Why Poor People Make Dumb Decisions From Utopia for Realists. When you conatantly have to worry about having no money, you are stressed and it lowers your IQ by around 13 points. In an experiment US mall shoppers were
Give Homeless People Money 💷 From Utopia for Realists. 2009 in London 13 homeless men were given £3,000 a month with no strings attached. After 18 months 9 of them were off the streets. It cost £50,
Sandbagging solutions I watched a young blue belt compete the other day. In his first match he was up against someone slightly larger than him. His opponent had set up his phone on a tripod
Adults in the Room: They bend their tongues like their bows (3) In this chapter, Varoufakis describes his relationship with Syriza through the period of 2011 - 2015. Syriza is the Greek left wing party that would eventually come to power in 2015 with Alexis
Adults in the Room: Bailoutistan (2) This chapter covers how Greece fell into debtors prison from 2008 - 2012. There are a lot of financial figures in the chapter. Exposure to Greek debt The Greek state was bankrupt in
Adults in the Room: Introduction I had the idea a while ago that I needed to start writing summaries of books I read. Particularly when I read current fantasy trilogies and have to wait at least a year,
Committing to Open Source Committing to open source is a badge of honour in the developer community. When you first start learning to code, you will quickly learn what open source is, the language you're learning with
Perspective on the Conservative Party What a difference an election day makes. Before the election it would be understandable if your sentiment ran along the lines of: The Conservative party are the only party that have the competency
Ryan Air - Ensuring you don't switch off on holiday Ever heard the advice, switch off your phone when on holiday? Don't read work emails, don't check social media, just unplug and unwind. It's becoming more and more fashionable as smart phones and
Scottish Independence Scotland are going to have another vote. Paul Johnson, the director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies said the following: So what that means is that there is a big transfer of money
The problem with Echo I've had an Echo for 3 months now. I do like it. It does have one issue. It's very difficult to have fine grained control over it. I only bought it because I
Where has everything gone? True but embarrassing story. I wondered away from my computer one glorious Sunday afternoon, and when I returned I absentmindedly typed rm -rf ghost I thought I was deleting an old download of
Getting Started with Ember Goal: Build an app that will record a list of todos. Time: 2 hours (let me know if it's very different for you) Last Update: 7th September 2015. Introduction I'm writing the tutorial