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trentmb

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    Comment #20959630

    > "It lets everyone know it's safe to ignore you" is a personal attack. No, it's a general attack on anyone that cites horseshit.

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    Comment #20959489

    I "attacked" pop econ bullshit, not a person.

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    Comment #20959485

    > ad hominem Hardly- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem > Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"),[1] short for argumentum ad hominem, typically refers to a fallacious argumen…

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    Comment #20958824

    Thank you for the last bit about Freakonomics- it lets everyone know it's safe to ignore you.

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    Comment #20902321

    No, no one above "director" is doing shit, if that. The customers are paying for it, if only in future higher prices. Wipe that polish off your face before speaking bootlicker.

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    Comment #20902025

    > They're flying Grunts are, the executive staff, directors, and share holders ain't doin' shit.

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    Comment #20901255

    If any profit goes to the employees, I'm on board.

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    Comment #20360210

    > 2,3,4) A judge could reasonably find that you were attempting to circumvent the law and declare all of these as “bot”. Unless you were disabled and using assistive technology.

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    Comment #20304761

    Add 2018 to the title please.

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    Comment #20216473

    > Yes, but why Jefferson Because they thought Jeffersons thoughts on the matter were relevant. > Why not Arglebargle? Because I know what that word means. > Or me? Because "lisper …

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    Comment #20216101

    No- they just told you to read Jeffersons musings on the topic of central banks.

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    Comment #20163081

    > Also, Radvocate, wondering if you can address the PII concerns other's have raised, as that is a very big deal. For credit cards at least, you aren't giving any more information …

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    Comment #20163036

    I hold PoA for my father- what's the best way, using this form, to say they're his accounts, but I'm the one filing the letter on his behalf?

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    Comment #19895142

    I'm not even old, but a mat on the floor has given me the soundest sleep. YMMV if you're not an on-the-back sleeper.

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    Comment #19892827

    They can also cut players. The closest a math teacher can do is give the minimum necessary grade for the student to move on to the next class at the end of the year.

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    Comment #19830717

    Math isn't context free. Neither are most/all human languages. Yet we communicate succesfeully (within some margin of error).

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    Comment #19830003

    > but I do have bookcases of read and pending math books in the living room. That doesn't really tell me much.

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    Comment #19765710

    My mistake- I finished that article with the impression that there was a more general "book desert" than just an absence of small book stores.

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    Comment #19764839

    Accumulated error creates an gap, rift between the true answer and the computed answer.

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    Comment #19759310

    Why isn't there a library?

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    Comment #19735722

    > Serious question: does this spell doom for people with ADHD? Caveat: undergrad in math, working on a part time coursework masters (I'm hoping to talk someone into being my adviso…