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You've been around HN a long time. You know that responding to tone is frowned upon here. If there are statements in those links you think were twisted just say how.

"ALSO EVERY AIRPORT SHOULD HAVE MOCK EMERGENCY AIRPLANE DOORS FOR PEOPLE TO TRY OUT." I would pay money for this in the safety amusement park, but in real life way more people woul…

A yep that's a critical piece of information. For context, "In the 2025 incoming class, this group constitutes roughly one-eighth of our entire entering cohort."

The UCSD report shows some of the questions they asked incoming students. 39% got this right: Round the number 374518 to the nearest 100 34% got this right: Find 13/16 ÷ 2. 2% got …

Thanks, I didn't know that was a thing. Still it's 3 to 4 cruise ships a month according to that article and, while probably hugely dirty, I would be surprised if the asthma rates …

> Levels of asthma in London are highest among kids in the vacinity of the docks where cruise and container ships and moor. Wait, what? There are no container docks in London. The …

The base rate is 1.5 to 2.5 cases per 10,000 people per year, according to the article.

This is a press release, though. Whether or not Ofcom is independent, their press release writers are not independent, they are part of Ofcom's PR team, a team that absolutely exis…

Agree, that's why it's a valuable service to make it hard to have skeletons.

You seem to think I'm arguing that they are insider trading. I'm not arguing that!

It's also an activist short seller. They make money by publishing negative research reports on companies they've shorted. It's a valuable service. The disclaimer amounts to "we're …

Can you elaborate? What is a tax strategy driven small business?

You're saying that if you as an employer find out that someone you hired lied to induce you to hire them, you should be legally required to continue employing them, as some kind of…

If lying about you employment history is a protected activity, then if a pre-employment background check catches you lying about your employment history, and you say "no I am salti…

"The government of Vietnam says that up to four million people in Vietnam were exposed to the defoliant, and as many as three million people have suffered illness because of Agent …

Same. I didn't know this was something web pages could collect. Apparently these days only Chrome on Android still supports it. Found this helpful comment about the background and …