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It's not really spending. If you look at the resale values it is investing. High art is more investment than consumption (as they say, the rich get richer...)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - he goes a little bit into how he did the stuff he did.

What you fail to consider is that no one owns money. Once you die, you dont take your cash to the grave. Im getting philosophacal here, but people are only shepards to money. They …

Agreed. I found that a strong feeling of mortality brought upon me the basic humanity described in the article. I immediately noticed a difference in how others treated me (and how…

Is anyone else disgusted by these "X should have responded like this" articles? They are so cringy. It's like asking a kid what he would do if he was president... but actually taki…

In my experience, these things have nothing to do with the language itself, but rather that it's a second language. As a non native speaker, you just don't have those strong emotio…

I recommend this documentary which goes into that question https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hjernevask

Realize that your opinion and ability to predict market actions is completely unfounded. Whatever they're working on is like research. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. If you t…

I think that was the joke

Certainly should leave?

The difference has more to do with fiber, fats, and vitamin s

How fast are you really going? One of the things I've thought about is relatively. Consider a toddler strapped to his car seat in a luxurious BMW cocoon while his father speeds dow…

Yours is but one perspective. Consider the alternative that you are the only person in the universe. What would be your modus operandi then?

Modern day outhouses are serviced by a truck that come s and vaccums out the waste. How is hauling off a bag any better?

It's a question if uber can race to self driving cars fast enough. That's really the only way their financial model can make sense. They should really be seeing this as essential t…

We are witnessing the dotcom bubble version 2: crypto bugaloo

Isnt this basically what pensions / social security is?

He puts a lot of work trying to weasel out a theory based on a caricuturized comedy. It reminded me of some ideas from socionics though, mainly how strengths and weaknesses create …

I am in the process of looking for a job. I have been keeping a text file of the sites to search for on a regular basis (because linkedin, indeed, craigslist, plus numerous niche s…

I am working on a networking algorithm and think this would be useful for testing and visualizing algorithms. But I had to look into the source and then the screenshots folder to f…

Exactly. In the switch varitation both the 1 man and 5 man group are tied to the tracks. For whatever reason we can assume fate has brought them there and it is our role to simply …

Economic activity is the process of changing things. For example, a lumber will chop down trees and sell them for $5000. He changes forest into logs. A house builder will buy those…

Because of feeling? Our subconscious mind recognizes something and predicts a bad outcome, which gives us a feeling of something being wrong. That's what expertise is essentially. …

What I meant by that was Opera lets users do what they want, and doesn't try to hinder them like google does when certain features are against their interest. Things like: * Opera'…

Chrome started being annoying for me after version 36, but firefox was bad too. Recently made the switch to Opera and it has been much better than chrome or firefox. Opera is based…