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I feel like this a boilerplate. These are all the steps you should do, but it never goes that way. Me? I'm going to continue to plan my heart out and not be the least bit surprised as it continues t…

That's Tolstoy (Anna Karenina). But I agree with your point. It won't be my grandma's depression, it will be my own.

If lotteries are a tax on those who don't understand odds, buying in the current market would be a tax on those who don't understand what's happening.

exactly. And he didn't spend 10,000 hours practicing business. I'm not trying to be snarky by pointing this out; I'm trying clarify that, while we should remember that in order to be great, we requir…

Wait, wait, wait. Bill Gates didn't program ANYTHING (at least not anything of note). He bought DOS, which made his fortune, and it was his connections through his mother which helped him in the dea…

From the Guardian: Inevitably, Wednesday's headlines were all about Obama's skin colour and the historic milestone of the first black presidency. For the United States and the rest of the world, that …

That's interesting you say that, because while I feel I've seen this coming (and have annoyed people for years to get into metals), at the same time, I'm not confident at all with exactly how it will …

I'm with you, polter. Dow at 5 or even less, hyperinflation, etc. It's scary like a hurricane; seeing it coming doesn't help much. But I'm planting now. Partly because I have some 'peek-a-boo' techn…

I don't even think about President Elect Obama being black, and I'm shocked that people factor it in to his message of hope, as if that's partly what it's about: that a black man can be president. It…

There's nothing inaccurate about this: The United States is bankrupt, in the sense that its assets (housing stock, corporations and cash flow, plant and machinery) are now worth much less than its lia…

I don't think the pentagon is cooking this, but I wouldn't be surprised if they use it.

I'm doing something in Silverlight, but it's just to have a rich version for 1.0. We'll immediately hedge it on release with a JS/CSS/Canvas version. I agree with Scott that it has performance issue…

This is really old, and I'm glad to see it's been cleaned-up, in the sense that a lot of the ideas he had that I really disagreed with and thought were actually clumsy are now missing. I'm happy he's…

You're brilliant! I would have never thought of that, and yet I think that this is absolutely a trend we'll start seeing. Outsourcing is going to go to the neighborhood.

We did.

This is a 'dangerous' idea because education is a big equalizer and a huge boon to the meritocracy we all want. I've downloaded a lot of texts just for my own interests. One other aspect is that I th…

I agree: "The Greater Depression" is coming almost exactly 80 years after the last one. I think Mark is right that this will happen again and again, but not because we don't have enough legal structur…

I think Wallace was the greatest writer of his generation. Period. This news breaks my heart.

That's a typical programmer viewpoint. The problem is, competence usually displays itself in tactical solutions. Strategic and long-term planning do show themselves readily as so black-and-white, go…

I expected better comments here. I think Marc's right to be excited and I've also been waiting for this for a while. Now that it's here, though, I'm underwhelmed. I think if they had worked with Fi…

It already is getting there.

You're right, but Prague is one of the few cities where you can find great examples of every architectural style from medieval up to modern. Try Ceske Krumlov, a small town to the south, for something…

... not for at least a few weeks or months. (I'm actually serious. I think we're heading into a nasty storm economically and politically in the next six months.) Not exactly HN material, but intere…

... in the US. This is partially due to what Zakaria talks about in his "Post American World". As we move forward, we'll see innovation happening in a much more flattened distribution across Europe, …

Denmark was the only occupied place where Jews didn't wear the Star of David and almost none was sent to concentration camps. They have a lot to be proud of.

I feel the same way. I've been looking for exactly this for a while now. I want one for my 3-year-old's room and I'll program some kids games and set it up to go to various kids sites. I think this …

A lot of people hid money in WWII and never found it again. It seems simple, but think about it. If you bury it outside, people can see you do it or (since war changes things) it can be hard to find…

These traits are all the same thing: Perceiving (from the Jungian personality types). It's pretty common, he/she's just an extreme case. To manage it, force the opposite. If this person is micro-man…

I've lived in SF (and Berkeley and Oakland) and I've lived in Zurich. There's no competition. Zurich would win in a heartbeat by anyone who is impartial. My point above is that it's like heaven -- …

Living in Zurich is like going out with a beautiful woman who has nothing to say. The best day is the day you get together. The second best day is the day you split up.