RyanMcGreal

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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Not only that, but one of the unintended consequences of the policy of only allowing large fish to be caught is that you create selection pressure for smallness in the fish population.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Some contradiction here: Code doesn't decay on its own, of course. Left completely untouched, it will survive as long as you care to archive it. Decay — often called code rot or software rot — only sets in when changes are made, eithe
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> I wish more elderly people would decouple their loss of youth from their self regard. I think Garner's point is that we live in a society in which other people's regard for your worth is a function of your age.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
FTA: The greatest virtue of the book is that you can’t help but ask yourself things like, “Which areas have I always looked at through a fixed-mindset lens?” and “In what ways am I sending the wrong message to my children about mindset and
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Here's one thing: a vehicle's wear-and-tear on the road is an exponential function of its mass. A vehicle that's twice as big does around 4 times as much damage to the road, leading to cracks, potholes and asphalt crumbling.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
French is similar: Je m'appelle Ryan (I call myself Ryan).
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Why 'Nudges' Hardly Help(theatlantic.com)
18 points by RyanMcGreal 11y ago|20 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Haunting and frighteningly timely short essay. This particular part jumped out (not least because the first sentence is highlighted): The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intell
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Brings to mind https://xkcd.com/833/
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Works in Firefox 42.0 as well.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
I wonder if the marginal value of a TV ad impression declines as the number of ads per hour goes up.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
As a corollary to your point #2, there is a clear safety in numbers effect in which as the number of cyclists goes up, the rate - and often the absolute number - of crashes and injuries goes down.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
There's a 21-year life expectancy difference between the richest and poorest census tracts in just my city alone.
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The 1% Now Owns Half of All the Wealth in the Entire World(fastcoexist.com)
3 points by RyanMcGreal 11y ago|0 comments
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Danish discovery raises hopes for a cancer cure(thelocal.dk)
1 points by RyanMcGreal 11y ago|0 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> Emails like this are usually riddled with corporate speak so I'm going to give it to you straight. [...] > we plan to part ways with up to 336 people from across the company Nothing says "give it to you straight" like
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
I'm not suggesting diet doesn't matter; of course it does. But for me, every attempt to eat less failed. When I decided to focus on exercise instead, a subsequent effect was that the pattern of my approach to food started to chang
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> The added benefit of the "exercise first" approach is that after exercising, I find that I don't even want the donut. Yes, this exactly! The real challenge of getting in shape isn't the physics or chemistry nearly s
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Of course not. I started by slowly walk-running 2 miles, two or three times a week and only increased my distance and speed gradually over a period of two years (compounded with a couple of frustrating delays due to injuries). These days I
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> exercise is not they key to weight loss, proper eating is. Anecdote here, but I've found that for me the key to weight loss has been exercise-first. I decided that I'd never be very good at reducing my dietary input (I really
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It’s gotten harder to lose weight and not for the reasons you think(washingtonpost.com)
29 points by RyanMcGreal 11y ago|71 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Also, if you are belted in you are not a projectile ricocheting around the inside of the car and hitting other passengers.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
The obvious solution is to start building fridges with power outlets inside the cooling area.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> Americans now grow more food on less acres Arrgh. We would have accepted "fewer acres" or "less acreage".
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
The spoken word would simply become subject to the same channel constraint that the written word already faces today. A huge amount of conflict and misunderstanding in online discussion stems directly from the fact that sarcasm is very diff
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> There are also bugs that are feature proposals that do have patches attached, but there is a general hesitation to accept changes like that because there is concern that they aren't useful, won't mesh with other similar lang
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Yelp deleting negative reviews for Dentist who killed Cecil the Lion(yelp.com)
9 points by RyanMcGreal 11y ago|13 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
I had to look up the current reddit debacle: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/new... I'm still not sure what's going on, though.
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Stephen Elop out as Microsoft VP as company shuffles upper management(cbc.ca)
1 points by RyanMcGreal 11y ago|0 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> They began by focusing on the thought process that defines the disorder, which is known as rumination. (The verb is derived from the Latin word for “chewed over,” which describes the act of digestion in cattle, in which they swallow,

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