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I can't donate with PayPal because that platform hates…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"15826310","purephase","I'm with you up until the part about listening while coding. For all of the other more mundane tasks like shopping, dishes, showering, video games, commuting throwing on a…",{"id":95,"by":74,"text":96},"15826248","That makes sense, I find it too distracting to listen to unless I'm doing something entirely monotonous. The illusion of multitasking and all that. I'm jealous that you can just…",[98,105],{"value":99,"source":62,"evidence":100},"Search results are empty without signing up through an external API platform.",[101],{"id":102,"by":103,"text":104},"15826470","TekMol","Big podcast fan here. After looking at the page, I tried: https:\u002F\u002Fwww.listennotes.com\u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Fsearch?q=hello And got an empty result. 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