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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
You could take a similar utilitarian view of all structures, and come the the conclusion that there's no reason for anything to be beautiful or inspiring.
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
The same mechanism that saved Grand Central a decade later - legal intervention. The situation was pretty much the same. A bankrupt railroad wanted to demolish a beautiful landmark to make money.
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
Though it happened years before I was born, it frankly still makes me sick to my stomach to think that this secular cathedral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania_Station_(1910%E2%... Was destroyed to make way f
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
He is saying he has been credited with genius, that is intellectual power or talent, not that he has been credited with being "a genius". The former is now an archaic way of using genius, the latter was pretty new in Hamilton&#x27
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
Not according to the author of the article: "No, Google Translate was in no way useful to my translation of the 1956 Argentine novel Zama: let's get that out of the way first thing."
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
Thanks NYT for pointing me to this hilarious section of Facebook. My hobbies apparently include 'tears', and my only food and drink interest is 'bread roll'.
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
It's sad to me that a historical institution is bowdlerizing history.
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
No.
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
This is such a weird, pedantic definition of 'empty'. When people say a place is settled, they don't mean there is no room for another human being. Europe was also mostly empty in this sense in the 1930s. Why was there this b
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
Huh, most of the continental U.S. was definitely not empty. It was all peopled. Unless you mean there were many miles between every settlement or something. But that's not really relevant. The conflict between settlers and natives star
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
Why do you doubt it? There are many plants that can cause skin irritation: http://davesgarden.com/guides/articles/view/2414#b I've gotten rashes all over my arms clearing brush that wasn't treated w
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
But Nirvana was never a chart-topping band. Smells Like Teen Spirit peaked at #6, and never makes it on this visualization. None of their other singles came close to that. The point is that The Beatles are better than Boyz II Men, not that
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by cfmcdonald 10y ago
Surely then it should not be framed as people "killed by medical errors", but rather people who could be saved by improving medicine. The way this is framed in the media is especially absurd, calling it the #3 cause of death after
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by cfmcdonald 11y ago
Yes, but they all sit idle the same 95% of the time. Everyone needs a ride at rush hour.
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by cfmcdonald 11y ago
From the study you cited: "Under the same assumptions, the 12% increase caused by switching to organic fruits and vegetables would correspond to an increase in life expectancy of, on average, 17 days for women and 25 days for men.&quot
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by cfmcdonald 11y ago
John Donne, bad writer? "If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend's or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involv
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by cfmcdonald 11y ago
Maybe you are thinking of the 0.01%. The 1% income threshold in the U.S. is about $380K. That's wealthy but it's not empire-building. Most senior software engineers are probably in the top 5% of income earners in the U.S. already,
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by cfmcdonald 13y ago
Amtrak loses money in most of the country, but the Northeast Corridor is profitable. http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2013/03/01/amtrak_profit...