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A tech-led initiative to bring economic development to Brazil’s shantytowns starts with a radical idea: Listen to the people who live there.

"above the floor the wall had 6 washed out grayish colored bars 20-25 cm width" Were the bars vertically oriented or horizontally oriented?

I am sincerely curious: Where is the OP moving to? What criteria will be (was) used to make the selection?

“ which is a weird type of liquidity problem” Ah yes. The very definition of “financial accident”

"If a Pookie detonated a landmine, and it never did, the use of shear bolts meant that wheels would be blown harmlessly away, as would the battery, the 40-litre fuel tank and the r…

Question: What hardware/software solution have you adopted?

"...and I own all of the media" This.Yes.This.

My overly simplified but not entirely irrational way of saying this: To master another language I must learn to speak another...culture.

The link is broken. But, after a google search I got to the website. Great Site!!. I am trying to add to my knowledge of WWI. The site's tagline is "the most natural and easiest wa…

Thank you for that clarification.

My personal favorite was the 5 1/4 inch floppy disk brand name: Janus The first time I saw one of these laying on my desk with the first letter "J" covered up...well, I could never…

"Take This Job and Shove It" A corporate executive is assigned to help improve the efficiency of a small-town brewery in this comedy inspired by the Johnny Paycheck song. When the …

My spouse is a classroom educator. Her school participates in Great Expectations program. http://www.greatexpectations.org/ It is a character development program "that provides tea…

Bernard L. Madoff From Wikipeda "In his plea allocution, Madoff stated he began his Ponzi scheme in 1991. He admitted he had never made any legitimate investments with his clients'…

How much more would you be glad to pay? How much more would you be glad for your employer to pay on your behalf? How do you define "universal coverage"?

You say: "The problem is what "best" means. In an unregulated environment it would mean what's best for the insurance company, not the patient." No. I don't buy auto insurance on t…

Tunesmith You say: "It's a race to the bottom in terms of regulation" Consider your assumption that regulation is good. In point of fact pernicious and arbitrary regulation within …

This. Yes. "but why add unnecessarily ignorant asides"

Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick as devlopers of Psychohistory would approve. (Isaac Asimov's "Foundation" universe) "Psychohistory is the name of a fictional science in Isaac Asimov's…

Very well said.

Parkinson was an optimist.

When I visit with hot-blooded partners ready to set the world on fire I often think of this line from the movie Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969): Butch Cassidy: [to Sundan…