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foolinaround

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    Comment #49101357

    maybe, the calories for that item, and a lower limit that counts as a full meal?

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    Comment #46554473

    Is Musk's Starlink capable of filling the gap for this large population?

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    Comment #46127789

    Are there good suggestions for a personal finance class at the high school level that one can take online?

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    Comment #44007484

    classic case of supply and demand

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    Comment #43840217

    A request to add Tamil, a widely spoken and one of the earliest classical languages! Thanks!!

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    Comment #43840202

    this tool is really nice... Suggestions: Can I get some transliteration when I hover over it, rather than translation? Maybe a Alt+ ?

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    Comment #43784435

    In general, people leave or stay for their managers, not their companies. In retrospect, in one of the earlier companies, I could see the company not doing well, but had a great bo…

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    Comment #42489038

    Bathing is no longer considered a luxury, and so will never be given up.

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    Comment #41544792

    are there places today that don't do some variation of scrum today? Waterfall is pretty much non-existent.

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    Comment #39578008

    thinkpad t440p with ZorinOS

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    Comment #39562939

    Kudos to the Magnet man!! if that magnet cart design could be open-sourced, then it might be updated or made cheaper by others, and used in other places too!

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    Comment #37161451

    > maybe books should be read in pairs Great idea! Now we need a seperate thread or spreadsheet of books by eminent authors that present contradictory viewpoints!

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    Comment #37054747

    What benefits can one perceive in the first 7 days, to make a decision on whether it is worth it or not?

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    Comment #36672181

    if we had to eat this elephant one bite at a time, one option to consider is completely seperating sports from colleges? What would be the impact? What are the drivers that could e…

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    Comment #36043362

    Instead of a GirlfriendGPT, a personal assistant GPT - which is hosted in a private location, and receives feeds of all your personal data ( emails, calendar, fitbit) and adhoc ( I…

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    Comment #35559579

    Does this in any way enhance protection of a citizen from government or other powerful actors?

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    Comment #35457977

    this "not knowing the neighbors" is a flimsy excuse at best. This is mostly true of any densely populated city around the world, where people move in for jobs. In the past few year…

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    Comment #35426621

    https://archive.ph/VYxH4

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    Comment #35329301

    > Everybody wins Doesn't someone have to lose? I am guessing the tax-payers lose somehow, though I don't understand how..

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    Comment #35282010

    https://archive.ph/M7VAc

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    Comment #35056392

    ChatGPT has this annoying habit of crashing or having extended downtime. If this UI can capture my query in the case of such a crash and keep retrying till I get the answer, and th…

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    Comment #34933520

    > Nobody but the most OCD germophobe is going to have lower productivity because they are sitting in a desk that someone else was in a day before. maybe, at the end of the day, the…

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    Comment #34897513

    maybe a secondary system that could raise alarms since in this case, the weight calculated must have been outside of the standard deviance of the weights recorded over time?

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    Comment #34779988

    > at that point you're just wasting money on me and your oversized office. Some industries and companies have so much margins that they are willing to spend that much more... It ma…

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    Comment #34679630

    IMHO, LeBron's struggle was one of an poor kid growing up. I would even say that being black was an advantage, and gave him great genetics that he took to the next level with disci…