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I guess those are the other 50%...

A Euro on steroids? Yeah, that'll happen...

One problem. Lamborghini, like most exotics, have used carbon-fiber bodies for quite some time now due to it's extreme strength-to-weight ratio. CFRP body panels laugh at hailstones...

Disagree. The post WWII industrial boom was not a mirage. It was real and it raised the standard of living for those who were part of it. The mirage you're referring to isn't because of cheap energy, it was due to "cheap" credit that we've since found out to be damned expensive.

Your "work" is every bit as possible as this M.C. Escher poster:

Compared to Italy, Spain and a few others, Greece's debt is peanuts. They're road pizza if they don't tow the line.

Wrong date to compare against. To your first comment, "gold determines the money supply." If gold deposits truly determined the supply then Nixon should have never been "forced" to take us off the gold standard in '71. To your second point, compare the growth in gold to the dollar's...

There's a lot more than having a desire/passion to do programming in the quant/algo trading space. Take a look at some of the requirements for the jobs listed here so that you have a better understanding of where you fit in: http://www.wilmott.com/categories.cfm?catid=5 If you meet the...

A mistake? He, and the rest are self-serving bastards. Only a complete fool would have taken Greece at their word regarding their balance sheets when they applied for admission into the EU.

When it comes to Jack here's the best advice I can give you. Which sense do you rely on when you're not sure of a certain food that you're about to consume has gone bad? Do you rely on your sight or your sense of smell? Why, it's the later, of course. Our brains were hardwired a long...

Fucking Europe. Can you imagine how many Civil Wars the U.S. would have had by now if our states behaved the same as European countries?

First off, if you want to post something sarcastic, put it in quotes. Text is a limited medium. Second, if you want to make a point, make it. Expecting people to come to the same conclusion as you by reading a link to a rant that's not even remotely connected to currency unions is a bit...

"how currency unions work?" If you're you're going to lambaste someone for posting hyperbole it's good form to not go and one-up them with a hyperbolic post of your own. No currency union, in all of recorded history, has ever "worked."

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You were doing pretty good up until that observation. Yeah, Python and the like can be accused of that. But, so could C++ back when Stroustrup first created it. Anyone around long enough remembers running your code through cfront, the first C++ compiler. It wasn't fast or complete, but...

Uh, he started NeXT several years after he purchased Pixar. You need better links then. "Lucasfilm decided to spin off the computer division, so Catmull and Smith sought a financier. That turned out to be Jobs, who paid $5 million to Lucasfilm and $5 million to capitalize the new company...

Dennis was 70 years old, still relatively young these days but, not tragically so as was the case with Jobs.

You're confused. It was NeXT that he sunk tens of millions of dollars of his own money into, not Pixar. By some accounts, he put in almost $70MM into NeXT during it's lifetime. The real coup with Pixar was when Jobs took it public. He screwed a lot of the original employees over and froze...

Actually, Stroustrup, the creator of C++ is still alive. It was Dennis Ritchie, who along with Brian Kernighan, developed C. He also created UNIX with Ken Thompson.

There's no question that Apple's products are stylish but, they are far from the "best" computers out there. The ergonomics of their keyboards are horrible, but, they do look pretty. The corners they cut on the MacBook Pro displays borders on criminal, but it comes in such a pretty...