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mng2 on Sept 26, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Fictional peer reviews rejecting famous papers (20...

Then instead of "I have solved", you should say "I have proposed solutions to."

fargolime on Sept 26, 2012 [–]

I said the equivalent: "I have solved...or so I claim".

geoffschmidt on Sept 26, 2012 | [–]

In fact, that (and your other parenthetical about how having worked on something for 10 years doesn't mean it's valuable) is why I took the time to reply to you above.

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