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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 ex…

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 g…

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.

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?

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-...

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.

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?

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 ca…

"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.

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 "…

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

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 durin…

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 onl…

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

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. Help…

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.

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.

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

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

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 regiona…

Until a few years ago, Chromium was built on top of WebKit, then had a falling out with Apple / Safari and we got Blink.

On the flip-side, (again, anecdotal sample-size-1) I've noticed a definite improvement in battery life after uninstalling the app, and I definitely don't needs any of Facebook's no…

It's the most helpful advice in the article.

Not OP but also had to write my own shell, as well as the kernel APIs for forking and whatnot. The kernel APIs are definitely interesting, but I think the biggest dopamine rush was…

tbh I read it as "commuted" anyways. The human brain is quite the work of art.