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fnordfnordfnord
on Feb 15, 2013
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What Thomas Edison expected job candidates to know
A street car? What's that? I've seen them in movies. I guess in the nineteen-twenties, knowledge about street cars might have been much more likely to have been in the minds of engineers that Edison would want to hire.
a-priori
on Feb 15, 2013
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They still exist. In Toronto, streetcars are still one of the major forms of public transit in the downtown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_streetcar_system
fnordfnordfnord
on Feb 16, 2013
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Yeah, I was exaggerating for effect. The point being that they are rare. They have double-decker ones in Hong Kong.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHFizrDGlUo
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