>I also find that forcing yourself to adhere to a sleep schedule that doesn't feel natural can result in more fatigue, and I wonder if other people have the same experience.
I'm usually go to sleep at 1 at the earliest, and I generally sleep like a rock. After coming back from a trip to India last year, I decided to not fight my jetlag and try this "waking up early" thing everyone's always on about.
The waking up early was actually kind of nice (I got to meditate in the mornings; have some time to myself, etc), but I have literally never slept worse in my life. I would wake up almost every night, toss and turn for hours. It was miserable. I wasn't sure what to attribute it to for a long time, but as soon as I drifted back to my 1-2am bedtime, lo and behold, I started sleeping like a rock again.
Correlation does not necessarily imply causation, but seeing how I don't have a job that requires me to be up early, I'm fine with my circadian cycle. Even if it does mean I'm up till 5 occasionally.
I can code on a whiteboard, but it's certainly not something I enjoy. So when interviewing, I often ask for pen and paper. Just like a whiteboard, I have to write code without a computer and IDE, but unlike a whiteboard, I don't have to stand and write code in a position I'm not used to, with a tool I'm not used to (and let's be honest, whiteboard markers are kind of a pain to write with).
If I'm going to be disqualified based on my choice of writing medium, well, I probably wouldn't be that keen on working there anyway.
The article really doesn't make this situation sound like an unavoidable consequence of regulation. What part of " he strictly follows the rule insisting that every mobile-food employee has Health Department certification... And stationary restaurants, by the way, require that only a single employee on duty have a Health Department certification." sounds like an inevitable consequence of having regulations?
That being said, it still seems dubious--given China's online population of 538 million people, that's $5.7 average per person spent, which is a little higher than the average per person expenditure for last year's entire Cyber Monday ($1.2 billion according to the article, and around 210 million people online in the US as of February 2011 according to an online source makes about $5.6). In a country whose average urban per capita disposable income is around 10x lower than the average per capita disposable income in the US overall, I'm taking this with a grain of salt.
fair point - the figures released by taobao are those in the article, so if you distrust those, then so be it.
Anecdotally, I believe it. Everyone I know was buying stuff that day, and not in small amounts - I bought 2 years worth of toothpaste, some baby products, shower gel... average per-order value needs only to be 180RMB, 86RMB per reported user, which isn't a lot of money at all here, despite income disparity.
I understand you. But perhaps you are not familiar with the Chinese shopping habits and the situation now they faced with. High price good with heavy tax in the physical stores would be only sold with 50% discount in taobao online shops. If US could have such discount percentage, I believe that $5.6 could just be a small change
Although I still wasn't sure what "singles day" is (some sort of reverse of Valentine's Day?), it's a little clearer by itself than "double sticks day" (a phrase which yields all of 3 results on Google).
singles day is kind of kidding among young people. Blogger will write articles/poets this day to comfort people whom is still single, also merchants will give a discount for the same reason...
The 1st-Jan is considered to be small singles day, then "11th-Jan" and "1st-Nov" the middle singles day, and "11th-Nov" the ultimate singles day.
May have something to do with the climatic requirements of different varieties of the plant, similar to how Gewürztraminer performs best in a cooler climate but Grenache needs a hot one.
Yeah, that would have been pretty interesting. I don't know that most of the people on that jury had a strong opinion on the problems with our software patent laws though.
I assume when he says "Western," he means people who had no idea who Psy was before this video, much less which album of his this was, and don't know "Spela Mig På Radio" from Adam. While I'm sure you're fairly Western, it sounds like you have much more background in the Korean culture than the average person who can barely find it on a map.
Yeah. I think it's fair to say that a good deal of the previously K-Pop naive audience is going to miss out of a lot of things. After all, it's certainly difficult to pick out everything if you've NEVER seen another K-Pop music video in your life
That said, anyone who has seen a Weird-Al or Slim Shady (not Eminem...) video can probably get the vibe that he's making fun of something. And that something probably has to do with beautiful women, nice cars, and other -money- things.
I have my reservations about the paleo diet that mostly have to do with the amounts of meat that its adherents consume, but out of curiosity, how can a food group that we are undoubtedly evolved to eat, even if it's probably as part of a diet rich in other food groups, be "terrible" for us?
I'm usually go to sleep at 1 at the earliest, and I generally sleep like a rock. After coming back from a trip to India last year, I decided to not fight my jetlag and try this "waking up early" thing everyone's always on about.
The waking up early was actually kind of nice (I got to meditate in the mornings; have some time to myself, etc), but I have literally never slept worse in my life. I would wake up almost every night, toss and turn for hours. It was miserable. I wasn't sure what to attribute it to for a long time, but as soon as I drifted back to my 1-2am bedtime, lo and behold, I started sleeping like a rock again.
Correlation does not necessarily imply causation, but seeing how I don't have a job that requires me to be up early, I'm fine with my circadian cycle. Even if it does mean I'm up till 5 occasionally.