The sweet spot appears to be 8-megapixel PureView shots with little to no zoom -- this provides the ideal conditions for pixel oversampling to do its magic.

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Poor mutual fund choice, inappropriate asset allocation, the wrong risk level, inefficient tax management, and an unwillingness to let time do its magic will result in a less than desirable outcome.

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They would let the sun do its magic and the sound of the waves, the palm trees swishing away under the warm breeze would ease them into a stress-free vacation mode.

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Select low-cost index funds to represent asset classes, mix those asset classes to your needs, place them in proper accounts for the best tax efficiency, and let the magic of compounding do its thing.

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Instead of looking for the earliest signs of industrialisation, then, perhaps the thing to do is to let the imagination run riot and ask what technology might do to a solar system if it had tens or hundreds of thousands of years to work its magic.

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