Viewing profile — tiisetso

South African here (Mother tongue English) and also Northeastern (same result on the NYT link in the comments). Although I can see how the Mary, merry, marry could be the same. Som…

Christmas is a major event for christian and christian influenced societies but does hackernews fall into that? HN may be of American origin but the contributions here are global a…

I attended two semesters of mandarin lessons(4 hours, mon - fri, of lessons with short breaks) at a university in Beijing. Started from essentially nothing; recognising 20-30 chara…

Please do one. Even if short. I'd love to read it. I'm a industrial engineer researching healthcare systems. I'm firmly of the opinion that people with decades of experience have t…

Podcast: Pollan's interview on the Tim Ferriss show for additional thoughts. Ferriss is committing a million USD over the next few years to support the scientific study of psychede…

Inspired by the recent Freakonomics podcast interview with the author Dr Atul Gawande? I recommend listening to it as well if you're interested in an opinion about modern healthcar…