nohuck13
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Comment · 11 months ago
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.
Comment · 11 months ago
"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 would get hurt operating the fake one at the airport than we'd help in real emergencies. Plane crashes where the emergency exit gets operated are so rare they effectively don't happen.
Comment · 11 months ago
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."
Comment · 11 months ago
The UCSD report shows some of the questions they asked incoming students.
39% got this right:
Round the number 374518 to the nearest 100
Find 13/16 ÷ 2.
If a=-2 and b=-3, evaluate ab² - a/b
Comment · 1 year ago
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 of kids in affluent Greenwich and Blackheath are among "the highest in London" because of this.
Comment · 1 year ago
> 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 nearest container port serving London is Tilbury, near the coast. Occasionally a single cruise ship moors in the Pool of London against the HMS Belfast, but that's happening only one this month, for 12 hours on April 7, according to the Tower Bridge lift schedule: https://www.towerbridge.org.uk/lift-times
Comment · 1 year ago
The base rate is 1.5 to 2.5 cases per 10,000 people per year, according to the article.
Comment · 1 year ago
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 exists.
Comment · 2 years ago
Agree, that's why it's a valuable service to make it hard to have skeletons.