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Comment #35730829
Re: extremely lavish Is probably extremely boring - I have never had more fun than when solving problems, life without working on something interesting sounds insufferable to me Ho…
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Comment #35688000
I believe that the author misremembers the common solution for the first question > 3 hens lay 3 eggs in 3 days. How many eggs do 12 hens give in 12 days? > [...] When we got to it…
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Comment #35678103
I am trying to read the numbers but not sure I can validate whether the title is true or not. The post is going to be great in figuring out who is reading the content and who is ju…
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Comment #35662303
Of course that everyone can be conned, but smart people are more resistant - for the mere fact that they probably know more and are better versed in the goings of life - I am surpr…
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Comment #35660647
Millions of dollars flow to an organization headed by a convicted fraudster ... rest assured there are much more efficient ways to divert those funds than workshops If anything the…
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Comment #35660628
It is because the person is evidently a con-man. So it is not as much "interesting" but "illuminating" that supposedly smart people like scientists can be just as easily mislead as…
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Comment #35660586
Almost certainly is all about money. How would you know how the millions of dollars sent to the organization are being spent? For starters he is impersonating another director of t…
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Comment #35656816
First the argument that we failed to automate it hence it is expensive is feels specious. But let's accept it at face value. And now take it all the way. Suppose you reject 15 pape…
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Comment #35646007
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Comment #35633131
how about the current era, where every human generates thousands of photos per year ... is that a history worth remembering and will it help where we've come from? I am not saying …
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Comment #35633095
> Also it's a weird idea that we should forget things so that someone later can feel special when they do it again. Really weird. What would you think of a service, that when you t…
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Comment #35633040
Imagine that Mona Lisa was lost shortly after its creation ... do you think we would not have something else like Mona Lisa in its place? Society created the value of Mona Lisa out…
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Comment #35632978
It is the safest bet for someone you don't know much about. Much above reliability (that everyone wants) with tradeoffs (that we are unable to judge for others)
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Comment #35631928
Remembering the past does not mean remember every single pointless thing. Lots of things in the past were not worth the paper they were printed on.
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Comment #35631615
Is it really a big deal that some really old movies are lost ... sorry but I just don't see why ... I wish lots of content disappeared - in the past the passage of time was a way t…
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Comment #35544973
It is bullshit because it only works in theory, the big refrigerator will crush the tiny fly ... in reality the fly escapes with ease the bullshit part refers to just that, pretend…
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Comment #35381121
my thoughts exactly, the whole post has a whiff of passive aggressive attitude, all the names and accusations, it reflects extraordinarily badly on the writer, primarily goes to sh…
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Comment #35381104
I don't doubt that you think nothing was left out ... but I am sure the other side thinks differently. Are return receipts still a thing? I have turned off those by default and wou…
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Comment #35381043
I read the post, it seems someone cancelled a meeting and the candidate got a little antsy, then started using a type of language that scared off the employer. Nothing in the posts…
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Comment #35327660
In a realistic use cases (unlike the ones in the test) the hard drives are accessed very often. For anything by very light use, I would expect the drives to be written just about a…
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Comment #35274051
FYI in scientific publishing there is an entire subculture of publishing expensive books >$150 - with mostly useless content that one can read for free in published papers. Scienti…
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Comment #35273637
Bard is a better search engine. A really good one at that. But it is the same old thing - only much better. It lacks the spirit, sparkle, the pizzaz and surprising "intelligence" o…
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Comment #34949720
When it comes to the Iraq War, according to the Wikipedia, and let me quote it > "An estimated 151,000 to 1,033,000 Iraqis died in the first three to five years of conflict." Then …
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Comment #34803648
which was an illegal thing to do fighting an illegal thing with another illegal thing is not the way to proceed if a convoy blocks the way, go disperse the convoy, they did the ill…