Stephen Dubner has this excellent post about how Google looked like 10 years ago. Pretty amazing, isn’t it? And you can also see the webpage of a young PhD called Sergey Brin, full of ideas (and- most likely without knowing it- with a very succesful career just years away).
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Control freaks
I keep wondering how can there be such a mixture of (not always) good (sometimes excellent!) economic policies (far better than most ‘opposition’ in the USA advocate- and that’s one problem there: the alternative might be worse, in overall terms), but absolutely insane ‘political’ ones (eventually leading to bad economic outcomes as well…), interfering with private life/ choice and meant to control, there is this obsession with controlling each and everybody’s activities, thoughts etc.,
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I don’t know whether it is in any way comforting to know that there are even worse politicians and decision makers than our very own, in Romania. Of course it is not at all comforting for the poor people from Zimbabwe, where the following example comes from.
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Alison Goldfrapp, from the British band Goldfrapp (the other member of the duo is Will Gregory), could be the perfect woman. I just said it. Skeptical? Judge for yourself: looks, personality (sorry, PERSONALITY), style, voice- and you might sense part of these from Goldfrapp’s hits, among them “Black Cherry” or “Strict Machine” or “Number 1“, the latter from their very succesful most recent album, Supernature.
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Andy (see the comments section to this post on ‘Csikszereda musings’) draws my attention to this very interesting review in the NYT, of the Romanian restaurant “Acasa”, from Queens, New York.
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