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by rusanu 11y ago
In Romania the law requires all retailers to display the maximum price markup they have. Dutifully every single retailer displays the same notice "This store practices price markups between 0 and 300%" (over 300% notices exists, b
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Taxodus: mapping assets offshore (2013)(taxodus.net)
1 points by rusanu 11y ago|0 comments
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by rusanu 11y ago
And for the Cambrian Explosion, although somehow dated now, Gould's Wonderful Life https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonderful_Life_(book)
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by rusanu 11y ago
The book is excelent. Nick Lane also has many YouTube posted lectures that cover the topic. Eg. Alkaline hydrothermal Vent origin of life[0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGxAB4Weq0U
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John McAfee offers to unlock killer's iPhone for FBI(bbc.com)
16 points by rusanu 11y ago|10 comments
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by rusanu 11y ago
Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptanalysis_of_the_Enigma also a lot of details
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by rusanu 11y ago
Enigma: The Battle for the Code[0] is a very good read. It details the Polish achievements, the rush to save the Polish cryptographers out of France as the it was collapsing in 1940, and then goes into details with the many more details th
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by rusanu 11y ago
Reminds me of the 'leafs' from Anathem[0]. for sure none of the current digital storage artifacts will be readable in +500 years, like scrolls. Contiguous upgrade required by digital will always have a cost and only 'certain&
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by rusanu 11y ago
- Icelandic rocks could have steered Vikings (2011) [0] - 'Viking sunstone' found in shipwreck (2013) [1] - Crystals 'helped Viking sailors' (2007) [0] http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-155
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by rusanu 11y ago
"Consider this: Many commercial transactions now take place with some short-term credit attached — for example, a company that gets a 60-day grace period to pay bills from its suppliers. Would that flip, and suddenly suppliers would pr
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Negative 0.5% Interest Rate: Why People Are Paying to Save(nytimes.com)
1 points by rusanu 11y ago|1 comments
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My Little Pony toymaker [Hasbro] sued over alleged font misuse(bbc.com)
1 points by rusanu 11y ago|0 comments
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by rusanu 11y ago
Betteridge's law of headlines should tell us the answer is "No" TL/DR: "Apple's stock value dropped to below $100 for the first time since October 2014".
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Apple in 2016: Is the mighty iPhone in decline?(bbc.com)
2 points by rusanu 11y ago|2 comments
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Executive exodus at troubled Twitter(bbc.co.uk)
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by rusanu 11y ago
If you happen to target Windows platform (I know article does not), don't reinvent the wheel. There are NT Job Objects [1] for this. The 'target' process creates the job with `JOB_OBJECT_LIMIT_KILL_ON_JOB_CLOSE` set and keeps
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by rusanu 11y ago
Certificate Trust List [1]. > A CTL is a predefined list of items signed by a trusted entity. ... The primary use of CTLs is to verify signed Messages, using the CTL as a source of trusted root certificates. [1] https://msdn.m
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by rusanu 11y ago
BTW if you request a ACM cert for <domain>, make sure you set up one of the admin@, administrator@, hostmaster@, postmaster@, webmaster@ email addresses for <domain>, as the ACM verification email is sent to these addresses, in
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by rusanu 11y ago
AWS just announced Amazon Certificate Manager service, free SSL/TLS certs for assets hosted on AWS[1]. It makes sense to ask trust roots to add Amazon own certs. [1] https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/new-aws-ce
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Natural nuclear fission reactor(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by rusanu 11y ago|0 comments
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by rusanu 11y ago
Immediate (in human 'immediate' sense) visibility of a change via what basically is an ETL pipeline absolutely meets the technical meaning of "near-real-time data-processing" as in that the very link. The article meets &
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by rusanu 11y ago
Is also note worthy that the bees in the hive are in effect slaves of the queen, acting in the queen interest and not on their own. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_mandibular_pheromone . As such the bees may ev
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by rusanu 11y ago
What's wrong with giving exactly that feedback? "The main logic is too monolithic and deeply nested. Please refactor in a more maintainable version, split into several simpler methods". Unless there is some politik behind you
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by rusanu 12y ago
SQL Server 2005 actually shipped with code that used the local time instead of UTC time in CREATE CERTIFICATE. Users in Western hemisphere (local time behind UTC) had no major problems because of it, but users in Eastern hemisphere (local t
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by rusanu 12y ago
Having spent 7 year of my life implementing an Exactly-Once-In-Order (EOIO) messaging system in SQL Server Service Broker[0] (SSB), I take somehow exception to the author claim. Here is how SSB achieves EOIO: - initiator establishes intent
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by rusanu 13y ago
Good work, and I'm impressed by the PostgreSQL foreign data wrapped API power to allow for such ease of implementation. The .proto defined for cstore_fwd differs from the ORC as defined for Hive. At a quick glance I can't find ref