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Comment Re:I know it is a bit late in life... (Score 1) 186

I manage to completely forget all those moves I foresaw so brilliantly, and make the absolute worst possible move I could have made instead.

In chess thats called Kotov Syndrome

In Kotov's 1971 book Think Like a Grandmaster, he described a situation when a player thinks very hard for a long time in a complicated position but does not find a clear path, then running low on time quickly makes a poor move, often a blunder.

Comment Re:I know it is a bit late in life... (Score 1) 186

I once lost a game of chess to a guy who was partially stoned

Probably because he was stoned. The downsides to being high, as it relates to chess, can be managed.. while the upside remains.

(the downside is that you are more prone to overlook things, the upside is that you can focus quite well on specific things.. "wide" vs "deep")

Comment Re:I know it is a bit late in life... (Score 1) 186

as a kid I enjoyed chess and played with my friends right up to the point where you suddenly had to start memorizing openings and other canned sequences.

The world champion doesnt do this... prior champions certainly have but the current one isnt looking hard for an advantage in the opening...

Comment Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel (Score -1, Troll) 517

the devil is in the details:

Yes, such as the 50,000 studies they "use" annually.

Thats 137 studies 'used" per day.

I guess common sense doesnt figure into your view of things sine you quoted the part where this is detailed, but failed to notice how ridiculous this is.

Comment Re:Lots of weird crap coming out of Congress latel (Score 2, Insightful) 517

From the article:

"The bills, introduced by a mostly Republican cast of sponsors in both the House and the Senate, would require that EPA use only publicly available, reproducible data in writing regulations and seek to remake the membership and procedures of the agency’s science advisory panels."

The president plans to veto common sense.

Comment Re:Attack the messenger... (Score 1) 394

If his papers are fine then why did he not disclose his funding source?

Prove that he didnt. Currently, all there are are claims that he didn't under the premise that sometimes he is funded by X but in some papers he doesnt say that he is funded by X.

25 years ago I collected unemployment or a few months, which is why I am now disclosing that this post was funded by unemployment insurance. Also, its funded by the lottery administration because once I had a $4 winner. Not to omit anything, my current employer is also funding this post, and lets not forget that my friend paid for dinner the other night.

Sure, none of that actually funded this post, but then apparently you dont have to prove that they did in order to damn me.

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