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go for it. and let's see the extrapolation to a economic juggernaut like the U.S. It's always the "norway" argument. If Norway (pop 4 million or so) can do it so can the U.S.

Yes, I guess Los Angeles could do something like that, but..

Yeah, I'd like to hear your "course correction" I can guess.

Another clown(writer) with an agenda.

I was curious what kind of hoops they had to go through to get the woman on stage. Obviously there was a concerted effort to get a woman on stage for a dog-n-pony show. Or maybe she is a major player in the Linux kernel development scene, but I absolutely know there was talk behind the scenes to get her up there.

And before the P.C. gestapo gets on my case. I think it's great that women are involved in software engineering. I'm more interested in the P.C. dynamics to promote it.

Yeah, right. Just like the Soviet Union was the happiest country when their people sat in line for toilet paper.

I'm sure Krugman would fit right in Venezuela.

In your bubble, you believe all of those things are good things accepted by the HN hive mind. Hilarious.

And in 2013 where do you banish to? All I see is swift execution by either the banishing fiefdom or probably swift execution by the resulting "accepting" fiefdom.

Paul Krugman is a leftist operative - nothing more.