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121  Economy / Economics / Re: Technology and work ethics on: April 06, 2024, 02:16:51 PM
We can't dispute the fact that the advent of technology has played a great role in improving activities in the workplace. With the networking of the different PCs in companies, it has become easy to send a broadcast message to all staff at a time, and coupled with other sophisticated technology, coordinating and controlling multiple workers has become easier which has resulted in a high level of productivity and an increase in the staff to management relationships.

But then, the issue of workers' privacy and management compliance with work ethics has been of serious concern, and to a very large extent, it always appears as though most management has always used technology to the disadvantage of her staff. You find situations where CCTV cameras are mounted in most offices and privacy is denied to its peak. Most PCs used by staff are always under serious surveillance and sometimes, staff's don't even have a single knowledge that they are being monitored, and whenever they get a bit flimsy, their job is threatened.

I understand the importance of monitoring workers to ascertain there level of productivity, and to improve workers attendance and also enhance Cyber security but then, the inability of most management to go about this ethically has been of great concern to me.

What's your view about this?

I can relate to some of it. My workplace do have about 200 employees working in some 30 departments. And broadcast is what the administration/hr department use to notify every other departments. CCTVs are indeed used by the manager to look for people coming late, going early or leaving the premises without notifying. They are not pointed towards the employees chairs or computer screens but to film the interaction between the customers and employee as well the passageways.
The employee here don't have spare time to do other stuffs. All of the computers are locally and centrally monitored but I know the IT guys and checking what people are using is not on their priority.
It all depends on the manager or boss and how good are they being able to manage the manpower.
122  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: April 05, 2024, 05:22:53 PM
Toss won by Sunrisers Hyderabad and called Chennai Super Kings to bat. Lowest total till date for CSK this season. It's not that they were out of wickets, they scored at a slower pace. IPL is all about large boundaries and huge runs. They have so many good batsmen that MS Dhoni got just 2 balls to play yet they presented one of the lowest target for SRH which they chased easily. Abhisekh Sharma with his 4 sixes and 2 fours showed them how it's played.
123  Economy / Economics / Re: Does sound money have to be Private? on: April 04, 2024, 06:23:24 PM
True but we are left with no choices and we are too small to fight. Crypto might mean freedom to some but it would be stupid to believe we are not being monitored. Every money coming in and coming out are closely being tracked and most of the large transaction within the network too are being monitored. Shutting down of mixers, KYC are a few examples that proves we don't have option of not being tracked.
There might be some secure chains like monero but getting in and out your money from it could get you into problems.And for general people who have nothing big to hide  I guess it's a compromise we all make for the greater good of our society.
124  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24 on: April 04, 2024, 06:10:31 PM
The game between Granada and Valencia was not scheudle to be played on wednesday? Or im wrong? I look today and see the game is today but it was in my mind like they had to play yesterday.

Anyways, easy points for Valencia to grab if they want to fight till the end for european spots.
Could be due to the time zone that's been confusing. The game is actually being played on April 4th, Thursday in Spain. Being played now.
Should be an easy win for Valencia and no big deal for the table. There are no hopes left for Granada to save itself from relegation and even though Valencia have odds to do so, I think they are already out of the race for Europa Conference cup race as well.
Tomorrow the La Liga would have four different matches with the most important being Girona vs Atletico Madrid.
125  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: April 04, 2024, 05:44:08 PM
A competitive and much needed win for Punjab Kings. Last over was a lot of ups and downs for both team.
Punjab won the toss and as expected wanted to field first. It was the home ground for Gujrat Titans and were expected to have a good score. With Shubham Gills 89 not out they made a good score of 199 with losing only 4 wickets. It was expected much aggressive play from them special in the last five overs considering they had 7 wickets on hand. They might have thought a target of 200 would be enough.
But Punjab turned in with an aggressive stance from the start, even though they kept losing wickets, they kept on maintaining the winning runrate. Shasank Singh played a much needed nerverecking inning making the win sure for the team in the last over.
The game proves two things, the run is more important than wickets and the 2nd batting side do have an unfair advantage in T20.
126  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: April 02, 2024, 05:35:11 PM
Another loss of RCB, now they are with their old friend MI are at the bottom of the table and are planning to stay there for some time.
RCB won the toss and asked Lucknow Super Giants to bat first. LSG batting 20 overs created an average score (on IPL standards) of 181 runs at the loss of 5 wickets.
Quinton de Kock was he hero for them scoring 81 teams alone. Nicholas Pooran's 40 of 21 balls was the final push on the scoreboard at the last overs of LSG batting.
RCB started struggling when Virat Kohli got out for 22  runs, they kept on losing wickets and were always behind the required run rate.
127  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: April 02, 2024, 04:03:45 PM
Another day has passed and now it stumps again and tomorrow Sri Lankan team has to out them all tomorrow but there is not all because more than half of Bangladesh batsmen are out by the Sri Lankan bowlers already.

Already, 7 wickets of the Bangladesh team have been taken by Sri Lankan bowlers, and now we are just waiting for tomorrow to see the Sri Lankan team win the test. Just have to wait some more hours then the team of Bangladesh will have to face embarrassment in their home ground once again, and from this test, this series will be finished.  Just waiting for tomorrow to see Sri Lankan team's wonderful victory at Chattogram. No other result is possible in this test match.

Spinners put Sri Lanka on verge of series sweep

Good fight from Bangladesh in second innings but Sri Lankans have given a huge target that is difficult to chase. On last day Sri Lanka need 3 more wickets to win while Bangladesh need 243 more runs to win. Second half century from Bangladesh in this test by Mominul Haque and Mehidy Hasan Miraz is not out on 44 runs. This is also part of ICC World Test Championship but don't think Sri Lanka will have any benefit of wining this series in test championship.

It was a good idea for Sri Lanka to declare in a lower 2nd inning total. They were not making runs at a quicker pace and 500+ is already an impossible target for Bangladesh batsmen. Bangladesh's 2nd batting went as expected. Even though they were able to score more than their 1st inning but they also have lost 7 of their wickets. Sri Lanka now has some 90 overs to take those 3 wickets while Bangladesh can neither save their wicket so long or pull in 243 runs before losing those 3 wickets. Sri Lanka is the clear winner here.
128  Economy / Scam Accusations / Re: Careful if you using Solflare Solana wallet on: April 01, 2024, 05:12:04 PM
Such scam may occur in all wallets, and I wish there was a dedicated filter to avoid this spam so that it hides any unwanted NFTs, but this type of fraud has begun to spread, and you can try the link yourself with an empty wallet and a small fee for gas if you want to be sure, but in general ignore any unknown codes that are sent to you.

I don't know if it's ad or some promotions but I haven't seen them anywhere in my solflare wallet. They might be IP specific or something but all my Collectibles tab has is a NFT that I bought. There are no any other things. I checked the three buttons to toggle show spam and hide spam but they don't show or hide anything.
It could be because I'm using Adblock origin and some of it's filter might be blocking that ad or reported scam. Further these days I have shifted to  solflare mobile app and it too doesn't have such spams.
129  Alternate cryptocurrencies / Speculation (Altcoins) / Re: Will you sell Shib now? Am holding on: April 01, 2024, 04:43:16 PM
I'm personally bullish on Shiba Inu, at least in short term. Dogecoin has it's own blockchain and is the largest meme coin to exist. The 2nd largest is Shiba Inu, it's a ethereum based L1 token. And the third place is now taken by Dogwifhat, a solana meme coin. People are talking about network shifting while boosting price of different meme coins and when the shifting takes between different network, Shiba Inu is the meme-face of Ethereum. And with current dip, they could be one of the best meme coin to invest for a short term profit. The current situation is a bear trap before the bull, so it's best to accumulate coins as much as you can.
130  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Indian Premier League #IPL Cricket on: April 01, 2024, 04:20:17 PM
Another poor result from Mumbai Indians, They made the lowest team total for this season of IPL.
It's hard to believe they are a Five time winners for the IPL. Even though it was 2020 the last time they won, they were in the play offs last season. Rajasthan Royals, winning the toss, made Mumbai Indians bat. They had one of the worst start in this IPL. 3 of their top order batsmen were golden duck. Rohit Sharma, Naman Dhir and Dewald Brevis were out on the first ball they faced. Tilak Varma and Hardik Pandya did played a key role to save MI from a record low.
RR chasing a target of 126 did lose a wicket but it would be a walk in park to reach that target for them.
131  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: April 01, 2024, 02:31:56 PM
Yes, that is right. Sri Lankan International test cricket team will win this match easily. Sri Lankan International test cricket team is looking in good form. Bangladeshi International test cricket team is all team out by making only 178 runs . Third day of test match is gone and now it is very bravery if Bangladeshi International test cricket team will be able to draw this match.  Sri Lankan team is leading by 455 runs and there are 100 percent chances Sri Lanka team will win this match if rain not interrupt this match.

In all probability, Lankans will declare their innings and ask Bangladeshis to bat from the first over tomorrow. I was a bit surprised with the performance from medium pacer Hasan Mahmud. He picked up 4 crucial wickets for Bangladesh. The pitch at Zahur Ahmed Chowdhury Stadium in Chattogram was supposed to be spin-friendly. But so far the pacers have picked up majority of the wickets - Hasan Mahmud for Bangladesh, and then Lahiru Kumara/Vishwa Fernando/Asitha Fernando for the visitors.

It's a interesting to see 15 wickets falling in a single day. Bangladesh continued their innings from yesterday and were at time, 96-1 with Zakir Hasan's 54. But the rest of 9 wickets fell without scoring next 96. Vishwa Fernando took the two important wickets while Asitha Fernando was the most successful with 4 wickets. Bangladesh had been showing a poor batting trend lately and the result was not surprising but how bad Sri Lanka bat on their 2nd inning is surprising. They have lost 6 wickets making 102 in 25 overs. They might have been hurry to take it to a good score to declare as they already had a good lead but non of their batsmen are left to bat except Angelo Matthews. Sri Lanka is already 455 in lead so they might want to get quick runs tomorrow morning too so they'd have a good time to take the last 10 wickets of Bangladesh.
132  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024 on: March 31, 2024, 04:10:20 PM
Manchester City sharing points with Brentford is not a big surprise at the moment but the way Brentford dominated ManU the whole game, It's ManU at one of their lowest. The game could have ended on a 0-0 draw but ManU scored a goal at 90+6th minute and Brentford returned on eat 90+9 minute.
Liverpool vs Brighton was as expected. Even though Brighton scored early, Liverpool always was the dominating side.
Man City vs Arsenal today could be the one of the most important league match today in the entire world. Premier league is the only popular European league where we still have a three way chances on getting a winner. At 39th minute, they are 0-0, Man City seems to be dominating the first half.
133  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 31, 2024, 03:46:07 PM
The first match between Sunrisers Hyderabad and Gujarat Titans has started. Sunrisers Hyderabad won the toss and decided to bat first. Sunrisers Hyderabad batting good in first power play scored 56 runs in just loss of one wickets in 6 overs of the match. Travis Head is playing at 18 runs not out from just 12 balls and  Sharma is also playing wrll 19 runs unbeaten from just 7 balls. From Gujarat Titans Azmatullah Omarzai only bowler who picked one important wicket of Mayank Agarwal at 16 runs. Sunrisers Hyderabad will looking to score a 200 runs target for Gujrat Titans.
Sunrisers Hyderabad failed to give Gujarat Titans a target of 200 runs in today's match. Maybe you were so excited to watch Sunrisers Hyderabad's previous match that you said Sunrisers Hyderabad might be able to give a target of 200 runs today. Sunrisers Hyderabad's batting performance today was abysmal as they were bowled out for just 162 runs today. Gujarat Titans gave excellent batting and bowling performance in today's match. Sunrisers Hyderabad's Henry Klaasen was dismissed by Rashid Khan today to completely stop their run cycle and since then Sunrisers Hyderabad could not come back well in today's match. I saw the batting performance of Gujarat Titans in today's match where David Miller was on fire towards the end and he was well supported by Vijay Shankar. David Miller and Vijay Shankar's unbroken partnership of 30 runs off 18 balls gave Gujarat Titans a huge 7-wicket win.
The Sunrisers Hyderabad batsman set a target of 162 in 20 overs with a lot of effort and struggle.  Which was great.  But Gujarat Titans batsmen scored 168 runs in 19.1 overs to win the match.  Their batsmen kept the pace high.  So they will win the match.  And their bowlers are good too.  The run was not stopped by the Sunrisers bowler.  Due to which the match will be lost.  My congratulations to the Gujarat Titans team for the win and may they continue to play like this and win matches.  And the Sunrisers bowler should do well.  If they don't, they won't be able to stop any batsman's runs.  If they could have stopped the runs, they could have won the match and luck did not favor them and they would have lost the match.

163 is an average target in IPL. The place where Sunrisers hyderabad struggled is keeping a batsmen in crease for long. It takes some time for player to set themselves to crease and when your wickets are losing in quick intervals, it gets harder to increase the run rate. Most fatal for them was the last over by Mohit sharma.
Gujrat Titans had the idea what they needed to achieve and they played in the same pace. They were always at better advantage and won the game without pressure. This win brings GT to fourth place while Mohit Sharma to second highest wicket taker.
134  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 31, 2024, 01:19:00 PM
When Sri Lanka were all out for 531 runs, it was Bangladesh's batting name and initially Bangladesh started well, but Bangladesh's first wicket Mahmudul Hasan Jai fell for 47 runs. Looking at the batting of Bangladesh, I thought that maybe Bangladesh can do well in this innings, but with the loss of 47 runs, my idea changed.
Bangladesh should have faced the remaining few overs of today's last session in a defensive mood, but that was not possible, instead Bangladesh's top order batsman Mahmudul Hasan got out. Although Taijul Islam came in the end and managed to pass the session. Second day's play is over Bangladesh will start the third day with a bang and it is expected that Bangladesh can do well in the first innings if the batsmen in the top order do not fail.
Sri Lanka played an incredible game, 531 runs in the first innings, Bangladesh will not be able to achieve this score even in two innings  So I can guarantee that Sri Lanka will win this match. Bangladesh have started the game and have scored 55 runs so far and they have lost 1 wicket so far. So it is doubtful whether Bangladesh will be able to cross 200 runs.  I was really surprised to see Sri Lanka play like this.  I thought the maximum they would score would be 400 runs but I never expected them to cross 500 runs.

The scores turned out to be as predicted by myself in the last post. Sri Lanka did scored a decent 1st inning score as almost all of the players performed well. They batted till being all out. They lost two wickets through run out. If they have played slow, they might have got to 600 by the day end as Kamindu Mendis was still there and he could also have made century. Anyway Sri Lanka started bowling in better position. Though Bangladesh haven't lost more than 1 wicket and 55/1 is not bad in a test but there's no consistency on Bangali lineup and Sri Lanka would be trying to all out them tomorrow, preferably calling them again to bat.
135  Economy / Speculation / Re: 100 Push-Ups A Day Until Bitcoin Is $100K Challenge on: March 31, 2024, 01:19:14 AM


That might teach us to find some kind of a groove.. even though you had said that you were doing the slower pushups.. so yeah they are likely more difficult than the ones that I am doing... . which still are right around 1 second per pushup.. and I am frequently tempted to go faster so that I can do more.. and no matter what they hurt since I end up pretty much pushing myself to failure.. and if I slow down then I end up doing fewer.. so I am thinking that a couple of weeks of my measuring my pushup speed will help to inform me whether I might want to make adjustments to either the speed or the quantity or just keep going more or less with what I am doing.

You keep going more not less probably increasing your count per each set You carry out (quantity) and also ensuring an equivalent speed not pushing yourself too much to avoid breakdown.
Those that tend to increase there speed during push-up only build  Endurance and do less when in a slower pace,while those doing slower push-up build strength. This is the difference between both, so it geared towards the individual which is favorable and appreciative to our general well-being.
For me, I do 20 push-up per each set, At 2 intervals I go fast and another 2 intervals I go slower  most at times it very much difficult pushing after a slower pace interval.

My next target now is increasing my count from 20 to 25 per each set, also doing 20 squats before my push-up.

100 pushups is an overkill for a normal person. I can do 1. I'll not be able to do such a challenge. But challenging ownself with something that helps our health relating to something that we desire but have no role to play in its achievement could be a good moral to do exercise. I too have a daily work out routine but I misses it often. From tomorrow, i.e. April 1, I'll challenge myself with 20 situps, 20 squats, 20 min plank, 20 pushups (on long run) and 20 dumb bell lifts. That makes 100. I'll post again to tell about my success when bitcoin reaches $100K
136  Economy / Economics / Re: What class of an investor are you? on: March 30, 2024, 06:24:12 PM
A a bad luck trader. I've been into crypto space for over a decade but my wrong decisions, hacks and scam led to lose most of my money and I ended up losing more than earning. I am now a more informed trader who trades on signals that too on trusted alts and bitcoin. Gambling had been one of my largest economic problem. Though I'm much stable now, I lost all of my crypto rage betting in 2019. My current strategy is to grid trade my coins and hold some for bull spikes.
137  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: T20 and T20I cricket prediction and discussion on: March 30, 2024, 05:51:21 PM
Lucknow super Giants wins against Punjab Kings by 21 runs.
LSG, winning the toss wanted to bat first and they created a good score of 199. Quinton de Kock, Nicholas Pooran and Krunal Pandya performed good with their bat.
Punjab chasing a target of 200 looked good for the first half of the game, not loosing a wicket till 102 runs. Both of the openers Shikhar Dhawan and Jonny Bairstow were outstanding. At the peak of their partnership it looked like they are easily going to chase it but as the wickets started falling, they couldn't take the game on their control. Liam Livingstone tried guiding the team on last overs but failed to score at faster pace.
138  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Germany League - Bundesliga Prediction Thread on: March 30, 2024, 05:16:17 PM
Another two-minute flip from Bayer Leverkusen. They really take their unbeaten streak seriously. Even a draw is not enough, they turn around and win all the games they are behind. I've never seen a team like this. We're witnessing something we haven't seen for a long time. They want to end the season undefeated. They deserve to win everything.
I was surprised to see Bayern Leverkusen struggle to beat Hoffenheim in the league, even though they were at home. Late goals from Andrich and Schick were enough to give Bayern Leverkusen the needed three points against Hoffenheim. With this 2-1 home win, Bayern Leverkusen is still leading Bayern Munich by 10 points in the Bundesliga table.
Leverkusen got the 3 points anyway. Maybe it was the break that most teams weren't able to perform as they were doing before the break.
Of the matches played today, the most important result was the draw between Leipzig and Mainz, that's a bad result for Leipzig as they are fighting for Champions League slot against Dortmund. Mainz should have been an easy win. Another shocking loss was Wolfsburg vs Werder Bermen where Werder loss 0-2 against Wolfsburg. Werder now has a long losing streak. Frankfurt and Union Berlin draw too was a setback for Frankfurt team but their Conference League slot might still be secure.
139  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: Test Cricket Prediction and Discussion Thread [self - mod] on: March 30, 2024, 04:49:10 PM
Sri Lanka lost four wickets and collected 314 runs. I think a very good performance from the Sri Lanka team, because the target of 314 runs seems too big for Bangladesh so far. As Bangladesh were bowled out for 188 runs in the first innings in the first Test match and scored 182 runs in the second innings. The Bangladesh team lost the first test match by a margin of 328 runs, so the target of 314 runs that they have collected so far is big for Bangladesh. Hasan Mahmood, one of Bangladesh's bowlers is performing well, unique bowlers are not performing well because of them, Sri Lanka team is getting chance to score runs.

Sri Lanka has not declared yet and they have 6 wickets left. Except Angelo Mathews, all of them had a good score and the new batsmen too are seen set.
They'd try to bat the whole of 2nd day which may mean if they be able to bat the whole day without losing all of their wickets, they'll make a comfortable 600+ but also in an unlikely situation, they'll get near 500 and Bangladesh would start batting on the later session. In any circumstances, I believe Sri Lanka would have upper hand and they could even win by an inning if they get over 600.
140  Economy / Gambling discussion / Re: La Liga (Spanish League) Prediction Thread 2023/24 on: March 30, 2024, 03:54:17 PM
Of the 4 matches happening today in la liga, two have yielded result while 1 going on is predictable.
Cadiz won over Granada by 1 goal. Both of these teams are in relegation zone and among them, Granada and Almeria has no hopes while Cadiz is still in fight with Celta Vigo in order to not get relegated. Almeria and Osasuna match running at the moment has almeria already down by 2 goals and I don't see them recovering.
Another game between Getafe and Sevilla was a small surprise as Sevilla won it by 1 goal. But both of these teams are not going anywhere up or down.
Valencia vs Mallorca is the remaining game. And as it's on Valencia's home, they should have an easy win.
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