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Comment author: SolveIt 23 March 2014 05:59:29AM 5 points [-]

Things take longer than you would expect.

Comment author: shminux 23 March 2014 07:09:37AM 0 points [-]

On average, twice as long.

Comment author: lfghjkl 23 March 2014 08:03:37AM 11 points [-]

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Comment author: Slackson 23 March 2014 11:00:27AM 6 points [-]

This doesn't always apply. It can, for example, leave you with an hour to kill at a train station, because you decided it would be really embarrassing to show up late for your ride to a CFAR workshop because of the planning fallacy.

Comment author: philh 23 March 2014 12:00:19PM 3 points [-]

Yes, it doesn't apply when the time is blocked off in advance and can't be reclaimed if it takes less time than you expect.

Comment author: DefectiveAlgorithm 24 March 2014 07:43:50AM 3 points [-]

After reading this, I became incapable of giving finite time estimates for anything. :/

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