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Re: Calm zooming/Kiddle.co/Colorful bowls

Jason McLaren — Sun, 15 Nov 2020 21:03:26 -0000

That spice mix chart ended up on /r/mildlyinfuriating for its confusing visual design. Somebody helpfully un-muddled it here: Spice Blends - One Blend Per Line

Re: Newsletter Stack/Personal Vision Tracker/Beyond Burgers

Jason McLaren — Mon, 13 Jul 2020 02:12:31 -0000

Mr Kelly, I'm curious about your reasons for not eating beef, pork, or lamb.

Sorry if you've written about this before; I couldn't find anything with a few minutes of googling and searching this website.

Re: 23andMe Receives FDA Clearance for Genetic Health Risk report that looks at a Hereditary Colorectal Cancer Syndrome

Jason McLaren — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 19:21:09 -0000

Are you considering testing for the Lynch Syndrome mutation? As the article mentions, it's the most common form of inherited colorectal cancer.

Re: Three Computer Games That Make Assembly Language Fun

Jason McLaren — Sat, 13 May 2017 17:35:56 -0000

Core War is another great example from the 1980s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wi...

Re: Is High Protein Actually Bad During Weight Loss? (Interview with Stephan Guyenet, Ph.D.)

Jason McLaren — Tue, 06 Dec 2016 14:15:37 -0000

Great interview.

I wonder how much of the reduced insulin sensitivity of the muscle in the high-protein diet comes from the reduced loss of muscle?

I suppose one could try to test this by doing a similar experiment where the normal-protein and high-protein groups lose similar amounts of lean mass, rather than similar amounts of total mass.

Thinking about it naively, it seems like the reason for the increased insulin sensitivity in muscle with weight loss might be to compensate for lost muscle by increasing nutrient uptake in that tissue.

Re: Cognitive Dissonance and Wikipedia

Jason McLaren — Sat, 03 Dec 2016 18:16:09 -0000

A place to start: Simple English Wikipedia

https://simple.wikipedia.or...

For example, the entire entry for Cohomology reads, "Cohomology is something in higher math which is used to solve math problems."

https://simple.wikipedia.or...

Some of the math entries are actually decent, simple explanations of the type you're talking about, see "Commutative Ring" and "Mathematical Analysis" for example.

Re: "Eat-what-you-kill capitalists" should care about income inequality too

Jason McLaren — Thu, 27 Nov 2014 22:35:49 -0000

Older readers may recall income inequality breaking into public consciousness in 2011, with the Occupy Wall Street movement, somewhat earlier than Piketty's book.

Re: A Truly Minimum Viable Kitchen

Jason McLaren — Tue, 25 Feb 2014 02:08:16 -0000

Nice post, Scott.

I would personally add a paring knife, mixing bowl, sheet pan with rack, and can opener to start.

Here's Mark Bitman on the same theme:

"A No-Frills Kitchen Still Cooks"
http://www.nytimes.com/2007...

Re: http://www.rafael-chacon.com/post/28727863750

Jason McLaren — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 02:49:48 -0000

Sorry to hear about your bike. Did you file a police report (by telephone)? The police will notify local pawn shops etc and they'll call in if somebody tries to sell them your bike.

Here's an existing online national (Canadian) bike registry, for registering your bike and/or reporting it stolen.

http://www.bikerevolution.ca/

Re: Evoluent Mouse

Jason McLaren — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 23:00:53 -0000

I tried the Evoluent mouse briefly but went with another vertical mouse called the Penguin instead. I found it more comfortable because it was bigger and there was a place to rest the side of your hand. The Penguin can be used with either hand (there is a switch to change the direction of the horizontal scroll wheel). Switching hands regularly does seem to help.
http://www.posturite.co.uk

Re: Dine Around Vancouver Contest!

Jason McLaren — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 03:15:33 -0000

Shaolin Noodle House.

Re: http://danebrown.tumblr.com/post/978552281

Jason McLaren — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 20:30:03 -0000

There's an Avro Arrow in Kamloops?! Why did nobody ever tell me?

Re: scottpatten.ca | How scottpatten.ca came to be

Jason McLaren — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:16:38 -0000

I am impressed by that city employee tracking you down, actually. My tax dollars hard at work. (More likely, my own business registration fees hard at work.)

Re: Some thoughts on improving Bugzilla

Jason McLaren — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:39:48 -0000

Friendly resolution emails are a great idea. And how about not emailing me every time somebody adds themselves to the cc list?

Re: Brierwood Design: The New Socialism?

Jason McLaren — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:57:26 -0000

You're right -- the term socialism can mean so many different things to different people (especially to self-described socialists), that it's not a very useful term. Better to talk about "worker cooperatives" or "state ownership of banks" or "non-profit-driven enterprise."

When looking at the historical experiments around the world with socialism / anarchism, the most interesting thing to me is the sheer variety. You get a very different view from the standard "communism vs capitalism" debate.

Interesting anti-co-op op-ed in the Ottawa Citizen that you may have seen:
Economics for Lefties. The main point is that co-ops hire fewer workers because of the incentive to maximize per-worker revenue. (A comment points out that this may not actually be true.)

One of the other comments to the Citizen article points out that there will be some sort of Co-op Congress in Ottawa this June -- might be worth checking out.

Re: Brierwood Design: My Multi-Computer Setup (on the cheap)

Jason McLaren — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:58:24 -0000

Great suggestions here -- I'll have to look into Co-op and Harvest. I have been using Freshbooks for invoicing and time-tracking. It's pretty good, although it doesn't have multi-currency support.

For calendar and contact syncing between multiple macs and google, Spanning Sync might work for you.

What are your thoughts about Basecamp? I've been using Pivotal Tracker, which imitates sticky notes on a whiteboard. So far, it's enough for my purposes.