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"The only way you could access to information in an structured way is the way in which University teach concepts." "The real way to obtain information is to be helped with those th…

There is a lot more to political philosophy than "Is president X better than president Y?". Moreover, who's claiming that something has to be demonstrated as true? You find no valu…

Can all the philosophical disciplines verify their own answers? What about the social disciplines? Do you just ignore questions which aren't cleanly reducible to science or mathema…

University is "really not that hard" for who and where? If you want to answer the question "is university hard?" fairly (assuming that you can), you actually have to consider diffe…

"If you want the best people working at your company, you should want a group with similar demographics as the customer population" It's not the role of every single worker to deal…

"The explicitly stated purpose of Soylent is NOT to live on." That's an odd thing to say considering Rhinehart initially got all this attention because he was LIVING OFF OF IT. It'…

http://www.webmd.com/diet/phytonutrients-faq "More than 25,000 phytonutrients are found in plant foods. WebMD takes a look at these six important phytonutrients -- and their potent…

1. There are a lot of (nonessential) nutrients that you get from plants that you won't get from this drink. 2. Our idea of "everything the body needs" can change. 3. We don't know …

I have a passion for riding up hills.

"Leave graduate school to people from India and China, for whom the prospects at home are even worse." Even worse in terms of what?

Sweet color choice for Berkeley & Alameda.

You made a HN thread for your own reflection on another one of your posts that nobody responded to. Wow.

How do you get people to encourage each other if they don't care to begin with?

"Why didn't a classroom teacher do what he did? Because our system does not reward teacher innovation and trying new things." Because most people don't give a shit? Why doesn't eve…

"Everyone, even doctors, find a new food to demonize every few years, then flip and say it's the bet thing ever a decade later." Uh ya. New evidence comes to light, people change t…

Ah ok. Had no idea how far back people were expected to remember. A few days might be fine. A year seems crazy. Also I don't know why the author put prospective and retrospective i…

"News at 11: cancer is a natural occurrence." So what? Something being "natural" has no bearing on whether it is favorable or preventable. "You could exclusively eat prime quality …

I don't understand what's being reported on here. "The reason for the change was more thorough epidemiology. The earlier studies tended to be "retrospective," relying on people to …

I just told you: most analysis textbooks treat the topic in a nearly identical manner (maybe not in full generality). Do you want to dispute this? Why are you pretending like we're…

PoMA presents a mathematical approach that's done in countless other analysis textbooks. What people (students) hate is that the author makes leaps in his proofs. But that's not so…

A lot of university students are clueless about this sort of thing. If it's possible to complete the homework by just relying on lecture, then there's no reason to be reading the b…

What exactly are these "irrational beliefs"? Please enumerate them.

Not all educations are equal. Not all university educations are equal. And (the quality of an) education isn't strictly a function of one's character.

If you ask some professional mathematicians, individually, why it is they're researching what they're researching, I think the most common answer will be "because I think it's inte…