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Re:Chicago’s losing battle with sexual assault on Sunday April 19, 2015 @07:23PM (#9405296)
That is really interesting. Not too sure if that correlation is fair. I feel like a metric on socio-economic standing might be fairer
Re:Diversity at Amazon on Friday October 31, 2014 @03:04PM (#8540499)
You can still sort the pie charts by percentage and keep the same colors. This would aid in understanding the differences between the US and Amazon workforces which I believe is the point of using the two pie charts.
Re:Calculating the best language to learn on Monday October 06, 2014 @07:12PM (#8418879)
Totally agree with you. Second language statistics are a bit harder to track down. It's something I'll look into. English as a second language is probably your biggest help. I'm not sure of any countries that consistently teach Spanish as a second language outside of the Americas.
Apologies, it was taken from a tweet. Thank you for changing.
Re:Ask HN: What are your favorite speeches? on Thursday September 04, 2014 @03:59AM (#8267181)
Thanks Malcolm. This looks great. I'll check it out.

Ask HN: What are your favorite speeches?

I'm building a site that collects all the world's best speeches. I believe that the repositories that exist for speeches are often cluttered with ads and/or unappealing layouts. Speeches are works of art and they deserve to be displayed in pleasing manner. My prototype is here: http://beautifulspee.ch/

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