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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…

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 ho…

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 …

There is also no derivatives market for diamonds

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 obviou…

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,…

Here is a good explanation on what they are at YC http://www.ycombinator.com/atyc/#officehours edit: the question was answered by katm

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 …

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 whats…

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 …

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 guid…

I posted this a few days ago here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8583393

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. I…

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…