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  1. > "It lets everyone know it's safe to ignore you" is a personal attack.

    No, it's a general attack on anyone that cites horseshit.

  2. I "attacked" pop econ bullshit, not a person.
  3. > ad hominem

    Hardly-

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

    > Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"),[1] short for argumentum ad hominem, typically refers to a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.

    You failed at the "genuine discussion" part by citing pop econ horseshit.

  4. Thank you for the last bit about Freakonomics- it lets everyone know it's safe to ignore you.
  5. No, no one above "director" is doing shit, if that.

    The customers are paying for it, if only in future higher prices.

    Wipe that polish off your face before speaking bootlicker.

  6. > They're flying

    Grunts are, the executive staff, directors, and share holders ain't doin' shit.

  7. If any profit goes to the employees, I'm on board.
  8. > 2,3,4) A judge could reasonably find that you were attempting to circumvent the law and declare all of these as “bot”.

    Unless you were disabled and using assistive technology.

  9. Add 2018 to the title please.
  10. > Yes, but why Jefferson

    Because they thought Jeffersons thoughts on the matter were relevant.

    > Why not Arglebargle?

    Because I know what that word means.

    > Or me?

    Because "lisper central banks" doesn't produce any meaningful results in a search engine.

    > I have musings on the topic of central banks, would you like to hear them?

    Sure.

  11. No- they just told you to read Jeffersons musings on the topic of central banks.
  12. > Also, Radvocate, wondering if you can address the PII concerns other's have raised, as that is a very big deal.

    For credit cards at least, you aren't giving any more information to them than you would any random website where you make a purchase.

    Less, even, as there's no expiration date or CVV.

  13. I hold PoA for my father- what's the best way, using this form, to say they're his accounts, but I'm the one filing the letter on his behalf?
  14. I'm not even old, but a mat on the floor has given me the soundest sleep.

    YMMV if you're not an on-the-back sleeper.

  15. They can also cut players.

    The closest a math teacher can do is give the minimum necessary grade for the student to move on to the next class at the end of the year.

  16. Math isn't context free. Neither are most/all human languages. Yet we communicate succesfeully (within some margin of error).
  17. > but I do have bookcases of read and pending math books in the living room.

    That doesn't really tell me much.

  18. My mistake- I finished that article with the impression that there was a more general "book desert" than just an absence of small book stores.
  19. Accumulated error creates an gap, rift between the true answer and the computed answer.
  20. Why isn't there a library?
  21. > Serious question: does this spell doom for people with ADHD?

    Caveat: undergrad in math, working on a part time coursework masters (I'm hoping to talk someone into being my advisor for a part time thesis)

    No more so than any other academic subject.

    If anything, I've found math more friendly to my ADHD than philosophy, literature, etc.

  22. This is more or less why I fell into mathematics.

    I eventually learned I have ADHD, which definitely explained why I couldn't keep up with the reading and writing workload in the philosophy and literature courses.

  23. Between ebooks and my local public library, I purged my entire personal (physical) library.
  24. Your dad should've been presented with help because he needed it, not because there was some un-mined surplus value.

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