LOL @ spider monkey and rippin and tearin


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hahahaha those are f absurd

Really cool article/quiz from the one and only Daniel Kahneman relating to heuristics:

http://www.vanityfair.com/business/f...z-201112.print

I hope everyone here gets the last question easily at least!

The last question isn't right/wrong, it's a preference.

ya i mean there's definitely some questions in there that are done incorrectly (the engineer/lawyer one). the whole premise that 'daniel kahneman wants you to get these wrong' is kinda incorrect as well. the whole idea i think is that humans don't behave based off of pure EV etc

I found the quiz silly. On question one (I answered C), how can you give someone a question, three answers and then say the answer is SAMPLE SIZE MATTERSSSSSS!

Question two I answered A which I thought most people would.

Question three I answered A,E.

Question four I answered Yes.

Question five I answered A-B.

I don't think any of those are "wrong", and I think especially question five is ******ed. It might be better if it was 100% to receive $500 or 75% to receive $1000.

If his point is as you say is humans don't think about EV enough then that'd be a good point. I think there are probably better questions than these though to prove that.

This whole post sounds hostile when I read it back, but I didn't intend it that way. Smiles.

omg omg new season of Californication premiers this Sunday!

first ep was leaked couple weeks ago

On a sidenote. Deadline is today for some programming course I have in my master. I uploaded everything with f macro's and logaritms and the comment I get from another student is "use more colour to make it more attractive"....srsly?

bah, late to the party as usual

so I'm reading some status update from Barack Obama on Facebook about adding 200k jobs in the past month.

Then somebody says, "but how much did you loose?"

made me chuckle

Not NSFW, but awesome anyways.

http://youmightlikethis.com/2011/12/...animated-gifs/

lol

Someone that I know is finnish

That first pic is great BG

As kids we used to hold those roman candles in our hands and play starwars. Just use old clothes, because they can burn some marks in your clothes when you got hit.

So we have been looking around at some wedding places. I want to buy a nice suit/ good wedding bands. Now I am visiting the top brand websites, but they are all SO ****ING ****TY!

I am seriously raging now. How hard can it be to make a proper website that doesn't move a bit everytime you move a mouse. Also, I want to see prices of stuff. Like, if I see 3 suits in a row I may like one of them a bit better than the others. If I see prices I can actually decide what I like.

God someone should teach these fashion tards some webdesign classes. Your interface should be userfriendly, not make me dizzy! For example, in selecting my country for a quote I had to aim 5-6 times before I got it, because the damn thing just moved a little bit all the time.

FFFUUUUUUUUU.

/end rant

Her parents together (Chinese) make about the same as I do in a year, but obviously the cost of living is lower over there. They have offered to give us a large amount of money that would pay for the wedding and a maldives honeymoon. I feel pretty ****ty about it though as my dad is pretty scroogy and goes on holiday like 8 times per year, works only 4 days a week, but I don't expect even 5 figures from him.

Any thoughts on this? I feel bad for taking their money, especially considering that is about a full year's net wage. FWIW they do own an appartment in the center of Beijing and one in a beachtown in the vicinity and invest a lot in shares so it isn't like we would be taking their last pennies.

Isn't it like really impolite to not take it if they offer it to you? Esp. in their culture?

Yeh, nothing you can do really regardless of culture.

Though isn't there a Chinese thing where parents pay dowries? And "in return" expect to be looked after in old age? So it's presumably insulting to turn it down as you're saying "yeh, go get old in the corner, we're going to forget about you".

Edit: I get this entirely from a book I read on Korean culture about ten years ago. So who knows how applicable that is to modern day China.

Yeah, but I could talk down the amount I suppose. Just feels so weird that they want to give us a full annual income whereas I would be surprised if my dad and his wife would give even 10% of theirs.

Maybe you need the advice of other Chinese - I'm not sure you can negotiate the number down for the same reasons. They probably also expect to pay more than your parents. I'm not saying that's right (or comfortable for you) but it's realistically what they think.

I mean if the money her parents are giving is going towards the wedding/honeymoon then meh. They probably somewhat enjoy doing that. My wife had her mom/stepdad and dad/stepmom split the wedding costs which were probably on the lower end of weddings these days and I honestly feel like they were happy to do so. My mom gave us some $ as a wedding gift which we are going to put towards a down payment on a house soonish hopefully. I also feel like this will make her feel good about her gift (her parents gave her and my father some money which they used to buy property and build the house where she still lives).

I would say unless you know that whatever they are planning on contributing is going to really hurt them then I'd just not sweat it.

How soon are you getting married btw? I ended up getting a low-mid low tier CK suit from Macy's and it worked out great. We gave the party some basic guidelines of what to wear but didn't want to make them rent tuxes/dresses or whatever since that can be pricey and some were driving/flying in, got us wedding presents, took us out for bachelor party etc... It worked out decently I thought. Here's a pic of my party.

Nice wraths.

Turns out the parents wanted to give us the main sum as a downpayment for our house and about half the cost of the wedding in cash.

I think you are right and I just shouldn't feel to bad about it. It is still nice of them and they probably like giving the gift.

I have several custom made suits but I think I want a real branded suit for my wedding. **** is pretty expensive though - especially since we will want to have a wedding in Holland and one in China. I think we will keep the wedding small (20-30 people total) to keep costs down, and end with a nice dinner without a party afterwards.

How much did your wedding costs if I may ask? I think the dress/suit will run 3-4k, the location 2-3k, rings 2-3k, food/drinks 2-3k and random other stuff 1-2k. 10-15k seems like a reasonable estimate, right? Keep in mind I count in Euro's so multiply it by 1,3 or so to get to USD.

in Chinese culture, to give face, there's usually a kind of banter where you say "no, no it's too much" and they will insist. this generally goes back and forth a couple times until you either accept or decline.

each situation is a little different in regards to whether you are supposed to accept in the end. it's also hard to say what they expect you to do if you're not chinese. i think most chinese people would not expect a non-chinese to do the whole banter

seems like such a strange phenomena that somehow the cultural norm is for parents to pay for weddings, seems like something you should pay for yourself...if I ever got married I wouldn't expect, nor want a dime.

Congrats tho Randiek! GL with everything