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8y ago
I've never tried l-theanine at all, so I'll try this. Thanks!
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I tried lots of nootropics as a young adult too, with no effect as well. Coffee doesn't help me focus by itself, quite the opposite actually. I wish it did because I LOVE coffee. I don't know what's wrong with me, since plent
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I like this. Kind of feels like a web page processed by Readability. Has anyone read his book?
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My insurance was billed $8000 for an MRI and paid out $7000. I was only responsible for $500, but it was really upsetting because I'd had one before and only had to pay $50. The high cost came from the facility being on hospital ground
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How can you recognize evil if you are not evil?
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You can call them whatever you want to. Judge them based on their actions and behavior. It's not about liking or disliking anyone.
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I loved every Blizzard game as a kid. Warcraft 2, Diablo 1, Starcraft, Diablo 2, Warcraft 3, and then WoW. I can't stress enough how much of my life was consumed by Blizzard games. Warcraft 2 was one of the very first games I ever owne
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I read a great write-up about this effect that you're describing, sadly I can't find it right now. There's an implicit social contract that sociopaths/narcissists/borderlines circumvent. People expect other people t
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>In general, you will be the one in ten, or even a hundred that tend to pick up on these things. Being raised by one, dating one, then obsessively reading about personality disorders for a few days after learning about them helps a lot w
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>The only people that should be using the word sociopath to describe the behavior of others are people in the field of mental health care. Why diagnose people? Call them out on behavior that pisses you off, deal with it in an assertive m
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>Any marginally successful group attracts sociopaths Not just sociopaths, all of the Cluster B personality disorders.
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Do you have any links to what you buy? I'd like to try some.
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8y ago
Please no ircoin.
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8y ago
Interesting, I'm curious to know what kind of speeddating events/services/apps are out there. I've never used any.
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8y ago
I really like this concept OP. I think your biggest non-technical hurdle is going to be dealing with the classic issue of there simply being significantly less women than men. I'm curious to know how you plan to approach that after you
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I have a few Rails gigs listed on my linkedin from years ago, and I constantly get recruiter messages looking to fill RoR positions despite not having used it for years. I've been told by the recruiters that I chat with that senior Rai
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8y ago
>Do companies write checks to plumbers of $100,000 I imagine a big enough job would easily clear $100k...
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Yesterday's young (and today's old) make it hard for future generations. Are you defending that?
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>For this great convenience, Amazon can now pretty much gull every mayor in America into selling their schools, transportation systems, birthrights, etc., in order to draw 50,000 tech employees — among the least beloved specimens of huma
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>I assert that inventors and inventions need not be shackled to their origin. How did you get the idea that I disagree with this?
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8y ago
The current context of this discussion is the primary driving force behind technological innovation, you seem to be addressing a different context entirely.
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Modern computing only exists because of wartime codebreaking and artillery calculations. This reddit post is a good writeup on the latter: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3kbt3w/was_a...
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8y ago
Capitalism demands limitless growth, and ultimately that means leaving the planet. Colonizing the moon is the first major step.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't there a lack of proper regulation for organic food products? The USDA fine is "only" $11,000 -- that's nothing for major distributors. I've always heard that it's impossi
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>The Amish use us as an experiment. They watch what happens when we adopt new technology, and then decide whether that’s something they want to adopt themselves. I asked one Amish person why they didn’t use automobiles. He simply smiled
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8y ago
Those mostly weren't millennials, they were gen X libertarians. The ones that held long enough to make some real money, anyways. I know one millennial who mined a bunch of BTC when it first came out, and then sold all of it when it fir
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>backdoor reference check Anyone know a good place to do one of these on myself? I have an infraction on record (traffic ticket) that apparently shows up as a misdemeanor in at least one database. I found this out during my Global Entry
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>I think the book suffers from the same issue as many other books in the science fiction genre: there's so much focus on developing the setting that the characters are underdeveloped and seem very generic. I'm okay with this be
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>Most undergrad engineering worth its salt will require an ethics course and humanities classes broaching the topic. Someone I knew in college made bank writing papers for engineers' in those ethics courses.
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What makes you say that? I would be surprised if anyone who has sat on more than $10 million USD of crypto at any point in the past few years didn't cash out a substantial portion of it.
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