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fifnir
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Comment #44028659
I've been noticing the same, this completely breaks searching for reddit results for me
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Comment #44028571
> I suspect the idea that a person speaks more than one language is absent in US silicon valley. Exactly, it's like they've never left their own state levels of ignorance
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Comment #44028565
Oh god please, this is so important!
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Comment #41531578
Got hit with a popup to signup to something before I could even read their "splash" message, jesus christ
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Comment #41129106
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Comment #41003560
I quoted Cavafy's Ithaka: "And if you find her poor, Ithaka won’t have fooled you. Wise as you will have become, so full of experience, you’ll have understood by then what these It…
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Comment #40934575
Hey at least those editors actually do something during the publishing process!
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Comment #40797974
> Ask a small hotel owner in one of the islands about their plan of turning their property into a "hacker house" in the off-season. Maybe instead they should look into making their…
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Comment #40635058
WINTNOG is "RAG"
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Comment #40376481
My PhD supervisor would wash his teeth over the sink where we'd rinse all the gel preparation tools. He got throat cancer in his 50s and died soon after my PhD defense.
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Comment #39642795
How amazing is it to read all this on nature itself, the journal whose peer-review method failed again and again.
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Comment #36417073
His wiki page probably has sources, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Rainer But in anycase this has little to do with genetics, the poor guy's pituitary was a mess
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Comment #36327151
That would be a good way to strengthen my pinkie, I would also do it the other way around, d to backspace (move the cursor left), f to delete(move the cursor right)
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Comment #36323415
Y'all don't map the Caps Lock to a secondary backspace? Do you never make mistakes? Do you have long fingers that can reach the original backspace without taking your hands off the…
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Comment #36290871
> time sink without any value Indeed, time is little and precious and should be spent wisely. Very virtuous of you. > hobby specific subreddits have wealth of information Ah the vi…
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Comment #29890066
I use uBlacklist, it puts a little "block this domain from results" button next to google results
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Comment #25573301
Or this one :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_0cA8aoOno
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Comment #25453611
Indeed we're running CentOS on the cluster at work. I always wondered, why not Debian ?
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Comment #25058425
> The meaning of the term scientific theory (often contracted to theory for brevity) as used in the disciplines of science is significantly different from the common vernacular usa…
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Comment #24910842
>Conscious experience is a seamless unified whole. That's not necessarily true. We experience vision as a unified whole as well, but we have a blind spot as well. How would you arg…
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Comment #24898651
You might also want to have some more proofreading done. I cought this "[..]Nat get's a good[..]" 5 seconds into your page
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Comment #24083400
That will just incentivize companies to pay better salaries. Let the market decide what job positions are worth existing
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Comment #23848433
The one beauty I can attribute to polykatoikies is the balconies. They are often filled with plants (at least my parents kept it that way) which makes for your little private oasis…
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Comment #23842984
The reds are coming, run!
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Comment #22566275
The guardian has all their content free and aggressively asks you to subscribe. Maybe there's more to their finances that I don't know about but they seem to be doing well.