some really wonderful comments on this video. - Larry Greenfield
I must just have a different concept of "mopping the floor" than most people. - Jim Norris
The idea that Paul Krugman could be considered a "loon" is rather amusing. Several years ago I saw him on Bill O'Reilly's show and he displayed incredible calm under O'Reilly fire - I gained even more respect for him that day. - Jennie Lin
Actually I think he does sort of resemble a hyper-caffeinated care bear. - Jim Norris
I thought Krugman came across as the more creditable of the two; interesting how the economic times have changed since this video re: housing and gas prices. - Jack Norris
"Unfortunately, people are not good at picking a job that will make them happy. Gilbert found that people are ill equipped to imagine what their life would be like in a given job, and the advice they get from other people is bad, (typified by some version of “You should do what I did.”)" - Jim Norris
"It’s simple, proven advice, but few people take it because they think they are unique and their experience in a career will be different. Get over that. You are not unique, you are basically just like everyone else." - Clare Dibble
Question: how much money do you need to have a sex life? - Amber
Not much... many people have a sex life on a college budget... - Ross Miller
Is that really why few people take that advice? Do very many people even hear that advice often enough to separate it out from the heaps of other advice they get? Don't get me wrong, its excellent advice: switch careers early and often, you'll find that some make you much much happier than the first one you try. But it's good advice because, ahem, people are unique. - j1m
“It’s true that money impacts which person you marry, but money doesn’t impact the amount of sex you have.” - Evan Parker
“Going from sex once a month to sex once a week creates a big jump in happiness. And then the diminishing returns begin to set in.” Well, I guess that answers that question. - ⓞnor
"Not only did an inexperienced stallion named Big Brown just win the Kentucky Derby, but 2nd place went to the filly Eight Belles who collapsed immediately after the race and had to be euthanized. You may recall that Sen. Clinton supported the filly." - Jim Norris
OMFG !! and i thought dental pain was the worst pain one could endure !! - Joel Alenchery
Says the article: "Light is scarce in the soupy deep, but the candirú does not need to see… it can taste the traces of urea and ammonia that are expelled from breathing gills." ummm...i totally got flashbacks of silence of the lambs when i read that. scariness. - Ginger Makela
Yikes! Can't quite figure out what the 3rd photo is...maybe I don't want to know! - Yeong-Ping Koh
"These dramatic differences have a simple explanation: Many poor people became richer by leaving their country of birth. Clemens and Pritchett estimate that "two of every five living Mexicans who have escaped poverty did so by leaving Mexico; for Haitians it is four out of five."" - Jim Norris
"“I remember something I learned about Hillary,” Elizabeth told her classmates. “It’s not like a marriage between Hillary and Bill. It’s more like an agreement. She helps him. He helps her.”
Asked where she had gleaned this information about Mrs. Clinton, from New York, and her husband, the former president, she said, “I saw it on AOL.com.”" - Jim Norris
"Microsoft paid $800 million for Tellme, a private company based in Mountain View, Calif., but it put in another $100 million for employee retention programs, according to two people close to Microsoft. That figure has not been previously disclosed.... For Tellme, which has 330 employees, the money set aside amounts to more than $300,000 for each worker." - Jim Norris
There used to be 4000 programmers typing away building new search engines, but now a lot of them are twittering, friendfeeding, and blogging. :) - Chris White
Is the advice to use machines in your office rather than hosted/managed/colocated machines still good? I wonder what the relative costs are, these days. I also wonder about the advice to use disk based indexes. If I had to guess, I'd think both recommendations are still valid today, but I'm not sure. - ⓞnor
"Senator John McCain offered the broadest look yet at his economic policies in a speech here Tuesday, calling for tax cuts, a freeze of discretionary spending for a year, higher premiums for better-off Medicare recipients and elimination of federal gas taxes this summer to reinvigorate the sagging economy." - Jim Norris
You know what might help our economy? A government that didn't owe trillions to foreign banks. Tax cuts are only going to make goods more expensive, so people feel good about the government but lose spending power in the long run. I'd support a 10% tax cut when the gov't supports a 10% budget cut. - Kevin Fox
Well according to the article McCain is going to veto all earmarks and institute a one year pause in [I assume the growth of] discretionary spending while the budget is reviewed. You may feel he's full of it, but he seems to want to couple a tax cut with a budget cut. - Ranjit Mathoda
He doesn't list any specific budget items he's willing to cut, other than earmarks and pork-barrel spending. - Jim Norris
I don't think he's full of it. I just question the presentation that blocking earmarks will fix the budget. The spiraling of the budget over the last 8 years hasn't been primarily due to earmarks, but due to spending directed by the executive branch. I'd like to see him recognize that rather than insinuate that Congress is to blame. - Kevin Fox
Just to show I'm open-minded, I think McCain's idea to suspend the gasoline tax for the summer is a great one. Despite environmental pleas, we need to drive our cars and upping the gas tax does little to help the environment but much to drain our pocketbook. That said, the heart of the problem with the economy is that while the upper class has had their fees cut, the middle class continues to be drained away. By proposing even more upper-class cuts, McCain threatens to eliminate the middle class entirely. - Chris Reed
And on another note, not all earmarks are bad. Hitting home, congress this week is likely to pass an earmark that would spur development of the Los Angeles to Las Vegas Maglev. The maglev, in turn, would spur thousands of jobs and boost the economies of both the LV and So Cal, as Vegas folks spend their bucks in L.A. and vice versa. It would also play a huge role in reducing the ever-clogging 15 from L.A. to Vegas, thus helping the environment. - Chris Reed
If high gas prices are due to OPEC supply restrictions, and OPEC behaves as a monopoly, what effect would cutting gas taxes have? Government revenue would go down and oil consumption and OPEC profits would go up, and I think gas prices would go down, but I don't know the relative amounts. - Jim Norris
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"She and Bill Clinton both devoutly believe that Obama’s likely victory is a disaster-in-waiting. Naive Democrats just don’t see it. And a timid, pro-Obama press corps, in their view, won’t tell the story." - Jim Norris
"Voter interviews reveal widespread unease with minor and seemingly irrelevant questions like why he does not favor American flag pins on his lapel." <sigh> I have to remember to never underestimate the stupidity of some of my fellow Americans. That aside... definitely an interesting (and disquieting) editorial. - Adam Lasnik
Hardly sounds like someone who would all but offer Obama the vice presidency. - Kevin Fox
Oddly, their history suggests they aren't simply agents of the Clinton campaign, though it's hard to understand why anyone would write this article unless they were. - j1m
oh, i think people would have read a similar article that wasn't written from the Clinton pov. it would have been a similar horseracy article. the question is why embrace her campaigns perspective at such length. Put another way, I've seen the Obama-is-less-electable-than-Hillary argument advanced dozens of times, but always by her partisans (until now). - j1m
Echoing Kevin's comments, if Obama is the antichrist for Democrats, why would she be courting him for VP (which was presumptuous in itself). - Chris Reed
"Feel like a fashion slouch? For the vast majority of people who can't/don't/won't look like the supermodel type, there's hope, thanks to Trisha Okubo" - Jim Norris
What would a non-condescending, non-elitist explanation for people's voting patterns be? (I've certainly heard the sentiment that what's wrong with America today is the fault of kicking prayer out of public schools, or letting American jobs go overseas, or not making immigrants assimilate.) I guess it devalues voters' beliefs to ascribe them to displaced economic frustrations. - Jim Norris
But it kind of hurts my brain to switch between these alternate realities. Glenn Greenwald accuses McCain of confusing Sunni and Shiite Muslims in Iraq, Power Line claims to debunk it while accusing Obama of being a condescending bigot (when talking to "wealthy left-wing latte sippers," as they neutrally put it). There's too much information for non-obsessive people to follow the details of these stories, but the typical sound-bite summaries aren't accurate either. What is there to do? - Jim Norris
"The pool of appealing men shrinks as many are married off and taken out of the game, leaving a disproportionate number of men who are notably imperfect (perhaps they are short, socially awkward, underemployed). And at the same time, you get a pool of women weighted toward the attractive, desirable "strong bidders."" - Jim Norris
Interesting theory. But I'd offer an alternative explanation: young, eligible bachelors are (by and large) not interested in dinner parties. - Tudor Bosman
Please, not wiki-like. Instead, thread like Reddit, then let commentary stand until any respondent clicks “Comment”, at when “Edit” disappears. For comments already in edit but not yet posted, warn respondents when they click “Comment” to respond, and allow the edit to continue and deny replies until the edit posts. When “Edit” already appears, clicking it checks the server to prevent a race condition. - John Lam
This simple state interaction ought work clearly enough for users to get quickly. I don't understand why no sites use it, instead of edit timeouts (such as Digg and Newsvine). (Apologies for jacking the subject. I also ran out of space for reply.) - John Lam
I like being able to edit/remove my comments permanently. - Chris White
John, checking on the 'edit' click wouldn't prevent all race conditions, just some. The whole comment threading and editing can of worms is a toughie. There are clearly features that make sense individually and can easily be added, but there's no simple line delineating commenting system from a full fledged message board. There's a good middle ground to be had, but I don't think people will ever agree on it. Those who want a feature are far more aware of their desire than those who value the simplicity of the feature's absence. - Kevin Fox
"Because what anyone outside of the rarified settings where generic 12-point plans for peacemaking and incentivizing prosecutions for genocide are composed knows is that every such action is and will be sui generis. The sand castles that the experts build today around one case will be washed away by the tides of history in short order." - Jim Norris
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“"Note: Due to Facebook-imposed restrictions, we can only approximate the gender of people not directly connected to you."”
It makes me wonder what the average ratio of boy-contacts to girl-contacts is for boys and for girls. You know, for more accurate approximation. - Kevin Fox
It might be kind of fun if it returned a percentage. Clare - 63% Female. - Clare Dibble
@Clare. That would be BRILLIANT. I'd argue for a third category of 'Unknown' as in % Male, % Female, and % Unknown. One does like a bit of mystery. - Amy Tureen
Notice that the page itself uses a European-style D.M.Y date, but Google's snippet algorithm (mis)interprets it as it reformats it. (Sorry if it doesn't work for anyone else, the search results are personalized and change constantly.) - Jim Norris
