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Err towards generous tipping.
Actually, this is something I meant to ask about. Not how much to tip, which has well been covered elsewhere, but how one goes about the actual action of giving someone a tip. (I am generalizing beyond bars here).
You tip when you pay, whether you're running a bill or buying drinks one by one.
If you're paying by card, usually the little card-swipey-machine(?) will ask if you want to tip, and how much. Nice and easy.
If you're paying cash, you can drop some into a visible tip jar, or leave a little pile on the bar/table. It's convenient to overpay and then use some or all of your change for this. You don't need to stick around to watch this be picked up. edit: absolutely agree with JoshuaZ- you should wait for your change. After accepting it you don't need to be present when the bartender gets the tip.
Sometimes, more in semi-classy restaurants, a waiter/ess will ask if you want change- if you say no, the difference is tip.
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Procedural Knowledge Gaps
I'm not aware of a gap in my procedural knowledge, but many skills are still fuzzy and basic. The internet serves extreme beginners and specialized experts well, but I've found reference books to be the best resource for the middle ground. Some that have helped me domestically:
- New Best Recipe from Cook's Illustrated: Basic cookbook that explain the testing and intuition behind a recipe.
- America's Test Kitchen cookbooks: Also from Cook's Illustrated, these books tend to explain why a recipe is what it is and give tips on technique or what cuts of meat work best for what purposes.
- How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman: Basic cookbook that presents many recipes as templates, providing variations and room for improvisation.
- Home Comforts by Cheryl Mendelson: Everything that goes into maintaining a home, from cleaning to food storage to pets to laundry.
Any other quality reference books, perhaps for auto care or personal finance?
Owning up to a particularly fuzzy area: how do you order at a bar? I've been a couple times and managed, but somehow I feel I'm missing something, especially if I extend beyond a beer. Can someone offer a comprehensive account?
I'll take a swing at it- let me know if it's helpful at all.
Ordering at a bar is easiest if you're friendly with the bartender. A jovial attitude, a confession of ignorance, and a vague description of a target drink (ie, "colorful and with rum", or "something delicious") will prompt a short exchange wherein the tender narrows their options down a little. Err towards generous tipping.
Note that I stick to quiet establishments. This probably doesn't work nearly as well in a very busy bar.
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Rationality Quotes: January 2011
Whatever elaborate, and grotesquely counter-intuitive, underpinnings there might be to familiar reality, it stubbornly continues to be familiar. When Rutherford showed that atoms were mostly empty space, did the ground become any less solid? The truth itself changes nothing.
-- Greg Egan, Quarantine
I don't think so. Many, many common practices would be improved by some properly applied theory.
"properly applied" qualifies it as practice
But reality says that beauty is correlated with fitness, which is correlated with intelligence. Beautiful people should tend to be smart.
That is a surprising mistake to make in reasoning. Did you somehow get the causality arrows reversed in your mind when writing this? Temporarily imagine that fitness was causing brains and beauty, rather than the other way around?
I think there is some positive beauty/intelligence correlation.
Quite possibly true. But surely not for the reason you suggested above.
Isn't beauty a set of built-in fitness testing heuristics? If so, fitness really does cause beauty.
It's worth pointing out that beauty also really does cause fitness. The runaway cycle is the peacock effect.
What exactly do you mean by "a pragmatic perspective"?
In other words, how exactly is the question "Which parts of philosophy are worth studying from a pragmatic perspective?" different from just "Which parts of philosophy are worth studying?"?
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Which parts of philosophy are worth studying from a pragmatic perspective?
I have a guess:
Let's say that studying philosophy is gratifying in and of itself. That would make the study of philosophy an intrinsic good. There might be some parts of philosophy whose study yields an instrumental good. These would be the "pragmatic" parts.
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Epilogue: Atonement (8/8)
Untranslatable 2 is the thought sharing sex.
Untranslatable 1 is confusion or distress. Untranslatable 3 is intellegence enhancing drugs. Untranslatable 4 is forced happy via untranslatable 2, possibly happy drugs refined from the chemical process of it. Untranslatable 5 is wisdom inherited from gene-thoughts.
if you can translate them, they're hardly untranslatable
Do you not have other browsers besides Firefox installed?
My brain know that it can get around Leechblock by using Safari or Chrome.
In fact, my brain knows it can disable Leechblock by going Tools > Add-ons and clicking on the appropriate "Disable" button. Or if Leechblock lacks a "Disable" button, by uninstalling Leechblock and installing it again later.
I explicitly uninstalled my other browsers, in point of fact. Reinstalling them is enough trouble that it's no worth it. I know that I've known about the disable-the-addon trick, but I definitely forgot about it.
It'll be interesting to see if you've just sabotaged me with the reminder.
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Anti-akrasia remote monitoring experiment
Solo, I've had pretty good results with aggressive leechblock settings. My habitual timesinks are only accessible for a half-hour block each day.
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I'm in Ottawa, but would try to make a future Toronto meetup. Unfortunately I'll be out of the country from Feb. 12-19.
Aside: Is there interest in an Ottawa meetup? I know Cyan and myself would probably be in, anyone else?
One more for Ottawa. Interest is yes.