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TheComedian
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Comment #4438465
> Joe didn't care whether his kid was in Princeton or Harvard, > as long as it was one of them. And oddly enough, JFK went to both Princeton and Harvard. He attended Princeton for …
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Comment #4429118
Agreed, 1% body fat is extremely dangerous and your body does not have enough fat for it to go about its normal processes. It is certainly not sustainable for any period of time. P…
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Comment #4412902
You seem to assume that the pattern of top submissions and top comments is unrelated to what users post. It seems to me that as quality of the top submissions and top comments impr…
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Comment #4375634
My understanding is that academia is very competitive, so I don't understand how you are only going to work 9 hours a week. Further, you'll probably have classes to teach which sur…
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Comment #4372942
I think you can certainly make an argument for military spending in terms of the side benefits associated with developing any complex technology, but I don't think the societal cos…
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Comment #4372935
I did not find that comment condescending, though I expected to when he mentioned that he was going to explain how the budget worked. In fact, the thing that struck me while readin…
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Comment #4369374
Though I understand that you aren't denying the placebo effect, I'm confused about why you feel that a large amount of the placebo effect is due to bias. After all, most drug trial…
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Comment #4366048
This is actually under debate. There is disagreement among neuroscientists whether intelligence is a result of brain modularity (specific regions of the brains optimized for certai…
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Comment #4365978
This assertion is groundless. Why would Moore's law accelerate? In fact, Moore's law is currently decelerating and gains are increasingly harder to find. Further, Moore's law says …
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Comment #4343519
Monier died in 1906, so I doubt it.