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rich_ardon A (Mostly) Marketing and Ideology-Free Guide to Fitness and Nutrition

Consider replacing your entire site with a link to better resources that more experienced people have assembled.

rich_ardon A (Mostly) Marketing and Ideology-Free Guide to Fitness and Nutrition

> three hours a day

This is silly and gets sillier from there.

rich_ardon Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed

Whites are favored on dating apps (e.g. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3244459) and the model proposed would make that division pretty explicit

rich_ardon I turned my interview task for Google into a startup

Not clear on how showing that you're willing to argue a position that you don't have any background or evidence to support is a positive.

rich_ardon A cure for cancer: how to kill a killer

And for good reason

rich_ardon How Exercise Might “Clean” the Alzheimer's Brain

Reading the comments, might be because of the lack of literacy on this topic in this venue

rich_ardon How I Faked My Way to the Top of Paris Fashion Week [video]

Thanks! Much better this way, I think. What a story!

rich_ardon Linus Torvalds: 'I'll never be cuddly but I can be more polite'

It's a feature of Boy Scouts and the patrol method, in which youth are encouraged to take on leadership positions for six-month periods.

rich_ardon Go West

> these $400k+ earning SEs are a double-digit percent of the engineers I know with 6+ years of experience (N > 10)

Well they would have to be, wouldn't they?

rich_ardon Using Apple’s New Controls to Limit a Teenager’s iPhone Time

While I can't speak to 'all parents', I can say that as a parent of five, kids develop significantly differently. We've been treating our oldest daughter as basically an adult since she was 13 or 14; the next-oldest is getting there, at 15. Next couple down the line we have to monitor more closely.

rich_ardon Is a Dumber Phone a Better Phone?

This is what got me re-tethered to a smartphone after a several-months-long experiment with returning to a flip phone - for backpacking it's so, so nice to have GPS in my hand.

rich_ardon Fake it till you make it: the wolves of Instagram

I have had scenes from Glengarry Glen Ross played in sales meetings dozens of times.

rich_ardon Do What You Love and Starve? (2006)

Down on your luck? Open a coffee shop!

rich_ardon Panerabread.com leaks millions of customer records

Was that the path of yeast resistance?

rich_ardon Experiment, Measure, Repeat

Did you measure, though, that the staff was happier or more productive? Did any meaningful change occur as a result of the requests to use Slack differently?

Looking at your graph, it's not really clear that anything has changed significantly: when did the change get implemented? Is a couple weeks' change in activity a result of a couple of loud employees going on leave? There's such variability there that it's hard to say that anything has really changed.

I agree that a formal analysis isn't always necessary, but you don't appear to done _any_ here and are then couching a suggestion to try something on Slack as having measured something. That's just bad science! :D

rich_ardon Obesity and Overweight Prevalence for the U.S

Were this the case, you would see a correlation between urban development and obesity rates; cursory examination of obesity rates and population density (and our basically unchanged urban planning methods since the 1960s) reflect that this is not the case.

rich_ardon Death of an Heir: Adolph Coors III and the Murder That Rocked a Brewing Dynasty

Really wish I'd come to the comments first...

rich_ardon When Citi Bikes Are Faster Than Taxis in New York City

I live in a much, much smaller state-university city - but I bike between campuses and beat my coworkers in cars every time.

rich_ardon Save Your Sanity, Downgrade Your Life

I recently downgraded to a flip phone and it has been wonderful. I missed Google Maps for transit during a trip to NYC, but otherwise it's been great - not being leashed to the internet by my own lack of self-control is wonderful.

rich_ardon 'That Fentanyl – That's Death': A Story of Recovery in Baltimore

> I don't think EMTs are regularly administering fentanyl at the scene. I could be wrong about that.

You are, it's more and more being advised for EMS use over morphine.

rich_ardon Unsupervised sentiment neuron

Yesterday?