Felix Salmon at Portfolio wonders why Apple is worth more than Google, raising some interesting questions and points about the future. Both have a major cultural presence beyond business and technology, and both may potentially become greater… Android will be pivotal for this comparison. I have my doubts about whether Google can pull it off, [...]
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At Overcoming Bias, economist Robin Hanson advises to “listen in on successful professional marketers, salesfolk, coaches, bosses, recruiters, etc. telling each other how to manipulate folks like you.” He goes further, pointing to The Rules for Women and Roissy’s 16 Commandments of Poon. Their purpose in this post seems to be to generate interest and [...]
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The Republican position on the Georgian situation indicates they’re either motivated by secretive strategies (i.e. from too much time spent looking at maps), or have an incredibly limited repertoire of responses for crises like this (the same template that has been used since WWII). I strongly suspect it’s a bit of both. According to Bush [...]
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In times like this I’m especially glad my sense of humour encompasses the darkly ironic. It’s funny in a way to see Russia using moves and poses from the NATO playbook: investigating Georgia for war crimes, Medvedev pulling the genocide card and Putin even quoting Reagan, making it difficult for the Americans to criticize Russia [...]
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Tending naturally to be a pessimist, having worried for years that 9/11 actually made folks artificially more positive about the economy (which should have stayed worse for longer — due to economic/business reasons unrelated to politics — but didn’t because everyone thought it was their patriotic duty to keep spending money they didn’t have, and [...]
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