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by xefer 8y ago
The USGS has historical high resolution aerial photographs for large portions of the country, some places going back to the 1930s: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ The interface is really clunky but some of the data is amazi
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by xefer 8y ago
My favorite disaster of all time: http://fortune.com/2012/08/02/why-knight-lost-440-million-in... More details with references: https://dougseven.com/2014/04/17/knightmare-a-dev
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by xefer 8y ago
There should be a better set of symbols focused on recyclablity. I'm sure people see a symbol with a group of arrows in a cycle and assume it must be recyclable.
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by xefer 8y ago
I like how they list these people and their degrees as if a degree is a "Certificate of Sanity"
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by xefer 8y ago
In the movie "Wall Street" (1987) Gordon Gecko has his lackey Bud Fox follow a rival around to try and figure out what he's going to invest in, so they can undercut him. He follows him to a private jet and finds out it's
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by xefer 8y ago
The signal from the first pulsar she discovered was later famously plotted as a stacked graph and ultimately became the cover to Joy Division's "Unknown Pleasures" https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/sa-visua
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by xefer 8y ago
Finding a rhyme for orange is as annoying as a squeaky door 'inge
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by xefer 8y ago
I was thinking more about squirrels and such
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by xefer 8y ago
There has to be evolutionary pressure on animals to avoid cars on the road. I wonder if there is any evidence that road kill numbers are reducing?
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by xefer 8y ago
How much of this drop is due to the US essentially "exporting" it's emissions? The underlying data is specifically for "emissions from energy". The emissions created during the production of goods imported into the
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by xefer 8y ago
People should check out the Earth Explorer site from the USGS: https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ It has a huge number of high-resolution aerial photos for large swaths of the country going back to the 1930s, and not just urba
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by xefer 8y ago
Did anyone else ever watch the TV show he had a hand in creating, “The Starlost”? It had a great premise and I loved it as a kid, but I think it only lasted one season.
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by xefer 8y ago
There needs to be term to describe these rail thin articles whose only real affect is to provide an HN conversation-inspiring headline.
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by xefer 8y ago
People should check out the free, open source sky atlas/planetarium software Stellarium: http://stellarium.org A sort of Google maps for the heavens. You can download star catalogs with over 150 million stars. It's ama
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by xefer 9y ago
China's test of an anti-satellite device left quite a mess: http://stuffin.space/?search=1999-025 https://www.space.com/3415-china-anti-satellite-test-worriso...
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by xefer 9y ago
This is sort of bizarre to me. I say this because I use uBlock to remove everything but the newsfeed. The screen shots shown on that extension page is basically the inverse of what I have... How do you engage with Facebook at all?
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by xefer 9y ago
Twitter could start at home by doing something about the sewer that is "Moments". It ignores words in the "muted" list; it's full of celebrity crap and the sort of click-bait stuff I loathe. The whole thing seems t
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by xefer 9y ago
Original documents are harder to reference directly but lots of old probate records have been transcribed; e.g.: "The Probate records of Essex County, Massachusetts" https://archive.org/details/probaterecordso
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by xefer 9y ago
One thing I've noticed over the years reading old wills and probate records (16th -18th century) is just how few physical possessions even fairly well-off people owned. Estate inventories often list individual coats, shirts, bedding,
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by xefer 9y ago
Also: The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist If you want to read a book that has the potential of radically changing your perspective of things, give this a shot.
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by xefer 9y ago
> is a lie I dislike this (sadly, growingly) cavalier use of the word "lie"
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by xefer 9y ago
There is such a law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini... I'm not sure what the terms of these employee's termination actually is. The article leaves the impression that they were
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by xefer 9y ago
The great Vaclav Smil wrote about the Haber process and its relationship to world population in a Scientific American article in 1997: http://vaclavsmil.com/wp-content/uploads/Smil_SciAm_N2cycle.... [PDF] It sort
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by xefer 9y ago
I'd like to see another article on why in 2018 every meeting seemingly has to start with 5 minutes of fiddling with the screen projector.
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by xefer 9y ago
I think Boston and Somerville are just two different manifestations of one regional proposal, though they weren't really presented that way far as I know. The sites in Somerville are actually a much better choice than the Suffolk Downs
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by xefer 9y ago
It would be great if you could post the details that you found in that Bible somewhere so that interested genealogists could pick them up. Most English church records go back to the 1530s or so; anything earlier than that relies on these s
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by xefer 9y ago
Is there any possibility that China could try to limit Apple product's availability to citizens there?
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by xefer 9y ago
The location the Boston group has proposed for Amazon is the Suffolk Downs race track site on the East Boston - Revere town line. Perhaps with all the Amazon building the area would improve, but the place feels like a wasteland right now.
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by xefer 9y ago
That's interesting, because Cambridge, MA made a big deal about lowering the limit to 25 MPH in 2016 - which is still way too fast for most neighborhoods. I'd much rather see it taken down to 20 and even 15 for side streets. The
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by xefer 9y ago
How many people are aware that the list of interests directing Facebook ads are easily visible and editable? Settings | Ads | Your Interests It's really interesting to see the full scope of the interests FB has gathered over time. Som

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