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17y ago
Love the "about the author" box: "XXX as been designing on paper, wood, plastic, metal and that ‘ol web thing for around 15 years, most recently as principal at Wishingline, working with clients such as PayPal, Masterfile, and Toronto Life
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Nothing bad about the Twitter Inventor, but there was (A LOT) of luck involved in the success of Twitter. His next project might be interesting, but it is 99.999% certainly not a new blockbuster like Twitter.
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18y ago
Nuance won't kill you.
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18y ago
Corn ethanol is stupid, but - you know - in some parts of the world water falls from the sky. Water use doesn't /have/ to be bad.
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18y ago
Sorry to repeat what everybody else is saying, but Thomas Friedman is a total loser. Why he is famous is beyond me. 3/5 cheap rhetoric, 1/5 bragging about some "exotic" place he has been, 1/5 self evident observation equals one Thomas Fried
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18y ago
I came here to post that same sentiment. But in his/her defense: English might not be his/her first language.
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18y ago
Krugman in this op-ed from 2004 doesn't seem to be advocating lower interest rates, but simply stating that they are probably coming, and that many people are badly prepared for them. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05E6DD
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18y ago
From http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2008/07/denpartment-of.html regarding this article. "When GM offered the UAW more lavish benefits, it did so in order to induce the UAW to accept less generous wages. The money that GM paid in the 1990s
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18y ago
People who are anti-immigration are not necessarily racists, just like people who criticize Israels actions aren't necessarily anti-Semites. I personally feel that that type of argumentation poisons the discussion.
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18y ago
An immigrant, cool, which part of Somalia do you come from? I am very impressed that you adapted so well from being an illiterate sheep herder to a highly structured western society, and was even able to start your own company. Good job. J
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18y ago
Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany, South Korea, Japan, Denmark (some oil/gas), Netherlands (some oil/gas), parts of the Caribbean? Seems to be a Europe/East Asia bias going on here. In addition some of the richest states in the U
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19y ago
Myspace started out spending big on advertising in mainstream media.
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19y ago
I don't know, but YouTube probably can't hire moderators for the comments, because then they would implicitly acknowledge that they CAN moderate stuff, and thereby open themselves up for lawsuits about posting copyrighted material.
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19y ago
You seem to be implying that the economy has been good for the last 8 years (it hasn't for most Americans), that the American economy doesn't have any fundamental imbalances (it has), that G W Bush is a good president (he hasn't) and that t
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19y ago
There is other software than Emacs? Interesting...
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I think the comments so far in this discussion are misguided in attributing the good school performance of Finnish pupils to some character trait of Finns. That's like saying blacks in America do worse in school because of black culture. Fi