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Some transit agencies and railroads are experimenting with GPS, but IIRC the biggest impediment are tunnels,
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USPS now supports a feature called "street addressing". Keep in mind that street addressing doesn't work at all USPS locations, although it does work at most of them. You have to fill out a form with USPS or any mail addres
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Apple has quite a history of prosecuting devs who say anything critical about the company or its products For example?
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Immortalizing those who appropriated other people's money Prior to the Big Dig, Massachusetts had funded all of its interstate highways entirely with its own money while still sending it's share of gas tax money to the Feds. The
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On the other hand, imagine what $20bn could have done to the public transit infrastructure in Boston, which is dying out for a Crossrail/RER style project to link the two main commuter rail terminals to allow through trains. For what
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In the case of sound insulation, the solution would be to mandate sound insulation (STC) and ceiling/floor insulation (IIC) testing as a condition of obtaining the occupancy permit. Such testing is performed on HUD-financed housing and
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I have to agree with Domenic_S, it's probably the solid core doors (I'm guess the jambs and sill are well-sealed also) that's providing most of the benefit moreso than the rockwool. Staggered studs are an option, resilient ch
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Take note building developers. I WILL PAY MORE. There are three potential problems that we frequently come across: 1. Many building developers just don't care, so long as the structure meets minimum code (which is typically based on
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Rockwool (as a substitution for fiberglass or cellulose insulation) by itself shouldn't do all that much. Are the internal walls 2x4 or 2x6 construction? Do you know the thickness of the drywall panels?
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A friend forwarded this article to me about a half-hour ago. After reading the article a few times, my feelings are a little mixed. Yes, sound matters. Sound can help to characterize an environment. But I read some of the quotes in the arti
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fewer downtown exits Fewer downtown exits should mean better flow through SR99 because there will be less intra-city traffic clogging lanes. That's one of the reasons the Big Dig improved traffic on I-93, they removed a bunch of down
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There was also the Handspring Visor Phone (2000) and the Qualcomm PDQ (1999). And then there where a bunch of phones from Nokia, the Windows CE phones, etc. Apple wasn't the first, we all know that. I'd say that the iPhone has as
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Try again, link worked for me.
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At least in Europe it is considered almost always. I should have appended "in the USA" to that sentence. Europe is far, far ahead of us in terms of addressing noise in general and transportation noise in particular. For example,
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With trees FYI, trees don't block sound unless the strand is extremely dense and at least 100-ft thick. Their value is more psychological (out-of-sight, out-of-mind) than physical in reducing the perception of noise.
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I don't know why you were downvoted - transportation noise is the major noise course in this USA and creates a lot of negative affects. We as a society need mechanized transportation to function as we do, but it creates some negative e
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See my response to pervycreeper
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For a book that's lightly technical, there's F. Alton Everest's "Master Handbook of Acoustics" that discusses many aspects of acoustics, but does cover noise control and sound abatement. For more technical treatment
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There are companies that offer sound/vibration isolating chambers [0][1][2][3][4], typically they're geared toward audiometric testing or musicians. From what you are describing, you'd like something a little smaller, but eve
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I've submitted this article not because of the specific content (although it will be of interest to many) but because of the article text and data that are modified based on the reader location. For example, in the subhead, I see &quot
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The Experts Were Wrong About the Best Places for Better and Cheaper Health Care(nytimes.com)
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I used to, but as of iOS 9, "hey Siri" no longer works when an iPhone is face down so now it stays face up at night.
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Professional athletes get caught cheating all the time, but I don't doubt they still love their sports. I very much doubt that cheating athletes love the sport. They may love the fame and benefits that come with the sport, but if the
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Why question their motives? Is it really so hard to believe that Gates really loved computers? Did Gates' love of computers motivate Microsoft's anticompetitive moves in the 1990s?
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The Quietest Place on Earth?(youtube.com)
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Google's driverless cars have now logged over a million fully automated miles. It is a proven technology. Not even Google engineers go that far - see this Tech Review article [0] from last years that talks about how Google's dri
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Harvard, MIT researchers find cheating in online courses(bostonglobe.com)
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NeXTSTEP was using the ".app" extension for it's application bundles even back in those years, so it's not surprising to hear Jobs through around "apps" as a term.
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'm sorry, but 77F (25C) is an inferno and there's no way I'd want to work for an extended length of time in an office that warm. Interesting. I work out of my home and I generally find that up to 80 degrees in low humidity
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Gallery: we tear apart a $340 audiophile Ethernet cable and look inside(arstechnica.com)
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