michaelmachine

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Trees lost to drought and wildfires are not returning(theguardian.com)
4 points by michaelmachine 5y ago|0 comments
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Europe floods: At least 120 dead and hundreds unaccounted for(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by michaelmachine 5y ago|0 comments
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Can electric vehicle batteries be recycled?(youtube.com)
1 points by michaelmachine 5y ago|0 comments
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Chiropractors are bullshit(theoutline.com)
124 points by michaelmachine 5y ago|133 comments
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by michaelmachine 5y ago
Chiropractors don’t actually help with back pain or any of the other problems they claims to help. The practice is based on “re-aligning” subtle subluxations in the spine. Two problems: there is no evidence that these subtle subluxations ex
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Is this the end of forests as we've known them?(theguardian.com)
1 points by michaelmachine 5y ago|0 comments
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US atomic waste dump in Marshall Islands to be investigated(bbc.com)
131 points by michaelmachine 7y ago|34 comments
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by michaelmachine 7y ago
Taking away jobs makes people mad. 17% of Canada’s economy is natural resource extraction: mining, logging, hydrocarbons. Greater than 200,000 Canadians are employed by the logging sector [1]. [1]: https://www.nrcan.gc.ca/si
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How We Built the World’s Prettiest Auto-Generated Transit Maps (2016)(medium.com)
1 points by michaelmachine 7y ago|0 comments
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by michaelmachine 8y ago
There is a video available here as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gtf-1JibORg
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Wendelstein 7-X plasma video(youtube.com)
2 points by michaelmachine 8y ago|0 comments
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by michaelmachine 9y ago
We did them in Alberta, Canada after the shooting in Taber, Alberta in 1999.
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Nintendo’s bringing DIY robots and more to the Switch using cardboard(techcrunch.com)
7 points by michaelmachine 9y ago|0 comments
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by michaelmachine 9y ago
Ants at Work by Deborah Gordon is a really great book.
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by michaelmachine 9y ago
The rules for faxes are pretty strange in Alberta, Canada. The main security measure seems to be adding a cover letter as the first page. Meanwhile, personal health information in emails is a big no-no.
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Jeff Bezos looks a little too happy piloting a giant mechanical robot(theverge.com)
2 points by michaelmachine 9y ago|0 comments
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Amazon’s CEO Just Demoed the World’s First Manned Bipedal Robot(futurism.com)
2 points by michaelmachine 9y ago|0 comments
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The Shattered Mirror: News, Democracy and Trust in the Digital Age [pdf](shatteredmirror.ca)
1 points by michaelmachine 10y ago|0 comments
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by michaelmachine 10y ago
Battery life and increased battery life are almost always a feature that is marketed by laptop manufacturers. On the Macbook Pro one of the key features being marketed is "up to 10 hours of battery life". I guess you may mean that
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by michaelmachine 10y ago
Yeah there is lots of literature on this issue and some ongoing studies trying to determine how to reduce medical error during the hand-off. For example: http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/PROSPERO/display_record.asp?ID=CRD...
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by michaelmachine 10y ago
I agree that Uber has resulted in more competition from local competitors which is great, but this information about Uber pricing is not correct. Uber prices have gone down overall since the regulatory changes were made to allow Uber and ot
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by michaelmachine 10y ago
My city Edmonton, Canada also has a map of all the trees they maintain: https://data.edmonton.ca/Environmental-Services/Trees-Specie...
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Civic virtue(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by michaelmachine 10y ago|0 comments
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by michaelmachine 10y ago
I only use it for escaping from a full screen view on youtube
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by michaelmachine 10y ago
There are also galaxies that are 99.9% dark matter apparently [1]. I don't think they are counted in this survey. [1]: http://www.skyatnightmagazine.com/news/galaxy-found-9999-dar...
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by michaelmachine 10y ago
They do have automatic recurring billing for the Public Cloud servers now, but on the dedicated servers it is still the old payment system for some reason.
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NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (DSCOVR:EPIC)(epic.gsfc.nasa.gov)
2 points by michaelmachine 10y ago|0 comments
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When Madison Avenue Met Broadway: The World of Industrial Musicals(cbc.ca)
1 points by michaelmachine 10y ago|0 comments
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Hundreds of antibiotics built from scratch(nature.com)
1 points by michaelmachine 10y ago|0 comments
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by michaelmachine 10y ago
Rdio was acquired by Pandora.

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