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Alright, well said. Although I still don't agree that it'd be out of place to include citations in a personal essay, what you've said is fair too.

I'm going to post one more time, just because I think there's a bit of a misconception here. You're absolutely correct about the origin of the word "Essay." It comes from the Frenc…

Ah man, humor! I like humor too. I bet me liking humor puts me in a sizable minority, if not even silent majority, of HN readers. Another thing I don't like, which I've seen many o…

Hello! I think I addressed some of the points you are making in my response to the user dvt. TLDR, there's low-quality research in "falsifiable" fields too. But actually, I'm havin…

Thanks for responding politely. I'll respond to both points. 1. I don't want to say there's not a lot of hand-waviness in "soft" fields. Actually, I don't really know much about th…

How would you know there are no prodigies in Real estate? There are certainly children who display an early knack in resource allocation. How would a child practice real estate any…

If you click on the hyperlink Paul Graham hyperlinks as "academic bogus," you'll find a google scholar search for "hermeneutic dialectic hegemonic whiteness." First of all, I don't…