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- The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier. http://thecostofknowledge.com/ 4 comments
- The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier. http://thecostofknowledge.com 28 comments
- Fabricated Knowledge: "The Rising Tide of Semiconductor Cost" https://www.fabricatedknowledge.com/p/the-rising-tide-of-semiconductor 3 comments hardware
- The true cost of knowledge https://blog.royalsloth.eu/posts/the-true-cost-of-knowledge/ 10 comments programming
- This Python Script cost me $1200. Please learn from it and share the knowledge! https://usedatascience.com/2019/10/01/this-python-script-cost-me-1200/ 92 comments learnmachinelearning
- British school switches students' computers to Linux, reducing costs and improving computing knowledge https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/british-school-switches-students-computers-linux-reducing-costs-and-improving-computin 20 comments linux
- The Cost of Knowledge: Researchers taking a stand against Elsevier http://thecostofknowledge.com/ 26 comments science
- Censorship of war casualties in the US - US mainstream media and the public's willful ignorance is to blame for lack of knowledge about true cost of wars. http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/opinion/2011/07/20117258316765540.html 6 comments politics
- India’s government-run hospitals provide low-cost treatment to the poor, but there are increasing claims that patients are being used as guinea pigs in drug trials for western pharmaceuticals without their knowledge. http://rt.com/top_news/2010-08-19/india-drug-trial-pharma.html?fullstory 12 comments worldnews
- Testing how to manage online education at schools through three different levels - student, teacher and educational system. Low-cost system-level intervention considerably increases student participation and performance on knowledge tests. https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2216686120 2 comments science
- EY Releases Zero-Knowledge Layer to Tackle Increasing Ethereum Costs https://www.coindesk.com/ey-releases-zero-knowledge-layer-to-tackle-increasing-ethereum-costs 3 comments cryptocurrency
- How Lizzie Bennet Got Her Books : In Regency England, a novel cost about $100. Subscription-based circulating libraries became a way for women of modest means to gain knowledge. https://daily.jstor.org/how-lizzie-bennet-got-her-books/ 4 comments books
- Test your engineering knowledge and get better at predicting impact and cost https://www.evidentmethod.com/training 40 comments programming
- Making Knowledge Free Can Cost You Your Freedom - The fate of a young researcher reflects poorly on the state of scientific publishing. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-08/making-knowledge-free-can-cost-you-your-freedom 12 comments technology
- British school switches students' computers to Linux, reducing costs and improving computing knowledge - [detailed study on a trial project run by the ITC] https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/elibrary/case/british-school-switches-students-computers-linux-reducing-costs-and-improving-computin 3 comments opensource
- [Grange] The Raptors have signalled they are willing to re-sign Trent Jr., and sources with knowledge of the situation say he would be happy to re-sign this summer. “Of course,” they said. But at what cost, is the rub. https://www.sportsnet.ca/nba/article/with-trade-rumours-swirling-raptors-trent-jr-ready-for-anything-on-long-trip/ 45 comments nba
- President Donald Trump's military parade is estimated to cost $92 million, according to a U.S. defense official with firsthand knowledge of the assessment. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/08/16/trump-military-parade-expected-to-cost-80-million-more-than-estimated.html 6 comments worldnews
- "...When there’s so much quality information available for free of charge (with zero energy cost) – not only is it not worth much, you have already tricked your brain into believing that you have internalized that knowledge. I call this mental masturbation...." - Information whoring http://dilanka.cc/information-whoring/ 4 comments productivity
- The James Webb Space Telescope costs $8.7 billion dollars, a small price for knowledge it would bring. And yet, its funding is in jeopardy while US military spending exceeds $1 trillion annually http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDS-xt-yJ-k 17 comments space
- The Cost Of Living Crisis Specifically In the UK, I will try to express my economic perspective and hope to provide some knowledge on this situation. I would appreciate it if any of you could offer any solution to this grave issue. https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQd-zdb8ADPmzzIaeISDl_z8EJx8Zg_ceKFCxdSpa_hTpzq3Qw1IMXbGruxh_Ms65xcgGqTylNS_vdo/pub 3 comments economy
- EY (Big 4 Accounting firm) contributes a zero-knowledge proof layer 2 protocol into the public domain to help address increasing transaction costs on Ethereum blockchain https://www.ey.com/en_gl/news/2021/07/ey-contributes-a-zero-knowledge-proof-layer-2-protocol-into-the-public-domain-to-help-address-increasing-transaction-costs-on-ethereum-blockchain 5 comments ethereum
- Knuth's 2003 Letter to Editorial Board of J. of Algorithms about the high cost of CS journals as barrier to dissemination of knowledge http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/joalet.pdf 157 comments programming
- Just The Facts: The Cost Of Solar Has Fallen More Quickly Than Experts Predicted. Why did so many individuals with knowledge of the field fail to recognize the sharp decline in costs? If these curves hold in the future then we are, even now, underestimating the possible path of progress. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/06/08/just-the-facts-the-cost-of-solar-has-fallen-more-quickly-than-experts-predicted/amp/ 119 comments energy