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by brc 11y ago
If that's what you believe that's the outcome you get. Everyone gets the financial outcome they want.
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Even having a household with books in it is a massive boost in life prospects.
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It's both. You have to control the urge to spend or an increase in income will have a commensurate increase in spend, leaving you no better off. Breaking the nexus of the 'more stuff' mindset is important as groundwork in in
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by brc 11y ago
I would disagree with that. If in a social context where being a victim works, then a new social context is needed. Even pretending to play at a victim is corrosive to a proper attitude of being in control and responsible for your life out
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by brc 11y ago
If you're interested in the topic and in the mood for a fiction book, this one is an enjoyable read which gives a great description of the Colorado and all the various dams along it. Its set piece is domestic terrorism/unlikely h
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Because as the lead bus gets filled, the following bus has fewer and fewer people to pick up, so it speeds up until it catches the lead bus, which is running later and later due to the passengers overloading, who turned up early for the lat
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by brc 11y ago
I lived in London and used to ride the 9, which at the time was one of the last routemaster buses. I also learned that the drivers are comfortable in their chair, and they get paid whether they are late or early, whether they take off smoot
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by brc 11y ago
Ha, i feel the same way when, for some reason, for work experience I got stuck in the local government road planning department. I was bored out of my brain but I did learn about corner radius for speeds, acceptable road crests, minimum si
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by brc 11y ago
Why learn mathematics or science? If kids are good at abstract problem solving, denying them access to computer programming is like denying them sports if they like to kick balls around. Coding will be more and more the killer app that peop
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My kids started with 'beebots' in their first year. This is simple logic - go forward 1 space, left 1 space, etc. My oldest child is still in primary and they have a lego robotics club- they build simple robots and do simple prog
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True. I had a relative pass a few years back from cancer. It wasn't sudden at all. The relative worked in the financial services industry and had provided me advice about estate planning. When it came to the estate things were not pr
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The key to cutting through this incredibly difficult question is to remember : at that point, you're out of the picture and whatever hopes and dreams you had for the kids now come a distant second place to finding the best way forward
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Well, you're correct but the armies of Keynesian economic graduates that roam the streets will have trouble absorbing what you write. Eventually the stark failure of borrow and spend 'stimulus' policies will get through. May
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Japan is the poster child for the madness of Keynesians. There was deflation in Japan, caused by deflation of the asset bubbles. There was no deflationary spiral as defined by the scaremongers. Japanese banks should have failed, and debt ho
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by brc 11y ago
Right, unless you're stashing currency into your mattress or burying gold bars in the yard, your money hasn't gone anywhere. It's in the bank, which is the lending it out to those who have a a better user for it. Hoarding is
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by brc 11y ago
So some properties in japan once crashed after a boom? As opposed to 80-100 years of devaluation of the money that you earn, save and spend? A stated above 'the greatest trick the Keynesians ever pulled off was making everyone fear eve
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by brc 11y ago
Name a single deflationary spiral that has happened. Identify how much spending you can postpone until next year. Reflect if a deflationary spiral is even remotely likely.
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Well, I'm sure most record labels would rather sell you a DRM'd CD than an iTunes download. But because of the way the market is, they have no choice in the matter. You also might forget that $3.49 of pure profit may beat the even
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by brc 11y ago
That's not actually quite correct. Build quality usually refers to the overall integrity of the finished product, it's ability to withstand wear and tear and reliability. The difference between a skoda badged VW and a VW badged V
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The list of successful companies which put the 'first mover advantage' myth to the sword is very long and illustrious. The saying should be 'first decent mover'. There's a world of difference. Often it's the
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by brc 11y ago
Hasn't HMA discontinued the free web proxy?
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The killer part of Dropbox was multi-platform, and integrating it into the OS properly, so that you knew where your stuff was. Also the downloaded app just used a simple set of credentials to get working. I had tried many solutions before
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by brc 11y ago
This is a great article, something I have noticed but failed to place into a good metaphor like this. The other place this happens is in online code snippets for blogs and the like. If you need a way of doing things, you often search. If
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I know you're getting marked down for this, but I have read other articles talking about the withdrawal of men from the dating/marriage marketplace. I think it is a growing phenomonen for men to drop out like that.
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I would flip that around and put it this way: - what can you write about that you know well - does that thing attract any sort of audience as well? Trying to pick a target topic is very difficult unless you have a deep interest. I could pro
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Regarding the language thing, I was talking about English speakers in general. I'm from a warmer climate and people tell me I have a slow drawl. Maybe it's a city thing that makes people talk faster and cities are all over the l
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Something I have always looked at was that, from a historical point of view, the fastest development in the industrial revolution occurred in more temperate areas, up to a pint where severe winters curtailed the effect. Thus Manchester dev
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QE continues to slosh through the system, giving the privileged ones first bite at the new cash using the existing values. Central bank inflation is a nasty business in the way that the winners and losers are distributed.
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Most likely driving tests will be tightened and be made more difficult to pass. The main barrier to doin this right now is that so many people need to drive. It doesn't need to be spelled out that crashes are not evenly distributed be
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Precisely. Widespread knowledge would lead to tampering. I was reading a recent insurance case where the driver staged and accident, but the black box indicated what really happened, and the driver withdrew the claim when presented with t

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