dancing_shark

> Around iPhone 5 Apple started to put up additional $100 USD to ALL iPhone price in HK, as a way to combat the black market trading,

This post is informative, but can I suggest that we not adopt the "black market" nomenclature for cases where people buy hardware in one location, and then re-sell it?

Companies like Apple may brand this a "black market", but that implies that companies have a right to perform perfect price discrimination across the world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_discrimination

I suggest we reserve the phrase "black market" for cases where contraband is being exchanged, or for cases where items were obtained through crime (e.g. the sale of stolen goods).

Something makes me think they'll notice all the parens during a code review...

The 23 words from the PNAS paper (Table 1):

  Thou
  I
  Not
  That
  We
  To give
  Who
  This
  What
  Man/male
  Ye
  Old
  Mother
  To hear
  Hand
  Fire
  To Pull
  Black
  To flow
  Bark
  Ashes
  To spit
  Worm

http://www.pnas.org/content/110/21/8471/T1.expansion.html

No need to be coy -- what is the university you're talking about?

I can see it now.

  How many microservices are needed for a CMS webapp?

  a.  17
  b.  34 
  c.  When you do service discovery properly, you don't need to count.

This is the "dateline". https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dateline

One source that really helped me learn advanced git are the extended manual pages here:

https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/

It describes advanced features like `git-govern-origin` and `git-organize-head` [0].

[0]. https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net/#26463b871524ca4...

In general, USPS does have the infrastructure to do this: Managed Service Points are barcodes placed on mailboxes that can be scanned by the carrier, to establish when he/she reaches certain checkpoints.

https://about.usps.com/strategic-planning/cs02/2f3.htm

It's a more modern version of the mechanical "watchclocks" installed in buildings to ensure that guards make their appointed rounds. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guard_tour_patrol_system https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchclock

I have no idea how regularly USPS examines or audits their MSP data.