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As a beginner, I found it helpful to - get a regional guidebook - attend a mycology society foray You can start with mushrooms that have no poisonous look-alikes, and gradually bui…

Or if you're comparing jobs with different travel times and salaries, or an employer figuring out benefits.

Engine is the common term in chess for the program that analyzes a game.

Typing this from a climbing gym, where I can see kids around 12 years old crushing climbs I struggle with, I'm inclined to agree.

I think the fascinating takeaway from Cochrane piece, and this response article, is how much innovation improves a person's performance, even if indirectly. It's a great reminder o…

Not necessarily. Excluding interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) is a common financial metric. It can demonstrate a business model is working, before taking in to…

For those that didn't pick it up, this is sarcasm - playing on someone giving pithy reasons for stock tips.

Discarding losses on time could plausibly be the bulk of the effect. I can improve my chess rating in short time controls by a good 50+ points just by reminding myself to move quic…

It's $60 with a two year warranty (vs. $90 for previous model and one year warranty). I appreciate being able to choose to purchase the warranty, as opposed to bundling it.

It makes perfect economic economic sense. Craft beer is growing[1], and beer companies want to keep that piece of the pie. They're producing their own craft beer, buying smaller br…

Brooklyn Boulders will at times feature photos of many of it's employees, so not sure it's just a cult of route setters.

I'd love to see any info. Their current offering document is here[1], but I don't see much mention of specifics. There's some detail on mapping to grades on p42 of the Aug 22 doc, …

Are you implying someone should help you find a job before they help someone in Uganda?

My roommate is a flight attendant - he informed me of term for transporting passenger-less commercial planes: "ferrying".

I wonder if it actually works in Netscape. Makes is a little tricky to raise capital in BC.