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mcappleton
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Comment #15198788
If you read the reasons for avoiding chess, they are actually quite good. For example, he says if you do brain work, playing chess takes mental energy away from your work. The arti…
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Comment #15000157
You people really do have a powerful imagination, a fantasy that simply will not die. How you all insist against all science and reason that men and women are the same in the brain…
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Comment #14953927
Why does it all have to be equal? Why can't we acknowledge that men and women have different strengths and weaknesses in different areas? The whole point of diversity is not to mak…
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Comment #14952968
He stood up for the truth. Sure he got fired, but he did a good thing and we all benefit. He's like tank man who stood up to the Chinese. Sure they killed him, but we honor people …
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Comment #14952954
May I remind you that the Russians were the first to space? Also that they created the biggest bomb in history? Also Hitler's top aids all had very high IQs. The problem with peopl…
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Comment #14952919
Lol denying reality to support your fantasy is pretty lame too
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Comment #14952856
He's a good man. I'm sorry to hear google is such a hypocritical company. They preach "tolerance" and yet destroy those who fall out of line from their ideology. They'd make great …
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Comment #14952228
Women don't go into tech because they don't like it. Boys like legos, girls like dolls. Sure there are occasional tomboys but the fact is most girls just don't like engineering.
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Comment #14951622
How can you even say that? They were peacefully living when the insane Japanese killed thousands of Americans, and were preparing to invade the USA? It was fight or be killed. So i…
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Comment #14951453
Ok so you literally think that it's better to have 500k Americans killed than 250k Japanese, when the Japanese attacked us. And you consider defending yourself terrori sm??? How ar…
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Comment #14951376
Another way to think about it is this. How many American soldiers would be killed in the invasion? The American soldiers who would invade are every bit as innocent as the women and…
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Comment #14947385
Something you think could make a million bucks. That will give you motivation to finish!
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Comment #14947323
If you don't understand CPU cycles, your application might get a teeny bit slower. If you don't understand security, your application could get hacked! It's definitely nice to have…
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Comment #14945389
Honestly, I don't think there is a real shortcut for in depth knowledge of how secure authentication should work. I think if your going to be writing a program with authentication,…
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Comment #14944699
the guy said that the differences don't matter. I was asking him to back that assertion up.
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Comment #14944283
You can thank the welfare state for this. Thomas Sowell, a black economist attributes the problems of the black community today to the breakdown of the black family which is a dire…
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Comment #14943887
I feel like this is just tempting the government to ban cryptocurrency outright.
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Comment #14943841
For thousands of years men have run society and women have been homemakers. We are biologically wired with those roles in our DNA. Today we are trying to upset those roles, and It …
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Comment #14942999
It crazy how much flak someone can get from stating the obvious.
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Comment #14942975
I love it when people like that are so kind to kids. That makes a big impact on them. Kudos to the guys at NASA.
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Comment #14942966
I kind of feel like entering the space race requires building a rocket, not paying someone else to launch your satellite.
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Comment #14942495
If they were searching for a male CEO it would be sexist. If they are searching for a female CEO, it's great!
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Comment #14942443
>Yes, there are cognitive difference, but it doesn't matter. Do you have any evidence to back up this claim? You make a lot of assertions that I think these guys scientific experim…
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Comment #14941704
Lol my favorite part was the fire in the text box when there's an error
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Comment #14941689
You don't have to. I sometimes feel similarly to you. I dropped out of college and am so happy I did. In high school my parents pushed me so hard. In college I was doing honors goi…