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2) He wants to close Guantanamo. I know he hasn't done it yet, but it can't be easy. It's not about being easy or hard, but about the gigantic class action civil suit awaiting the U.S. government th…

Alan Kay, for constantly inventing the future.

Thank you, David, for this. It's a heart-breaking story but it's consoling that you're now on the road to at least a partial recovery. It makes me respect the fragility of it all: that it was potent…

Film making and film direction.

I don't know why you were voted down: as a cartoonist, his over-simplifications are funny, but as an essayist they just make you scratch your head.

My favorites: A Hunger Artist [ https://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/kafka/hungerartist.htm ] A Country Doctor [ https://records.viu.ca/~Johnstoi/kafka/countrydoctor.htm ] The Metamorphosis [ https://reco…

The big question is, "What will increase the startup's chance of success?" It makes no sense for me to quit my job and code when there are great coders out there who I can outsource to(/partner with)…

And you're happy with Rackspace Cloud/Sites? We're looking to use them.

In an ocean of Internet startups, these nine are just like all the others.

And more: you talk about markets as if they're wise and efficient. I think you know better than that. Goldman Sachs takes huge risks, gets compensated, fails, gets bailed out by the working class ci…

Ok, I'm back and I have time now. In the real world, wealth is (except for a few specialists like thieves and speculators) something you have to create, not something that's distributed by Daddy. Th…

It's not negative anymore than the article itself was negative, and that's because it's actually a problem. I grew up in the US, did all those things you mention, and yet I know that it's a big proble…

The wealthy take care of their friends and families? And this is a problem? It's understandable, sure, but it's also a problem. I understand why the Saudi Royal family wants to keep all the oil mon…

That's all paper and pencil thinking. I would humbly suggest looking out your window. By your same reasoning, the longer a person is unemployed, the more they would desire becoming employed and the …

No, that's the point. I defy you to name a place that's half as bad as San Francisco, and SF is just a standard American big city that way.

Can I apologize? My daughter was pulling at me and I started to skim. I'll read it in length, give it time, and then post again. Mea culpa.

In general disparity in wealth is good On what planet? Show me an example and I'll show you a thousand examples of how it's disastrous.

Exactly. PPP is calculated in such a way that makes such gigantic jokes like this possible. You simply have to travel to see how funny it is. Has that person been to Mississippi, and has he been to…

There are a lot of flaws with Paul's thinking here. First, most money is handed down, and then there's the lucky. Those bright sparks who earned their fortune may be on the covers of magazines, but …

Determination is great for investors because it increases the chance that they'll get a return. But the number of great ideas is x, and having a bunch of companies bound and determined to do somethin…

I spend literally hours trying to get ASP.NET, MS AJAX Toolkit, jQuery, IE6 and HTML/CSS/Javascript to all play along nicely If you switch, get ready to spend you hours instead banging your head on …

You can develop Silverlight apps on a Mac, but only if it has an Intel chip.

I think it definitely works like RAM -- and that's a problem. It's open to influence. When I was 10, I burned my eyebrows nearly off in an "experiment gone wrong" and my memory of it was at the hous…

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I know. I read it. My point was that he thinks that because he thinks that Taleb is simply saying 'shit happens'. He's not. We believed in the Gaussian curves and risk measured in standard derivat…

It's Falkenstein who is the crank. You can tell he's read Taleb's work with a chip on his shoulder (as many have). Taleb's not saying "shit happens," he's saying, "you can't measure risk -- ever." …

#1 is FanFeedr: http://www.fanfeedr.com The guys who did it are friends of mine and I think they did an amazing job.

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