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duncancarroll

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    Comment #48510666

    There's a shortcut

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    Comment #48510662

    There's a trick to it

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    Comment #48281239

    If you like this, you would love meditation!

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    Comment #47508091

    Roblox is indeed eating the world

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    Comment #46547428

    > "But here’s the thing" This phrase feels like the new em dash...

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    Comment #46535309

    This was my first thought as well

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    Comment #45805503

    It looks like the article cited is from 2022: https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/aging-neuroscience/arti...

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    Comment #45622451

    It's Covid. As someone who only recently recovered from Long Covid after a long, arduous 2-year fight, I see his point.

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    Comment #45532599

    > invisible, omnipotent and omniscient being intimately involved in their day to day activities The statement above is independent of the (laudable) morality & ethics you're descri…

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    Comment #44988284

    Y Combinator and other accelerators have job boards: https://www.ycombinator.com/jobs A lot of VCs also have job boards, or they will list their portfolio companies and you can rea…

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    Comment #44802013

    Fun! I was a bit confused at the end because there's no "victory" state or indication. I think I was expecting it to give me a new word pair once I got to the end, or tell me "come…

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    Comment #44652236

    Looks cool! Can you point it at app store reviews as an input source?

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    Comment #44277091

    Not that I can make sense of it all, but to be fair the last result has been demonstrated by Michael Levin's lab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5VI0u5_12k

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    Comment #43863328

    This is the coolest thing I've seen in a long time. I've always wanted to see this visualized and the marbles make it so tactile and real.

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    Comment #43797181

    All the images look like renderings. Is the car actually in production?

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    Comment #43696613

    Me, for one. As a person with negative free time this sounds like exactly what I need.

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    Comment #43696597

    idk if I agree, it feels genuine enough to me, plus you can self-host so it's not like they're just trying to own your content.

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    Comment #43696467

    There are a lot of weird comments in this thread but to me this looks like a cool, genuine project which has an obvious need; I don't think the vibes are off at all. Given that lat…

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    Comment #43300896

    Well that's unfortunate. Although I still don't understand why she wouldn't have sought medical attention as her own condition worsened, but I suppose that's at least conceivable.

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    Comment #43297361

    This feels very hand wavey to me. So she feels progressively ill and then dies, all without ever seeking medical attention? I suppose they assume it was acute / she collapsed, but …

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    Comment #42875327

    I realize you're probably just trying to help, but: A) I tested this on myself with results which are consistent with theirs and which would be unexpected if their conclusions were…

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    Comment #42873218

    Related to this, it's been shown that Long Covid sufferers have low levels of circulating serotonin due to viral inflammation downregulating the gut intake of tryptophan (serotonin…

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    Comment #42678369

    For what it's worth, I've had some success treating my Long Covid symptoms with a specific form of Tryptophan found in Hydrolyzed Whey Protein (a standard bodybuilding protein powd…

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    Comment #41813058

    I started getting these post-Covid, but I'm not on any SSRIs. It feels like your brain does a "degauss" thing like the old CRT monitors; it's not fun. There's some evidence to show…

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    Comment #41747652

    Your app is good, I'm between HSK1-HSK2 and there are often scenarios I want to practice that aren't covered in the standard dialog options in other popular Mandarin apps, so I see…