Sanjeev Singh

What depresses me more than the interview are the comments. There's no hope for humanity if that's the typical representative of humanity. - Piaw Na

"Resistance is futile you will be assimilated into the one world government socialist police state and forced to comply with global warming regulations and bank recapitalisation." - Jim Norris

He can spread his outrageous doomsaying all he wants. I'll still be here, living in post-industrial splendor, long after he's gone. - Stefan Moluf

Does this really work? - Sanjeev Singh

If anything this test indicates how well your microwave shields from pretty low power 800MHz or 1.9GHz signals. I'd say place your Wifi access point next to your microwave and then experiment measuring the link quality in different microwave modes. - ǝuǝƃnǝ

pencils up! - Kevin Fox

toast. - Tudor Bosman

yep :) - Sanjeev Singh

Did that happen? Did anybody notice? - Louis Gray

So is it down now? - Richard A.

It should be back up now. Please let us know if it still seems down for you. thx! - Sanjeev Singh

Working fine for me in that case. - Richard A.

I think it's happening right now - Dennis Bjørn Petersen via twhirl

Congratulations for putting this out there. Is there a standard place I should be looking for service status (like I don't get at some other unnamed site) ;) It would be a great thing if it's not there already. - guruvan (Rob Nelson)

Yes, I am pretty amazing :) Actually, *that* Ana Yang is a Guinness record holder. I actually decided I'm going to go see her show in NY on my 30th birthday this year! :) http://www.telecharge.com/BehindT... - Ana

Amazing stuff! The bubble liquid formula helps too. Even though it's kind of curious (if now unwanted ;-)) to have the identical name as someone very famous, the Bubble Girl is called http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... - Nenad Nikolic

No, Fan Yang is her husband. Ana Yang is the bubble lady whose Google results have been dogging me for a decade. - Ana

I wonder what her bubble solution is made of. - April Buchheit

I think this might be a bad thing for two reasons: (1) These megacorps are less likely to fail, but when they do, they can cause a crisis (Fannie, Freddie, AIG) (2) Do you actually believe the customer is better served if competition is reduced? - Sanjeev Singh

Didn't some of the other European countries (Sweden? I forget...) end up buying their banks in a recent crisis and things turned out OK? - Patrick Lightbody

Regardless, seems like either path (pseudo-nationalizing like we just did vs. letting them fail) leads to the same thing: fewer top-level ownership of banks. The only difference is who the owner is: Joe Taxpayer or BofA - Patrick Lightbody

Please explain how having fewer, larger central banks is good. =) - Jim Norris

Yes, rescuing banks (UK, USA) allows more of them to avoid acquisition by other banks. In the case of the UK, the prime minister is chairman of the board of a few of them and can set executive compensation. However, he's beholden to the electorate, so you can argue he'll make more globally optimal decisions. In the US, the fed forfeited their voting rights (I think) so there was no increase in concentration of control. It's probably too early to say "things turned out ok", though. - Private Sanjeev

I like Buffett's plan the best. Spend the least amount of government money to kickstart private investment in undervalued banks, thereby keeping them afloat and independent. The Austrians would discourage any intervention at all. - Private Sanjeev

I think Austrianists would argue that this crisis was caused by bad monetary policy on the part of central bankers and government over-regulation that prevented smaller private banks from being able to compete with larger ones. - Jim Norris

I agree with the Austrian interpretation of the cause, but not their fix! - Private Sanjeev

If insolvent banks weren't allowed to go bust when they are "too big to fail", that introduces a moral hazard (large banks can get away with taking larger risks since losses are socialized) and a big competitive advantage (smaller institutions like Countrywide and WaMu don't get the government guarantees that big ones like GS and JPMorgan Chase do). - Jim Norris

It's an arguable point, but what if the cost of letting the big guys fail is anarchy? - Private Sanjeev

I think the problem is that we shouldn't allow too many entities to get "too big to fail" in the first place. It also seems, with derivatives, that even fairly small entities can now become too big to fail (LTCM). Would the Austrianists have intervened to prevent or regulate derivatives? - Private Sanjeev

It's been real. - Jim Norris

Keep me in there Sanjeev. Dig your stuff ?! - Charlie Anzman

OK have fun. If any of your real friends are friends of me you'll still see all my cat pictures and PB&J postings anyhow. :) - Alex Scoble

S'okay. You're not subscribed to me anyway. :) - Morton Fox

Oh, heh, yeah he's not subscribed to me either, hehe. - Alex Scoble

Same here. - Akiva Moskovitz

Same as @Charlie - Elias Torres

Isn't that was facebook is for? I use facebook for real life relationships, and friendfeed for good spirited conversations on the interwebs. - Chris Hollander

Chris W, yes I'm going to kick off subscribers temporarily. - Sanjeev Singh

Chris H, Facebook is more about socialization and social communication (how are you doing? what are you up to?). I just want to find and discuss cool stuff with my friends :) - Sanjeev Singh

How will you let us know when you are back? I'll miss your stuff! - Clare Dibble

Actually I think I'll just create a "private sanjeev" account. - Sanjeev Singh

My friends use Facebook notes http://facebook.com/notes.php for cool and hot stuff. - John Lam

Chris White/premium content comment FTW - j1m

jeev, remember to keep me in, took me a while to locate you !! haha!! - Lim, Kok Kim

But I just learned about flouridation from you last week! :| - Mona Nomura