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Kavak posted:Not even Oakland supports the Raiders. That's just sad. Oakland supports the Raiders but the rest of Alameda County apparently doesn't. Or at least they don't talk about the Raiders on Facebook.
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Amarkov posted:These maps always make me so proud of my home city. Too bad about the boring though.
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De Nomolos posted:
Colleges screw up income maps. They have a lot of people who appear poor on paper but live reasonably well on what basically amounts to unreported income (parents, loans, financial aid). withak fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Feb 13, 2013 |
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I think the problem is that usually the term is used to discuss the development of civilizations. These maps are more of a interesting correlation between favorable geology and agriculture conducive to slavery, and then a correlation between past slavery and present political opinion. The people voting democrat didn't just happen to set up a civilization there thousands of years ago and are currently dealing with the consequences; they were forcibly dragged there in the relatively recent past.
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Feb 13, 2013 22:05
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I guess it usually seems to refer to far longer time scales than this.
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tractor fanatic posted:An United Britain? Maybe that is how they say it in England.
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Feb 18, 2013 20:06
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last laugh posted:LA Fitness is a chain, not sure why they specify the type of club there, but Minnesota is generic "supermarket" instead of say, Cub Foods. Usually means there is only one option. You can say that you were at the supermarket or the gym and everyone knows exactly where you mean.
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Feb 22, 2013 21:21
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Also rivers move.
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Feb 25, 2013 04:26
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Koramei posted:It's kind of shocking to realise stuff like this actually happened. We're generally given an image of perfect harmony between the anglophone nations in most matters during the 20th century, but in reality the cultures were, and still are, surprisingly different. I think American soldiers in England during WW2 were somewhat resented too. They were paid far better than everyone around them and hadn't been living under strict rationing for five years so they seemed like filthy rich, wasteful assholes to the common english person.
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Mar 7, 2013 20:51
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Geology also. Coastline 85 million years ago   I think this was posted before.
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Mar 24, 2013 17:06
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I can't believe that North Korea or Turkmenistan or someone else hasn't already jumped on the unclaimed zone.
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Apr 1, 2013 23:58
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TheIllestVillain posted:That map might be a little outdated or just inaccurate since Australia has a paid parental leave system. Also California does for both parents.
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Apr 7, 2013 15:29
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I bet it is because a lot of the content creation/editing tools are written by database programmers for database programmers. If you aren't a database programmer then you probably have an uphill hike ahead of you before you really understand how things work.
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Apr 14, 2013 22:12
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Unclear map: C-
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Apr 16, 2013 15:55
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 http://robertspage.com/dialects.html
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Peanut President posted:A political map where america is one of the good guys. In the US we condition people to lie when answering questions like that.
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May 16, 2013 16:20
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It would be interesting to show it in terms of the actual ratio of bars to grocery stores, and to make the same map for (say) 20 years ago when you could still find towns with a number of small grocery stores instead of one big one.
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May 17, 2013 18:15
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Apparently the term "soda" followed the Illinois River upstream through Illinois. Or possibly I-55.
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Jun 6, 2013 04:31
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Meme Emulator posted:
I heard it referenced one time in a song that I totally didn't understand until now. (warning: no map content) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKDagcLpJgY
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Jun 7, 2013 16:47
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The definition of risk is cost x probability of occurrence, where cost is in lives or dollars and the probability of occurrence is usually annual. Severe weather happens a lot more frequently than major earthquakes even though a single earthquake may have a greater cost than a single weather event.
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Jun 7, 2013 18:40
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I wonder what the difference is between midland and 19th-century european?
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I think in most places it just can't be opened if it is in the passenger compartment. You can keep newly-bought bottles of anything up front, but if you are bringing a half-finished bottle home from a party then it has to go in the trunk.
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Jun 9, 2013 21:20
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It looks like that map only shows county-level laws. There are cities with blue laws that aren't shown.
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Jun 9, 2013 22:28
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Badger of Basra posted:FMLA guarantees unpaid leave. Yeah it just prevents you from getting fired for taking family leave.
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Jul 6, 2013 06:57
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Probably the data range from -50 to +35.
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Jul 8, 2013 21:09
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That poll should have also asked how many people the responder thinks died in each event.
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Zohar posted:While we're on this kind of map, here's a map of the impact of tooth decay in different countries: I wonder what the map of fluoridated drinking supplies looks like?
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Jul 23, 2013 18:31
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Yeah, a lot of the ways that we use to guess at where to dig don't work so well if the entire area is covered in tens of feet of soft sediment, not to mention underwater.
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Aug 8, 2013 00:00
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This is an acceptable solution.
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There is an interesting article about this in the current New Yorker: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/08/12/130812fa_fact_batuman
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"Lat" is like the rungs of a ladder.
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Aug 24, 2013 18:36
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PYF lat/lon mnemonics.
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PittTheElder posted:Latitude is the one with physical meaning, longitude is an incredibly useful but ultimately just made up number. Both are just angular measurements from some arbitrary baseline.
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Aug 24, 2013 22:08
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The axis of rotation drifts around though.
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Aug 24, 2013 22:56
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More useful would be a projection based on travel time from the US to wherever in the late 19th/early 20th century.
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Aug 25, 2013 01:41
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Roumba posted:This sounds like a fun project for when classes start this week. Interactive to change distance/travel time and draggable center of the map around wherever. Weee! I've seen one for the SF Bay Area where you pick a starting point and it generates contours of travel time on public transit.
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Randandal posted:Where are the Johanssons coming from? Or what's happening to the Anderssons? Johan has been spending a suspiciously large amount of time around Anders' wife.
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Aug 27, 2013 22:48
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Some kind of polar projection. edit: Polar in the mathematical sense, not in the geographic sense.
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Peanut President posted:I thought Acadian was an archaic term. It's not like someone struggling to create an interesting backstory for himself based on where his great-great-grandparents were from cares about accurate terminology.
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Best not to try to figure out why Finns like what they like.
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