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by pranjalv123 2y ago
I have never had my ID checked at the gate on a domestic flight, only by TSA at security or at the ticketing counter when checking bags.
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by pranjalv123 3y ago
254nm UV is harmful to human eyes and skin, and shouldn't be directly exposed to people. 222nm UV is safe for humans, since the wavelength can't penetrate the outermost layer of skin/cornea. This is discussed at length in t
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by pranjalv123 3y ago
If they were "due to die", you'd see negative excess mortality in future years because the people who were going to die in those years already died. And excess mortality has continued to be positive and high.
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by pranjalv123 4y ago
You can read a transcript of the first conversations on the transatlantic telegraph[1]. Basically: the signal was very weak, they needed a lot of time between symbols, and they needed to repeat a lot. https://www.google.com/
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by pranjalv123 6y ago
They're also being admitted for their actions as children. By the logic of "they're just kids", you shouldn't have a college admissions process at all!
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
Paper ballots have a much more visible chain of custody than paperless ballots. In my county, from the time voting starts to the time votes are counted, ballots must either be in a locked closet with tamper-evident seals (for example, at ni
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
Why would Comcast do that? Wouldn't they want you to pay more for faster internet service (when you're almost never going to be maxing out your bandwidth)?
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/12/suppl_1/i6 This goes into more detail - yes, in some states it is illegal for teens to possess tobacco, but the penalty is usually something like a small fine, or you
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
No teenager has been to jail for smoking a cigarette. Underage possession laws have penalties like (usually small) fines. People might go to jail for selling tobacco to minors, but that is different!
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
Canola oil (and all plant products) have no cholesterol; red meat is high in cholesterol.
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
Shared libraries also reduce RAM usage; multiple executables that use the same shared library can load it into memory just once.
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
Denisovan and Neanderthal admixture predates the events predicted by this article by tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of years. It's also irrelevant to the MRCA of extant humans.
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
$4M in wealth is certainly enough to get a lawmaker to pass a "pet law" - some minor change to a zoning code or regulatory infrastructure that matters for your business. At least, if there's no concerted opposition to your pe
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
There's a place for both kinds of explanations. This is a good way of explaining what a Kalman filter is to someone who has a mathematical background, just like if you go look up a woodworking video, it might show an interesting way fo
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
The argument here is "I shouldn't avoid emotionally traumatizing you because at some point, someone else in the future may emotionally traumatize you". Perhaps there's a case to be made for exposing people to controversi
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
If there are problems like this with the finish work, it's likely that there are problems with the stuff you can't see as well. Just like a slow, buggy piece of software is more likely to have security issues than one that runs sm
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
Isaac Asimov's "The Gods Themselves" has a similar plot point, except one universe is dumping its excess entropy into another.
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
Another interesting method for power transmission in the early days of industrialization was the line shaft ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_shaft ). These were used only for a single factory, not for a whole city, t
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by pranjalv123 7y ago
If the machines triggered on hairstyles commonly worn by white men, what are the odds that they would have made it to production? Conversely, if the development teams had a significant amount of black women with hairstyles like these, what
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
You can read it at https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.mrrev.2019.02.001
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
Capitalism provides more benefits than feudalism, which in turn provided more benefits than a pre-feudal barter economy. But that doesn't mean that there is no economic system that would provide still more benefits than capitalism.
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
The average driver drives like 13,500 miles a year [1]. The average driver files a claim for collision once every 17.9 years [2]. That makes human drivers 16 times safer than Uber self-driving cars. This is concerning for people who think s
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
I know a lot more people who make $11 an hour working 60-80 hours a week than I do engineers.
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
Medicare for all would get rid of high private insurance premiums, but it would also raise payments by people who are currently uninsured, and would have higher payment levels than Medicaid. So the decrease in provider payments would, in to
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
Don't all time-dependent processes result in dependency graphs? The only way you could have a circular dependency is if one organism was a parent of one of their ancestors, which is obviously impossible* *actually, it's not imposs
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
Botulinum can't grow below pH 4.6, so to be safer, you could replace some of the water with vinegar, or pasteurize the garlic before adding it.
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
Because you've had 40 years to iron out any problems on the line.
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
The American Revolution was fought in part to preserve slavery [1] and to allow westward expansion at the expense of the Native Americans [2]. Tens of thousands of slaves, as well as most of the Native American tribes, fought alongside the
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
Why would a editorial staff union be managed the same way as a public transit rail-workers union? Wouldn't a better example be one of the many already existing creative workers unions, like the WGA, CWA, or Newspaper guild?
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by pranjalv123 8y ago
it's only members of a particular "bargaining unit" that are required to pay fair share fees - in other words, if the union helps negotiate your contract, you pay a fee. You could certainly have unions in different offices wi

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