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I think the core argument here is that if the majority of the users don't understand the implementation details of the software/hardware they're using, then selling them new stuff …

You have a contract directly with the borrowers, not with the institution. If the borrowers don't pay up, you loose that money. Zopa doesn't pretend that you have money sitting in …

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Good point. I think Microsoft have failed to spot that the computer market is going the same way as the car market. You can buy a car very cheaply if you just need to get from A to…

So what's your point? That the people who want a say in how they're governed shouldn't express a view because the people who don't like to have a say are sick of hearing it?

I don't think the argument is that "you're bad anyway". Regardless of who you are, how you got into that situation and whether the protesters have a point, with a protest movement …

I agree. Facebook's data on me is not of a particularly good quality. Most of my "friends" are former colleagues or school friends. I wouldn't trust any of them to recommend a rest…

True. I'm not passing judgement or using subjective terms like "bad guys", I'm just saying that the OP highlights what a robust monopoly Google has and that the counter arguments t…

If true, this strengthens the case that Google's monopoly is dangerous. The defence of Google's market dominance has always been that users are not locked in to Google and would sw…

Give the guy a break, he clearly does now how to code, he writes well crafted blog entries in which he humbly explains some of the mistake's he's made for the benefit of others. If…

"Smart" in this context means "engineering smart", sounds like they lacked some business smarts... There's more than one way to be smart.

It's all about network effects. I think the hype is bad for Twitter, it makes people aware of the service before any of their friends are on there, so they try it, subscribe to Ste…

I think pg has misjudged what stage of the start-up revolution we're in. He notes that the industrial revolution spread quickly because there were geographical areas with middle cl…

The amount of wealth in the world is roughly the same, but the perceived value of cash has risen relative to everything else. The "wealth" has gone to the people who happen to be s…

This looks kind of like Powershell, which I've been in awe of for several months now. But being built on a more dynamic runtime this will have the ability to use to extend objects …

I'm not surprise this is happening, I expect that it will happen more in future. Windows and IE may have only lost a few percentage points of market share over the past few years, …

I didn't bail out anyone, sometimes more than one institution blows up which seems to give you a better chance of making it to the end before the recession catches you. Then I real…

I wasn't suggesting that evolution thinks, I was suggesting that we've evolved to produce more males so that there's an optimum 50/50 balance of the number of males and females at …

Consensus is clearly 66% or 50% depending on whether you think the GB and BG combinations are the same thing in the context of the question. But isn't it true that more boys than g…

You make it sound like that's a bad thing.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to silently hide the posts from everyone except the troll. Now he (or she) has been public outed he'll probably try again with a new set of accounts.