At a $20k income, $700 is a non-trivial expenditure. In Germany, online-services that aid in buying clothes exist (for example, www.outfittery.de). This might be a good compromise between best advice and cost-efficiency.
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Thanks—I planned to take a closer look because of the rest of his strategies and lifestyle, but lacked the time. Another reason not to postpone that :-)
I would definitely read the sequence. I’m especially interested in How Tos on Investment—the free advice specifically about Investment on Mr. Money Mustache boils down to “Index Funds” and “Here are a bunch of books I read on the topic” as far as I could tell from my admittedly short visits to the site.
If you found (a) co-author(s) in Germany, I would buy the Germany-specific country edition if it’s not ridiculously expensive.
Of course they do. I interpreted the word “position” in that context to mean your values, not the way they are reflected by reality. It was a misunderstanding on my part.
What do you mean when you say that your position may change in the future without notice? I would have thought this to be something one has a relatively stable position on. Isn’t it rather unikely that you suddenly become a monogamous person and lose your interest in dominance play?
I have been largely satisfied with my work output lately, but improvement never hurts. Does anybody have experience using the Pomodoro Technique in an office setting? I think it looks useful, but actually implementing it and sitting at the workplace with a rather obvious timer (and the way wikipedia describes the technique, obvious stimuli like the ticking and ringing of the timer are part of the method) warrant explanation and may be considered slightly weird.
Hi Yvain,
please state a definite end date next year. Filling out the survey didn’t have a really high priority for me, but knowing that I had “about a month” made me put it off. Had I known that the last possible day was the 26th of November, I probably would have fit it in sometime in between other stuff.
I would very much like to see an abstract at the beginning of this article. It is interesting, but rather long, and when the Game of Life example started, I was kind of lost what the intention of the article is supposed to be. I admit that I haven’t read the post this is a follow-up to, but given that one of the largest criticism for the sequences is their inaccessibility to newcomers, there might be room for improvement in this new series of posts.
Could someone please point out some examples of trolling to me? I find this discussion surprising because I perceived the trolling rate as low to non-existent. Perhaps I’ve frequented the wrong threads.
I was a member of a Tibetan Buddhist group for about 3 years. I didn’t feel very comfortable for the last half year. I don’t think I can accurately sum up all my experiences, but the part that is relevant to this discussion:
Local groups strive for harmony and affection via common activities and lots of physical contact (hugging etc.). This isn’t quite as formalized as you propose, but still a deliberate part of the group structure.
This does work rather fast, and raises happiness (for a time for me, indefinitely for others).
Unfortunately, this also made it emotionally unpleasant for me to voice dissent/argue when I disagreed with something, especially when it was about something where I was the minority.
As a consequence, today I prefer to develop such bonds slowly.
I’m not sure how this applies to your proposed structure, but I fear that it’s implementation may lead to the above, simply because people like the same things you do. You do not need to force them to participate (neither was I), but they do so out of their own free will. The negative consequence I described may still happen, if many people adopt your rules and develop Affection for a large group of people they don’t know well quickly.
I’m really, really uncomfortable with formalizing these aspects of social behavior. I prefer affection and love to emerge slowly and naturally. Although it is absolutely opposite of your intentions, and I recognize that fact, I’m still very strongly reminded of Love Bombing. Your concept just transmits a really phyggish vibe for me.
This post in no way is meant to be a criticism (I don’t see why your rules shouldn’t work), I just wanted to express the emotions that emerged when reading your post—which seem kind of important, given the topic.
Some more background: We’re a small enterprise (boss, six employees, secretary, two trainees). Except our secretary and the trainees, everybody has an academic degree. We did try to institute that as a rule, but only me and one person working from home office consistently do so. The person working from home office is also, at the moment, very busy because of some deadlines, so I can’t ask him to proofread. The others do proofread, but don’t ask for proofreading in return, which makes asking low-status. They are either better at proofreading than I am or make less mistakes in the first place.
In fact, I fear the underlying problem is that I am not able to concentrate well, so my work is more error prone. Making as little mistakes as possible in the first place would obviously be the best solution, but I have even less of an idea how to achieve that, given my current abilities and work conditions.
Possible, but that reflects on my performance if they do indeed find mistakes I could have corrected. The goal is to eliminate most of the stuff myself so I don’t waste my co-workers time.
I need advice on proof reading. Specifically:
How can I effectively read through 10-20 page reports, searching for spelling, formatting and similar mistakes?
and, more importantly, how can I effectively check calculations and tables done in excel for errors?
What I’m looking for is some kind of method to do those tasks. Currently, I try to check my results, but it is hard for me not just to glaze over the finished work—I’m familiar with it and it is hard for me to read a familiar text/table/calculation thoroughly.
Does anybody know how one can improve in this respect?
Yep, that’s it. Thank you!
There was a thread a while ago where somebody converted probabilities via logarithms to numbers, so it’s easier to use conditional probabilities. Unfortunately, I didn’t bookmark it. Doe snaybody know which thread I’m talking about?
OK… Now I’m off reading Rathmann and Hutter on Solomonoff Induction. I don’t think I can continue discussing the current posts without knowing what exactly EY is talking about on more than the superficial level given on the german wikipedia or LukeProgs unfinished intro. If anyone has suggestions where to find the same information in a more condensed format (70 pages isn’t an hour-read through for me, exactly), please tell me.
So your parents are aware of the problem? Is there any way to discuss your problem locally? Message boards aren’t really helpful for this kind of thing, IME. For very mild depressions, talking to your school’s guidance counselor may be sufficient. If it isn’t, he may at least be able to help persuade your parents that you need treatment (should that be the case).
1) Even in Muggle society, there are women who work close to their normal capacity despite pregnancy up to shortly before birth. 2) The physiological consequences after birth can probably be healed by magic. 3) Voldemort might also enjoy causing her psychological pain by having her become attached to the child she will bear and then taking it away from her afterwards. He continued torturing her well after he already had her total loyalty, so this might just be another way to do so.
Your attempt at an explanation is interesting, but to my knowledge, doesn’t fit the facts. The nations weren’t unwilling to ally with Germany, in contrary, the German Emperor didn’t want to maintain the alliances that had been created by Bismarck. For example, Russia wanted to renew the Reinsurance Treaty in 1890 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinsurance_Treaty), but Germany didn’t.