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Marriage turns genius off like a tap.

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Re: Marriage turns genius off like a tap.

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Post by yters »

huherto wrote: post #52
malkia wrote: post #9

Seems like a good material of the Divorce Magazine (www.divorcemag.com)... Now what the hell is that... The other I walk in the BestBuy and see this free magazine, fuckin divorce lawyers and shit... And fuck the geniuses life! My wife born me a beautiful son, he's already 45 days, the hell with geniuses and their lives...

Why the downmodes? malkia is just so happy about his new son that everything else (including being a genius) seems unimportant.

Agreed, being a genius doesn't matter in a vacuum (a point RMS apparently doesn't get).

Re: Marriage turns genius off like a tap.

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Post by flashgordon »

pg wrote: post #35
jonnytran wrote: post #27

PG, any thoughts on this? Are you married? And dare I ask, are you celibate? ...No pressure, of course. It's a touchy subject to some. I ask because you're more successful than most of us here, and I know of many people who claim that celibacy is crucial to doing anything great with your life, for whatever your definition of great is. Scientific evidence is hard to come by though, and even still, most people don't se…

I'm not married yet. Engaged though. I wonder if this study controlled for children. From what I've seen, having kids affects people's lives a lot more than getting married.

at which age will the little-uns be inspired towards ycombinator, Paul? :D

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Post by aston »

pg wrote: post #35
jonnytran wrote: post #27

PG, any thoughts on this? Are you married? And dare I ask, are you celibate? ...No pressure, of course. It's a touchy subject to some. I ask because you're more successful than most of us here, and I know of many people who claim that celibacy is crucial to doing anything great with your life, for whatever your definition of great is. Scientific evidence is hard to come by though, and even still, most people don't se…

I'm not married yet. Engaged though. I wonder if this study controlled for children. From what I've seen, having kids affects people's lives a lot more than getting married.

Funny that no one's asked "to whom?".

I have a guess, though.

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Post by barry-cotter »

randomhack wrote: post #53
nkohari wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm also working on a startup with my wife as cofounder. We haven't launched yet, but her skillset is a fantastic complement to mine. I'm a very strategic thinker, whereas she's a great tactician and good at organization. She's also brilliant (Ph.D. student in I/O psychology), which is one of the reasons I married her. :) I think that most couples aren't capable of running a business together, but I also think we're…

uhh .. what is I/O psychology? maybe there is some obvious abbreviation that I am missing. but I/O .. well to a programmer that is always input-output and I am having a hard time thinking about what psychology might be involved in reading/writing to disks for instance.

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