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The decision has primarily dictated by market conditions and opportunity cost which in aggregate would mean we probably wouldn't have been able to show the kind of results we wanted to make this a big company in this market.

And WTF hasn't anyone said this in the past 3 hrs already?

You were too hasty with the WTF.

Unless he or she is extremely sleep-deprived or something, any programmer can figure out how to review the source code in the .js file before installing.

Off-topic, but I recently considered relocating to Germany, and here is a brief synopsis of the main considerations.

I saw figures on the web once saying that in the U.S. government (Federal, state and local) takes about 40% of the income of individuals and in Germany government takes about 50%. Take the figures with a grain of salt because I do not recall where I saw them or who compiled them.

Homeschooling is illegal in Germany, and the law against homeschooling is enforced, making it very difficult to raise children there without sending your children to government schools or to private schools heavily regulated by the government. For example, it is illegal for private schools to pay their teachers less than the pay of teachers in government schools. The result of the heavy regulation of private schools is that almost everyone sends their children to government schools.

It is easier for men to get laid in Germany than in the U.S. I cannot tell you why, but several sources have said so, including a French manufacturer of sex dolls (high-end ones costing thousands each) who said that his company's dolls sell much better in Japan and the U.S. than they do in Europe. His exact words were, "Sex is easier in Europe, but taxes are harder." So if you are a heterosexual man having trouble getting laid in the U.S., moving to France or Germany might solve the problem.

Name one suspected communist, please, who was detained by an authority in the U.S, who was denied a public hearing before a magistrate to challenge the legitimacy of the grounds for the detention or was denied a procedural right customary under English common law, such as the right to a trial by jury.

My guess is that it is better for a business to be under a common-law jurisdiction. The legal system in most of the world is of a type called civil law, as contrasted to common law, but common law tends to protect property better because property is more central to its conceptual framework. Nick Szabo argues convincingly for the superiority of common law over civil law on his blog, http://unenumerated.blogspot.com.

One of Dubai's economic zones uses common law. (They hired a retired English judge to run the legal system in the zone.) added. Bermuda and the Cayman Islands use common law, too.

I see that more and more these days.

I was hoping for an Emacs command to load a Wikipedia entry directly into an Emacs buffer.

Can you explain why an infrequently updated blog would be bad?

I suppose you believe that it makes you look bad somehow. But what evidence do you have that that is really so?

Why's that? The (not gnus) mail system I use on Emacs will hang the Emacs process for a few seconds sometimes when I hit send while the Emacs process talks to my ISP's mail server, but that is the only way the mail system's single-threadedness ever really bites.

When I check for new mail on my ancient Pentium III system, the Emacs process hangs for less than a second or 2 usually.

Those delays are nothing compared to the time I waste waiting for Firefox to do something.

Yon said that the Kurds had no material resources, but a can-do attitude. He described the young woman as extremely self-confident.

Asked about her plans for the future, she said she wanted to emigrate to France, hang out with the cool people there for a while, then move to San Francisco. (France and SF are respectively the number one and two tourist destinations, BTW.)

So, by "the spiritual center of the world," what the Indians in the article might have meant is that SF is the best place they know of for a person to live.

And I do not scoff at that notion.

'Twould have eliminated the need for the OP (Dave Gorman) to change his phone number

"I’m always looking for people doing interesting things with e-mail. Even if you’re a spammer, or someone trying to destroy the spammers, I want to hear from you" (Zed Shaw, maintainer of the Lamson project).

Finally, here is a comment from the Techcrunch article:

I was an active Realtor for 8 years and I’m glad to see something like this taking shape. It’s only a matter of time before real estate agents are entirely obsolete, and for good reason. You used to have to go through an agent to get this kind of information on homes; now the general public has access to that same information.

If you had RTFA before your first comment, you would not have gotten sidelined.

The author (mixmax) of TFA graciously conceded in his reply that his "Google won the browser wars" was probably not the best choice of words, but the context made it immediately clear to me what he meant by that choice of words.

Google News and the news sites I have tried have way too much information. I want the top 10 or so current-events general-interest stories of the year: more than that would be just noise.

If you know of a news source like that besides Hacker News, I would be most grateful if you told me.

Even if that is true, that is no reason for the design of match.com to increase the humiliation or disappointment.