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elchin··on Mikhail Gorbachev has died
It "sort of makes sense" as much as the invasion of Ukraine does.
elchin··on Mikhail Gorbachev has died
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_January
elchin··on Writing one sentence per line
LaTeX does the same as Markdown and HTML - I used to do this when I was in academia.
elchin··on I employed a California resident, so now I’m subject to its regulations
Would this be avoided if the employee was kept on 1099 instead of switching to W-2?
elchin··on Armenia’s miserable dilemma
30 years ago isn't that long - there are still people alive in Azerbaijan who own property deeds for houses in Karabakh, and who were born and grew up there. At the time there were 684k displaced Azerbaijanis (UN number), most of which are still alive today.
elchin··on Armenia’s miserable dilemma
It was not an ethnic Armenian majority before the first Karabakh war.
elchin··on Armenia’s miserable dilemma
There's been UN resolutions against Armenia, but that didn't result in anything.
elchin··on Ask HN: How do you take care of yourself?
For me the most important thing is to stay physically active.
elchin··on Ask HN: Simplest stack to build web apps in 2021?
Check out RedwoodJS
elchin··on Glued to Your Phone? Here's How to Rethink Your Relationship with Social Media
I highly recommend Indistractable by Nir Eyal
elchin··on Google suggest vi for Emacs and Emacs for vi
Also "erlich blachman" and "erlich bachman"
elchin··on How Payment Transaction Processing Works
Unrelated, but how does privacy.com work on purchase categories? Like I have a card which gives me more cash back for airline ticket purchases - will the info of transaction category be kept?
elchin··on Secure Phone Series: Device Security
Depending on your threat model, you might want to stay away from a proprietary OS controlled by Apple.
elchin··on Secure Phone Series: Device Security
A while ago Graphene OS diverged from Coppperhead OS. What are their current differences?
elchin··on iPhone 12 Pro so costly in India, you can fly to Dubai to buy it and save money
I remember when I lived in Germany, it was cheaper to fly to US and buy the highest end MacBook there, and fly back, instead of buying in Germany. The price was the same number in USD and EUR, and this was when EUR was strong.
elchin··on Trusted Contacts won’t be supported after December 1
Not killed, but replaced by Location Sharing?
elchin··on 21 years after the request OpenPGP support gets added to Thunderbird
Gave me memories of the times when US had cryptography export restrictions :)
elchin··on How to form a California LLC without a lawyer
Cost: $800, repeat every year
elchin··on Gerät 32620: the machine that powered numerous number stations
Reminds me of the Doener Geraet! :D
elchin··on Even Google engineers are confused about Google’s privacy settings
As an ex-Googler it makes me sad that an internal discussion leaked like this.
elchin··on Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework
This is just so cool!
elchin··on Germany begins 3-year universal-basic-income trial
https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/service/gehaltsrechner-geh... An article in German, but 1943 Euros a month in Germany is the median income. And it takes only around 6100/month to be 1%.
elchin··on Apple helped make 'top secret' iPod for US government
Assuming this is all true - how does something like this leak? Wouldn't someone go to prison for the leak?
elchin··on Raise Less Money
Exactly my first thought
elchin··on Show HN: UPUP Simple Credit Card Verification to Reduce Fraud
It would be hard to provide a seamless UX for it, so it would reduce purchases.
elchin··on Nano 5.0
I'm bothered by the UI design of this webpage.
elchin··on Thoughts about the difference between European and American H/W and S/W design
A professor in my grad school told me once "In US if you try to create a business and you fail, people will think you're entrepreneurial. In Europe they'll think you're incompetent".
elchin··on We’re treating self-improvement like a software upgrade
Yes, success is rented, not bought, and the rent is due every day.
elchin··on Swiss police automated crime predictions but has little to show for it
This. We need to keep in mind crimes rates in Switzerland are extremely low.
elchin··on The German Problem with Tor
"In reality, the German government has a double standard when it comes to the right to privacy. They will fully support that right if it's company's violating your privacy (especially, if they are American because protectionism) but in contrast, the German will give itself as many powers as it can to spy on its own citizens and those abroad." This.
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