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Are you aware of hnrss.org? Not my site but one I find extremely useful.

Sure but anyone judging your credit score isn't looking for that. "Paying off debt but not too quickly" or "Carrying enough debt to accrue interest without defaulting" are more likely what they would want to see.

Small towns rely on B&O tax revenue from small businesses though. So for the sake of streamlined access to cheap goods now there's no money to provide police protection, roads, parks, libraries, etc. that are paramounts of small-town life.

Sure you hate it but the riders/consumers love it and that's another reason that electric bikes will fail.

"Mr. T Ate My Balls" - probably the original "meme" as it would be defined today

Twitter does not have this type of value for me - it could mainly be replaced by RSS aggregation and/or (micro-)blogging by "influencers"

I have a lot of Facebook friends that I would completely lose touch with, because I have no backup contact info. If I knew ahead of time that Facebook was going away, I could procure a backup method but if Facebook just disappeared one day, I would have little chance of contacting a number of acquaintances and former colleagues. In the past, I probably would have had a Rolodex, a collection of business cards or even a local phone book to fall back on, but Facebook has pretty much replaced all of that. Even though I have mainly stopped browsing timelines, this is the main value of Fb now for me.

I am willing to bet that theater has a monopoly with no substitute goods.

Rural != Cheap

The lowest prices are probably in suburban areas where there are many competing theaters in a populated area with easy access.

You can't expect the college to give you a realistic prospect when they are the ones who stand to (non-) profit from your matriculation.

At the very least, they will give you a best-case scenario instead of a worst-case or median-case.

I think this is the one, from ESPN's 30 for 30 series.

http://www.espn.com/30for30/film?page=playingforthemob

This is a great example of knowledge that should be on a webpage somewhere. I feel the Medium format is really limiting the presentation of the information.

"Soul of a New Machine" - Tracy Kidder. I read it while in engineering school, and it's the first time it kind of clicked with me of what an engineer actually "does"