Yeah - more information is only good if it is reliable and you know what to do with it. I have a Ph.D. in Bioinformatics (processing DNA and other biological information with computers) and even though I’m curious I’d never waste my time with these sites. Here are some details as to why:

We’ve been emphasizing the tricky people philosophy with our kids. One other reason we didn’t like the stranger danger is for the scenario that our kid needs help because they get lost or separated from us. I don’t want them following the creepy guy lurking in the bushes who asks them to come with him, but I do want…

This kind of copies the tape measure, but we keep a plastic ruler. If a recipe calls for a certain diameter ball of dough, or cube of chicken it comes out, and when we’re done it goes in the sink to get washed easily.

I don’t get this attitude of don’t take the kid out until they leave the table clean. I supervise my kids so they are not majorly disruptive to other customers - this is the criteria where you should not take the kids out (except maybe to a pizza place or fast food). Beyond this, if they make a mess I clean up the big…

Adjectives are commonly used as nouns when the group is being described for an attribute. The following words are also adjectives but used commonly as nouns:

Not me but a friend - had a motorcycle in the back if his truck while driving in a toll lane. Motorcycle’s plates got captured by their cameras, sent a ticket for using the toll road without paying. It took months of many back and forth contacts even though the picture showed it was in a vehicle with a valid FastTrack…

I live in a “small” city that has only 1/3 of a million, while they live in a nearby city 10x as large so being told by people from a town that small that their cabin is in the sticks makes us happy that we got something so remote to get away from city life from time to time.

Yep - I spend a lot of time at my in-law’s cabin (it’s so rural residents in the nearby town of 2,000 people consider their cabin to be out in the sticks) and the mail is delivered in a Jeep with a little 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper in the window declaring it to be US Mail.

This also works well on pans (that aren’t non-stick). I use it occasionally on my all clad stainless steel pans and it always amazes me how they look new again.

It’s been a couple years since I was in the market for a new car, but when I last did this most dealers (I was buying a Honda at the time) were pretty easy to get a quote from. Some were way more expensive than others, but most were within $1000 of each other.

I email for requests from my local dealers, see the best offers, and as long as they gave me a reasonable price go to the one with the cheapest price that has the car I want in stock. If they refuse to send a written offer, or try to avoid honoring their written offer I leave a bad review online for them to hopefully…

It all depends on where you live and the resulting cost of living. If you’re in rural Iowa a nearly 100k salary will have you living like a king in an 8 bedroom home, while in SFO or Palo Alto you’ll be struggling to find a 2-3 bedroom condo.

Others have said brakes, and I agree 100% this is most valuable. I’m assuming most here already know these skills, so I am answering this in the context of what would I teach someone who doesn’t know how to work on a car how to do.

Yep! Run an experiment 10,000 times and you can even find a “statistically significant” difference that amounts to a 1% difference. Statistically significant is not the only criteria for determining whether a difference is real.

An excellent article - thank you for writing this Ms. Skwarecki. My background is Biochemistry/Bioinformatics so statistics are very relevant to my field and I always have to bring this exact topic up with students. I tend to break experiments down into 2 categories: Fishing expeditions and hypothesis driven testing.

Couple thoughts:
- If your restaurant has a problem with this they should add a split plate charge. These are a perfectly acceptable solution. Some customers may dislike them and not come back, but they are probably the ones to cheap out in the first place, losing their business may not be the end of the world.

I knew some of these, but certainly not all. I was curious about importance of this one:

What you said is 100% right IF you intend to work at the company for awhile. I love my job and even though I’m in my early 30's I hope to work here until I retire. Thus, a $1000 raise is worth at least $30-40k to me, not even accounting compound interest. Even a $5000 bonus which looks amazing is only a small fraction…

- Disagreeing with someone’s life choices isn’t the same as homophobia. We should be able to disagree on whether particular preferences and choices are good or bad without resorting to name-calling.

I agree these are the best options (there are amazon, box, and dropbox, you covered the big 3) though I have 2 additional thoughts: