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by fowkswe 11y ago
If the assumption is that fried chicken places are a relic of a poorer past, then this metric does not work for New York City. Fried chicken is the food of the moment: http://www.villagevoice.com/restaurants/the-ten-
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by fowkswe 11y ago
I'm suggesting closing the avenues during the daytime, especially rush hours. Deliveries and garbage pickup can happen early morning or in the evening (which is already the case for garbage pickup).
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by fowkswe 11y ago
See my comment above, but I think the most obvious solution would be to contain deliveries to non rush hour times - ala garbage pickup.
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by fowkswe 11y ago
This argument has the same line of reasoning that the businesses originally tried to use when the city did put in buffered bike lines - that removing unfettered automobile / truck access was the death knell to commerce (Like these: ht
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by fowkswe 11y ago
> They should also close 1/2 of the avenues and turn them into parks I've always thought this too. The city has made attempts to make up / down town bike routes on most avenues but it's still a dicey proposition to r
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by fowkswe 11y ago
It seems like the tweets are selectively pulled responses from a chat stream.
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by fowkswe 11y ago
But for how much ?
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by fowkswe 11y ago
Andy Warhol was a system fucker, not a sociologist. That's a clever comment, but it does not frame this picture in any way. I think you aren't quite aware of what American poverty is, nor the message this article is trying to pro
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by fowkswe 11y ago
This was my thought. I'm happily employed so I haven't been looking, but are others finding that Rails work is drying up as well?
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by fowkswe 11y ago
Am I off in saying that this is not new? I swear there was something exactly like this back in the good ole Flash days, possibly even named the same thing. Anyone else recall it?
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by fowkswe 11y ago
This sounds very similar to the Gimlet Media ( http://gimletmedia.com/ ) / Startup story ( http://gimletmedia.com/show/startup/ ). I wonder if we're going to start seeing lots of VC investm
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by fowkswe 11y ago
I know people who spend $480 per month.
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by fowkswe 11y ago
"3b. One-Way Traffic Or you could just do one-way traffic. Details inside." Can you explain?
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by fowkswe 12y ago
They removed support for 3rd party apps. This devastated me as it was the best music discovery service I've found (KCRW Music Mine and Pitchfork in particular). It also removed the 'search' (command + F) in the song list. I
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by fowkswe 12y ago
I'd love to know what kind of numbers http://bigassmessage.com/ sees.
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by fowkswe 12y ago
Or 30 seconds for that matter. http://www.pbase.com/flying_dutchman/image/157113240
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by fowkswe 12y ago
There is a series of tubes joke to be made here.
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by fowkswe 12y ago
The US has been bought and manipulated by the automobile and oil industries. From early on when GM and others bought the street car networks and shut them down, to lobbying the Eisenhower interstate network in place, this country has been
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by fowkswe 12y ago
Replace "design" with "startups". He is describing the culture of creating business's whose real purpose is to attract VC funding with the goal of finding an 'exit'.
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by fowkswe 12y ago
I'm curious how many of these kinds of services the market will bear - there seem to be quite a few clones now. And do they have staying power? I think people are curious to see what they are all about, but I suspect this kind of food
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by fowkswe 12y ago
tldr synopsis; - China hasn't even begun to tap the market for refrigerating its food supply chain. - Refrigeration is the major component of energy usage. - We (Americans) are the boilerplate for Chinas refrigeration boom. notable quo
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by fowkswe 13y ago
I think a valid point to make here is that what has propelled Ruby, Python, JS, etc, forward has not been the language, but the frameworks that have put context and boundaries around using those languages. Its entirely possible to write a p
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by fowkswe 13y ago
Why don't you just pay him for the service he provided you? Is your bounty that high that you can't afford to? It seems the negative publicity you are getting is going to cost you more..
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by fowkswe 13y ago
Keep at it. She made 10 posts a day, religiously. These things have a way of snowballing if you give it love and effort. Shameless plug for my information jockey endeavor: http://heritagebros.com .
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Berlin's pink pipes: What are they?(bbc.co.uk)
1 points by fowkswe 13y ago|0 comments
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by fowkswe 13y ago
Sounds like BitTorrent
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More Fukushima Scaremongering Debunked(skeptoid.com)
1 points by fowkswe 13y ago|0 comments
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by fowkswe 13y ago
There's an elephant joke to be made here...
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Brooklyn Maker Space 3rd Ward Shuts Down(hyperallergic.com)
1 points by fowkswe 13y ago|0 comments
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by fowkswe 13y ago
To williamcotton's point, the business behind music promotion is alive. The business of music as a product is what is dying. The fact that there is no product left to monetize the music means that there will be fewer musicians being f

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