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Ha ha, remember when Skype pulled this scam with eBay? Good times!

It goes to show that having the government chosen by accumulated individual local elections in kind of silly. Quebecois thought Layton did great in the French-language debate, wanted him as PM, and voted for whatever NDP was on their ballot locally. This resulted in oddities like a monolingual Anglophone being elected in a riding that is 80 percent monolingual Francophone. A mixed-member proportional system like they have in Germany would fix this -- you have separate votes for who you want to be your local rep and who you want to control the government.

It's not an all or nothing thing. It's not as if interacting with humans is physically painful. Being introverted isn't a crippling social disorder; it just means that sometimes you need to recharge by spending time by yourself, and often find that relaxing.

(I actually do work at home now, but I've worked in office environments in the past, which I've liked fine, not least because I got to spend lunchtime when, where, and with whom I chose.)

Joel is obviously not aware of the differences between introverts and extroverts, which seems weird for someone who works in a field with a lot of introverts.

I'm not down on his idea of eating lunch together - it's probably fun and productive. But if someone spots me eating lunch by myself while reading (a book, a magazine, on my phone, on my computer), it's not because I "don't like people," or, sadder, that I pretend not to like people because I've been rejected socially. It's because I find dealing with people all day somewhat wearying and I enjoy having time to myself doing things that I like, such as catching up on reading I can't do during work hours.

I totally get Marco's decision to go with a paid version of his app. Of course, he doesn't provide an option for publishers to opt out of providing free versions of their content, which is what they're doing when Instapaper strips all the ads off of them.