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It was a terrible idea, but not because the stock market crashed. It was a bad idea because private retirement savings plans have been a disaster. Those people who didn't lose their money playing markets they don't understand in a fit of irrational exuberance get to watch the mutual fund industry nibble away at their capital year-by-year as they charge ridiculous fees for lousy management. The existence of the multi-billion (trillion?) dollar mutual fund industry should be a scandal, when almost no knowledgeable expert would recommend putting your money into one. It's extremely difficult to invest your money wisely when the country's largest industry is constantly trying to persuade you to do unwise things with it.

What worries me the most about privatization is the likelihood that the dumb money moving into the markets would induce a Wall Street feeding frenzy, followed by another bubble and subsequent crash. Tens of millions of destitute seniors would demand that the gov't make good on their losses, which would be shouldered by the rest of us.
Seems so. TC has a post on how links appear with the new URL shortener - http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/12/tweet-button-urls/
I'm fine with it being submitted. I'm not fine with it being submitted under the title "Conferences should help hackers get rich, not hack more", which makes it sound like a general blog post about conferences.

Much more fitting is the real title, "Amazing event (and not one of ours!). Business of Software, Boston, October 4th-6th".

Now, that's not a great title for submitting to HN, so I could see changing that to "Business of Software conference focuses on helping hackers get rich, not hack more" or something. But trying to pass it off as a general article when it's not is clear link-bait.
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Switch from a VM they implemented themselves (Dalvik) that is not the JVM to somebody else's VM (Mono) that is also not the JVM? What would google gain from this?

This lawsuit is not about google's use of the JVM since they are not, in fact, using the JVM. It is about the fact that the Dalvik VM allegedly infringes on some Oracle-owned patents. It's possible that the Mono VM infringes on the same patents too, so switching VM may not make the slightest difference.
I could not tell whether you were talking about Government or about Wall Street. :)
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