Borepatch: Of course, this sort of behavior puts them terribly at risk to a competitor who does know the weakness. Look at Google’s market value, vs. Yahoo’s.
Borepatch: This guy only seems like an extreme outlier.
Isegoria: Excellent! Thank you for the heads-up, Foseti. (It looks like I’ve been reading Dalrymple since 2003 — long before there was a fan site tracking his every article.)
Foseti: If you’re enjoying Dalrymple (and you should be), the Skeptical Doctor blog tracks his writing.
Isegoria: I don’t think the need is new; I think the ability to find and evaluate software engineers by their handiwork online is what’s new.
David Foster: Why is this new? “Technology” and “software” are not synonyms: there are complex bodies of knowledge in electrical and mechanical engineering, in manufacturing, etc, and not too many recruiters have great depth of knowledge in these fields either.
Borepatch: Bill Ayers fits this description of rich bomb maker perfectly.
Hoz Compton: I was in Peru during the terrorism and inflation. To me, Fujimori saved Peru. Sometimes the means are justified by the end. I will never forget his speech at San Marcos University regarding graffiti. The man had courage. His failings were human.
David Foster: “How’s it going? I noticed that you mention you like music a lot. I play in a band; sorry it’s not a famous one. We specialize in atheist music and zombie music.” Think that would do it?
Ralph Musgrave: You are right: I think that having banks offer two types of account is the best solution. I can think of further arguments for this (which others have probably already thought of!). 1. I think everyone has a basic human right to an account where they can deposit $X and are guaranteed to get $X back. Sums so deposited cannot be invested because of the risks involved, thus such sums would effectively just be deposited at the central bank as reserves. 2. As soon as depositors want interest,...