inglondon

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Keen, a Pintrest-like app by Google(blog.google)
3 points by inglondon 6y ago|0 comments
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by inglondon 7y ago
I can't verify the quality of these studies but it seems that injury rates per 1000 active hours of crossfit at 0.27 - 0.74 [1] are significantly lower than more common sports such as running at 2.9 - 4.4 and basketball at 6.3 - 12.9 [
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by inglondon 7y ago
Reminds me of when I attended an event in Paris, France and they had a robot bartender. I was there during the day when they were setting up and it took a team of 3 engineers ~8 hours to set up vs just paying a bartender for the 3 hours + a
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VitroLabs (YC S17) is hiring a Director of R&D(hire.withgoogle.com)
1 points by inglondon 8y ago
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by inglondon 9y ago
They’re members of a notorious family of multidrug-resistant pathogens, called carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), which collectively have mortality rates as high as 50 percent and have spread rapidly around the globe in recent
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Secret to a long life could be revealed in bat DNA that doesn't degrade(newsweek.com)
1 points by inglondon 9y ago|0 comments
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Ibuprofen alters human testicular physiology including testosterone production(pnas.org)
185 points by inglondon 9y ago|65 comments
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by inglondon 9y ago
There is also no derivatives market for diamonds
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Scientists grow mouse eggs from iPS cells in vitro(phys.org)
1 points by inglondon 10y ago|0 comments
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by inglondon 10y ago
Apart from the usecases mentioned in the article, this could have interesting applications in sterile environments such as operating theatres and clean-rooms. Another fairly obvious application is virtual and augmented reality. For more tra
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Warby Parker reducing managers’ control over workers(qz.com)
1 points by inglondon 10y ago|0 comments
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by inglondon 10y ago
What about the 3rd option, getting two tasks done? - Grind for 1 hour and assuming 90% success rate, finish the task 9 out of 10 times - Sleep - Finish another task in 15 min with, again based on your assumption, a success rate of 100% In s
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Livestream from the International Space Station(youtube.com)
3 points by inglondon 10y ago|0 comments
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by inglondon 10y ago
Here is a good explanation on what they are at YC http://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#officehours edit: the question was answered by katm
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by inglondon 10y ago
These are some of the things that come to mind: - Prioritise streets for walking / light autonomous electric vehicle use - Build underground streets or lanes that are designed for an autonomous delivery network. Getting rid of trucks a
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by inglondon 10y ago
I spent a couple days in Idaho this week and went on a few hikes. Google Maps had all the trails accurately mapped while Apple Maps was just a blank space with no information whatsoever. I don't know if it's a personal preference
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by inglondon 10y ago
Just last week, thyroid tumors were reclassified and are no longer considered cancer. [ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/15/health/thyroid-tumor-cance... ] From the article 'Instead of calling it “encap
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by inglondon 10y ago
Tha simplest and best advice I've read was in an article called 'We should all eat more DNA' [ http://blog.oup.com/2016/01/we-should-all-eat-more-dna/ ]. It follows one simple guideline 'Avo
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Taking Carbon Dioxide from Air and Converting It to Oxygen and Carbon Fibres(technologyreview.com)
1 points by inglondon 11y ago|0 comments
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by inglondon 12y ago
I posted this a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8583393
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UNL, Johns Hopkins researchers identify DNA of algae virus in humans(newsroom.unl.edu)
6 points by inglondon 12y ago|0 comments
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by inglondon 12y ago
Just made the switch from Chrome to Firefox. I noticed that even on a high-end Macbook Pro, when I opened a large amount of tabs in quick succession Chrome would lag intolerably. It did so on earlier releases of Firefox but I just tried on
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by inglondon 13y ago
If you listen to any hip-hop track made in the last 5 years you will find that is already the case with a good percentage of said tracks. I met a guy recently who's only job was to find brands to partner with this young but fairly well
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Eric Schmidt's fund Innovation Endeavours invests in retail tech(wwd.com)
2 points by inglondon 13y ago|0 comments
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by inglondon 13y ago
Congratulations! The app is great and I have been using it for the last couple of days. One thing I would love to see is an option for strikethrough in addition to bold, italic and underline. I'm using the app as my todo list and it would b
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Google Drive OSX application is very heavy on the CPU
5 points by inglondon 14y ago|2 comments
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by inglondon 14y ago
When running the Google Drive OSX application the CPU goes into overdrive while syncing my local files to the Google servers and pushes the CPU temperature to around 100° Celsius. Is anyone else experiencing the same issues?
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by inglondon 15y ago
Through a separate list I found a couple of companies: http://www.spielkarten.com/ http://philos.quasarshop.de/Home.asp?Lang=D http://www.dalnegro.com/ (Italian company) I have never dealt with playing cards specifically so I canno
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by inglondon 15y ago
I have done all my printing in Germany for a few years now and can also highly recommend it. The companies we have dealt with have been excellent in proofing the data. They have gotten back to me because an image was fractions of a millimet