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See the Involuntary Bumping subsection under Overbooking in [1]. The airline is obligated to give you either: `min(2 * your ticket price, $675)`; or `min(4 * your ticket price, $13…

I binge-listened to the podcast over two listening sessions, so I imagine that is a modest endorsement for how interesting and engaging the podcast is. That said, while I disagree …

These charts are just bad data visualizations, the legends are uninformative, and this article is very light on commentary. While I can see how one could argue these support the au…

Having reviewed several papers for Scientific Reports in the past year, it was very similar to my experience reviewing for PLoS One. You are mandated not to factor in the significa…

Isn't this reasoning essentially comparing a drop-in replacement with an ideal, though? Assuming this is a new technology that can actually make it through to manufacturing changes…

Here is Nature's policy on embargo: http://www.nature.com/nature/authors/policy/embargo.html They argue that > [the] embargo serves scientists, journalists and the public. Our poli…

Not necessarily disagreeing with you, but I think part of the issue is not just that you can't afford to "go to dinner and a movie"; some aspects of the Ivys' cultures are built up…

> Light sources > We used two types of lighting devices. For exposure to white LED, commercial cold white LED panel generating 2300 lumens during 24 h was used. The LED panel was p…

Yes, we do not want the flu. If you want to train your immune system, get the flu shot. I got the flu 10 months ago as a healthy male in his late 20s, the first major illness I've …

From [1], "Hampstead is the deepest station below the surface, at 58.5 metres (192 ft), as its surface building is near the top of a hill". So the deepest is about 60m, but from br…

> If anything, the fact that Yale fosters closer relationships with administrators and faculty should make it _more_ likely that students would take gentle advice from their house …

While I agree with you, I think it's worth noting that Yale's system of on-campus housing is drastically different than that at most universities. The residential college system of…

I think that many of the arguments again safe spaces, trigger warnings, and actually most things are subject to the Nirvana Fallacy [1]. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nirvana_…

Mentioning the word rape is not a discussion of rape.

It likely depends where the netflix servers are relative to you versus those used by other speed tests. For example, at my workplace in a big US city, I get about ~500Mpbs down fro…

What happens when one password is leaked somehow? Do you then have to reinitialize the matrix and reset all your passwords? You also have the problem of some domains requiring alph…

This blogpost also doesn't appear to include the entire response from Cooley, LLC. Is there more after is lists the definition of the idiom and several other major places where the…