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gumperbumper

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    Comment #42879697

    I’m not sure whether or not screen time can be beneficial is relevant to the question “is screen time impacting reading ability.” Most people probably don’t engage in enriching scr…

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    Comment #42868318

    I’m not saying learning to read is like learning to speak. I’m saying that people have learned to read with far fewer resources than we have available today. If anything, we likely…

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    Comment #42867135

    Reading is like 5000 years old. It requires almost no resources to learn and do. I don’t think this is a spending problem.

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    Comment #42836704

    The assertion here is that there is a negative correlation between knowledge of AI and enjoyment of AI. For both iPads and Strawberries, I expect you would not like them less were …

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    Comment #42823931

    The US economy is predicated on the perception that AI requires a lot of GPUs? That seems like a stretch.

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    Comment #42823436

    People have always “booked it” in NY. Lived here for 30 years and talking to random people on the street has never been the norm. Slow walkers have also been a source of frustratio…

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    Comment #42823387

    Like the U.S. and D.C.? NY and Albany? Canada and Ottawa? Germany and Berlin?

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    Comment #42822646

    I’m also getting old. I tried playing a few of those mobile, micro-transaction driven, pay-to-win games to see what the hype was. I couldn’t even figure out what I needed to buy, a…

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    Comment #42822510

    The NJ side is definitely sad, but your map is missing NJ transit.

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    Comment #42822424

    Can’t you run one of AWS’ t-series servers for like $10 a month? If you’re just making a few API calls, then that should be more than sufficient. My advice: don’t prematurely optim…

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    Comment #42821786

    My biggest issue with tabs over curly braces is that it makes copy / pasting code insanely difficult. That alone makes tabs a bad choice.