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rumblerob

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    Comment #41457263

    I'm all for mind-blowing books, but this manic search for The Optimally Life-Changing Set of Books mostly just sounds like a great way to leach all the pleasure from reading.

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    Comment #34390283

    I think the headline is a mild pun on the book The Joy of Sex: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Joy_of_Sex Sets really only get mentioned once in passing; the article is more a ge…

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    Comment #9922835

    I've tried melatonin, cutting out alcohol, f.lux, not looking at a screen for an hour before bed, but the one thing that has had the most influence on my sleep (for the better) is …

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    Comment #3320322

    I'll just leave this here. http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/uuad4vm7n

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    Comment #321429

    Fun to: guess what the map was representing, then scroll down to see if I was even close.

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    Comment #182821

    For the first few "lessons" I thought he was making an analogy to computers, with the students as individual bits. Great, we're trained to be automatons.

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    Comment #162211

    Even if cans were worth a dollar apiece, six dollars would be worth much more than a 6-pack. Cash is considerably more liquid -- you can't walk into J.C. Penney and trade a few 6-p…

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    Comment #157603

    Anyone else concerned with zellunit posting a link from zellunit.com? Or does that happen a lot around here? Legitimate question.

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    Comment #154722

    Right. It's strange how he has to back it up with (don't), too. "Doing this is like doing a really bad thing, which by the way you shouldn't do."

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    Comment #151667

    Someone should tell them that their "VI Gang Sign" is a pretty close analogue of the Shocker. (Not that that couldn't be a convincing argument to learn vi...)