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Yep. This is also the case in other countries.
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We know many people who are either on the path towards early retirement or will have the opportunity of do so. They make good, but not great salaries, live frugally (e.g., use public transportation), and save. It’s not hard.
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Thomas Stanley was a marketing by professor who made a name for himself teaching others how to sell to the rich. The Millionaire Next Door was largely written to dissuade people of the notion the hyper consumerism and associated advertisin
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As much as everyone likes to discredit traditional values, such savings and thrift, they win out in the long run. The 'millionaire next door' is nothing more than consistently living on less than you earn (Elizabeth Warren has g
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Biblehub gives a good overview for alternative translations of πραεῖς in English. See https://biblehub.com/greek/4239.htm From them "This difficult-to-translate root (pra-) means more than "meek." Biblic
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The OP's comment is still absolutely correct if you replace NYC with Berlin or another European city. HN is very biased when it comes to certain subjects and, in all fairness, there is a large contingent of users here who are very will
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This is like saying that vending machines prey on unfortunate office workers who didn't have the foresight to pack a 2 liter soda in their brief case. Convenience is absolutely a justification for charging higher prices.
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Why are we conflating discount stores with (illegal) drug dealing? One offers convenience, along with relatively cheap products at relatively cheap prices. They occupy retail spaces in lower-end retail outlets that would - in current condit
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> HN monoculture loves to crap all over things like this. I see it as deeply beneficial to society. Not everyone lives in SF or NYC and can use their iPhone to order delivery 24/7. I'm disappointed that your comment was downvot
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> 1. We have more people without much disposable income In absolute terms, or just on average? This may be the case simply because the US population went from 250 to 320 million people over that time, but household disposal income is up
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The actual saying is closer to "the disciplined shall inherit the earth".
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AOM insights is a short, condensed blurb to publicize research. The actual articles themselves by Dean Shepherd and others goes into number of different situations (e.g., grief recovery, family business loss, corporate project failure, and
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Academics divide awareness into status (perceived quality) effects and reputation (actual quality) effects. Paid marketing influences both, but there are other ways of getting your name out there, and some companies are better at it than ot
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This will likely balance out, as losses from certain regions that will be adversely impacted by climate change (e.g., Florida) will be offset by gains in other states (e.g., Virginia). There will be some detrimental impact, see Quaye et al
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> One underrated reason for this is the decline in religion among the youth. I don't think this is it. Religious opposition to family planning is something of an artifact of the counter reformation. You can also find news articles f
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> demographic expansion has been a side effect of technological development There was also a cultural side to it. Instead of being a linear relationships, it's more that technological development removed a population bottleneck and
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> We cannot strive for a continuous grow of the population since the earth's resources are finite. True, but the US is in the enviable position where it has enough resources to support a substantially higher population. The US has t
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Several unrelated websites I was trying to visit are down. I figured I would find the answer on HN : )
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I would be very surprised if Trump has the energy left to run a full campaign. As far as Haley or Desantis, I'll believe it when I see it.
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It's just as likely that the Republicans nominate one of Tim Scott, Marco Rubio, or Mitt Romney, and the US presidential election comes down to a qualified center-right Republican and Joe Biden.
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> There are plenty of investors that beaver away every day and do not get his returns. There are very few investors who consistently manage to exceed average market returns. It doesn't negate the importance of consistently investing
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> From the "never give up" point of view, I've changed my mind, thanks to books like The Lean Startup, Blitzscaling, and my own experience. It depends on whether you're giving up on the process or the goal. Startups &
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Yep. Another plausible cause that doesn't get as much traction is climate change - particularly, the cooling period during the second and third centuries that may have contributed to the fall of the Han dynasty and the Roman crisis of
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> Given the amount of money at stake for beating the search algorithm, shouldn't we expect any search engine to decline in usefulness over time? Internet search algorithms should be worth significantly more (and I imagine that this
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> Just that it is made aware, instead of leveling a counter-argument, you are only appealing to authority. The original poster attacked the author's credibility. I pointed out that, when you help establish a concept, you're qua
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> I especially love the author's self-designation as gifted... Anyone could have come up with this The author was a chaired professor who wrote several dozen peer reviewed articles and five books on the subject. He was also the chai
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I guess this is timed to get it out of the way before the IPO. I don't know whether Robinhood as a stock would be worth investing in (probably, but that's your decision to make). As far as adverse press and reputation are concerne
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And yet, it's very possible that the author (a historian, not a political scientist) is completely wrong. Civic nationalism is very much considered to be a legitimate form of nationalism. And the author's concept of a nation as a
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From Devereaux: "A nation... is an entity that is imagined to extend both into the past and into the future, recreating itself, generation to generation; it is through the common birth that the common culture and history are supposedly
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Why? He doesn't give a definition, and the individual points are largely wrong. Actual academic definitions: - Nodia, 1994: "a nation is a community of people organized around the idea of self-determination" - Haas, 1986: &

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