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Not the parent commenter, but Thank you fellow Internet stranger. With people speculating about re-incarnation and linking it with Quantum stuff (basically pulling things out of th…

Ah, found a person of culture in my geographical proximity (relatively speaking)! Humans like you are hard to come by these days (or maybe that was universally true across the ages…

This True Story sounds suspiciously specific.. as if you know this person (who went through with the self-sacrifice) up close and personal.. unless you are implying that this perso…

Apart from lack of interest in dis-incentivizing this behavior, two possible reasons come to mind - why managers like these exist: 1. (Nature) Some of them were just tuned that way…

I empathize with her situation as I've been in similar situation at a Big 4 organization - An onshore manager (not my direct manager) from my team called me up at 2.30am (his after…

I echo your sentiments - That's precisely what I thought after reading those same books. I've speculated that his excessively positive stance might be - in order to cater to an ube…

To summarize both viewpoints in a single clichéd-but-true-timeless quote: It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, ... it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of d…

From the abstract: >We fail to take advantage of the powerful tools of reasoning our best thinkers have discovered over the millennia: logic, critical thinking, probability, correl…

If someone had shown me this 1922 article a decade ago, I'd have labeled him/her as cynical. In the present day however, this article surmises so much of what I've experienced in t…