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Comment #46580823
No, it's simple. If you get a passport in "annexed" Venezuela, it would be a US passport. It would be a US territory similar to Puerto Rico which is part of the US. Passport is jus…
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Comment #46141580
usually either use Grok to optimize a mistral prompt, or you can use gemini to optimize a chatGPT prompt. It's best to keep those pairs of AIs and not cross streams!
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Comment #46128309
Nominally - although perhaps more often barking and not serious - is if you're a super duper qualified US citizen, you either can find a job there, or, you sue the company for disc…
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Comment #46081289
also a sense of broken promises to the CTOs fault javascript coder joined taking the company's statement in good faith "everything will be javascript, the front and back end both" …
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Comment #46079619
hello I like terramaster if you're looking for budget. software is a bit potato (it's all there, and you can install apps, just 7-8/10 polished, not 10/10), hardware build quality …
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Comment #46064242
>Why would they need to coordinate to keep the price from dropping during a spike in demand? They wouldn't you're right. But I would expect for them to follow the sorts of behavior…
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Comment #46019688
And the two combined present an enormous ethical challenge but also enormous potential - radioactive spiders imbuing superpowers upon humans they might bite, magical ooze creating …
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Comment #45974934
It's a simple catch-22 - women don't want to leave the workforce because one salary cannot support a family - yet women remaining in the workforce, since single-salary is infeasibl…
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Comment #45974871
>Who is going to be buying the products and services if no-one has money to throw around? Let me answer your question with another question - if the population pyramid is inverted …
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Comment #45974496
> This is a change in behavior. I agree with this and believe it due to something parallel to the India litter crisis. In india people may freely throw garbage anywhere. Because ga…
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Comment #45974466
I'm less scared of the hoster pulling down your site - not the end of the world - then decided to charge you bandwidth fees for all the MS-DOS attacks. The former presumably has no…
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Comment #45949267
1) epigenetic inheritance is just if a horse stretches its neck to reach up high, so to do that horses children and their children, and so on, until you end up with a giraffe 2) ye…
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Comment #45948840
Also see that great '80s movie with "Iceman" from Top Gun aka Val Kilmer and that creepy dude from Apocalypse Now aka Marlon Brando together in an '80s remake of The Isle. That par…
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Comment #45948708
>(he described it as a slow motion bullet shot from a movie, landing in something/someone and then flashing the one frame, presumably the intention being "haha, get shot with the c…
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Comment #45811705
> but every second you waste thinking about revenge is a second the bully won another time. It's also another second you are not dedicating for the people you love and care. I agre…
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Comment #45778328
Guys, guys, I don't think we're on the same page here. The conversation I'm trying to have is "stop mutating all the dynamic self-modifying code, it's jamming things up". The conce…
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Comment #45627186
> where do we actually hit diminishing returns with clock precision? ah yes - that would be Planck's second which can be derived from Planck's constant and the speed of light
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Comment #45624618
it's called the slow sirol in my circles
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Comment #45600488
another point worth mentioning is some substances the body cannot synthesize: vitamins, amino acids. cholesterol.. cholesterol is not one of them. the body happily synthesizes as m…
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Comment #45397335
>But then who brought god into existance? Sam, Elon, Zuck, choose your favourite