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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Headways - I believe many Pacific Electric routes had a car every 5 minutes. Not once every 1/2 hour like a lot of light rail. As somebody besides me put it, if you have to check the schedule it's not a real transit system.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Los_Ange... The immense streetcar network in the Los Angeles area.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Even ordinary city libraries can often help with reading lists.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Marketing studies show that people who buy SUVs are both more scared of the road, and have more doubts on their own driving skill.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Unfortunately many shopping centers that build out to the sidewalk will display a blank wall with ventilators and so forth facing the sidewalk, and the real entrances are in the interior, facing the parking. In one way this makes sense sinc
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Typically the road w/o sidewalks was put in earlier, when sidewalks weren't required. Or there is a change of jurisdiction, and one didn't require sidewalks and one did, often city vs. unincorporated county land.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Another factor is increased number of trucks and SUVs. Pedestrians are struck higher in their body and are less likely to slide off the hood, but are instead underneath the vehicle.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Actual feedback is rare and extremely valuable. Mostly you will get "decided not to go forward", or "they felt you didn't have enough depth in <SOME SKILL>", which might or might not be true. What recruiter is
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Friend worked for Kaplan during the time period of the investigation. IQ - you know IQ tests are renormed to reflect education levels, and raw scores mapped to give the bell curve? So an IQ of 100 in 1900 would end up about 70 today. 70 od
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
And there are abacuses very similar in usage in Roman times. The Japanese ones, conforming to stereotype, seem to be the most elegant.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Friend had a Japanese style abacus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soroban#/media/File:Soroban.JP... I played around with it a bit, it was great fun but no match for Excel.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Surprised by all the downvotes, please read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_cancer_in_Australia for example.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> more about aptitude Though this was some years ago, I took both ACT and SAT and found them almost identical. I know SAT at least has added an essay section and otherwise moved away from multiple choice but still, to imagine you can&#x2
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Let's not forget cataracts, which are much more common in equatorial regions, even among people whose skin pigment helps protect them from skin cancers.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> sunlight Skin cancer, much? Maybe in Norway this makes sense. For fair skinned people in lower latitudes, maybe not.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
That's spacious by the standards of open offices. I have seen (interviewed at) a company, not a startup, that had two feet deep work surfaces, basically enough to put up a monitor, and chairs about three feet apart. Not really even sp
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Let's not forget that many "great schools" are really cram academies for the SAT.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
All too often "cost center" is used to mean "anything except sales and marketing".
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
McD requires franchise holders to be involved in day to day operation, and the investment is quite large, well north of 1 million.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
After Northridge earthquake in Los Angeles area, many freeway interchanges were rebuilt within months. But there was extreme urgency here. General Leslie Groves was chosen to administer the Manhattan Project because he got the Pentagon bui
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
You don't see it often in stores but I have had Lipton loose leaf tea brewed in a tea pot. That is much better than the tea bags. Of course since it's loose leaf it can't be dust.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
How it often works: Manager says I want an A that does B? How long? Most of the time estimate is N days, actual is N +/- 20%. Sometimes it's N days, and you get lucky it's N/3. Instead of credit, you now have a reputat
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
I know of Walgreens locations that have been profitable for 50 years or more. MacDonalds is similar. If they have a franchise that is doing badly, they will pay to move the franchise to a new location. A suburban McD closing is rare, usual
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
> lack of competition allowing them to increase prices. There is so much commercial real estate that it's hard to imagine them in any kind of a monopoly situation.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Stamp collector friend has Weimar inflation postage stamps in multi million Mark denominations, overprinted. Just regular stamps.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Social Security trust fund in USA holds Treasury bonds of enormous denominations like 100 million as well.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Visited relatives, their kids watched PBS kids in the morning, I was appalled with how frantic the majority of the shows were. The idea seems to be if it's not non-stop yelling kids will tune out. Lso the voice actors were mostly pitc
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Regarding WSJ, Noam Chomsky at one time at least read it, he said he did because their subscribers were people who actually demanded accurate news.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Soups and other slow cooking methods release minerals from veggies. On the other hand they degrade some vitamins.
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by JJMcJ 7y ago
Besides the banking issues, when do the people get paid? If the disappeared payroll company got money from employers, it's possible some employers may not have enough cash to pay a second time. Then they out of business, or close to it

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