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Re:Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly by mcraiha on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:26AM (#27855536)
Most places do not care about this. e.g. our local Subway restaurants print purchase number of the day to every receipt that customer gets. So you can see how many sales certain Subway restaurant has done in a single day by going to that restaurant before it closes and buying something.
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Re:Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly by TheCoelacanth on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:11AM (#27855860)
Most places don't care about security very much in general. It is a security leak, albeit usually a minor one.
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Re:Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly by sonotathrowaway on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:41AM (#27855638)
If you can find a way to take a representative sample of their stores, you can front-run their quarterly earnings report and make a guaranteed profit off them.
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Re:Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly by joshribakoff on Friday July 16, 2021 @08:54AM (#27855723)
Even if you could approximate revenue, that hardly equates to profitability. Even if you could approximate profits, the market still behaves irrationally (in the short term), there are no guarantees
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Re:Postgres sequences can skip 32 unexpectedly by jsight on Friday July 16, 2021 @09:30AM (#27856019)
That is absolutely true, but an individual store is unlikely to care.
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