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gilesgoatboy

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    Comment #1015854

    I see strong reasons to suspect numbers in excess of five figures per month. I'm working on finding proof, but no offense Hacker News, when I find it, you might not see it. I didn'…

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    Comment #884665

    I have a different theory. I believe Texas will resist this because Texans have been to New Mexico. Anybody who thinks it's a good idea for the entire US energy system to rest on A…

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    Comment #713300

    Either-or is ridiculous. It's a false dichotomy and they're practically the same language. With 11 years of total experience, if you found it impossible to fit Ruby and Python in t…

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    Comment #695439

    I took on a radical vegan diet - no processed foods, not even refined grains (which means not even bread) - and I lost sixty pounds between March or April and right now (July). Spe…

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    Comment #655772

    Dude, there's no point asking them. They don't know the answer. The only thing is to do it and see how it goes.

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    Comment #611995

    If you're going to do Euclid's algorithm, cut to the chase and read Euclid. Nothing will ever teach you more about logic.

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    Comment #602308

    If you find that interesting, study the blog post Atwood wrote about how you shouldn't use images in your blog the way I use images in my blog. This would be the post he wrote abou…

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    Comment #602303

    hey sho, I appreciate the effort at defending me and all that, but yeah, it was totally a rant. I didn't get as far as the first sentence without mentioning my own balls. I aim for…

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    Comment #598485

    You people are such idiots. I lost 40 pounds in two months and it was the easiest thing in the world. But most of you won't ever even see these words because I was rude on here too…

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    Comment #583585

    Oh also: have sex with as many high school girls as you can. It's great, and it's only legal while you're still in high school too. School will give you a very few things worth lea…

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    Comment #583575

    I had this exact same experience. You're basically fucked. The whole world is like that and it takes effort and balls to get anything interesting to happen. My advice: ignore schoo…

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    Comment #577968

    As far as I know the only thing that actually improves matters is taking men out of the equation. Females at all-female schools do great in fields like tech. Also, protip: do not a…

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    Comment #575284

    why so serious?

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    Comment #572083

    This just horrifies the ever-living fuck out of me. The cumulative effect of these drugs cannot be good for you. And the guy who considered it an incredible achievement to be able …

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    Comment #572051

    They completely missed the point of Twitter, but you have to give them credit for making history. Nobody has ever posted to Twitter using a brain before. This could change everythi…

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    Comment #569096

    If you want to fork it, it's here " rel="nofollow">http://tinyurl.com/c6mbpy">here .

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    Comment #569006

    these sex threads have one thing in common: they're all incredibly depressing. if somebody doesn't do something to nip this in the bud, we're going to start seeing links for Ross J…

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    Comment #568732

    you shouldn't become a grammar! it's trickies the globalism with worldwide tumble. Tunisia falls many leagues beyond me. what you do in other situation, it's enema wrapped in myste…

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    Comment #567872

    unscrupulous my ass! get therapy

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    Comment #567870

    yeah, if you're looking for hookers

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    Comment #567867

    The title infuriates me. Such arrogant, clueless, priveleged, rich-kid bullshit. He's not talking about smart people - he's talking about academic overachievers. Going to Harvard i…

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    Comment #563050

    Weird thing about this project, it is an epic feature-request magnet. Number one most requested feature: links to the discussions/comments. Absolutely not going to happen. I might …

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    Comment #563021

    you know what, actually, I wrote a big comment justifying the same point of view (currently right below this very comment) but the irony is that as far as I can tell none of my com…

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    Comment #562669

    de nada, thanks for the awesome script