TheComedian

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by TheComedian 14y ago
> Joe didn't care whether his kid was in Princeton or Harvard, > as long as it was one of them. And oddly enough, JFK went to both Princeton and Harvard. He attended Princeton for six weeks before getting ill and withdrawing and the
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by TheComedian 14y ago
Agreed, 1% body fat is extremely dangerous and your body does not have enough fat for it to go about its normal processes. It is certainly not sustainable for any period of time. Professional bodybuilders have trouble getting down to ~3% bo
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by TheComedian 14y ago
You seem to assume that the pattern of top submissions and top comments is unrelated to what users post. It seems to me that as quality of the top submissions and top comments improves, the quality of the worst submissions and comments will
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by TheComedian 14y ago
My understanding is that academia is very competitive, so I don't understand how you are only going to work 9 hours a week. Further, you'll probably have classes to teach which surely take up more than 9 hours a week. Also, since tenure is
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by TheComedian 14y ago
I think you can certainly make an argument for military spending in terms of the side benefits associated with developing any complex technology, but I don't think the societal cost of increased militarization justifies military spending.
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by TheComedian 14y ago
I did not find that comment condescending, though I expected to when he mentioned that he was going to explain how the budget worked. In fact, the thing that struck me while reading the entirety of the piece was how well he advocated for hi
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by TheComedian 14y ago
Though I understand that you aren't denying the placebo effect, I'm confused about why you feel that a large amount of the placebo effect is due to bias. After all, most drug trials are double-blinded and placebo controlled, so surely in th
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by TheComedian 14y ago
This is actually under debate. There is disagreement among neuroscientists whether intelligence is a result of brain modularity (specific regions of the brains optimized for certain tasks), or due to brain size alone. All that said, I'm ske
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by TheComedian 14y ago
This assertion is groundless. Why would Moore's law accelerate? In fact, Moore's law is currently decelerating and gains are increasingly harder to find. Further, Moore's law says nothing about computational speed, but only the density of t
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by TheComedian 14y ago
Monier died in 1906, so I doubt it.