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flying_kangaroo

2년 전discuss

I used to give preference to Southwest for cross-country (US) flights, partly because of availability on particular routes, but over other direct flights because of the boarding experience. For $15-20 (not sure what it is now) I could pay for the automated check-in and be near-guaranteed a seat in the A group that was better, for cheaper, than trying to get an equivalent seat at an airline where they were picked ahead of time.

flying_kangaroo

5년 전discuss

The way I've heard it, BMI can be inaccurate on the individual level, but it was created to analyze populations more broadly, where it can be a somewhat useful heuristic. I would guess athletes with obese BMIs are a small enough portion of the population to not make too much of a change to the population-wide statistics.

flying_kangaroo

7년 전discuss

As you take your grip wider, the pecs will take over more of the load from your triceps. Don't go too wide though, aim for a 90-degree angle in your elbows as the bar comes down.

flying_kangaroo

7년 전discuss

If that's how we're looking at it, wouldn't that be the same essential idea as leaving a bookmark and juggling a few books at once?

flying_kangaroo

7년 전discuss

If you do a search across his blog there's various articles touching on different parts. Here's one such:

http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/11/21/knowledge-workers-are-...

flying_kangaroo

8년 전discuss

At a minimal level, Apple also provides a do-not-disturb mode that ignores everything but calls from contacts that you specifically add to your "favorites" list.

flying_kangaroo

8년 전discuss

This reads like advice for how to train a cat and I would feel kinda weird doing it to a child. Is this actually effective?

flying_kangaroo

8년 전discuss

The counterpoint to your potential Instagram downfall is that "kids these days" are making "Finsta" accounts, or fake accounts that they only add their close friends to, so they can post things they don't want the family seeing. Facebook tries very hard to enforce people using their real names, something that Instagram doesn't need to do.

flying_kangaroo

8년 전discuss

"Back in your day," were you allowed to just pull out a newspaper in the middle of class and read it? I find that doubtful.

flying_kangaroo

8년 전discuss

This reminds me of all those subreddits of people asking how to quit reddit :). There's been periods where I don't check HN much at all for a few months, but I notice that when I "stop checking these specific time-sinks" that really just treats a symptom and I still waste a good amount of time, just on other sites. The only real way to quit is to be intentional about what, specifically, you want to fill the regained time with. I don't have any studies handy, so this may just be conjecture rather than actual science (as if anything else exists online), but it's often easier to make a "positive habit" such as reading 20 more minutes per day than a negative habit like "don't check HN".

flying_kangaroo

8년 전discuss

/r/popular will come close to it, and includes a level of customization based on your general location (as the default front page does).

flying_kangaroo

8년 전discuss

You could even have the commentators take a break during tv timeouts, and just have some chill crowd shots. Maybe get some teams on board to show what they'd do on jumbotrons during the breaks in action.

flying_kangaroo

8년 전discuss

If it helps you understand, originally cable tv was a way to pay for tv (as opposed to free OTA) that then had no ads, almost like how HBO operates today. Of course, that could only last for so long.

flying_kangaroo

9년 전discuss

calories in vs. calories out in around 99% of cases.

flying_kangaroo

9년 전discuss

From what I remember it was mostly too many advertisers trying to push their accounts/products to the front page and killing a lot of the user-generated content people wanted.

Helped that reddit was primed and ready as exactly the site the migrators were looking for. We don't quite have the same alternatives ready to go rn.

flying_kangaroo

9년 전discuss

The seat upgrade procedure is pretty nice. $20 for priority boarding on southwest vs. multiple times that for a "economy deluxe" seat on other airlines? Sign me up.

flying_kangaroo

9년 전discuss

On the flip side, however, reddit is (as of today on Alexa) the 4th most visited site in the US. Given that user-base, I think a lot of internet users have noticed this.

flying_kangaroo

9년 전discuss

Can't have people watching two streams on the same computer. Common sense or something.

flying_kangaroo

9년 전discuss

I'd say "is" rather than "could become", personally.

flying_kangaroo

10년 전discuss

I thought 21 Jump Street hit the nail on the head w.r.t. (modern?) high schools, a lot of the most popular kids in that movie were also the smart, "nerdy" types. Could be a regional thing though, who knows.