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Thankyou! I presume this will bold * Of course, I was referring to the inverted U effect earlier ~ given we guess that HN is full of highly intelligent people, they'll not see as m…

Reading the forum rules here, I'm at a loss why a user has gone through my posts on this thread and flagged each one, without a reason.. especially since the first rude post was th…

I'll show you mine when toeknadult shows me his: The original post had zero real references. But, of course: most of the papers I can throw at you are about huge impairments... bec…

Well, do a simple bit of logic there (sorry; the study I had in mind is locked). From the age of 20 > 30, there's a quantifiable degradation of DNA replication, or as we call it "a…

Racetams have proven effects on healthy adults. [Do you want to know more?]. There's a scaled effect which is notable, but most adults over 30 will benefit from them (i.e. the 'sma…

Sartre, and many others have used amphetamines. The real question is not that of the shill above, but: which major figures in the last X years were NOT on some kind of drug . Ameri…

Nooptroics work, otherwise they'd not have FDA [insert whatever system you're under] approval. A quick glance at the crap fluff piece above shows that many of them are simple suppl…

To second this, perhaps a little more solidly: Q) Who owns Reddit? Q) Who owns the Gawker Jezebel "to infinity and beyond" series of sites ... And so on. Then add the 6 major playe…

Note: I'm aware that this analogy is metaphorically and intellectually broken. If I had time / inclination, we'd re-work the OP's example into Facebook and Steam etc being protozoa…

This struck me as an interesting take, due to your analogy: (some) viruses[1] can be inoculated against. Looking at this through a 'real world' lens, rather than a mimetic one, sug…

For reference for the negative score ~ " . " is a common mark of respect, denoting a loss. I see it was removed / formatted out. (Original comment started with " . " one line). Are…

As an aside ~ I find it an interesting convergence of 'our future' that the man used social engineering / diplomacy / subterfuge to excel in the most cut-throat and blood-thirsty g…

I was (snarkily) suggesting something through hyperbole, but of course you're correct. However: August 15th, 2012: 268 million shares, 10% of shares outstanding. October 14th: 249 …

[i]He is, by far, the single most responsible for having created a $60 billion company, something few can ever even hope to do.[/i] Two things: Q) Wasn't this $100 billion not so l…