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by YLE118 4y ago
Samuel slater is exactly who I was thinking of, I didn't know the Lowell story but it looks like I should do some reading about it. From that link it seems like they were involved in stealing ideas for similar machines with the differe
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by YLE118 4y ago
The transit strikes where they operate lines without collecting fares are a good example of this.
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by YLE118 4y ago
It might be better to find a tailor/repair shop. I lost a favorite pair of ski pants when I sent them in for azipper replacement. Not sure if something got mixed up in the paperwork but I requested they be returned, not replaced if the
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by YLE118 4y ago
I thought this was going to be the seaweed chicharron snacks. There's surprisingly not bad, in fact I might prefer them to almost any packaged chicharrones. If they'd been called seaweed puffs they might appeal to a different audi
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by YLE118 4y ago
Recently there was an interesting discussion on here about a blog post discussing pigs in medieval times. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33318215
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by YLE118 4y ago
There seemed to be pretty good indications that Russia has blown up things in the EU in the last decade. For example https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/28/bulgarian-pros...
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by YLE118 4y ago
The firm that owned Haggen paid for most of those stores by selling off most of the real estate and sticking the stores with rental payments. As I recall they expanded into CA, AZ, and NV before failing. I don't have a good timeline in
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by YLE118 4y ago
As I understand it nachos weren't invented in America and were originally chips with cheese and jalapenos. The platter style nachos came later. Here's a link to support the claim. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/
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by YLE118 4y ago
A similar attempt to recreate a historic to happened recently with a descent of the Grand canyon on a tule reed boat of sorts. https://www.blm.gov/blog/2021-02-24/tule-reed-boat-runs-gran... There's a video h
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by YLE118 4y ago
Agreed on the minimetro feel! I thought it was live too, I wonder if there's a way to do that? I like that you can see both the s and u bahn, though I kind of wish the abstract map would carry over.
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by YLE118 4y ago
I found it easy to read on my phone in light mode, still easy to skim in dark mode but the losing team text is too dark and I have to focus to read it.
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by YLE118 4y ago
I think twice I've read a post and thought oh hey that sounds like X. Mostly because of some niche knowledge that I've seen on here before and possibly interacted with. It's possible I'm strange though, I rarely read aut
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by YLE118 4y ago
Kind of like speeding and red light cameras, though they could be placing small enough microphones that you wouldn't see them while driving/walking by. Of course that seems like a small nitpick given the content of the passage I c
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by YLE118 4y ago
And another: In 2016, Rochester, New York, police looking for a suspicious vehicle stopped the wrong car and shot the passenger, Silvon Simmons, in the back three times. They charged him with firing first at officers. The only evidence agai
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by YLE118 4y ago
An egregious example from the first link: Police said ShotSpotter, a surveillance system that uses hidden microphone sensors to detect the sound and location of gunshots, generated an alert for that time and place. Except that’s not entirel
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by YLE118 4y ago
I like that, Bandcamp lets artists do something similar in that they can suggested albums/tracks ahead of the payment algorithmically selected suggestions. In the early 2000s I remember lots of blogs about music where they just posted
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by YLE118 4y ago
White label is a much better term for it, thanks.
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by YLE118 4y ago
Strangely quite a few seem to be drop shipped coffee. Which I didn't know was a thing, but seems to be a real enough business. I'm sure there are plenty of other brands doing it too. https://www.temeculacoffeeroasters.c
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by YLE118 4y ago
There's some interesting history of the decent machine/business in this video. A friend sent it to me when we were discussing what it would take to build an espresso machine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKA2COJ
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by YLE118 4y ago
I like Herkimer but somehow my partner recognizes the taste anytime I brew it to share. I'm not sure how given that I usually can taste differences but it's been consistent and impressive.
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by YLE118 4y ago
Unfortunately the JIS standard was phased out and merged with the ISO standard for Phillips screws. I'm sure there's a detail I'm missing about how that was done, but it's harder to find JIS stuff than it used to be. Sup
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by YLE118 4y ago
There was recently an article about that in the New York times. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/climate/peecycling-farmin...
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by YLE118 4y ago
That first page links to the first person I thought of. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Lyttle
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by YLE118 4y ago
They demolished the crossing of I90 just south of the trestle in Bellevue. And now it looks like they're putting in a pedestrian bridge to replace it. I'm not sure why they had to remove the tunnel in the first place. I used to cr
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by YLE118 4y ago
Check out the SWE chart here https://cssl.berkeley.edu/ There was another chart of snowfall in Mammoth this season that was striking, essentially the Sierra would have gotten no snow this winter if not for the huge snow eve
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by YLE118 5y ago
I think that ferry was the first one I'd been on with train tracks. One of the times I crossed it we had to get out, walk onto the ferry, then get on the train.
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by YLE118 5y ago
The flashing at full brightness, then dimming, then brightening again before rebooting isn't exactly fun at night.
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by YLE118 5y ago
Nokia started as a paper mill taking advantage of hydropower, then after starting to generate electricity they combined with a rubber company and started working on cables. They seem like a pretty good example of pivoting even if they aren&
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by YLE118 5y ago
This is what was described as McDonell acquiring Boeing from the inside. I have engineer friends in the company but the attitude of the upper rungs definitely changed.