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walr000s

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    Comment #49112874

    Robots that look humanoid are a marketing gimmick.

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    Comment #48921888

    I am a brogrammer and I fix problems, bro. Magnesium for life.

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    Comment #46163170

    In the mass media days, "elites" were able to pretend that all people more or less wanted to consume similar media. That theory has more or less been debunked by the advent of the …

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    Comment #42481430

    Your link doesn't have any probability analysis either. Just supposition that the raw data isn't valid because it looks similar to a 2 year run the Hornets had. Is it wildly inconc…

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    Comment #42480785

    Wild hyperbole? https://x.com/AndrewDBailey/status/1772275077280858370 Being +1017 in FTA differential when the next closest is +358 isn't explained by whatever crap you're selling…

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    Comment #42480756

    The narrative that "the world wants to be dominated" is a popular one in mainstream media today. Is there actually any substance to the narrative? Not in this article. Like most wr…

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    Comment #42480674

    The Lakers have a statistically impossible +/- in free throws shot. There is favoritism and the league isn't even remotely trying to disguise it...is that really different than any…

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    Comment #41458904

    Another reason to envy controller players. I just can't get used to it.

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    Comment #41458784

    I highly recommend turning ball cam off once you get close to the ball.

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    Comment #41456991

    I heard Comm, a pro, once say that he wished he had his 14 year old fingers back...think he was 17 at a time. To me, a 40 year old playing with KBM, I feel like I just can't bend m…

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    Comment #41295550

    Got any "overwhelming" evidence that isn't a podcast? I'm sure social media ain't great for anyone. It's mostly an incomprehensibly large amount of malignant noise...but pretending…

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    Comment #40811691

    >We have let money become so accumulated, that the owners of the capital are being silly with it Is that not just an inherent part of the debt cycle that we are at the tail end of?…

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    Comment #40427489

    At that number of observations, I would assume depth of market data so probably HFT use case. HFT is notoriously expensive to try to compete in

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    Comment #39853483

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    Comment #39168691

    The wikipedia link says that its use as a drying agent in the States is uncommon...though not in Canada.

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    Comment #38198878

    It also created and continues to create a lot of cheap labor, which the United States is in short supply of and likely will be for the foreseeable future.

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    Comment #38183198

    > which shows how rules that supposedly protect poor people from abuse, in practice only help those with access to the skills of the professional and managerial classes. Maybe the …

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    Comment #38179018

    Still a long way to go to catch up to Geneva.

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    Comment #37956685

    The mountain of evidence is a bunch of former US Intel personnel turned corporate media stooges saying that it didn't look like an air strike? Both sides are capable of blowing shi…

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    Comment #37739130

    The best explanation of Virtual Power Plants that I've encountered, from Patrick McKenzie: https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/markets-in-power/

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    Comment #37459953

    My experience being a leader in similar situations is that when I say "we will have that in the next release", I mean "the engineers who are tasked with that will have completed it…

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    Comment #37440503

    There's plenty of stuff in NYT that should by eyed with extreme skepticism. It's got an agenda and is bending its content around that agenda like every other mainstream commercial …

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    Comment #37283566

    So you'd need some sort of legal document declaring intent to conclude that it was intentional? Twitter was the center of the Arab Spring. There's plenty of powerful people in the …