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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.

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 sk…

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 contin…

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 nee…

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!

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…

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)?

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 somethi…

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…

Canola oil (and all plant products) have no cholesterol; red meat is high in cholesterol.

Shared libraries also reduce RAM usage; multiple executables that use the same shared library can load it into memory just once.

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 e…

$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, …

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…

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…

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 li…

Isaac Asimov's "The Gods Themselves" has a similar plot point, except one universe is dumping its excess entropy into another.

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…

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 signifi…

You can read it at https://sci-hub.tw/10.1016/j.mrrev.2019.02.001

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…

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 …

I know a lot more people who make $11 an hour working 60-80 hours a week than I do engineers.

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…

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 i…