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I guess I'd make a decent plumber but a lousy doctor. I puke almost instantly around other people's vomit. The other end doesn't bother me in terms of smell. Downside is I got most of the diaper duty for my kids. =(

Jesus christ. "If you're gonna be dumb, you've gotta be tough" at its finest. He's going to have some Uriah Faber legs in the morning.

50-66% of everyone carries HSV-1. Odds are good you already have dated someone with it and are a carrier yourself.

I'm with you. I don't care if you've been doing bleach enemas and autoclaved your asshole before getting into bed. Zero appeal.

Same. No fucking way I'm doing that. Not just for my own sake, but for my family's as well. Everyone invariably fights too hard, too long, and the toll it can take on the surviving family is brutal. In retrospect, most of my mom's final two years was all of us collectively on autopilot grinding...

I wouldn't give my kids a cup of beer, but I have no problem with a sip if they ask. I make sure it's an IPA so they're guaranteed to think it's vile and never ask again for a year or two. I consider it an investment in reducing the taboo factor that leads to binge drinking when they're older.

Yeah, generous of Joe to help. I'm sure his history of knee and neck problems makes him sympathetic to athletes with broken down bodies. My knee is in a similar situation to this lady's - massive meniscus tear where repair surgery has failed and removing the cartilage would be irresponsible. I...

Surround him with lemon slices.

My dogs weighs more than both of my kids put together (kids 50/35 lbs, dog is 90).

No personal experience, but my cousin married a Russian and then got divorced a few years later. He's still got his green card and living in NYC (he being the ex-cousin-in-law). I think you're fine if you've got the 10-year card, and should have no trouble renewing it afterwards. Sorry to hear...

My sister's SO works at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and gave my kids and me a private tour today. We got a good look at the Mars 2020 Rover, which is nearly fully assembled and will shortly disappear from public viewing to undergo environmental testing. It's pretty cool being this close to...

I've backed into doing data science work (in R/Python) by watching Coursera lectures and grinding through building products on my own.

I thought it was the corner's perogative to throw in the towel for the express reason of avoiding this outcome? Did he just not have the heart in the moment to really overrule his fighter?

She's out about a week every six. He first comment was "Wow, glad I wasn't there for that!" (She's got a phobia of needles and blood. Stitches = no go.)

My wife is out of town this week on business, so of course the first thing that happens is my 4 year old daughter starts a fight with her brother that ends up with her in the ER for stitches after she face-plants on the hardwood floor. Argh. (She's fine, will grow up with a battle scar on her...

Not an expert, but I do a standard mixture of 90% market funds with 10% bond, since I'm 40 and don't expect to touch the money for 25 years. Within that, I take a 60/40 spit of domestic/foreign. Domestic market fund is whatever the lowest-cost S&P-tracking I'm eligible for on that account...

$600, which at this point is half the value of the car.

For maximizing possible returns, yes. In order for it to be a good call you "just" have to come out such that the amount of the peak you miss is less than the amount of the net fall/rebound you miss. Not trivial, but more slack there. (Yes, this is only known in retrospect, there's risk, and...

It's what mine is. YMMV.

Salting before cooking creates osmotic pressure that dehydrates the meat.

It's more for keeping out vermin and general organizational OCD.

Induction heating is fast, yes, but there are more parameters at play than just that. There's some function of grain type and time at temperature required to get the rice to absorb the right amount of moisture and still come out at the target consistency. Medium grain white rice will be done in...

I have a similar model (NH-VBC18) that I got as a wedding gift 12 years ago. Short/long grain, white/brown, never had anything but perfect rice. We tend to use the "sushi" setting for medium grain white rice and it comes out at a consistency we like. Wife's family is Chinese rice snobs and it...

If that's your attitude towards marriage, why should the existence of children matter? People are perfectly capable of raising a family in the absence of a stamped piece of paper and an expensive party. Marriage is just a public commitment to share your lives. There's nothing inherently stupid...

That's fair. I have an econ degree, did a lot of finance work for my MBA, and have since run a boutique consulting firm specializing in long-term business forecasting, capital planning, and cyclical risk analysis (though admittedly not financial market analysis). It sounds like it would be a fun...

Looking at previous periods for an expectation of future performance is silly if you do so with blinders on with respect to drivers. We have an economic/financial system that generates cyclical highs and lows as a matter of structure due to the interactions of labor/consumer population growth...

So my wife and I know this Austrian kid who is in the US doing an intensive study. Sharp kid (this story excepted), super polite, responsible, family with money, etc, etc. He needed transportation to a seminar so we let him borrow our beater car for a couple days. Three hours into his trip...

Right, a big part why this work is being done privately in the first place is that a company can afford to take more risks of this type than can a government agency.

Totally agree, and the reason I'm not putting money in the market now. My dad even went so far as to cash out of equities entirely given that he's 70, comfortable with his current asset level compared to expected spending, and does not want to deal with waiting until the other end of the...

As it is for everyone else to whom this tragedy happens. Read the article fully. Human memory is fallible and sometimes fails importantly to the best-organized and best-intentioned people. It's not a question of willpower or desire or whatever motivation you ascribe. Simply putting a child in...

That can literally happen to anyone, and I have a lot of sympathy for those parents (where it wasn't intentional, obviously). I can't imagine needing to continue your life knowing you accidentally killed your child. This is a wonderful article (about a terrible subject), and may put a new spin...

If you're doing the "right" thing and have your money in the appropriate Vanguard mutual funds, costs are $0 plus whatever capital gains tax you owe on that investment (assuming you aren't trying to widthdraw from an IRA/401k/403b/etc. and incur penalties).

Yeah. From that page it seems they kiln dry some of their product, which would obviously shorten the time greatly.

I was thinking of it as an act of vengeance, along the lines of that joke, "I'm not a vegetarian because of love animals, rather because I REALLY HATE plants." (No, I'm not a vegetarian. I (h)ate everything.)

We visted a friend who raises goats. As they were running over I was thinking, "Cute, it's a hooved miniature Gandalf... OH FUCKING LORD WHAT IS THAT SMELL." Get those fucking things away from me. I don't blame middle easterners for eating them.

Don't get a male goat. They stink something fierce.

My wife has a more demanding job than mine so I do a lot of the traditional parenting duties (in addition to running my own small consulting business). I love my kids to death but it's a daily struggle to reconcile my "real" responsibilities with getting my son to piano lessons and swimming...

Pressure treated lumber has a great deal of water forced into it along with the treating chemicals. (That's why it's heavy.) Straight from the lumber yard, pressure treated wood will have up to 75% moisture content. Lumber that has been stably air dried will be 10-15% or something, depending on...

Uh, because he's a legally independent adult with his own car and insurance? I can express my disapproval, but it's ultimately not my call.

My father-in-law (70, chinese), is a goddamn menace on the road. Self-driving ubers can't roll out fast enough.