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Pipelining Consensus Writes to Speed Up Distributed SQL Transactions
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Cockroachlabs
How Pipelining consensus writes speeds up distributed SQL transactions
This post introduces Transactional Pipelining which dramatically speeds up distributed transactions with respect to the latency cost of distributed consensus.
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A Daughter’s Disability and a Father’s Awakening
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SAPIENS
A Daughter’s Disability and a Father’s Awakening
When an anthropologist’s baby was diagnosed with Down syndrome, he was overwhelmed by emotional upheaval. Then, everything changed.
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The Holes in the Map: England’s Unregistered Land
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Who owns England?
The holes in the map: England’s unregistered land
Coding and writing by Anna Powell-Smith. Around 15% of the freehold land in England & Wales is unregistered. What this means is that if you go to the Land Registry and ask them ‘Who owns …
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If not SICP, then what? Maybe HTDP?
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The potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth elements (2018)
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Nature
The tremendous potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth elements
Scientific Reports - The tremendous potential of deep-sea mud as a source of rare-earth elements
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Say no to Venn diagrams when explaining SQL joins (2016)
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Java, SQL and jOOQ.
Say NO to Venn Diagrams When Explaining JOINs
In recent times, there have been a couple of tremendously popular blog posts explaining JOINs using Venn Diagrams. After all, relational algebra and SQL are set oriented theories and languages, so …
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Ask HN: How do you organize everything you want to do?
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Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race (2018)
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Hyperallergic
Vintage “Soviet Santa” Postcards Were Propaganda for the Space Race
Vintage Soviet postcards reveal a sophisticated political project, one that uses the allure of nostalgia to create a vision of a utopian, space-age future.
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The Embroidered Computer
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Irene Posch
The Embroidered Computer | Irene Posch
The Embroidered Computer uses historic gold embroidery materials to craft a programmable 8 bit computer.
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Is Sunscreen the New Margarine?
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Outside Online
The Shady Link Between Sunscreen and Your Health
Current guidelines for sun exposure are unhealthy and unscientific, controversial new research suggests—and quite possibly even racist. How did we get it so wrong?
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Study: Coca-Cola Shaped China's Efforts to Fight Obesity
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NPR
Study: Coca-Cola Shaped China's Efforts To Fight Obesity
A new report documents how Coke penetrated the government and influenced efforts to bring down the growing obesity rate — but not by cutting back on calories.
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As Xenophon saw it
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Aeon
The Ancient Greek rebel leader who saw Socrates solo-dancing | Aeon Essays
Brilliant leader, kind horseman and friend of Socrates: Xenophon’s writings inspire a humane, practical approach to life
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The BETA Programming Language
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Input: Fonts for Code
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Input: Fonts for Code — Preview
Input is a typeface for code, designed by David Jonathan Ross and released by Font Bureau.
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Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down
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ZDNet
Government shutdown: TLS certificates not renewed, many websites are down
Over 80 government websites are down after TLS certificates expired and there's nobody on hand to renew them.
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Tell HN: Udacity is deprioritizing its app and will eventually remove it
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Data.gov
is down due to a lapse in government funding
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Arborists are bringing the “dinosaur of trees” back to life
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Quartz
Arborists are reviving the "dinosaurs of trees" with cloning techniques
Saplings from clones of the world's largest and longest-lived trees, felled for timber more than a century ago, could be key to fighting climate change.
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Silicon Valley is evolving and focusing on employees
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How Silicon Valley is finally growing up (sort of)
It’s still the land of opportunity, but now it’s confronting the human cost of its success. The new buzzwords: responsibility and empathy.
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Ask HN: Anyone Interested in Capture the Flag (CTF) Events?
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Kyoto Tycoon in 2019
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