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by asdflkj 18y ago
Nor is the "The Board", if they have to include books that obviously none of them have read. Has anyone read Principia Mathematica in the last 70 years? Should anyone have?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
If porn speaks to your "animal core self", I envy you. It stopped doing that to me around age 15.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Actually, people are going to understand, because they'll have grown up in the world of MySpace and cellphones themselves. To a generation still alive, it would be unthinkable to admit in public that one has smoked pot and "read" Playboys
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by asdflkj 18y ago
The whole world would probably enjoy much higher standard of living than we do now. Do a thought experiment, and remove any 1st-world nation from the world, and see whether it would help or hurt everyone else. In my mind, it would hurt ever
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by asdflkj 18y ago
How do you single-handedly prove wrong a statement like "it helps a lot to have a cofounder"?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
His whole point is that "it will come back again" because it runs in the background of your mind, taking up resources that could be used for better things.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Unlike sugar-rich foods, though, potatoes don't contain many calories for how filling they are. That's the problem with nutrition science as it is currently practiced (or rather, as it is currently used by non-scientists). Its conclusions a
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Yeah, my bad. Still, isn't Adderall prescribed for ADD almost exclusively these days?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Sure, you can learn something, but will that something be worth the effort? That's the $64k question here, and I believe the answer for most people is "no." Being alone sucks, but before you kill the pain with the companionship of idiots, y
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Have you tried drugs? Go to a shrink and convince him you have ADD (and who knows--maybe you do). All drugs for ADD are amphetamines, so it may take a fair bit of convincing before you get a prescription. Not much finesse in that (possible)
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by asdflkj 18y ago
There is no need to redefine the word "smart" in order to make your point. We already have a word for that: "good". Good at talking to girls, changing tires, etc.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Which newspaper?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
I've read a few decent Wired articles, but none as good as this one or the Mazda-ship one. Do you remember any of the "etc", perchance?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
What are some other good design blogs?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
People do regularly choose not to immigrate to a richer country because of similar reasons.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
What's the point of having a logo in a programming language?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
You are conflating two separate things--the physical need to ejaculate, and the much more powerful and complicated need to have a woman. Masturbation satisfies the former, but it has only a very weak and brief effect on the latter.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Furthermore, what were you expecting from a guy who defended Intelligent Design not so long ago?
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Astrology.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
So if the outcome of the slot machine is determined by the outcomes of other slot machines in the casino, then the slot machine ceases to be a game of chance? It seems to me that if you define randomness in any way besides "involves no skil
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by asdflkj 18y ago
You already know with high probability when you're gonna die. If anything, living indefinitely (or giving yourself a chance thereof) takes you farther from knowing when you're gonna die.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
The fact that it is the very finiteness of life that makes it valuable in the first place. Just because Steve Jobs said it doesn't mean it's a fact, you know.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Someone who can see the slot machine's internals and understands how it works will be able to predict the outcome, so in that sense it's not "truly" random. The reason it's still legally random is that it's as good as random from the point
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Tobacco causes severe side effects which get progressively worse before the "big stuff" kicks in. That's a pretty good cue that you're poisoning yourself. Not so with Provigil.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
If you sell half as much stuff as others, it means you're costing the store customers, because presumably you approached close to the same number of customers as the other sales agents approached, but more of your customers decided to take
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Sure there will be opt-out. If drugs double your productivity, then a non-user's salary will be half of a user's salary, and no less than that. That's just basic economics. Which is as it should be. They create double the wealth; they get d
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by asdflkj 18y ago
No drug stays in development for 20 years (AFAIK), so the risk of nasty side-effects after 20 years is there with all newish drugs. And in practice, how often does that turn out to be a problem? In my understanding, almost never. If you'r
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by asdflkj 18y ago
Because you don't need to write a lot of boilerplate in Lisp, perhaps.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
It's sad because it shows stunning lack of curiosity. The reason to "get down in the muck" is because you'd want to, and the opportunity is right there.
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by asdflkj 18y ago
The idea that science should even come up with an "alternative" to that bullshit is an insult to science.

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