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ETF = investment fund traded on a stock exchange.

Index fund = investment fund (mutual fund or ETF) that tracks an index, i.e. passively managed.

Re:Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @02:52PM (#11112643)
Also see "needrestart", which automatically offers to do the above when upgraded packages have been installed: https://packages.debian.org/jessie/needrestart
Re:SSDs lose data if left without power for just 7 days on Monday May 11, 2015 @10:19AM (#9524916)
Someone missed an important part of the standard (JEDEC JESD218, section 6.3): "This standard is based on a use scenario in which the SSDs are actively used for some period of time during which the SSDs are written to their endurance ratings, followed by a power-down time period in which data must be retained."

E.g. in Intel's product spec for the DC S3500 series, the data retention parameter is specified as: "3 months power-off retention once SSD reaches rated write endurance at 40 °C".

The original code is also in the public domain, since 2009: http://cr.yp.to/distributors.html
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Re:Ask HN: Do you invest in the stock market? on Thursday March 29, 2012 @11:13AM (#3771418)
Also, John Kay's "The Long and the Short of It: finance and investment for normally intelligent people who are not in the industry".
Re:NameCheap DNS servers are down on Sunday March 11, 2012 @03:26PM (#3691026)
Nice, but your SSL cert cannot be verified because you haven't installed the intermediate CA bundle: https://knowledge.rapidssl.com/support/ssl-certificate-suppo...