GreeniFi

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by GreeniFi 7y ago
It’s Impossible!
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It’s interesting that the countries which score lowest are where the Romance languages are spoken. I wonder what the reasons for that are. FYI I’m an English speaker who speaks 2 other Germanic languages and Spanish. The Spanish I find by f
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
Good question. What may happen - possibly relatively soon - is that banks will refuse to provide mortgages over a certain length of time for certain property. Property which is not mortgageable will take a serious haircut in its value. Very
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Can anyone find on the internet: 1. An explanation of how AQI is calculated? Some initial searching turns up very little information as to the basis of the index. 2. How the safety levels (green, orange, red, purple) are decided. It seems s
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
Sure - check out ecosystemequity.com and follow links from there. Amongst other projects - a core banking system that integrates natural capital values into credit decisions. Sorry the umbrella website is a bit rough at the moment, it’s jus
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
What I’m going to say is a little different to most others on this board. I’m an environmental economist - quite a specialised field. I work with a team of software developers to embed environmental economic knowledge systems in software, w
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Can you impart some of the lessons your parents gave to you as a child?
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Or Buckingham Palace area.
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
I found this a more helpful explanation of the rise in house prices. https://medium.com/iipp-blog/why-cant-you-afford-a-home-9c5c... I also can’t help but wonder whether the change in house prices has been a factor in
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
An unusual name. Is it a reference to the Kei River in South Africa’s Eastern Cape? Sorry - bit of a random question.
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
Is Hololens - providing an AR experience - more likely to be the champion here? Or will it run into the same problems as VR?
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0lOtdvqyg
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I sometimes wonder how easy it is for the average person to practice prudent financial management when the entire economy is geared towards getting you to spend what you can? The advertising sector and one-click buying works out how to isol
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
To add to that, an old friend married someone who’s main priority in life is to own a brownstone in Brooklyn. And their expectation engenders a fairly high degree of marital tension. The partner comes from a background in which, I’d guess,
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
That’s what I mean: horses for courses. But it also depends on what you mean by “financial independence”. It seems obvious to say that I’ve found that outgoings are as bigger a determinant of independence as income. Oh, and I married a part
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
It’s off-topic, but such a great question you asked. My view is that its “horses for courses”as they say in the UK. Some people will optimize for high income because that’s what makes them happy - and may be helped by a predisposition for h
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
What could possibly go wrong? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Hehe.
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Me too. But it also made me wonder how you draw a line between the 2. We’re social creatures, and to a degree our aspirations are created by social expectations; the boundaries of who we are are fuzzy.
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
This is a great article. I’d advise any entrepreneur to read this, including myself 6 years ago.
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“Oh flower of Scotland When will we see Your like again”. Well done Scotland!
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So I did. How did that happen?
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Can anyone comment on Dutch attitudes in this respect? The Dutch I have worked with could come across as very confident - even when very obviously wrong. I’ve found it a little confusing: they sound like they’re right, but what they’re sayi
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
Have you been able to find hacks and/or work arounds? Reading the article, I wondered if ADHD might manifest with a range of severities. I have heard of ADHD sufferers for whom it is a serious disability, and other sufferers who claim
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
To the writer (if looking on this board), thank you for this piece. Have you ever come across this article in the Economist, summarizing research providing evidence that ADHD is a legacy of our nomadic past when ADHD traits conferred an evo
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
Good point. I know I should not extrapolate from one data point, and by way of example after a friend joined FB about 2 years ago, I have noticed a progressive change in their viewpoints. Although a trained scientist, they now talk frequent
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
You’re right of course, but until we get the double-blind randomized trial, we have Occam’s Razor: if people didn’t think it worked they wouldn’t pay so much for it.
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This analysis totally appeals to my economist brain. However, you would have to look at the risk-adjusted return on your capital investment. Reading the above does make me wonder whether smugglers like in the Guardian story have access to s
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That’s a very interesting story, thank you. My immediate reaction is that the justice system’s chief unfairness is the punishment of children. Jail a mother or father and you risk destroying a family, with all the life consequences that ent
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...your investment may go up as well as down...
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by GreeniFi 7y ago
Thank you. And I recognize it as true that many criminals had a hard childhood in particular. But some don’t - and I wonder what the motivation is.

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