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RaviSParikh
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RaviSParikh
14y ago
If this happened as reported, then it's a ridiculous story. As several have said one can easily walk outside and take a call if it's really that urgent. However I find that in these stories there tends to be another side to it that isn't be
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RaviSParikh
14y ago
Agreed. This article, and those like it, essentially support their thesis with a bunch of examples, which doesn't really measure or prove anything. I can think of a number of circumstantial arguments that would indicate technological progre
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RaviSParikh
14y ago
Yeah...not sure I buy it. I put pretty conservative responses and probably had a footprint smaller than the average middle-class American and still got over 20 slaves. Which doesn't really extrapolate well to the country as a whole. What do
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RaviSParikh
14y ago
This is an interesting argument but I'm not sure I completely buy it. For a similar example, the Gizmodo/iPhone 4 fiasco definitely led to increased awareness and pageviews for the site. However subsequently their reputation took a hit and