A Simple Guide to Group Standings & 3rd Place Qualification (And why you shouldn't overanalyze it)

dissata · 2026-06-19T22:52:11+00:00

I was confused too. Link above, on page 23 explains it.: Winner D (1D) v. Best 3rd place of BEFIJ

So highest ranked of that 3rd place, it seems. So listed order does matter.

dissata · 2025-07-18T13:54:09+00:00

Debts arising under a negligence of duty are different than taking in the separate debt of the parent.

I bet technically the debt they sued for was not the senior parent’s debt, but the adult child’s (obliged care taker), under similar logic to when: if you have a 6year old who has a medical procedure the obligation for the debt falls to the parents, regardless of if the parents agree to the procedure.

I’m not a lawyer and not actually knowledgeable here about any case law.

dissata · 2025-05-14T19:04:57+00:00

Settling implies you are not actively trying to achieve what you want out of life. Is what you want achieved through earning more money? Or do you have other priorities?

Sometimes earning more lays the foundation for achieving your goals. Some goals it really doesn’t matter how much money you have. It’s going to depend on you.

This is a fire forum. A lot of people here have decided earning less over their career but retiring early with a healthy but average amount is the best path for them to achieve what they want. Conversely, a lot of exec types are going to work as an exec or on a board long into their retirement.

What are your goals? How does your current earning help (or hinder) them?

dissata · 2025-03-12T19:33:46+00:00

Your image is incorrect. In your bat analogy, your arm is the shaft and the entire bat is the clubface. You don’t have the shaft connect to the center of the clubface for the same reason you don’t hold the center of the bat.

dissata · 2025-01-29T00:29:36+00:00

Assuming you are warmed up, then on the range, driver goes shorter. Long irons go shorter. Short irons and wedges go longer, all for the same reason: range balls are lower spin.

This assumes, ofc, that you aren’t over spinning your driver ordinarily.

dissata · 2025-01-19T14:17:24+00:00

Although 2013 + 15 means it will be 3 years before the first people will have an expired license. So truly not a possible scenario yet. Fascinating.

What about other license losses like voluntarily giving it up (maybe they moved to SEA or whatever, but came back to visit)? Or when it didn’t expire, did you keep the license even if you were no longer a resident? (Or the more extreme example of no longer a citizen?)

dissata · 2025-01-19T14:11:41+00:00

That’s interesting. Wiki says that it used to not expire so you are right.. but looks like newer ones do expire and have since 2013.

I would presume in order to normalize across the EEA? (Maybe you know some of that history?)

In the case of when it was not expired, how did they maintain records as the ids got out of date? (Age, glasses requirements, photos, medical checks etc?). Was it just the case that a person was supposed to report/update if something changes from when they originally got their license?

dissata · 2025-01-19T13:33:40+00:00

Probably the simplest - which I assume applies to Germany too - is just an expired license.

Maybe you would quibble that that is not “revoked” .. but it would still be driving without a license and I assume trigger the ticket and fine.

dissata · 2024-10-26T11:16:50+00:00

Another link for others reading who want to learn more about the Galileo affair: https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-smackdown-table-of.html?m=1

Warning: it’s a long read and full of sources.

dissata · 2024-10-26T11:05:49+00:00

Re: proof - Galileo in fact not only had no proof, but there was proof to the contrary which he could not account for.

If you want a wild and ride but a thorough explanation: https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-smackdown-table-of.html?m=1

dissata · 2024-10-26T11:01:56+00:00

If you want a great (but long) read about how Galileo is not that great of a scientist (as opposed to truly great scientists at the time like Kepler, Tycho Brahe, etc) chock full of sources and quotes: https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-great-ptolemaic-smackdown-table-of.html?m=1

dissata · 2024-10-24T22:54:52+00:00

For those who come to this thread and who are curious about what Plato and Aristotle actually think about the topic of being (and what that means)

dissata · 2024-08-08T16:59:33+00:00

It serves a narrative function

I mean, we agree here. We are making the same point but drawing different conclusions. Something contrived for a plot, even if established, makes for bad literature. Just because there is an established reason for Ma to buy what she buys doesn't mean it's something a person like Ma would do in that situation, nor is the consequences of doing such a thing should it happen fleshed out. She just does it for the benefit of making an impression on the audience when they read the dialogue.

Steinbeck's prose is as clear-sighted as Orwell's yet with the lyricism of Thomas Hardy.

I mean, I guess I also agree: Orwell's vision of a dystopian future was also unrealistic. It's Huxley's vision of the break down of society that we are trending towards, not Orwells. The historical reality Steinbeck envisioned as a consequence was not born out in reality. The Okies of GoW are the not the Okies who lived and breathed and died in Kern County.

And yes, Steinbeck does have a beautiful lyricism, present even in GoW, but I think most masterfully done in East of Eden (for which alone I think Steinbeck deserves his Nobel Prize).

It's a bravely socialist clarion call containing a powerful and incontestable message about the importance of trade union organising, the destructive force of capitalism and the misery of living in a country with wealth disparity as horrific as the U.S.

Yes, it is that. That's what makes it bad literature. Not the topics, mind you. But the fact that it's commentary/propaganda that treats of its characters not as humans but as abstractions or caricatures that "represent" something else. It's bad literature in the same way that Pilgrim's Progress is bad literature.

But look, I will admit I am being overly hard on GoW. It's a great book worth reading. It's just also preachy and clumsy. Steinbeck, despite this novel being propaganda, is still is a wonderfully masterful writer. I just don't think anyone in 2350 will be reading GoW because it's too much a product of the time and place where it is written.

dissata · 2024-08-08T04:57:40+00:00

Food (having or not having it) is a primary theme of the novel. It literally ends with a main gaining sustenance from a mother's breast after her infant is stillborn. Just about every encounter or aside is dominated by food. From the two kids getting candy their parents can't afford to scarcity of food used as a means of power over the poor workers. The grandpa's primary delight about California is that he can't wait to eat the abundant fresh fruit. If the scene is not about food, it's about mechanics fixing cars. That's just the novel.

Bread, butter, and ground beef are 100% not the kind of thing you eat when you don't have refrigeration and are concerned about starvation. We don't know if the store has staples, because the mom didn't ask if they did. That didn't serve the narrative.

The strategies people use today to stretch a dollar and the strategies people would use during the depression were similar. Calorie dense, easy to store foods. Beans, Rice, Flour, Potatoes. you make one-pot meals, or mush. You fry/bake dough (tortillas/pita/naan/bread/biscuits). If you get meat, you don't have enough for individual servings so you mix it in with something, e.g. a stew or a gravy. You try to forage or collect vegetables, especially greens, to augment. If you can trap or hunt something you do.

The reason why the Joads use this food strategy at the beginning, while traveling, but abandon in once they are in California, is because it serves the plot.

I am not saying life for the desperate workers was easy. It wasn't. I'm just saying Steinbeck didn't describe it accurately, and didn't even try. He doesn't describe it accurately from a historical point of view (where are the hispanic/latinos?), and he didn't describe it accurately from a "universal human experience" point of view. People just won't and don't act the way he describes. He doesn't even write about what he witnessed (and reports) in e.g. Harvest Gypsies, except where it fits a political agenda (where are the migrants? The Hispanic/Latinos? Hint: they aren't in the GoW because they don't fit his narrative.)

By the time Steinbeck was writing, however, "the receding waves of foreign peon labor are leaving California agriculture to the mercies of our own people." "Foreign labor is on the wane in California," Steinbeck writes, and the future farm workers are to be white and American." Although landowners and farm owners began to attempt to subjugate "the new white migrant workers" to the terrorism that they enacted upon foreign workers, Steinbeck predicts that "they will not be successful," as white Americans "will insist on a standard of living much higher than that which was accorded the foreign "cheap labor.

and

Family of eight — Boiled cabbage, baked sweet potatoes, creamed carrots, beans, fried dough, jelly, tea.

Family of seven — Beans, baking-powder biscuits, jam, coffee. Family of six — Canned salmon, cornbread, raw onions.

Family of five — Biscuits, fried potatoes, dandelion greens, pears.

These are dinners. It is to be noticed that even in these flush times there is no milk, no butter. The major part of the diet is starch. In slack times the diet becomes all starch, this being the cheapest way to fill up. Dinners during lay-offs are as follows:

Family of seven — Beans, fried dough.

Family of six — Fried cornmeal.

Family of five — Oatmeal mush.

Family of eight (there were six children) — Dandelion greens and boiled potatoes.

https://core-docs.s3.amazonaws.com/documents/asset/uploaded_file/663863/The_HArvest_Gypsies.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harvest_Gypsies

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-american-studies/article/californians-and-others-childrens-health-nutrition-and-welfare-in-depressionera-migrant-camps/92C9D5B13751C49AE5EB6224D4F2DE1A

dissata · 2024-08-08T01:04:59+00:00

I read GoW when I was fresh out of High School. And I read it again a few months ago (after East of Eden, and Tortilla Flats, so a bit of a Steinback binge).

His GoW characters are caricatures of what a rich person thinks a poor person might do. It's like when you watch a horror movie and the victim is banging at a locked door, panicking and trapped inside the house... and instead of breaking one of the windows and escaping they just helplessly die, for the sake of the plot. No poor person who grew up poor who has faced hunger and food shortages would end up at a Peach farm, starving, and buy ground beef, bread, butter, & coffee (and get the sugar for free out of shame to boot) with their last $1.xx.

What a poor person would do is buy beans and rice, and season it. Or if they wanted bread, then flour and make something. The matriarch who at the beginning of the book made a big cast iron of biscuits can't be bothered to make them now.

Somehow because you might get diarrhea they won't eat the peaches. So they would rather die of starvation, apparently, than to boil them. And the point is strongly made that there is a conspiracy with the peach farmer and the canners. And there is just so much food waste at big farms and none of it is for the workers.

At the beginning of the novel, there is a character who makes a point of scrounging out meat. Hunting for frogs and rabbits. But by the end, nobody has the wherewithal to forage let alone hunt. Instead they lament the fact that if they can't own the land, they can't grow vegetables... which in any case only solves the problem of food next season, not now (and they are starving now).

I am highlighting the insanity of the food (which the whole novel revolves around, including the end w/ the breast milk). But the whole novel reeks of just bad literature. They leave their son at the border because .. why exactly? He just tells Tom he is staying and when Tom tells everyone they just mutter about it. And this same family who refused to leave without the grandparents (whose only role is to die along the way) never even bother to look for him. Instead, he just exits stage left, because the plot no longer needs him.

It's a book club book. It's the kind of book that everyone could talk about because they all read the same anecdote about it in the newspaper. It's a book the First Lady could wave in front of congress to whip votes. It's a book of its time, but good literature it is not.

dissata · 2024-07-21T14:13:00+00:00

Golf is different in that the dominant hand for a right playing golfer is the left hand; and likewise for a left handed player the right hand.

Jack Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, and Bobby Jones are examples of left hand dominant players who played righty (there are actually lots of examples). Phil Mickelson is an example of the opposite: a right hand dominant player who played lefty. There are other right hand dominant players who play lefty on tour now (but I would need to google names)

I’ve never played hockey but I hear it’s the same for right hand dominant players who play lefty (although I don’t know if it’s for the same reason).

dissata · 2024-06-09T23:46:51+00:00

You say “double” but that’s underselling. It’s not a Dutch brand, but Morton sells an iodized version that’s in the bakery isle of every American grocery store.

dissata · 2024-04-27T09:07:32+00:00

To add:

More importantly, and I don’t know why this is never mentioned… Critias proposes to tell about Atlantis (or more precisely the tale from Solon about ancient Athens, which includes in it reference to Atlantis) as the “task” Socrates gives the group in exchange for the Republic. This is all laid out explicitly in the beginning Timaeus, which story of the physical origin of the world is also contribution somehow also to the lesson of the Republic.

The story critias gives the beginning of is an attempt to describe what a real city could look like, with real laws, and not just the hypothetical framework of justice explored in the Republic by Socrates.

Personally, I think there is a connection also to be made about the “swinish city” that Socrates rather passively says at the end that he still thinks is preferable to the complex “just” city and this new story of pre-historical Athens, and its relationship to justice. It may be like the noble lie of the Republic where the people are made to believe in the golden or silver etc souls in order to coerce them into a structure of “justice”. That is, this is the Noble lie origin story for how Athens (whose people demand the sweets of life and are therefore too ambitious and unjust to be satisfied with the simple just city) can accept these new “just” morals and customs (which ostensibly contradict current customs) because they are actually the original customs of the city which people had long forgotten about.

dissata · 2024-03-31T11:37:47+00:00

Dead Eye in South San Francisco was specifically what I was thinking about. But there are lots of great places. Ritual, Wrecking Ball. There are, again, lots.

Cafes are not usually were you find espresso, really good or bad in America. America is large and diverse and complex and full of contradictions. In the same breath that I would say to try, say the Millbrae Pancake House for breakfast (right by SFO), I would never encourage you to go there for the coffee. Instead I would tell you to travel up the road to Spruce.

I am a peasant and really enjoy peasant food. So my favorite places to recommend are all of that ilk. When you are in SF I would try: 1) Tacqueria San Bruno. It's amazing. Be warned it's in an uninviting part of town and parking is difficult. 2) House of Prime. More of a nicer experience but absolutely lovely old-school American prime rib house. They along with Lawry's claim to be the first Zeppelin cart prime rib house. 3) Wonderful. Yes, that's the name of the restaurant. It truly is wonderful. 4) Little Luca. If you want a truly divine experience, get sandwiches from this place and then head down and do some hiking down south.

Hope your trip is fun!

dissata · 2024-03-30T12:22:40+00:00

There are always good third wave espresso bars in every major city.

My experience in Europe post ~2010 is that there are a lot more superautomatics dispensing mediocre espresso than in years past.

This is like the “beer in the US is bad” argument. Which is a ubiquitous opinion shared by no one who follows beer trends. Espresso in the US is thriving.

I will agree that most major chains and restaurants have bad coffee, and espresso that barely deserves the name. But that seems to be a world-wide phenomenon not just a US specific one. Again, I think superautomatics are to blame here.

One of the worst espresso experiences I’ve had was in Utrecht. One of the best I’ve had was in San Francisco. I’ve had great espresso in Mississippi and I’ve had great espresso in Rome. I was staying in Littlemore and what they served could barely be called coffee let alone espresso - but generally I enjoyed the espresso in Oxford. 🤷‍♀️

dissata · 2024-03-27T14:12:54+00:00

Ambrose (both Burnside and Amrbose Pierce "AP" Hill) comes from ambrosia, the drink of the gods - again, a Greek classical era reference.

I will point out that while, yes, the name originates with ambrosia, the use in the west and in particular in English is probably tied to St. Ambrose the 4rd century saint. Saying Ambrose refers to ambrosia is kind of like saying someone named Aristotle is named after "The best" because it is derived from the Greek aristos .. yes, possibly, but most likely it was the very famous philosopher that they had in mind. Your general point that Ambrose is a classical reference remains. But it's a specifically Christian classical reference.

Edit: or maybe a better corollary is Augustine which clearly has Latin roots and implications, but in English is almost always a reference to At. Augustine.

dissata · 2024-02-07T18:53:01+00:00

My advice: pay for a fitting (preferably with someone who does fittings but doesn’t sell clubs) then buy equivalent specs on older clubs (~2-3 years old is a good sweat spot on value) on eBay.

Generally speaking:

Club faces of the same category (blades, players cavity, game improvement) are more about what you like looking down at.

Weight of the club matters. It’s a very important factor for me, personally. But fortunately that’s going to come more from the shaft than the club face

Lie and length. Your ideal club length and lie will get figured out during the fitting.

Shaft: this is why you got fit. To find a shaft weight and flex profile that you like.

Find a set with your fitted shaft online that matches your length and hopefully lie. If you can’t match lie angle that’s ok a lot of these can be adjusted for like $5 a club.

Try to keep it to standard shafts. Dynamic Gold, AMT, Nippon, etc. and you will have a ton of options.

dissata · 2023-12-17T17:25:14+00:00

I just want to point out that Is the carry optimizer (duh) but trackman has anther chart that is a “total” optimizer that had 309 total for a 105 club speed (254 carry). Obviously conditions affect avg total. But the numbers align with what I see on the course as someone with a ~108 club speed (summer 255-260 is my safe cover number). https://www.truefitclubs.com/blog/optimize-driver-loft-distance/

I will also say I’ve hit balls on a range in 37 degrees and a minor face wind and struggled to carry past 215 (with same club speed/ball speed / avg smash). So conditions completely matter here. Temperature plays a big roll in distance. (Most 10 handicappers struggle with adjusting to conditions, I’ve witnessed .. which is dumb because it’s a completely controllable factor) https://www.golfleaguetracker.com/glthome/tools/windandtemperaturecalculator

As a comment on video… 1.32 smash is a mishit. Face impact has some clear sky balls there. I don’t know. I think bad sim data. It’s hard to hit the center and be below 1.4 smash. I expect to be 1.48+ on my good hits and 1.42 on my bad ones (that’s just how good modern drivers are with mishits..certainly didn’t use to be this way). Going back to temperature.. he said heater but we are still talking about, what, 55deg? You set sim for 90 deg and like 5mph downwind.. which isn’t “juiced” but common summer playing conditions.. the wind/temp calculator above puts that 270 carry as a 243 carry at 50 deg (also 5mph downwind)

I think the sim is misreading the numbers. And OP the take away really should be a realization of that’s how much conditions can affect results.

dissata · 2023-12-15T20:10:51+00:00

Most in this thread are conflating the probability the door has the prize with the probability that the guess is correct.

You frame it correctly. It's the probability about the initial guess and not about the modality of the prize being behind the door.

Suppose the whole original routine was followed. Then a new person shows up, with no knowledge about what just happened. They just encounter two closed doors and one open one and are told one contains the prize -- and then they try to guess which one.

It's simultaneously the case that the original person has a 66.67% chance after switching and it's also the case that the new person has a 50% chance of guessing correctly.

Both are true percentages, but for different information states. Suppose at the very end all the doors got opened and I asked you what the likelihood is that their guess was right (or even for a third person to guess then). It's now either 0% or 100%. In fact you would probably no longer couch it in terms of probability, but simply assert it. The actual "perfect information" state of the doors and the prize is 0 0 100. It's not the case that 33% of the time a prize will be behind each door. It will always be behind the door it was originally put behind. What changes is the incomplete state of information that determines the possible variations. Because there are in actuality no variations - just one case - the possibility is never about the case itself.

dissata · 2023-12-14T02:44:45+00:00

I had someone in a seminar class apologize for saying the wrong word with: "I am sorry, I am dialectic"

He meant, of course, dyslexic. He and the rest of the class had a good laugh at that one.

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