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The future of the workplace is not hybrid
By: John Haglund
Tags: Future Of Work, Remote Working, Work Life Balance, Return To Work, Work From Home

It is right to feel that this picture represents an exceptionally privileged means to conduct white-collar work. But it is also a future that is not entirely unimaginable. Experts predict that the 2020s could be a decade of unbridled exuberance and celebration. Many declare parallels to the post-war roaring 1920s, when people threw off the shackles of a once-in-a-century restrictive event, embraced risks, and just let loose.

From the beginning to the near end of the Covid-19 pandemic, there has been a sense of collective-displacement. The workforce (at least those afforded such luxury) moved out of offices and into their respective homes. All found themselves in unique situations, but there was a sense of unity and togetherness through shared struggle.

Teams of the future will be likewise displaced, but less collectively and more by choice, as they make their preference known where and how they prefer to work.

There is a reason workers now have such choices. During lockdowns, all manner of life survived and even flourished in the home. In make-shift home covid bubbles, we learned new skills and hacks to work and live remotely. When this bubble bursts, there will no doubt be a great release of energy. One assumption is that most energy will channel back into theatres, restaurants, offices, and that a critical mass will assume their normal formations. But there is reason to doubt that will be the case. Once granted mobility from homes, workers may be reluctant to relinquish the new freedoms of work.

The future, one with separated teams, will be anything but normal. A common question will be from teammates peering into each other’s video backgrounds, asking “Where are you today?”

Notably, prominent tech companies such as Facebook, Twitter, and Shopify, have already granted employees an option to work remotely indefinitely. There are conditions in place, namely that productivity is held high. These companies have granted such mobility to maintain good-will and to harness the creativity that comes from employees working in ways that suit them best.

A report by the World Economic Forum describes that there has been a surge of creativity indicated by increased entrepreneurial activity even during a year characterized by widespread lockdowns. This may seem counterintuitive that creativity can flourish when the workforce is dispersed at home. But consider the growing popularity of life-hacks or that awesome mega-desk your co-worker just showed you. Creativity abounds when there are unique needs and changing behaviors. Expect that to continue as workers choose to remain scattered across homes, offices, and elsewhere when the pandemic subsides.
Build GitHub Actions Using Docker Containers
By: Al-Waleed Shihadeh
Tags: Programming, Github, Docker, Continuous Integration, Github Actions

Build GitHub Actions Using Docker Containers

Build and deploy a GitHub action to the GitHub marketplace

Photo by Leonardo Yip on Unsplash

GitHub supports several third-party tools for continuous integration and continuous deployment tools, such as Travis CI and Circle CI. On the other hand, GitHub offers its own CI service, which is GitGub workflows.

Workflows can be created to achieve several goals, such as building docker images, running unit tests, and even deploying to a remote server. The workflows can be triggered based on GitHub events as well as external events. For instance, It is possible to create a workflow that will be executed once you create a new release on the repository. In addition, the same workflow can be configured to be triggered by an external API call.

The structure of the workflow consists of the usage of several GitHub actions to achieve the workflow goal. Actions are tasks that are needed to complete the CI workflow. For instance, the checkout action will checkout the GitHub repository on the runner machine. The full list of the GitHub actions can be viewed on the GitHub marketplace.

Actions are not only developed by GitHub; in fact, developing actions is open for the public, and many known companies and even individual developed their own actions and published them to the GitHub market place.

There are two types of actions that can be used and integrated with GitHub workflows:

Docker container actions: This type allows you to package all the dependencies needed for your action in the docker image and they will be built on the runner machine before executing the action.

JavaScript actions: These actions run directly on the runner machine and therefore they are much faster than the docker actions. The actions must be written in pure javascript without using any binaries.

In this post, I will explain the necessary steps for creating and publishing a docker GitHub action.
Towards A Decentralized Internet: BitClave Leads the Way with Innovative Products
Tags: Search, Decentralization, Blockchain, Internet, Crypto

For a long time, the use of internet has been subject to one form of centralized control or the other. Google, Yahoo, Baidu, Microsoft, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter are among the leading powerhouses behind such control, the implications of which include their possession of sensitive user data and exploitation of the same for ads and search related revenue. The existence of privacy policies does not spare users of exploitation such as the infamous Cambridge Analytica scandal. But the privacy violations are just one side of the exploitation.

At the other end of the divide is the issue of ‘no-share in advertising dividends for users’ in an online ecosystem where the user is the ultimate product. These internet giants invest heavily to be able to run servers and other logistics to offer users “free services” on their platforms, while the value they get in return will make many eyes pop. The truth is these guys create value in terms of traffic, something brands pay heavily to access. Data by the research firm Statista of digital ad earnings for 2015 to 2020 suggests that there was already spending of 229.25 billion USD in 2017, with further growth projection rising to 335.5 billion by 2020. Even subtracting all the costs of providing their platform services, that’s a whole lot of money going into the pockets of the centralized platforms.

Nothing is Free!

Even though users get a semblance of “free” stuff through their use of these internet resources, their data also gets shared with the brands without them getting paid, making the idea of free platform usage an illusion, or better still, a deception. This leads to a vicious cycle of distrust as a user loses his own data and the profits from them.

What if there was a way around that, an option that actually guarantees privacy of user data and puts the power of earning search and user data dividends in the hands of the everyday internet goer? This is the BitClave solution.
Avoid Misunderstandings: 3 Ways I Improved The Way I Communicate
By: Charlene Fate
Tags: Personal Growth, Listening, Self Improvement, Life Lessons, Communication

Photo by Joshua Rodriguez on Unsplash

Avoid Misunderstandings: 3 Ways I Improved The Way I Communicate

“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.”-George Bernard Shaw

I have a habit of replying with the word “huh” when I can not hear what was said to me clearly and I need it to be repeated.

If you can huh you can hear.

I’m from Virginia and where I’m from if someone says huh as a request to repeat what was stated then they are sometimes met with the phrase “If you can huh you can hear”. Meaning if you heard the sounds I made then you know what I said.

A friend of mine used to say this to me all the time. I often grew frustrated because I needed to have what was stated repeated because I could not make out the words and I have had my hearing checked, my hearing is not a problem. Sometimes we hear sounds but the words are uttered in such a way that we just don’t know what was said. It’s one of the reasons that people with perfectly good hearing watch shows with the closed caption option turned on.

Mixed Messages

I was once in a meeting with a group of people and when we left the meeting we realized that we all heard the same words but received different messages. Half of us were under the impression our project was to start immediately. The other half believed that the project was on hold until further notice. I remember thinking that I must have entered into the twilight zone. How could so many people hear completely different messages?

In 2018 an audio clip of a voice saying the word Yanni or Laurel went viral. When people listened to the exact same audio clip some people clearly heard the word Yanni and others heard Laurel. Whether it was the sound waves, volume, or pitch, it did not change the fact that the same sound was presented to people and they heard completely different words. I found this fascinating.

So, when my partner said he heard me say something that I know I did not say, maybe he was telling the truth. We process and hear sounds differently. The exact same sounds.

Maybe the smart remark I thought my daughtered muttered when I took away her cell phone privileges was innocent after all. Or maybe not.

Miscommunication can be dangerous. There have been several instances in which doctors and patients have had their wires crossed and a patient’s needs were not met because the information was misconstrued.

I made a trip to the emergency room a few years ago for chest pains but somehow after answering a few questions the doctor thought I was there for something completely different. We misunderstood each other completely. How could this happen?
My Song of Myself
By: Arjan Tupan
Tags: Pomprompt, Poetry, Identity, Self, Personal Growth

Who am I? Who am I?

I know who I am. I am you.

I know who I am. I am the sum

of all the experiences in my life,

all the minutes wasted away

playing games to battle boredom;

the books I’ve read, movies I watched;

dinners I cooked or enjoyed or both;

all the kilometers run and walked and biked

and driven in cars and trains listening to music

or the radio, yes the radio, the radio;

poems written, jobs done;

all the times we spent together, you and I.

I am all that. That and more. The sum of all that

made me who I am today and will make me

who I am tomorrow and the day after

and after and after.

Who am I? I am you.

For however much all my experiences

and minutes wasted away and all that,

made me who I am today, I am who you

see in me, what you see in me, what you see

when you see me.

You make me who I am, at least to you,

and because of that, I am

who you think I am,

because you see me

as you see me and that makes

me who I am. You.

Who am I?

I am I.

And who are you?
Connecting to MySQL through Docker
By: Rukshani Athapathu
Tags: DevOps, Software Development, Docker, MySQL, Database

Step 1 : Pull MySql image from docker hub. Following command will pull the latest mysql image.

docker pull mysql

Step 2: Run a container from this image. ‘-name’ gives a name to the container. ‘ -e’ specifies run time variables you need to set. Set the password for the MySQL root user using ‘MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD’. ‘-d’ tells the docker to run the container in background.

docker run --name=testsql -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=rukshani -d mysql

This will output a container id; which means that the container is running in the background properly.

Step 3: Then check the status of the container by issuing, ‘docker ps’ command

docker ps

Output

Now you should be able to see that MySQL is running on port 3306.

Step 4: To checkout the logs of the running container use the following command

docker logs testsql

Step 5: Find the IP of the container using following. Check out the “IPAddress” from the output, this will tell you the ip address.

docker inspect testsql

Now you should be able to connect to MySQL using this ip address on port 3306.
PIBBLE Project5 & Pickthumb Results
By: Bryan High
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Social Media, Ethereum

Project 5 (Allbit/Upbit)

Hello everyone! Again, we really want to thank everyone for their support in helping us rank 3rd in Project5.

If you didn’t already see, on March 20th 3pm KST, PIBBLE was added to BTC/ETH exchange on Allbit. Concerning the Upbit listing, we have already had a meeting with Upbit about our listing. However, as with all exchange negotiations, we cannot comment or provide a timeline for the listing process due to NDA. So, when there is an official announcement look here for the update.

Pickthumb (Bithumb)

Results:

Conun (CON) 62,089 votes

Ankr (ANKR) 15,895 votes

Pibble (PIB) 15,751 votes

Cosmo Chain (COSM) 9,428 votes

In regards to Pickthumb event, we placed in 3rd by less than a 1% margin in the competition which unfortunately means we will not automatically be listed on Bitthumb. We want to thank all our great supporters in Korea who helped us perform so well and are disappointed that the result was so close. However, we are going to push Bithumb listing as best as we can due to our great performance in the event. We believe that the tiny margin of difference between our results and ANKR proves that the interest in PIBBLE is sufficient to be listed on the exchange. If we have any updates, I will also provide it here and on our other SNS channels.

As always, follow us on our other social media:

Homepage: https://www.pibble.io/

Telegram: https://t.me/pibbleio_eng

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pibbleio/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/pibbleio

Need to ask a question? Contact me directly on Telegram

https://t.me/bryanhigh
Three Classic Cocktails, Revisited
By: Laura Vincent
Tags: Alcohol, Bartenderly, Drinking, Cocktails, Food

The Monkey Gland is a classic from the 1920s, but its very particular name is possibly why it hasn’t enjoyed the same resurgence as other cocktails of its era. I mean, I’m not easily grossed out yet I have no desire whatsoever to ask for it out loud, though its ingredients are intriguing: gin, orange juice, grenadine and a lick of absinthe.

Unfortunately, there’s no subtext with this, as it was named quite literally for the doctor Serge Voronoff and his misguided beliefs in the health-boosting power of monkey testicles. Thankfully, his practices quickly fell out of favour, but the name of the drink lives on.

I’ve tweaked both the ingredients and the title, swapping the orange juice for Cointreau and lime juice — the liqueur gives added richness and body and the lime juice gives a more intense citrus freshness. The hint of absinthe lends complexity and a subtle herbal backdrop in contrast with the sweetness of the bright-coloured grenadine. Altogether a beguiling and very pretty drink. Grenadine is a common bartending ingredient, essentially a sweet pomegranate syrup, but if you can’t find it, you could substitute raspberry syrup or dissolve sugar into pomegranate juice at a 1:1 rate. I call this the Dr. No, which was a 1962 James Bond film, but for me, also a direct response to the man who inspired the original cocktail.

Dr. No

Dr. No

1oz gin (I used Beefeater)

½ oz Cointreau

¾ oz grenadine

1 oz lime juice

A dash of absinthe (I used Hapsburg, but Pernod or Ricard can be used as a substitute here.)

Place everything except the absinthe into one half of a cocktail shaker tin, fill with ice, close the second tin on top, and shake it hard. Drop the absinthe into your serving glass — I used a coupe here — and roll the glass around so the absinthe coats the inside. Open the shaker tin and strain the liquid through a small sieve into the serving glass. I garnished it with a dehydrated lemon slice, but the drink is perfect on its own.

All photos taken at Laundry Bar in Wellington, New Zealand.
We Need More Capable Female Characters Like Olivia Benson
By: Rebeca Ansar
Tags: Women, Television, Equality, Culture, Feminism

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (or SVU) is a police procedural television series created by Dick Wolf. Since 1999, the show has been successfully running on NBC for 21 seasons. The show first featured detective duo Olivia Benson, played by Mariska Hargitay, and Elliot Stabler, played by Christopher Meloni.

Meloni did not return for the show’s 13th season, and Hargitay’s character began to move increasingly to the forefront of the show. In the past seven seasons, Olivia Benson has moved up in rank from Detective to Sergeant to Lieutenant. Presently she is Captain.

Mariska Hargitay has shown unyielding dedication to carrying out the role of Olivia Benson. She is “the only original cast member still present on the series,” and “is the longest-serving character of all time in the Law & Order universe.”

There is some healing that happens even though the character is fictional. Just knowing that hearts like Benson’s are possible gives me hope for the future.

Even though each show’s storyline is formulaic, Hargitay’s emotional and intellectual ranges when portraying Benson continue to draw viewership.

For those who say that female leads aren’t able to competitively appeal to an audience, Olivia Benson is an example demonstrating that the rest of the entertainment industry just isn’t trying hard enough. Season 21 of SVU has marked it as the “longest-running primetime live-action series.” Olivia Benson “is the longest-running female character” in that genre.

There’s a reason why. This character is an embodiment of traits for which our culture is desperate.

When Olivia Benson talks to victims of assault, she believes them. That’s her first job. She listens to their stories, no matter how complicated or half-missing they may be. She follows up. She does her due diligence. She puts herself in the trenches with victims to as much of a degree as she can.

Often, she goes above and beyond, helping the viewers understand that this kind of dedication is necessary to end a culture of assault and rape.

The character’s personal life is also intricately laced through the show’s seasons. In it, we are given pieces of who Benson is as a person. While she does have romantic interests, her job is her priority. She makes this very clear. Hers is not a character that exists in relation to a man.

While many of us have been conditioned to believe the tired trope that women like this are cold and unreachable, Benson is anything but an ice queen. She’s a full-fledged human with a complete emotional palette and enough empathy and willpower for ten people.

This is arguably most notable in the child she chooses to adopt. Noah Porter Benson is the biological son of a drug addict mother and pimp and serial rapist father. He becomes orphaned. Through a brutally arduous process, Oliva adopts him and learns to mother him with empathy and understanding. For example, in a recent episode, Noah expresses his wish to trade in his baseball glove for ballet slippers. She enrolls her son in dance class by the end of the episode.
How to Use Tailwind CSS With Node.js, Express, and Pug
By: Catalin Pit
Tags: JavaScript, Tailwind Css, Expressjs, Nodejs, Programming

Project Configuration

The first step is to create and configure our application. Run the following commands to create an empty directory called nodejs-tailwind and change the current directory to it:

mkdir nodejs-tailwind

cd nodejs-tailwind

Now that we are in the nodejs-tailwind directory, we have to initialize our Node project. To do so, we need to run the following command:

npm init

For each Node project, we need a file called package.json . Its purpose is to store metadata about the project (e.g. name, description, version, author, etc.) and manage the project dependencies and scripts. We could create the file manually, but that would be tedious.

Thus, the purpose of npm init is to create the package.json file. Once you run the command, you get an interactive prompt where you can add information about your project. Or, if you are happy with the suggested information, you can press enter until the end. If you do not add any information, your file should look like this:

Now we need to create the index.js , which stores our basic server. You can create the file by running:
Bitrise — Run Android instrumented tests on different modules within the same project
By: Alessandro Mautone
Tags: Instrumented Unit Test, Bitrise, Android, Android Testing, Ci

I ran into this issue recently, and I found very little documentation (most of which was out of date) so I decided to write a pretty simple step by step tutorial.

First of all, let’s start with a small introduction on what is an Instrumented test. Quoting Google official docs:

Instrumented unit tests are tests that run on physical devices and emulators, and they can take advantage of the Android framework APIs and supporting APIs, such as AndroidX Test.

A great advantage of unit tests is that you can test real instances of your classes (without mocking them), or you can simply run UI tests (those kinds of tests are also referred as UI tests indeed), but on the other hand they are quite slow.

How to run an instrumented test

Disclaimer: here I will assume you already have (or know) how to set up a basic workflow on Bitrise.

Running Instrumented tests on Bitrise is quite simple, we have a dedicated step you can use for that purpose:
Data Visualization
By: Lexi Thompson
Tags: Data Visualization

Data Visualization

Part 1

I compared Instagram and Twitter together from 2010 to the present. At first, Twitter had way higher numbers than Instagram did. In October of 2010, Twitter had about 42 searches and Instagram has 0. Around April of 2014, both platforms had exactly the same numbers. June of 2014 is when Instagram started getting ahead of twitter. Ever since then, Instagram has been increasing and Twitter has actually been declining. Currently, Twitter has 31 and Instagram has 85. Clearly, Instagram is becoming more and more popular everyday while Twitter is declining.

Part 2

The values are the same, they are just different numbers. Our brain likes to see even numbers rather than decimals because we think it will be easier to read. By creating a pie chart, it shows us the same value of the numbers and makes it easier for us to understand. Visuals are usually the best way for us to see things more clear and understand numbers and comparisons better.

Part 3

I think using pie charts is the best way to compare the two players. It is easy to understand and see the differences quickly. The colors chosen also make it better to understand and quickly compare the two. After looking at the charts, Drew Brees seems to be the better quarterback and Josh Rosen may be the worst in this case scenario. These pie charts make it easier for us to see that.

Part 4

This area chart shows the changes in US job growth from 1990 to 2017. The darker columns highlights specific years of recession including 1990–1991, 2001 and 2008–2009 recessions. This chart shows that when there is a recession period, there are lots of job losses. When the recession ends, more jobs become available. Although during the 2008–2009 recession, when it ended in 2009, jobs were continuing to be unavailable for many years after the recession.
How to Deal With The R-Word at School: Guest Contribution from Luke Radel, Board Member of The 21 Club.
By: Dan Bellows
Tags: Equality, Advocacy, Love, Education, Respect

Hello, my name is Luke Radel. My brother, Mark, was born with Down syndrome and I serve as a board member on our local support group, The 21 Club.

Being an eighth grader with a brother who has a disability gives me a unique point-of-view on life in high school. It seems like many kids, not just at my school but across the country, have been “de-sensitized” to the R-word. It’s not just the kids, though. I’ve had teachers who’ve used the word in front of the class and I know that parents use the word around their kids at home. It can be very upsetting for me to hear someone using the word that was used to hurt so many people like my brother. So what can we do? How can we get the R-word out of schools and make sure that the adults of tomorrow know how terrible the word really is?

The first thing that can be done is for adults to take charge. Parents and teachers need to be more careful in their choice of words to set a good example for their children or students. If they hear the word used at home or in the classroom, they need to address it. But how do you do that as a student? You don’t want to be “that kid”. What I used to do, when I didn’t understand why people were saying the offensive term, is that I would get upset and make them feel ashamed for using the word. But all that would do is make them angry at me and more determined to use the word just to spite me. The better way to handle the situation is to let them know in a respectful, calm, and understanding way. Explain to them why the word is offensive and ask them humbly to stop using it. Most of the time, this method yields an apology and usually the person refrains from using that word. But there will always be those who choose to be ignorant and unfortunately that will continue.

The important thing is that you, the student and the family member or friend of a person with a disability, talked about the word. “Letting it go” doesn’t help anything because you aren’t helping the person or yourself. Nobody is an evil person when they say the word. They just don’t understand how offensive it is. So it’s our responsibility to “spread the word” and end the R-word.
Piper’s Choice — Discovery. Part 4-Discovery
By: Tree Langdon
Tags: Self Improvement, Series, Fiction, Murder, Turning Point

Rick’s car rolled slowly down the dirt track. “They’re close,” he thought, pulling over. “I’ll walk the rest of the way.”

When he reached the barn he snuck up to the window and saw two people moving around. One of them was Piper; he’d recognize her dumpy shape anywhere.

Crouching, Rick crab-walked back to the car and thought awhile, smoking cigarettes one after the other. He would wait until the moon had set. It would be better to catch them sleeping.

After a few hours, he grabbed his spare gas tank from the trunk and carried it down the path. The gas quickly soaked into the grass and loose hay around the sides of the barn.

“That'll drive em out,” he thought with a twitch of anticipation.

“Do you smell smoke?” said Tori, starting awake, looking around frantically. It was billowing in from the doorway and flames were licking through the cracks.

Coughing hard, she shook Piper awake and pulled her out of the blankets. Towing her through the smoke, they ran outside, gagging and spitting up ash.

Out of the corner of her eye, Tori saw a fist and ducked. Rick’s swing missed her, throwing him off balance. He recovered but stopped in surprise when he saw that Tori was a woman. Piper backed away and stumbled into the barn.

“Well now, what do we have here, a kitty cat. Let’s play,” he taunted, circling Tori. She turned to face him and tried to kick his leg.

“Oh, does the little kitty have claws? Nice. I like to play rough.” With a sudden move, he reached in and grabbed her arm, forcing her to kneel. Pulling some zap straps out of his pocket he quickly tied her up.

Tori kicked his ankle and he went down hard, grunting in pain. “Now you’ve asked for it,” he growled and punched her in the stomach; she folded in half, gasping for air.

The stable was filled with smoke; Piper crawled to the stall where she had seen a pile of rusted metal. She felt around until she found a heavy bar.

Barely able to breathe she found her way back to the edge of the door and screamed “Ricky, please help me, I got the money but I can’t get out.”

Rick covered his head with his jacket and ran into the barn, determined to save his money. Piper was waiting. The bar connected with a sickening thunk and he fell into the dirt.

Her arms numb from the recoil, Piper rolled toward the doorway. Half crawling, she collapsed in a fit of coughing just outside.

“Tori, wake up, are you ok?” Piper retched as she dragged Tori away from the blazing barn. Her legs buckled and she cradled Tori’s head in her lap.

“Oh god, what have we done.”

With a loud explosion of sparks, a rafter caved in, followed by a rain of burning debris. Piper and Tori sat gazing hypnotically at the patterns in the fire, lost in their own thoughts.
November Origin Rewards: Celebrating Singles Day
By: Anna Wang
Tags: Ethereum, Blockchain, Rewards, Cryptocurrency, Marketplaces

We are always looking for ways to show our appreciation to our loyal community that believed in us from day one and helped build the global presence Origin has today. It’s why we launched Origin Rewards, and why we design new campaigns each month so that we can reward every user that is creating value for our network in different ways.

Over ten thousand users all around the world have enrolled in Origin Rewards and became token holders, and more are receiving their stake of the Origin network each day.

This month, we are pleased to partner with imToken, one of the largest Ethereum wallets in the world, and Slife, which runs multiple Chinese marketplaces such as the vacation rentals platform Ru Cheng, in bringing a special Single’s Day rewards event to our users in China.

This partnership is a significant step as all three companies work together to increase the adoption of blockchain-powered marketplaces. We believe the only way to succeed in China is to work with the right local partners, like imToken and SLife, who have deep market knowledge and share common values in relentlessly pursuing excellence when it comes to product and customer experience.

How to earn OGN in November

You can purchase featured listings this month to earn free OGN, receive DAI rebates and also win a mystery goodie bag worth 200CNY if you’re one of the first 50 buyers to complete a transaction!

In order to start earning OGN, you will be asked to create a basic profile with your profile photo, name and email address. You can then further strengthen your profile by verifying your social accounts like Github, LinkedIn, Kakao, Facebook, Website, Airbnb, Twitter and Google. You will be rewarded 10 OGN for verifying each of these accounts.

You need to verify at least 3 social accounts to progress to the next level. We encourage filling out your profile because the more complete your profile is, the higher your chances are of having someone else transacting with you on the Origin marketplace!

An annual membership for unlimited vacation rentals in China

A 7 day Mobike pass

A subscription service that sends you mystery boxes containing food and beverages monthly

Please note that Origin Rewards is currently available in most countries in the world. One notable exception is the United States and countries that are currently under U.S. sanctions like North Korea and Cuba. These restrictions go against our ideals and we’re truly sorry for anyone who is unable to participate as a result.

Any tokens earned in November will be distributed after the first week of December (subject to terms and conditions).

Explore other featured listings and learn more about our Singles Day event here.

Learn more about Origin:
3 Things You Should Know About Loving a Partner Who is a Survivor
By: Estrella Ramirez
Tags: Relationships, Lifestyle, Love, Self, Healing

Recently, I intentionally shared some of my most vulnerable writing with a special person in my life. Shockingly enough, after I shared my trauma with this person, he responded with kindness and acceptance. I don’t know what the future holds between us, but what I do know is being honest about my trauma will give us a fighting chance.

I suppose I shouldn’t say shockingly, but to someone who’s spent the last 16 years in one unhealthy relationship or another, his reaction was a well-needed breath of fresh air.

A difference between survivors of abuse, assault, or any type of trauma is that we see, feel, and process normal situations completely differently than our peers who have not had said experiences.

So how do you communicate? How do you love a partner who is a survivor?

Without going through trauma firsthand, you’ll never fully understand the enduring and lasting effects of surviving. That doesn’t mean that you can’t have a healthy and loving relationship with a partner who has.
Common crypto mistakes
By: Bithemoth Exchange
Tags: Trading, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency, Bithemoth

Whether buying cryptocurrency for trading or holding as a long term investment, there are pitfalls to beware of. Many people have been drawn to the cryptocurrency space from stories of rocket gains and buyers being made into overnight millionaires. As a result, a lot of mistakes are made in the haste of chasing fortunes. Watch out for these common mistakes to optimize and protect your investments.

The first mistake that needs to be addressed is the act of hastily buying a coin or token near or at its peak price after witnessing the rush to buy. The term FOMO is an acronym for Fear Of Missing Out and in this case it refers to the fear that tends to push the market when the public throws their money at something before missing the boat. In a less than mature market with huge price swings, people are often left chasing gains and following hype rather than research.

Another problem that can affect veteran traders just as much as newbies is selling at a low point. As the crypto market experiences its roller coaster ups and downs, holders sometimes let fear overwhelm them and sell their coins for a much lower price than what they bought for. Cryptocurrency is not near mass adoption yet; therefore, most people who are buying are doing so as a speculative investment. Many of those holding Bitcoin or altcoins are hoping for massive returns and tend to be soured by bear runs and sell in a panic. Those who panicked and sold their Bitcoin bags in 2015 missed out on a potential of millions as the coin bounced back and nearly hit $20,000 in 2017. Many made the same mistake in 2018 as the market corrected only to see the coin begin to recover as the year went on.

When sending cryptocurrency from one wallet to another, always be sure to check the addresses you are entering. When dealing with an exchange wallet that could include dozens of coins and tokens, it can be very easy to select a different coin and copy the address of the wrong coin. If a user intends to send Bitcoin but selects and copies an Ether address instead, the loser may lose these coins forever if they actually hit send. Even just making a typo when inserting crypto addresses will result in the loss of the funds so users must be diligent when entering addresses.

Unfortunately, a question that is asked a little too frequently on crypto message boards and forums is “What should I do if I lost my private key?” Other popular iterations of this excruciating question include terms like “seed phrase” or “12 words”, but the askers are always begging for a way to unlock their wallets to access various amounts of their precious crypto.

To avoid making poor investments, losing funds, or getting robbed, or is important for crypto users to be rigorous in their research and meticulous when moving their money and setting up the security of their assets.
Important Announcement — Termination of Services
By: Shubham Yadav
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, India, Cryptocurrency, Exchange

Dear Users,

Much to our regret, we will no longer be able to provide exchange services for cryptocurrencies. It has been really difficult for us to operate Coindelta exchange for the last 6 months. The curb on the bank accounts by RBI has made us handicapped in order to provide seamless deposit and withdrawal services. There has not been any significant progress in the Supreme Court case which makes it difficult to predict when we will see the regulation.

Running the exchange is very expensive in such unfavourable environment. We have been operating at a minimal trade fee, bearing all the costs ourselves ensuring that your trading experience remains unaffected in the current unregulated environment. Economically, it’s no longer viable to continue with the exchange. It brings us no joy in ceasing operations. It broke our hearts to do that but it is the need of the hour considering limited resources at your disposal.

Having said that, we have decided to suspend the exchange services. All the markets will be suspended at 2:00 PM on March 30, 2019. We will cancel all open orders at 2:00 PM and funds will be returned to your wallet. We will continue providing wallet services until April 29, 2019. You are requested to withdraw all your funds within 30 days. After 30 days, all withdrawals will be processed through our support page https://support.coindelta.com/ by raising tickets or sending an email to support@coindelta.com. There will be a fixed fee applicable on all the withdrawals. Please visit fee page to see the updated fee. We will fully cooperate until all the funds are withdrawn from the platform.

We hope that the economic environment in the future will be conducive enough to support innovation and we will have the opportunity to serve you better.

Today marks 18 months of Coindelta! We would like to thank you for supporting us throughout our journey and putting your faith in us. It was a great pleasure to be a part of the cryptocurrency community. Having strong beliefs in the cryptocurrency space, we will remain persistent in adding values to the industry and continue walking on our journey of bringing India closer to Blockchain.

Signing off,

Your Coindelta Team
The NFL’s Best Undrafted Free Agents Since 1990
By: Andrew Martin
Tags: History, Culture, Sports, NFL, Football

3rd, Kurt Warner- Quarterback: The only thing keeping him from being higher on this list was the relative shortness of his NFL career. After departing Northern Iowa in 1994, he had a look by the Green Bay Packers but was released in training camp. After a successful three-stint in the Arena Football League, the St. Louis Rams came calling and a legend was born. He spent his first year on the bench but emerged as the starter in 1999, leading what came to be known as the Greatest Show on Turf, a high-flying offense, featuring the running of Marshall Faulk and a dazzling aerial attack led by Warner. That season, he won the first of his two MVP awards and led the Rams to a Super Bowl title. He lost out on a championship the next season after a last-minute kick was converted by Adam Vinatieri of the Patriots. In 12 NFL seasons, Warner passed for 32,344 yards 208 touchdowns and 128 interceptions. He was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 2017.
Should I Tell You?
By: Barry Dawson Iv
Tags: Social Justice, The Rebel Poets Society, Humanity, BlackLivesMatter, Poem

Should I Tell You?

Can I trust you with this knowledge?

Photo by Mattia Faloretti on Unsplash

I’m a bit frightened to write my heart

now that I know the secret,

as every other living, breathing man

who was foolish enough to share this

attracted the wrong kind of attention

and got themselves violently killed.

Fred Hampton. Bobby Kennedy.

some guy named Jesus, and all the like.

So nah, I won’t tell you the secret,

not outright, not in a “call a spade

a spade” direct kind of way,

but since I’m just Some Drunk Guy On

The Internet, I’ll give you a hint;

You see, we were all doomed

the moment we began naming stuff,

claiming stuff, codifying creeds n’ stuff

twisting ourselves into this, that,

and the other.

Oh, and watch out for

that “other” fellow.

Wanna know why?

Come closer, and I’ll tell you,

and real-talk, I gotta whisper it.

I’m being super bold and reckless

for telling you this, but fuck it,

I’ll be forty-eight next month,

and guys who look like me,

who share my dusky skin-tone,

piecemealed culture, and

slick-as-silk swagger

are typically herded into prison farms

or the grave before our twenty-fourth

birthday, so basically, I’m playing

with house money right now.

Okay, I just took a swig of bourbon

to get my nerve up again. I’m ready.

Are you ready?

Again, it’s only a hint,

so if you don’t get it,

I can’t give you any more.

Alright, the secret is …

The other is a lie.

He is nothing of the sort.

The other is you.

That’s all I can say,

and this ain’t no quantum physics

trick either, where light waves

become particles once observed.

I’ll repeat it once more,

and this time pay attention;

the other is not the other;

she is everything but that;

the other is me.

Oops, I guess I said it

differently that time.

I wonder why?
The Image Of Your Waking~
By: Anthony Cloe Huie
Tags: Love Letters, Morning Rituals, Long Distance Love, Poetry

As light taps you

so very gently

on the lids of your eyes

And the early morning collective

of nature’s voices

whispers in your ears

Perhaps it will be my image

that will bring your mind’s focus

in response

resulting in the unseen reason

for the arrival of your morning’s smile

long before

all other senses have been alerted
Docker under the Hood — 3. User space, Kernel, Syscalls, Permissions, setuid, setgid, and Capabilities
By: Tiexin Guo
Tags: Software Development, Docker, Linux, DevOps, Security

This article is part of my “Docker under the Hood” series. For your convenience, here’s the list of my previous articles of this series:

A container is just a Process

Photo by Thais Morais on Unsplash

You might think: what does Linux permissions and capabilities have anything to do with docker?

Truth is, every container is, in fact, just a running process, as we shall prove now.

You can download the needed vagrant file from this GitHub repo so that you can do all the experiments mentioned in this series of articles yourself.

As you shall see in the above experiment:

before we run anything, there is no process named “hello” in the host (in this case, a virtual host which is a vagrant box)

we started a container (with a very simple hello world app written in golang, see here if you are interested in it, if not, there is only a “/app/hello” file in the contaienr)

after the container is started, you can see it’s up and running by docker ps

then there is also a new process running, in the host, named “hello”

So, to summarize, under the hood of docker, a container is not much more than a mere process.

This is all important, because: containers run Linux processes that are visible from the host, as we demonstrated above. A containerized process, just as any other Linux process, uses system calls, and needs permissions. And that is why all the traditional Linux stuff like system calls, namespaces, control groups, permissions, capabilities are all related to docker. It’s going to be helpful to understand some of the fundamental features of Linux so that we can see how they affect security, and in particular how they apply to containers.

And in this article and the next few ones, we are going to focus more on the Linux part. In this article, I’ll cover system calls, file-based permissions, and capabilities. If you’re familiar with these concepts, feel free to jump to my next article which I haven’t written yet.
The Pre-ICO Checklist, with William Mougayar and Ty Danco
By: Galen Moore
Tags: Investing, ICO, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum

I sat down last week for a video call with Ty Danco, a fintech angel investor in Boston, and William Mougayar, the Toronto-based early advisor to Ethereum and co-author with Vitalik Buterin of The Business Blockchain.

This was before three issuers pushed back their token generation events (TGE) citing security concerns, and before the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s long-delayed thunder over The DAO.

William, Ty and I covered a handful of topics over three quarters of an hour. We didn’t solve all of crypto’s problems, but we did get into a discussion about a topic that’s of great interest to me and to Token Report: How can a token issuer signal to token holders that it is legitimate and worth their time to investigate? (Tomorrow, I’ll publish a second excerpt from our conversation: A post-ICO checklist for startups.)

Many are falling short on what we see as requirements. For example, of nine TGEs that originally planned to go out this week, we found zero that planned to publish a smart contract address in advance. On Token Tracker, it can take extra legwork on our part to obtain critical information, like a hard cap valued in USD, ETH or BTC.

Some questions are trickier. For example: Does a token need to be a protocol in order to be credible? “This whole thing started as a funding of protocols, but now it’s becoming applications,” Mougayar said. “It’s becoming anything, really.”

We talked about tokenized assets, which unabashedly resemble securities. Mougayar was bullish, but drew an implicit line between, say, tokenized real estate, and projects that are bolting on a token without good reason.

As for a checklist, Mougayar said best practices are still emerging. “First and foremost is real transparency: Transparency and being very open about what you will be doing with those tokens,” he said, citing two data points in particular:

Who will get the tokens (and how much of them)

Lockup period for the company and insiders

Mougayar has launched a project called Token Filings, aiming to keep track of equivalent transparency data in projects, post-TGE.

“When we were building it, it was very obvious that the information was very difficult to find,” Mougayar said. “It was everywhere, and it was not just on the website.”

Token Report sees the tokenized world in the same way.
UMT Token to be Listed on Exrates and HitBTC
By: Bubbletone Blockchain In Telecom
Tags: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bancor, Hitbtc, Exchange

The token of Bubbletone Blockchain in Telecom — UMT token — will be listed on crypto exchanges in July. Two exchanges and one network have affirmed their intention to list UMT token.

In the middle of July, UMT token will be listed on the Exrates exchange. The trading pairs are UMT/BTC, UMT/ETH and UMT/USDT.

In the second half of July, UMT token will be listed on HitBTC. The trading pairs are UMT/BTC and UMT/ETH.

The exact listing dates and new exchanges will be announced later. Keep up with our news!

About Exrates

Exrates is an actively-growing platform, with its priority being creation of comfortable and practical conditions for its users. The Exchange takes a minimum commission for input and output means and provides maximum security. Its playground is suitable for both beginners who want to exchange their money with another user at the market rate and experienced traders. To conduct transfers, users only need their nicknames registered in the system.

About HitBTC

HitBTC is one of the world’s most advanced cryptocurrency exchanges. Since 2013, HitBTC has been providing markets for Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, Dogecoin, Monero, USDT and more than 300 cryptocurrencies in total. Created by outstanding technical minds, high-level finance professionals and experienced traders, HitBTC is delivering the most reliable, fast and powerful platform solution on the market. The platform has earned its reputation for fault-tolerance, flawless uptime and high availability. Its core matching engine is among the best technological products in its class, offering traders a wide range of features such as real-time clearing and cutting-edge order matching algorithms.