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As I moved through my life as a statue and later as a musician, I started to understand. There’s a difference between wanting to be looked at and wanting to be seen.

We’re cut off. We’ve lived our whole lives in this stream of information: television, radio, Facebook, Twitter, ABC, SBS, Sky News, Seven, Nine, Ten, Reuters and AFP and AP and the BBC. Up-to-date, up to the second, right there in your pocket. Now it’s gone and we have no idea whether anyone else is alive or dead. They might be or they might not be. Schroedinger’s world.

Usando una metáfora de Friedrich von Hayek,28 si la economía chilena fuera un jardín se presentaría compuesto por unos pocos árboles de gran tamaño, debajo de los cuales crecen principalmente arbustos y plantas pequeñas, sin muchos árboles de tamaño mediano. Se ha inyectado abundante financiamiento a este jardín a través del desarrollo de la banca y del mercado de capitales, en especial a raíz de las inversiones de las Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones (AFP), pero este riego y fertilizante no llegó a los nuevos grupos de árboles que podrían haber formado ecosistemas nuevos en el jardín. Al contrario, se fertilizó un jardín pobre en diversidad y mal diseñado en su estructura conceptual, lo que solo permitió el crecimiento de unas pocas especies que, en parte, ya se ven como invasoras. Este jardín chileno se parece a un pastizal con unos pocos eucaliptos y pinos; entremedio aparece basura, contaminación y cables donde no debería haberlos. Es, entonces, un jardín con abundantes plagas y malezas y finalmente, incluso incompatible con el ideal teórico de Hayek.

WhatsApp user base crosses 70 million in India The total user base for WhatsApp is 600 million, according to a a vice-president of the company. Photo: AFP By PTI | 328 words Mumbai: Mobile messenger service WhatsApp's user base in India has grown to 70 million active users, which is over a 10th of its global users, its business head Neeraj Arora said on Sunday. "We have 70 million active users here who use the application at least once a month," Arora, a vice-president with WhatsApp, said at the fifth annual INK Conference in Mumbai. He said the total user base for the company, which was bought by Facebook in a $19-billion deal earlier this year, is 600 million. With over a 10th of the users from the country, India is one of the biggest markets for WhatsApp, he said, adding connecting billions of people in markets like India and Brazil is the aim of the company. Arora, an alumnus of Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Delhi and ISB Hyderabad, said WhatsApp will continue to hold a distinct identity even after the takeover by Facebook and will not get merged with the social networking giant. He said WhatsApp, which has only 80 employees, will benefit through learnings from the social networking giant. Arora, who first heard of WhatsApp as a business development executive for the Internet search firm Google Inc. and later joined as its business head, said it took two years to stitch the $19 billion deal announced this April. Interestingly, Arora said he would have paid a fraction of the sum to buy WhatsApp three years back. It would have been in "low tens of million" dollars, he said stressing that the company has grown a lot since then. Arora said the user-base has doubled to 600 million from the 30 million when he joined three years ago. The company has flourished because of its focus on the product, rather than the business side of things, he said. "The founders wanted to develop a cool product which will be used by millions and did not have business things like valuations," he said, stressing that this continues to be a motto of the company.

La derecha ya lo ha dicho ahora: no hay que tocar las AFP, no hay que tocar los derechos del agua. Ahora ellos ponen los límites y esos límites no resuelven el problema de fondo que tiene la sociedad chilena.

Pope John Paul II, in his Easter 2002 letter, decried “the sins of some of our brothers.” In April he summoned the U.S. cardinals to the Vatican for an emergency meeting, where he called the sexual abuse of children by priests a “crime.” AFP

Isn't it amazing How we can never tell Who is in an identical hell

At first, the Kochs’ political organization, Americans for Prosperity (AFP), had in fact taken what appeared to be a principled libertarian position against the bailouts. But the organization quickly and quietly reversed sides when the bottom began to fall out of the stock market, threatening the Kochs’ vast investment portfolio.

vaya más allá de una simple preocupación. Tampoco me parece que la derecha en Chile pensara que nuestra Presidenta pudiera alterar, básicamente, las reglas del juego. Las reglas del juego están establecidas y basta ver el encarnizamiento con que El Mercurio se refiere a cualquier pequeño cambio. Incluso algo tan tremendo como el caso de las AFP. Más de un extranjero me ha dicho: «¿Cómo es posible que en Chile el sistema previsional lo paguen los trabajadores y que ni el Estado chileno ni los empresarios contribuyan con un centavo a ese sistema previsional?». Esto, por ejemplo, no creo que se altere...