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“Sun in a box” would store renewable energy for the grid(news.mit.edu)
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America's Growing Cop Shortage(npr.org)
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by tshannon 8y ago
Thanks for clarifying. I'm no expert just passing on things I've read. Regardless, it's unrelated to prions.
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by tshannon 8y ago
I believe Alzheimers is recognized as a metabolic disease now (some have even said Type 3 diabetes). It's in no way related to Prions.
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by tshannon 8y ago
Great list. I love when people do this, as I inevitably find new channels to follow. Thanks,
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How 1 Company Pulls Carbon from the Air, Aiming to Avert a Climate Catastrophe(npr.org)
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Prions, Nearly Indestructible and Universally Lethal, Seed the Eyes of Victims(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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Poll: Young People More Likely Thank Older Ones to Defer Health Care: Shots(npr.org)
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Robot Punctures Can of Bear Repellent at Amazon Warehouse, Sickening Workers(npr.org)
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Is the U.S. Lagging in the Quest for Quantum Computing?(scientificamerican.com)
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The Best Technology for Fighting Climate Change Isn't a Technology(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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Should We Subsidize Nuclear Power to Fight Climate Change?(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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Why Aren't Millennials Spending? They're Poorer Than Previous Generations(npr.org)
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Secret project targeted by Intel worker in Folsom CA, lawsuit claims(amp.sacbee.com)
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by tshannon 8y ago
I would expect your use case would be better suited by use just using postgres. However if you do need to scale to the point where you'd need to distribute your database and take advantage of CRDB's capabilities, it uses the Post
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As Many as 145 Pilot Whales Die Stranded on Remote New Zealand Island(npr.org)
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Thanks to Science, You Can Eat an Apple Every Day(npr.org)
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Silent and Simple Ion Engine Powers a Plane with No Moving Parts(scientificamerican.com)
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by tshannon 8y ago
Is any of that hardware useful or anything other than mining? Or is all of that hardware investment a loss? If it the latter, then what an incredible waste.
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by tshannon 8y ago
Does hacker news really run on one server? What if server goes down? I've always though high availability was the more important reason for multiple servers, rather than performance. Even if you have only two paying customers, they ar
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by tshannon 8y ago
100ms+! Ouch. Is that just large amounts of data? Are you guys using pg.native?
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by tshannon 8y ago
Heh, that sounds kind of awesome actually.
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by tshannon 8y ago
China is funding like America of the 50s/60s.
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by tshannon 8y ago
That doesn't look like anything to me...
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Shock as China Legalizes Medicinal Trade in Rhino Horns and Tiger Parts(blogs.scientificamerican.com)
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by tshannon 8y ago
In addition to the differences other commentators have added, I've personally found out that TiDB doesn't support Foreign Key constraints and Cockroach DB does.
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by tshannon 8y ago
Carbon filters clean up "some" of them, but not all. Reverse Osmosis is better if you can afford it. The filtering really should be done by the city / government on an industrial scale (like CG did in the article) where it&#x
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by tshannon 8y ago
Has there been any conclusive studies yet that say what impact if any microplastics have on us?
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by tshannon 8y ago
Ha. I live in cottage grove, and I assumed the same thing.
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by tshannon 8y ago
> “We took a system from factory floor with no hardening, no preparation, running an open source operating system,” Fernandez said. “The majority of the community didn’t think it would function or wouldn’t last long.” > HPE relied on

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