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Jacob & Sclass You have dedicated a part of your life to learning, getting top academic qualifications, and honing your scientific/engineering expertise. Yet you decided to shift away from all this. Don't you find fulfilment in pursuit of secrets of the universe anymore? Not because it would lea...

i have no idea how. You seem to know and enjoy dealing with property/land in Switzerland. You could find deals for others to invest in. Profit by either getting a commission from the transaction or sourcing fee, alternatively even some kind of arrangement where you manage it for them. Pitch it to o...

Hello, I'm looking at how to best protect your wealth in case of local instability such as failed states, civil war, national economic collapse, or even simple political instability such as Brexit, etc. For example what precautions would you take to preserve your wealth if you lived in following pla...

@Ego - Your requirements look similar to mine and I'd recommend to have a look at Black Diamond headlamps. I was looking for something waterproof, taking standard batteries, powerful main light + small red LED for non-intrusive illumination in hostels, reading at night, etc.. I've ended up with Blac...

From what I can see, OP would need to be resident in Scotland for a year before applying. Living expenses are definitely lower than London, but living in a city with a decent university is not substantially cheaper than living elsewhere in the UK (said as a former student of one of the universities...

Yes, language could be a problem as it would take you about a year to learn to sufficient level if starting from scratch. I would seriously investigate a possibility of establishing a residence in Scotland and then study there for 2k/year. Both, Edinburgh and Glasgow universities are among the top i...

Personally, I would repay the debt and focus on achieving financial independence asap. As for the med school, once you're FIRE, you can move to another country where tuition is lower or free while providing decent education. Having EU citizenship would obviously help, but even as US citizen you can ...

@jacob: what sort of capacity do you need, does it has to be portable, do you intend to use it mainly for offline/offsite backup or redundancy?

I'm more of an index fund type of guy but can't deny that similar stories are very impressive:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/ ... ion-trades

Why would you think a country that has been in the middle of what you describe "doesn't understand geopolitics"? For similar reasons you wouldn't want to take a self-defense classes from a person that was bullied their whole life and never stood up for themselves.... they were in the midd...

I would advise you not to study geopolitics in Prague for several reasons: 1) Czech Republic doesn't understand geopolitics Czech Republic and its historical predecessors were for the most part a vassal state with no control over their own destiny, let alone any sort of geopolitical ambitions. Czech...

<t>I agree that the best long term solution is to migrate the forum to a more modern and maintainable stack however we may get a few quick wins by optimizing current deployment until the migration is complete.<br/> Do we actually know what's the bottleneck/root cause here? I understand that bbpress ...

<r>@jacob: I agree that it's just a guideline, however it's a great moral boost to think that I'm saving over 75% instead of just 55% <E>:-)</E><br/> @secretwealth: Great article. I think this sentence sums it up flawlesly:<br/> <br/> "If you choose to buy a house, you are not going long the housing...

<t>Hello Everyone,<br/> I was just wondering if you include mortgage principal repayment in your savings rate calculation? In other words - do you consider principal repayment as savings for purposes of ERE?<br/> At first I thought that mortgage on a house you live in is an expense and can't be ther...