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by banach_d 6y ago
In Paris hotels have been extremely tightly regulated for a long time. The original system of 1-5 stars originated there, and was a government-mandated scale based on very specific criteria of quality and facilities. Lots of sharp practice
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by banach_d 6y ago
Recently someone said to me - rather than think of books as milestones to be completed, think of time spent with a book as a goal in itself, not a cost. This applies to lots of 'improving' books. If you spend an hour reading one o
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by banach_d 6y ago
Is it worth mentioning that many people enjoy reading books? If you spend 6-9 hours reading a book and you didn't particularly enjoy that time, probably your cost-benefit analysis is going to be completely different from the primary
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by banach_d 6y ago
I found the examples very surprising - because I think several of those books exist exactly to communicate a very specific, important idea. If you can describe in a few sentences what the central idea of 'The Selfish Gene' is - I
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by banach_d 6y ago
But if the brine is not frozen at the working temperature of your freezer, it's completely ineffective compared to water.
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by banach_d 6y ago
He walks back the 36 hours claim which he recognizes is a completely unjustified extrapolation. And the 'subtract 7 minutes' is a very dubious answer to a completely different question.
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by banach_d 6y ago
The actual article doesn't answer the question and this is actually a much more helpful answer.
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by banach_d 6y ago
This is an extremely interesting question, both from a scientific and a practical point of view, but the article doesn't really answer it at all. He starts by measuring the temperature in the freezer, but then puts a realistic amount o