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knownon Why more companies are recognizing the benefits of keeping older employees

"Experience is the name men gave to their mistakes" - Oscar Wilde (b. 1854)

knownon Apple will use 100 percent recycled cobalt in batteries by 2025

Lithium car battery weighs 450kg. It has about 11 kg of lithium, 14 kg of cobalt, 27 kg of nickel, more than 40 kg of copper, and 50 kg of graphite as well as about 181 kg of steel, aluminum, and plastics.

knownon How Wall Street Escaped the Crypto Meltdown

https://archive.is/aNNxA

"You never know who’s swimming naked until the tide goes out" --Buffett (b. 1930)

knownon Ask HN: How to keep my daughter busy while tickling her curiosity

Guide her to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HowStuffWorks

knownon India’s biggest businesses are tapping green hydrogen as a future fuel

High-pressure tanks weigh much more than the hydrogen they can hold. The hydrogen may be around 5.7% of the total mass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density

knownon The Pervasive Problem–and Far-Reaching Impact–Of Tree Poaching

"God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages" --Jacques Deval (b. 1895)

knownon Divorce in the rich world is getting less nasty

"Alimony is a system by which, when two make a mistake, one of them keeps paying for it" --Peggy Joyce (b. 1893)

knownon JPMorgan hit with $200M in fines for letting employees use WhatsApp

"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minuted to ruin it. If you think about that you'll do things differently" --Warren Buffett (b. 1930)

knownon Even with Agile and Scrum waterfall will sneak in

"You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant” --Warren Buffett (b. 1930)

knownon Willingness to look stupid

"Understanding is more important than memorization! Schools should teach the students how to understand, think, doubt, and question. They should be made open to imagination and creativity" --Feynman

knownon A Git Implementation in Awk

All exotic things we can do in AWK https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Hello_world/Web_server#AWK

knownon India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first

God save Indians from Modi regime; He is charging 28% TAX on vaccine;

knownon India’s second wave of Covid-19 feels nothing like its first

"He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave" --Sir William Drummond https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Narendra_Modi

knownon India Blames a Virus Variant as Its Covid-19 Crisis Deepens

Patients in India are dying due to lack of Oxygen/Medicines/Vaccines;

US/UK media is blaming Modi; Bigots are blaming Opposition/State govt; And Modi ministers are blaming Patients for breathing too much Oxygen;

knownon Facebook ‘looking into’ hiding of posts calling for PM’s resignation in India

What else can we expect when 50% Ministers in Modi Cabinet are Brahmin who are less than 5% in India https://archive.ph/h3TBP

knownon As Covid Outbreak Rages, India Orders Critical Social Media Posts Be Taken Down

Modi in India is a certified psychopath as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Narendra_Modi

knownon India Is What Happens When Rich People Do Nothing

There is no cure to psychopaths https://archive.ph/NUSG4 And this is why British recommended separate electorates/countries to UC/BC/SC/ST/MC communities in India https://archive.ph/QkTja

knownon Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

Bigots are not qualified to rule/govern a culturally/socioeconomically diverse country like India; They should be banned from contesting elections; Why should we let ~22 crore (voters to BJP) decide the fate of remaining ~66 crore voters?

knownon As Outbreak Rages, India Orders Critical Social Media Posts to Be Taken Down

Patients in India are dying due to lack of Oxygen;

US/UK media is blaming Modi; Bigots are blaming Opposition/State govt; And Modi regime is blaming Patients for breathing too much Oxygen;

knownon Why India’s worsening Covid crisis is a dire problem for the world

Modi regime in India procured 66 million Covishield / Covaxin units at an inflated price and exported them; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_image_of_Narendra_Modi

knownon India's Descent into Covid Hell

Criminal negligence; Modi should be in Jail, if Constitution permits;

knownon India orders Twitter to pull tweets criticizing its Covid-19 response

Modi in India should be held accountable/answerable for every death due to lack of Oxygen; He should be in Jail, if Constitution permits;

knownon How India went from a ray of hope to world record for most Covid cases in a day

Modi is only protecting the interests of Ambani/Adani; For the poor/patients/students/farmers/volunteers it's sedition/media manipulation with the help of bigots in the Supreme Court;

knownon Twitter Blocks Tweets That Criticize Indian Government's Handling of Covid-19

Bigots are not qualified to rule/govern a culturally/socioeconomically diverse country like India; They should be banned from contesting elections; Why should ~220 million (voters to BJP) decide the fate of remaining 660 million voters?

knownon India’s second wave

Modi regime in India procured 66 million Covishield/Covaxin units at an inflated price and exported them;

knownon Ask HN: Maybe I'm just not smart enough?

Acquire knowledge; Intelligence is not necessary

knownon India’s devastating outbreak is driving the global coronavirus surge

"Modi is a classic, clinical case of a fascist" --Ashis Nandy (in 1990);

"Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their illusions destroyed" --Friedrich Nietzsche (b. 1844)

knownon Home ownership is the West’s biggest economic-policy mistake

https://archive.ph/iyTVR

knownon Sex workers explain why the Safe Tech Act will break the internet

Sweden bans the purchase, but not the sale of sex because all sex work is exploitative https://archive.is/CsMX4

knownon What’s the origin of the phrase “big data doesn’t fit in excel”?

Complete/Big data should be loaded into memory for doing any processing in Excel;