be moved out to Mountain View or stay in NYC?
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And here I was thinking this was a post about the MySpace deal.
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Sounds a lot like William Gibson's idea of The Ugliest T-shirt in the World from his novel 'Zero History' [See: http://www.viceland.com/blogs/en/2010/09/03/william-gibson/2... ]. In it, a certain obj…
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Meanwhile, the FCC's enforcement chief just put out a press release decrying cell/GPS jammers saying they "create safety risks". http://www.fcc.gov/Daily_Releases/Daily_Business/2011/db0209... …
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I work for the New York Public Library, and believe me, we wish we could be open all day every day. Last year, city budget cuts took the libraries in Queens and Brooklyn from 6 day service to 5, and w…
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As an NYPL staffer and Hacker News junkie, I can't tell you how much I appreciate seeing this listed here. Before I joined the library, I'd come here all the time just to get work done. Now I come her…
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It really reminds me of BillMonk ( http://billmonk.com - sort of defunct since they haven't renewed their SSL certificate), a project that was the genesis of Obopay back in 2006. It was very similar…
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Great idea - now to just resubmit it as its own topic so it hits critical mass.
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Have there been any invites sent out from HN so far - I've yet to see any replies indicating they have
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Brilliant! I've been using Highrise to similarly organize my job search, however your approach is fantastically elegant and will probably begin using the two in tandem. I've found that the networking…
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Ready to help share the love: http://mailhide.recaptcha.net/d?k=01LFw2DghhL80PGp8lLdb27w==... …