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by galago 9y ago
You're right about things getting forgotten. Two of the setups you're referring to in the pre-tape era were the film chain for playback and the kinescope for recording. These things were finicky and required extra personnel, where
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by galago 9y ago
Its funny, I thought this article might be about Dwiggins losing his work in a fire. When he was working with the Village Press, they moved from Massachusetts to New York City. The office was destroyed in a fire on Jan. 10, 1908. Obviously,
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by galago 10y ago
I live in the Boston area and I most definitely say "Chinese-American" when discussing potential restaurants. For example if my friend asked about Mary Chung's in Cambridge, that's Chinese-American, where as the Shanghai
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by galago 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hemileia_vastatrix#History From the recent discussion about banana monoculture, I read an article suggesting that Coffee Leaf Rust destroyed coffee production in British held Sri Lanka, in
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by galago 10y ago
In the US, I travel between Boston and New York City fairly regularly and its the same deal. Even with the less frequent and relatively slow US trains, its still faster because the transit is city-center to city-center.
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by galago 10y ago
Globes! I'm sure I had a globe in my classroom in grade school and I had one on my desk at home. I'm sure they didn't represent the actual shape of the earth, but much better in terms of visualization.
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by galago 10y ago
I got the sense the same situation exists for pilots when I read about Germanwings flight 9525. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanwings_Flight_9525
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by galago 10y ago
Near where I live in Cambridge, MA a four story apartment building was recently built/assembled over a weekend. They moved in modular components that were built in a factory in Maine. I think it was done on the weekend because they cou
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by galago 10y ago
As stated in the second paragraph, this is "simple method to pair typefaces." Traditional typefaces have complex extant cultural connotations. Some of these are nationalistic. Rules of thumb regarding shapes are useful, but you co
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by galago 10y ago
Its probably both the fees and the taxes. They want to be able to choose what business activity to report.
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by galago 10y ago
Yeah, I visited Rome last month, which is a city filled with small fuel efficient cars and really expensive gasoline. I didn't see a single electric. My guess is that because people live in apartments, they haven't figured out how
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by galago 10y ago
In the 1960s the Democrats and Republicans switched places on a lot of issues. It wasn't taught very well to me in school, and for a variety of reasons its not discussed much in the current media. Ovbiously, the parties themselves don&
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by galago 10y ago
This why I loved vote-by-mail when I lived in Oregon. You can take your ballot to the office on election day if you want, or you can mail it in. Anything else now feels like voter suppression to me. In my current state, I vote absentee, whi
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by galago 10y ago
My comment wasn't specific to pornography. I think its generally understood that home browsing is moving off desktops.
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by galago 10y ago
I would like to see the PornHub numbers for desktop and mobile combined. That would give a better sense of what's going on. My guess for the consumer market is that it looks like Windows is in solid shape, but the reality is that peopl
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by galago 10y ago
It sounds like Hasselblad is dead. DJI is probably just buying patents and the brand name. Its too bad they weren't subsumed they way Minolta was with Sony or Mamiya was with Phase One. Cameras are a mature market with established play
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by galago 10y ago
I'm sorry for the lack of clarification. My morning shower starts with the bar soap on the top of my head and precedes downwards. One could think of this is how the US military now uses the same fuel for aircraft, tanks and trucks. I s
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by galago 10y ago
Another problem they might face: As an adult, I've never used shampoo. I can see that shampoo/conditioner might provide interesting outcomes for people with long hair carefully maintained for aesthetic reasons. For me though, its
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by galago 10y ago
This is related to my other comment. In Somerville/Cambridge there is already a visible change in the neighborhoods like Union Square along the proposed Green Line extension. It was this way in the streetcar days of the early 20th cent
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by galago 10y ago
I think in my area (Boston) if you looked at high-Uber ride zones you would find areas where it has been difficult for geographical or other reasons to build mass transit. The proposed Green Line extension is partly because of traffic value
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by galago 10y ago
"They have better drugs now" could also be followed by a list of common prescription drugs. I think there was a previous thread about this study showing that Adderall and methamphetamine are, at similar dose, indistinguishable. h
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by galago 10y ago
I live in MA and swim in Walden pond on occasion in the Summer; it makes this discussion somewhat less abstract. The primary source (contemporary newspaper article) does make my think less of him. http://historyofmassachusetts.or
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by galago 10y ago
Elements of the proportional font, like the little foot on the 'a' remind me of Lucida Grande. Lucida Grade was the original OS X system font, which B & H also developed. This is not their first rodeo, its all about licensing.
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by galago 10y ago
A lot of the locations in Hitchcock's Vertigo look much the same today. Its much different in NYC as these images of Taxi Driver locations show: http://www.scoutingny.com/new-york-youve-changed-taxi-driver...
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by galago 10y ago
I commute partially on foot in Massachusetts, and it can be terrifying to see people making turns with the phone held up to the side of their face.
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by galago 10y ago
It also seems to be following the same pattern as other industries in advanced economies in a that we're doing more with fewer employees.
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by galago 10y ago
Yeah, not information in the article about his hours. I'm assuming he just worked every overtime hour possible, which is some crazy sacrifice. When I lived in Oregon I remember reading about a 911 dispatcher who was one of the highest
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by galago 10y ago
I wanted to watch the world series, so I'm using MLB.TV via a foreign VPN. Its not something that would work if everyone did it, and its really an inferior experience. Its similar those totally illegal streams in quality, except that I
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by galago 10y ago
My first MP3 player was solid state and cheap, but it only had 32MB of storage. I would put 5 or 6 songs on it in the morning and listen to them on my way to work. I think a lot of my music back then was from Napster, and I intentionally so
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by galago 10y ago
Shaws, a grocery store near where I live in Somerville, MA used to have self checkouts, but got rid of them. They also ended their customer loyalty card system. The paticular store where I shop has limited space, so the checkers allow more

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