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vex

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About vex

Neuroscience researcher located in Cambridge, MA

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    Same. I had a troubled childhood and many D's in high school. If it wasn't for me studying really hard and getting a 2320 on the SAT, I wouldn't have gotten into any school, but th…

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    Comment #26599972

    Not my experience. Standard japanese apartments are cheaply constructed, cramped and often unheated. Definitely a lower standard of living.

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    Comment #24565315

    With chrome flow tab ui I can rapidly scroll through full width page previews, and I can initiate this by swiping from the top down. In Firefox the tab previews are so small as to …

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    Comment #24565311

    Still not as good. With chrome flow tab ui I can rapidly scroll through full width page previews, and I can initiate this by swiping from the top down. In Firefox the tab previews …

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    Comment #24565153

    Personally, I use Firefox on PC and would love to use it on my phone. Literally the only reason I use Chrome instead is because of the flow ui tab switching. I just can't stand the…

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    Comment #22440707

    I switched to Joplin from folders of text files in dropbox. I'm on Windows and I don't want to pay. It's barely better. The fact that it forces you to write in markdown, or use ext…

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    Comment #19028260

    If you don't have anything interesting to say about yourself or your ambitions, maybe you just aren't that interesting of a person...

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    Comment #12947981

    It's ironic that you care about race here as people have transcended race in the works of Ghost in the Shell (people can easily inhabit a completely different body, even a non-huma…

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    Comment #12947969

    Here's a bad-quality version of the opening; the original composer came back to make a new version of the iconic song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5amv-vqUFo

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    Comment #12594319

    I'm trying to work toward that goal every day in my lab! Sure would be helpful if a billionaire hired me though. Kernel is the closest thing we have to an industry effort, but they…

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    Comment #11870235

    Anyone know if there's been any sort of security audit for WeChat? I'm basically forced to use it and I'm sure the Chinese government must've put some kind of backdoor in it.

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    Comment #11828162

    Really? Because I feel like the comment sections here are usually people being positive and agreeing with each other, while dissenting opinions are silenced.

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    Comment #11776261

    I'm guessing with the amount of money that the U.S. invests in each soldier, there's a pretty overriding impetus to not disqualify people from positions that need people to fill th…

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    Comment #10890809

    Their software is good, but their hardware? Awful. PFsense doesn't know how to do reliable hardware at all.

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    Comment #10793139

    What's with all the secrecy?

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    Comment #10592511

    I've been really disappointed with Lyft, even as I've used it for over 100 rides. The driver quality has been getting worse and worse. I got an email months ago telling me that I h…

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    Comment #10052319

    Ugh, homeopathy and people who hate modern medicine.

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    Comment #9856922

    Why exactly do you care so much?

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    Comment #9180398

    The title of this article is base clickbait...

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    Comment #8548969

    So what was the math problem?

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    Comment #8415253

    As someone with no knowledge of the situation, can someone explain to me why the opinions brought up by a google search of his name are invalid?

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    Comment #8358718

    Whine whine whine, I have a mac, whine whine whine get a computer with actual expandable storage

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    Comment #8030667

    >Just covering with a lens cap would seem to be a simpler way of accomplishing that I'm sure it's a bit more complicated than that. >Really? I can't think of any better way of desc…