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by galago 8y ago
Advertising. It has a bunch of logos for the people who financed it. In a way, the US space program is an ad for the US military, but this is more overt.
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by galago 8y ago
I live and work in Cambridge, MA. In my opinion, Cambridge and Somerville are not very bicycle friendly due to the fact that main streets were laid out before cars were common. As a result, there is basically only one route (via Beacon) to
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by galago 8y ago
Its not installed as an available font in MacOS, even though the its used for the UI. You can get it here if you want to use it within their licensing guidlines: https://developer.apple.com/fonts/
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by galago 8y ago
The man's face on page 52 looks like a reaction image you would see on social media today.
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by galago 8y ago
Amtrak has quiet cars, at least in the Northeast. I often take Boston-NYC and there seem to be a lot of business travelers. People who are riding in a train across Utah are probably in it for the experience.
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by galago 8y ago
When I was in high school I worked in a Pizza restaurant that had a CD player in the closet. There were two CDs--The Carpenters Greatest Hits, which was used January to November and The Carpenters Christmas album, which they used in Decembe
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by galago 8y ago
Can't we just all agree to speak English? No, I don't think that would be a good idea. Perhaps they could write a (albeit imperfect) tool to alert readers when another language has a much larger or more comprehensive article. I&#x
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by galago 8y ago
Sia Furler. She works on songs for other artists and also does 'demo performances' to help singers develop a song. She's written songs for Rhianna, Adele, Carly Rae Jepson, Katy Perry, etc.
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by galago 8y ago
I don't have a good source at the moment, but I think steel is somewhere around 97% iron by weight. The rest is carbon. Stainless steel has about 10% chromium.
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by galago 8y ago
MIT has also been combining majors like Econ and CS--I'm not sure how these things can be counted. https://news.mit.edu/2017/mit-creates-new-major-computer-sci...
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by galago 8y ago
"defrydrated" is the commonly used term.
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by galago 8y ago
In US urban areas, rent is a dominant cost, so low end/casual restaurants are trying to keep purchases in the $10-15 range. A Chipotle in a business district may only be able to handle a fixed number of customers, so its difficult if p
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by galago 8y ago
I've noticed that Pepsi has gone from the asymmetrical smiley face back to the original logo on some products. Changing the logo probably just causes confusion when the identification process is almost subconscious.
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by galago 8y ago
In the Boston area the less dense neighborhoods are scarce so only the rich can afford them. I live in the Boston area and that doesn't sound right. I guess you could say Brookline is low density and rich. But you have to consider t
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by galago 8y ago
Being attached to the MIT brand makes finding a job a lot easier, regardless of how your resume is formatted.
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by galago 9y ago
I rented a property a couple weeks ago in Massachusetts, USA. The rental agency used a web form for signatures. My new landlord used something that looked like Comic Sans. So, I guess this is a thing now. I was a little surprised.
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by galago 9y ago
That's true in pre-European contact Peru as well. The amazing architecture was produced by skilled craftsman as a community effort. They didn't/couldn't build anything of quality once they were enslaved by the Spanish. (
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by galago 9y ago
A lot of cameras are sticking at 24MP because that's where a lot of lenses start to reach a weak point. Also, file size to utility becomes a consideration because most people expect cloud/sharing. I feel like 100+MP is going to be
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by galago 9y ago
I intuitively agree with you. However, the decoupling that's observed can partly be explained by lag. For example, a farm might have diesel powered equipment, tractors, etc. that last 10 years. Eventually they might switch to electric
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by galago 9y ago
Many type designers deal with this as part of their workflow if they work with traditional drawing tools like pen and ink. My understanding is that for classically designed fonts its often easier to redraw vector objects over the scan than
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by galago 9y ago
Trader Joes has a lot of urban stores. For example the one at Copley Square in Boston is in a basement across the street from a Tesla showroom. Its always busy, but there's no room to expand--even add an extra register. The farther you
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Are travel sites' “dark patterns” so pervasive that they are becoming useless?
3 points by galago 9y ago|1 comments
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by galago 9y ago
I only knead the dough a few times so that it comes together and form it into a ball. I then leave it overnight in the fridge. There's a lot of mythos around 'developing the gluten' and whatnot, but I think some people just r
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by galago 9y ago
If they allow web type content into the touch bar, does that mean it could include pornography? I guess if it wasn't allowed in the app store it could exist, but wouldn't get very far.
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by galago 9y ago
Gramercy Park in NYC is an American example. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramercy_Park
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by galago 9y ago
Different parts of the UK had different names for left-handed people. It predates baseball or rounders. I can't remember which, but one region used the term 'southpaw'. I've seen a map explaining this but I can't fi
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by galago 9y ago
Not a "bug" but a feature: Inside UFO 54-40 had an ending that you couldn't reach by the normal means. You had to just flip through (cheat?) to find it. The ending was: "No one can chose to visit Ultima," says Elink
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by galago 9y ago
Non-invasive technologies are super-cool because we may not actually want to disturb stuff until we have the technology to do it properly. Some stuff we may never want to disturb for cultural or other reasons.
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by galago 9y ago
Proposition 13 declared property taxes were to be assessed their 1975 value and restricted annual increases of the tax to an inflation factor, not to exceed 2% per year. A reassessment of the property tax can only be made a) when the prope
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by galago 9y ago
A normal market would partially address this by adding doctors. In the USA, new medical schools have to be approved by the AMA.

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