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mbnull

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    Comment #38675478

    I had a different, but similar, experience for years and overcame it eventually this month. It is real to some degree, but not in the way you think. All I can recommend is to medit…

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    Comment #35575246

    We would all be very surprised - of that I am certain. But why do you think that a mothership would equate to an invasion? And even then, why would we try to fight something that c…

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    Comment #35538640

    Yes, sometimes you want to de-duplicate pieces of information by a part of the piece and preserve order. The article tldr sounded like you can only de-duplicating by first sorting …

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    Comment #35537162

    > TL;DR: If you don’t need to preserve order of the elements, sort the slice first and dedupe. And if you need to preserve order of elements, there is always sort.Stable!

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    Comment #35021589

    I read it in my head with the voice of Ken Nordine of Word Jazz Colors fame.

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    Comment #34845847

    Would you also say that musicians should only create and perform popular music?

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    Comment #34794307

    The TED talk is old and maybe not the right format to discuss details. There are long-form discussions with Donald Hoffman on Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal I can link:…

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    Comment #34716905

    From my reading focused on this specific issue of the GDPR and the national laws of member states, this is not the case. Opt-in is specifically required for personal information. T…

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    Comment #34676169

    Plato's Cave, Jungian Archetypes, Valee's Control System all hint at the same insight, that founders of many religions also try to communicate: We live in a symbolic consensus real…

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    Comment #34668768

    I do remember the comment thread on the 2017 time article here on hn. Opinions already have changed considerably in the last 5 years. It also appears as if the process of dissemina…

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    Comment #34354107

    Maybe you can find a search mask for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siebmachers_Wappenbuch somewhere. Edit: source https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Siebmachers_Wappenbuch

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    Comment #31957938

    By reading the lines and not between them, you could read these two lines: runtime_procPin() and runtime_procUnpin(). With explicit comments that these pause preemption.

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    Comment #31325778

    archive link without paywall https://web.archive.org/web/20220510071257/https://www.nytim...

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    Comment #28745322

    unless errorlevel is exported as ErrorLevel you can only do so inside the declaring package.

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    Comment #27061174

    Medieval people certainly believed that. The linked wikipedia page does not say otherwise. It states that "European scholars and educated people during the Middle Ages believed the…

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    Comment #27060894

    Occam's Razor postulates that the simple solution is often the right one. That does not mean it's always so. For the longest time Occam's Razor would have favored a flat earth, bef…

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    Comment #25569226

    I found this paper from 1987 https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-1097.1987.... You will also find lots of experience reports and discussions of appropriate light sour…

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    Comment #25568844

    AFAIK the plant produces more resin, and some compounds therein, to protect itself from the suns UVB radiation.

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    Comment #21554907

    It uses effectively only the one keyword assure. The constraints look like fields on the type variables, which have an ambiguity with package private method expressions with the sa…