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hypomanic

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    Comment #38812228

    I'm sure people can use diet and exercise to keep the weight off. At the end of the day, it's all "calories in calories out".

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    Comment #35309825

    Yes we need to be aggressively reducing noise. Being able to cross the country in 3 hours instead of 5 is a much lower priority.

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    Comment #35309809

    Constant background noise isn't really tuned out though. It leads to a lot of stress and negative health outcomes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_effects_from_noise

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    Comment #34854642

    I don't want to manage physical money, and would prefer to not pay any fees. Crypto is perfect for this in a of ways, but has the downside of price volatility. Stablecoins like USD…

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    Comment #34853403

    How are you so confident? It's a neural net with like 200 billion connections. I mean I also really doubt it's sentient, but you hear people who are 100% sure and the confidence is…

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    Comment #34853374

    Just autocomplete though

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    Comment #34853368

    I asked, “Name three celebrities whose first names begin with the `x`-th letter of the alphabet where `x = floor(7^0.5) + 1`,” but with my entire prompt Base64 encoded. Bing: “Ah, …

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    Comment #34834825

    I was car-free for 8 years despite having plenty of money. The other car-free family on my street was the same. I have three kids and they have two.

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    Comment #34745760

    Loaning your money out to someone who's going to loan it out to homebuyers is still an option, just not the only option.

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    Comment #34740621

    It's always wild to me people think the current system is good. When you deposit money is a bank, you no longer own the money directly. You own an IOU from the bank (i.e., you're e…

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    Comment #34734569

    Like imagine your job decides not to pay you (fine) but then finds a loophole to charge you twice your salary.

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    Comment #34734554

    Tuition remission is just a made up number. It's not like money you get paid or have to pay tax on our anything like that. Half the time you don't even have any corresponding cours…

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    Comment #34734514

    They have to work a ton. They're being used for cheap labor.

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    Comment #34698086

    Did you end up changing careers?

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    Comment #34626893

    You can pay CO state taxes with crypto too. The governor of CO, Jared Polis, gave a talk at ETH Denver last year. It's way too late to ban.

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    Comment #32862018

    How would you have a digital collectible without blockchain? The alternative is just a private database somewhere that depends on the whims of a company/individual for its continue…

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    Comment #31413228

    it's easy to predict the past did you short?