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13,223karma·911submissions·April 6, 2011
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Note: This is an Anthony Bourdain piece. Everything he says is true. Accurate. Helpful. Good to know. But he's also wrong because he's being idealistic. Followed to its logical conclusion, t…
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The 99% Invisible podcast discussed some of the effects of the skyway just last week. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/beneath-the-skyway …
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> Anyone who gets on to the latest and greatest version of macOS with hardware that’s older than five years would be taking big risks. In general (with several exceptions), the longevity of the har…
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Certainly, the historic justification for volumetric measuring is likely what you say, that scales were not a thing for most anyone to have until recently. My point was just that recipes used across g…
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> Well, it CAN vary quite a lot theoretically, but that’s why there are guidelines on how to measure a cup of flour. So says my baker mom, and so says the internet. Where baking is done can overri…
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The BBC series The Planets had an episode showing the 3d physical Mars map you describe. Jump to the 9:45 mark in this video to see it and some discussion of the canyon discussed in the article: ht…
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I got a second generation one about a year ago, free from someone I know who was going to pitch it. It's basically identical to the first models, just a slightly faster CPU. I used it two or thre…
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Not my department, so to speak, but I will pass that along. Thank you.
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Folks here may want to read more than just this piece at The Stacks Reader. But first, a disclaimer: The site is run by a dear friend and I have done a lot of behind the scenes work on the site conten…
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You don't seem to be accounting for how widely covered Dylan material has historically been. There are plenty of Dylan songs that as far back as the 1960s brought more sales for others than for h…
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>Most people in the United States seem to have some conceptualization of what a meter is so it usually works quite well as it’s also easier for me to estimate meters instead of feet. I think most p…
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What stands out to me as I’ve aged are the people I’ve known, the memories of experiences with them, and the times I’ve given and received the kinds of help which benefit lives. None of these things c…
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I can't speak to how well the project has been doing, but just last week I happened to listen to his 2014 Long Now Foundation talk on this project. I didn't even know who he was before this …
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If you don't know, that shortcut also works in Open/Save dialogs. The same is true for nearly all the shortcuts in the Finder > Go menu (go to Desktop switches to Command-D in those dialo…
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> The question others want answered is how one distinguishes a "decent restaurant with bad reviews" from a "bad restaurant with bad reviews". But it's also clear that a ba…