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>And then it all went bad. The Daily Telegraph, following up on biographical discrepancy in a BBC documentary, uncovered proof that Patrick O’Brian…was not Patrick O’Brian. About 1…

After several interviews with a big telecommunications company, I got a verbal job offer from the recruiter over the phone. I accepted. They said the formal job offer would be comi…

>it was a Finance company so people suddenly not coming in the next day was a thing. Oh, I'd love to know why this is a thing. I did work for a mutual fund company for 18 months, o…

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Doctors blamed my first afib episode on dehydration. I had been very sick, could not eat or drink for days, and just experienced the highest fever of my adult life, nearly 105F. A …

I have paroxysmal afib. After my third episode, the doctor told me to quit consuming caffeine. Before quitting caffeine, I had an episode every 2 years. After quitting caffeine, I …

>Interestingly there is no mention of semantics or what does actually "TV watching" mean. Also, is one watching "The Real Housewives of " on Bravo or an author interview on CSPAN.

Not sure myself. There's more variety of content on youtube, whereas I think TV sometimes caters to lowest common denominator (although that's less the case in the era of streaming…

I didn't pick up on it. I see this often: comments on HN remarking that something is AI generated, yet it's not obvious to me. Makes me worry that I am an LLM myself[1]. I've seen …

I watch (or listen to) a lot of youtube on my iPad (and sometimes on my TV, but not too often). I wonder if youtube watching is also correlated with the mentioned brain changes.

>The results indicate a correlation, not necessarily causation Just to drive that home, "Study participants also did not undergo a baseline MRI", which of course could mean that th…

Kobayashi Maru :)

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I did the same. Maybe the cookie banner was the CAPTCHA in question ;).

One reason I didn't finish the article is because it said "Join Slate Plus to access this article."

https://archive.md/nnxs6 The article seems to change its title from time to time. The above is the title I saw when I last checked the actual link (the archived version has a diffe…

Axios may be grasping at straws, but it's good to hear about a possible tiny slowing in the wealth gap.

A team manager once called and asked me if anything changed in the hypervisor (I used to support and make local modifications to some virtualization software) because her team's da…

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