@ChaosEngine

Wine-tasting is mostly in our minds:


"In one test, Brochet included fifty-four wine experts and asked them to give their impressions of what looked like two glasses of red and white wine. The wines were actually the same white wine, one of which had been tinted red with food coloring. But that didn’t stop the experts from describing the “red” wine in language typically used to describe red wines. One expert said that it was “jammy,”5 while another enjoyed its “crushed red fruit.”

"Another test that Brochet conducted was even more damning. He took a middling Bordeaux and served it in two different bottles. One bottle bore the label of a fancy grand cru, the other of an ordinary vin de table. Although they were being served the exact same wine, the experts gave the bottles nearly opposite descriptions. The grand cru was summarized as being “agreeable,” “woody,” “complex,” “balanced,” and “rounded,” while the most popular adjectives for the vin de table included “weak,” “short,” “light,” “flat,” and “faulty.”"

New Yorker

Good, now make fun of all the wine snobs.

Studies reliably find that wine experts doing blind taste tests can't distinguish between expensive bottles of wine and the reasonable bottles of wine they'd normally disdain.

Takeaway lesson: There are more important things in life than minute differences in consumption goods.

He's lying in order to create "warm fuzzies."

This is what their real hiring process is like:

"You should also practice whiteboard space-management skills [or] your interviewer will not be impressed... it always irks me when people do this. Oh, and don't let the marker dry out while you're standing there waving it."

Lol.

Wiki: "Power Balance is a brand of hologram bracelet claimed by its manufacturers and vendors to "use holographic technology" to "resonate with and respond to the natural energy field of the body", and increase sporting ability.[1] Numerous independent studies of the device found it to be no better than placebo at improving athletic performance, and the manufacturer was forced to retract its claims in 2010."

Seriously, these people believe in ghosts and cower when something frightens them?

"The new Chinese laws make it illegal to demolish private property by force without an agreement."

Wow, property rights! Chinese society is advancing by leaps and bounds!

Next thing you know, they'll be raising the age of consent above 14!

First Zuckerberg robs us of our privacy, and now this??

RFlagg said: "Not everyone working at your local restaurant, retailer or whatever is there because they are lazy..."

>> ^Kofi:

Its this kind of entrepreneurialism that makes America the nation it is today.


This seems more like parasitism, which is the opposite of high-contribution entrepreneurship like Dropbox and Tesla Motors.

>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^chilaxe:
Basically he's saying "Be yourself and somehow you'll become successful or something if you're lucky."
Better advice: "Hard work and perseverance beats talent and luck, and successful careers can be reduced down to an algorithm."

Success Algorithm:
Step #1 Have a Rich Daddy.
...


Boise Lib:

Ha. As far as I can tell from the data, though, most millionaires are self-made.

I think everything we need to know about economic outcomes can be learned from this recent NYT article:

Asians' Success in High School Admissions Seen as Issue by Some.

Basically he's saying "Be yourself and somehow you'll become successful or something if you're lucky."

Better advice: "Hard work and perseverance beats talent and luck, and successful careers can be reduced down to an algorithm."

*dead, unfortunately.

Seems to be *dead unfortunately.

*dead unfortunately

Did you see that?? That oncoming truck came right into his lane!