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SummerlyMars

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    Comment #36003312

    I'd say adblock (or maybe some other extension) - it works fine for me in Firefox.

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    Comment #35121541

    There's no mention of facial recognition or even webcam usage in the link. Yeah, it'd be gross if they were doing this, but... they aren't? It sounds like barely more than a chat a…

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    Comment #32396735

    It's a joke about the term 'enlightenment' coming from a Zen saying: https://buddhism.stackexchange.com/questions/15921/what-is-t...

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    Comment #30107972

    > To the people downvoting me: what SHOULD happen to people who knowingly lie and accuse an innocent person of raping them when they later admit it was entirely fabricated? Does it…

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    Comment #27761978

    Should enough people use it, it'll be yeeted into the dictionary and cease being a meme word. Language is like a living thing, it grows and changes. Honestly, I'm on board with 'ye…

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    Comment #27325881

    Can you elaborate a bit on what this would look like?

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    Comment #26566620

    As of Node 14.8, you can use await at the top level. In previous versions (not sure for how long), it was hidden behind a flag. https://nodejs.org/en/blog/release/v14.8.0/

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    Comment #26501249

    It wasn't for me on desktop. There was a popup asking me to subscribe with a close button that took a bit for me to spot though.

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    Comment #26309191

    > He currently has fears that his turning away from religion may have been a mistake and that he could be damned to hell for this. He also fears punishment for compulsive masturbat…

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    Comment #26262481

    > I experienced this when I was climbing in competitive games. The first step was to get over the 'not my fault' mentality and transition to an 'I need to improve' mentality. I beg…

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    Comment #26249375

    > I reject the entire idea of the concept that using a word makes you a member of some group and thus permits a word-reader to infer some information about you. That's just bias, s…

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    Comment #26246753

    This is something that's been on my mind for years. Some words or turns of phrase identify you as a member of a group[1]. If someone has any amount of hostility to that group, then…

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    Comment #26088044

    Bad UX (for some definition of bad) may be subjective, but that doesn't mean money won't affect it. Suppose we want to optimize user productivity. For any given UX, some users will…

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    Comment #26084574

    Thank you for your translation. That helps to clear up the meaning, and was much clearer than the sentence in question. That said, I don't believe it invalidates my criticism, as i…

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    Comment #26081523

    >It's hard to believe that there are still people writing the old "post-modernist philosophers are bad for civilization!" rant. As someone on the outside of philosophy as a discipl…

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    Comment #26081310

    It's still difficult to parse. If I replace the parts that I don't understand with variables, I get > The move from a in which is understood to structure brought the question of te…

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    Comment #26004878

    > Society is basically brainwashed into believing everyone has free will. The result is that people with the most capital prosper and I assume the foregoing wouldn't be the case if…

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    Comment #25885305

    Someone started Trudeaumetre[1] for Canada after the 2015 election. It's a similar format, though from a quick look, I'm not sure it's been updated since late 2019 (their Patreon l…

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    Comment #25862856

    A former coworker of mine went to work there, and my immediate thought upon learning of this was "The download site?" It turns out they're doing pretty well for themselves. They mi…

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    Comment #25778241

    > I think there is always a temptation, a danger, for those of us in STEM careers to hold our own feelings and emotions (not to mention those of others) in contempt, as if they are…

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    Comment #25760985

    Same for me, on Firefox 84. Looking at the console, it seems to be coming from the Phaser audio library ('t is undefined', stack trace to a minified file).

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    Comment #25559901

    Make sure to listen to Hemispheres (from the album of the same name) afterward. It continues the plot of the song and extends it with the 'god of balance' stuff the parent mentione…

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    Comment #25304533

    For what it's worth, I think your contributions are important and you're a valuable member of this community. You've got a different perspective from many of the users of this site…

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    Comment #25290237

    Why would physicists investigate that?