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by ash 7y ago
It's not the case anymore. There was a major devaluation in 1998. This is the reason why people were still suspicious about rubles in the early 2000s.
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by ash 7y ago
I think it has to do with changing legal status of dollar in Venezuela. > Until recently, using foreign money was a crime the government enthusiastically threatened to prosecute. After the ruling socialists established currency controls
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by ash 7y ago
I was living through 90s Russia. The inflation rate was 2500% in 1992. Yes, businesses dealt in US dollars. Prices for major things like cars and apartments were in so called "conventional units" (у.е., условная единица), widely k
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Why the foundations of physics have not progressed for 40 years(iai.tv)
283 points by ash 7y ago|312 comments
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by ash 7y ago
Correction: "Quanta Magazine article does NOT mention the original post findings"
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by ash 7y ago
As far as I can tell, Quanta Magazine article does mention the original post findings. Additionally, the Quanta article and the findings preprint were published just a week apart. Not enough time to formulate a good response: * Quanta Magaz
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by ash 7y ago
1. Google loses significant market share. 2. Fusion research breakthrough. 3. Software is more complex, slower and buggier. 4. Nothing major is done about climate change. Countries that try to do something, suffer economically. 5. Sea level
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Wallaby.js Time Travel Debugger(wallabyjs.com)
1 points by ash 7y ago|0 comments
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by ash 7y ago
Some more context: https://0x65.dev/blog/2019-12-04/human-web-proxy-network-hpn...
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Preventing Attacks on Anonymous Data Collection [pdf](0x65.dev)
4 points by ash 7y ago|1 comments
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Nobel Laureate Ivar Giaever – Global Warming Revisited (2015)(mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org)
1 points by ash 7y ago|1 comments
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Exploiting padding oracles with fixed IVs(blog.teddykatz.com)
3 points by ash 7y ago|0 comments
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TCP/IP and a consequence of reliable delivery guarantees(utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 points by ash 7y ago|0 comments
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by ash 7y ago
C++Now 2018: Eberhard Gräther “The Untapped Potential of Software Visualization” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnIFVYFspfc
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I accidentally took down GitHub Actions(blog.teddykatz.com)
4 points by ash 7y ago|0 comments
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by ash 7y ago
Here's more context about the demo: http://www.scottkim.com.previewc40.carrierzone.com/viewpoint...
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Viewpoint – Toward a Computer for Visual Thinkers (1988)(youtube.com)
1 points by ash 7y ago|1 comments
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When AWS, Azure, or GCP Becomes the Competition(gkogan.co)
2 points by ash 7y ago|0 comments
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by ash 7y ago
Are you talking about parsing f-strings? How would that look like? As far I understand the following: print(f"your name is {name}") is roughly equivalent to: print(f"your name is " + format(name)) What
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by ash 7y ago
Many years ago I was on a team designing a "smart sensor" box. The heart of it was an integrated precision A/D + 8051-compatible microcontroller chip from Analog Devices: https://www.analog.com/media/en&#
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Introducing the HTMLRewriter API Beta to Cloudflare Workers(blog.cloudflare.com)
1 points by ash 7y ago|0 comments
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In Defense of Richard Stallman(geoff.greer.fm)
744 points by ash 7y ago|607 comments
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What the Heck Is a “GitHub App”?(github.com)
1 points by ash 7y ago|0 comments
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Voidcall – Making of 13kb JavaScript RTS Game(phoboslab.org)
236 points by ash 7y ago|15 comments
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by ash 7y ago
> Around the sides of the room [in Internet Archive headquarters] stand around 130 3ft porcelain figurines — replicas of every employee who has spent at least three years at the archive. Wow. That's a lot of figurines.
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Catching Control-C and a gotcha with shell scripts(utcc.utoronto.ca)
1 points by ash 7y ago|0 comments
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by ash 7y ago
It looks like Zipcar should have a separate smartphone-like battery to power GSM and GPS.
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APIs Are about Policy(acko.net)
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by ash 7y ago
From the Discussion section: > The ice covers of each of the 5 sectors of Fig. 1 and of the Southern Ocean as a whole have experienced considerable interannual variability over the past 40 y (Figs. 2–7). In fact, the Southern Ocean and 4
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Aito.ai raises $1.1M aiming to make machine learning as easy as SQL queries(aito.ai)
3 points by ash 7y ago|0 comments

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