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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…

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 'im…

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 …

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 w…

But if the brine is not frozen at the working temperature of your freezer, it's completely ineffective compared to water.

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 ques…

The actual article doesn't answer the question and this is actually a much more helpful answer.

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 tempera…