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fredex

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    Comment #1930169

    Well, if you read his autobiography, you'll see that he mentions a lot of people who contributed to Walmart's success (e.g. David Glass, his first CEO hire, his wife, small store o…

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    Comment #1930009

    Sam Walton's autobiography mentions that his father-in-law provided the initial capital (that was about it), and his brother played an insignificant role (like buying things from s…

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    Comment #1929106

    http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune500/2010/full_... and Wikipedia. I went through most of the list. It's right to me.

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    Comment #1851421

    "No, you won't get a single econ prof to say that the Chinese are more efficient at sewing buttons." Are you serious? A Chinese worker will produce more sewing buttons for $1 than …

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    Comment #1851393

    "consensus means nothing but politics" Actually, why don't you do this if you think it's all about politics. Get your favorite politician, see who their economic advisers are, then…

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    Comment #1851373

    "Except for some points of information, biomedical, and materials technology, it's not clear that our standard of living is as high now." This is probably the most uninformed, illo…

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    Comment #1826915

    Any lessons you can share after your 2nd or 3rd time? What would you have done differently?

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    Comment #1826894

    Sorry, but that's not true at all. iTunes alone makes Apple over $1 billion in revenue per quarter . That's a lot of money and alone could almost vie for a Fortune 500 listing.

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    Comment #1826872

    In your opinion, what are Joomla's greatest weaknesses?

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    Comment #1826862

    I'm sure she wants to remain anonymous judging by her email. It's a great offer, btw. I'd feel way too guilty for her like that though. Edited: Sorry!

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    Comment #1826741

    I think it depends on the type of application you're building. A Twitter like application probably doesn't need as much hardware as something more complex.