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Submarines also have reduced partial pressure of oxygen, (18-19%). https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0378427489...

That article is about the UK!

Better to stop for a week than conduct inspiring new research into the combination of mild covid and low oxygen levels while needing to staff an underway watchbill.

I'm part of the unit and the strike, although I'm not currently a TA. Happy to answer any questions if anyone has any. We're on strike for 42k for 12 month appointments, 37k for 9 …

Maneuvering boards and paper charts.

I've never heard this, but it sounds like it comes from Mandarin, since baobae means the same/similar thing there.

He died less than a year after this article was written.

It's probably the Jorge Luis Borges quote on the setup page.

From teaching a little CS and numerical computing in college and now teaching programming, I agree with you. Too many students come out of high school without the ability to manipu…

Yeah, the page is pretty messed up on my Chrome/Win7 also.

Have you ever been to Israel? Israeli style screening would mean interviews for every person flying to the USA. It would be more inconvenient and expensive than even the current TS…

I'm so glad that Mr. McConlogue can tell the justly homeless from the unjustly homeless.

The government presumes that tipped workers get a certain amount in tips, and taxes as if they got it.

I find biking in NYC pretty calm as long as I'm not running red lights. To me it feels safer than biking in San Francisco did. There is a significant set of protected bike lanes an…

You are very wrong that no one objects to people using alcohol as a date rape drug, and I don't hesitate to condemn anyone who pressures someone else into drinking in order to cont…

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I just wish that making an error in the debugging context didn't destroy my state. If it weren't for that, I might have used Lush again after Professor LeCun's Machine Learning cla…

"After all, hundreds of thousands of cattle are fattening in a 100-mile radius around Garden City and such incidents could turn into a food security issue - especially in an era wh…

What you think is inane is the part of testing that actually tests math skills.

He would have liked to use all the non-infringing content that was there as evidence that Megaupload was a genuine cloud storage company.

By filing a counter claim you aren't really starting a legal battle, you're giving them 10 days to start a real legal battle by going to a court. Your content is already offline. F…

It's about 5% of the population, so not normal in the sense that most people have an iq of 125, but normal in the sense that meeting someone with an iq of 125 is not terribly uncom…

NDP is what I said above, you can test a solution in polynomial time. You should get an algorithms textbook to read about time complexity of algorithms if the "Time Complexity" pag…

I didn't understand this sort of math at all until I spent some time in a formal Theory of Computation class studying first finite automata/regular languages, then PDA/CFL and othe…

The amount of gold in circulation has never stopped increasing.