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How Lightning Can Kill 300 Reindeer with One Strike(wired.com)
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As someone that's lived (and hired people) in both low-cost and high-cost areas, the pay doesn't scale the same as the costs. There are tradeoffs for those areas that go beyond the costs. Usually people think of climate or culture
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> The purpose of H1B Visas is to supply talent that CANNOT be found domestically. They are not designed to suppress the wages of locals... If this is really the intention, then changing the format to an auction (based on salary) instea
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It seems obvious that it would be a struggle for them to ship products - they are "moonshots" after all. Reading this article makes me wonder if it was a good idea to put all of them into one division though. Even when you go in k
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Poor choice of words maybe. Mostly I was surprised by the lower than expected quality of article on NPR. The title is clickbaity, and they definitely missed key bits of information.
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Surprisingly, sci-news.com has a better writeup on this than NPR - http://www.sci-news.com/biology/guaico-culex-virus-multicomp... “Although multicomponent genomes are relatively common among RNA viruses that infect
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> Personally I don't think the government has the right to bar anyone from getting any kind of education. Not sure how you got that from the linked article. Here is the issue: ITT is under threat of having its accreditation revoked
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Depending on the price I could see movie studios or places like DisneyWorld using this technology to replace existing animatronics
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Which is precisely why it's easy to be productive at that time in the morning - fewer people around mean fewer distractions. From the article: By waking up at 4 a.m., they’ve essentially wiped a lot of those distractions off their pl
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> The gym battling system mechanics are not great. That's a huge understatement. Initially the battling system was super confusing, but with enough trial-and-error we were able to figure it out. I even got into a couple fun battles
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For me, the coolest part was this bit from the end of the article: When Oetzi was discovered in 1991, famously well preserved in the ice of the Italian Alps, this type of ancient DNA analysis was impossible. "25 years ago, the study o
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And they had every login for the network it was found on: "The library was masquerading as a Windows password filter, which is something administrators typically use to ensure passwords match specific requirements for length and compl
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Most articles paint this deal as solar + battery + car, but the car part really doesn't matter here. The key part is solar + battery. Over the last year states have started increasing fees to hook solar into the grid and at the same ti
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> The US would be in a pop decline, if not for immigrants. If we only count US born newborns, the US pop is in decline. That's a popular idea, but it's false: http://www.politifact.com/virginia/statement
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It also seems odd that the automatic emergency brake didn't engage after the collision with the semi.
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> It sounds like Uber is using MySQL as just a data bucket with primary keys They have a couple posts about "Schemaless", but I still don't understand why they used MySQL as the data store instead of something like Cassa
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Many cities replaced those dead elms with ash trees lining the streets, and now they're facing a similar plight with the emerald ash borer.
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This fits with the “hygiene hypothesis,” which says that when children are exposed to germs early in life, their immune system gets trained to attack germs, rather than attacking itself as we see in allergies, asthma, and eczema It would
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It's political. Many people prefer to keep politics out of HN, and so it gets flag-killed. I don't really agree, but I can understand the desire for a politics-free area.
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"according to critics, it is unfortunately the seagoing equivalent of the Air Force’s trillion-dollar F-35 fighter plane: designed too ambitiously to fulfill too many roles and, as a consequence, well over its budget, flawed in its ex
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> Honestly, at this point it's too late to start "preparing" for a pop. That's probably true, and if they do find a way to start squirreling away large amounts of money it could bring about the pop sooner and possib
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Agreed: "We've seen single mom's stuff be taken, a cancer survivor his drugs taken, we saw a Christian band being taken. We've seen innocent people's stuff being taken. We've seen where the money goes and how
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I work at a medical device company, and a coworker of mine uses this lunchbox - http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/e72e/ The first time I saw it in the company fridge I completely freaked.
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The biggest barrier for us has been quality and availability of fresh produce. There are 4 grocery stores very close to us and we usually end up hitting each one over the course of a week to see what's actually worth buying. There&#x27
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Agreed. Terrible link-bait title, and the article is mediocre. Please change it to something like : "UK GDS bans apps in favor of responsive websites"
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Windows 10 works well (M.2 Samsung 950 Pro on a Gigabyte GA-Z170X-UD5), but don't make the mistake I did of doing a default MBR-style format on the drive. Put the BIOS in UEFI mode and make sure the drive gets formatted with a GUID Par
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> I have just built a PC with a M.2 Samsung 950 Pro on a Z170 motherboard Ditto - I built mine at the beginning of the year. It's very fast, but I learned two things that weren't widely reported at the time. 1) The chips on
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Seems pretty clear to me: Yom says he keeps getting asked if there's some secret recipe for getting students to perform at their highest potential. "This may sound corny, but you really have to love them," Yom says. "Yo
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> Anyone know what percent of questions the AI answered, vs redirected? That's actually a very good question. The article doesn't give many details other than: "There are many questions Jill can’t handle." For com
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"In April, Icahn argued that stock prices have been pushed artificially high by low interest rates, but that economic fundamentals could not support those prices." That tells me that his bet is actually that the Fed will keep ra

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