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In contrast, in the metro in Paris, the doors open a few seconds before the train stops, so that the doors are fully open by the time the train is stopped - and passengers in a hurry can jump out while the train is still moving.

I absolutely want to do something like this to help me and my family spend less time watching our phones in the evening.

Does anybody know of a reasonably-simple way of either increasing the latency or throttling the bandwidth, per-device, with programmable hours? For example, is there any wifi router that lets you do this?

Not a psychology researcher, but I think that the Milgram experiment has been fairly well replicated. Please anyone let me know if not.

I personally found it to be non-obvious.

There's another thread linking the same article, and it's very unclear that this loss of weight is caused by the mental effort.

If thinking hard required a lot of energy, wouldn't we expect that thinking hard would cause an increased heart rate and faster breathing?

If thinking hard required a lot of energy, wouldn't we expect that thinking hard would cause an increased heart rate and faster breathing?

This is horrible. I see horrible scenes in the city streets on a regular basis but seeing the picture of this poor tiny little baby on the pavement hit me hard.

Anybody here had experience dealing with that kind of cold? I'm curious how people deal with with. Is that something that good equipment can protect against or is it just too cold?

Where do you live? In SF, last time I tried to get the cops to come out of their desk (to arrest a bike thief who was selling my stolen bike literally 3 blocks away from the station), they told me that they couldn't do it. One of the excuses they used was that it was too far: if I could get the thief to enter the police station then they would help me.

"My school had waterboarding on the menu".

When and where did you go to school?

+1, this would have been super to me too when buying a car with the constraint of having a tiny garage with a weird shape.

What I really wanted was a tool that lets me draw the plan of the garage and then tells me if I'll be able to park my car, and the margin (min offset to wall during the whole maneuver).

I couldn't find that at the time sadly.

My dad had one! Another interesting about them is that the wood is decorated with patterns that are carved on it as the wood is alive and still growing. They're beautiful, I have never seen that technique anywhere else.

A kid in my 3yo son's preschool class tested positive today, and they are asking that all kids test twice (with a few days in between) and wear masks at all times while at school for the next 6 days. I'm in SF

My intuition is that people underestimate the impact of forcing kids and toddlers to wear masks.

What I observe is that for folks without kids, life has gotten back to normal, but somehow everything related to kids is still over cautious.

saturated animal fat doesnt cause heart disease

Can you please tell me more? I would love for this to be true, is there evidence for this?

From the article:

Lupiano said many of those who reached out to him about their brain cancer cases "are former CHS teachers and staff members who didn’t live in Colonia, they just worked in the school."

I totally agree, and I've observed how my productivity has gone up dramatically now that I'm back to the office. It's fairly empty, so it's not like there is actually many people watching over my shoulder, but somehow while I'm at my desk there I feel very little desire to do anything other than work.

You can believe that gender is irrelevant and only sex matters, but you should still make an effort to be polite and nice to your coworkers - for example call them by the name they go for even if it is different from the one on their ID, use the pronouns that they prefer, etc.

Of course, like all things related to politeness, there is no absolute rule - if I change my pronouns every week I shouldn't expect people to keep up. But it should not be surprising that you can be fired for not making a minimal effort to be nice to your colleagues.

Is the reason it's sexist because it can be interpreted as "women are less capable than men"? You would say this other statement is false and sexist, correct?

Can you explain what it means to "deny the existence" of someone? I see this expression often, but I'm genuinely puzzled by what it means in practice.

I agree with you that "purposely misgendering one's colleagues" should lead to firing, but I think this article isn't about that. It's about people who are tolerant of others and in general try to be nice people, but just disagree about certain things - for example, how criminal transgenders should be incarcerated, or whether affirmative action is a good way to help disadvantaged people.

In the YouTube app (android), go to library, history, three dot menu, history controls, clear watch history.

Gee, 8 days is a lot, yeah that feels like worse than a flu. I hope they both feel better soon.

Was it worse than a flu for them, or roughly similar?

Actually my wife had a bad cold this summer and she coughed so hard during the night that we had to take her to the ER and she was lacking oxygen (not sure by how much). She is otherwise healthy in her early 30s, though she was pregnant, which might have made it worse. It surprised me, I always thought that colds were harmless.

Thank you for your comment. I myself have cooked on gas my whole life, have learnt over years how each of my different pans heats over gas (it sounds stupid but there are a lot of subtleties when it comes to cast iron, carbon steel and stainless steel, how they hear up at different rates and develop hot spots, how the sides and the center hear differently, and how that can result in burnt oil). I am anxious to have to learn all of this again on induction, and maybe even having to let go of my beloved carbon steel pan (it's unclear to me how well it will work on induction and whether it will warp or spin on the flat surface).

But overall the reasoning of this change makes sense to me - we'll all have to adapt and it'll be annoying but we can't wait. The right time to start was 30 years ago - the second best time is now.

So how do you interpret the results of this study? Patients who went through what you call "woo" did report less pain.

Apps that are based on a subscription model also advertise for their apps, the two issues are orthogonal.

The 1.25 million is worldwide.

Seeing the replies, it seems that most people agree that it is worth it.

But in the last few weeks I keep wondering if our reaction to covid-19 is consistent with our reactions to other causes of mortality. For example:

- 1.25 million people die in road crashes every year, yet we have collectively decided that abandoning cars is too large a sacrifice to make.

- global warming has the potential to cause huge devastations and millions of death, yet we fail to make the adequate sacrifices to limit our emissions.

So, is there something different about covid-19 that warrants these differences? Is the fatality rate higher, for example?

Or could it be a difference of game theory? For example for global warming, everybody has to participate in order to see gains.

Or maybe humans have a natural fear of germs and react stronger to contagious diseases than to other risks? I remember reading that argument in Factfulness.

It's common in San Francisco, if you rent. Often you'd have a slated washer dryer in the building, but sometimes not.

Anecdotally I did the same before a trip to Brazil and I found it very useful.

But in the US it is frequent that the price per weight (or per volume) is not displayed consistently in the same units, for example $/oz for some items versus $/lb, and it's much harder to do conversions than with the metric system.