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    Comment #42534952

    Have you tried just saying you're a product manager instead of technical product manager? In my experience small changes in storytelling and self-marketing can create giant shifts …

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    Comment #42526773

    I would not trust OpenAI to retain my chats given that their model for what is a TOS-violating conversation evolves every week or every month. Any outputs they generate that one fi…

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    Comment #42524038

    Current economic and political systems reward baseless confidence, believing you are better than others (and speaking and acting that way), and hubris. So maybe it makes sense that…

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    Comment #32671940

    I think the parent was alluding to the differences in culture and norms around nudity and sexuality among native Europeans vs recent immigrants, that sometimes leads to cases like …

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    Comment #32574390

    Land in desirable areas seems to me to be a much more scarce resource than the inputs and labor that go into a vehicle, especially if you add time - aka decades to make such things…

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    Comment #32288528

    Doing so seems incredibly wasteful and pollution-generating. A filter pitcher like a Brita + a reusable water aluminum/glass/steel/whatever water bottle seems like it'd be a better…

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    Comment #31616084

    Yeah I think the like lowest end bread at an Italian grocery store is going to be way better than the lowest end "bread" at an American grocery store, but the difference is at the …

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    Comment #31616037

    Probably due to eating out way more often and eating shitty cheap processed foods for the meals they do cook.

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    Comment #31545480

    Actually if you look at Ariel Ekblaw's proposals in a different article / medium, many of her designs do involve the 'cellular'/'connected closed chambers' nature you describe. Hig…

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    Comment #31541403

    People upvote headlines these days (as a form of agreement) rather than articles. But you're right. This is on the extreme low end in terms of details.

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    Comment #31519631

    Have you become more fond of / optimistic about Go (compared to other options) since writing the piece, less so, or similar?

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    Comment #31410444

    maybe just tell them leetcode is a video game.

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    Comment #31139631

    Why isn't it weird? To me it's very weird. Why do we think a slightly better job opportunity will lead us to greater happiness than focusing on our personal relationships?

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    Comment #30947626

    Have you tried a cursory Google search? I don't know if you refer specifically to the negative effects of microplastics in lungs or microplastic exposure in general, but a search f…

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    Comment #30922866

    I mean, the entire dataset should become available so you can look at any particular instance of the map, if you want, just create a snapshot of the map right before the white eras…

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    Comment #30922802

    You might be missing the point of those who disagree with your take, which is to call those who want to do different things on /r/Place than you 'trolls' or 'griefers' is itself ju…

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    Comment #30883351

    Good observation and if I may I think a great term for this is just 'sandbox' gameplay.

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    Comment #30808287

    How do you know it's way past everything you can do and learn? No one has ever had the experience to be able to say.

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    Comment #30793893

    Hi there, just commenting to say that I have been struggling with this the past few years and I have never seen someone describe how I felt so accurately. I'm about 30 but I rememb…

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    Comment #30596193

    If they change the price last minute can you renege on your side of the deal and get your money back and cancel?

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    Comment #30567835

    I saw that as well and it was interesting, but unfortunately that style of video (man on the street aka vox populi: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vox_populi ) is notorious for "see…

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    Comment #30460151

    Transfers to you? There are microparticles of plastic in every liquid you drink, floating in the air, in the digestive systems of practically every animal in the food chain. When y…

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    Comment #30302314

    If you have 340k and have put huge efforts into online dating and failed, it would be trivial economically for you to hire a professional photographer to get you a better dating pr…

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    Comment #30255375

    Carbon emissions are correlated to human activity. We can dial them up or down theoretically through human action. Methane emission through permafrost (both land and submarine) cou…