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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
US college libraries do pay per-article fees. Most offer an "interlibrary loan" service where faculty and students can request a specific article from a journal the library doesn't subscribe to. Depending on the journal'
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
I think the mindless type of YouTube viewer would quickly get bored and cut short their viewing of Every Frame videos (they're long for YouTube videos and require some attention to get entertainment value from them).
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"...how can we explain a 19:1 pay differential for workers with similar training and tasks? The answer is to look at who controls the pilot's union: very senior pilots. The airline management is mostly interested in what percentag
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
hristov did, at the top of this thread ("The idea of nurses prescribing pills is very bad") https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15757283
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
To be fair, the web developer's work probably doesn't lead to someone else's health decline or death if they misremember something.
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
Not the GP, but I'm not a hacker, not rich, have a marginally IT-related job - but find the non-tech discussion on HN far better than most news/discussion web sites. I do find it ironic for a commenter to be surprised at a lower-w
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
Yes, but the Toyota I bought used was still a Toyota.
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
We evolved in small communities where whatever germs existed were likely shared by the whole community, and contact with strangers was rare compared to today.
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
What cars are not name brand? (Self-built?)
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
Based on all the Uber- and taxi-related threads I've read on HN before, in many jurisdictions, taxis are legally "obliged" to accept credit/debit cards, pick up non-white customers (common U.S. anti-discrimination laws),
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
Seems more like a brand-father, though.
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
How is it a higher risk than hiring an entry-level person who has not proven their ability?
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Publishers threaten to remove millions of papers from ResearchGate(nature.com)
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"it takes less water to make my clothes than it would to wash them" rather implies that he does not wash them (otherwise the most logical wording would be "it takes less water to make my clothes than it does to wash them&
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
Do looters actually turn on appliances to make sure they work before they steal them?
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
To illustrate how much human tastes can vary: I don't like sweet drinks (coca cola makes me gag for example), and the idea of liquid pixy stix sounds like torture. (Though I'm now curious as to whether pixy stix would dissolve in
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
Is there no topic that you like to discuss at length, that others don't enjoy and wonder why it is important to you?
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
>charging authors for the service they are buying This description feels weird and vaguely misleading, if only because when I buy, say, auto repair or hair styling service, the service provider doesn't consult a panel of other custo
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
For me, implied pressure to socialize with the driver ("fist bumping" etc.) would be a bug, not a feature.
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Marriage being "about love" is a relatively recent phenomenon. It has previously been about managing resources, making family political/social alliances, and (as it still is) creating social and economic stability for childre
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
What basis is there for the assumption that private IRBs have a "terrible process" and do a worse job at protecting subject safety?
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
>>and presumably in limited weather conditions; >Why's that? Because Phoenix has extremely low precipitation: http://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/phoenix/arizona/united-...
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
Per [0] they are allowed to drive in the US, and do not have higher accident rates than hearing drivers[1]. Also, "There are now devices available that can be used in r cars that react to the frequency of sirens and which emit visual w
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
>> Can you mine whoppercoin? > No Unless you count eating lots of whoppers as mining.
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
For those who read only comments: this is only in Russia. And coin will be issued as a reward for buying whoppers, spendable on more whoppers. So, not that different than the "buy ten cups of coffee, get the eleventh free" type lo
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
From what I've read about this elsewhere, sites offering mainly or predominantly (what some may take as) pornographic content are much more likely to have credit card charges disputed and refunded. Husband buys porn, wife notices the c
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Many libraries only have online subscriptions to these journals nowadays...
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
It's implied that the vet is the commenter themselves ("picked up a Veteran Scholarship worth half my $16,000 tuition"), who "came from a mix of technologies (approximate knowledge, but a master of none)" - hardly &
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by upvotinglurker 9y ago
FWIW I've seen medieval recipes containing almond milk (referred to as milk or equivalent period word), so calling such substances milk is not a newfangled idea.
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Is the person behind the potential recliner realistically able to say "no," or is that too impolite?

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