It’s a misleading narrative. You can get countdown clocks without touching the signals. The MTA knows this. They learned the hard way that tying countdown clocks to a massive CBTC-esque signal upgrade is a mistake. That’s what happened with the 1-6 lines: The project, called ATS, cost $220 million and took...
Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks - The Atlantic
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There is a locked door just below the southwest entrance to the 14th Street A/C/E station. It looks like the door to a small office or break room. But going inside is like stumbling into the Keebler tree. There is a whole world down there: a warren of rooms and equipment, including a working section of track about 20 yards long, that comprise the subway system’s Signal School. This is where the MTA t...
Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks - The Atlantic
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They are, as it turns out, waiting for the F train. Carroll Street is one of the rare New York subway stations whose trains are boarded underground but where you can stand outside to see them coming. When you spot the F rolling down the bridge, you have just enough time to run inside to catch it. So people stand there waiting. They wait for as long as it takes, for as long as their patience will allow, because in 2015 there is no app, no screen, not even a scratchy voice over a PA system that can tell them when the train i...
Why New York Subway Lines Are Missing Countdown Clocks - The Atlantic
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Otaku (おたく/オタク?) is a Japanese term for people with obsessive interests, commonly the anime and manga fandom. Its contemporary usage originated with Akio Nakamori's 1983 essay in Manga Burikko.[1][2] Otaku may be used as a pejorative; its negativity stems from the stereotypical view of otaku and the media's reporting on Tsutomu Miyazaki, "The Otaku Murderer", in 1989. According to studies published in 2013, the term has become less negative, and an increasing number of people now self-identify as otaku.[3]
Otaku - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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“The ethos that started this whole project was intellectual curiosity,” says Zechory, 31, the company’s calm, cerebral president. He’s sitting alongside the nervy, intense Lehman, also 31 and Genius’s CEO, in their new 43,000-square-foot offices, a renovated factory in Brooklyn’s Gowanus neighborhood that will accommodate their current staff of 40 employees. The premise that has prope...
Start-Up Genius Wants to Annotate the Internet - WSJ
Genius Co-Founder and CEO
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Amour-propre (French, "self-love") is a concept in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau that esteem depends upon the opinion of others. Rousseau contrasts it with amour de soi, which also means "self-love", but which does not involve seeing oneself as others see one. According to Rousseau, amour de soi is more primitive and is compatible with wholeness and happiness, while amour-propre is an unnatural form of self-love that arose only with the appearance of socie...
Amour-propre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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NEWSOM: I try not to read reviews or look at stuff about myself online if at all possible, but after the “Sapokanikan” video came out, I saw something that I think my dad sent me: That website Genius had already annotated the lyrics to the song, and it was maybe only hours after the video was out. A lot of the material elements of the song — meaning the things that could be deciphered or could be researched — had been thoroughly found at that point. As of the last time I saw it, there were sti...
Q&A: Joanna Newsom On Moving Rocks, Annotating Lyrics, And Playing The Hits - Stereogum
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