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Comment Paul Graham should know! (Score 1) 487

"... you look smug. You don't seem to be working hard enough."

Probably not the first time PG has contemplated the reasons for this particular type of hate, since he parlayed a halfway-decent idea at the right time into a Massive Pulpit for Pontificating on Every Goddamn Thing in the Universe.

Comment Nigerian scam 'victims' are criminals themselves (Score 3, Insightful) 857

Blaming the victim in this case is perfectly legitimate. Most long cons like this involve an appeal to the element of criminality on the part of the victim. Why would this woman think that she is entitled to pull millions of dollars worth of free money out of Africa?

The basic Nigerian scam depicts a corrupt official stealing money who 'needs your help'. To fall for it isn't just stupid, it's venal.

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Paul Krugman Awarded Nobel Prize For Economics 425

zogger writes in his journal, "The guy who put together the concept of geographical location combined with cheap transportation leading to 'like trades with like' and the rise of superindustrial trading blocs has won the Nobel economics science prize. He's a bigtime critic of a lot of this administration's policies, and is unabashedly an FDR-economy styled fella. Here is his blog at the NYTimes." Reader yoyoq adds that Krugman's career choice was inspired by reading Asimov's Foundation series at a young age.

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