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whitesilhouette··on The kingdom of Bhutan has been quietly mining Bitcoin for years
Lend money to India.... that they earned from Bitcoins‽ That's kind of a circular logic, isn't it?
whitesilhouette··on Alphabet lays off 12k workers
Seems like the pre-recession culling has already started.

And as always, it's a shift to AI. /s

whitesilhouette··on [dead]
Seems like the pre-recession culling has already started.

And as always, it's a shift to AI. /s

whitesilhouette··on Tim Berners-Lee’s “Oh, Yeah?” button could have changed the internet
Apart from the genuine OYO experts (that in itself is pathetic), you'd also end up with paid fake reviews and then again you end up with the situation where you can't trust the internet.
whitesilhouette··on The world map of the future might be vertical
vertical or not, if you are to get rid of so much ice (esp. Antarctica) then the other landmass also can't stay the same.
whitesilhouette··on Ask HN: Which period of humanity would you like omniscience?
10k - 2k BC Humanity advanced so much during this period, Egypt, Iraq, India, China, etc. that it surprises humans as modern as of today (who consider Aliens helped them achieve such feat).

I also want to know what went wrong that the whole world went back to being illiterate villagers soon after that. (I'm betting my money on climate change).

My second choice is 2k BC - 0 because of similar reasons as mentioned by @slolean13

whitesilhouette··on Ask HN: Which parental action increased your happiness and success as an adult?
There was a time when we were facing daily blackouts. I was less than 10 yo. All families would come out in their respective courtyard during such times.

During one such instance, some people came to our neighbour's house. (Later I learnt they belonged to the coal mafia. And those guys had come to threaten him. In a very gentlemanly mafia style. With guns and all.) We were sitting on our stairs, counting stars and constellations (another one of my father's pastimes those days that got me interested in astronomy) and had a vantage of height to observe the whole thing. My father, for some reason, thought of indulging me. He took me on his lap and told me that when people converse, words don't matter. What matters is their intention. So it's very important to read between the lines. And to factor in the context and their role in it. He went on to explain the various intricacies of that conversation to drive his point.

That day, I lost my innocence.

whitesilhouette··on $10k in student loan debts to be cancelled
critiques are already here.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/biden-expected-cancel-stude...

whitesilhouette··on The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN
Of course I can. I never memorized the link to this thread but I know how to find it.
whitesilhouette··on The World Excel Championship is being broadcast on ESPN
oh yes you can, so long as you don't equate _memorizing_ things with _knowing_ things.
whitesilhouette··on Washington DC at 'tipping point' as migrants arrive from border
I said 'better' not the best. ;)

And yes, even I thought the same, that DC and NY are behaving exactly how the Reps want them to. I really hoped they would handle it better when AZ sent the first buses 2-3 months ago, but alas!

whitesilhouette··on Washington DC at 'tipping point' as migrants arrive from border
Actually Reuters has a better headline.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/washington-mayor-requests-t...

whitesilhouette··on Washington DC at 'tipping point' as migrants arrive from border
Contrary to how this sounds, is not like DC is complaining about the migrants, just the lack of resources to handle this sudden rise of paperwork.
whitesilhouette··on I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome
There are times when I've noticed Teams to fail if I try to open it from one of my Container tabs. It complains about supported browser and stuff. But it opens perfectly on the default tab always.
whitesilhouette··on How to buck a tree: Cutting logs for maximum yield (2018)
Nah! This one's better. A mood uplift.
whitesilhouette··on Ask HN: Non programming professionals, what do you use for version control
and put the date in front (not at the end)
whitesilhouette··on Did the early medieval era ever take place?
Page does not exist?
whitesilhouette··on Ask HN: Does the Scrum Framework Work?
> Scrum and Agile is not the same thing.

Agreed. Scrum is only a subset of Agile like Kanban (that has a different approach than Scrum), but they are both Agile.

whitesilhouette··on Ask HN: Does the Scrum Framework Work?
Well the answer really depends on who you ask. The cathartic "No" only comes from the Dev side. If you ask the HR/Management, then that's gonna be a resounding orgasmic Yessss!
whitesilhouette··on Supreme Court limits EPA’s power to cut emissions
This one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn?wprov=sfla1

whitesilhouette··on Ask HN: What news subscription is worth it?
Is also recommend Bloomberg to go with the Economist subscription. It has all the right ingredients to keep you on top of all worthwhile news.
whitesilhouette··on FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting
and use an online service to create a virt phone number.
whitesilhouette··on California parents could soon sue for social media addiction
To answer your questions

1/ You do that when you get the idea that they have grown smart enough and sneaking and doing it anyway on their friends' phones. 2/ Apple phones are good and hard to hack (at least by a regular kid). 3/ Yes. Plus a reward/punishment system for additional/curtailed hours on completion of chores.

I personally have a slightly different approach.

1/ I have given them Kindle as replacement devices (they also have jailed phones) and socially engineered them to make them feel superior about that. I've also given them some RPi to play with (to practically apply the things they read and learn from the books on Kindle).

This way, they don't take the phone as a forbidden fruit (since they already have it).

2/ I have created a normal user on Android phones with Microsoft ecosystem (I have a O360 family subscription) so, apart from the regular firewall stuff, it also logs everything my kids do on the phone and reports to me. Occassionally I go through the complete logs in their phones, to see if they tried to bypass their user profiles and do something funny.

However, it's important to make them realise that all this is done for their own good. Plus I make sure not to interfere in everything they do. It's ok to make mistakes as long as I can make sure it's reversible. Otherwise I've seen deep rooted resentment in some other kids. For example, their map locations sync to me in real time. I make sure they understand that this is for their own convenience (kids don't care about safety so no point in highlighting that) like arranging an Uber if they need one or to give them directions. That way, they don't take it as spying on them and are completely comfortable with sharing their live location with me. On the contrary, they take it as their parent (me) taking care of them and are actually pretty proud about it.

3/ I avoid negative feedback loops. I don't say you can use the phone only for 2 hours daily. Rather I say, you can use the phone as long as you want but only after you finish your daily checklist. Chores/Class tasks etc. It's works pretty well.

whitesilhouette··on [dead]
So the status dashboard says it's up but the downforeveryone site says it's down?!
whitesilhouette··on [dead]
seems to be up in UK though.
whitesilhouette··on Poll: Self Hosting Git Repositories
What you are talking about is remotely accessing and working on a codebase. That has nothing to do with repository management.

As mprime1 replied, it's more on the lines of firing up the terminal to create the git repository. Then go back to your local system and git clone/pull the thing. Then you fire up your local VSCode and work on it and then finally push the changes. This way the whole team can work seamlessly and implement CI/CD while addressing conflicts in real time.

What you are talking about is a beautiful way to work on a remote machine (especially the headless ones) but only when you are the single dev. For a team, you gotta go the other way.

whitesilhouette··on Another stablecoin loses peg – DEI team working to restore the peg
he he he
whitesilhouette··on CEO pay is up 78% over the past decade
The fundamental reason why sales people are paid more than the Devs and the CEO more than Sales simply comes out of the difference in the knowledge of how much they know of the product's worth. The Dev never knows that the product would fetch 2000x of how much he is getting paid for creating it, whereas the Sales guy has a better picture. That's why the Dev never asks for that money in return for creating that product and hence he never gets paid that much. The CEO on the other hand, has the complete picture of the cost, profits as well as any changes in market forces that might impact the product, hence taking out 200x the Dev's remuneration, still sparing for the handouts to the other guys.
whitesilhouette··on Study finds the SARS-CoV-2 virus is not viable on cash banknotes
A very good summary. Thank you.
whitesilhouette··on Astronomers reveal first image of the black hole at the heart of our galaxy
1. Doppler boost

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-61412463

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