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Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 12 July 2015 02:06:10PM 1 point [-]

X is really hard to express (in general, or for you in particular) and on these occasions you have not been successful. So, while the other people could have understood X, they haven't yet had it explained clearly enough.

This is pretty much it, although I'm frustrated at the sheer lack of engagement.

I think you are simply incorrect to say that no one who disagreed with you in the Dust Theory thread actually understands Dust Theory.

I didn't say that, I said that no one understood my specific argument and that a few just didn't understand Dust Theory.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 July 2015 01:59:19AM 1 point [-]

I haven't seen you change your mind once in this entire thread.

Comment author: Eitan_Zohar 13 July 2015 02:07:52AM *  1 point [-]

I'm sorry, I've tried to be as open as possible to different forms of help.

Comment author: [deleted] 13 July 2015 09:06:56PM *  6 points [-]

From an outside view, I wouldn't take the time to offer my advice on this thread - I would feel that my advice would simply be shot down with the first objection that pops into your head.

When I make a thread like this asking for help, the first thing I do is set a time to try out the best piece of advice I get, even if I think that all the advice is awful. Not only does it encourage people to help me in the future, but just maybe I'll find out through experimentation that my untested assumptions were wrong.

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