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internetman55

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    Comment #17702720

    I consider that normal???

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    Comment #17694921

    What is it mean if your natural reaction is to just say "Yeah" with no thought and then continue

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    Comment #17685310

    I wish Americans would stop obsessing over learning languages that they don't use and bother to do something they could actually realistically accomplish. Like read a reasonably re…

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    Comment #17596633

    But no good student who approaches the grad school process in a sane manner is going to work for a professor whose students stay there for 12 years and don't graduate. A common thi…

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    Comment #17591907

    I feel like most guitarists are so extra about equipment. Most good guitarists I know will sound fine playing mediocre guitars through cheap amps, while a bad guitarist is just not…

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    Comment #17586421

    My grandpa is into his 80s without many health issues while drinking occasionally but not everyday or anything. His brothers all loved drinking more and died earlier in much worse …

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    Comment #17550804

    I think the way you learn advanced math is going to class, reading a textbook, reading a paper, going to a talk, talking to a friend, etc.

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    Comment #17533640

    Wow I was going to call this stupid before I realized I have most of those

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    Comment #17511709

    Haha, I feel like he is learning from Trump

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    Comment #17474431

    Wouldn't it make sense to have higher taxes on old people? They have more significant money and wealth I believe.

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    Comment #17471248

    I don't love godel escher bach cause when i took my mathemat logic class the most annoying students were the ones who read that book!!!

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    Comment #17446241

    Sometimes you just have to admit that if you're a 4.0 student at a top school you might have bigger opportunities than learning extra material for enrichment. You might not, but yo…

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    Comment #17446219

    I'm not a hiring manager but id pick A RPI student for engineering work.

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    Comment #17439062

    My question: if great none of the essayists, thinkers, writers, etc. have used and endorsed such a method, why am I going to care enough about the method to even read such instruct…

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    Comment #17425811

    Hi Scott, hope you are doing well. A friend of friend worked with you and said that you are nice and they enjoyed it a lot. Hope you have a wonderful day

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    Comment #17397829

    Very fun!

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    Comment #17396898

    Sigh, wish we could do better as humans

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    Comment #17381875

    I use these!

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    Comment #17381163

    I consider most of that stuff to be trash. I think, according to common sense, bad things happening to you is actually bad (for a variety of reasons). Many people who make it out o…

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    Comment #17348231

    Not really. I think I am an SBNR investigating Christianity mostly at this point. But, for example, someone told me I should recite the Jesus prayer at work to boost my productivit…

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    Comment #17348119

    But is there any evidence that whatever you come up with will be better than simply reading a reputable newspaper or magazine?

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    Comment #17343521

    i thought we already solved that; it's called journalism just read the economist or NYT or whatever you like and stfu instead of thinking you're going to somehow to a better job ga…

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    Comment #17343509

    I wish more people talked about this

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    Comment #17331055

    If you're remembered primarily for doing great philanthropic things in a few decades I'll buy it. Til then you're just a billionaire who went to India and likes to say stuff, in my…