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by vmarsy 9y ago
> Do these coffee machine vendors seek to use patents to protect their sales of coffee? A couple years ago this was a debate in France, Nespresso lost but it was because of anti-competitive behavior[1]. There's apparently[2] plenty
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How Happy Are We? (2009)(web.archive.org)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I found this Scientific American (from 2011? based on comments) article discussing the paper for those who don't have time to read the pdf : https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
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Declining Fruit and Vegetable Nutrient Composition: What Is the Evidence? (2009) [pdf](hortsci.ashspublications.org)
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> Instead of drinking more, the crew were drinking less in the long run when getting more salt. So where was the excreted water coming from? “There was only one way to explain this phenomenon,” Dr. Titze said. “The body most likely had
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Very interesting article > Finally, and most critically, there is complete price transparency because everybody can see the prices everyone else charges just by looking at those big signs. If we take away any one of those facts, the whol
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I'm not sure I get what these multi-use paths roads look like. If by "finely crushed gravel" you mean loose gravel, I would understand why cyclists don't use it. Maybe it'd be fine for Mountain bikes (but then defi
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Spark: New Mini-Drone from DJI(dji.com)
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AmazonFresh Pickup: free grocery pickup for Prime members(amazon.com)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
The European Union is often made fun of with "the Americans innovate, the EU regulates", but in the meantime GDPR[1] is coming into force in 2018 > The primary objectives of the GDPR are to give citizens and residents back cont
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by vmarsy 9y ago
> I choose 64-bit integers, but strings would do fine as well. No it would not. Sorting 64 bits integers in a vector is fast obviously since they are stored contiguously in memory, so you get to benefit from all the caching layers (L1, L
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Pretty interesting : The highest score I've been able to find right now, apart from the extreme examples, is 49.6% success, 5.3% flag ... with the title "Predicting Hacker News article success with neural networks and TensorFlow&q
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by vmarsy 9y ago
That's an interesting report. The table only has 15 districts, but it looks like the best area against NPEs is Northern Illinois, and Northern California, with only a 13% success rate (vs. 48% success rate in EDTX) Texas Southern only
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by vmarsy 9y ago
It seems to be a bad deal specifically for other countries companies which do businesses in the US. If you're incorporated in another country, I feel that patent Trolls can decide the state they want in the US to sue you about US law
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Kreuz market (also in Lockhart) also opened another kreuz market in Bryan, TX. That's a shorter distance from Dallas/Houston
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Yeah, except for > and a rich culture open to differences & innovation . Maybe Canada is the only one checking all of it?
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by vmarsy 9y ago
You're right the telecom has this particularity of not being a "open market" with these big government regulations and bids for frequencies etc. As the sibling comment points out : "Nothing's stopping Newber from sh
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by vmarsy 9y ago
You're describing a "race to the bottom" those 2 competing producers would participate in. But we all know that when there's a quasi-monopoly with only 2/3 big players, they would "cooperate" to maintain
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A Tool for Mounting MS SQL Server DMVs Using FUSE(github.com)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
mods, the original title should be preserved, currently it is : "U of Houston discovers catalyst that splits water into hydrogen and oxygen" But the original title is : "UH Researchers Report New, More Efficient Catalyst f
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Your link doesn't work, it shows "An error occurred while processing your request.". Could you provide a "BibTeX reference" or equivalent?
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by vmarsy 9y ago
[1] and [2], both citing the original paper as a source, show that Carbonated water was part of their experiments. Not only that, but they also tested against degassed carbonated beverage, which is clearly stated on the "RESULTS"
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Carbonated beverages induce increased food consumption in rats(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Your [2] link point "ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2008/01/ftc-c..." (see link address) which just shows the press releases page.
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by vmarsy 9y ago
I don't remember where I read it (probably on a HN post or comment) but there was a great suggestion regarding organization chart. Instead of doing one only when you scale from 10 to 20 people like this article suggests, the idea was t
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Bill aimed at providing clarity on non-compete deals passes WA House 97-0(geekwire.com)
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Some states are starting to move in that direction too,like Washington state but this isn't as strong as California : https://www.geekwire.com/2017/scaled-back-bill-aimed-providi... Apparently Google and labor uni
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Thanks for the link. The original post is unreadable on my Android tablet as you can't zoom. Other comments here mention the threat to the first ammendment, I find the one about the 4th as relevant to today: The fourth amendment
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by vmarsy 9y ago
Yes, but also others have tried and have not gone back (yet?) like GendBuntu[1]. Munich was about 15,000 computers [2], GendBuntu is 70,000. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu [2] http://www.zdnet.c
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Bill gates is a famous example, with many cans per day : https://www.inverse.com/article/22652-bill-gates-diet-coke-s...

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