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GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Ask HN: How to be alone?
I see a lot of good advice here, and I'm going to be late but approach it from a different angle.

If you've spent so much time with your spouse around, and now you're at home alone, and you're working remote, then you are going to need a lot of socialising outside of work, because remote work does not meet the same needs for seeing people in person (I've been there).

Humans are social animals, we need some interactions with others, and you are just getting way too little.

The issue is not 'how to be alone?', it's how to satisfy your social cravings with in-person interaction, once you have that at least some of the time, being alone for the rest of the time is much easier.

GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA
I had thought that tariff revenue goes directly to the executive branch for the president to spend without congressional oversight, but actually this is not correct.

In reality, all federal revenue - whether from income taxes, tariffs, or any other source - flows into the U.S. Treasury and becomes part of the general fund. Tariff money doesn't create a separate pool of funds that the president can spend at will. Just like with tax revenue, any spending of tariff proceeds requires congressional appropriation through the normal budget process. The executive branch cannot spend money that Congress hasn't specifically authorized, regardless of the revenue source.

GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Is air conditioning making cities hotter?
Thanks, also didn't know about annoyances!
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on 3,200-year-old Egyptian tablet records excuses for why people missed work
The big pyramids at Giza were built around ~2500bc in the old kingdom of egypt. After that comes the first intermediate period, then the middle kingdom of egypt, then the second intermediate period, and then in the new kingdom of egypt, towards the end this tablet is written. (Not judging, just providing context around how old Egypt is)
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Still alive
I, nor my friend, is Jewish and quite liked it. (Still atheist programmers, so that might help)
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Why is Middle School so hard?
I really liked the tracked system in the Netherlands. I feel like it really let the higher tier learn at a faster rate. Do you have links to the studies?
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Reddit Terminal Viewer development is shutting down
I still like reddit. I go to like r/fitness, leagueoflegends, themotte, askhistorians. I don't go to any of the political or news reddits, so whilst its fairly meme-heavy I still get that in-group feeling.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Cost of serving billions of images per month
My uneducated guess would be that they have no outstanding stock, as they have not done an IPO. So you can't short against their zero public stock.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Should you be concerned about LastPass uploading your passwords to its server?
If you can pass your password database via something like dropbox (or your own nextcloud), then KeePass has had audits, for example by the European Commission's EU Free and Open Source Software Auditing project. And you don't have to trust your server that does the syncing.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on What Happens to Kid Culture When Streets Are Closed to Cars
Living in the Netherlands, the city center (practically no cars allowed) in 2 cities I've lived in over the past years, both have lots of shops going out of business. But I would identify this trend as people doing more online shopping, most of the major shopping centers are still in this city center, and it has parking garages near, but people are just doing less shopping in brick and mortar stores.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on The Annoying Site: Source
Exactly, it's just a white page for me.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Are You Ready for the Nanoinfluencers?
And yet we have already sacrificed those babies to Moloch, because if you don't somebody else will.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on JavaScript is now required to sign in to Google
There's a solution here that's being used in email. The user has to provide a proof of work.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Why I’m Worried About Google
This is how I did it twice over the years.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Chinese Thesis Ghostwriting Scandal Reveals Huge Gray Market
It is very much the universities job to screen these people. They put out a credential that says a person learned such and such. If they do not learn anything, then that credential becomes worthless and the universities role is finished.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Why I Did Not Go to Jail (2014)
You are only getting the story as presented by the CEO, so I assume I am not getting the entire picture.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on India court legalises gay sex in landmark ruling
Not true since 2004 anymore. And apparently was only against promoting dildos. Source: https://www.politifact.com/florida/statements/2015/feb/09/al...
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on What You Need to Know Before Considering a PhD
It's europe, there's not that much debt.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Google’s Jeff Dean’s undergrad senior thesis on neural networks (1990) [pdf]
I'm creating my master thesis, and I have been strongly encouraged to keep it short so that it can be submitted as a paper. So mine will end up, I still feel somewhat long, at around 14 pages.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders
Dude, that just means you have a really good thing going.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Sci-Hub Proves That Piracy Can Be Dangerously Useful
The blockchain is really inefficient for making others store your items. It is there to make sure others can only modify your stuff in the way that you specify, and others can trust they have a genuine copy of your data.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Almost 80% of US workers live from paycheck to paycheck
But that's for a 40 hour work week, there's many workers that want to work 40 hours but have jobs where they can't work that much.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on The Great EU Debt Write Off (2012)
No no, the prostitute did not perform any labour in this tale, she had already worked beforehand, but then on credit.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on San Francisco's zoning makes it illegal to build apartments in 73.5% of the city
Everyone who owns a house near san fransisco has the price of their property, and thus their money, reduced by more houses being built near san fransisco. They get more money by reducing the supply of houses, thus all the house owners, usually more rich and people who already live in an area, are against more houses being built.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on In 2017, US had largest decline in CO2 emissions
Do you have an example of a similar fine on a nation from history that worked?
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Mastodon WTF timeline (2017)
Well in the US the colours used to be reversed as well, but then they switched in the beginning of the 20th century.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Ask HN: Low-maintenance alternatives to Gmail?
Thirded, I too am quite happy enough with protonmail I decided to pay for their service.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on How Zilliqa built a billion-dollar blockchain startup in Singapore
They promise that they will develop a blockchain that scales well through sharding. Meaning it has many more transactions per second than say the 8 of bitcoin. That at least is their product.

As far as I can tell they only have a test network, so I don't know if it works at all. But that's their principle. A blockchain that scales better.

GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on American toddlers are eating more sugar than the amount recommended for adults
Well, this would then probably not work for you, but it worked for me. What helped me to lose weight was to still cook my own food from bought ingredients, and measure everything that I was eating for weight and calories. But mostly what I did was switch the type of food that I was making, and the ingredients I was using to things that were far less calorie dense, that worked for me. It does still suck to go to social events with plenty of food, because then I will totally eat it.
GLjEI4YbnGD27LB··on Habits of Highly Miserable People
I liked How to Be Miserable: 40 Strategies You Already Use. Which also helped with showing underrated strategies for upping happiness.

https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Miserable-Strategies-Already/d...

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