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rz2k

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    There’s also a strategy to jump the line. Say there’s a talk that just took place on the top floor roof deck of a small ~20 floor building. People who don’t want to wait in line wi…

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    Comment #48988842

    Maybe it looks more amazing in person than in pictures. If not, and the point is a message about waste, then the 80% increase could be cast as part of the message. Let’s say every …

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    Comment #48865676

    Obviously it weighs 10,300 baseballs, which are 26 football fields long.

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    Comment #48861957

    I couldn’t figure out why US Bank business card applications using a sole proprietorship EIN kept disappearing into a black hole or being denied. Eventually after a few phone calls…

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    Comment #48861475

    That's an interesting way to investigate how much public policy surrounding schools is actually focused on student education. I think you'd find that there would be significant fea…

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    Comment #48861252

    I’ve surprisingly found that I have started to have to use mydomain.com with Fastmail. Sometimes banks used for a business account, or accounts at b2b companies don’t treat fastmai…

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    Comment #48853097

    Samsung can increase its prices until they can’t sell all of their output, or they decrease their prices until there are shortages. Anywhere in between is just about allocating the…

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    Comment #48766749

    Some people have claimed to hear an improvement with an external clock on a Wiim Ultra, but I do not think it is possible to re-clock the WiiM Amp Ultra with an outboard clock. Whe…

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    Comment #48765284

    My good enough amplifier and DAC combo claims up to 24bit/192kHz, I use a cheap optical interface from my computer that claims up to 32bit/192kHz, and the streaming service I use s…

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    Comment #48628646

    It’s rare to find an example in English that demonstrates the difference in meaning between subjunctive and conditional. Was it a two part question converted into one with a gate a…

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    Comment #48587019

    I wonder if they’ll stagger their waking hours so that electric power consumption matches the inflexible output of nuclear reactors.

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    Comment #48223913

    I assume it was changed so there wouldn’t be a name collision with Issur Danielovitch’s son?

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    Comment #48109115

    So much of the content is extremely stale, and it even matters for languages that you would think are relatively unchanging. It seems like they must have put almost no incentives i…

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    Comment #48109037

    Didn’t the gamification course have one of the relatively few well done peer assessments? The course was good, but it’s interesting now that gamification features completely turn m…

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    Comment #48108988

    The model thinking course was interesting but it should have had a follow up that was much more than a freshman survey course treatment of each model. Reading online it seems like …

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    Comment #48082025

    Since they were silver certificates he could have redeemed them for a 26.73g coin composed of 90% silver and 10% copper. In 2026, the value of the silver has fluctuated between abo…

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    Comment #47825469

    My dad had a class in medical school where the professor dipped his finger in a beaker, talked about mechanisms for sugar in diabetic patients’ urine, and then proceeded to stick h…

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    Comment #47780770

    I don’t really understand this response. I thought the entire business model of Flock was about circumventing the Fourth amendment by posing as a separate vendor selling informatio…

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    Comment #47618351

    At least around 370 BC, in Plato's Phaedrus , Socrates expresses a strong opinion against writing of any kind through a conversation between the Egyptian gods Theuth and Thamus dis…

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    Comment #47618033

    I am pretty skeptical about the value of learning to build websites. I think it is too tempting for students to devote significant time to something that is not foundational knowle…

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    Comment #47565275

    On my computer, with Firefox it uses 14 CPU cores, consumes an extra 35 Watts, and the progress bar barely moves. Is this site mining cryptocurrency? On Safari or Orion it is merel…

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    Comment #47530503

    How does LibreOffice save people hundreds?

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