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by 1gn1t10n 7y ago
As far as I understand VAT's role in the economy, the Value Added Tax is offset to the last link of a value-adding chain: the consumer. This creates the incentive of further adding value to a product/service and thus creating more
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by 1gn1t10n 9y ago
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2017... https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X1-Carbon-2017... Performance section: "The comparison of the two Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon
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by 1gn1t10n 10y ago
Concerning point one, could you please list the alternate software you had in mind? Especially the open source ones. Thanks!
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by 1gn1t10n 10y ago
Normally it is not patentable if it's obvious to a person skilled in the topic, if there is prior art, or if there is no business application. I would say this fails two out of three.
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by 1gn1t10n 10y ago
It doesn't cease to amaze me how stupid IP laws can get. Better said, how much power money can buy you. As the parent is saying, this is nothing new. See here [1] how F1 cars have adapted to reduce drag. I simply cannot see how this is
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by 1gn1t10n 10y ago
Yes. Through technical guarantees, I like to think that the benefit is not merely "perceived". And it applies to other actors as well, not only Google.
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by 1gn1t10n 10y ago
I'm a bit surprised, I was using the stock Android for Nexus and in my case the results were logged. Just as other people are reporting: every single application usage, call or what-have-you. I also had turned off everything I could fi
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by 1gn1t10n 10y ago
I think they know much more than they are showing in that dashboard. Simply staying a few steps ahead and not giving them the option to even link to your account is worth for me. To give an example on desktop, even using separate Firefox pr
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by 1gn1t10n 10y ago
Ahh... It's so satisfying to see the stream of everything I was doing on Android suddenly stop when I switched to Cyanogenmod and not linked my e-mail account. The trick was to use K-9 Mail. Otherwise, when configuring the e-mail (Gm
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by 1gn1t10n 11y ago
> Is "operating at their highest capacity" a bad thing? Yes, it's a bad thing. Internet traffic is bursty so usually you have to overprovision a lot to deal with the spikes. Operating at full capacity means that they get m
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by 1gn1t10n 11y ago
How is work on Telehash coming? I'm still waiting for an XMPP equivalent for the mobile age that will free us from the medieval [1] state of communication we are experiencing. [1] https://www.schneier.com/blog/arch
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by 1gn1t10n 12y ago
I know for a fact that at least two major ISPs in France already do this (SFR, Free).
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by 1gn1t10n 12y ago
In case the main link is not working as it did for me, I spotted an alternate source for the publication [1]. [1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3983044/pdf/pcbi...
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by 1gn1t10n 12y ago
While the hardware part of the job is nicely done, I think there still remains the problem of how to convey the information to the users. Once a toilet becomes free, everybody waiting will try to aquire the ressource (ie: do a costly walk t
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by 1gn1t10n 13y ago
All this reminds me of Paul Heckbert's ray tracer written on the back of his business card: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ph/src/minray/minray.card.c
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by 1gn1t10n 13y ago
I wonder if providing this kind of information to the public can lead to worse performance (commute time). This reminds me of Braess's Paradox [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Braess_paradox
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by 1gn1t10n 13y ago
That's exactly what a threading library abstraction aims to do. For example the Intel TBB (Threading Building Blocks).
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by 1gn1t10n 13y ago
On an Intel i5-2520M (4 threads [1]) it reported 5 usable worker threads. As I see from others, the result reported by core-estimator is spot on N+1, where N is the number of virtual cores [2]. It might be a coincidence, but this is exactly