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by manarth 10y ago
You're right to say that doing away with overbooking would simplify the system, simplify the logistics. As a consumer though, it would makes things more complicated and/or more expensive. I would argue that in most cases, the ai
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by manarth 10y ago
To add to that, flying without the passengers who didn't show is cheaper. Every extra kg is a cost in fuel, so passengers not showing up is already a net saving. That said, I do see the appeal of allowing flexibility in tickets, allo
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by manarth 10y ago
if we really thought that there were people who had sold themselves to the devil and received supernatural powers then surely it would be a terrible idea to attack them, and in fact, the only people who could be successfully att
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by manarth 10y ago
Marvel Comics recently fired an illustrator for hiding Islamist, anti-Semitic and anti-Christian references in his art. It wasn't exactly his art in which the references were hidden - it was Marvel's art . He hid the
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by manarth 10y ago
though police do not have video evidence of it How hard is to have a rule stating "every SWAT deployment must include a video-record, and every member of a SWAT team must have an active body camera"? There's far too m
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by manarth 10y ago
What's more disturbing is that there reportedly was contact/a conversation between the SWAT team and the residents, which the team then ignored: Officers reportedly ignored his father, Tom, and his cousin telling them there
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by manarth 10y ago
The SWAT event was by an American SWAT team, in the USA. The UK angle is that the guy who made the false report lives in the UK and made the call from the UK.
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by manarth 10y ago
There's a reference in the article that covers that kind of scenario. The additional 50 students that the school interviewed but initially rejected, did just as well as their other classmates in terms of attrition, academic per
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by manarth 10y ago
instinct and sexism/racism are often conflated. What's perceived as instinct is often the outcome of social conditioning, which gives outcomes such as "People See Black Men as Larger, More Threatening Than Same-Sized
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by manarth 10y ago
The fMRI happened 3 hours after the participants dose, so sleep vs. no sleep wouldn't affect the results (you would reasonably expect the sleep vs. no sleep to be randomly distributed between participants, without being unduly biased t
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by manarth 10y ago
How is this even up for speculation? Why is there a need to quantify this with a study? Legislation and governance is influenced by statistics. If a City Hall meeting is discussing legislating against Uber, and a taxi commission p
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by manarth 10y ago
> no one should be surprised that people drink and drive anywhere. > People make all sorts of terrible decisions when they're intoxicated Many people make a Ulysses pact: if they're going out drinking, they make th
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by manarth 10y ago
On the one hand, it was mind-numbingly delicious because of the White Witch's magic making it incredibly addictive, rather than simply the virtue of being Turkish delight. But why the choice of Turkish delight? A combination of status-
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by manarth 10y ago
Microsoft are listed as a "partner" on the Renault Sport site [1], which may be a synonym for sponsor (even if that's simply providing free/reduced-price services). So yes, I would expect them to mention + promote MS ser
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by manarth 10y ago
For context, which channel? I watch Sky F1, which provides a decent amount of technical context, but I don't know what content is delivered by Channel 4, or how it compares to Sky.
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by manarth 10y ago
Even DRS is a "hack" to fix the difficulty of following. The challenge is to find a decent set of regulations that allow decent downforce and fast cars, without too much wake disturbance.
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by manarth 10y ago
>> How much is Ford expected to grow? > If they can properly pivot into the electric car market, a lot. And how much of that growth into the electric car market would cannibalize their ICE sales?
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by manarth 10y ago
No: SpaceX is launching satellites into various orbits, which Blue Origin cannot do yet (and cannot do with their current rocket).
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by manarth 10y ago
Worth noting that helmets are mandatory in the UK, but optional in parts of the USA (as a Brit, I found this astonishing, the first time I visited the USA).
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by manarth 10y ago
FUD in last month's rumour-mill. - http://www.gamezone.com/news/rumor-nes-classic-mini-reported... - http://www.techradar.com/news/dont-panic-nintendo-nes-mini-p... - http://www.ex
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by manarth 10y ago
[The judiciary] can force you to provide evidence. Everybody has a duty to cooperate with litigation. The 5th Amendment appears to explicitly contradict those examples.
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by manarth 10y ago
If you want to search for the history of pineapples, you don't need 100 sites with the same info. "Pineapples grow from a plant in the tropics." "Pineapples are grown in equatorial countries." --- "Pi
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by manarth 10y ago
A child-porn seller self-evidently deals in illegal material. What if they deal in other, non-child-porn material? Cocaine? Ecstasy? Marijuana? Legal marijuana, in some jurisdictions? Fake/non-prescription Viagra? Hard-core/nich
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by manarth 10y ago
"Detectives persuaded a magistrate judge to sign a search warrant ordering Usry to provide his DNA for comparison" "His DNA, Hoffman wrote, did not match the semen from the scene of Dodge’s murder." This sounds
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by manarth 10y ago
Basic information is easy to grab from your server logs. Unless caching. That's a good reason to move to frontend-based analytics like GA.
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by manarth 10y ago
Sell it to a dating/hookup service to improve recommendations for sexual compatibility criteria.
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by manarth 10y ago
Belly-down is the easiest and most stable attitude, which is why that's the first attitude taught in skydiving. The other common attitudes are head-down vertical, feet-first vertical, "sitting", and back-flying. The first thr
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by manarth 10y ago
he unscrews his car's battery from the mounting, then flips it over and presses the contacts directly to my car's battery. is that safe? Electrically, it's not all that different from using jump leads - there&#x27
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by manarth 10y ago
Given the mention of eBay, should governments ignore eBay traders who ignore tax regulations? [1] Do the US government ignore people who don't comply with online sales regulations, or do they charge them a penalty? [2] The words '
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by manarth 10y ago
because the bank management didn't follow the rules In this analogy, 1. Does the bank teller understand that the rules aren't being followed? 2. Is the teller legally obliged to understand the rules? If a bar-tender serves

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