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Any Less Wrong readers here?

http://lesswrong.com/lw/at/sunk_cost_fallacy/

Their archives are definitely something I have trouble finishing... Interesting and often deep, but difficult to apply in practice - a bit like ERE?

Have you tried a belt or concealed pouch for when you don't have room in your pockets?

I've tried belt pouches: a bit uncomfortable (especially when sitting, lying on the couch etc) and unsightly. I keep my keys in one hip pocket, the Leatherman in the other and the phone in one cargo pocket, the ...

I've had a Leatherman Juice XE6 in my pocket for 15 years, securely fastened to my pants with a lanyard. The first one lasted about 10 years before the blades became worn down from sharpening, the file dulled and the pliers too loose to cut wire. I ordered a second one a few weeks before a piece of ...

<t>I actually rather like sleeping in a cold room, 50F is lovely to wake up to under a warm blanket... But I've never acclimatized myself to living in an house that cold and strangely - although outside it often gets down to -5 degrees in the winter where I live and it takes a week or two to start ...

<r>I do feel it'd be a waste to completely get out of research as the reason I got into it was to make the world a better place <E>:)</E> It's fun to be the first human to learn some new fact, better yet if that fact can save a life (or a few billion lives). But I've lost some of that idealism: it's ...

<r>Hello. I'm a 29-year old from Estonia and I've been fortunate enough to have been almost retired for about the past 4 years. At least that's how it seems in retrospect. Education here is free (if you have good grades) and currently I'm close to completing my PhD (biochemistry), which has been ...