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by NLips 6y ago
My apologies regarding the Florida study; I only intended to address the references you had to UK ballots, given the context of this thread. On the Florida study. Perhaps I've misunderstood, but it read to me like the punchcard system
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by NLips 6y ago
https://www.rtings.com/ provide frequency response graphs for reviewed headphones + in-ear phones. For headphones they measure against a dummy head and against 5 individuals. They then show variation between these reading
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by NLips 6y ago
Factor of 10 failure: 28,500 infections, 57 deaths
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by NLips 6y ago
All of those spoilt ballot examples are where the proportion of spoiled ballots is high because voters are protesting. They don’t combat the claim that inadvertently spoiled ballots are rare, nor that spoiled ballots open to the possibility
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by NLips 6y ago
BBC’s _More or Less_ did a bit on this. 70% more deadly (per person) would actually be better than 70% more infectious. Deaths increase linearly with deadliness of virus, but they increase exponentially with infectiousness. Say the current
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by NLips 6y ago
Treated in Germany, not the UK
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by NLips 6y ago
I’ll throw one thing out there in case you’ve not tried it: I’ve seen plenty of advice that if your kids wake up “too early”, then counterintuitively, they may be going to sleep too late. So in your case, it’s possible that if you get them
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by NLips 6y ago
I have never been on a busy motorway with everyone driving at or above the speed limit. Car drivers always vary between 55 and 70(+), and heavier vehicles are frequently as slow as 50. That is not a hazard. It would be a hazard were they to
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by NLips 6y ago
My suggestion for someone having difficulty keeping their speed in a 20% window was to aim 6 mph slower at highway speeds. That doesn’t constitute “far slower”. In the Uk, if you are incapable of handling your car on a highway with other ve
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by NLips 6y ago
Ignoring whether it’s “human nature” to vary by that much, the remedy is simple: in a 60mph limit (the clue is in the name), target 54. +/-10% is now 48.6-59.4, instead of 54-66. It’s within the speed limit, and a smaller absolute spee
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by NLips 6y ago
The only reasons for needing to reinflate every day should be: 1) using latex inner tubes. They’re lighter, but don’t hold air so well. Fine for racing, impractical for normal use 2) a slow puncture
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by NLips 6y ago
Please don't be snarky. A better response would have been just your hint: "You can mirror the board but that doesn't mirror the pinout of components"
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by NLips 6y ago
I have no idea which is further from a purely pitch adjusted version of the original! The key (no pun intended) takeaway is that virtually all instruments sound different in each key, and just playing higher will sound different to eg recor
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by NLips 6y ago
That’s not quite correct. To perfectly preserve, you’d also need to change the string thickness, tension and weight, which may involve a change of materials, and may not even be possible to retain proportionality between strings. You’d have
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by NLips 6y ago
Collecting rubber isn’t about adding weight. The teams want to mask the exact tyre wear amount/patterns, which they do by covering the surface with scraps. <edit> Actually this seems less clear cut than I thought. I'd heard
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by NLips 6y ago
Yes, it will lead to grade inflation. The important question is: does that matter? Exams already have their flaws such as being far more likely to give a flawed bad grade to someone than a flawed good grade. How much grade inflation would y
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by NLips 6y ago
No. The system aimed for no nationwide grade inflation. When it then took a number of private school’s predictions at face value (no alteration if you paid for a small class size), meaning fewer high grades available for other schools. So l
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by NLips 6y ago
This UK government did away with most coursework and also with sitting half of the papers in your penultimate year, half the next. Against the guidance of most universities and schools. And setting themselves up for this.
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by NLips 6y ago
On the whole, students from private schools had significant grade inflation over previous years, often because the predictions were used as-is. This left fewer high grades "available" for state schools (in order to maintain the w
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by NLips 6y ago
Yes, the current government reduced or got rid of much coursework and stopped As levels contributing to an A level. In the previous system, there was more coursework in some subjects (almost always still <50%), thus recognising the abili
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by NLips 6y ago
Even ranking students isn't a good answer on the individual level. Imagine there are two schools: A typical small private school, which normally achieves high grades, and a larger state school which normally achieves a broader spread.
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by NLips 6y ago
Not really - the second half is just rhetoric to add flavour. He wasn't saying "People have had enough of the subset of experts who are always wrong", not least because obviously an "expert" who is always wrong is
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by NLips 6y ago
Yes. Holding interviews at each of Oxford and Cambridge are approximately 2 weeks of full time work for tutors, with paid full-time assistance from some students, and with admin from other college and university staff.
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by NLips 7y ago
Fascinating! Thanks
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by NLips 7y ago
My uneducated guess is that the Europeans lived in much larger communities (in Europe), which is a much better breeding ground for disease. This meant they were much more full of disease than the native Americans. Another uneducated guess
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by NLips 7y ago
That’s a terrible talk! In particular, why on earth is the car seat moving forwards in the crash test? Most car seats I’ve seen are essentially bolted to the rest of the seat. Is this a Europe / USA thing?
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by NLips 7y ago
Don't think about approaching. There's nothing you can do if you're next to them that you can't do at a distance. In particular, you should never try to physically stop someone jumping (who is already on an edge). Giv
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by NLips 7y ago
I think the parent may just be suggesting that there's no need for the LLC wrapper, because it wouldn't hypothetically provide protection anyway.
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by NLips 7y ago
I believe the parent isn't disagreeing with you. Breaking down the parent's post: """ What's funny about this is that I think this is a legitimate and relatively non-evil use case. """ - parent i
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by NLips 7y ago
Please keep calm - there's no need to shout. If for no other reason, it's harder to read all caps. We are not making the point you think we are. We're all clear that if the bank can distinguish, they must refund legitimate c

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