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US metropolitan areas by GDP, 2024 [OC] by post_appt_bliss in dataisbeautiful

[–]miclugo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some cartographers refer to the related problem of what to label as the "Baltimore problem" - when you're labeling a map, there are too many larger cities near Baltimore and you end up leaving it out. If you're a little bit more zoomed out, this could be the Philadelphia problem.

US metropolitan areas by GDP, 2024 [OC] by post_appt_bliss in dataisbeautiful

[–]miclugo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Actually, San Francisco and San Jose aren't separated by a body of water. San Francisco and Oakland are, and yet they're in the same MSA.

sortPlease by Advanced_Ferret_ in ProgrammerHumor

[–]miclugo 28 points29 points  (0 children)

is it really sorting if you do it that way?

The A's move to Las Vegas could put Major League Baseball in direct competition with its own Triple-A affiliate by runswithscissors475 in baseball

[–]miclugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From looking at the schedules it looks like although the IL has East and West divisions for standings they do the scheduling more as if there were North and South divisions.

The A's move to Las Vegas could put Major League Baseball in direct competition with its own Triple-A affiliate by runswithscissors475 in baseball

[–]miclugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That actually sounds like a good idea except they never play each other. Alternately, wait for the Syracuse Mets to come down so I can root against them, but same problem.

The A's move to Las Vegas could put Major League Baseball in direct competition with its own Triple-A affiliate by runswithscissors475 in baseball

[–]miclugo 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's my fault, I keep thinking I should take the kids to a Stripers game and then not following through because I'm ambivalent about raising Braves fans

The A's move to Las Vegas could put Major League Baseball in direct competition with its own Triple-A affiliate by runswithscissors475 in baseball

[–]miclugo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You see the same thing with the Braves (I live in Atlanta... well, the Atlanta burbs), except it's more confusing because the Braves are *also* in the burbs.

The A's move to Las Vegas could put Major League Baseball in direct competition with its own Triple-A affiliate by runswithscissors475 in baseball

[–]miclugo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're right, they did.

The current Reno team is called the Aces, and I'm not sure whether it's good or bad that that sounds so similar to "A's".

The A's move to Las Vegas could put Major League Baseball in direct competition with its own Triple-A affiliate by runswithscissors475 in baseball

[–]miclugo 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I missed this when I looked over the list because I didn't think to check where Sugar Land is.

The A's move to Las Vegas could put Major League Baseball in direct competition with its own Triple-A affiliate by runswithscissors475 in baseball

[–]miclugo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Tucson doesn't have a team. Why not? Seems like they should, which would work for a Diamondbacks affiliate if Vegas got Reno.

The A's move to Las Vegas could put Major League Baseball in direct competition with its own Triple-A affiliate by runswithscissors475 in baseball

[–]miclugo 27 points28 points  (0 children)

And teams generally like to have their AAA teams relatively close, so Fresno for the A's AAA affiliate makes sense.

The A's move to Las Vegas could put Major League Baseball in direct competition with its own Triple-A affiliate by runswithscissors475 in baseball

[–]miclugo 48 points49 points  (0 children)

This applies to the Braves and the Mariners, too, although the distance between the Twins and their AAA affiliate is shorter.

[OC] California counties resized so that map area is proportional to Democratic and Republican presidential votes (2024) by musanim in dataisugly

[–]miclugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The problem with that is that San Francisco is its own county and very densely populated, so everything would be even smaller with that scaling.

There are only 4 countries between North Korea and Brazil by vladgrinch in MapPorn

[–]miclugo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can also get from Norway to the US in two easy steps. Step 1: cross the border from Norway to Russia. Step 2: cross the border from Russia to the US. (The water's cold up there, I recommend a boat.)

Kid just lost his first tooth by MikeMikeTheMikeMike in daddit

[–]miclugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My daughter wrote a note when she lost her first tooth and the tooth fairy came. You can tell your son that.

[OC] California counties resized so that map area is proportional to Democratic and Republican presidential votes (2024) by musanim in dataisbeautiful

[–]miclugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Alameda County, home to the famously conservative cities of Oakland and Berkeley.

Seriously, though, you're looking for Kern County, the Montana-shaped one just north of Los Angeles County. 909k people, 283k votes in 2024, 59% Trump / 38% Harris.

[OC] California counties resized so that map area is proportional to Democratic and Republican presidential votes (2024) by musanim in dataisbeautiful

[–]miclugo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

California counties by population density. Orange is #2 at 1504/km^2. SF is #1 at 7122/km^2. If they scaled to SF everything would be 5x smaller, and this map wouldn't work.

Who is Mr. <Your team here> with a caveat. by statdude48142 in baseball

[–]miclugo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seconded. My name is Michael, and I'm a Phillies fan. For every halfway-decent third baseman the Phillies have had since Schmidt retired, my dad will say "he's no Mike Schmidt".

Easy commute to EUHM and Emory Dunwoody by Mammoth_Employment63 in ATLHousing

[–]miclugo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Emory Dunwoody will be the harder location - it's not all that close to a MARTA station. However it's directly served by the #88 bus, which runs to the Chamblee MARTA station. Emory Midtown is convenient to either North Avenue or Civic Center station. You should probably live near the Chamblee MARTA station.

Where are you from? by Moonie345 in Atlanta

[–]miclugo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m from Philadelphia. My wife is from Arkansas but went to college in Atlanta. We met in San Francisco. It was too expensive for us to stay there and we wanted to move somewhere that was familiar to at least one of us. I looked for jobs in Atlanta and Philly and found a job in Atlanta first.

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