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True. But not important - or salient - 78% of the time on popular Reddit threads, right?

A shortcut is supposed to be difficult; if it was easy, it would just be 'the way'.

It's difficult not to see to the word 'slumped' as an editorial judgement, and I find it quite strange. The world is grotesquely overpopulated and at some point it needs to stop.

It's important to remember that up until 60 years ago they weren't in any way separate from one another, and up until 20-30 years ago when the south's economy took off, there was little material difference between how the two countries were run.

He says Google got 100x their investment since it's 'worth' that multiple of what they paid. I don't think it's a valid argument since they paid real cash and have only a notional value in return. It's hard to see anyone forking over $100bn+ for youtube, and I doubt it's even made enough profit since they bought it to cover what they paid originally paid. None of this is to particularly criticise either the original post or its followup - it takes courage to call it as you see it and then own up to your mistakes, but it's always worth taking another pass at the figures to see if they really stack up.

Guarantee everyone in this comment thread saw that episode of the West Wing where CJ meets the cartographers for social cartography. Me too. Big block of cheese, indeed...

I. Hate. PDFs.

You have to connect to download it, so why not just put it on the web?! Link to the pdf from there if you simply must.

That is all.

I think in fairness PayPal were already very much on the Dark Side; now they've just gone bat shit mental.

I read that three times as register outRage and couldn't figure out what the article was on about. Register outrage,on the other hand, I would totally get (and is totally overdue a front page HN story).

Management theory is like cottage cheese - they keep finding surprising new ways to make me hate it.