GlobalFrog

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by GlobalFrog 5y ago
Actually, forests in France have doubled since 1850 and cover today 31% of the total France superficy. It is now about the same size as it was at the end of the Middle-Ages. The peak of forest superficy was around the Xth century, mostly be
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by GlobalFrog 5y ago
As said elsewhere, who was there first is not relevant, whereas having prefered treatment because of your monopoly at any stage is. Some are mentioning the App Store being the root of the monopoly, and that is probably true. But speaking fr
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EU says pro-Kremlin media trying to sow panic with coronavirus disinformation(edition.cnn.com)
1 points by GlobalFrog 7y ago|0 comments
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by GlobalFrog 7y ago
Science-fiction idea: will it ever be possible to test the double-slit experiment with individual neutrino? There would be multiple issues for that: the detector, the production of individual neutrinos, the isolation from perturbations and
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by GlobalFrog 7y ago
My own meta-try from the textsynth.org site, using its own description as input: Text completion using the GPT-2 language model. It is a neural network of 1.5 billion parameters. Type a text and let the neural network complete it. Each try
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Alan Moore in Paperback Writer (BBC) on how music shaped and influenced his work(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by GlobalFrog 7y ago|0 comments
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by GlobalFrog 7y ago
I'm curious as well, for example to imagine how the event would unfold, as it would not be the direct remnant of a supernova. For an observer, would the neutron star seem to just disappear? Where would be the horizon and what would it
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by GlobalFrog 7y ago
Even as a trademark and not a copyright, I see at least one area requested which seems highly ambiguous: "Software to enable accessing, displaying, editing, linking, sharing and otherwise providing electronic media and information via
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by GlobalFrog 7y ago
I would go even further : your description of the bookseller is the same as the one I would do. Focus is on money and on the appearance of being a cultural persona, even if a bookseller does not read more than most of their clients. To be f
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by GlobalFrog 7y ago
I couldn't agree more. This is something that no one, from any polical side, right or left or republican or democrat or whoever in whatever country, says enough. Companies are indeed considered as real entities whereas they are just em
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by GlobalFrog 7y ago
The point here is that those sales in any country benefit also from the public infrastructures: even where there is the least use of the public money, those infrastructures play a big role in allowing any company, national or foreign, to ex
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by GlobalFrog 8y ago
I can see your point, but is the introduction of dark energy in the current favored model better? Instead of having an energy coming from nowhere that increases particle mass, we have something coming from nowhere that expands space.
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by GlobalFrog 8y ago
I would say that Maigret is a kind of psychological detective : even if there are clues and detective work, his main characteristic is that he tries to get to the bottom of the personnalities he encounters, what motives drive the criminal a
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by GlobalFrog 8y ago
That is the theory. I might be pessimistic, but it looks to me that everyone claims that one want that even playing field and at the same time, hides as much subsidies as possible to be able to protect ones own industries. Europe is heavily
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by GlobalFrog 8y ago
Completely true. And moreover, it is now acknowledged that the failure to stop the terrorist attacks in the recent years comes for a part from the RG having been nearly disbanded. They were far from being an agency which only spied on publi
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by GlobalFrog 8y ago
One could argue though that we live in highly accelerated times compared to when latin was used. It took quite a long time for the roman language domination to be built : between 509 BC to 480 AD (roman republic and western roman empire), w
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by GlobalFrog 8y ago
That reminds me of a study about the ancient Rome by Walter Schiedel et Steven Friesen (The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire) Link there : https://doi.org/10.3815/0075435097897452
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by GlobalFrog 8y ago
So something is missing in international laws. A country can only declare war to another country, so one might ask : what if conventions about wars were to be modified to include this: allow a country to formally declare war to an organizat
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by GlobalFrog 8y ago
I'm curious about this actually: what is the power consumption of the whole ensemble Bitcoin+altcoins? From what you're saying + the original thread, it looks like almost sure that electricity used by those combined would be at le
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by GlobalFrog 9y ago
Copyright laws are to be respected whatever the country. This is a border case, so to see if the principle is sound, let's imagine something. Let's say a country, for whatever reason, decides that its copyright protections are of
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by GlobalFrog 9y ago
To be fair, and without denying all the crimes and exploitation made by European countries in their colonies, we don't have to forget that a lot of those places had tribes/clans/countries that were waging wars again each othe
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by GlobalFrog 9y ago
Reality would be closer to this: imagine you participated to the choice of the menu in the past, ate it, participate of the choice of the next menus in the future and commited to pay your share. You even eat some of the first courses in eac
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by GlobalFrog 9y ago
I have to disagree here : based in France, I sometimes do business in Belgium and I have to declare and pay VAT to Belgium for sales made there, while deducing the taxes paid locally to Belgium counterparts. That's the spirit of the la
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by GlobalFrog 10y ago
To be more precise: in 1966, France left indeed the integrated military structure, but it did not left NATO itself which is also a political structure. The goal of de Gaulle was to have all French troups under only French command (and not U
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by GlobalFrog 11y ago
I wonder whether the extensions are US only ? I understand that Disney has the capacity to protect their trademarks all over the world, but I guess that there has to be several countries where derivative works from the existing locally expi
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by GlobalFrog 11y ago
Actually, the question would be more "what is judged by a competition ?". Levelling the playing field is not only a reason for pleasing the crowds (which happens sometimes) but also a way to assert what the competition is for. A c
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by GlobalFrog 13y ago
The relaxed lifestyle is part of a greater picture I think. But first, have a look at the website setup by Jaime Clarke, a US writer who has written a book due to be published in 2014. http://pleasedontbuymybookonamazon.com/