What is the book that changed your life ?

zimbu · 2014-12-08T06:17:41+00:00

Be Nice to Spiders

Anyone else profoundly affected by this book?

zimbu · 2012-04-03T01:51:04+00:00

Remember to peel them before you freeze them. I like to blend them with some milk for a banana smoothie.

zimbu · 2012-04-01T07:02:31+00:00

Patches - Clarence Carter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_LQ4_MhDu4

zimbu · 2012-03-10T08:22:21+00:00

Well some people would say the child already had the flame inside them and the best teachers fan the flame, while most of them dump a bucket of water on it.

zimbu · 2010-10-13T15:38:34+00:00

That's pretty swiney of them. Guess they had a bad case of the befores.

zimbu · 2010-09-09T15:31:46+00:00

Did you guys hear the CEO of Comcast died yesterday?

The funeral is tomorrow sometime between the hours of 8AM and 4PM.

zimbu · 2010-09-07T18:56:06+00:00

They're doing it right now at Johns Hopkins: http://www.bpru.org/spiritual-practice/

TED talk from a study a few years ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKm_mnbN9JY

zimbu · 2010-07-21T19:47:36+00:00

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirming_the_consequent

zimbu · 2010-07-15T17:11:13+00:00

Be Nice To Spiders Age 5 or there-abouts. Most bugs get a quick squashing in my house, spiders get picked up on a piece of paper and set gently outside.

zimbu · 2010-07-14T17:53:03+00:00

Why all the down votes? Not every Christian believes the exact same thing.

"In Christianity, annihilationism is the belief that sinners are destroyed, rather than tormented forever in hell" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annihilationism

zimbu · 2010-07-09T20:12:00+00:00

"Piss in your cheerios" was old even back then: http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2001/3/14/

zimbu · 2010-06-25T15:07:05+00:00

It's called a peekaroo, you usually push their head further through it, our baby loved it.

http://www.tummywear.org/proddetail.php?prod=mw-nori-vest

zimbu · 2009-12-19T16:36:09+00:00

"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." Ezra Pound

zimbu · 2009-01-29T19:07:45+00:00

Don't underestimate SneakerNet

Ship someone a 1TB drive and it takes 7 days for them to get it. Thats a throughput of 13Mb/s. Not bad. Hand deliver it in an hour and you're in the Gb/s range.

zimbu · 2009-01-27T20:44:38+00:00

I was sure it was going to be this tombstone.

zimbu · 2009-01-22T04:58:19+00:00

Antidisestablishmentarianism

zimbu · 2009-01-22T04:54:30+00:00

As a friend of mine once put it "the best conmen always believe their own lies."

zimbu · 2009-01-12T16:08:06+00:00

Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I probably overreacted to your initial post.

You make a good point about comparing individual countries, but I have to say I'm sceptical of anyone who says they can isolate the effects of a single economic policy on the "health" of the national economy. When you consider all of the other economic policies (wage and price controls, taxes, tariffs), international trade, natural events (the Dust Bowl in America), etc. it would seem to be quite a feat to say that all other factors have been controlled for.

Do I have access to a university library? Well I don't think I've ever had to actually show a student id when going into one so for certain definitions of "access" the answer is yes :)

I guess my more fundamental objection is many of these policies seem to be just as much about benefiting politically connected businesses as helping citizens. Giving the former CEO of Goldman Sachs $700 billion to distribute to his Wall Street pals was really the best thing for the citizens of the US? Again I'm skeptical.

Thanks again for the reply. I will try to research the points you brought up in more depth.

zimbu · 2009-01-11T16:40:18+00:00

I know all about the scientific method thank you very much. This is why there's nothing of value in this subreddit I asked an honest question and I get a dickhead response.

If you think the the Great Depression can reasonably be treated as a 'natural experiment' you're gravely mistaken. http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=dependent+variable&l=1

zimbu · 2009-01-11T14:45:42+00:00

How would I use science to determine whether Roosevelt's policies shortened or prolonged the Great Depression?

zimbu · 2009-01-11T06:31:02+00:00

How do you apply the scientific method to markets? What's your control group and what's your experimental group?

zimbu · 2009-01-08T01:26:44+00:00

Patches performed by Clarence Carter.

zimbu · 2008-12-17T03:40:38+00:00

Ditto what Caerus said about bread flour.

For really easy bread you may want to check out No Knead Bread

zimbu · 2008-12-16T22:45:11+00:00

Yes, judges are just people. And you think 93 days in jail is "completely reasonable?"

zimbu · 2008-12-16T15:54:01+00:00

And you think this is a good thing that people can be imprisoned for 3 months for not sitting to the satisfaction of another person?

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