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David A. Fahrenthold claims in the Washington Post that the US government spends at least $890,000 a year on account fees for empty accounts that have a zero balance: It is one of the oddest spending habits in Washington: This year, the government will spend at least $890,000 on service fees for bank accounts that [...]

Yglesias: In his chapter on climate change, he makes the point that one reason climate change skepticism is so tenacious is that the statistical data about climate patterns really is a bit on the noisy and ambiguous side. The reason you can know that the skeptics are wrong isn’t so much because the data is [...]

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BuzzFeed HBO Kickstarter Why “stupidly”? Before they were removed from this list, Kickstarter required Flash for video in desktop browser even though they could display videos in an HTML5 player in mobile browsers.

Spartan Senate > Roman Senate > Galactic Senate > Imperial Senate > Romulan Senate > US Senate > Carthaginian Senate.

Matthew Yglesias: Under prevailing American tax law, a firm that wants to pay a dividend to its shareholders needs to pay with after tax dollars while a firm that wants to pay interest on a loan gets to pay with pre-tax dollars. Since the statutory corporate income tax is pretty high at 35 percent, this [...]

Greenwich Mean Time, or GMT, is mean solar time at the observatory at Greenwich. “GMT” is also often used, especially by British media, to refer to winter civil time in the UK, or to indicate times for events outside Britain. I’ve even seen it be used as shorthand for UK civil time in the summer. [...]

Current rate estimate: 1,080 places per hour. People in front of you: At the current rate, you will get Mailbox access at which is in NB: I now have access to Mailbox, so I don’t know what the pace is. Contact me if you would like to contribute data. Thanks to Marlena C and Ricco [...]

(Sorry for the extra space.) The revolution will be Vined — Fake Jeff Jarvis (@ProfJeffJarvis) February 8, 2013 Let’s end the tyranny of false scarcity: thepiratebay.se/torrent/515118… — Fake Jeff Jarvis (@ProfJeffJarvis) February 7, 2013 What we need is an Etsy for democracy. — Fake Jeff Jarvis (@ProfJeffJarvis) February 7, 2013 Co-opting is the new mansplaining [...]