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Ah, but in a way it was a great example, because while the innovation still happened in Sweden (regardless of the tax base now), it was real innovation, disruptive and tectonic shifting. Whereas 99% …

Yeah, bad example. But it really doesn't change the point. Companies skirt out of the US for tax reasons too. Did innovation happen in Sweden? Yes. Is Sweden suffering from the loss of rich peopl…

It's interesting you should say that because I've often considered Smalltalk/80 as the last point we were headed in the right direction. I've spent a long time (a decade, yikes) with some Ph.D student…

It's not true. Skype comes from Sweden which has a famously high top tax rate. The experiment is being done everywhere, everyday, in all 193 countries, and I don't think we should measure the succes…

/In economic terms, liberty translates into the entrepreneurial spirit of hard work, risk taking and self-reliance./ America definitely has a wonderful entrepreneurial spirit of hard work, risk taking…

This is an old article, and I'm tired of seeing Alan Kay talk about the past. That said, it's true. I'm also baffled that we have no collective memory as an industry. The rush for the almighty Euro…

It doesn't, but I think you can do the back-of-the-napkin math yourself. Baby Boomers are the 80 million "pig in the python" and they starting to retire right about now (2007-2009).

Thanks for banging the drum on this! You're absolutely right. I'm an American who has lived in Germany, Switzerland and now the Czech Republic, and I'm astonished how much better healthcare is over …

Your results are skewed because the people coming here are coming here in protest. I didn't vote -- I flagged it. I can imagine a lot of others who feel like I do did the same, given that the post i…

That's how I felt as well. There's a flag/ vote-up mechanism already in place. It was used and the result stands, making this poll irrelevant. Second, Chomsky is an MIT professor and a venerated int…

10GB is just for SimpleDB. BigTable has no such limitations, right?

Everything is an investment. People think that an investment is something you do to increase your assets, but it's also what you do to keep your assets. Cash is an investment. Gold is the ultimate …

It's "follow your bliss" not "follow the sparkles". It's not about avoiding sacrifice -- Americans especially believe that suffering can be avoided and we tend to live our lives on a junk food high --…

A new type of database where the schema is open and flexibly restructures depending on the data you put in. The change allows anyone, from 8 to 80, to structure their data without knowing that's what…

Thanks for the feedback.

Paul is wrong. The year is 2009 and if you're resourceful, you can find what you need on-line. Marketing costs are a tax for poor applications. Hosting costs are a tax for not using the right frame…

It's a term I made up. It's actually part of a much bigger, more interesting subject: individual-society "ology". Where the individual comes into contact with the rest of the people around them. (W…

I was thinking of a site that does this but for business people to tech guys. http://suitmeetsgeek.appspot.com Most tech people don't know how (or want to know how) to write a business plan, find fu…

Rule out the EU & Switzerland if you have US citizenship. It's nearly impossible to get something in Europe if you're not an EU citizen. I would say, depending on your finances, travel and look. …

Only if by Western you mean "the U.S. and Japan." Canada, Europe and the rest of the Western world has a deep understanding of the limitations of Capitalism, and the word Socialism can be said without…

> Europeans rated him the world's most important intellectual The New York Times Book Review said he is "arguably the most important intellectual alive." He's not anti-Semitic; he's Jewish and is …

So, to put it in context, you woke up one time and lost half your weight but showed no concern because later that night you made it up again completely in carbohydrates. "I was still a bit worried, bu…

What you're bring up here, Paul, are framesets. Framesets are the context we place the information we gather. Every minute we get new information, what we choose to accept and reject (and the angle …

That's very interesting. Thanks.

I hate politically divided statements and certainly they have no place on HN. What I can say, though, is that "those who say global warming news is exaggerated" are very confident in their knowledge, …

Come on guys. You're using Google to find your points instead of reading. The fourth quarter report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) clarified we have indeed hit the 50% in a third…

The number 'billions' depends on how high the water rises. Bangladesh and Indonesia alone are 400 million whose population are at risk. >the most computationally challenged "climate modelers" don…

The plural of anecdote is not data. And that's what this article presented: don't be afraid of global warming because I could tell you stories about how it's not so bad. There are many problems the a…