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by amyjess 8y ago
And if you go by the NECTA definition instead of the CBSA, Nashua is part of the Metropolitan NECTA which is a much tighter definition than a Combined NECTA/SA. http://zaidan-x.org:8192/necta/71650 (edit: I do apo
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by amyjess 8y ago
> I think Boston is often taken to be a very large geographic area. Indeed. This is the Boston—Cambridge—Newton Metropolitan Statistical Area: http://zaidan-x.org:8192/highlight/cbsa/14460/states/count
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> There are huge differences in drawing ability, but going from "I can't draw" to "I can draw quite well" takes days, not years Maybe for some people, but not everyone. I have developmental dyspraxia, a.k.a. deve
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> two lunatics, who, having nothing better to do, would show up to every single one of them It's nice to know that the Pawnee Town Hall meetings from Parks & Recreation have some basis in real life. Then again, I should know t
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by amyjess 8y ago
I was hoping there would be Google Maps links for some of these, so I could look them up in Street View. Unfortunately, typing the names of some of these buildings into Google Maps doesn't work.
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Bringing food from home doesn't have to mean cooking. Just buy some pre-cooked packaged food from the supermarket and bring that into the office. (and specifically from the supermarket in whatever suburb you live in, not one that'
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'd love it if tech workers, as a protest, would use Uber Eats or Grubhub or Doordash to start buying food from national chain restaurants and having them delivered to the office en masse . "OK, sure, we're buying our own fo
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by amyjess 8y ago
The Japanese emperor picks a regnal name when he takes the throne, just like the Pope. The name is actually the name of the emperor, not the name of the era. In Japan, nobody uses the emperor's birth name; they just use the regnal name
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For the record, it credits Nathan Lineback's GUI gallery as the source. Here's the actual source page: http://toastytech.com/guis/lisa3.html > Using the Macworks software, the Lisa can also run Macintosh s
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Linux was built by people for user freedom > not welcomed by the creators of the operating system No, it wasn't. Linux was created because Linus Torvalds was in love with the OS running on the VAX at his university and wanted s
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It's fucked-up because there are very, very few ways to actually get into the US legally. And in this case they're not giving educated people preference. They didn't come here on a rule that says that people with postgraduate
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> In this case, getting advanced STEM degrees provides a path towards residency, work rights, and perhaps eventually a green card or citizenship. At my very first job, nearly all of my coworkers were Indian. As I met more people at work
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by amyjess 8y ago
I have a feeling that if Woz and Jobs had never met, Woz's life would have turned out much like that of Gary Kildall [0] or Phil Katz [1]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Kildall [1] https://en.w
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> We’re at risk of the “gig economy” undoing over a century of hard fought gains in workers rights Consumer rights too. I've seen some really horrendous people on /r/Lyft arguing that they are well within their rights as i
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> The smell is very concentrated because it's been canned. And this is why it's recommended that you open the can underwater. Most of the videos of people reacting badly to it are because someone just opened the can in the midd
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I agree. In fact, I find myself looking at Classic Mac OS's resource fork and feeling profoundly sad that it feel by the wayside as *nix took over the world. The resource fork was a beautiful idea; structured data built into the filesy
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Same in Dallas. Japanese whisky is expensive , sure, but you can find it no problem. There's one excellent bar near me (Ron's Place) that has a wonderful selection of whisky, and they have several Japanese examples. Looking at th
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by amyjess 8y ago
In addition, it also forces disabled people to out themselves in cases where their disability isn't particularly visible, which can be humiliating for people who don't want the whole world to know exactly how their body is malfunc
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by amyjess 8y ago
> Also, would compostable straws be an option? (assuming they do not end up in the landfill, and only distributed on demand to reduce waste). There are no options that are suitable for disabled people. I'd recommend following Lawren
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> Blockbuster was brick and mortar, and 'on demand from home at $10 a month' is going to kill that business on the basic fundamentals. That doesn't explain why Redbox managed to thrive though.
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One thing that really surprised me when poking around Google Maps a while back is how griddy Weimar is compared to other European cities. While the downtown is a mess, the areas immediately outside it are on a grid that wraps around the cit
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The myth of the job-hopping, rootless millennial is just that – a myth(vox.com)
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And at the rate mergers and acquisitions are going, in the end there may very well only be one.
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In the US at least, you can serve debt collectors notice that they must cease all future communications with you, and if they disregard that, the FTC can and will go after them. I'd recommend reading the Fair Debt Collection Practices
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> Attorneys, for example, can't engage in the kinds of advertising speech that would be entirely lawful if done by a car dealership or furniture store. Are you sure about that? Because I've seen some really sleazy advertising b
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And then they get buried in ADA lawsuits.
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by amyjess 8y ago
Nowadays you have to log in to see anything marked "sensitive content", and it doesn't show up on Google searches. It kills discoverability.
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by amyjess 8y ago
TBH, Reddit has always been considerably less toxic than Tumblr when it comes to trans stuff. Sadly, the some of the larger trans subs have taken a turn for the toxic in the last couple of years or so, but 2013-2014 was a golden age, and ev
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by amyjess 8y ago
> “In my formative time in fandom [before Tumblr], learning the rules and etiquette of the space was not optional, it was baked into the entire structure of fandom,” Danielle said. “There was a hurdle of entry to fandom; it was organized
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by amyjess 8y ago
I'm pretty fond of D and Nim.

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