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by liotier 10y ago
It is called "yield management" : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yield_management - it is a commercial technique which is not specifically capitalist.
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by liotier 10y ago
I remember how it felt so high tech when putting in the number using beeppy buttons instead of the rotary dial !
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21 XMPP use-cases and the best ways to achieve them(erlang-solutions.com)
72 points by liotier 10y ago|21 comments
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by liotier 10y ago
Thanks... I thought this presentation reminded me of something...
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The death of transit and beyond [pdf](2017.apricot.net)
8 points by liotier 10y ago|2 comments
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by liotier 10y ago
I teach that the meal is the moment when fun can be had through social interaction. I entirely ban communication and entertainment device at the meal table. But then I'm French, so I don't know what the custom generally is in the
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by liotier 10y ago
Also, mentally incapacitated people (including drug users) are a vulnerable population - they are easy prey to criminals, so it would be unfair to deprive them of their means of self-defense. /s
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by liotier 10y ago
> The steel is protected from corrosion by the concrete itself I guess that the steel is protected by something else because, as the pre-1970 builders ignored and as it dawned on everyone else 20 years ago, concrete is not waterproof.
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by liotier 10y ago
> How do you motivate a conscript ? Same you motivate anyone anywhere, except that in the end you have institutionally-legitimated physical threats to back up your orders. Field-proven method since about 6000 years !
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by liotier 10y ago
> your muscle memory will continue to work even if your brain doesn't Indeed, it is only when you encounter an actual combat situation that you understand why the karate elders insist on so many thousand mindless repetitions of basi
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by liotier 10y ago
I don't understand releasing them so close: isn't the whole point of a large number of satellites to give them different orbits ?
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by liotier 10y ago
Found a startup, pitch on HN, get rich - c'mon man, get with the program !
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by liotier 10y ago
Not quite a "headfake" but indeed it is all about testing our response. This is called Lean Fascism: http://blog.koehntopp.info/index.php/255-lean-fascism/ - " Political positions are no longer back
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Announcing Providence: a spam filter for XMPP(journal.valeriansaliou.name)
2 points by liotier 10y ago|1 comments
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IPv6 configuration approaches for servers(blog.apnic.net)
1 points by liotier 10y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 10y ago
Noise can be controlled. As I work for a French telco, I know it is one of the important parameters to manage when shoehorning an FTTH head-end in a residential building in a very dense neighborhood. Heat too ! It is routinely done, unless
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103 micro-drones launched from three F-18, demonstrated advanced swarm behaviors(defense.gov)
2 points by liotier 10y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 10y ago
"GNU social" - good, I like that protocol suite... But how do I discover fellow users to fill my subscription list across different sites ? Can I search across the whole networks ? These are inherently easier with a centralized se
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How to socialize Uber(jacobinmag.com)
1 points by liotier 10y ago|0 comments
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Bandwidth costs around the world(blog.cloudflare.com)
3 points by liotier 10y ago|0 comments
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QuickMapServices – from plugin to service for everyone(nextgis.com)
3 points by liotier 10y ago|0 comments
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Multipath TCP deployments(ietfjournal.org)
1 points by liotier 10y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 10y ago
I don't understand how commenters generalize about Reddit: the is no Reddit, only subreddits - each of which is moderated in a different way. I moderate /r/Africa we deal with speech mercilessly. /r/askScience or &#
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by liotier 10y ago
Hyperbole aside, the Sahara does have such humongous solar potential that supplying Europe is a possibility... But I never hear anyone mention the mightily expensive necessary upgrades to the electricity grid - and more specifically the ext
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by liotier 10y ago
Relevant thread: "Why did the US and Soviet Union continue to build nuclear weapons far beyond the point where each side could completely annihilate the other ?" - https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/comm
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by liotier 10y ago
> The 10.0.0.0/8 block provides 16 million addresses > and there's also 172.16.0.0/12 and 192.168.0.0/16. > There are certainly enough addresses in these ranges > that running out is not a concern
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by liotier 10y ago
“Leap Smearing must not be used for public-facing NTP servers” - https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ntp-bcp-02
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The best way to predict the future is to issue a press release(hackeducation.com)
1 points by liotier 10y ago|0 comments
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by liotier 10y ago
> "Data-around-shufflers" would be more appropriate In the French language we have "calculateur" which is the direct translation of "computer" but only commonly used in the context of scientific computing, a
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Demystifying the I-Device NVMe NAND (New Storage Used by Apple)(ramtin-amin.fr)
4 points by liotier 10y ago|0 comments

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