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TristanDaCunha

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    Comment #47016113

    Should stop and help with neovim

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    Comment #45081471

    Same result on Firefox mobile

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    Comment #44460054

    This whole discussion on caching and abstraction was completely befuddling to me.

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    Comment #41205822

    > The vast majority of the criminal activity has been on the "counter-protesters" who actually showed up. Your source supports the notion that the counter-protests were better atte…

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    Comment #39369320

    This reply doesn't help me at all

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    Comment #36124679

    You have it totally backwards. It's a much bigger catastrophe if we over-focus on "safety" as avoiding sexism and so on, and then everyone dies.

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    Comment #36124663

    > AI can only be as destructive as the users let it. Not really, I suppose you aren't familiar with AI alignment.

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    Comment #36124650

    Many of the signatories aren't associated with any corporation.

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    Comment #32354322

    Well this is a more complex case which includes combining negation with quotation and punctuation marks. I'll bet those factors explain why it didn't work.

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    Comment #27781706

    > Using @cached_property feels like a bad code smell and it’s a controversial design decision Why?

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    Comment #24817548

    What methodology do you envision for this project?

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    Comment #24474390

    Well I'm not willing to provide any proof of my identity, so you have no reason to take what I say as legitimate. Indeed, I've seen lengthy posts of utter nonsense from others who …

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    Comment #24473584

    Disclosure: I worked at Cambridge Analytica. Cambridge Analytica were accused of taking data mainly on what pages users 'Liked' - not private messages or news feed. (Unless you hav…

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    Comment #24307524

    > Google "European growth stocks". This short sentence contains irony.

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    Comment #24090785

    I was looking for a second opinion, and found the comment by Glenn in that article was a good counterpoint. I won't repeat it here, but another point that comes to mind is that one…

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    Comment #23930713

    Highly counterinuitive.

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    Comment #23869469

    I gratefully accept the information of your post, but I don't think it manages to make the intended point. Notice how many times you used the word "should", which was never a consi…

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    Comment #23830292

    So weird -- when did we all decide to start saying "I was laying in bed" instead of "I was lying in bed"? I have noticed this shift over the past few years. Laying has always been …

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    Comment #23813793

    > Slavery was long gone and finished when master/slave began being used in computer science. I don't disagree with your conclusion, but this is such an America-centric statement. S…

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    Comment #23663841

    I think there might be a mistake in this article, or at least something requiring clarification. > For convenience, suppose the binary tree is complete and has height H=2^K. What i…

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    Comment #22759473

    In pneumonia, areas of the lungs fill with fluid. This prevents the area from filling with air, which therefore prevents the exchange of CO2 and O2 between the blood and air. I wil…

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    Comment #22539593

    Yeah, the Guardian was actually interested in the story because they were mislead by the statements of the CEO of CA and by Christopher Wylie into believing that CA was involved in…

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    Comment #22529085

    >FB investigated CA to make sure they deleted the data, in turn out CA lied and hid copies of the data. That's not true - they had deleted the data as requested. I worked there.

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    Comment #22254574

    If you make a lot of money, almost certainly the best thing you can do is earning to give¹. Your impact would be far greater again if you were to donate towards any cause other tha…

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    Comment #22090247

    Okay, thanks for the clarification. I do understand why the article hasn't touched upon this, since it's just an attempt to diagnose the pattern seen in the overall male subpopulat…