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BillSims

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    Comment #47208788

    I can't make a case for AI versus not AI versus bad human. I am not counting comments or flagged. I'm only counting the number of new articles in the last 24 hours that remain visi…

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    Comment #46749193

    Did anybody let https://haveibeenpwned.com/ know about this before the file was taken down?

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    Comment #46715861

    All the temporary or uncertain or impractical wishes are discarded because of your constraint. One satisfying wish would be when adults recognize that some 15 year olds do not have…

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    Comment #46333961

    A year or more ago some poor guy asked a simple SO or SE question. I studied that for a while, tried multiple carefully crafted Google queries until I found one that gave a good co…

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    Comment #42706315

    Does anyone know of a moderately cheap gadget that I could strap onto my head at night which would detect REM/non-REM sleep and that would trigger short bits of audio that I had pr…

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    Comment #41429685

    Different issue in Chrome scroll, probably not related. Win 10,32 bit,any of last dozens of updates to chrome if that matters. Open chrome. Left mouse click All Bookmarks. Tap up a…

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    Comment #41352678

    Be careful what you wish for. Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congenital_insensitivity_to_pa...

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    Comment #41301584

    Wow! Vinegar, either 2 tblsp raw or diluted 2 tblsp/cup, is vile. Which makes me wonder: 2 tblsp = 30 grams @ 5% = 1.5 grams acetic acid = 2 grams sodium acetate. Assuming sodium a…

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    Comment #41144260

    Could there be something like this, not a therapist, perhaps a live coach or mentor or an ai app, not directed at just the smaller task of dating, but directed at life and work and…

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    Comment #41142938

    https://oeis.org/search?q=945%2C1575%2C2205%2C2835%2C3465&la...

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    Comment #41104925

    I am guessing if you ask the people around you why they formed a group against you that they will likely not give you an honest helpful answer. Is there any chance that you could f…

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    Comment #39477228

    This "The team found that noise-induced hearing loss, which affects millions of Americans, stems from cellular damage in the inner ear that is associated with an excess of free-flo…

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    Comment #39230808

    Is there any chance someone at Microsoft is going to insert a CPU compatibility check before bug-patch-Tuesday force installs these on millions of machines? WindowsReport.com cauti…

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    Comment #39016032

    Many many many years ago I believe a very elderly friend of mine actually told me, or maybe they were told this by very elderly friends of theirs, that they and a couple of their f…

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    Comment #38875149

    I do see some results from a fairly long list of Google Alerts every day, some good, some not, so I don't think that Google Alerts have completely failed, at least not for me. I do…

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    Comment #38525923

    "How to tell that You know and a few don't and what you really need to do about that." The opening paragraph is "Likely you and your friends have a much better idea what the future…

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    Comment #38340461

    I continually get emails "thanks for signing up" where someone gave a fakename@gmail.com and they happened to pick my email id. Ah, the stories I could tell. I've spent years tryin…

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    Comment #38045644

    You might take at the book "Limitless Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life" by Jim Kwik. Read the 18 pages of chapter 1 and see whether you t…

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    Comment #37861444

    > An earlier version of this article misstated the unit of measurement used in the collection of tears.

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    Comment #37852262

    > and collected seven microlitres of my tears. Perhaps milliliters was a typo later corrected

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    Comment #37297805

    First I take responsibility for most of the failings listed here. Second self-help is a broad subject and I only pursue scrubbing some memories, getting a few frustrating tasks don…

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    Comment #36008049

    If someone with some experience would take a few moments to describe a "persona" and a behavior that would only take someone a few minutes every day to find and report a small rand…

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    Comment #34437353

    The book "The 5 Second Rule" by Mel Robbins has one single idea in it. Some of the example people she describes sound like they are in almost exactly your spot. The author has a co…

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    Comment #32040971

    I cannot remember who should get credit for this: rats=bad hair day in sewers and run down buildings versus squirrels=good hair day in the parks and trees, and the squirrels hired …