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If he were named Fred Smith and played for Sacramento, Linsanity (or, I guess, “Smithsanity”) would still be the league’s hottest story right now. Players don’t come out of nowhere and dominate NBA games like this. Lin was cut twice before the season and, as our Marc Stein reported, days away from being waived a third time. A week ago he had 114 points in his NBA career; in five games since he’s racked up 134. He scored more points in his first four starts than any other player since the ABA-NBA merger.

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Victor Fung, the chairman of Li & Fung, one of Hong Kong’s oldest textile manufacturers, remarked to me last year that for many years his company operated on the rule: “You sourced in Asia, and you sold in America and Europe.” Now, said Fung, the rule is: “ ‘Source everywhere, manufacture everywhere, sell everywhere.’ The whole notion of an ‘export’ is really disappearing.

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These Valley types think this whole process could be automated and they don’t have to pay 7 percent to these flashy, French-cufflink-wearing Wall Street types

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We shouldn’t be criticized for using Chinese workers,” a current Apple executive said. “The U.S. has stopped producing people with the skills we need.

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For Hollywood to be killed, the Internet needs to focus on a metric other than eyeballs. It’s not about mass, it’s about good. That’s absolutely anti-YouTube and anti-Farmville and any other content which we expect to be rapid, mass and disposable. Disposable content isn’t bad, it’s just not everything. And as long as that’s all that the Valley is putting out, we won’t kill Hollywood.