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Let’s stop the manipulation of science(lemonde.fr)
14 points by vmarsy 10y ago|11 comments
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Making it more searchable is awesome! I have some feedback as well, Firefox tells me the following: "Connection is not secure. Parts of this page are not secure (such as images)"
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Which entity isn't paying exactly? Content providers have to pay an ISP to be connected to the Internet in the first place. That price is diffused through the whole network of ISPs through their pricing schemes in between each other.
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by vmarsy 10y ago
You might have a wrong definition of net neutrality. What the consumer-facing ISPs want is more something like tier levels: basic tier gets only 2mbps, platinum tier get 250mbps for instance (and other tiers in between) . So if I'm Spo
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by vmarsy 10y ago
I found the paper very instructive. Could you explain what's so different today compared to 2004? The paper specifically says ISP can do 100% paid transit, or 100% peering , or anything in between. If the actual ratio transit/
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The economics of the Internet backbone (2004) [pdf](ideas.repec.org)
44 points by vmarsy 10y ago|7 comments
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by vmarsy 10y ago
"if states are losing more college graduates than they are holding or bringing in, they’re effectively subsidizing other states’ skilled labor forces." Defining those subsidies could be helpful, if this refers to the in-state tuit
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Awesome! In the next release we'll hopefully have the "hot-exit" behavior like Sublime, where you can close the editor without having to save files, and they're back where you left off when re-opening. Apparently, the PR
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by vmarsy 10y ago
> You use Google Search, and Google tells you that you should use Google Search more often. Actually when you use google search, google tells you that you should use Chrome . The exact popup says: Google works better with Chrome
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Interesting article presenting a "war" between Intel CPU and Nvidia GPU. I'm curious where AMD falls in this war. While it's true GPU can provide really nice theoritical TFLOPS, the cost of moving data in and out of the
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Nice, This could be useful also if you could have "secret" variables as well, similar to [1]. [1] https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/build/define/variabl...
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by vmarsy 10y ago
You're right, however those only work at higher speeds, hence the "especially with city driving" :) From wikipedia : A Lock-up clutch is used in some automatic transmissions for motor vehicles. Above a certain speed (usually
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by vmarsy 10y ago
>when automatic transmissions are consistently outperforming humans at fuel efficiency Do you have data to back this up? Unless you're driving a dual clutch "dry" transmission or a CVT, because of Physics, an automatic tra
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Thermally Chargeable Solid-State Supercapacitor(onlinelibrary.wiley.com)
2 points by vmarsy 10y ago|1 comments
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by vmarsy 10y ago
With electricity generation, thinking like a regular industry would also be very inefficient. It's well known that there's a lot of wasted energy in the electrical lines to transport the electricity from the centralized plant to
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Just a quick heads up: On chrome v54.0.284.0.68 on my Android nexus 7 tablet the new tutorial page is half cut. I only see "asics" instead of what I assume is supposed to be Basics, all the text below is also cut: Overv
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Meanwhile you only need three 500€ bills to make up for the average European income. (And 500€ is 36651 rupees.) Those 500 and 1000 rupees are the largest denomination bills in India, but you need almost 10 times more of them to make up
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Autos US regulator finds another cheat device in Audi car(dw.com)
2 points by vmarsy 10y ago|0 comments
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Almost 3 years ago Visual Studio demo-ed a feature that would copy-paste code from StackOverflow, while automatically renaming the variables to fit your code : https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2014/02&
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by vmarsy 10y ago
I don't follow your comment. I'm not sure how you can claim that Solid state relay is fake. Also poor security practices in IoT devices and counterfeits sounds like 2 completely different topics. Let me play the devil's advoc
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by vmarsy 10y ago
This is exactly the conclusion of an interview of Barbara Corcoran[1] (a business-woman who has known Trump for years) back in May: " He's probably one of the most powerful & effective salespeople I have ever met in my life &q
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by vmarsy 10y ago
Yes, for instance Swift should be able to compile to web assembly? If Swift can be compiled with the clang/llvm toolchain, it should be able to target web assembly.
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by vmarsy 10y ago
You're probably right. those rankings have a lot to do with the research papers published by those schools from non Americans. Relative to the US population, the primary and secondary education do not produce a high level of capabili
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by vmarsy 10y ago
I don't think it forces you to include resources from Google. I think the 2 primary reason Google asks you to include a specific javascript script [1] are : 1 - Lazy & Prioritized asset loading logic 2 - Loading assets from cache
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by vmarsy 10y ago
One of the issues with airplanes in general but especially with the Concorde at high altitude was radiation [1][2]. Would a carbon-fiber plane protect better or worse than an aluminum plane? My intuition tells me that aluminum is much bett
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by vmarsy 10y ago
> The financial crisis was partially a result of mortgages being given to people whose financial data would have suggested that they had no business borrowing so much money. In that case, the opposite of your point is true. This shows t
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by vmarsy 10y ago
I like the XML format better too. It's also easier* to parse if you start using XPath, if for any reasons you need to quickly read/write some of the values. * Except when a default namespace is involved, then XPath expressions get
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Annual cost from daily exposure to hazardous chemicals exceeds $340B(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by vmarsy 10y ago|0 comments
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How can we guarantee those patents went from the schools directly into IV ? What if the school first sold it to a non-patent-troll 3rd party, and then that 3rd party transferred it to IV? Is there a way to follow the history of a particular
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by vmarsy 10y ago
I've read that story in "How to win friends and influence people" https://www.google.com/#&q=%22how+to+win+friends+and+influen...

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