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  1. @luckthelady amen. (Fresh out of my juicer: pineapple/orange/banana/clementine/pear/apple.)
  2. @aripap make sure not to mix those verbs and their objects or things could turn ugly!
  3. Ostalgie, German word roughly synonym of stupidalgia http://bit.ly/HzvdE
  4. I didn't realize sovereign wealth funds had grown beyond the size of hedge funds http://www.imf.org/external...
  5. @sebastianpinera but it's not just an academic problem. Vocational, professional training and management too (including in/with companies).
  6. @sebastianpinera among expats living here in Chile there seems to be a consensus that education is holding the country back.
  7. @jayrosen_nyu are you saying debunkers have a higher burden of proof than those they debunk? If yes, why - to up the ante, avoid strawman?
  8. "there's never been a coup in the United States because there is no American embassy there" - Chilean journalist at US-Chile meeting. LOL!
  9. How German Banks Are Cashing In on the Financial Crisis. More than ever, why bother working in the real economy? http://twurl.nl/mzgcg1
  10. 2009 Year of Cutting through Bullshit with a Chainsaw. There's nothing "strategic" in what amounts to requests for free advertising.
  11. @Bronto agreed with them, optout email confirmations seem to defeat the purpose.
  12. @twitter email invites need work. Impossible to reply to the sender, opt-in by default, can't even tell sender we're already on twitter.
  13. @pkedrosky up 10 percentage points.
  14. @sdkstl Good link, finally we get reports that dispel the wishy-washy "tech is saving the world and only nice guys know how to use it."
  15. Icelanders stopped eating imported meat, switched to local fish? But they don't have manufacturating, all their consumption can't be local.
  16. If a country's currency collapses and it needs to import a lot of its consumption, how can PPP GDP be relatively maintained?
  17. I don't understand the discrepancy between Iceland GDP IMF 2009 estimates in USD and at PPP. http://twurl.nl/56z0iw
  18. History of propaganda shows the opposite. Tyrants are the best at spreading rumors and steering mass opinion using any available means.
  19. Many people singing the praise of social media seem to start from premise that the bad guys can't or don't know how to use it.
  20. @MsBeat social media can accelerate spreading untruths. It can get us further from the truth and its power is not inherently good.