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by dimitar 8y ago
The worst bug (or bad design if you wish) I've seen in confluence is the following - permissions on pages are inherited in a tree-like manner, parent to child. A reindex wasn't done and at some point child pages with sensitive inf
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The Overloaded Soldier: Why U.S. Infantry Now Carry More Weight Than Ever(popularmechanics.com)
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by dimitar 8y ago
If Jared Diamond has formed your views, I think a great next book to read is Why Nations Fail: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_Nations_Fail
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by dimitar 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_navy The Ancient Egyptians had both had a navy and an empire.
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They look great! However I don't seem to find an option to use a custom domain.
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by dimitar 8y ago
In my experience the distributions with longer release cycles like RHEL are really stable and don't have as many issues like this or you experience them only during the initial setup and then run normally for years. I had a very good
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by dimitar 8y ago
I have, and I also have done a lot of shift work too and easily switched regimes many times. The trick is very simple - if you want to wake up and have breakfast in 6 am, your last meal must be 14 hours before that - which is 4 pm on the pr
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by dimitar 8y ago
My grandmother used to make awesome blueberry dumplings (вареники з чорницею) which were served with smetana (a type of sour cream) and they were wonderful! My teenage-girl cousins would make room in their diets to just a piece - I can only
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Best alternative to f.lux(iristech.co)
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Bitcoin’s price spike is driving an extraordinary surge in energy use(vox.com)
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Apple quickly fixes severe security flaw in macOS(osnews.com)
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by dimitar 9y ago
This is just a short-term patch. If they want to combat fake news or state propaganda on their rankings they would need algorithms to do it for them. Otherwise, new channels to do propaganda will appear.
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by dimitar 9y ago
It's probably cheaper to just ship it everywhere and enable it on enterprises
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by dimitar 9y ago
I worked for a company that provides shared hosting, and I don't agree with the "relies on failure". Shared hosting isn't for high-traffic websites - it is cheap hosting for low traffic websites, so the whole premise is
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by dimitar 9y ago
You can mitigate part of the risks if you use an SSH tunnel to access Tower via port 22.
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This is not that unusual - in fact in the first edition of the famous textbook by Samuelson and Nordhaus, the Supply and Demand chapter is at page 447 of 622 [1]. For quite a long time it was thought that it was better to begin with macro i
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by dimitar 9y ago
History is long enough to dig up as many examples to "prove" a certain antagonism exists. How many times has Russia invaded or attempted to invade other Orthodox countries? * Ukraine 2014-ongoing * Georgia in 2008 * Declared war o
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by dimitar 9y ago
Yes, these two oblasts are a great reason not to look solely at GDP figures. It is largely a statistical illusion - a huge part of Ukrainian economy is in the gray sector. However government transfers, budget spending and industry does show
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by dimitar 9y ago
It is a major cause of potential social instability. The conflict in Donbass also has a similar interpretation: coal production there peaked in the late 70 and by the 90 it was an endlessly subsidized rust belt, with a significant minority
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The opioid crisis changed how doctors think about pain(vox.com)
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Video games are cheap compared to other entertainment. I can buy a good enough PC for $400 and I can clock almost an infinite amount of game-time on it with friends all over the world. Most other activities - playing pool, eating out, bars,
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by dimitar 9y ago
There a lot of sources for the GRU stealing military technology. That they were in the Manhattan project is very well known. Enjoy this chapter from a book on the subject of GRU: http://militera.lib.ru/research/suvorov8
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by dimitar 9y ago
Well, it is true. The Soviet Union leadership in the highest levels believed that reverse-engineering existing technology is better than recreating it. Obviously, the USSR wasn't going to pay licensing and patent fees to the capitalist
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by dimitar 9y ago
Interestingly, in the book I'm currently reading (written by a former GRU officer) it is mentioned that for the GRU interest in science fiction was a definite plus when selecting the most promising young cadres. They believed that this
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by dimitar 9y ago
My experience is that even customers who are very enthusiastic about these new processes and methodologies quickly turn back to the old-school way of doing things once someone in upper management raises these bullets. And they weren't
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by dimitar 9y ago
Contrary to what the article claims ("Transportation is a huge, looming, and almost entirely unsolved climate problem") transportation can be a solved problem. If you notice one of the graphs while transportation is the top emitte
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by dimitar 9y ago
There was a collapse of urban civilization. Rome's population went from around a million to about 50 000 people. Sanitation gets more important the higher the population density is.
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by dimitar 10y ago
I think the implications of switching a script are fewer than people imagine, especially between Cyrillic and Latin. These two are closely related alphabetical writing systems. People will not lose the ability to read old books, they will n
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Advice from an IT dad: Don't even consider a career in IT(infoworld.com)
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Today's prominent Keynesians certainly still advocate for independent aggressive monetary policy, but they also claim that fiscal policy matters a lot. In the case of the "fiscal cliff"/sequester, there was indeed fiscal

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