alexro

I'm at risk of sounding offensive, but I don't mean it. I just want to point out that to me many recent accomplishments in the realm of web frameworks sound similar to how Microsoft was making noise back in the day with their frameworks.

The MS frameworks were great in themselves, they even cooperated somewhat. But they ultimately lacked in the ability to support long-term development, you know, when people just drop out of the project and you suddenly need to bring someone in ASAP.

Keeping this in mind will allow the new generation of "web guys" do better than us, the "desktop guys".

Steve Blank seems to answer it the best http://steveblank.com/2012/03/29/nail-the-customer-developme...

And, if I get it correctly, that way you can tether the iPad via the android where there is no wifi?

The famine wasn't specific to Ukraine wasn't it? Southern areas of Russia suffered the same if not worse.

Currently the Russian population is degrading without any purges and people die from poor conditions and criminals (including police raids) in their cities.

But before there millions who really worked for the future and now there are few.

Holodomor was part of the Ukranian political agenda during Yushchenko ruling and is a made up 'fact'.

During same Holodomor times people dies through out Russia as well, and the event was caused by coincided mismanagement and bad seasonal conditions.

You take bold statement too literary. 20 million died in the WW2, they were murdered by Germans.

By pretending to work you don't usually get first into space, build huge cities and otherwise achieve anything.

Funny enough how otherwise objective HN community tends to support bold statements like this, which usually come up in a brainwashing activities.

The only fact that gets tossed out is that Russia was never a peaceful country, and there were never times without a violent regime.

How about this: for every 1 who suffered in Soviet Union there were 10 who benefited. But how many do suffer now for every 1 oligarch to benefit?

I hope you are right. But back in the days with never-ending wars there were never times like ours with the possibility to blow up the world in a go.

So, the wars get smaller but have bigger impact.

What scale shall we use to compare the results of, say, Hirasima/Nagasaki nuclear bombing with what, say, Mongolians did? Or is it all about being able to manage the public image?

Even if you are right 'technically' how about being right 'psychophysically' - what are these willing to occupy the wall streets do not understand?

In Soviet Union people had no property rights but there were millions enthusiastically working for the future. Now there are property rights and everybody fights for them. Also, investment bankers economics is killing the West too.

Historically this is a proven strategy exercised by all empires and there is nothing new to it: expand and enrich your citizens in good times and milk them in tough times; rinse and repeat.

The whole 20th century was total mess for Europe and the East. That there were no global wars after 2000 doesn't mean 21st century will be less horrible, given the amount of warfare present.

Add to this current monetary system which favours the US dollar and is backed with tons of gun power. Not exactly the ideal world of free trade I'd say.

Most of the USA wealth is due to the monetary system with the dollar on top. Call it trade if you like.

Is it the HN version of "go kill yourself" that intelligent people should use?

You really believe they did just fell down, one after another, starting with Tunisia? I envy your good spirit.

Why, on the other hand, you take your Economist and go show it to the folks mentioned? Alone in the evening. Scared?

It isn't true. The calculations are done for some "average" group. And the group is selected based on the research goals, can have nothing in common with say your family.

That's it. And even if the poverty was still the same or better, what we as a whole get after such interventions is excess amounts of hate. Better let the countries alone, you Barak

Frankly, to this exactly moment the greater part of rich people doesn't help us to get less suspicious.

Yeah, all is good

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_wars

To every good thing there is a bad effect. The effect of helping third nations to get in debt is hate. This hate accumulates and the result will be similar to the bubble exodus. This the modus operandi of capitalism - whoever holds the bag last will get in trouble.

There might be some few good cases but the greater part of history just serves my pessimistic view. All the empires claimed to help less developed nations to become "better". Only for some strange reason the latter didn't want this help until persuaded with military force.

There are two sides of reality: the poor and the rich. This fantasy makes the richer side feel better about the poor. Don't go asking the other way around.

No amount voting down can change the fact that economics is another form of war nowadays. The North American empire thrives at the moment, as the Romans did some time ago.

But who wins the global world is yet to be seen.

Like everything in capitalism, third world improvements is just an investment. The debt is due already for some nations and soon the next batch will follow the "debt settlement".

Look around yourself in your country. Are people good enough there and no "occupy wall street" actions taking place?

I know how the things are in the helped to be "developed" countries, and one from one of those.

We hopefully find it rather soon. The modern form of investment bankers capitalism is not what should be considered the best of our ability as society.

Don't be so optimistic. The globalization project hasn't ended yet. Who will control the world is to be seen. And whether the nations will be left with the wealth they had acquired is as clear as the Libyan's future at the moment.

I like reading PG's essays but this one is a nonsense to me. What we (people) don't like about the rich is not their ability to make money, but their ability to corrupt the gvmt and screw the poor. All in the sake of more money.