Comment by edw519
17 years ago
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1. Tell HN: Congratulations Patio11 - first to reach 1,000,000 karma
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2. Ask HN: Any Predictions for the Year 2029?
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8. Mark Zuckerman buys Portugal (worldnews.com)
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16. unalone accepts Pulitzer for blog (cnn.com)
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> unalone accepts Pulitzer for blog
That was really nice of you.
> Ask HN: What was Microsoft Office?
We can only wish...
19 and 4 are mutually exclusive for a single universe.
Edit: if there is a way to work Elon Musk in there somewhere that would be good, I have a feeling he's going to make some big waves in the next 10 years but I haven't a clue how.
> unalone accepts Pulitzer for blog
That was really nice of you.
I was going to say: So in 2019, the Pulitzer's continued its devaluation?
Also: A chuckle for "Mark Zuckerman".
Excellent! This is why I love News.YC. It's all about the execution, not the idea. I didn't even have the idea to do something like edw519, and I love him for doing it.
NO WAY! Portugal has been for sale for centuries without any takers. I can't believe that will change in a mere 10 years!
(FYI, I am portuguese)
Recently I compared Portugal's GDP with the revenue of a couple of companies. A workforce of 5.52 million from a population of 10.71 million produces around $244.64 billion; Microsoft, Apple and Google combined employ around 148 thousand people and have $112.71 billion revenue.
So the point is perhaps that Facebook will make Zuckerberg (where does Zuckerman come from?) wealthy enough to be able to afford a developed yet relatively poor country, some time in the future.
That the example happened to pick Portugal is a funny coincidence (I'm portuguese too). For those who don't know, mocking the country's politics and economy is the all-time favourite national sport here.
(BTW: the source for the numbers was Wikipedia)
You can't really compare the output of a tech company with that of a country. For instance, according to your example:
That boils down to about 750k per employee, much, much higher than the GDP per capita of any country in the world. Even the US, with a labour force of 155 Million and a GDP of 14.441 Trillion, or about 93k per worker (or 44k per capita), still about 8x (17x) less than the MAG trio.
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you're obviously also fairly unaware of the history of your own country - both when it comes to politics and economics. May the new year be an opportunity for you to man up.
I love how Paul Graham is President-elect and still submitting stories to HN.
Don't they have to change the laws for pg to became President? I thought you had to be born there to become their president?
Yes, a person must be born on U.S. soil to become president.
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I thought he meant jgrahamc :)
This one really got me:
:)
Upvoted for reference to Woody Allen's Sleeper. And because it was brilliant. Now, about that Polaroid stock...
Brilliant! Made me laugh :) I especially like "What was Microsoft Office" and TechCrunch's post.
This is excellent. The best predictions you will read.
And it is a HN-influenced commentary on the habit of predictions themselves. Would that they all be consciously humorous rather than inadvertently humorous.
Great post -- really enjoyed that, and wish I'd thought of doing something like that.
But then you'd be Ed, and we already have Ed. Better to do something original!
So, what did you think of doing ? Now do that!