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   "text": "The March 2012 discontinuity estimates remain statistically significant and stable at larger bandwidths, while very small bandwidths yield confidence intervals containing zero and would not detect any discontinuity.",
   "abstract": "As Figure 10 shows, the estimates are statistically significant and rather stable also for larger bandwidths.",
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   "text": "The incentive design in which originators of TCP requests pay the bill failed to solve web hosting costs, because the Tragedy of the Commons asserted itself and porn and pirated file sharing, sometimes set up by the ISPs themselves to game the payment design, consumed available bandwidth.",
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