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by Laforet 10y ago
Yes, this is something new for me as well and I was more than impressed with the quality of their work.
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by Laforet 10y ago
I've just had a paper accepted last week in a traditional journal (peer-reviewed and paywalled) and I'd share a few things I know and feel about scientific publishing from an anthor's perspective. The publisher provide a valu
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by Laforet 11y ago
Yes, that book remains errily relevant to this day of NAFTA and TPP. Oddly enough reading Garreau alao taught me to appreciate how much effect the 1970s oil embargo had on the American psyche: people lived in genuine fear that the sky is f
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by Laforet 11y ago
Nice kitchen. Do you mind sharing what prompted you to switch career entirely?
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by Laforet 11y ago
The Weibo handle quoted in the WaPo article was named "Xinhua Opinions/Viewpoints", does not get more obvious than that.
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by Laforet 11y ago
It was an opinion piece, but a editorial. WaPo really tried hard to over analyze that post. After all, Xinhua has traditionally avoided publishing opinions because their main role is a news agency, but with social media there is a lot less
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by Laforet 11y ago
It is cheap because manufacturing was subsidised by cheaper dirty coal-fired electricity. Solar panels today are essentially overpriced batteries that require years of time and sunshine to discharge. 10 years ago most solar panels barely re
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by Laforet 11y ago
The law change basically forces sites serving a domestic audience to use a domestic domain registrar where the government has the legal authority to seize them when they wish to. There is already a whitelist system in place (ICP licensing)
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by Laforet 11y ago
It may be a mix-up between Hansen 1988 vs Hansen 2016 https://www.skepticalscience.com/Hansen-1988-prediction-basi...
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by Laforet 11y ago
Strictly speaking, not very much. This is basically rent seeking by domestic registrars under the disguise of censorship.
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by Laforet 11y ago
One thing I learned from this episode is that the GFW does not yet have the ability to automatically filter HTTPS traffic based on certificate signatures. Someone have suggested before and now we have some evidence that this is not the case
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by Laforet 11y ago
Sorbitol is not a preservative, your juices probably had sorbic acid which is used as an anti-fungal, but for a good reason: I grew up in a region where historically the rates of liver cancer were much higher than the national average: The
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by Laforet 11y ago
Each character is a 16*16 dot matrix encoded by the 16-bit integer. Old systems (from the beginning of IBM compatibles until early 1990-ish) had hardware accelerators if they wanted to use multiple fonts, IIRC one of the few breakthrough pr
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by Laforet 11y ago
Never heard about this before so I read it up on the cfrg list and oh dear it was phenomenal. https://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/cfrg/current/msg06826....
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by Laforet 11y ago
The early 2000s were a horrorshow as far as capacitors were concerned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague
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by Laforet 11y ago
Multiple users in Chrome seems to be a viable workaround. But I really miss the old Tweetdeck before the buyout even if it means I had to install Adobe Air...
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by Laforet 11y ago
Nuclear power stations require a high initial capital input. AFAIK nothing of this sort has been happening since Chavis became president. They have essentially starved their own energy industry of necessary reinvestments to get a quick buck
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by Laforet 11y ago
Thanks for sharing tue situation with us. I live just across the ditch in New Zealand and somehow managed to remain oblivious about it. The developments makes me feel somewhat uneasy since NZ is highly reliant on hydroelectric power and we
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by Laforet 11y ago
It is worth keeping a close eye on the ongoing Microsoft Ireland suit. No matter the outcome of the current appeal the case is likely to go in front of the superme court. Should the SCOTUS rule in favour of the government request this will
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by Laforet 11y ago
The line of thought was probably that they may reach a scale that can overcome these overheads since they don't have to pay rent or hire full time staff for every outlet. It makes sense if you consider very early examples like Amazon w
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by Laforet 11y ago
I am not sure if this still done with NAND memory - unit cost is low enough that they seem to just dump the bad examples or worse, off load them to dodgy buyers who make those offbrand novelty flash drives sold on ebay.
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by Laforet 11y ago
Most non-fastfood resturants actually price their food at or near cost after the overheads are factored in. Profit actually came from (overpriced) beverages and drinks. If a startup is to compete with them there is no way for them to make m
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by Laforet 11y ago
Ghastly would have been a wiser choice of word, but the meaning remains the same.
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by Laforet 11y ago
Which one was it?
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by Laforet 11y ago
> much of it was rather insightful while brief Much of it was misinformed or plain wrong. The particulars has been extensively discussed in this thread. > The motivated spectator can then google details about your camera's firmwa
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by Laforet 11y ago
Years ago WD sold a 808.8GB drive which reportedly contained two 500GB platters that had failed QC. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA67S23Y89...
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by Laforet 11y ago
Thank you, I was trying to say something along similar lines in another comment but you summed it up more eloquently.
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by Laforet 11y ago
> As another commenter here noted, it's possible he was sold an "experience" by the tour company he chose, and they were playing to the group. In any case, there's definitely a lot of popular mythology at play with re
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by Laforet 11y ago
> Is that the media, or was the author/photographer also pushing that agenda? I have to say both in this case. https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/46ahkv/illegal_photo_...
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by Laforet 11y ago
Thanks for the comments. Perhaps I was over-reacting, but I was more frustrated with other aspects of this post that I will spell out now at the risk of sounding like jealousy or argumentum ad hominem - This set of photos has gone viral and

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