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    Comment #48932966

    That's kinda clever, and possibly something to consider for users who prefer an alternative to filing.

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    Comment #48932903

    Are there limits on what kinds of websites can request for a visitor's global ID information? Must a website direct the user to log into their MS account before it is able to get a…

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    Comment #45193628

    > (I’m a very early user, signed up before 2008, have 3TB of free lifetime storage from referrals and internship bonuses) I thought I had it lucky with my measly 25GB of lifetime s…

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    Comment #44100507

    Am eagerly anticipating the commercial availability of Mathpad. At the moment I'm using Espanso, an open source software that lets users map typed character sequences to unicode. S…

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    Comment #43387171

    As I understand it, for retail market participants, the concern of dark trading venues is at least twofold: 1. With some brokerages, retail orders are prioritized for dark venues o…

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    Comment #42940993

    It's not loading on my end, but I checked out the web archive version of it and have to say that this feels possibly quite fun and, dare I say, potentially addictive. Not sure if t…

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    Comment #42811937

    I've never thought about this – but it's quite the brilliant idea provided the user isn't someone prone to getting a heart attack from a jumpscare.

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    Comment #42722403

    This list is quite well-put. Also, for a large number of roles, people are judged by the net value that they've contributed (net of mistakes). In a pretty large subset of such role…

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    Comment #42336696

    would be helpful if I could get assistance with the paywall – I could be wrong, but I'm assuming a sizeable handful of commenters in this section managed to read this paywalled art…

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    Comment #41757572

    There's a related line of research that concerns computer vision models and optical illusions.

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    Comment #41595358

    I just wanna say I like the idea and I think you're (OP) right on the mark on there being people who prefer communicating by voice in an informal setting instead of using text. Voi…

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    Comment #41517900

    > And ultimately I think being a chef is one of the hardest jobs to motivate people because there’s no lure of a giant paycheck or bonus or stock options. You’re really trying to t…

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    Comment #40332728

    Enjoyed playing around the visualization to get a better mental picture of Earth's neighborhood. it's mind-blowing to know that there are 200 to 400 billion stars just in our galax…

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    Comment #40052716

    Very nice. I wish I could do this sort of scroll story in my digital notes. Is this done with a javascript library?

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    Comment #38428904

    Similar to how people are intelligent in different ways, we too may be less-smart-than-the-average in different ways.

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    Comment #37944616

    this made me spit out my morning coffee. ugh.

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    Comment #37159407

    I'd like to second this. Bonus points if a magnet were included so that the sample could be "levitated" over it. This is definitely a kind of novelty gift suitable for science-y an…

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    Comment #35354731

    That actually sounds fun. It's like karaoke but more than singing songs... even without the acting aspect, it sounds fun to experience the story unfold while you're in it. Not sure…

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    Comment #35354528

    It varies. Some days 4 hours, other days are 12 hours.

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    Comment #34877888

    The preference for silence may not be universal. John Von Neumann, a highly regarded scientist, appears to prefer noisy environments according to his Wikipedia entry [1]: In Prince…

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    Comment #34832733

    > I used to love X, but now it's been a few years since I've done X. What changed? At some point, everything got serious. [1] > I started to only want to publish the best things, s…

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    Comment #34256173

    Can anyone shed light as to why the push for symmetric non-competes isn't a movement?

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    Comment #34226006

    I enjoyed reading this comment and agree mostly with what was conveyed. >I don’t think people should go back to a prior employer. Personally, I don't think that going back to a pri…

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    Comment #34225921

    Can see how this has potential. I've worked on a similar thing at work and there are some nuances as to the level the embedding is performed at (e.g. sentence level) and the kinds …

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    Comment #33813281

    Quoting the last two paragraphs of the blog post (cuz I think that's where the gist of this post lies): > Research should never be driven by success, because the pursuit of it eith…