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Comment #21782024
I don't think that the comment above was speaking in hard and fast rules. They were more making the point that men and women may generally have different interests and that those i…
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Comment #21764293
Not to undercut your point too much, but no one comes out of university learning about the latest and greatest tech unless they went to a graduate program where they did research i…
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Comment #20699237
This is like saying that access to newspapers is a privilege and not a right. What use is free speech if there is no common medium on which to distribute it? This is another case o…
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Comment #19842974
This is really cool! I hope that you can rise above the comments of the "this isn't good enough" or "zero carbon or bust" crowd. This type of innovation is what we need to move the…
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Comment #19085898
You can build user defined functions in Excel with VBA as well as with Python through something like xlwings. One of the issues that I ran into with xlwings (or any third party int…
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Comment #17988876
This is really good advice. With all the different places you can play the same note on guitar, it makes it a little more difficult to visualize. The one note to one key ratio can …
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Comment #17803683
Keurig and DPSG already did this. There isn't any reason to block this...
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Comment #17603302
Thermal properties of the chip and any issues arising from those are pieces that the engineers should have sussed out in the beginning though. If I don't put a heatsink and fan on …
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Comment #17411239
That isn't in the cards for most people considering you can buy laptops for a fraction of the price and also that most people are getting Windows PC's from their employer
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Comment #16822452
Price elasticity of demand IIRC. Demand functions aren't generally straight like the illustrative graphs used in intro classes. What you end up with is easy replacement with simila…
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Comment #16820545
I've seen some studies on this, but I (personally) haven't run across many that show a significant difference in isocaloric diets where carbohydrates are replaced calorie for calor…
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Comment #16814099
This is why we were given cheesecake :)
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Comment #16814092
I've seen keto work great for a lot of people. Generally, they have been those that tended to overeat on carbs and junk foods like chips, soda, pizza, etc. The mechanism at the end…
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Comment #16813861
> The biggest factor is nutrition Yes! > The point of these is body positivity basically. You are fat and it isn't your fault. I didn't see this at all in there. If anything, this …
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Comment #16813825
It does a good enough job at modeling reality that we can make decent predictions with it. While the details of CICO may be more complicated, for someone who is obviously out of sh…
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Comment #16813787
One problem with those is that they are easy to capture fake/inaccurate data. Couple that with non-running exercise activities and you have an even more difficult equation to solve…
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Comment #16699097
Regardless, a social media profile displays the things that you value - or at least that you claim to value. Social media tends to be a highlight reel for many younger people, so h…
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Comment #16649359
I think I remember some password managers that have similar features alerting if a site that you have an account with was breached. There has to be some sort of external accountabi…
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Comment #16641664
It certainly seems like FB and some credit bureaus are much more fast and loose with the data they collect when compared with Google/Amazon/MSFT
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Comment #16594316
...i see what you did there ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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Comment #16594278
I get the differentiation between the city and it's residents. My comments were more in response to the overall financial benefit of the city and that they aren't just "giving away…
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Comment #16593386
Because it doesn't fit the narrative that amazon is evil / rich people are evil / gentrification / government kick backs. I would seriously doubt that any city would be offering th…
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Comment #16530597
I believe the poster above was mentioning more those that are below median income or certainly those closer to poverty levels. There are a lot of benefit programs that take number …
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Comment #15515839
No one anywhere else gets to count hours being educated as hours worked, so that isn't a fair comparison. Also, if you were to pay for the degree out of pocket, then you are lookin…
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Comment #15460279
Not sure... the poster didn't differentiate, so I could only assume they meant speaking Standard English with an accent.