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Mission and Values within the Cryptosphere
By: Kacper Wikieł
Tags: Blockchain

In the world of cryptoeconomics, in order for something to be rewarded it must be measured. Some things are easy to measure; for example, just by looking at the string “dog5356356” and its SHA256 hash, 0000390f327fefc900... , one can clearly see that around 216 SHA256 computations were done to produce it. Other computational results that cannot be verified so quickly can be easily measured competitively using challenge-response protocols, where different parties are incentivized to find errors in each other's proofs. Results to mathematical problems are also usually easy to computationally verify. Other things, however, cannot be verified just by looking them; in that case, in both the real world and the cryptographic world, there is only one solution: social proof.

Fixing investment

The problem: cryptoverse is uncharted space, opportunity for wealth creation is large, but how one can create protocols / foundations for wealth creation attribution?

Open source investment

Open source development is similar to academia: it’s mostly curiosity driven, where people are using previous generation efforts (UNIX philosophy ) in order to create iterated better version of software. Your linux deskop has annoying bug? Now you can fix it yourself if you have some spare time and share your solutions with others.

Decentralized contribution meterics

Another, related, problem to the problem of decentralized contribution metrics is the problem of decentralized success metrics. On the macroscopic scale, how do we know if, and to what extent, an organization has succeeded in accomplishing its objectives? In the case of something like Bitcoin, there is a simple, but imperfect, answer: success can be measured by the hashpower of the network.

Bitcoin technical singularity

This setup is reasonably effective, but is flawed in two ways: first, hashpower is an imperfect proxy for price, because the development or nondevelopment of ASICs may skew the results, and second, price is an imperfect proxy for success, because the currency may have greater success as something with a lower market capitalization if it is more used in other ways. In the case of a DAO funding healthcare or anti-climate-change efforts, however, no such heuristic exists at all. Once again, some concept of social proof is the only option.
Thanksgiving
By: Mike Essig
Tags: Poetry, Gratitude, Living With Purpose, Thanksgiving, Art

Gratitude is Magick,

a spell cast against

despair and doom.

It makes whatever

you have enough.

Miracles abound

in even the

least of lives.

Cherish the time

that is given you;

it will run out

before you know it.

Be thankful to sit

and laugh among

those you love.

It might be otherwise.

Know that each

breath is a gift.

Welcome the

uncertain future.

Time destroys

all that lives.

Material things

decay and fall away.

Spirit is life.

Open your heart

to what remains.

Take what you have

and make something new.

Do not fear death;

it is only the

beginning of wonder.

Live like today

is the last day.

Practice resurrection.
Reign, Queen Sugar
By: Jeri Hilt
Tags: Feminism, Black Women, Sex Work, Slay, Photography

*Reign is dedicated to Sonia Sanchez, and the tradition of transformative art. The short film is also offered as ground-level narrative restoration for those who are engaged in sex work, in partnership with the Black Sex Workers Visibility Project.

Creativity is for all but it is not free. It comes with a cost. Please consider giving a donation to support the continued efforts of Atchafalaya Fox Films and the Black Sex Workers Visibility Project. Every bit helps.
Trump, Evangelicalism, and White Jesus
By: Michelle Wuesthoff
Tags: Trump, Trumpism, Jesus, Religion

Tearing Down White Jesus

Warner Sallman, Head of Christ, 1940

Dear Trumpian Christians, there are gaping holes in your theology. Spiritual freedom and American liberty are not remotely similar. The type of freedom spoken about in the Bible far supersedes our Constitutional rights, and nothing Jesus ever said suggests that you should fight to preserve your way of life, even when your faith and values are threatened. Jesus lived and died under Roman occupation without ever challenging the ruling government to return to Hebrew Law and its values; He spent His life teaching people how to love God and others in the midst of extreme oppression.

Jesus was always, consistently focused on the poor, the sick, the marginalized, and the spiritually oppressed. He openly chastised the religious leaders for their hypocrisy and using adherence to the Law to measure whether someone was faithful or loveable. Yet here you are, lifting up those same types of leaders.

God indeed gave you the leader you asked for, but Donald J. Trump was never “God’s candidate.” He was your candidate. Like the portrayal of White Jesus, you have painted what is right and good by what looks most like you. And sadly, he does look like you. Trump is a reflection of American, celebrity-worshiping Evangelicalism at its worst.

Many of you are outraged by tearing down statues of Confederate generals, claiming it’s an attempt to erase history. As an artist, I’m not keen on destroying works of art either—statues and paintings included—but we don’t need to celebrate them and give them a place of honor when the subjects are not honorable. Tearing down White Jesus doesn’t mean destroying paintings that capture a time in history, it means dismantling the systems of entitlement, bigotry, and oppression that have kept our brothers and sisters from knowing the real Jesus.

If we want to course-correct where this train is headed, we need to know where it came from and how it got off track. That’s not easy to do—it takes guts, perseverance, and a passion for the truth, as one nation, under God, with liberty, and justice for all.

As Americans, it seems that should be right up our alley.
Nasi Mandhi Ayam, Hidangan Nasi Rempah khas Timur Tengah
Tags: Ramadan, Food, Recipe, Middle East, Kulinapedia

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A Trip To The Past
By: Andy Tillo
Tags: Montana, USA, T13

Mom brought up a handful of photos over Thanksgiving because I referenced the shot we took when at Disneyland last week, and she said she had a shot of me pulling the sword from the stone back in 1986 too. That one is here, along with a handful of other shots ranging from 1986–1993ish. It’s funny that it’s been almost 20 years with some of these, but good to have a copy of them digitally now, eh?

Check out the patches on Luke’s jeans. Nice work Mom!

Great Gramma Cross, Gramma Millie, Luke and Andy in a sweet patterned frame.

Gabbert Family circa 1958ish?

1992 Helena America All-Stars. I think this is the year we took 2nd at State maybe?

Me and Laura-Jean ready ourselves to brave Kindergarten!

Oh Lord, check out that hair I had! I’ll certainly be teased about this by my kids — feel free to take a jab or 2 yourself about them. (Andy and Ike 1992.)

Yea, our faces are really red there, eh? Scanner took a bad shot of it.

San Diego Zoo 1986

Universal studios 1986

Teacups 1986 a la 2010 with my girls.

Universal Studios again 1986

Pull the sword out in 1986 (How about a shot in 1999, or how about 2010?

Fishing with Luke, 1983. Not sure where this was taken, nor who’s dog that was cause Mom didn’t know, but…
You Free Me
By: Steve Frank
Tags: Relationships, Love, Doubt, Self, Poetry

Photo by Zoltan Tasi on Unsplash

You free me.

Free me to be myself.

For on my own,

ㅤ I am uncertain.

With another,

ㅤ I am uncertain.

But with you,

ㅤ I am able to be…

Me

Though I am less than I could be…

Though I am less than I think I should be…

You…

You free me.

Free me to be myself.

My true self.

The self I am meant to be.

The self I…

Am

You free me.

Though I doubt,

ㅤ though I deny,

You insist.

Though I wrestle,

ㅤ though I run,

You persist.

You remind me…

Who

Who I am.

And in the reminding,

ㅤ you encourage me.

In the insisting,

ㅤ you direct me.

In the persisting,

ㅤ you free me.

Free me from myself.

Free me to be me.

Enable me to be,

ㅤ to become,

The one true me.

Yes,

ㅤ as we wrestle,

You free me.
Redacted
By: Tre L. Loadholt
Tags: A Cornered Gurl, Revolution, Audio, Poetry, Racism

Redacted

An Experiment

An Audio Poem

They tell me, erasing one’s

bloodline is not something

they can do, however, I’m

censored and erased without permission

and I wonder,

“Is it what I’m saying or how

I’m saying it?”

And I sit and watch the people

of the world gather amongst

themselves to finally show us

their vocal sides of life.

I guess being silent came

at a heavy price and not everyone

can carry a cross.

Not everyone’s built for burdens

thrown upon their shoulders at

a moment’s notice.

I’ve found my cross to bear is mine

and mine alone — I carry it knowing

this life is not my last.

Many are learning about Tulsa, Rosewood,

Atlanta, and Wilmington

and they think they know the struggles

of a people who have done nothing but

fight for basic rights to

claim the fight from us.

Yes, we need your voices.

We need you to understand that

this — this being black and fighting

is a thing that has been a thing and

now with new eyes placed upon

fresh faces, millions see what should

have been seen centuries ago.

Removed from history books, our stories

were buried in places where cobwebs

hide and tethered papers have been

forbidden to see the light of day.

You tear down a few statues, remove

racist blips from comedic performances,

change the names of products drenched in hate,

and feel as though this should . . .

Shut. Us. Up.

Oh, ye’ of little faith, we are only

growing stronger and the fight that

will come after this will be one

spoken about years beyond the depth

and breadth of the color of one’s skin.

Now, redact that.
Václav Havel today
By: Roberto Reale
Tags: Democracy, European Union, Politics, Europe, Czech Republic

Václav Havel was not only a hero of democracy, the prime mover behind the Velvet Revolution and the true father of the Czech Republic.

He was at the same time one of the most influential world-class intellectuals of the last century and a quintessential Czech. His wonderful mocking of all the bureaucracy jargons, newspeaks and governmental gibberishes of world stands unmatched to this day.

As a writer, as an opinion-leader as well as a politician, he anticipated many of the most pressing issues of our age: anti-consumerism, humanitarianism, environmentalism, civil activism, and direct democracy.

He was, as the European Parliament aptly put it, an advocate of an undivided Europe.

He would have turned 84 today. Všechno nejlepší, pane Prezidente.
Seeking: Models With a Dead-Eyed Stare
By: Pixel Magazine
Tags: Los Angeles, Advertising, Art, Photography

Seeking: Models With a Dead-Eyed Stare

How their distinctive expressions inspired photographers to match up a supremely odd couple for a shoot

by Neil Kremer

“Tim and Amy” is a personal favorite of both mine and Cory’s. We worked with both actors on separate shoots. We noticed they had a similar dead-pan expression and thought they would make a great couple.

Editor’s note: Photographers — interested in sharing one of your images in a format like this? We’re excited about celebrating and deconstructing single images to get inside the mind and process of their creators. Get in touch at emily@polarr.co.
Love
By: Christina Sng
Tags: Cats, Poetry, Motherhood, Love

Poetry

Love

A Poem by Christina Sng

“You and I”, a pastel painting by the poet.

Even on these last days,

When the sky has turned

Jaundiced and the air is

Thick with poisoned smog,

I feel nothing but gratitude

For the years I have spent

With you, always full of love

And joy and warm comfort.

Humans love to say that

Animals don’t have feelings

And that justifies it when

They decide to treat us cruelly.

But we all know that is not true.

We feel as deeply as they do.

We love, hate, and forgive,

Sometimes more readily.

And as we sit here, watching

The sun set, waiting for the end,

I realize I no longer care about

The battles I cannot control.

Instead, I choose to cherish

These last moments I have

With you, feeling love

Fill my heart till it overflows.

Thank you, Momma,

For bringing me into this world

And spending this brief life

With me, your little girl,

Teaching me how to live

A life full of love, not hate,

For despite how short it has been,

I do not have one single regret.

~~~

Originally published in the Ladies of Horror Flash Project.
Little Jug of Horrors
By: Background Noise Comics
Tags: Humor, Food, Comics, Sourdough, Quarantine

Written by

Daily comic by Lisa Burdige and John Hazard about balancing life, love and kids in the gig economy.
Camera Surveillance System Woes
By: Rob Leon
Tags: Security Camera, Security Services, Small Business, Tech, Surveillance

A while back I was asked to help a client with their camera surveillance system.

The had over 200 cameras across multiple locations.

Not knowing too much about the subject I went and met with the system vendor.

They explained to me how their system worked and all the various features and functionality available.

From there I was able to help the client fix their surveillance camera issues and get them on the right track.

I was then asked if I would help to manage and maintain their camera surveillance system going forward.

I agreed — and so began my relationship with camera surveillance systems.

Since then I’ve had the opportunity to work with other vendors and products across many environments.

One common problem I’ve seen across all camera surveillance systems is that they’re highly unmanageable.

This makes it challenging to manage surveillance systems with dozens or hundreds of cameras.

As usual the consumer market pushes ahead with simplicity and ease of use.

Companies like Nest and others are creating, small easy to manage systems.

All the while businesses continue to use what installers refer to ask Chinese crap to provide surveillance.

What’s funny is that the major players in the camera space are all China based companies.

So it would seem that installers are pushing some false sort of anti-China sentiment.

But I digress.

Any chance I get to meet with a camera installer or company I take.

I ask them all the same questions about centralized management, scalability, and design.

And they all say the same thing.

Management is tough.

To be fair, if you need 16 or less cameras in a closed system, it’s pretty easy to set up.

But when you get into dozens and hundreds of cameras the whole thing breaks down.

As I walk through stores and public places I notice cameras now.

I know the brands.

I know how they interconnect.

And I know how they work..

I know that there are people behind the scenes working to improve surveillance camera systems.

So I can only hope that they are making the improvements needed to properly manage large scale camera implementations.

So why am I rambling on so much about cameras?

Well, I’ve got a couple clients that are looking for camera solutions right now and so this topic is top of mind.

I guess what I’m trying to say is that there is no perfect solution for a camera surveillance system.

Current products will get you 70% of the way there.

And that last 30%?

Well, that will take us at least another 10 years to get to.

Okay then.

I’ll go back to work now designing and spec’ing some new camera surveillance systems.
Last chance to join Algory Project ICO
By: Tomasz Przybycien
Tags: Blockchain, Crowdsale, Cryptocurrency, Initial Coin Offering

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Why Stupid Product Ideas Matter
By: Nate Munson
Tags: Software, Software Development, Business, Agile, Product Management

I was copied on an email chain today in which one of our sales representatives and our product’s service manager were discussing a feature request. The sales rep was asking for us to provide data in our UI that would identify who the recipient was from an email submission. A fairly simple, straight-forward request.

When the service manager and I talked about the request later that day, I scoffed at the idea.

“Why would we do that?” I said with hubris, “The client gets the emails directly to their inbox — our platform isn’t the place for that information.”

After our conversation, I continued about my day, but the request followed me around like a hungry dog. Was it really that bad of an idea to include that information? I thought to myself. The more I pondered the need for that data point, the more I realized it was not as stupid of a request as I had initially thought. I started to conclude that as the product scales, and our user base grows, this would be [potentially] a valuable inclusion in our data set — and I realized in that moment that I had made a huge mistake. I had put my pride and my concept of what was “right” ahead of both the user and the stakeholder.

That seemingly stupid request is going to eventually be an included data point in our application, and that’s why it’s important to appreciate the feedback we get from our users and stakeholders.

While not all requests make sense from a product perspective, all requests do make sense — in some way — from a user perspective. Our customers subscribe to our SaaS product because of the borderline excessive detail we provide them regarding their marketing campaigns, as well as the leads generated from those campaigns. Why wouldn’t it also make sense to include in those lead details who the recipient was? Especially since that’s such a low effort item to include. As of right now, a story has been written for that data point to be include in the UI, and it’s currently scheduled for our next sprint iteration. That seemingly stupid request is going to eventually be an included data point in our application, and that’s why it’s important to appreciate the feedback we get from our users and stakeholders.

Afterwards, I had to conduct a personal retrospective to better understand why I was so hesitant at first. Outside of my ego getting in the way, a conclusion I came to — and something I determined was extremely important for our organization to address — was that another product was responsible for collecting that data point. Not only would our SaaS team have to make changes to the UI, but I was also going to have to coordinate with that other team on determining how we could expose that data in the UI. Not a huge ask or blocker by any means, but it lead to an important question:

How successful can a product be if it is defined or limited by another product?

A question I tend to revisit on a weekly basis…
China’s Exports Fell in September
By: Ivan Lapickii
Tags: China, Trade, Trade War, Infographics, Data Visualization

China and the United States reached a partial trade deal on Friday, October 11, with the US agreeing to forgo further tariff escalation in exchange for China agreeing to resume purchases of US farm products. However, even if trade terms improve between the countries, recent preliminary figures released by China’s customs office suggest Chinese exports hurt by the trade war will need time to recover to 2018 levels.

Since the beginning of 2019, China exported $312 billion to the United States, 10.7 percent less than during the same period of 2018.

China’s exports denominated in US dollars decreased 3.2 percent in September compared to the same month one year ago. Imports decreased even more, dropping 8.5 percent over the same period.

The decline of total exports was led by sluggish exports to the United States, which decreased 22 percent in September compared to the same month one year ago.
The Most Interesting Things in Media in 2019 According to 46 Innovators
By: Tesnim Zekeria
Tags: Audience, Interactive, Audio, Subscriber Spotlight, Media

The Most Interesting Things in Media in 2019 According to 46 Innovators Tesnim Zekeria Follow Jan 6 · 4 min read

Each week, we ask our Subscriber Spotlight to tell us “the most interesting thing happening in media at a company other than their own.” Over the course of 2019, we talked to 46 leading thinkers from across the industry and learned a lot along the way. Below, we’ve collected their responses by category and linked to each interview.

Let us know what you think in the comments, by email, or on Twitter. And if you haven’t already, subscribe to The Idea to get interviews like these in your inbox every Monday afternoon.

AUDIENCE

Sam Felix from The New York Times lauded Axios for its usage of newsletters to build communities around different subject lines.

Nicole Stockdale from the Dallas Morning News highlighted Project Text, a texting platform that allows readers to directly engage with participating writers.

Jessica Stahl from the Washington Post shared a piece on digital news deserts in Buffalo, New York.

Christine Roberts from Axios thought The Information’s organizational charts are a smart way to convert potential subscribers and grow audiences.

Anne Kornblut from Facebook told us about how The Dallas Morning News plans to pay its premium subscribers to contribute food and music reviews.

David Gurian-Peck from The New York Times said he’s intrigued by digital natives that are built on direct relationships.

INTERACTIVES

AUDIO

Travis Bernard from TechCrunch told us that although subscription podcasts have yet to gain a foothold in the U.S., it’s still a trend media companies should pay attention to.

Monica Racic from The New Yorker shared her love for the podcast Song Exploder.

Joshuah Bearman, co-founder of Epic, called Caliphate the best podcast of 2018.

Rachel Zarrell from Buzzfeed told us she loves the podcasts Who?Weekly and Forever 35.

Jake Bronstein from Buzzfeed told us about the nine-part podcast series, Dolly Parton’s America.

Dave Liss from Bleacher Report and Michael Sippey from Medium both mentioned Spotify’s annual Wrapped campaign.

INNOVATION

Daniel Hallac from New York Media lauded Dotdash for achieving success by staying true to its mission and charting its own course.

Juliette Laborie from The Guardian told us about Les Jours, a French media start-up that does serialized journalism.

Jenny Earnest from Outside Magazine introduced us to Low-Tech Magazine, a publication with a solar-powered website.

Cory Haik from Vice Media mentioned The Washington Post’s ad-tech stack, Zeus.

STORYTELLING

BUSINESS MODELS

NONPROFIT WORK

COMPANIES

COVERAGE

OTHER
7 Magic Phrases That Make You Instantly Likable on Video Calls
By: Michael Thompson
Tags: Relationships, Remote Working, Communication, Leadership, Self Improvement

I received the ultimate “Can I pick your brain?” email. Quarantine had just begun here in Spain, but I was already feeling burned out from everyone’s initial infatuation with Zoom.

“Is it cool if we just do an old-fashioned phone call?” I replied.

“I’d prefer video,” the man immediately shot back. “There’s something cool I’d like to show you.”

I wanted to insist, but after giving him a warning that my apartment wasn’t very big and I didn’t always get to chose when my youngest son cries, I gave in.

The next day, however, not even 5 minutes into our call, he asked to do a screen-share and tried to sell me on a product he was pushing.

Despite not being able to see my knuckles turn white, I thought for sure he’d picked up on the fact that my face was cemented in a permanent yawn.

Fortunately, I didn’t have to cut him off as shortly after he started his pitch our apartment exploded into tears and I jumped on the opening to end the call.

Much like in “real” life, during video calls, some people have said or done something that rubbed me the wrong way. But for every call that could have gone better, there have been just as many that have turned out well.

A big part of this is because someone said something that traveled straight through my ears and hit me hard in both my head and heart.

When it comes to building relationships, few exercises are more valuable than keeping track of the phrases that both light people up and those that bring people down. Then either adopting them for yourself or making a point to banish them from your vocabulary.

Since the world decided to get weird on us six months ago and video calls have become the norm, I’ve been collecting both the kind and questionable phrases people have said to me.

To kick things off below are a handful of the phrases people have said that made me instantly like them.
Deep Links, Universal Links, and the SwiftUI App Life Cycle
By: Fernando Moya De Rivas
Tags: Programming, iOS, Mobile, Swift, Swiftui

Handling Deep Links

SwiftUI 2.0 comes with a new modifier, onOpenURL . This modifier is available in any View . Whereas you could simply implement onOpenURL on any View that might need it, it’s not a good idea — you’ll most likely be repeating code to handle the deep link, that is, to determine the action to be performed for a particular link.

My proposed solution is to use App to do this handling and use the environment to propagate the link and react to that change accordingly.

@main

struct TripsCalendarApp: App {

var body: some Scene {

WindowGroup {

ContentView()

.onOpenURL {

// code here

}

}

}

}

Resolving deep links

DeepLinker ’s only purpose is to handle deep links. Now, there are two kinds of deep links that Trips Calendar is interested in:

home : to just open the app on its home screen

: to just open the app on its home screen details : to navigate to the detail view

class Deeplinker {

enum Deeplink: Equatable {

case home

case details(reference: String)

} ...

}

Now, why would we want to handle URLs to the home screen? Well, this is the screen that’s usually first presented to any user when the app starts, but what happens if the user is in any screen in your app, goes to the background, and hits a deep link? In this case, there’s no navigation forward — only backward. This is something we want to be able to handle too:

func manage(url: URL) -> Deeplink? {

guard url.scheme == URL.appScheme else { return nil }

guard url.pathComponents.contains(URL.appDetailsPath) else { return .home }

guard let query = url.query else { return nil } let components = query.split(separator: ",").flatMap { $0.split(separator: "=") }

guard let idIndex = components.firstIndex(of: Substring(URL.appReferenceQueryName)) else { return nil }

guard idIndex + 1 < components.count else { return nil }



return .details(reference: String(components[idIndex.advanced(by: 1)]))

}

So basically, Trips Calendar Deep Linker checks the URL scheme to make sure it matches the app scheme. If no URL path is found, it defaults to the home screen. Otherwise, it looks for a parameter in the URL query to create the details deep link.

So now from the App file, we can handle deep links and perform actions when the URL is recognized:
24 Habits That Will Make You Smarter Every Day
By: Larry Kim
Tags: Life Lessons, Business, Personal Development, Self Improvement, Life

What if you could actually train your brain to be smarter?

A recent Quora thread posed the question: What are some of the easy things people can do to keep improving their intelligence?

Over 100 professionals weighed in with their favorite tactics for making themselves smarter — easy to practice habits they work into their daily routine. Business Insider columnist Skye Gould then took those suggestions and created the infographic below.

You probably have “Things to Do” lists. I know I usually have one going on my desk. But have you ever made an “I Did” list, itemizing your daily accomplishments? It’s a different way of framing the tasks you achieve each day, and it can actually help make you smarter.

Writing down what you learn is another tactic that only takes a few minutes, but it can help you better retain information and reinforce what you’ve taken away from a meeting, conference, structured lesson, etc.

Some of the suggestions are more fun, like “Use a word-of-the-day app.” This is a noncommittal way of building your vocabulary, and becoming smarter, in just the few seconds it takes to check the app.

Each of the ideas below is designed to enhance your intelligence. Although no one tactic will send your IQ through the roof, they can help you stay sharp and become smarter, one day at a time.

Check it out:

List based on: Skye Gould/Business Insider

Originally published on Inc.com

About The Author

Larry Kim is the CEO of Mobile Monkey and founder of WordStream. You can connect with him on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.
Truths, Damned Truths, and Statistics
By: Vishesh Khemani
Tags: Election 2020, Elections, Statistics, Mathematics, Polling

Would you answer truthfully if you were asked in a survey whether you consume cannabis? Maybe you do like to wind down with an edible after a long day. But the legal contradictions between federal and state laws make you wary. Besides, what will your kids' friends' parents think? The glare of judgment is blinding. Or, what if someone asked you whether you voted for Donald Trump in 2016? What about in 2020? The systematic polling errors in each of those US presidential elections live in infamy. I wonder if the inaccuracies can be attributed, at least in part, to the reluctance of some closeted Trump voters to admit their support.

How could we ever get at the truth of what people think or do if they are prone to lie about it, especially on sensitive topics? Well, what if we could provide statistical cover to the respondents? That is the key behind a well-known surveying technique called randomized response. Here’s the simplest version. You, the surveyee, privately flip a coin. If it lands tails, you admit “yes” to the sensitive question, regardless of the truth. Any stigma associated with this response is blunted by the fact that the surveyor does not know whether you were forced into a “yes” due to the coin toss. If the toss results in heads, you answer “yes” or “no” truthfully. This statistical cover obviates the incentive to lie. But how can we sift through the responses and separate the truthful yeses from the forced ones?

Let 'N' be the number of surveyees.

Let 'f' be the fraction of surveyees that truthfully answered "yes".

Let 'Y' be the actual number of surveyees who answered "yes". Y = (prob. of tails) x (N) + (prob. of heads) x f x N

=> Y = 1/2 x N + 1/2 x f x N

┌--------------┐

=> | f = 2Y/N - 1 |

└--------------┘ The fraction of people who truthfully answered “yes” in the coin-toss randomized-response survey:

2 x (# yes responses) / (# total responses) - 1

So teachers, if you really want to know what percentage of your students like you, go ahead and ask them with a randomized response survey. Corporate leaders, if you’re truly interested in finding out what your employees honestly think about the company, now you know how to find out. And yes, political pollsters, go ahead and provide statistical cover to people to uncover the truth of how they will really vote next time.
Why I Cringe When You Call My Daughter “Pretty”
By: Jessica Hillis
Tags: Short Story, Beauty, Motherhood, Parenting, Daughters

She’s More Than That

Image by StockSnap from Pixabay

This morning I walked my daughter to school and I took in her beauty like I always do. She is 4 years old. She is small and petite, something I have never been. She has wild blonde hair and striking blue eyes. She is a beautiful little girl.

And I’m not just saying that because she is mine. From the moment she came into this world, I have heard how beautiful she is. Strangers stop us to comment on her perfection.

I once had some man say to me, “Not to be creepy but she is pedophile material!”

Seriously? You seriously just said that about my little girl? Is that a compliment? She wasn’t even 2 years old when this was said about her!

My boys get complimented on their looks (because they are cute too) but never at the same level that my daughter does.

Compliments Make Her Uncomfortable

Image by Alexas_Fotos from Pixabay

I should be thankful that people give her compliments. But I can tell they make her uncomfortable.

Yesterday she had picture day at school. Of course I made her hair extra fancy and she had on a pretty dress.

Every single person that passed her had to tell her how pretty she looked. And I can tell it makes her feel uncomfortable. She doesn’t like the attention.
Introducing the Slept On Sports Podcast
By: Connor Groel
Tags: Sports, Podcast

Introducing the Slept On Sports Podcast

Lesser-known sports stories told by Medill graduate students.

I’m thrilled to announce that the first episode of my new podcast, Slept On Sports, is now live! Join me and other Medill students as we dive into the lesser-known stories in sports history — stories you could say have been Slept On. New episodes are currently scheduled to come out on Mondays.

Slept On Sports is available on most podcast platforms. I’ve linked to Apple Podcasts below.

I hope you enjoy it!
[Release Notes] uPrism.io Meetings V1.3.8👏
Tags: Release N Updates, Uprism, 유프리즘, 유프리즘아이오, Meetings

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Bitcoin by Ross #3: On Charts
By: Ross Ulbricht
Tags: Bitcoin, Investing, Cryptocurrency, Technology, Finance

By Ross Ulbricht

Every week I have several Bitcoin charts sent in to the prison so I can do my analysis and stay up-to-date (see here for context). They take a few days to get to me and a few days to get back and put up online, so everything you see is at least a week out of date. This is fine though because we will only be looking at large movements in the market on the scale of months, years and even decades. My analysis should still be relevant regardless of what has happened while it’s in the mail, but I will be mindful of this limitation and make note of scenarios that could play out during that time just in case.

The charts we will be looking at show the price of a bitcoin in US dollars over time. (See Fig 1). We are looking at the price in dollars rather than euros or anything else because the highest volume of trade throughout Bitcoin’s history has been in dollars. Our method of analysis, Elliot Wave, is based on mass psychology (see here), so the bigger the market the better.

Fig. 1

The charts will be bar charts with the bars set close together. This display shows the full price range at every point, so we can determine if waves overlap (important for Elliot Wave), and it packs in relevant data. I will have to write wave labels and other notes on the charts by hand, but that will be part of the fun.

Finally, the charts will be in log scale. The vertical axis (the price) will increment by powers of ten (10, 100, 1000, etc…) rather than linearly (10, 20, 30, etc…). We do this because the log scale reveals movement in prices relevant to investors, and our thesis is that price movements are driven by the mass psychology of investors.

Let me illustrate with an example. Let’s say you bought $100 worth of bitcoins back when the price was $1. You would have ₿100. If you sold them at $18, you would have ₿1,800 (and you would be very sad today). Now let’s fast forward and the price is $1,000. Again you buy $100 worth, but this time you end up with only ₿0.1. If you sold this at $18,000, you would again have $1,800.

So the move from the $1 to $18 is just as significant as the move from $1,000 to $18,000 because an investor can make the same amount of money from it. On a log chart, these two moves are the exact same size vertically. On a linear chart, the $18 move would be dwarfed by the $18,000 move. You wouldn’t even see it. With the enormous price ranges Bitcoin has been through over the years, linear charts are practically useless for our purposes.

In the next post, we finally start seeing these charts with Elliot Wave analysis applied to them.
What do you do when you break your computer?
Tags: Computers, Comics, Humor, Internet, Social Media

I honestly think we’d all be happier if we moved to smartwatches and desktop towers ONLY.

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by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Illustration, Humor, Creative Process, Friday, Comics

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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Don’t Waste It
By: Jacqueline Dooley
Tags: Poems On Medium, Poetry, Creative Writing, Photography

I couldn’t feel joy, there

in the moment

where I waited, frozen

like a fly in amber

where I hung, immobile

and the wall rose up —

a new barrier,

I crashed against it, reeling

looking back to a past

that was lost, until

I finally began

the long journey around it

then found, to my surprise,

a new joy, rising

revealing the seconds of my life

as tiny points of light

embers, swirling around

rushing past then going dark

one by one by one

time smells like the end of autumn

when the sting of winter

is carried into my lungs

each breath offering

a sharp promise of snow
Do You Receive Christmas Presents Before Christmas?
By: Mary Hood
Tags: Christianity, Memories, Hope, Christmas, Spirituality

Packages are showing up at my door. A couple of them are mine. Most of them are for my daughter. I know they are Christmas presents she ordered. I pile them up and message her to tell them another one came. Sometimes she tells me to open it because she forgot what she ordered. Most of the time, she tells me when she will come to get them. I stare at them on my counter, wondering what is in them.

The ones I get, I put under the tree. Every time I walk by is a temptation to open it early, but I don’t.

This year I am getting presents from Jesus. He is unwrapping them before my eyes. Sometimes I like what I get at first glance. However, other times I cry. I don’t like them. I want to throw them back at Him. But He is persistent. He keeps holding it in front of me until I examine every aspect of it. When I do, I am always pleased, and the outcome is worth the effort.

Sometimes we have to become the people we don’t want to be so that we love the people we don’t want to be.

God allowed me extra time off this week. This was a present I did not receive well, but with this time, I began a project that demands more time than I normally have. So, yes, even this unexpected break is a gift from God.

While I shuffled through photographs of past Christmases and words written on scraps of paper as well as graded essays, memories gently rose to the surface, blooming like a fragile flower facing the sun after a season of darkness.

Honest tears are water that makes us grow

This earth’s atmosphere is polluted. Industrialism, technology, and every effort of mankind toward the betterment of society eventually multiply into a plethora of questions and contentions. Ideas turned tangible become splintered like a mirror shattered into thousands of pieces, with no way to reassemble the image.

I stare at images on a photograph and see who they were. I stare at words and read what they thought. I look at them now and see who they have become.

God lay down His deity, chose to come to earth, to be who He didn’t have to be, to love us who He didn’t have to love.

Read the words of a Christmas Carol

“Long lay the world in sin and error, pining

’Til He appeared, and the soul felt its worth, A thrill of hope, a weary world rejoices”

Does your soul feel its worth?

Jesus thought you were worth leaving Heaven for. He thought you were worth dying for.

Isn’t He worth living for?

There is so much to see in photographs and to read from college essays. It is so easy for an image to be distorted by the events of one’s life. As Christmas comes closer, the reality of Christ becomes clearer.

A “thrill” can take a breath away! Hope can restore it in a moment’s time!

We are created in HIS image.

I wonder what the next present will be!
En caso de publicación, ¿qué derechos de mi obra cedo a la editorial?
By: Ester Ribas
Tags: Publicación, Editoriales, Español

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Una ventana para el cómic
Tags: 9paneles, Instagram, Castellano, Comics, Noticias

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Tristen Alan “Buddy” Myers
By: Leslie Stahlhut
Tags: Lost, History, Family History, Crime, True Crime

I had been making dinner when there was a sharp rap at the front door. For the most part, my family and I went in and out the back door, so I ignored it, expecting whomever was there to come around to the back. But when the rapping continued, I set aside my work.

When I opened the door. I had expected to see one of my sons, but to my surprise, I was greeted by an elderly woman I had never seen before.

“Do you have a child?” she asked me.

“Yes,” I answered, uncertain of where she had come from or why she was asking me if I had children.

“We found your child in the road” she said with authority and relief.

I, however, was in a panic. At that time I had two children, one was 11 and the other 13. If one of them had been found in the road, the outlook could not be good.

But before I could get to the phone to call an ambulance, an equally elderly man made his way to the front door with a toddler in tow. The child wore nothing but a diaper.

The couple looked at me expectantly as they presented the child.

“This isn’t my child.” I told them.

By now, traffic on the road in the eastbound had slowed from the usual 60 mph whirl to a dead standstill as the elderly couple had left their car where it was when they had stopped to assist the child. Soon there was another adult at my door who had seen the whole thing. I managed to get names and phone numbers; I also noted the time; then I finally made it to the phone so I could call the local Sheriff’s office.

Local means different things in different places. Shasta County, California, where I lived at the time, covers more square miles than the states of Rhode Island and Delaware combined. When I placed the call and explained my predicament, they were hard pressed to understand my story.

No children had been reported missing, so what was an emergency for me, was not an emergency for them, and it took more than an hour for a deputy to get to my house. When he did arrive, I was treated with suspicion. Who was I? Did I have some ID? How did I get this child? Did I know who the parents were?

I felt that no one had been listening. I had told them how I got the child, and I thought it obvious that if I knew who the parents were, I would take the child home. I was glad I had at least thought to get the names and address of the people who had witnessed the child walking in the road.

Still somewhat suspicious of how I ended up with the toddler (but not suspicious enough to take either me or the child into custody) the deputy left my house and went door-to-door in his car. About 20 minutes after leaving he returned with one of the grandparents who had been babysitting the toddler in question. It turned out the diaper clad adventurer had been taking a nap, but awoke and left the house on his own.

They hadn’t even known he was missing.
Test with NUnit- Create a Test Project and Realize The Execution Order
By: Sean Hs
Tags: C Sharp Programming, Coding, Unit Testing, Nunit, Software Testing

3.The attributes of the test level

One TestFixture may have many Test. The execution priority of the test level will be the following list.

-- (MyFixture1)-- BeforeTest(Fixture) -- (MyTest1)-- SetUp

BeforeTest

Test

TearDown

AfterTest -- (MyTest2) -- SetUp

BeforeTest

Test

AfterTest

TearDown -- (MyFixture1) -- AfterTest (Fixture)

Setup and Teardown

We can only put Setup and Teardown in TestFixture. Setup will execute before each test starts. Teardown will execute when each test end.

using System;

using NUnit.Framework;

namespace NUnit.Tests

{

public class SuccessTests

{

[TestFixture]

Class TestGroup1 : TestBase

{

[SetUp]

public void TestGroup1Startup(){}

[Test]

public void MyTest1 (){}

[Test]

public void MyTest2 (){}

[Teardown]

public void TestGroup1Teardown(){} }

}

}

4. The contents for the test

The naming rules for the test function can use [The class for testing]_ [Scenario]_[ExpectedBehavior]

We can follow the 3A principles to write the content of the test function.

Arrange: arrange all necessary preconditions and inputs.

Act: act on the object or method under test.

Assert: assert that the expected results have occurred.

Copy right@A Layman

5. Summary

The execution priority will be the following list.
by Martino Pietropoli
By: Martino Pietropoli
Tags: Art, Saturday, Illustration, Graphics

First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.

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The Main Highlights from the Waves 2 Years Birthday Conference
By: Waves Tech
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology, Cryptocurrency, Waves

On April 11 Waves Platform gathered a huge crowd at the Waves Birthday Conference in Moscow. We were flattered to see so many people from all over the world that came to congratulate us and to celebrate Waves’ second birthday with us. That was our first event of a kind, therefore it was so amazing to see all of you there! Let’s check out the highlights of the celebration.
SCI Daily Crypto Digest: Lightning Sap
By: Jervis C. Tinimbang
Tags: Bitcoin, Blockchain, Philippines, Cryptocurrency, Fintech

March 16, 2018

Image from Coindesk.com

Bitcoin (BTC) continues to trade around $8,000, as traders decrease exposure in cryptocurrencies. Bullish news on Lightning Labs’ Lightning Network software launch, arrested the slide and propped it up a bit but was no match for the selling volume. BTC is trading at $8,038 as of this writing.

Support is at $7,500 while resistance is at $9,000.

*BTCPHP: 441,300 / 410,670

*USDPHP: 52.0150

*BTC market cap: $136B

*Crypto market cap: $321B

News:

*California startup Lightning Labs has officially launched a beta version of its Lightning Network software. While there are a couple of companies who released their own software, Lightning Labs’ software is believed to be the most mature software to date. The Lightning Network will allow for faster and cheaper transactions as it allows users to transact directly without settling it on the blockchain.

*Thailand’s government issued drafts of cryptocurrency and ICO regulations and reiterated that these laws are created to protect investors and not prohibit cryptocurrencies.

*American Express filed a patent which might be using blockchain technology to speed up payments processing. The patent references peer-to-peer payments using a blockchain, while suggesting that blockchain technology could improve upon current card payments networks.

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KTI CRYPTO RANKING SYSTEM
Tags: System, Internet, VIP, Crypto, Ranking

APRIL EOS Reached all targets — AA RANK

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The Woody Poets
By: V. Plut
Tags: Nature Photography, Lit, Nature Writing, Free Verse, Poetry

We

the woody poets

who

ornament the earth

root ourselves

in sky

filling

the void above

To you

we say

look

there is more

beyond

the pale horizon

and satin cover

of starry space

We beneath

the burning sun

bask

in the holy

glory

of blue

reaching

our branches

up

in prayer

for the coming

of the rain

and resurrection

of glittering

green gold

living

for those

who breath

beneath our boughs