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Reality Check (Credit or Cash)

Tuesday, June 15th, 2004

In the bubble days, there was a foolish belief that e-commerce would take over huge chunks of the economy. Since the bubble burst, many people seem to have adjusted their expectations about e-commerce too far in the opposite direction. Some data should serve as a reality check: Online commerce placed by credit card grew 59% […]

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What’s Science?

Thursday, June 10th, 2004

Dare once told me that science is the modern world’snew superstition. ?Science? is the trojan horse that can slip beneath people’s BS-meters and exempt claims from rational scrutiny. We have all of the same snake-oil hucksters as before, but now their products are backed by the immutable, clinically-tested, scientific laws of nature.
I believe that the […]

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