Aging wines is totally missing from this conversation. A $45+ bottle of wine should be built to age at least a little and therefore shouldn’t taste as good as a tasty $14 bottle meant for guzzling right away. In order for a wine to taste good in 10-25 years it needs to have harsh tannins and overly bright fruit. These…

Good talk, but I wish he talked about the dyslexic advantage. It’s often called the ‘MIT disease’ because while it takes time and strategies to compensate for where the brain struggles, on the flip side, it does some pretty cool things for creativity and logic. A lot of programmers (like me) are dyslexic. A…

I have an endless list of hackable ideas in mind. I really enjoy doing them when I get around to it and sometimes they are really useful. But in the past I’ve racked up components for possible projects that just sit there taking up space, taunting me and annoying my spouse. Now I limit myself to one project at a time.…

Depends. For physical copies libraries do not need to by “special” copies. It’s covered by the right of first sale. They can do whatever they want with a book copy. Digital media at libraries is “shrink wrapped” with licenses so technically companies are leasing restricted licenses to libraries rather than letting…

Babies aren’t very basic. They might not have a fully-formed sense of the world, but they are inherently social and have a baseline understanding of physics.

Yeah, it's my wife's best friend from college. I wasn't nearly as upset a her when they moved to a different state.

I don't think it's all the bride's fault. People feed into this "all about the bride" culture. Some brides naturally gravitate towards attention, and some brides just get really used to it. Also, not just the bride.

So what is the cost of tea in china? I have no idea what relevant/useful analogy you are making about LGBT issues/population ratio and cryogenic egg freezing options/outcomes ratio. The point was these companies are not upfront with challenges and procedural uncertainty. Your general point about LGBT attention being…

Yeah, I've tried both the Mohu Leaf and the Mohu Amplified version. I still get crappy signal and I live in the SF Bay Area within 20 miles of the towers. I can get all of the channels some of the time, and some of the channels all of the time. My signal drops out when the fog starts to roll in. I sometimes can move…

I've heard no rumors insinuating self-respect.

Say What? Who comes up with these baseless rumors?!?!?!

This song makes me want to fall asleep. asleep. asleep. aslee..zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

There is a "real average" in the sense that we use the word average often to mean typical, rather than mathematical average. And there is a better way way to mathematically represent this notion of average. It's the median.

At best case it's really inefficient to spread it more than recommended. It requires way more visits to the pediatrician than it should. It also increases the amount of time the doctor has to discuss alternative vaccination schedules, and seems to be crowding out things that should be a discussion, like safe sleeping…

the…

I think *most* couples with fertility issues do not think they are "owed a baby" in any way. Sure, desperate would-be parents and commercial fertility service providers shouldn't be able to take advantage of economically desperate people. But the human drive for a child can be an incredibly strong force for many…

"We remember the bad more"....hogwash. Are memory softens with time. We create deities out of historical figures. We dull the edge of horrific events to make us feel better. Nobody wants to be implicated by history, be it Japanese, German, American, English or whatever.

The real question is how do people think Chipotle is tasty? It's a giant bomb of bland. It's Cali-Mex methadone. Trapped in a strip mall in a fly over state? Okay then. But if you live near a coast in a city with over 500k residents, there are much better burritos. How these are popular in California is still a…

Thanks for this. I was reading this post and thought we had time-warped back to the 90s. Just take some recommendations and stream her work on Spotify. Buy what you like. Debut FTW.

For the record, Grey/Swayze had no chemistry.