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by wflynny 9y ago
See the Involuntary Bumping subsection under Overbooking in [1]. The airline is obligated to give you either: `min(2 * your ticket price, $675)`; or `min(4 * your ticket price, $1350)` depending on how quickly they can rerout
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by wflynny 9y ago
I binge-listened to the podcast over two listening sessions, so I imagine that is a modest endorsement for how interesting and engaging the podcast is. That said, while I disagree with the article's title, some of its sentiments regar
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by wflynny 9y ago
These charts are just bad data visualizations, the legends are uninformative, and this article is very light on commentary. While I can see how one could argue these support the author's brief conclusions, overall this looks like to
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by wflynny 9y ago
Having reviewed several papers for Scientific Reports in the past year, it was very similar to my experience reviewing for PLoS One. You are mandated not to factor in the significance of the work and only to critique the methodology and co
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by wflynny 10y ago
Isn't this reasoning essentially comparing a drop-in replacement with an ideal, though? Assuming this is a new technology that can actually make it through to manufacturing changes, the possible 30% reduction in plastic by using hybri
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by wflynny 10y ago
Here is Nature's policy on embargo: http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/policy/embargo.html They argue that > [the] embargo serves scientists, journalists and the public. Our policy is to release inf
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by wflynny 10y ago
Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I think part of the issue is not just that you can't afford to "go to dinner and a movie"; some aspects of the Ivys' cultures are built upon wealth and being poor inherently sets
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by wflynny 10y ago
> Light sources > We used two types of lighting devices. For exposure to white LED, commercial cold white LED panel generating 2300 lumens during 24 h was used. The LED panel was placed above 8 transparent cages, placed on white surfa
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by wflynny 10y ago
Yes, we do not want the flu. If you want to train your immune system, get the flu shot. I got the flu 10 months ago as a healthy male in his late 20s, the first major illness I've had since I was 11. 102+ fever for over 5 days and th
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by wflynny 10y ago
From [1], "Hampstead is the deepest station below the surface, at 58.5 metres (192 ft), as its surface building is near the top of a hill". So the deepest is about 60m, but from browsing around, it seems many are at least 40m dee
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by wflynny 10y ago
> If anything, the fact that Yale fosters closer relationships with administrators and faculty should make it _more_ likely that students would take gentle advice from their house master with equanimity instead of unhinged screaming and
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by wflynny 10y ago
While I agree with you, I think it's worth noting that Yale's system of on-campus housing is drastically different than that at most universities. The residential college system offers much closer and personal interactions with a
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by wflynny 10y ago
I think that many of the arguments again safe spaces, trigger warnings, and actually most things are subject to the Nirvana Fallacy [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_fallacy
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by wflynny 10y ago
Mentioning the word rape is not a discussion of rape.
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by wflynny 10y ago
It likely depends where the netflix servers are relative to you versus those used by other speed tests. For example, at my workplace in a big US city, I get about ~500Mpbs down from dlsreports, speedtest.net, and xfinity speedtest, because
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by wflynny 10y ago
What happens when one password is leaked somehow? Do you then have to reinitialize the matrix and reset all your passwords? You also have the problem of some domains requiring alphanumeric only, etc., which then limits what characters you c
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by wflynny 12y ago
This blogpost also doesn't appear to include the entire response from Cooley, LLC. Is there more after is lists the definition of the idiom and several other major places where the idiom is used? I imagine with the way the previous par