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In Service of the Republic

Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah

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The bar next to each date shows how long ago it was said: 7d is days, 4yr is years.

Chris Blattman loved it
If you live in a liberal democracy anywhere in the world (including the United States) and you want to try to make your government function better, this is one of the top five books you can read.

on chrisblattman.com · 17 Jan 2022

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That little bar

It says how long ago something was said, so you can tell last month from 2014 without doing the arithmetic. Full and green is recent; it drains and cools as the date gets older, and empties completely at about 6 years.

A striped bar means the date itself is an estimate — the source did not carry an exact one. An entry with no date at all gets no bar.