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> Most important for me is to write down why I made that note. My ears perked at this. Great advice!

Plot twist: Rochko is a Ukrainian last name.

This sounds like hell, and just proves again that wrong metrics are way worse than no metrics at all. You wrote "I had a manager" so I assume you took corrective action :)

https://musiccog.ohio-state.edu/Music829C/hindsight.bias.htm... Not every "common sense" hypothesis turns out to be true, hence the seemingly useless studies.

To carry the fallout onto South Korea, and the US militry stationed there? Brilliant!

Or perhaps, the US has a vested interest in a divided and unstable Korea to have an excuse to maintain lots of military bases in the region, because China. And Russia.

The Pyongyang wind rose indicates that a lot of the fallout will be carried N, NW, and W -- i.e. to the Chinese territory. I doubt they would welcome nuking so close to their borde…

Why? The author didn't crap nor fawn all over the language. He highlighted what he thought were important quirks of the Haskell ecosystem/community/whatever, in a measured manner, …

I learned that violin plots exist, so your experiment was worth it to me :)

Veale is one of the widely recommended authors: http://www.amazon.com/Stuart-R.-Veale/e/B001IOBOR0 specifically this book: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3…

But the within-audible-range-"beat" at the recorded "listening position" (where the microphones are located) would be recorded anyway, no?[1] So how does hi-res audio help in this …

Good point, stupid of me not to think of it. So in most cases, the murderer escapes without even paying the "murder fee"? This is even worse...

One thing baffles me. If parents knew (there is security camera footage) that their child was run over several times because some asshole made a RATIONAL choice; and then said pare…

Massacre from above minimized American losses.

I brought up the topic of raise with one of my previous bosses, and he promised to check with the higher-ups. Some time later, he honestly told me: "The only way they would give yo…

Research/creative work is difficult to automate, and it seems that only a smallish percentage of population excels at it. Small population -> falling behind in those areas, unless …

The man just had a thing for annoying sci-fi authors :) Lem hated his "Solaris" as well.

By "stories about vampires" GP probably means Lukyanenko's "* Watch" series: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Lukyanenko#Series "Night Watch" the movie made some splashes even i…

"The body doesn't care where it gets its chemicals from" Sometimes it does, or maybe the supplements are not formulated quite right. E.g. I saw this at LessWrong: "turns out that f…

Your country was of enormous help to Hitler while attacking the USSR, and the retribution you had to "endure", given everything you did, was astonishingly mild. So spare me your co…

Thank you for the sincere post. Best of luck with your surgery, hope everything turns out well.

"The problem is, crowd funding requires a significant investment of time, which might be applied more productively to research." So they can't arrange for a capable student to take…

Not to mention that sitting on things in back pockets is bad for you: http://www.osteochirocentre.co.uk/practice-news/company-news...

I have doubts about the crown thingy -- turning a watch crown while the thing is on your wrist is quite uncomfortable. I understand it's a big crown, but still doesn't seem ergonom…

I wear an automatic watch. 1) I like being able to know time and date at a quick glance -- the ease of this is light years ahead of any smartphone. 2) It never runs out of juice si…