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by biehl 10y ago
My two main arguments for "cleaned up history" are 1) Reviews are much more enjoyable when the commits reflect the final understanding of the problem rather than false starts etc. 2) Looking back through history is much more enjoy
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by biehl 10y ago
Same here. I granted Ingress access in Nov 2015
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by biehl 10y ago
Nice comment here https://storify.com/KyleSiler/dupuis-on-sciencemagazine-sci-...
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by biehl 10y ago
Yes, if all of those things were non-rivalrous, and had neglible marginal cost.
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Tesla updates Model S(theverge.com)
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Do wind turbines kill birds?(science.howstuffworks.com)
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Der Spiegel Op-Ed: Endgame for the IMF-EU Feud Over Greece’s Debt(yanisvaroufakis.eu)
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Gum disease opens up the body to a host of infections(sciencenews.org)
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by biehl 11y ago
Possibly. For Pfizer that would surely mean eliminating patents on medicine. Apple for example, that would mean eliminating patents on software and hardware, copyright on software, design-patents etc.
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by biehl 11y ago
One good reason to tax corporate profit is that (large) corporate profit is a market failure (lack of competition) - and a profit tax can help lessen that failure.
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by biehl 11y ago
Others pushed back too - and were bought off eg. Barnes & Noble and SuSE/Novell.
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by biehl 11y ago
I find it very likely that many "politicians and lazy academics" actually already know it to be false that patents is a cost-effective driver of innovation. However, it is just so darn easy to count patent and claim something like
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by biehl 11y ago
But they provide a lousy and expensive filtering. So-called "high impact" journals suffer more retractions. http://peterdedmonds.blogspot.dk/2015/06/retractions-and-hig... Society is most definitely well
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Skylake Dell XPS 13 Developer Editions Now Available for Purchase(dell.com)
2 points by biehl 11y ago|0 comments
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by biehl 11y ago
My experience is similar, however more like: Groovy === happy developers
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by biehl 11y ago
Or "How did companies perform when absolute and relative CEO pay was lower in general"?
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by biehl 11y ago
Legacy science publishers are one of the best examples of copyright fail - how times have changed such that the current rules are no longer aligned with reasonable goals of current society.
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by biehl 11y ago
It is more light-weight?
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by biehl 11y ago
Exactly. An evaluation of the efficiency of "buying" clinical trials with patents would be very interesting.
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by biehl 11y ago
Yes, it is quite a lot better. I just restarted using after two years pause. Now I find that I open half my sessions in Atom, half in sublime.
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by biehl 11y ago
I've preferred Kanban for a while now. When I started doing work on a git-flow/feature branch basis, the sprints lost their value to me. I've begun to wonder if the sprints were simply an artefact from poor practices in old C
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Eclipse IDE on JDK 9 Early Access with Project Jigsaw(waynebeaton.wordpress.com)
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by biehl 11y ago
Any time is a good time to support http://www.alltrials.net/
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by biehl 11y ago
What kind of riders are you thinking of? In Copenhagen, where everyone rides bikes (young, old, hipster, business guy, dad, child - not only "dedicated riders"), there are plenty who would bike less by simply dropping some bike ri
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by biehl 11y ago
The money quote "[Bike lanes] has dual advantages, both reducing injuries and encouraging cycling, an important public health goal of its own given the physical activity and environmental benefits. Comparisons between North America an
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by biehl 11y ago
Here is a nice overview. Maybe slightly outdated by the latest developments, but the concept of wholesale and retail rates is clear https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union_roaming_regulat...
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by biehl 11y ago
Since the risk is there you need backup capacity anyway, and even if thermal production is very stable, usage over the day is not. So you need balancing no matter what. You do need to improve balancing to integrate lots of wind/solar -
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by biehl 11y ago
Someone already has: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Fullneed...
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by biehl 11y ago
it adds a source of unstability in the mix Because thermal plants never trip??
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by biehl 11y ago
[if no densification]...then adding taxes isn't an incentive to better using the land. Which was the point of this tax. You seem to equate "densification" and "better using the land". That is a narrow definition o

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