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Leveraging Technology to Increase Pain of Paying, and Improve Personal Savings

As technology advances, p_P_eople are getting further from the hard concept of money. Without seeing immediate feedback, people repeat undesired^{by whom?} behaviors without having any pain^{better word?}. The tendency to repeat previous behaviors without thinking of the original motivation has been observed (Ariely, D. & Norton, M. I., 2008)^footnote?. This behavior may cause repeatedmay increase purchases without adequate^{with inadequate?} deliberate decision-making^{deliberation?}.

This problem is exacerbated by the reduction of the pain of paying as the distance from physical currency increases (Ariely and Silva, 2002). We are increasingly moving towards electronic payments and this trend will not reverse (Borzekowski, Kiser, Ahmed, 2006).^{Isn't this correlating physical proximity with conceptual proximity?}

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onDataReturnInitializeTable : function(sRequest, oResponse, oPayload) {
    if((this instanceof DT) && this._sId) {
        this.initializeTable();

        this.onDataReturnSetRows(sRequest,oResponse,oPayload);
    }
}

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function format_number(n,prec,dec,sep) {
    // Original by Luke Smith (http://lucassmith.name)

    n    = !isFinite(+n) ? 0 : +n;
    prec = !isFinite(+prec) ? 2 : Math.abs(prec);
    sep  = sep == undefined ? ',' : sep;

    var s   = n.toFixed(prec),
        abs = Math.abs(n).toFixed(prec),
        _, i;

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var _toS = Object.prototype.toString,
    _types = {
        'undefined'         : 'undefined',
        'number'            : 'number',
        'boolean'           : 'boolean',
        'string'            : 'string',
        '[object Function]' : 'function',
        '[object RegExp]'   : 'regexp',
        '[object Array]'    : 'array',
        '[object Date]'     : 'date',

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// Use case:
var myDataTable = new YAHOO.widget.DataTable(id,cols,source,{
    paginator : YAHOO.foo.createPaginator({ containers : "bar" })
});

// Method definition
YAHOO.namespace('foo').createPaginator = function (cfg) {
    return new YAHOO.widget.Paginator(
        // Merge configuration from cfg into some defaults
        YAHOO.lang.merge({

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/**
 * Takes a native JavaScript Number and formats to string for display to user.
 *
 * @method format
 * @param nData {Number} Number.
 * @param oConfig {Object} (Optional) Optional configuration values:
 *  <dl>
 *   <dt>prefix {String}</dd>
 *   <dd>String prepended before each number, like a currency designator "$"</dd>
 *   <dt>decimalPlaces {Number}</dd>

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YAHOO.widget.Slider.prototype.setStartSliderState = function() {

    this.logger.log("Fixing state");

    this.setThumbCenterPoint();

    this.baselinePos = getXY(this.getEl());

    this.thumb.startOffset = this.thumb.getOffsetFromParent(this.baselinePos);

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// Declare the DS config during construction.  Also leverage the inline override
// support to replace the DS native setInterval implementation with a custom function
// that takes a function ref to generate the url sent
var ds = new YAHOO.util.DataSource(url, {
    responseType : YAHOO.util.DataSource.TYPE_JSON,
    responseSchema : {
        resultsList : 'Results',
        fields : [ 'foo','bar','baz' ],
    },
    setInterval : unction(ms, reqBuilder, callback) {

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function formatNumber(n) {
    if (!isFinite(n)) {
        return n;
    }

    var s = ""+n, abs = Math.abs(n), _, i;

    if (abs >= 1000) {
        _  = (""+abs).split(/\./);
        i  = _[0].length % 3 || 3;

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// Converts the content inside <script src="script2style.js">YOUR CSS</script>
// into a style block that will only be applied if js is turned on

(function () {

var d = document,
    scripts = d.getElementsByTagName('script'),
    me      = scripts[scripts.length - 1],
    head    = d.getElementsByTagName('head')[0],
    content = me.innerHTML.replace(/@import\((.*?)\);?/m,function (m,href) {