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curiousObject

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    Comment #49056914

    Some pesticides may be linked to Parkinson’s Disease cases https://www.apdaparkinson.org/article/the-relationship-betwe... That is what OP was trying to say I assume

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    Comment #49021897

    >the entire network probably has a smaller footprint than a single small/medium size bank What research or statistics can you suggest to bolster this argument?

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    Comment #48980281

    > it had begun migrating its applications to Romania’s Government Cloud This proclamation, coming from a governmental organization, makes me afraid they are doomed. Effectively the…

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    Comment #48891993

    Karl Marx would be horrified

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    Comment #48891925

    That rapid disaster response seems a good practical target to start with. Good luck.

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    Comment #48886162

    I understand you have created this for teaching - to help other researchers use LLMs better. But, in its current state of development, is it of any use in earthquake preparedness o…

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    Comment #48847333

    This a good game. It’s fun, simple and quick. It’s self explanatory and clear what you need to do. The UI is almost perfect, it’s seamless on mobile and desktop. I made some critic…

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    Comment #48846703

    Those are all good options. Also a version in which your unused time is accumulated for future rounds would be interesting

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    Comment #48846618

    It’s the same reason people will instantly close a site with unwanted animations (ads). But if this game was called “Do A Word Puzzle While Being Distracted By Animated Numbers in …

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    Comment #48702839

    Transcript: https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5872785

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    Comment #48663515

    Quake was an incredible leap forward in desktop games. But Sandy Peterson is probably right, saying that it ‘Ruined’ the company - as an artistic creative force anyway. The breakup…

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    Comment #48663174

    Thanks. Here’s a direct xcancel link to the complete chain of Sandy’s posts that John Carmack replied to. https://xcancel.com/SandyofCthulhu/status/206959220964578529... Interestin…

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    Comment #48645560

    ‘Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety’ — Benjamin Franklin This isn’t a simple solution to the probl…

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    Comment #48618744

    Has preventing usage of ad-blocking extensions helped improve speed?

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    Comment #48598738

    They can’t see it even. The part of their brain which interprets Japanese is much bigger and faster. On the other side, visitors who can’t read Japanese can’t do anything but try t…

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    Comment #48598565

    The helmet protects the ears from direct airflow noise, but it also extends out into the high-speed airflow much more than ears do. The overall picture is that a helmet’s thick mat…

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    Comment #48526099

    True, but lifting the fuel to power that “small” orbital boost is unintuitively expensive (Refer to the tyranny of the “Rocket Equation”)

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    Comment #48488985

    People who believe they are financially secure may move from regions which are considered “wealthy” to regions which are seen to be “poorer” (and cheaper). This outflow can influen…

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    Comment #48256288

    > writing a few thousand lines of assembly was what it took to launch a successful software company. Yes, but that assembly was not DOS, and it wasn’t easy. Microsoft purchased the…

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    Comment #48170173

    > ‘Signal won't let us download our own data and back it up using our own secure systems. Signal is slowly, very slowly, moving toward providing real backups and cross-device trans…

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    Comment #48159317

    That iris style physical security filter looks very cool, and it’s neat because it’s protected from damage, but a simple one-piece sliding or folding shutter would be so much more …

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    Comment #48104194

    If you use AI to help your writing 1) Let people know that you did that 2) Try to include a link to another page, which shows the prompt and your original version of the writing, e…

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    Comment #48095644

    No, because then the rocket would probably launch in the middle of the sentence. He had to start saying that sentence at the right second and pace the words and his movements perfe…