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Python’s Most Powerful Data Type
By: Erik Van Baaren
Tags: Python3, Programming, Software Development, Python, Data Science

Using Dictionaries

Dictionary view objects

Some built-in dictionary methods return a view object, offering a window on your dictionary's key and values. Values in a view object change as the content of the dictionary changes. This is best illustrated with an example:

phone_numbers = { 'Jack': '070-02222748', 'Pete': '010-2488634', 'Eric': '06-10101010' }

names = phone_numbers.keys()

phone_numbers['Linda'] = 9876

print(names)

The output of this code is dict_keys(['Jack', 'Pete', 'Eric', 'Linda']) . As you can see, Linda is part of the list too, even though she got added after creating the names view object.

Access and delete a single key/value pair

We’ve already seen how to access and delete a single key-value pair:

>>> phone_numbers['Eric'] = '06-10101010'

>>> del(phone_numbers['Jack'])

To overwrite an entry, simply assign a new value to it. You don’t need to del() it first.

If the requested key does not exist, an exception of the type KeyError is thrown:

>>> phone_numbers['lisa']

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>

KeyError: 'lisa'

If you know data can be missing (e.g. when parsing input from the outside world), make sure to surround your code with a try ... except .

Get all the keys from a dictionary

There are two easy ways to get all the keys from a dictionary:

list() returns all the keys in insertion order, while sorted() returns all the keys sorted alphabetically.

There’s also the dict.keys() method that returns a view object containing a list of all the dictionary keys. The advantage of this object is that it stays in sync with the dictionary. It's perfect for looping over all the keys, but you still might opt for the list or sorted methods, though, because those return a native list that you can manipulate as well.

Check if a key exists in a dictionary

You can check if a key exists inside a dictionary with the in and not in keywords:

>>> 'Jack' in phone_numbers

True

>>> 'Jack' not in phone_numbers

False

Getting the length of a dictionary

The len() returns the number of key-value pairs in a dictionary:

>>> phone_numbers = { 'Jack': '070-02222748', 'Pete': '010-2488634', 'Eric': '06-10101010' }

>>> len(phone_numbers)

3

Looping through a dictionary
How the Online Pursuit of Fame at all Cost is Destroying Intimacy
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Relationships, Philosophy, Future, Self, Social Media

How the Online Pursuit of Fame at all Cost is Destroying Intimacy

We are giving away too much, too soon. To everyone.

Photo by Marvin Meyer on Unsplash

Without discernment, we shop our private lives piecemeal online in exchange for a click, a buck, the odd byline perhaps. Day in, day out, we crank out shockers inspired by our most intimate shame, those vexatious moments when others humiliated us. Sometimes, our body of work becomes an online manual to our sexual self, the one lusting for validation and compensation between the lines. One installment at a time, we disclose the secret life of our various pleasure orifices, our assorted fantasies as we attempt to exact revenge upon those who scorned or mistreated us by reliving those moments in print to spin them into gold.

Often, we attempt to parlay our sexless and loveless lives into something edgy and marketable by passing it off as vulnerability. Soon, dignity devolves into incontinent pathos; we do not regain control of our narrative, we repackage it into something we can sell, striving to replicate what mainstream media has shown us works. As a result, the internet turns into Jerry Springer and everyone is writing National Enquirer style headlines. We reveal how the celebrities we slept with are, you know, humans like us. Only with more money, more fame than us and we want some of that so we take it as payment for having shared naked moments together. But kiss-and-tell is no longer the preserve of shoddy journalism, it’s a mindset now; we are all media, we are all potential celebrities. Even if our one claim to fame is that we talk when we have nothing of import to say.
#RealLifeTransAdult
By: Regina Carbonell
Tags: Engineering, LGBTQ, Transgender, Women In Tech, Women

#RealLifeTransAdult

Electronic engineer, Katie Montgomenrie

Katy Montgomerie is a British transwoman that works as an electronic engineer, designing computer chips that make the internet work! And she is great at it!

GR: Katy, what has been the most difficult situation as an electronic engineer?

KM: Probably the most difficult thing I’ve done at work was coming out to everyone, I’d worked with most of them for 5 years before coming out, and standing up in front of 30 people telling them that tomorrow you’re coming in as a woman is terrifying! It went really well though.

GR: Wow. That is amazing. Can you recall any other moment where you felt so loved and accepted?

KM: My coming out wasn’t one single big event, it was a series of one on one conversations over a series of months. Every time I told a friend about being trans I was dying of fear and worry, and every time they showed me love and respect. In most cases I felt much closer to them after sharing such a major part of my life with them. I still cannot get over how amazing all my friends are, how much I love them and how grateful I am for how much they love me.

“The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers.” Leia — Star Wars

GR: What’s your view on these last years women’s right’s movements?

KM: Women’s Rights is one of the things that is most important to me, I spend literally hours every day discussing and debating feminism on the internet and with friends. It’s great to see things like the #MeToo movement and Australia’s recent equal marriage plebiscite making progress, but at the moment it does seem every step forward women take, they are forced to take another backwards elsewhere, for example the Trump administration’s actions to restrict reproductive rights of women. I think the biggest thing at the moment where actual positive change is possible is Ireland’s [upcoming] referendum on abortion on the 25th of May, look it up if you don’t know about it, get involved! #RepealThe8th

*editor’s note: the referendum was approved and abortion is now legal in Ireland

GR: What would you recommend to 16 year old you?

KM: This is the kind of thing I think about a lot… #nerdlife. I’ve actually got a secret passphrase that I can say to myself from the age of about 8 onwards that would prove that I was in fact me from the future, so I’d open with that (obviously I can’t say that here) then I’d say “dump your abusive partner; only sign up for 3 years at university; you’re actually a trans woman, it’s great, don’t panic; invest in bitcoin, sell at £10k”.

GR: Well Katie, you will reach hundreds of youngster LGBTQIA people so, what would you like to tell them?

KM: You are mega! There are going to be some things in your life that are harder for you than other people, but that doesn’t mean you can’t ace it! You can have a happy life surrounded by loving friends and family, you can have a great job, you can do any hobby that you like! Hang in there ❤

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Why Today’s Vinyl Resurgence is Nostalgia For Another Era
By: Katie Martin
Tags: Self, Mindfullness, Music, Digital, Lifestyle

Albums, in theory, are themselves a singular concept, made of smaller cohesive components or layers (songs). The singles are only part of the story. Still, I had never really listened to a full album until Beyoncé dropped in 2013, and then again a few years later when I listened to Beyoncé’s full visual album, Lemonade. Before then, I’d only flipped through singles on this playlist or that.

I’m 26 — this could be generational.

It could be the byproduct of being young in the digital age with digital downloads and streaming. Still, I have this nostalgic haze of a vision that things were different decades ago; as though, in the 60s and 70s, we used to really listen to an artist’s album from beginning to end—and to stop somewhere in between would be to miss something from the story.

And yet, the onset of the digital age made it easy to buy and download singles, which caused album sales to plummet in all formats.

Some artists must have seen this coming. When iTunes was created in 2001, several of them pushed back against the idea of their albums being fragmented, cherry-picked, and sold for 99 cents a single. But ultimately, the digital song sales won.

I know this because fragmented singles are all I’ve ever known of music.

And when I noticed hipsters buying record players and playing vinyl albums, it seemed like such a novel concept to me. The novelty was not only the physical records themselves, but also the idea of listening to full albums.
Multithreading With ThreadLocal, Making Threads Work for You.
By: Prateek Nima
Tags: Java, Multithreading, Software Development, Programming, Interview

Before we start….

ThreadLocal is your answer to:-

If you want the object to be thread-safe but at the same time it does not hamper the performance of your application.

If you don’t want to create a new object each time new thread task is being assigned.

If you want to share the same object between multiple method calls without actually passing the object as parameters.

Write a better and clean code in a multithreaded environment.
My PTSD from Workplace Bullying
By: Ree Jackson
Tags: Work, Bullying, Mental Health, Equality, Abuse

It’s back.

Years after surviving a horrific episode of workplace bullying, I am experiencing a relapse in my recovery.

My sleeping is sporadic. Dreams are nightmares again. Paranoia has returned. I can’t calm down.

Every now and then, I have episodes of post-traumatic syndrome disorder from the level of abuse I suffered. My therapist told me this is normal, and that I will continue to have this experience whenever my fear is triggered.

I know what has triggered my PTSD today.

The President of the United States.

The Return of My Fear

When I am doing well and getting beyond the trauma, I feel like I am unstoppable. I believe that I have moved on, and that I know exactly what to do. I even wrote a book about it.

Then, when I watch as bullying is happening in front of me, even if I’m not the target, I start to have anxiety.

I watched the most recent rally that the President led. It’s not the first time I’ve heard the language of a bully coming from the most powerful person in the country. But this last time, with the crowd whipped into a frenzy, chanting “Send her home” after listening to a litany of depraved language from the President, something in me broke.

I broke down.

Whenever I watch in real time someone being belittled and disregarded, it hits me hard. It takes me back to meetings where I was publicly shamed and insulted, as my boss whipped subordinates into a frenzy, laughing at me and my work. I am struck by how similar my workplace bully is to the President.

I feel like I keep reliving that terror, and that I will never escape it.

I feel like our country is going to a place that we won’t be able to leave.

It makes me feel hopeless.

Finding My Way Back

The only way I know to fight my way out of the darkness is through authentic positivity.

Even when I want to hide and not face the world, I know that I can’t give in to the pain. I have to keep fighting or I will lose.

So I look for inspiration and hope.

Today, it arrived in the most unlikely way.

My daughter and her friends decided to make a town out of chalk drawings in the driveway. At their version of Target, they did something that restored me.

They included accessible parking in their art work.

My daughter’s drawing of a pretend town included space for people of all abilities.

The innocent act of drawing in a parking space that is inclusive and considers all people made me want to cry and celebrate simulataneously. At least the next generation seems to understand that kindness is more important thatn divisiveness.

Today, my daughter’s simple act saved me from despair.

There is hope.
Arbitrage: Get realtime lending rates from DeFi platforms
Tags: Finance, Google, Cryptocurrency, Lending, Analytics

Arbitrage is defined as the simultaneous buying and selling of securities, currency, or commodities in different markets or in derivative forms in order to take advantage of differing prices for the same asset.

In our case, an arbitrage opportunity arrises on interest rates when you can borrow at a lower rate and lend at a higher rate than you borrowed. As shown on the table above highlighted in yellow, there are arbitrage opportunities for USDC and DAI. How can you profit from these 2 opportunities ? We will be using a £10k loan with almost to none exposure risk as an example. Why do I say almost to none ? Because you will still need to deposit some cryptocurrencies like BTC, ETH … in order to collateralize your loan, which exposes you to the price fluctuations on your collateral.

Case DAI**:

By taking a look at Table2 above, the lowest annual rate you can borrow DAI is 8% on NEXO* and the highest annual rate you can lend DAI is 11.48% on DYDX. So you can lend DAI at a higher rate than borrowing it. The difference in rates is 3.48%. So let’s say on Table3, you take a £10k year loan in DAI on NEXO and lend these DAI on DYDX for the same period of time, after a year you will have to reimburse your loan on NEXO with interests £10'800 (£10'000*8% +£10'000) and you will get £11'148(£10'000*11.48% +£10'000) if the counter-party hasn’t defaulted on your loan. So in total you will have made £348 which is 3.48% of your loan.

This is not 100% free risk as the counter-party could default on your loan, and you take the exposition risk of your collateral.

*On Nexo, you can deposit the following crypto assets: BTC, ETH, XRP, LTC, XLM, stablecoins, NEXO and BNB as collateral. Support for other major altcoins is coming later in 2019.

Case USDC**:

As for USDC, the lowest annual rate you can borrow is 8% on NEXO and the highest annual rate you can lend is 9.25% on Celsius (Table2). So you can lend USDC at a higher rate than borrowing it. The difference in rates is 1.25%. So let’s say on Table3, you take a £10k year loan in USDC on NEXO and lend these USDC on Celsius for the same period of time, after a year you will have to reimburse your loan on NEXO with interests £10'800 (£10'000*8% +£10'000) and you will get £10'925(£10'000*9.25% +£10'000) if the counter-party hasn’t defaulted on your loan. So in total you will have made £125 which is 1.25% of your loan.

* IMPORTANT: The borrowing rates may be different from what is shown as more and more lending platforms are adapting their rates on the size/amount of the loan. Due diligence is necessary.

Trinito shows how you can apply the arbitrage in practice .

EXAMPLE Accounting

Compute the interest you earned and paid on your different lending platforms
These Anti-election Tactics Could Save Your Sales
By: Geraint Clarke
Tags: Work, Sales, Politics, Business, Marketing

These Anti-election Tactics Could Save Your Sales

3 practical ways to correctly leverage election uncertainty

Photo by visuals on Unsplash

There’s a simple rule for business. That is “don’t mention politics or religion if you don’t want to alienate half of your customer base”.

Those subjects are nuanced, subjective and open to misinterpretation. You’ll never satiate everyone’s expectations.

How then, do you stay topical in your marketing without mentioning the biggest topic of the year; the 2020 US election?

Now you may be forgiven for believing that COVID-19 is the biggest story of the year, but US politics said ‘Nah’ and stole that trophy too. Turning protections, closures, stimulus and health into a war of two sides. Left vs right.

As a marketer, you need a lifeline. Ways to stand-up and stand-out, without losing sales from one or both of those two parties. Cue the music…
How Gastrointestinal Symptoms Affect Covid-19 Outcomes, Meta-analyses Find
By: Shin Jie Yong
Tags: Health, Ideas, Life, Covid 19, Advice

The CDC acknowledges gastrointestinal symptoms as part of Covid-19. The question is: Does the appearance of gastrointestinal symptoms means a bad disease outcome?

What Meta-analyses Say

Chinese researchers at the Department of Gastroenterology at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University systematically searched the PubMed database and identified 21 studies for analysis. The pooled sample stands at 3024 Covid-19 patients, of which:

9.1% had diarrhoea (based on 19 studies).

5.2% had nausea and vomiting (based on 14 studies).

3.5% had abdominal pain (based on 4 studies).

Importantly, the prevalence of these symptoms did not differ significantly between mild and severe cases, or between survived and deceased cases of Covid-19. This study implies that gastrointestinal symptoms are not a typical trait of severe Covid-19.

An earlier meta-analysis asking the same question arrived at a similar conclusion. Harmonizing data from 10 studies, the authors found that nausea, vomiting, or diarrhoea was not related to disease severity. But abdominal pain was associated with severe Covid-19, though this result is based on only three studies with near-missed statistical significance (p = 0.45).

A third and most extensive meta-analysis — by eight professors and four medical doctors from China, UK, and Hong Kong — provides conclusive insights on this matter. Their paper — published in the distinguished Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal — analyzed 6686 Covid-19 patients from 35 studies, of which:

9% had diarrhoea (based on 26 studies).

7% had nausea and vomiting (based on 18 studies).

21% had appetite loss (based on 8 studies).

3% had abdominal pain (based on 6 studies).

“Patients with severe disease were more likely to have gastrointestinal symptoms compared with those with non-severe disease” they found. “More specifically, a higher risk of having abdominal pain (OR 7.10) was observed in patients with severe disease than in those with non-severe disease.” An odds ratio (OR) of 7.10 means 7.1 times increased odds of an event. Whereas the loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, or diarrhoea had nothing to do with Covid-19 severity in this meta-analysis.
MerzFiles. Stop!
By: Vlad Alex, Merzmensch
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Art, Culture, Merzfiles, Newsletter

One thing is true: There are too many newsletters. So don’t fill your mailbox with another one.

Don’t subscribe MerzFiles, and the following will be spared you:

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All articles on Art, Science, AI, Society, Videogames and more

and more All Articles on Merzazine with Friend-Links (it means: in case you have a basic Medium account, you will spare your “3 articles per month” for other writers)

(it means: in case you have a basic Medium account, you will spare your “3 articles per month” for other writers) Exclusive ideas and thoughts , not written in Merzazine (yet): possibility to follow the development of conceptions

, not written in Merzazine (yet): possibility to follow the development of conceptions Hidden Tweets and hidden gems I found in the WWWasteland

I found in the WWWasteland another hidden items like interaction with AI for you

etc.

Just don’t click on this link below, which could bring you to the Newsletter MerzFiles.
Lose a Lot of Weight During the Pandemic (and Stop Making Excuses)
By: Keith Dias
Tags: Fitness, Health, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Pop Culture

Lose a Lot of Weight During the Pandemic (and Stop Making Excuses)

A lesson in Sci-Fi thinking for these strange times

Photo by Stefan Cosma on Unsplash

Can you lose weight in a Pandemic?

My friend Nina has always been a little on the heavier side, but her health has been declining steadily since the start of the Pandemic, and so has her attitude towards it.

“When things get back to normal, I’ll lose the extra weight.”

Like many people, she has been working from home since March, and this has resulted in a much more sedentary lifestyle. Nina spends most of the day in her home office.

To make matters more difficult, Nina lives with her mom, who has cancer. She’s terrified about bringing home the virus, so she hasn’t been going to the gym.

For Nina, and for many others like her, weight gain has become another unfortunate side effect of this shared Pandemic experience.

Obesity is associated with the leading causes of death worldwide, but Nina feels weight gain is unavoidable under these crazy COVID-19 circumstances.

She’s wrong, by the way.
To fulfill my Soul…
By: Alexandra I.
Tags: Self-awareness, Spirituality, Life, Poetry, Art

If beauty will save the World, as once Fyodor Dostoevsky said, than poetry definitely will save our hearts.

Do you like my little poem? Does poetry live in your heart? Will be grateful for your feedback!

And below are my articles that I hope you may find interesting. One is about why we need relationships and another is about how The Love changed my life:
How to Find Time to Write 3–5 Articles a Week Even While Working a Full-time Job
By: Audrey Malone
Tags: Time Management, Business, Writing, Self Improvement, Writing Tips

Why Write 3–5 Stories a Week

If you want to be a top writer on Medium, you’ll need to put in the work, which includes contributing well-written stories high in both quality and quantity.

Think about it. It’s just like anything else where consistency and commitment pays off. The more quality stories you write, the more people will want to read what you have to offer.

Another reason is the more active you are on the platform, the more likely the Medium algorithm will pick up your stories to show up in the feeds and recommendations.

Also, the more you write and contribute positively to the platform with value-added content, the more positivity will come back to you. What you put in is what you can expect to get out of this.

You should also be encouraged to read more on the platform, just as much as you write, as that is also a way to get noticed and reap the benefits of networking with your fellow writers.

Writing and publishing 3–5 stories a week can help you reach your goals as a Medium writer.
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By: Yuan Ko
Tags: 獎學金, AI, Scholarship, 鴻海, Review

Mess up

We are nobody and we always mess up.
Circular Reasoning
By: Ilexa Yardley
Tags: Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Venture Capital, Virtual Reality, Data Science

X and X cannot not be X and Y.

Circular reasoning.

You have to use circular reasoning if you want to get to the truth, and we do this all the time (X is X).

Complementarity is the basis for identity because duplicity is the basis for a unit.

X and X cannot not be X and Y (pi is the mediating observer) (for all observers) (the only observer).
Building Basic React Authentication
By: Denny Scott
Tags: JavaScript, React, Programming, Web Development, Front End Development

Wait, What Did We Do So Far?

Before we move on, let’s make sure we have a fundamental understanding of SPAs and react-router. If you’ve worked with routers and SPAs before, you’re welcome to skip over this part!

Create-React-App is a fantastic project that handles a lot of the heavy work for creating a new React application. Behind the scenes, there are a lot of different pieces that need to be put together, particularly with module bundling. That topic is one for a different day, but for our sake, it allows us to just focus on the app itself, without having to worry about configuration.

Now, there are several different ways we can present web pages to users. Traditionally, web pages were served to users from a web server. The user would go to a URL like http://www.dennyssweetwebsite.com/hello the server hosting my web site would get the request, find out the page they were looking for (in this case, hello ) and return the user hello.html , which was an HTML file residing on the server.

As the web grew more complex, these calls would resolve to a server application, running on something like PHP which would generate the HTML page for the user and return that data. The critical piece to note here is that the URL specified by the user was directly related to a route on a web server. So, generating and returning that content was an actual address to the web.

On the other hand, Create React App scaffolds a client-side Single Page Application (or SPA). Single Page Applications are web apps that reside entirely on the user’s browser. When a user makes a request for www.dennyssweetwebsite.com they are instead handed my entire application. From there, we don't actually even need URLs. What the user can view can directly be handled by the state, without ever changing the URL.

The problem is that browsers and users are still highly dependent on the URL. Browsers allow you to move back and forth in history, bookmark specific pages, etc. Users may bookmark particular pages and want to jump directly there. They even may memorize URL’s. Also, in all fairness, URLs are an excellent way to separate our content, especially when it comes to things like route-based lazy loading. For that matter, many Single page applications still use a routing system to split their content. All this does is read the given URL, and instead of passing that change to a server, it will instead display a component for a given URL. Rendering a component based on the route is precisely what we did in App.js above.

OK, the history lesson is over, lets jump into building some private routes.
The Storyteller’s Guide to the Virtual Reality Audience
By: Vr Ar Media Experiments
Tags: Storytelling, Audience Experience, Virtual Reality, Media, Insights

4. 360° is less than 180°

The more there is to see, the less the audience remembers.

In our third test, audiences with a 90° range of vision could recall nearly every event in the story, whether the information was physically in the room or relayed through the audio. However, audiences in the 360° view recalled fewer details of the story and the environment. For example, in the 90°scene, all of the participants in the debriefing referred to Taro by name. In the 180° scene, Taro was sometimes referred to by name, but was more often given descriptors like “young man.” By the 360° scene, few remembered Taro’s name, instead they referred to him offhandedly as “the kid at the computer.”

Much of the story information, including character names, was delivered through the audio. The fact that participants in the 360° scene couldn’t remember Taro’s name (among other story details), suggests that they were focusing less on the audio in 360° than in the 180° or 90° scenes. Perhaps there was too much information in 360° for the audience to process. When telling a story in 360°, we need to consider how to combine audio and visual elements without overloading the audience.

…but

5. 360° is more than full circle

The more complete the environment, the more it resonates.

Audiences in the 360° scene were more aware of the tone of the piece, which they attributed to the pacing and shifts in the lighting. They were so attuned to the tone that when asked who was in control of the story, they described the storyteller as the mise-en-scene itself, or used some abstraction, like the storyteller was the “rhythm” of the scene.

Audiences in the 360° scene were also more attuned with Taro’s feelings. They could clearly and unequivocally identify that Taro was feeling “lonely,” and sometimes felt that Taro’s feelings were reflected in the mise-en-scene itself. Whereas those in the 90° and 180° scenes really struggled to characterize Taro, claiming that they did not have enough information to draw conclusions about him.

There’s something interesting happening here. It may be that when you feel present in an experience, you are more likely to rely on abstractions and pick up on feelings, and when you are in “detective mode” you are more likely to pick up on story details, but have difficulty accessing feelings. Perhaps being present and retaining story details are fundamentally at odds.
How do you transform values into EB actions in the Tech world?
By: Ania Kalisiak
Tags: People, Values, Recruiting, HR, Employer Branding

Now, there is a big question — how do we display these beliefs as actual actions? We have to remember that, in the end, EB’s goal is to attract great people to join us. We gathered to think about how we actually understand these quotes and to come up with a way to implement the ideas they convey. We thought that the best way to do that was by creating #PeopleofDocplanner, which encompasses our passions, everyday lives, and challenges.

Second station — For us mission is possible.

At the beginning of our workshops, we wanted to figure out a short sentence which will be the opening line that sets the tone of our whole statement. Last time around, we focused on “Do what you love”, because passion is very important in Docplanner. But this time we went a different way.

Thinking of our “mission”, one of the first things that came to my mind was the Mission Impossible franchise. In my mind, what happens in these movies closely aligns with our values: our mission is very important and nothing can stop us. That’s how the tagline “mission is possible” came to be.

We make healthcare experience more human. We follow this mission and prove every day that achieving it is indeed possible. It’s real and we are really committed to it, because it’s unique. We have and need more fighters who feel the same way and will do anything to make it happen. Healthcare is a part of our lives and making it better, in the long run, is a huge undertaking. We try to make our product better every day by creating new features and solutions.

Lately, we delivered video consultations, which are available to every one of our doctor’s and to every one of their patients. We simply had to show it in our social media, because we are extremely proud of what we are creating. First, we announced what happened and then we summarized it to show it to everyone — both as recognition to our teammates and to show our accomplishment to the world!

On our fan pages, you can also find many success stories of our people — some of them have worked with us for a few years now. Why? Adam can answer that question.
Facebook is shutting down Moments on Feb 25, here’s how you can save all your photos
By: Jaymine Shah
Tags: Facebook, Social Media, iOS, Facebook Marketing, Moments

Facebook is shutting down Moments on Feb 25, here’s how you can save all your photos

Facebook Moments, the standalone mobile app designed which let users privately share their photos and videos, is shutting down next month on Feb 25. Talking about Facebook is shutting down Moments on Feb 25, here’s how you can save all your photos, Facebook confirmed the app’s services will end February 25. Facebook decided to end support for the app, which hasn’t been updated in some time because many people weren’t using it.

Moments users will see a message warning them of the imminent end of the app. Below message is an option to export photos and videos. There are two export options for Moments users, which user can access the website version of the Moments app. The user can create a private album on their Facebook account; the other option is to download everything to their preferred device.

Users can able to start the export from any device. If the user creates private Facebook albums, they’ll see a link next to each moment below which is ready to view as an album on Facebook.

For users who opt to download their all file, they’ll need to enter their Facebook password when prompted. The files available will be shown along with the file size and users will be able to select the quality of the file — high, medium or low. Then The Moments app will email a link and notify the user on Facebook once it’s ready to be downloaded.

We Believe Moments, which was first launched in 2015, has seen some competition from other Facebook products in recent times, which might have led to its demise. For Example, Facebook built out its new Stories feature, which has a direct sharing option. This option, which is designed for one-offs and not whole albums, did allow users to skip the Moments app entirely in order to privately send or share photos with a select friend or group of friends.

Talking about Facebook is shutting down Moments on Feb 25, here’s how you can save all your photos, Facebook communicate that they will continue to incorporate options for saving memories within the Facebook app, as well. For Example, as the Stories feature grows in popularity, the company is working on more efficient ways for people to save their photos and videos they shared through Stories. Some of these recently launched features include Save Photos, highlights and Stories Archive on Facebook.

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I Set a Timer for 11-Minutes to Prove that Fast Writing is Good Writing
By: David Majister
Tags: This Happened To Me, Inspiration, Writing, Writing Tips, Art

I Set a Timer for 11-Minutes to Prove that Fast Writing is Good Writing

Then I wrote a full article during that time.

Being tired after a long day at work is not an ideal writing condition.

However, I believe in fast writing. So I decided to see what happens when I set a timer and write for 11 minutes. This article is the result of that experiment.

As full disclosure, I stopped the timer after nine-minutes because I already had 480 words written and a complete article. I then edited the article for the next 14 minutes.

How I learned to write fast

I won my first big assignment from my first major freelancing writing client. The brief? Ten thousand words in a week. I’d been asked to write a short ebook, and the seven-day deadline felt impossible.

A couple of years prior, I spent 10 months writing 18,000 words during my post-graduate degree. That’s 420 words per week. (I just wrote more than that in nine minutes!).

Writing 10,000 words in a week meant I was asked to write 24 times faster than what I’d done before. Who gets 24 times better at any skill? And in only a week?

Writing 10,000 words in just one week seemed like an impossible task

I got up early on the first day. I slipped on my clothes and sat in front of my laptop. I needed to write 2,000 words. Then I’d be done for the day. I planned to research as I wrote.

I started writing. I wasn’t trying to write fast. I got words onto the page as they came into my mind. Then, a small miracle happened.

I was done with my word count for day one within 90 minutes

I started my working day at 7:30 am and finished at 9:00 am.“How is this even possible?” I thought. I let myself have the rest of the day off, to celebrate how simple it had been to write those 2,000 words. And I easily finished the 10,000-word ebook in a week.

Of course, now I know about writers who go upwards of 45,000 words in a week, but back then, 10,000 words in seven days seemed impossibly fast.

Miracles happen when you’re willing to chase them. I wanted to be a writer, and here I was, being paid to write. What’s more, I finished more work than I set out to finish.

Writing is a miracle

When you write fast, your thoughts come alive, you follow the spark. It’s a journey of discovery for you as the writer. Readers sense your excitement in what you create. Your fingers dance on the keyboard, and magic happens.

Try it, set a timer for 11-minutes, and write!
Better Marketing Weekend Reads
By: Brittany Jezouit
Tags: Marketing, Newsletter, Business

Better Marketing Weekend Reads

Clever analogies about rainforests and junk food, tips for how (if?) to Fleet a Tweet, Gen-Z marketing advice, and more.

Photo by Wilhelm Gunkel on Unsplash

Thanks to everyone who completed the audience survey in the last newsletter! We’re listening to your feedback, and we’ve got some new things in the works.

This issue of the newsletter has a list of article highlights — from practical advice to inspirational ideas — as well as a list of some of our most-read articles. (By the way, we’re not including articles about writing and/or making money on Medium in these lists—but you can find lots of resources for that in this guide).
[好書選讀]Site Reliability Engineering — Simplicity
By: Sean Hs
Tags: Reliability, Google, Web Development, DevOps, Sre

How to use the two-way binding in Knout.js and ReactJS?

Components built by different frameworks must have the same action in one website. What we have to realize is how to…
CITRIS E.D. Camille Crittenden named Chair of California Blockchain Working Group
By: Citris Policy Lab
Tags: Blockchain, Society, California, Policy, Technology

Blockchain technology has opened up a range of possibilities for secure, immutable transactions of all kinds. It promises a safer data transfer system, yet its promises and limitations have yet to be fully explored. Human errors, transaction costs, and security attacks must also be evaluated before when integrating blockchain into our vital governmental and economic systems.

In response to growing interest in this technology, Assembly Bill 2658 called for the establishment of a statewide Blockchain Working Group to evaluate the risks, benefits, best practices, and legal implications of blockchain for the people of California. California Government Operations Agency Secretary Marybel Batjer has named CITRIS Executive Director Camille Crittenden chair of the Blockchain Working Group.

“Distributed ledger systems hold promising opportunities not only for cryptocurrency but for areas of social impact — such as documenting land and property, ensuring chain of custody for legal evidence and supply chains, and giving consumers greater control over their financial and health data — applications in utilities like energy and water, and more,” said Crittenden.

Crittenden will lead a group of 20 experts with technology, business, government, and legal expertise to evaluate privacy risks, benefits, legal implications, and best practices for integrating blockchain into government and business. Her team’s ultimate goal will be to gather input from a broad range of blockchain-affected stakeholders and present this information and recommendations in a report to the California Legislature.

Crittenden’s leadership experience uniquely prepares her for this position. After earning her Ph.D. from Duke University, she served as executive director of the Human Rights Center at Berkeley Law, as Assistant Dean for Development with International and Area Studies at UC Berkeley, and co-founded the CITRIS Policy Lab and the Women in Technology Initiative at the University of California. Along with her role as executive director at CITRIS and the Banatao Institute, Crittenden brings to this position a deep understanding of technology’s applications for civic engagement, government transparency and accountability, and the digital divide.

“I am honored to lead this important working group on possible blockchain applications for the state of California,” said Crittenden.

The group will hold a kick-off meeting next month to outline the key components that will make up the final report and recommendations. A report will be delivered to the legislature by July 1, 2020.
Your Data Safe Weekly Update
By: Your Data Safe
Tags: ICO, Startup, Twitter, Crypto, Data

It’s been one of those weeks. We started our private sale.

We are working really hard behind the scenes and we are well ahead of schedule for the launch of the YDS Academy.

We have hit some big numbers on Twitter, 168,000 impressions from the last 9 days in August, 5,120 profile views from 15 tweets.

We have also been listed on a number of websites:

ICOBench

Coinschedule

ICOMarks

ICOAlert

TopICOList

ICOBazaar

ICOTrack

CryptoNext

To name a few of course…

Keep an eye out! We have a lot of things coming! It’s exciting times.

For more information on our private sale: www.YourDataSafe.io
Should a Good Girl Still Want Sex?
By: Zita Fontaine
Tags: Relationships, Mental Health, Feminism, Sex, Abuse

I was called fat, and I was called ugly. I can lose weight, get fit, wear nicer clothes, change my style, colour my hair, learn to do better make-up, hell I can go to plastic surgery and change me completely. Not to please him, but I have been getting fitter and dressing better, after I was allowed to. He didn’t like me dressing up, he was way too jealous. And he would have liked me even fatter, as that meant to him that no one else will want me.

I was called stupid and obnoxious. I could change the way I speak, I could get smarter (jeez that wouldn’t be too good, I am already smarter than most of the men I know. I should tone it down rather.) I can convince myself that he was the one who was stupid and obnoxious.

But he called me a slut. And it’s difficult to let go.

Up to this very moment female sexual liberation is very much in its infancy. We are getting better at destigmatizing sexuality, but the harsh reality is that the classic double standards still linger: While men are praised for having sex with a lot of people, women are shamed for it. That’s wrong on so many levels, but in principle, it means that no matter how far we have come, we still have an even longer way to go before an attitude of sexual acceptance and celebration truly becomes the norm.

The worst is the case for the number of sexual partners, but women are judged and stigmatized for being sexually open, for being eager or horny, for wanting sex without a relationship.

In my case, I was judged for even wanting sex within our relationship, as it was a clear indication that I wouldn’t be able to keep my panties on.

Being a good girl became an insult. It was thrown at me at random moments, tweaking my sentences, taking my words out of context.

He expected me to be the Virgin Mary and the most experienced hooker at once.

His favourite sentence was that guys want a good girl who is only bad to them. While girls want a bad guy who is only good to them.

He always said that I should have married my first boyfriend — as that’s what good girls do.

I internalised his abuse, I believed that I was a slut. I apologised for it, I told him I was ashamed and I regretted it. I couldn’t help it, I couldn’t go back and unsleep with my boyfriends in my twenties. I couldn’t undo my past.
How to Make Sure Your Website Doesn’t Suck After Google’s Core Vitals Update
By: Stuart Costen
Tags: Google, SEO, Web Development, Programming, Search

How to Make Sure Your Website Doesn’t Suck After Google’s Core Vitals Update

Stop what you’re doing, open Chrome, and navigate to the Lighthouse tool — you’re going to need it

Photo by Mitchell Luo on Unsplash.

Google announced back in May 2020 that “core vitals” would soon be a search ranking signal. This means that websites with good core vitals have the potential to rank above those that don’t.

If you manage a website and are SEO-aware, then I’m sure you have spent an incredible amount of time trying to appease our search engine overlords — be it from keyword analysis and backlinks to sitemaps and rich snippets. The techniques used to improve your position in Google SERPs (Search Engine Results Pages) are ever-changing, and you’ll be pleased to know you’ll now need to learn three more.

Let’s introduce them:

Largest Contentful Paint (LCP): This is how long it takes the page to load. It is when the main content of the page has finished rendering in the viewport (the area the user can see).

First Input Delay (FID): This is the length in time from the moment the user first interacts with an element for it to respond.

Cumulative Layout Shift (CLS): This is the measurement of elements that move as the page loads. A good example is when a page has loaded, and just as you go to click something, it moves.

So what gives me the right to write this?

I am a web developer of 12+ years and have implemented a lot of SEO advice over the years. I recently went on a mission to get the perfect Lighthouse score and came pretty close, but several things kept hitting me in the face — and it’s these little nuggets of information that I want to share with you. I’ve kept it as high level as possible, as there are plenty of ways to solve an issue and I don’t want to silo my advice to one technology.

Note: The technical implementation of some of these points may require you to rethink the way your whole website works.

Let’s look at the typical places that our website will be failing us when Google Core Vitals (GCV) come into play.
You’ve Got a Drinking Problem — Here’s Why
By: Marcelino Granda
Tags: Addiction, Prevention, Health, Thoughts, Alcohol

What does a problem look like?

The sad truth is that once you develop a tolerance, you can consider yourself a pre-alcoholic — you’re in stage one of a spiral that could terribly derail your life.

That doesn’t sound that bad, we sometimes even get compliments for our ability to drink larger quantities of whatever alcohol we like. Our actions have consequences though, so let’s talk about our occasional binge, where amazing stories (and headaches) start.

What does a blackout actually mean? I’m not going to throw an arbitrary definition at you, just google it— better use Pubmed. When we blackout drinking, we intoxicate ourselves so much, that our bodies begin shutting down vital functions. We can’t articulate, can barely walk, and lastly, our brains give up on us.

Short term memory loss happened. Honestly, name one other situation where this has happened? Have you ever done anything in life that resulted in such a catastrophic event? I’m not innocent either — even after graduating in a healthcare-related field, I didn’t come to this conclusion. Blacking out is just part of drinking culture — isn’t it?

Human nature can be narrowed down to two principles. Avoid pain and do funny stuff. Drinking alcohol seems funny to us, honestly, we even look better (through the widening of our blood vessels). The truth is that drugs merely mimic the second principle — it is not funny stuff, it is just poison.

I’m not judging you, I actually want to encourage a healthy relationship with this age-old substance. So hear me out, have you ever been planning on how much you want to drink? Congratulations — your body is trying to tell you something. It’s blatantly yelling to you one thing: “This is dangerous, you need more control!”