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pete762

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    Comment #44373457

    The daily and seemingly random price fluctuations of tickets are much larger than the cost of meals you'd save, basically noise.

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    Comment #44221105

    Speaking as a non-american: From this article I have no clue what ICE was even doing. Detaining whom? For what reason? Without this information I cannot infer whether the protest i…

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    Comment #44207056

    I think the important thing is only that you exhale longer than you inhale. Inhaling activates SNS, exhaling PNS, the latter is for relaxation. So the more you can tilt that ratio …

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    Comment #43577741

    But you're still ruining other people's fun for selfish reasons. Why not find some fun activity that's not a zero sum game?

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    Comment #42914065

    If you're busy you're probably already using public commuting time for reading books etc.

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    Comment #42514583

    Reads like someone with a slavic native language

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    Comment #42407661

    It's at the end of the article

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    Comment #42003476

    Typing fast is incredibly useful for taking notes during meetings. If you can basically transcribe the conversation in real time, it helps a lot. Ofc you could record and run it th…

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    Comment #41316234

    Your litmus test fails simply because John Carmack prefers Windows.

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    Comment #41221467

    You're conflating sitting and bad posture. Sitting will have bad effects even if you sit straight

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    Comment #39688416

    Is no one's bullshit detector going off reading this? Looking at table 2, the effect size is insanely huge.

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    Comment #38789909

    My mom has a Kitchen Aid kettle. That shitty thing breaks all the time forcing my dad to replace some parts of the circuit. (And it's not the users' fault, it's a damn kettle, ther…

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    Comment #38360238

    I mean it's literally getting better every time. People can start complaining when progress has stagnated.

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    Comment #38343130

    I bet if Microsoft leaves anothe tech giant would be more than glad to provide some GPUs

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    Comment #38186634

    "The best way to get what you want is to deserve it"

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    Comment #37217105

    Berkshire Hathaway Energy said they would, from a financial point of view, never build a nuclear plant and keep increasing renewables. And they're not known to be bad capital alloc…

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    Comment #36245394

    Just make it mandatory (basically tax) and remove all those garbage ticket systems, people checking the tickets etc... Getting rid of so much overhead

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    Comment #34638484

    > From his interviews it looks like he understands little about the technical details of ML, or about as much as anyone can learn in a few months What makes you think that? He lite…

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    Comment #34638254

    GPT3 can't do math

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    Comment #28456031

    Well, the consequence of what you're writing is that if you're somewhere in life where you don't want to be you're pretty much out of luck 'cause genes (a little exaggerated, proba…

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    Comment #24167234

    I see no problem here. He is buying a gold miner, so he is buying a business profiting off this weird desire for gold. You could basically say the same about chocolate: "People pay…

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    Comment #24131923

    If it is widely known, then there is no money to be made

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    Comment #24131569

    > I am disabled with Anxiety and Mood Disorder and chronic fatigue/depression. Typical "Bipolar" presentation. It runs in my family on my mothers side. That sounds awfully familiar…

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    Comment #24090355

    Which is exactly why sober people in a drinking group are inherently suspicious.

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    Comment #24090348

    Maybe because for most people intoxicating themselves around others who are intoxicated is an inherently pleasurable experience? You really think basically all cultures in the worl…