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by abofh 15y ago
First, you should test on an unloaded domU, not anything in EC2; - EC2 will dynamically adjust your CPU share as you try and use it, so you will _not_ get consistent results over any short period. - EC2 is subject to other people's loads, w
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by abofh 15y ago
If Visa or MC wanted to fix this, they would merely need to issue a small number of "fraud" cards world-wide to various people who would _only_ use it for suspected frauds. Instantly flag the merchant acct, bank acct, open a report, all whi
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by abofh 15y ago
The CEO commented that he was "happy" with the IPO price. Given that CEO's generally are not happy with leaving 100% on the table, I would surmise he knows it's overvalued.
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by abofh 15y ago
"Much political fanfare was on display at a congressional Finance Committee".... That would be political bias sir, please either don't editorialize, don't publish, or don't claim unbiased.
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by abofh 16y ago
(Well) encrypted data is fundamentally indistinguishable from random data. De-duplication requires commonality between files, which could not be found in encrypted data if users had unique keys. Thus, if they have the ability to de-dupe _af
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by abofh 16y ago
I don't think anyones concerned that it tracks you with cached data (47 entries in github example, date spread would imply ~ 1 month) -- the concern w/r/t apple is that there seems to be no limit to the amount of logging retained. I won't g
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by abofh 16y ago
Which would acquiesce the moral issues, but not the legal ones. Sorta like papal pardons <g>. Don't know of a better idea though if the content isn't reasonably available in your area.
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by abofh 16y ago
Came here to say this, but probably less concisely; I'll also add that index funds are no different then a fund buying a 'basket' of stocks, except that it's accessible to the average investor. 'Ma can't buy & rebalance the S&P 500
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by abofh 16y ago
You're going to HTTPS on full-screen very fast; you might get better performance with some HTTP+CDN integration (if possible, I've not examined the code at all). The mobile landing page should probably provide a link to what the app does (
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by abofh 17y ago
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