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SnowHill9902

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    Comment #36846118

    You think that by studying engineering you see the world as it is?

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    Comment #36840586

    Formulas are like magic spells. You don’t get to use them without understanding what they mean, and more importantly what they assume.

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    Comment #36826302

    Read the book of Job.

  4. comment
    Comment #36718863

    “You have to be prepared to walk away.”

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    Comment #36704575

    Except that life is not for enjoyment and entertainment.

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    Comment #36704564

    “Yes, and?” —- that’s a Zen response not a snarky question.

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    Comment #36417371

    The answer is that good and evil are just human perspectives. His plan is beyond our understanding and is neither good nor evil.

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    Comment #36281453

    Stay humble.

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    Comment #36189473

    Increase your natural T. Doubt you maxed it.

  10. comment
    Comment #36180420

    Pharmaceutical companies are not charging for the cost it took to develop that drug, but for the rolling cost it’ll take to develop future ones.

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    Comment #36146858

    Ideas prove their worth by fighting back.

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    Comment #36123150

    For captchas you don’t have to be right in the strict sense. You have to do as most humans would do.

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    Comment #36104187

    This is not true. Given two songs A, B, an informed human can tell whether A and B are the same song or not. Now you’ve created a UNIQUE constraint on your data, so you have a uniq…

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    Comment #36070582

    By not taking it personally.

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    Comment #36056303

    This can be deduced from the mere fact that reproduction and raising is extremely asymmetric between male and female.

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    Comment #35979351

    So it’s not gray, it’s melange.

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    Comment #35960282

    “Tricholoroethylene strongly linked to Parkinson”

  18. comment
    Comment #35940044

    Can you link to some projects? Ideally also Haskell or also functional?

  19. comment
    Comment #35937823

    Buy, borrow, die.

  20. comment
    Comment #35925137

    The world is always 6NF.

  21. comment
    Comment #35864917

    People care. Hiring managers can be nerds too.

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    Comment #35775038

    Yes if you are already dead.

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    Comment #35772303

    Parkinson’s does not prevent any of those.

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    Comment #35763317

    Doesn’t make sense. They sure won’t be unlocking the iPhone now.

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    Comment #35679987

    It’s your responsibility to guide them.