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russtypinnon The Best Textbooks on Every Subject

I have not used it personally (and am not affiliated) but I've heard good things about ALEKS. It provides an adaptive learning path that supposedly adjusts to you as you master topics. Now that I think about it I think Kahn academy might have a similar feature. For personal use ALEKS has a subscription plan that provides access to their whole catalogue.

https://www.aleks.com/independent

russtypinnon An Airline Fee That Exists for No Apparent Reason

Was a band playing? That might have been the live entertainment tax. As a Vegas resident I thank you for helping to pave my roads. /s

https://tax.nv.gov/FAQs/Live_Entertainment_Tax___FAQ%E2%80%9...

russtypinnon Carnegie Educational Institution Classification

This system is used to classify colleges and universities into some thirty plus categories based on student population, degree type, and broad area of study. There is a PDF flowchart that explains the classifications: [PDF] http://carnegieclassifications.iu.edu/downloads/CCIHE2015-Fl...

I came across this on The Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC)'s site as a method of calculating membership fees as a function of institution size. https://www.ren-isac.net/membership/fees.html

russtypinnon Is the Answer to Phone Addiction a Worse (grayscale) Phone?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leedroid.s...

In anyone was wondering how to quick toggle grayscale on android. I came across a couple of articles on breaking phone addiction by using a grayscale filter awhile back, but couldn't figure out how to toggle it quickly in Android. This app (not affiliated) is able to after granting secure settings permission via ADB. Pretty happy so far.