RyanMcGreal

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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
It needs to be pointed out that one of the reasons Americans aren't more active is that the built environment has been designed to maximize driving to the active obstruction of any other way of getting around.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Here's the thing: two sentences right next to each other within the same paragraph are related. The sentence is merely one tier in the hierarchy of organizational structures that frame writing. The paragraph also forms a unit of stru
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
The author seems to be deliberately trying to manufacture long sentences to make his point, mainly by taking two related sentences and pushing them together with a semicolon. It serves no purpose in improving comprehension and comes at the
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
"The greatest gift you can give your children is to love one another."
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
I read this thinking, "This reminds me of Etherpad," only to reach the part of the story that describes Etherpad and how the author incorporated and improved on its ideas. Great piece.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Thankfully, a lot of these don't work in Firefox.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
So do you volunteer to stop taking vaccines, treating bacterial infections with antibiotics, reject medical intervention in the case of acute injury, etc? I rather doubt it, even though we take all these radical inventions in the prevention
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Pinterest Is Announcing Buyable Pins and a Partnership with Stripe(readwrite.com)
1 points by RyanMcGreal 11y ago|0 comments
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Heh, try living in Hamilton.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Fair enough.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> About one of every two computers sold today is running Android. So, like, half of them?
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
I take issue with your analogy, as these are all moral questions. In contrast, "What happened to the dinosaurs" is a factual question.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
About that Amanda Blum article: http://www.gayle.com/blog/2013/03/24/digging-beneath-the-sur...
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Monica Lewinsky recently gave an excellent TED talk in which she explored the phenomenon of online shaming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_8y0WLm78U Arguably, Lewinsky has the dubious distinction of being Patient Zero fo
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Car ownership in the US is actually lower than most other industrialized countries. [1] Sprawl is a policy, not a law of nature, and it can change with a change in policy. [1] http://www.theatlantic.com/international/ar
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
The Eglinton-Crosstown LRT in Toronto will do this when it opens.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
It's instructive that the first living organisms were anaerobic and produced oxygen as waste. It wasn't until much later that aerobic organisms evolved to consume the waste of the anaerobic organisms.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
I would recommend against abusing any drug, legal or illegal. It's not a good idea to abuse alcohol, caffeine, nicotine or pseudoephedrine, all of which are quite legal. Aspirin abuse can cause intestinal bleeding, acetaminophen abuse
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
> Although Google Chrome is installed on all Android 4.3+ devices Is this correct? My phone (Galaxy S3) is running Android 4.4.2 and Play Store tells me I don't have Chrome installed.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
The ingenious twist of American ideology is that so many of the many perceive themselves as aspiring members of the few, and hence oppose the kinds of policy that would improve conditions for the many.
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Alas, the audio doesn't seem to work in Firefox (37.0.2).
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by RyanMcGreal 11y ago
Related: http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/hatethenews
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Christopher McDougall Wants You to Go Outside(well.blogs.nytimes.com)
2 points by RyanMcGreal 12y ago|0 comments
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What to do about boltons - and you will get boltons.
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by RyanMcGreal 12y ago
> but did not seem to consider things like, "What happens when this team moves on". FTA: > 3. Cuba itself is extremely easy to work with because it barely does anything. You can read the entire source in 5 minutes and unders
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by RyanMcGreal 12y ago
If so, they're doing it wrong.
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by RyanMcGreal 12y ago
You have articulated the usual list of excuses for not investing in cycling, and none of the excuses survives close scrutiny. There are many cities right now with a variety of climates, topographies, land use forms and densities that have
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by RyanMcGreal 12y ago
"what we actually sell is what I like to call the feeling of being informed" Ugh.
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Here's the HTML version: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2015/4/184705-who-builds-a-hou...
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One additional note that I should have mentioned (indeed, emphasized): I also spent a couple of months tweaking and tinkering with the ergonomic layout of my desk - chiefly the position of my keyboard, mouse and monitors - until I found an

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