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Auto Facial Attractiveness Enhancement Engine - http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tommer...
Carrie Thomson, natasha william, Suresh S and 127 other people liked this
This is amazing. I think we should automatically apply it to all profile photos ;)
- Paul Buchheit
Facial discrimination?
- Jason
Impressive.
- j1m
Can I get one for the body as well as the face?
- Dion Almaer
Very interesting. Hope they post the download link soon so that we can all play with it.
- Brady Brim-DeForest
It seems as if the main problem with most people in the examples shown is their forehead is too short or too narrow. Wonder if there's a subtle clue that big brains are beautiful there! :)
- Lindsay
@Jason - that's an interesting concept. Would you be more likely to trust the girl on the left or right? Would you be more likely to talk to either one of them at a party (or more intimidated by either one?).
- Lindsay
Right one looks more dumb...
- philsmirnov
Notice that for all the women they soften the jaw, while squaring it for men. Everyone also gets a slightly thinner face and upturned almost smiling lips.
- FFing Enigma
@SB yeah and the forehead adjustment... almost like there is a triangle with the forehead at the point and they flip it so the chin is the bottom of the triangle... weird.
- Lindsay
They are different women! Blame Paul! : )
- Erhan Erdoğan
impressive
- accexine
Lindsay: whenever sketching generic faces, the face starts as an inverted triangle and the eyes appear a third of the way down from the top of the forehead; lips and nose appear below and above (respectively) a line 1/3 up from the chin. Looks like these pictures are rearranged to meet that particular school of drawing.
- FFing Enigma
That is interesting yet odd. Seems that the faces are slendered with the software.
- Jim Goldstein
from twhirl
I wonder what would come out of applying their algorithms to face of black or asian person? Different countries have different concepts of beauty.
- arty
This technology should be made available in eye glasses, just imagine how much better your work day can be!
- Claude Betancourt
Paul - Think you should definitely add the option. "Click here to be beautiful without the expense of plastic surgery! .... and you may even get more 'Likey's" :)"
- Charlie Anzman
Some of the stuff coming out of Siggraph this year is really freaky. How about combining this with the automatic video editing stuff? ;)
- Joe Beda
without a doubt amazing. It's incredible how subtle the changes are yet massive difference.
- Zee.
Huh, that's pretty crazy. Creepy, but cool. :)
- felix
I haven't read the paper, but I wonder if it adapts to different notions of "attractive" (that changes from culture to culture ...)
- Rui Pires
+1 @Claude I was thinking the same thing! Incorporate this software in wearable monitor glasses, and the whole world would be beautiful! I'll bet we can look for these on the shelves in the U.S. just before November. Social media and reality enhancement software have put Winston Smith out of a job.
- ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ
do i sense another manga-style meme starting?
- anna sauce
So, if it turns me into Gilbert Godfried... what does that mean?
- Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ
You know, if these guys had gotten together with the realtime video+photo enhancement folks and approached the Beijing Olympic Comittee then that singing girl in the opening ceremonies might not have had to been replaced with a body double. (Yeah, I just brought three of this week's biggest memes together. I'll be here all week.)
- Kevin Fox
The artist proportions were laid out by the Greeks as the perfect human, that's not being used here. This beautification engine, I think, builds on top of a previous study where some students tried to mathematically identify attractiveness. They had participants rate the attractiveness of head shots from yearbooks. What they found was there was a high correlation b/w the geometrically "average" face and high attraction. That "average" is based on the proportions of the di
- xero
stances between the individual elements of the face and their relative sizes. IIRC the software adjusts elements so they statistically/geometrically complement each other. It's not actually working toward a golden set of proportions, but a set of proportions appropriate for the individual as defined by the masses. I wouldn't think of it as "facial discrimination" so much as "deviation from ones potential".
- xero
I'm waiting for the first Facebook application that automatically enhances your profile picture like this. Every social network should run this on the avatars. Beautiful people!
- Benedikt Koehler
Can you imagine the controversy if dating sites got a hold of this?
- xero
@paul automatically apply it to all profile photos, huh? are you sure you ready for results? check my picture - try to see wonderful cossacks writing infamous letter to Turkish Sultan :)
- A. T.
I wonder if they'll turn Mickey Mouse into Mighty Mouse
- Dave Q
@Lindsay; A)Maybe/? 1=Left 2=Right 3=N/A
- Jason
this will have a lot of practical applications to create a (virtual) world of beautiful (or more acceptable facially) people.
- Apostolos Tsompanopoulos
Just a complicated high tech implementation of beer goggles.
- Hayes Haugen
Chris' comment is sooo tempting
- Charlie Anzman
This is what came up as the top Google hit for paul buchheit friendfeed.
- Spidra Webster
I just read the first comment and may I ask why we should apply it automatically to all profile pictures??? Who are we gonna kid that way?!
- ambidextrous
it's long gone.
- Joe The Sausage
It's down :(
- Burcu Dogan
cannot open this link,404 is there~
- 阿石
Mobile Email Usage to Grow from 131M to 434M in 2 Years - http://www.gaborcselle.com/blog...
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The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Dear Google kids: I’m sorry to inform you, but you are, in fact, evil - http://mattmaroon.com/2009...
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That's kind of an understatement :) (these people keep emailing me, completely unaware of the fb deal)
SAM, sridhars, StreamAfrica and 43 other people liked this
<coffee comes thru nose>
- Jeff (Team マクダジ )
I hate recruiters
- Ivan Kirigin
Recruiters, gotta love em. Well, actually you don't.
- Eric
Haahah. That's a good one.
- Micah
You should reply and say, "Man if only you'd called me a couple of days ago I would have been able to do something with you. Now? Well, sorry, you just missed your chance."
- Kenton
wtf?
- kosmar
what fb deal???
- Gustaf
ha ha.. are they looking to give you a job or get you to hire them on behalf of FF.
- Bindu Reddy
Presumably they are offering their services to recruit staff for friendfeed. You're just an entry in a mail merge database, as far as they're concerned.
- DGentry
HAHAHAH That is epic!! tooooo funny :D
- Susan Beebe
LOL!
- Kol Tregaskes
Tell them you'd like a job at Facebook.
- Andrew C (✓)
All is well Paul....What's happening in FB...
- StreamAfrica
loled so hard.
- sridhars
How to Unlock the Amazing Secret of Unlimited Productivity - http://www.mattcutts.com/blog...
NaHi, Daniel Rowley, Space Cowboy and 31 other people liked this
That's totally brilliant!
- imabonehead
yo, respect!
- simone righini
I laugh so much, that I could'nt stop.
- bellegarde-webb
It's times like this I wish there were a "Love" link.
- Tom Stocky
My opinion of Stanford hospital has reached an all-time low (and it was already pretty low to begin with) knowing what they just put a close friend through. It just reaffirms my conviction to stay the hell away from that place.
sridhars, Michal Cierniak, Jeff (Team マクダジ ) and 6 other people liked this
Too few people know. If you need a hospital, go to Good Samaritan - http://www.goodsamsanjose.com/
- Paul Buchheit
My friend went in for what was considered to be routine surgery, but the surgeons at Stanford botched it, causing some major internal bleeding and infection. They addressed the internal bleeding with emergency surgery two days after the first surgery, and the infection with meds. Now she's not even sure which of her organs are still inside her and is looking to find some specialists to work with for follow up care. (In addition to legal action.)
- April Buchheit
Yuck. I was actually warned away by a doctor there during the height of my neurological problems. She said she would love to treat me, but it the system was super slow and it would take her forever to get me through it. She told me to go to Palo Alto Medical Foundation where I've gotten great treatment. It's horrible that your friend is going through this.
- Rachel Lea Fox
... teaching hospitals...
- anna sauce
Good Samaritan++
- Private Sanjeev
I would like to tell people to stay away from all teaching hospitals, but UCSF holds a special place in my heart and I believe that they're the exception to the rule.
- April Buchheit
Worst experience for me was blood draw lab. I agreed to let a student draw blood (they gotta learn somehow!)...big mistake... The girl was super nervous, missed my vein 3 times, moving the needle around, finally an experienced tech came over and did it instantly. And my veins are super easy to find and stick out like a sore thumb. My arm hurt like hell for 2 days.
- Ray Cromwell
sorry to your friend... I hope it all turns out ok.
- Clare Dibble
... Go Bears? No, in all seriousness, I hope everything works out for the best. Sounds like a horrible experience.
- Brian Chang
Just for some more data points, I've never had a problem at Stanford Hospital (specifically, ER). They've been relatively quick and professional.
- Darren
reMail 2.0 Nails Full-Text Search For The iPhone - http://www.techcrunch.com/2009...
Robert Scoble, Taras Brizitsky, אלף and 15 other people liked this
"The new version of reMail downloads the entire contents of your Mailbox — every single message — onto your iPhone, which it then stores locally. That may sound undesirable for those of us with large Email boxes that are many gigabytes large, but the reMail team has done an excellent job at compressing data for its search index: Cselle says that they’ve managed to squeeze 100,000 Emails into 500 megabytes (most Email accounts are only a fraction of that size). ... Of course, the iPhone 3.0 software update finally introduced Email search to the iPhone, which may lead some people to wonder why reMail is even necessary. Cselle points out a few major benefits: for one, reMail’s search is around five times faster than the iPhone’s, and it searches full-text (the iPhone only searches headers). And reMail retains its full functionally offline, while the iPhone’s search often requires a data connection to search older messages."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Go Gabor!
- Paul Buchheit
Sweet! I just discovered reMail a few days ago when browsing your CrunchBase profile. You, Sanjeev, and YCombinator fronted the seed money eh?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Maybe I'll have to try out the app myself.
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel: Yup, it was Paul + Sanjeev + YCombinator :-)
- Gabor Cselle
"... it was a surprisingly common complaint — people are just unwilling to hand over that login data (which is probably a good thing). Fortunately, reMail 2.0 does away with this problem. ..." Gabor did you build the iPhone app because of this?
- Peter Renshaw
Peter: Well that's why I RE-built the whole thing.
- Gabor Cselle
Wow... This is an awesome idea! Gotta try it on my 32Gb iPhone
- Susan Beebe
from iPhone
Just got pointed to this wondrous blog: http://badmaksh.blogspot.com/ . Much respect ensues.
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I so need to see this movie
- sridhars
Two people just independently wrote me that the new reMail saved their day. Woohoo!
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Public Safety Announcement: Motorcycles Are Dangerous - http://patrissimo.livejournal.com/1149095...
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Why health care reform is hard: "a dollar spent on medical care is a dollar of income for someone." http://online.wsj.com/article... (via @ahier)
Rob Diana, sridhars, Eric Johnson and 2 other people liked this
Coincidentally, this is also why the War on Drugs is hard.
- Kevin Fox
How to Cure Health Care By Milton Friedman
- Tim Lai
good article ..even though a little long :] .. misses some points - 1. human health is not a merchandise, a goods to trade in, just like human being is not ....- 2. human health care is a human right, at least in the developed world ... 3. wrong to state that there is no output, if we pay for healthcare as input - health care is THE BEST form of investment, makes country competitive,...
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- pb:
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Vacation in Italy last week. Rome, Venice and Florence.
- Simon
wow, these are all fantastic
- David Vasileff
Excellent pictures, not that that's all that surprising
- Sanjay Ghemawat
totally gorgeous, I'm there in my mind
- Sheri Fresonke Harper
The spiral staircase is my favorite photo.
- Chiu-Ki Chan
Thanks :) Aaron: I imported using Adobe Camera Raw and then sometimes selectively adjusted curves and rotated and cropped. http://si.smugmug.com/gallery... is HDR, all the others are from a single exposure.
- Simon
so so so beautiful
- StephenTsui
Awesome. :)
- Satoshi Hayakawa
beautiful!
- Dh'ennis Dömingö
Well done.
- Piaw Na
Nice. I've got to start carrying a tripod. And my camera. And a wide angle lens. :)
- Seth
If Photography was only about equipment, there'd be gobs of great photographers. Fortunately, it's also about having a good eye, skill, and fanatical devotion to technique.
- Piaw Na
Good point. I've got to start carrying Simon.
- Seth
Wow, the color is incredible!
- Michael Turner
iPhone vs. stone - http://www.eatliver.com/i...
siva s, karl dotter, Konstantin and 23 other people liked this
"Stone wins anyways. It's cheaper."
- Gabe
from Bookmarklet
And you don't have to wait in line for a 'genius' to fix your rock.
- Gabe
The comments on that page are the best.
- Paul Buchheit
Plus stone could totally take iPhone in combat.
- Jandy
Would be nice to see how paper stacks up against both.
- Ken Sheppardson
Yes, but will it blend?
- Gabe
xkcd - A Webcomic - Correlation - http://xkcd.com/552/
Mark, Bruce Lewis, Maggie and 17 other people liked this
http://www.youtube.com/watch... - clever. If only MSFT ads in the US were this good...
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Seth's Blog: Lonely, scared & bitter - http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_b...
Franco Piccolo, Bill Romanos, Iggy Kin and 17 other people liked this
The other two quadrants seem like very interesting combinations to me.
- Tudor Bosman
I am shooting for Angry and Generous.
- Bret Taylor
calm and selfish: evil genius (Karl Rove?); generous and angry: CEO-turned-philantropist (Bill Gates?)
- Tudor Bosman
Huseyin: Yes, Indexed is awesome.
- Tudor Bosman
Definitely angry.... Calm is no fun at all
- Bindu Reddy
how to get Linux help - http://bash.org/?152037
The Real sofarsoShawn, Czar, ernie yacub and 29 other people liked this
"For example, I didn't know how to find files by contents and the man pages were way too confusing. What did I do? I knew from experience that if I just asked, I'd be told to read the man pages even though it was too hard for me. Instead, I did what works. Trolling. By stating that Linux sucked because it was so hard to find a file compared to Windows, I got every self-described Linux Guru around the world coming to my aid. They gave me examples after examples of different ways to do it. All this in order to prove to everyone that Linux was better."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Sanjeev had a similar idea a while back. Instead of asking questions on usenet (which people may ignore or tell you to rtfm), post the wrong answer, and they will eagerly correct it in order to prove their superiority ;)
- Paul Buchheit
This is really true, for the first time i installed linux on my computer, i stucked at some point and it made me crazy, and i accidentally found that site which defined the situation i was in :D
- Baris Bulut
I think this applies to most any open-source project. I think the difference here is that it is frequently the programmers who are responding, whereas commercial software projects frequently have a help desk, whose job it is to answer questions. Programmers don't want to spend their time telling people how to use their software when they already spent a bunch of time writing up manuals.
- Robert Felty
"Free time projects? Programmers? Manuals?" Can they be in the same paragraph? ;)
- Jemm
Man pages are a reference manual, not a tutorial, but a minute with Google will answer the question. (http://google.com/search... has pretty good results.) There are resources which are neither man pages nor other people. A lot of people seem to be very resistant to doing any kind of self-help; all I can think of to help them are peer to peer networks.
- ⓞnor
But also, I am pretty much 100% positive that a politely worded question asking for pointers to how you do this - and explaining that they had tried to look at man pages but become confused, with bonus points for describing where they had been confused - would get good results. The "RTFM dummy" brushoffs tend to happen to quick, vaguely worded, rude questions.
- ⓞnor
@e3r: I agree and will add that similar responses to dumb questions are not limited to Linux communities
- Count Caturday
Jess, Linux is too boring to be gay. Gays have style. ;-)
- Sprague D
oh, PhDs just love to go after requests - just like this http://friendfeed.com/e... ;)
- A. T.
One can get proper answers to Linux-related questions simply by finding the right community. A strictly moderated community that looks down on the "RTFM noob" class of response ought to be a good place to start.
- Rishabh Mishra (p248)
I switched to Ubuntu and can totally relate. What many would-be helpers don't get is that what they think answered the question may as well be written in Greek for as much sense as much of it makes to us non and quasi-geeks. It is not that we won't try self-help - it is that there is too much we don't know for a lot of the documentation to be of any assistance to us.
- Internet Strategist
If you think man pages are only reference, you have never typed "man perl". Some of them even have "tutorial" in the name of the man page.
- Andy Bakun
Larry Page: "The thing focus on is to get people to believe something is possible" http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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_to_ focus on?
- Paul Buchheit
List of common misconceptions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki...
Derek Collison, Kirill Maximov, Chieze Okoye and 31 other people liked this
"The human body can survive the hard vacuum of space unprotected, despite contrary depictions in much popular Science fiction. Human flesh expands to about twice its size in such conditions, giving the visual effect of a body builder rather than an overfilled balloon. Consciousness is retained for up to 15 seconds as the effects of oxygen starvation set in. No snap freeze effect occurs because all heat must be lost through thermal radiation or evaporation of liquids, and the blood does not boil because it remains pressurised within the body. The greatest danger is in attempting to hold one's breath before exposure, as the subsequent explosive decompression can damage the lungs. These effects have been confirmed through various accidents (including in very high altitude conditions, outer space and training vacuum chambers)."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Wow, that was the coolest thing I learned all day.
- Patrick Lightbody
Wow! You mean we are all really superheroes after all? Cool:)
- Roney Smith
Note that it says "the human body can survive", not "a human can survive". So we're not all superheroes. :( I just thought I'd ruin it for you.
- Gabe
It's awesome that wikipedia contains this list...and the list itself is awesome. Weirdly, I feel like I just learned recently that the flat earth story is bogus. Especially weird because, well, it's patently obvious that the earth is not flat, to anyone who has ever been in a large field.
- j1m
but, caveat emptor: the statement about myopia is misleading. In fact, close work during childhood appears to be a major cause of myopia (see, for example, the wikipedia entry on myopia). I wonder how many other errors there are in here that I wouldn't be able to catch. The list also includes some things that don't really count as common misconceptions. 'Koala bear' is a name for...
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- j1m
Rent or Own: Amazon EC2 vs. Colocation Comparison for Hadoop Clusters - http://blog.rapleaf.com/dev...
John Mueller, imabonehead, Dmitry Khrustalev and sridhars liked this
interesting numbers
- Jeremy Zawodny
sridhars, Clare Dibble, April Buchheit and Paul Buchheit liked this
"there are natural push away / pull together cycles, even in long-term committed relationships, where one or both of the parties start to take each other for granted (just as the natural result of getting used to each other), and the relationship gets more distant, and then gets close again. This can also happen when something new comes into one person's life - a job, a hobby, a group of friends, a lover, or whatever. "
- Clare Dibble
Gregory, I would say that there is also learning lost from not having one or more long term relationships. Time is a powerful context.
- Clare Dibble
Paul and his FFundercats mug
Rob Diana, matthew john ernisse, Nir Ben Yona and 37 other people liked this
oh man, the boys are gonna flip when they see this.
- Carlos Ayala
awesome!
- Trish Haley
NICE!
- FFing Enigma
AWESOME
- Johnny
HOOOOOOO!
- Josh Haley
That means He Who Is Not Subscribed to Me has probably heard my voice and my hyena-like laughter.
- Akiva
Akiva, me too! Wow. Wow. Wow.
- Rochelle
Crap, I hadn't even thought about that. Gah!
- FFing Enigma
Say it, Akiva... WHHHAATT?!?! I know I need to let it go, but, that soundbite cracks me up so bad.
- Yolanda
Paul, you better be drinking a big mug of HOOOOOOOOT chocolate.
- Pete D
that is hysterical!!! how can I get one?
- susan mernit
This is FriendFeed's secret revenue plan.
- Amit Patel
cool!
- vijay
whoa! A little googling reveals it's not (just) a mug: http://www.ffundercats.com/
- sridhars
Awesome!! very cool endorsement for sure!!
- Susan Beebe
Hey sridhars! Check out the podcast if you haven't already. We love to get new listeners!
- Josh Haley
nice!
- Carmen wBabby
already did :)
- sridhars
Everything I Know About Startups - http://onstartups.com/home...
Bruce Lewis, sridhars, Paul Buchheit and Atul Arora liked this
Dharmesh Shah: "You're going to have a hard enough time convincing your management team to work on the problem that you've decided to pursue, let alone having competitors go steal your idea and do the exact same thing."
- Nivi
from Bookmarklet
Obama Roasts McCain at Al Smith Dinner - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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McCain too http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- Paul Buchheit
Thanks for posting! (I caught the end of it on TV)
- Dan Hsiao
McCain was quite funny too. At the end especially when introducing Obama next =)
- Davide D'Incau
This is fabulous! "That was a tough primary you had there, John." And thanks for posting McCain's too - about to watch.
- Carla Thompson
This is excellent! I wish we had the same kind of moments in French politics!
- Antoine Bertier
OMG... the AIG zinger...
- Cyndy
the idea of this during a campaign just seemed bizarre to me...
- Taylor Davidson
where is the McCain video from the Al Smith dinner?
- John Blanton
from twhirl
I love the quote that the problems with the housing market have been eight times harder on McCain ha!
- Joe Dawson
Good humoured banter. Nice to see the candidates with a sense of humour during the campaign.
- Chris Nixon
Its great to think that after the division between candidates, parties and America in the past months, this sort of event could occur. I loved it! Both were great, and we needed a refreshing moment to sit back and realize that at the end of the day, one of the more crucial aspects to life is the ability to laugh.
- JCunwired
both were pretty funny....but i think obama won the standup debate :)
- don loeb
McCain was hilarious. As an Obama supporter, I am glad he wasn't that good during all of his other speeches ;)
- Bret Taylor
One of my favorite lines was "Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is that Barack is actually Swahili for 'that one'. And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president."
- Bret Taylor
Agree with Bret. McCain's comedic timing was a lot better than Obama's
- Deepak Singh
This is really cool! FUNNY!!!!!!! thanks for sharing!! :)
- Susan Beebe
Amen, @Chris B. If only the whole campaign were this funny and civil.
- Heidi Moon
They were both hilarious! Their writers need to work in comedy :) I thought Obama was the funniest, but then I am an Obama fan so may be biased.
- Sheila Taylor
Swahili for "That One". Too funny.
- Clay Newton
"Contrary to rumors, I was not born in a manger! I was actually born on Krypton...."
- j1m
Funny, McCain was good as well. Can you imagine having that in France?...Not really!
- alice ayel
Dear american friends: should Barack Obama lose the election, can we have him ?
- dario
@Dario only if the international community will also accept an American intellectual diaspora as well.
- Jason Carreira
@alice, maybe not the 2002 election, but a roast between Sarko and Séngolène would have been interesting.
- James Williams
"Greatest weakness: It's possible I'm a little TOO awesome."
- Rebecca Sun
Entourage Renewed For Sixth Season - http://www.slashfilm.com/2008...
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A life without Entourage would be a sad place
- T-Ho
Hear! Hear! +1 Traci
- April Buchheit
Warren Buffett explains the credit crisis to Charlie Rose | mathoda.com - http://mathoda.com/archive...
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"We leveraged up and if you have a 20 percent fall in value of a $20 trillion asset, that’s $4 trillion. And when $4 trillion lands — losses land in the wrong part of this economy, it can gum up the whole place.” People should have known better but in some way’s it’s unavoidable with markets: “People should always know better. … I mean people — people don’t get — they don’t get smarter about things that get as basic as greed and you can’t stand to see your neighbor getting rich. You know you’re smarter than he is, and he’s doing these things, you know, and he’s getting rich, and your spouse is getting unhappy with you because you aren’t doing — pretty soon you start doing it. And so you get what I call the natural progression, the three I’s: the innovators, the imitators, and the idiots. And that’s what happens. Everybody just kind of goes along. And you look kind of silly if you disagree."
- Paul Buchheit
from Bookmarklet
Can someone please engrave this on a plaque somewhere? Maybe we could have it etched into some tablets from the mountaintop and have churches predicated on these words.
- Christopher Sacca
Right on! Yep, i am very "silly" ...not a jonesy type anymore.... we gave away much of our "cool stuff" and now have a mimimalist home ...MUCH BETTER and the best part, no stinking debt, except house and 1 car. The bank was all too ready to sock us deep into debt. We decided against that and are very happy with our decision to borrow only half what was offered (more realistic with cushion to $pare)
- Susan Beebe
Unsure imitators and idiots don't simply continue on their merry way under bailout.
- AJ Kohn
@AJ all the bailout does is buy time. We're merely delaying the inevitable, I think. If the imitators and the idiots keep doing what they're doing, we'll just be right back here again, except probably even worse off.
- Victor Ganata
@Victor: Sadly, I agree.
- AJ Kohn
Warren gets it, and he's a pretty straight shooter. These are the kind of heartland values politicians should be espousing.
- Tinfoil 2.0
@Susan - we also just bought a house (closing on Tuesday) for half what we were pre-approved for.
- Robert Felty
Warren: "And all I can say is beware of geeks, you know, bearing formulas.”
- carolh
Paul, I've posted the video of the full interview- http://nicefishfilms.com/blog... Charlie Rose's site is being hammered with traffic today.
- michael sean wright
A lot of people have criticized Paulson, here's what Buffett says: "I don’t think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson … he knows markets, he knows corporations’ work, he knows money, and he’s got the interests of the country at heart."
- Sanjeev Singh
Buffett for President?
- Admiral70
Here is my new motto, <geek>Live below your means, but get enough technology to have some fun.</geek>
- Just Joe
Buffett (and Charlie Rose also) two of the smartest minds I've heard
- Alex Hammer
Sarah 'Miss Teen USA' Palin - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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LMAO!
- April Buchheit
that clip is so classic.
- Mark Foundos
simply awesome
- Harjeet Taggar
It didn't land on me how awful Palin's response was until now.
- Robert Konigsberg
I was thinking the exact same thing as I watched part II of the Couric interview. The comment about Putin and our airspace is a classic.
- Wil Witherspoon
... for the children!
- Chris Lamprecht
Ah. Tautology at its very best.
- Ginger Makela Riker
Holy cow. Damn.
- Jason Shultz
from twhirl
I like how when I hear a Microsoft codename I don't know, Live Searching Mary Jo Foley's blog brings more relevant hits than our intranet.
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"live searching"? srsly?
- Joe Beda
Yeah, sure, doesn't everyone Live Search? ;)
- Paul Buchheit
That reminds me of right after we launched A9 when we got a shout out on the OC. Remember that show? (Remember that website?) Shannon Lucio's character said "I A9.com'd him last night" (http://waxy.org/2005...) The funniest part is that, in spite of claims of tacky product placement to the contrary, we really didn't know anything about it until we read about it on the web the next day. Fat lot of good it did anyone, though. Where is Benjamin McKenzie these days, anyway?
- DeWitt Clinton
(An inordinate amount of research into the cast of the OC went into the above comment.)
- DeWitt Clinton
Not everyone, only about 80MM: http://siteanalytics.compete.com/live...
- Sprague D
The really cool kids just call it "living" man.
- Scott Koon
from twhirl
Microsoft does search? ;)
- Sam Levine
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