I never said or implied that advice was a mandatory commandment or that one should either accept advice or reject it wholesale based on who gives it.

She's your buddy, got it, sorry if I touched a nerve, it was not my intent to demean her personally or to imply that I got the whole picture from this small interview. Obviously I don't know anything about her based on these 13 questions, which is why used the word "seem." However, if you leave a large portion of…

Perhaps you could clarify what you mean by "experience" then? A 28-year-old has only experienced 28 years. This particular one does not seem to have a huge wealth of experience. She has enjoyed success, which shouldn't be discounted in its own right, but that's not tantamount to experience.

Of course that's true; just because there is a good guideline for determining who has valuable insight doesn't mean that it is universally applicable. The question was, to paraphrase, why does her age matter in deciding whether to have concerns about her advice. Just because some people do not fit the guideline…

It is *sometimes* a poor indicator of experience. It is not *often* a poor indicator of experience. For certain things (such as how to survive in multiple economic climates, how to handle major career setbacks, how to deal with radical changes that make your previous job obsolete), it is a fantastic indicator of…

Because they have less experience and most often experience leads to greater insight. Therefore someone with less experience will often have less insight than someone with more experience. We should value the amount of insight possessed by people whose advice we take, therefore we should be concerned when we see an…

They work well but, as others have said, they are not as versatile (i.e. they are a set size), so consider that before you spend the $. You should have parchment around regardless because it is versatile and awesome.

Not that this project is in any way worthwhile, but one good reason to use a service like this, even if you have a lot of money, is as a litmus test to ensure that there is sufficient demand for your product to make it worthwhile to produce. That seems to be what's going on here. If it were an obviously profitable…

I don't raise the "they were all doing it" thing as an excuse for Armstrong's behaviour, I raise it to note that we should pull back the lens and take a look at the context in which this was happening in order to show that this was an endemic problem. Armstrong did not get an edge over anyone by doping because…

I don't think it's crazy that no charges were brought, but I think it's a bit of an anomalous situation given all the moving pieces involved. I agree that if someone were caught red-handed smuggling thousands of doses of HGH into the U.S. from Canada, then a prosecution would be expected. The issues of jurisdiction,…

He was implicated, like Basso. He was cleared by his own country's doping authority investigation, like Basso. Basso later confessed that the implications of that scandal were true as to him. Word is still out re: Beloki so far as I'm concerned.

After what happened with Basso; I'm withholding judgment on Beloki until Fuentes gets the chance to ID those blood bags.

You make some good points. I was simplifying the doping comparison because, although cycling is a team sport, it is centered around individual accomplishments (i.e. I can name exactly one TDF team classification winner in the last 20 years). And that therefore you can directly compare these individual accomplishments…

Understood. My issue is not with people saying "Lance was a shitty guy who cheated and did bad things and lied and hurt people and deserves his current fate," its the fact that some people ignore (and most have no reason to know) how extensive the issue of doping was in cycling at the time. Lemond talks about it as…

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I think you're looking for an Armstrong apologist, which I am not. However, the doping situation in cycling is different from baseball or football because (1) it is an individual sport, so you can isolate individuals, analyze whether they were doping, and evaluate how that relates to the performance of other…

I am not an Armstrong apologist, but it bears repeating that (1) every cyclist who was competitive with Armstrong in the TDF during his 7 wins was most certainly doping as well and (2) he is absolutely correct that many of the brands that sponsored him (esp. Trek) were fundamentally transformed as companies due to the…

They must be GFCI outlets. Yes, it makes no sense. Not to politicize the discussion, but this tends to happen in places where there is a stronger union influence on building codes.

In some places, GFCI outlets are required for all outlets in kitchens and bathrooms. There is even some traction to make them mandatory for all outlets. In other places, there are usually requirements that outlets within x feet of a bath/sink/etc. must be GFCI. This presumes you care about compliance with these…

You've hit the nail on the head. In an ideal world, the airlines would price discriminate between business travelers (who place a value on plane tickets equal to the expected value of the business trip) and leisure travelers (for whom that flight is competing against all sorts of other leisure goods). Since they…