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I know this is anecdotal but I remember anywhere you went in financial or political circles in 1990s London, everyone was falling over themselves about the nouveau riche from Russia and former Warsaw Pact countries investing. There were some who said it would drive up real estate prices and some upset about lack of oversight but they were looked at in the media and by politicians as kooky or close to it. Decades later - the Panama Papers, the Epstein files and articles like this and from that journalist killed in Malta exposing corruption.

Mind-boggling what people and corporations knew and did in the shadows while we cheered on and cheer on their holdings.

In terms if volume and distribution it's noteworthy that they also supply Sam's Club.

Thank you. Going to buy your books to read up first. Thanks again for the AMA and all your thoughtful responses for the HN crowd

I'm about to launch a startup, do you do consulting for small companies with what I'd like to think is a big mission (likely similar to all startups lol)? In other words, is there some way to contact you and do you work with non-billion dollar startups if you find it worthwhile? Or is it more in line with 'read my books and call me when you raise your first million'?

One of the best things about HN is a fairly troll-free environment. My politics is/was different than Clinton but I don't think he was convicted of that crime.

Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, New Zealand all have universal childcare and seem to have a lot less teen violence than the US that has no universal childcare.

Not just the UK govt but same with the US govt. Loss of domain-specific knowledge is a real problem is one problem. When project deadlines slip, government departments have no choice but to pay whatever the cost for extending the contract since the specific knowledge lies with the contracting company.

For MS to even think Recall was a good idea is quite worrisome.

Financial services, government departments (including things like criminal cases), healthcare - talk about a privacy and confidentiality nightmare.

It should be interesting to hear the inside story about how this was championed inside the company and how it got the greenlight from the higher ups.

Well-written article and interesting series.

Excellent idea. Let's start with lowering wages across the board at the Federal Reserve.