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Comment #48307696
"I firmly believe this technology will create business value" is so obviously and categorically different from "Humanity has birthed a silicon god that I have also developed romant…
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Comment #47835162
Not true. You can't really train your muscles to use less oxygen for the same energy output (what "oxygen-efficiency" would imply). You rather increase their capacity to take up ox…
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Comment #45782360
> Any condition which causes the individual to self-sterilize or not have progeny is maladaptive from an evolutionary perspective I mean, this is just trivially wrong on a basic fa…
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Comment #45747687
> > 'The same language' is usually just a desguised nationalistic claim > It's the opposite: "it's a different language" is usually just a nationalistic desire for differentiation …
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Comment #44432423
That's not true in practice. Floating point arithmetic is not commutative due to rounding errors, and the parallel operations introduce non-determinisn even at temperature 0.
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Comment #42697222
> They just don’t think their daughter swimming against “boys” and then using the same locker room is progress. Do you genuinely think you're presenting the "woke" side of the argu…
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Comment #32505545
>Using steroids and then to promote your programs that act like it's possible to achieve them without is dangerous. Which one of the linked resources is doing that? The deception p…
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Comment #32493836
Mike Israetel is very vocal and open about both his own PED use and its health risks, and how taking them is a very bad idea for 99.9% of people. That does not make his content abo…
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Comment #32493732
Genetic mutations and recombinations, as has been known for centuries. There is no need to make up some overarching esoteric narrative out of thin air that has people on the losing…
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Comment #25870717
Cycling is not strength training. Did you do some form of resistance training prior to the trip?
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Comment #24107989
I recommend the book "Digital Minimalism" for some excellent advice on exactly those sort of questions
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Comment #22450236
That's a huge generalization for something that differs so heavily even within countries. Cities vs rural, east vs west, catholic vs protestant... Compare Poland and the Czech Repu…
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Comment #22412091
That's trivially false by looking at the field of history.
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Comment #22354804
For me, the username/password gives you read-only access and any kind of transaction requires 2FA.
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Comment #22215882
In western Europe, job postings specifically ask not to include a picture in your application to combat implicit bias. In Korea, the application form includes fields for height, we…
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Comment #21802197
Zugzwang does not exist in Hearthstone, doing nothing is always a rule-compliant option.
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Comment #21562831
> I am yet to meet a non-native speaker who wouldn’t have a horrible accent and who wouldn’t make a lot of mistakes Even the most fluent non-native German speakers I know still mix…
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Comment #19948332
Spotify automatically creates a playlist from songs you've "liked" while they're playing on radio. So just start a certain song radio, like the kind of songs that go into the direc…
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Comment #18716277
I have to admit I'm a bit surprised how many people leave their credit cards etc. in their cars.
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Comment #17171072
It can be moving and put things into perspective, but if being the momentary master of a fraction of a dot is insignifant, then so are the "rivers of blood" that were spilled. In t…
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Comment #15958728
>It’s not racism to make factually accurate observations. That is not as true as it sounds at first glance. For example, a statement like "blacks are more violent and less educated…
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Comment #14185784
The innocuous, benefit-of-the-doubt reason would be to improve their prediction/autocorrect.
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Comment #13634072
Could you maybe explain how you compare copying a cancer drug to automatically putting your own watermark on other people's funny images?
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Comment #13605404
What exactly do you think the majority of "the web" runs on?