GFischer

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   by GFischer 17y ago

   I'm on a diet right now (calorie restriction + low carb, too), and I lost 22 pounds (10 kg) so far (goal is losing 40 pounds/18 kg overall).
2. 3422.▲
   by GFischer 17y ago

   I'm not sure if I agree with the article. However, I'm going to add some anecdotal evidence about the differences in cultures: when some coworkers interacted with Mexico, they would often say "ahorita mismo" (right now) when they meant "som
3. 3423.▲
   by GFischer 17y ago

   He could live 6 months in the Northern Hemisphere and 6 months in the Southern :) (Australia, Uruguay, wherever :) ). That solves the Winter thing.
4. 3424.▲
   by GFischer 17y ago

   Interesting... only thing is... it's mid-summer over here :) (Uruguay). BTW you can be depressed in midsummer too :P
5. 3425.▲
   by GFischer 17y ago

   I didn't know the Roissy blog. Thanks to pointing it out (though I try not to be what he advocates, I can see his point - and very often wonder why I bother :P ).
6. 3426.▲
   by GFischer 17y ago

   I was going to point out the same. The author, Tim Harford, has a blog in the Financial Times: http://blogs.ft.com/undercover/ I still believe Freakonomics to be a better read :) but the Undercover Economist book was pretty good too (I re
7. 3427.▲
   by GFischer 17y ago

   You're right, I'm dumb :) . Even some subtitles might help, and that's a much smaller project :)
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   by GFischer 17y ago

   Well, it sounds like a long project to me :) . It would be a nice project, though, maybe I'll propose it (and contribute to it). Guess the first step would be contacting Khan. PD: Spanish is my mother tongue.
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   by GFischer 17y ago

   Ahh... I'd love to do that... but, unless you're the head of IT (and probably not even then), it's very difficult to get other departments to see it that way. I definitely see lots of opportunities for process improvements at my current job
10. 3430.▲
    by GFischer 17y ago

    Only if they were in Spanish - here in Uruguay we have the OLPC deployed for all schoolchildren, but most students don't have the level of English required :)
11. 3431.▲
    by GFischer 17y ago

    Hmm... as joe_the_user said, it's a nice checklist for holes in one's background, but I'm not sure if it should serve as a list for "hireability" - I know people that are probably on the higher end of most of the points, but are terrible a