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DoorDash IPO delivery arrives on Wall street
Tags: Food, News, IPO, DoorDash, Stock Market

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DoorDash, the US largest food delivery company shares began trading on Wednesday on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker DASH. The opening price was $ 182, about 80% higher than the public price of $ 102, and ended the session at $ 189.51. The company with a market value of $ 15 billion at the beginning of the year, reached $ 72 billion after the public offering.

“If we can make ice delivery possible before ‘it melts, or pizza before it cools, or groceries in an hour, we can make it happen on-demand delivery of anything in a city, “ — DoorDash CEO, Tony Xu said.

DoorDash is a privately held company founded in 2013 and based in San Francisco, California. The delivery firm reported a profit of $23 million in the second quarter this year but followed that with a $43 million loss in the third quarter. While the company revenue for the third quarter ended September reached US$879 million, up from US$239 million in a similar period last year. The company serves more than 18 million consumers and 390,000 merchants and fields over 1 million delivery personnel, known as Dashers.

“The funding from the IPO will let DoorDash expand into areas like delivery from groceries and convenience stores” — DoorDash, COO Christopher Payne said.

The food delivery industry benefited largely from the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has boosted sales of food delivery companies, with restaurants shuttered, more people staying home and ordering takeout food. DoorDash provides on-demand delivery and logistics services to local and national businesses in more than 4,000 cities and all 50 states across the United States, Canada, and Australia. On the other hand, the delivery firm recently said it reduced commissions for the smallest restaurants during the pandemic, but the fees will likely remain an issue.

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Post Disaster
By: Dwight Gray
Tags: Humanity, Poetry, Witness, Survival, Hurricane

We became Libertarians from necessity.

The storm uprooted each telephone; we woke

to hear the ground speaking to the water –

which has crept closer, toward the laps of its people.

The day after the storm someone found a steeple,

ghostly white. We placed it at the highest point.

It became our totem and when we tired

we stared at the spot in the sky where it pointed.

Our walls went up, then bits of terra cotta tile.

For a time it sounded like the land itself

were hammering against the sky. Neighbors

at times would shovel dirt to the side.

And their neighbors would laugh and shovel

it back. We worked it out, with time.

We raised our homes with the residue

of plastic bottles and wooden pallets.

The plumbing didn’t work so we became

plumbers; the power didn’t work –

so we became electricians; what we lost

we found in the empty places between.

The roads stopped at the last house.

So we began to grow what would grow.

Cucumbers and tomatoes filled the breezeway;

and daily we pushed back the cantaloupe runners.

We learned to like these meals, even

when ‘What’s for dinner?’ became the joke

on the street between familiar strangers.

And we heard a distant laughter

come from a community beyond our horizon.

We almost forgot the other towns were there.

The dogs ran free; their bays kept us awake

at first until the cries blended into the breeze.

There’s mold growing up the walls.

We worried when our youngster began

to sneeze, but with time that sound

also began to fade.

As did other sounds: the distant engine hum,

a lone siren, the bang of hammers, the crash

of falling cinder blocks, the shouting of neighbors,

the waves and continental drift.

Some times at night I can feel

the waves pick up up my body and rock

it gently as if the ground had arms

and the lemon tree sang lullabies.

We endure. We forget. We remember

what may have happened here.

We sing. We hear singing from a place

without roads that we do not understand.
Did They Die to Set Us Free
By: Gail Walter
Tags: Poetry, Life, Love, Blue Insights, Coronavirus

How many have to die

to wake us up

100? 1000? Millions?

How much death will it take

to make life, real

life, the whole of life

our central abiding concern

our one and only

razor sharp focus

and by life I do not mean

mere survival

a dull substitute

for life but the life

not so much the opposite

of death as we like to think

but more a kind of lover

the beloved

of this life

the completion

of the circle

she who wakes us up

how many?

how many will have to die

for us to live with

an irrepressible exuberance

an explosion of YES

and don’t forget your manners

please

and thank you

thank you

thank you

how many will have to leave

for us to be

fully

completely

here

right now

one more death to rivet

our divided attention?

one more death to recognize

ourselves in others?

one more death to share

what we have

with the whole?

one more to love everything

and everyone as we

love ourselves

how many more shall have to die

so that we may truly live?

© Gail Walter 2020

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The Weight of White Supremacy Culture
By: Rohanna S. Delossantos
Tags: American History, Immigration, Racism, White Supremacy Culture, Uganda

The Weight of White Supremacy Culture

On dreams, choices, and memories

Photo by Max Sulik on Unsplash

White Supremacy Culture as defined by the American child of a black immigrant from a formerly colonized country The idea that white languages, religions, educational institutions, pedagogy, manners, music, movies, time-keeping, cable networks, jobs, perspectives, experiences, countries, neighborhoods, fashion, feelings, medical treatments, holidays, values, technology, food, home design, hair texture and bodies are superior.

I lay on a mukeka on the grass. I am reading Stony the Road, a not-so-light summer reading about Reconstruction, white supremacy, and Jim Crow. I am disgusted and fascinated, the overarching themes are familiar but many of the details are new to me. I want to better understand a historical period that is fundamental to this country’s structures and hypocrisies. I underline ideas I will incorporate into my U.S. History classes this fall. I feel ashamed, but unsurprised, to be learning so much from this text. I have a master’s degree in history, but Reconstruction and Redemption are missing from my formal education in any meaningful way.

My back grows sore, I carry stress in my back and thick hips. I walk to my parents’ porch and sit under their Japanese Maple tree, breathing in fresh air, a luxury often missing from our hot apartment. Air, a limited resource in a racialized country. My son plays dinosaurs with my husband in the yard.

My mom sits near me, six-feet away. She survived COVID-19 in April but has since returned to work. She has been fired up since last weekend when she spontaneously spoke at a BLM rally in our small New England town. She spoke about experiences with racism, especially while raising my sister and I. She spoke about her fears for my son, whose skin matches mine. “If grandma’s not happy, nobody’s going to be happy,” was her most notable line. The crowd cheered. Unrelated teenagers approached my mother to ask if she would be their grandma. It was a whole thing.

I was proud while I watched the video, but also upset. My mom shared details of a hate crime that happened to our family when I was a teenager. I still feel like both the target and cause of this incident. I forget sometimes that I did not single-handedly absorb the pain it caused, erasing it from the memories of my family. We do not talk about the incident much, so hearing my mom discuss it in public feels like spilt tea, as if, admitting that we have had racialized experiences is a weakness.

I place my book down. My mom and I begin to talk about the rally, I am proud of my mom regardless of my reservations. We discuss what it means to be black in a majority white space. I wonder out loud: What is biracial when you’re the darkest kid in class? I think about how it felt to grow up as a black girl with a white standard, a white normal. I ask her, my voice cracks slightly from angst, “Did you think about American racism before you came here?”
Where Are My Leads? Memes
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Tags: Memes, Business Development, Leads, Beekonnected, Lead Generation

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Bagaimana Cara Data Bercerita?
By: Adam Mukharil Bachtiar
Tags: Data Visualization, Data Mining, Data, Data Storytelling

Codelabs is a division of digital experts. We created an application to help the people. And we’re from Indonesia Computer University.

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Three Sets
By: Annelise Lords
Tags: Spirituality, Satisfaction

Spiritual Tree

There are three sets of people in our world.

Those who get more than what they WANT!

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Those who get all of what they WANT!

Image by Annelise Lords

And those who get some of that they WANT!

Image by Annelise Lords

Then from all three sets, someone complains that they never get what they want.

Thank you for reading this piece. I hope you enjoyed it.

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Recognizing early signs of dog arthritis
By: Shamontiel L. Vaughn
Tags: Arthritis, Pets, Dog Health, Dogs, Senior Dog

Recognizing early signs of dog arthritis

The one thing I’ll always regret about my first dog — the step fall

Photo credit: Sharon McCutcheon/Unsplash

My first dog, Shep, was a wild child — untrained (minus paper training), big, furry, and loved to eat tissue out of garbage cans and snatch Christmas decorations off the tree. My father made the mistake of leaving a slab of BBQ steak on a kitchen counter, and Shep decided it was lunch in the backyard before anyone even knew he ate it.

Thanks to a tornado, he was also terrified of lightning and thunder, and would scratch the wood off of our basement door until we let him upstairs — only to knock over ceramics and anything else that was unlucky enough to get in his way. Considering I didn’t want the dog in the first place, I really didn’t care at first. But once I warmed up to him, it was a little annoying when I’d let him upstairs and my parents would send him back downstairs for wreaking havoc.

But there were two things that Shep always did from his puppy years to adulthood, and it made it much harder to identify his playfulness and semi-dog tantrums versus pet arthritis. Anytime we’d open the outside back door and point to the basement door, he’d almost always resist the final destination. When it was dinner time, he fled downstairs. Any other time though? He was sure to dawdle around and want to see what we were up to. Had he been a house-trained dog (our fault, not his), this wouldn’t have been a problem. But Labrador Retrievers are big, energetic and hard to ignore. So we usually grabbed his collar and sent him to his home (i.e. the basement).

He learned a trick that he used all 13 years though — the handshake. On the fourth-to-bottom basement step, he would stretch his entire body on that stair and refuse to move. He knew two things would happen, especially if we were doing laundry. Sometimes we (me, my parents and my brother) would not feel like stretching our legs up two steps, and would sit on the steps and play with him until he decided to move. Who wants to clutch a laundry basket and do a balancing act at the same time? If he still weren’t ready for us to leave him, he’d stand at his full height — still blocking the steps — and reach his hand out for a handshake. Who could deny a dog who looked like this with a handshake? So we’d get stuck on the steps again until he was good and ready for us to move.

But every blue moon when we weren’t in the mood, we’d just scoot him out of the way to his utter annoyance. It wasn’t often that we didn’t play this territorial game with him, but his stubborn game didn’t always work. Then there was the one day that I really wish I would’ve played his game.
Open Eyes
By: Yaman Nimer
Tags: Poetry, Life, Poem, Eyes, Insanity

Open your eyes and

watch the trees,

they’re on fire

singing in pain

Side to side

in the storm winds they dance,

and this rainfall is of the kind that

feeds the flames

This a view so magnificent

the thunder applauds

the permanent

end of day

Oh what a time

it is to be alive,

so open your eyes

till you’re numb or insane.
[DEX] Exchange Profit Distribution Policy and Its Risk
Tags: Blockchain, Exchange

This is IONIA :)

In this post, I’d like to talk to you about current exchange profit distribution policy.

There are now 100 exchanges in Korea, and they’re working on a variety of ways to survive the competition.

In this infinite competition, From the reduction of fees to the various incentives, there are policies that share their profits with users of the exchange.

The exchange ended up with a fee through the transaction.

They have to make it for many people because it makes the company’s profits.

So, to attract people,

Exchange-based tokens were issued, replacing commission revenues from exchanges with tokens, and distributing them to users.

When this policy came out, it was a very innovative system.

There were many people who could trade and make a profit.

but

This dividend policy is at the heart of the problem.
Lovely Talk
By: Emily Wilcox
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Poetry, Poem, Love, Writing

Lovely Talk

A poem about true love

Photo by Harli Marten on Unsplash

He listens well, this one,

To everything that I say.

Which he knows real well is pointless,

In rapid succession, fired his way.

Rocket-ships in his orbit,

My words fueled by love for him.

He listens well, every time.

Though what I say is pretty dim.

He smiles at every sentence,

When he laughs, it grows ten times wide.

So overwhelming I barely notice,

When he inches closer to my side.

Because, to me, I’m already embedded,

Down deep within his heart.

But suddenly I’m also there in his arms,

Man, this is my favorite part.

These solid soft limbs encompassing,

And now I can’t talk at all,

Because his mouth is pressed so firmly on mine,

If I hadn’t already — I’d fall.
This is The Secret to Living a Life Without Regret
By: Omar Itani
Tags: Life Lessons, Personal Growth, Life, Self, Inspiration

The Four Words Standing Between You and Regret

In the future, we will regret the actions we didn’t take more so than the ones we did.

We will regret the book we didn’t try to write; but had we done so, we would’ve fulfilled our dream of becoming a writer. We will regret the side project we didn’t find the courage to pursue; but had we done so, it could’ve perhaps transformed into a thriving and successful business.

In their research on regret that was published in 1995, Gilovich & Medvec concluded that

“when people look back on their lives, it is the things they have not done that generate the greatest regret… People’s actions may be troublesome initially; it is their inactions that plague them most with long-term feelings of regret.”

In short, today’s inactions will translate into tomorrow’s regrets.

What you’re too afraid to do today, twenty years from now, you’ll most probably wish you had done.

Don’t let that happen. Choose to live a life that’s true to you. And what does that entail?

It’s a life lived fully, without fear. It’s a life lived with purpose, without hesitation. It’s a life where you find the courage within you to follow your calling and dare to give it all your energy.

It’s a life where you create your own definition of success.

It’s a life lived with meaning and purpose where your priorities are to work in balance, where you fully express your true feelings, where you stay in touch with the people you love and you allow yourself to be happy with how things progress.

It’s a life where, through the unfolding years, you don’t say:

“I wish I had.”

And instead, you say:

“I’m glad I did.”

I’m glad I wrote that book. It didn’t generate many sales, but it set me on a path to write my second book and that was a best-seller.

I’m glad I launched my own clothing line. It took three years of sacrifice and hard work, but today, five years later, I’m living my dream.
How to Recognize a Garbage Programming Job Posting
By: Piero Borrelli
Tags: Technology, Interview, Work, Humor, Programming

How to Recognize a Garbage Programming Job Posting

Don’t ever accept “we will pay you in experience”

Note: The point of this article is not to lack sensitivity toward anybody but to raise awareness of how easy it is to fall for job traps like the ones you will see below.

Welcome to the 2020 programmer’s job hunt. It’s going to be a long journey through preparation, rejection, and ghosting human resources. Plus, you will have to first find fair job postings to add to your deck. To this point, it’s especially good to have a general knowledge of what you might encounter and how to dodge a possible garbage job.

Let’s start with our list.
Thirty Hours on an Airplane With My Four-Year-Old.
By: Luke Beling
Tags: Life Lessons, Travel, Fatherhood, Success, Parenting

I’ve recently achieved one of the greatest feats of my life. If there was an app that could track and rank impossible human conquests, I’m sure this would be trending towards the top of the list. My oldest daughter, Lily, and I flew from Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, to Cape Town, South Africa, and back again. Lily is four. Hawaii is so far away from South Africa that when running the flight search options, it didn’t matter whether we flew east through North America or west through Asia or Australia.

I decided to fly through North America and break up the journey with a night in Washington, D.C, so to visit my sister-in-law. I figured the lure of seeing her aunt would keep Lily for most of the flying time before melting like a donut on hot tar. It worked together with the right timing of evening flights and a mild dose of Benadryl. Our 10-hour leg to D.C left me in good spirits.

Our next flight was the doozy: Washington D.C to Johannesburg with a refueling stop in Accra, Ghana.

Either from a case of my infamous optimism or a misprint on our itinerary, I was sure we were able to get off the airplane after our eleven-hour haul to Accra. For the first seven hours, I was able to distract Lily with in-flight entertainment, dinner, coloring, and my trusty pal, Benadryl. But around the four hours to-go mark, she began to question the possibility of getting off. And by questioning, I mean demanding.

“We just have a little longer to go, Lily; then we’ll go find a treat.”

She bought it. The allure of what treat she may have found in Accra worked like a double dose of Benadryl: a four-hour daze of expectation.

But those words were the soil I lifted to pour onto my grave. We landed. All the passengers who’d now arrived at their final destination looked at the rest of us as though we’d been pulled over by the police for speeding.

“Daddy, are we getting off now?” “Yes, Lily. We need to wait for the people in front of us to move, and then we can go find a treat.”

As the seatbelt light dimmed and people began to rise from their hard, crumbed, sweaty bottoms, an announcement came over the loudspeaker.

“For those of you who are traveling through to Johannesburg, please remain seated while our cleaning crew prepares the aircraft for the next passengers.”

Panic settled in my gut.

“What did they say, Daddy?”

I lied. I was sure I could persuade the flight attendant to let us off to find a quick treat.

“They said we’re going to leave the airplane and go find a treat.”

She smiled and gave me a big hug. It was enough to keep her for a few more minutes. I turned to look for the nearest flight attendant in the midst of disembarking passengers. I caught her eye.

“Would it be okay if we quickly got off for ten minutes?”

“I’m sorry, but that won’t be possible, sir.”

“Are you sure? Please. My daughter needs to get off this airplane.”

I felt confidence fall through my hands like fine sand on a windy day. Now our only hope of getting off was Lily. By no means did I induce her explosion, I merely set the piece of dynamite near an open flame.
21 Ways to Kink-up Your Sex Life
By: Stacey Herrera
Tags: Sex, Sexuality, Relationships, BDSM, Couples

So you’re holed up in your love nest with your boo while the world is coming undone. Congratulations, you are one of the lucky ones!

You recognize that it is both an honor and a privilege to have crisis dick/pussy on tap. But as grateful as you are, you also want to mix things up. I get it and you’re not alone.

With all this extra together time, boredom is a very real possibility, but it does not have to be your reality. Now might be a really good time to kink-up your sex life!

But before you get over-zealous, you need to make sure your partner is on the same page. Begin by reviewing the yes/no/maybe list — together. It’s a great way to get a feel of what you already like and what you’re open to exploring. Then once you’ve gotten the legalese out of the way, you can move on to the sexy stuff!

I have taken the liberty of compiling a list of kinky-ish suggestions to add a little smut to your sex life without going full BDSM (at least not right away):

1. Sexting from across the room

In any other circumstance, texting your beloved while you’re in the same place would be ridiculous. Or passive-aggressive. But this is different.

Sexting your lover when there is very little distance between you can be a turn on. It’s about creating sexual tension and turning up the heat.

Imagine sending a text and watching as lust washes over your partner. Skin flush. Eyes dazzling. Penis rising. Vulva moistening. It’s going to get hot in here — fast!

Top tip: Use your words, but not your voice. Sexting from across the room is much more salacious in silence. Let your creativity run wild and free.
The Future Is Already Here….
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: Awesome, Cool, Future

Helps you hire smarter, faster, and better. Let’s get to work. ConnectedWell.com; Twitter: @AskRobMerrill; People First Leadership: http://bit.ly/pplfirstldrs

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veneer & ply board cutting
Tags: Blogging, India, Art, Style, Design

veneer & ply board cutting

JUNE 2, 2020

home interior, teak wood, walls

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veneer & ply board cutting

Now a days any home interiors is incomplete without veneer work .Veneer give natural wood look to any flat surface which is made by of ply board mdf wpc or any other item relating to wood work. Three mm veneer that are paste onto panels like on doors, tops and panels for cabinets, floors & some parts of furniture. Veneer is pasted according to its grain a angles to give look and strength. Veneer is utilize in decorative purposes too like for jewelry or gift boxes.

Quality of using veneer is firmness.In some wood work forming veneer would not be possible to establish lumber, weather proof and heat proof. Quality of veneer is viable fixtures made with veneer uses less wood than the same piece of fixture made with wood. veneer is easily available than wood .teak wood or solid wood is expensive and limited stock available in markets.As per seen in above image we pasted veneer on ply-board and give through cut of design.Let me describe in following points.

veneer & ply board

firstly we paste 4 mm thick veneer on ply which we want to cut.Thickness and size depend on client default size of veneer is 8ft by 4 ft we use pidlite to paste it on ply then leave it for one night under weight press for good pasting it is necessary

VENEER BOARDS

When we finish pasting of veneer on boards we start to clean edges and double check pasting again if in any point we miss anything we do it again with proper guidelines because without proper pasting veneer will look bad and we cannot cut it on machine.

DESIGNArea of a circle used at house

Measurement of boards is needed to make design on software (CAD).we use different software which are easily available in market .For veneer cutting only 2d modelling is needed in exact dimensions.

CUTTING

When 2d model is ready we convert that design in g code using CAM software’s like artcam . G codes are language of cnc machines which understand by machine and run according to programme. In command we describe about tool cutting speed feed design etc we just clamp stock material on bed of machine then further process is automated will provide a link of a video too in this article

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Untitled by Charlie Keys Bohem
By: Beautiful Losers
Tags: Poetry, Prose Poetry, Poem

She was with me in a very deep pool of rust-colored water. Among soundless concrete cubes, climbing each other like jungle vines, in a deep pool of rust-colored water. Clear, then dark, but never cloudy.



Below smoke stacks that lost their tops in the gray clouds, singing like grinding metal, spitting out sparks to die in rubble patches. By brown broken grass climbing out of dirt cracks.



A tube beat sounds like snapping cable doubling far away, rattling dust from old doorframes.



Hand in hand, shivering, wading into runoff, into the cleanest thing for ashy miles —



She was with me when the ripples we made pulled apart the water’s delicate sky, into a pit of weak coffee and black of unknown depth.
The Friday Fix Story Prompt for July 31st, 2020
By: Justin Deming
Tags: Creativity, The Friday Fix, Writing Prompts, Fiction, Writing

The Friday Fix Story Prompt for July 31st, 2020

Theme: Free Play

Photo by Alex Gruber on Unsplash

It’s our final week of July at The Friday Fix!

This month is going to be all about music. I’ve steered away from it the past few months, but at this point I better let my instincts guide me.

Music is a great equalizer. It can bring people together, regardless of who they are, where they’re from, and what they believe in. Right now seems like a fitting time to listen to and discuss music.

The songs used as inspiration this month will cover a broad spectrum. The one key similarity is that all of the songs will be “easy” on the ears. Other than this single element, anything is fair game.

By the way, what are you listening to right now? Feel free to let us know below.

Story Prompt for Friday, July 31st, 2020

Alright, lets end July with a proverbial bang. It’s your turn to choose a song!

The plan for this week is simple:

Think of a song that you consider “easy” on the ears.

Feel free to post a link to the song and lyrics (if you need a hand with this, just send me a note/message on your draft).

Use a line/word from your selected song to write a fifty-word story.

Happy writing, everyone. I can’t wait to see what you all come up with. Who knows, maybe by the end of this we’ll all have a pool of new music to draw from!

Below are some honorable mentions — songs I almost selected for our July prompts:

“Harvest Moon” by Neil Young

“Wasting Time” by Nathaniel Rateliff & the Nightsweats

“Wishlist” by Pearl Jam

“Landslide” by Fleetwood Mac

“Ever” by Team Sleep
ICO Alert Crypto Minute July 3, 2018
By: Joshua Bryant
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain, Crypto Minute, Eos

EOS at #1 in China’s Latest Rankings

The second round of China’s state-backed monthly ratings of cryptocurrencies and blockchain projects has been released.

The so called “Global Public Chain Technology Evaluation Index,” ranks EOS 1st, Ethereum (ETH) 2nd, and Bitcoin(BTC) 17th, out of a total of 30 analyzed cryptocurrencies.

EOS’ received a top ranking due to the “outstanding technical advantages in transaction confirmation efficiency, network throughput, and transaction costs” of the protocol.

As seen in a Cointelegraph report earlier this month, China has promoted blockchain technology even as it pursues a cracks down on cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings (ICO).

The International Tax Man Cometh

The venerable Ben Franklin told us of two certainties in life, death and taxes.

The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on Monday that it has joined forces with tax authorities from Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the UK to fight tax crime and money laundering with cryptocurrency and other financial assets.

The Joint Chiefs of Global Tax Enforcement (known as the J5) will develop shared strategies to gather information and intelligence, conduct joint investigations and collaborate on effective communications.

Sacramento Kings to Mine Cryptocurrency

The tech-friendly Sacramento Kings are mining crypto with a full court press.

The NBA franchise is launching a charitable program called “MiningforGood” with MiningStore.com to mine cryptocurrency at the Kings’ home arena in Sacramento. The team will use MiningStore’s hardware to mine the Ethereum cryptocurrency.

The Kings have been early adopters of crypto as the first sports team to accept Bitcoin in 2014. They also sponsored a shark tank style contest in 2016 for tech startups, where finalists pitched ideas to win a cash prize and a lunch with the team owner.
Chinese government called Ethereum the most promising cryptocurrency
By: Ico, Crypto News
Tags: Exchange, Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, China, Blockchain

The CCID Institute at the Ministry of Industry of China kept its word and on Thursday published the first national reliability rating of cryptocurrencies, where Ethereum is on the 1st place, Bitcoin — on the 13th, the Top-10 includes the “damned” in Japan Monero, and growing on the support Gemini ZCash is in the third ten.

The whole rating looks like this:

1–5: ETH, STEEM, LSK, NEO, KMD

6–10: XLM, ADA, IOTA, XMR, STRAT

11–15: QTUM, BTS, BTC, XVG, WAVES

16–20: ETC, XRP, DASH, SC, BCN

21–25: LTC, ARK, ZEC, NANO, BCH

26–28: DCR, HSR, XEM

Publication of the rating has not affected on the exchanger rates. However, the discussion around it is just only growing.

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Reflecting on this Past Decade of Education Reform — AoA
By: Stephen Muskett
Tags: Education Reform, Education

Reflecting on this Past Decade of Education Reform — AoA

Education reform through the eyes of Age of Awareness

As education reform is the main goal of Age of Awareness we wanted to take a moment and reflect on some of the main articles published over the past 5+ years on just that. These articles help highlight the passion, grievances, and experiences of our authors in relation to education and its reform. We tackled the ‘not so easy’ and uncomfortable aspects about education. We want to use these articles as the guidelines for our solutions that we push for in 2021 and beyond.

Here is the link to our article summarizing some of the main perspectives the past 5+ years in education reform on Age of Awareness: This Past Decade in Education Reform

We hope you enjoy the works of our amazing authors and we hope you continue to follow our journey into 2021 and beyond.

-Stephen Muskett, Founder of Age of Awareness
Tips for Writing Medium Posts that Other Developers will Actually Read
By: Quincy Larson
Tags: Technology, Social Media, Marketing, Writing, Design

This weekend we launched our open source community’s Medium publication. More than 200 developers immediately signed up as writers. With a bit of elbow grease, they’ll be sharing their coding insights with thousands of their peers, and you can too.

We’ll publish as many of your high quality articles as we can.

Here are some tips for writing content that will resonate with other developers:

Read through articles that we’ve already published. Try to write about things that no one has covered yet.

Seven minutes seems to be the optimal Medium post length. But don’t water-down your post to get there.

Good writing takes time. Keep rereading and reworking your post until you think it’s perfect. Always read it one last time before you publish.

Autobiographical posts are only interesting to other people if they offer useful, non-obvious takeaways. Try to teach your readers something.

When you write a technical article, your goal shouldn’t just be to look smart — it should be to inform and to be understood.

Avoid intimidating readers with a “wall of text”. Keep your paragraphs between 1–4 sentences, and break them up with headings and images.

Imagine that Lisa — the progressive, humanist, forever adolescent Simpsons character — will read everything you publish. Don’t publish anything that would make Lisa disappointed in you.

Share your Coding Insights

You most definitely should contribute to Free Code Camp’s Medium publication. Here’s how to do so, in 3 easy steps (and one harder one):

Create a Medium account. Add a headshot and bio. Send an email to team@freecodecamp.com with your username, requesting to become a writer for our publication. Write awesome posts. Submit them to us. We’ll review them and potentially publish them.

We get a lot of submissions. If we don’t publish yours immediately, message me in Gitter. I’ll give you the status of your submission and quick feedback.

Happy writing about coding!

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Blockchain Manifesto by Naval Ravikant (insightful read)
By: Team Koinok
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Bitcoin, Blockchain Technology, Blockchain

Naval Ravikant interviewing Vitalik Buterin (founder of Ethereum)

Naval Ravikant is the founder of AngelList and an angel investor with one of the best track records in Silicon Valley. He’s into the crypto space since 2013 and believes in the disruptive potential of blockchain technology which he believes will eventually convert all existing networks into meritocratic markets.

He’s quite active on Twitter and shared his Blockchain Manifesto in mid 2017 which provides a great mental framework to judge the potential application areas of blockchain technology.

Here’s the manifesto in bullet points:
Midnight Snack
Tags: Short Story, Fiction, Death, Flash Fiction, Science Fiction

Midnight Snack

An unexpected meal

Image public domain, courtesy of comicbookplus.com, modified from original.

A tendril of smoke rose from the small blackened hole in the wall, a little flame burned and went out.

Mike sat still on the bed. He was in his red sleeping shorts; he had no shirt on. His feet pressed flat on the floor, and his hands were on the bedspread. The tall man across the room had undeniably captured his attention, but Mike’s wide eyes had moved to one side, and he was staring at the small smouldering hole that had just appeared in his bedroom wall.

“I see,” said Mike, and his eyes went slowly back to the man. “So it’s a gun then.”

The man bent over at the hips and held out the long object and looked down at it. He was taller than any person Mike had ever seen. His joints looked too far apart. He had on a black hat and sunglasses, and the skin of his face was white and… lumpy. Like the many layers of paint on a very old house. He had on a long grey coat. Probably wool. It looked good. Merino maybe. But it was far too big, and deep folds ran all the way down the coat like it was hung on hooks and there was nothing inside. The gloves were loose on the hands and the tips of the fingers were folded out from the fist. The man looked down at the long skinny object in his hands and said, “yes. You would call this a gun. Though I doubt you’ve ever seen one quite like it. ”

“No,” Mike said, slowly. “Dainty, isn’t it?” A silent beat passed between them and the tall man stood up straight again. And Mike said, “So, then — let me get this straight. You are coming with me.”

“No,” said the man. “I am be-com-ing you. I will — borrow — your body. We will become one.”

“Ah,” said Mike and his mouth stayed open. He moved his head back in a nod that he didn’t complete. “I see.”

“Fantastic,” said the man.

“And you need me to eat?” said Mike.

“That’s right.”

“But me no hungy,” said Mike.

“Oh,” said the man. “But you will be.”

So they went together down the stairs, and already the kitchen smelled delicious. The table was set and dinner was served. Steak, peas and carrots, and a dollop of mashed potatoes. When was Mike was done eating he took the plate to the kitchen sink and he rinsed it in the cold water, and he placed the plate and the cutlery into the sink and washed his hands.

“That was delicious,” said Mike. His hands were wet, he looked around.

“Are you ready?” said the tall man. He was seated at the table, and he faced the darkened staircase.

“I reckon,” said Mike. And he reached into the pantry cupboard and the handle of the bat was leaning on the doorframe. “But first, let me show you how to mash potatoes.”
QuarkWorks: Meet The Team Series — Chance Embrey-Farquhar
By: Cassie Ferrick
Tags: Software Development, Team, Ecommerce, Meet The Team, Coding

Get to know one of our awesome e-commerce software developers who came to us from the Lambda School and his adorable pup Clyde!

Name:

Chance Embrey-Farquhar

Role:

Software Engineer

When did you join QuarkWorks and what led you to take on this position?

I joined QuarkWorks in October of last year. I’ve always been interested in programming, and being a professional software developer has been my dream since high school. I was just finished with Lambda School, an online web dev boot camp when I started talking to a fellow alumni, Shawn Stewart. Shawn had been working at QuarkWorks for a while and suggested I apply for a position. After a couple of rounds of interviewing, I was impressed with the passion that QuarkWorks had for software development, and it seemed like the perfect place for an aspiring professional.

What excites and energizes you about the company?

Everyone at Quark is really passionate about engineering and problem solving. We’re basically a bunch of tech nerds who place a strong emphasis on the quality of our work, and that motivates me to be my best self and continuously grow my skill-set.

What has been your favorite project to work on or are currently working on?

I have been working on TryNow my entire time at QuarkWorks. This project has given me a ton of insight into the e-commerce world and creating applications that scale as the company grows.

Advice you would give someone working at a startup?

Be prepared to wear many hats. Particularly at a startup, you have to make decisions constantly about what to prioritize. Sometimes things can become a bit excited, and learning to embrace the turbulence is very valuable.

What do you enjoy doing outside of work?

During the COVID-19 shutdowns, we’ve all, of course, been spending a lot more time inside. I usually have one or more hobby projects that I’m working on, and I really like exploring various educational content on the internet and enjoying it with my wife (and our dog, Clyde. He rarely leaves our side, and seems to be surprisingly interested in watching YouTube videos on the TV with us). Before the lockdowns, we were having a great time exploring the many local businesses and restaurants that downtown Columbia has to offer. We moved here from Kansas City when I started working at QuarkWorks, and there’s never been a shortage of new places to discover.

What is your most used emoji?

It’s a toss-up between :sweat-smile: (😅) and :grimacing: (😬). As a person who regularly deals with anxiety, these two emojis express my feelings often. 😂
He’s Too Late
By: Pamela J. Nikodem
Tags: Self Improvement, Poetry, Domestic Violence, Mental Health, Blue Insights

I seek to build my life one day at a time despite the lateness of the call, I rise.

The values I hold strengthen my reserve, no more to sink in depths of despair.

The cemetery calls, the dawn fades into darkness as the ash of the crypt beckons me.

The crashing waves of air, turn the tide of pain, I rise.
3 Free Tools to Ensure Color Blind-Friendly Designs
By: Briana Lauren
Tags: Accessibility, Color Blindness, Free, Sketch, Design

3 Free Tools to Ensure Color Blind-Friendly Designs

Millions of people suffer from some form of color blindness. Here are 3 tools that will help you be mindful in your designs.

I was talking with a fellow designer recently about a new style guide we are working on. As we were reviewing our color pallet, I mentioned testing for color blind friendliness, since 1 in 12 males suffer from some form of color blindness. My co-worker was shocked. He had no idea that so many people were color blind. I used a tool to show the color difference for the most common case, and we instantly saw quite a few of our lighter colors were indistinguishable. Finding this early allowed us to make important changes to the style guide, which will influence our designs.

After that conversation, I realized it might be helpful to share some tools I use to check if my designs work for people who have any type of color blindness.

#1 Stark

Stark is a Sketch plugin that allows you to preview your work in 8 different types of color blindness. In addition to checking if your designs are color blind-friendly, Stark also contrasts levels if you select two layers. Spark is a new tool for me, but I think it’s really impressive and love the ability to export.

#2 Color Oracle

Color Oracle is an open source project created by Bernhard Jenn and Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso. Now I know the website looks kinda shady but this tool works. Some nice features include keyboard shortcuts, application agnosticism and menu bar access.

#3 Colorblind Web Page Filter

Colorblind Web Page Filter is a web based tool where you can copy a URL and view a side-by-side. You can copy the filter URL, view the side-by-side in full-screen mode and view 4 common types of color blindness. The only problem I have with using this tool is you have to copy a URL, and I prefer to check my designs early in the design process. That being said, you can use Colorblind Web Page Filter to check early prototypes.
How the Media Treated Mexico’s Mass Murder
By: Choire Sicha
Tags: Massacres, Disasters, Metrics

Last week, 50-some people were murdered in the torching of a building in Mexico, in Monterrey. (People were trapped in the casino after gunmen stormed the building; they were ordered out but many panicked and ran to the second floor.) Here’s a look at the amount of front-page web real estate given to the event by English-speaking news organizations, as expressed in the formula of pixel-per-victim. (What the analysis doesn’t take into account is the depth or complexity of coverage, and also the amount of play, as measured in time, of that coverage.) For instance, the Times gave up 0.27% of its digital “front page,” though it should be noted that even that small amount of real estate has lots of value in itself and also that’s multiplied if it was up for several hours, as opposed to several minutes. The tools by which we measure news “attention” online are very much still in development. (via)
Selecting Data in Pandas
By: Mars Escobin
Tags: Jupyter Notebook, Data, Pandas, Data Science

There are two main ways to locate data inside a dataframe.

By integer location — integers that starts with zero and increments by one. All rows and columns have an integer location. Rows are by default indexed by integer locations.

integers that starts with zero and increments by one. All rows and columns have an integer location. Rows are by default indexed by integer locations. By labels — typically strings that represent location of the data. Columns are by default indexed by labels.

Here’s an example dataframe:

By integer location

To select data by integer location, we will use the iloc method which, yep, literally translates to “integer location”.

df.iloc[ ]

.iloc accepts:

integer

list of integers

slice notation using integers as the start and stop values

Using .iloc with an integer will select a single row of data. Here we selected our first row using the integer location, 0.

Using .iloc with a list of integers will select multiple rows of data.

Using .iloc with a slice notation will also select multiple rows of data.

You can select columns using iloc too.

More examples of data selection using the .iloc method!

By label

Many people find it easier to locate data through labels rather than their integer location. To do so, they use the .loc method.

df.loc[ ]

The .loc method accepts:

strings

a list of strings

slice notation using strings as the start and stop values

Before calling on the loc method, we will have to choose a column that will serve as the index of the dataframe. The values in this column will be our row index. Remember, rows are indexed by integer locations by default.

I will use the values inside the “Food” column as the index using the set_index() function. It is important that we include the inplace argument and set it to True. This means that we are permanently replacing the dataframe with this version where Food is the index. If we do not do this, calling on the loc method will raise a Key Error because the Pandas would still use the integer location as the index of the Dataframe.

Using loc with a string to select a single row

Using loc with a list of strings to select multiple rows

Using loc with a data slice to select multiple rows

Selecting columns with labels is so much easier. We don’t even have to use .loc method! We can simply use this syntax:

df['label'] or df.label

For example:

fin
วิเคราะห์พฤติกรรมการใช้ e-Payment
By: Thanwarat Kheawdee
Tags: Botnoi, Data Analysis, Botnoi Classroom

This publication consists of articles related to Data science and AI written from Botnoi’s data scientists and students.

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R3 Corda 會是更好的選擇嗎？
By: Tino Lin
Tags: Hyperledger Fabric, Mandarin, Corda R3, Blockchain, Flowchain

It is a camp for Flowchainers to dig up knowledge about DLT, Tokenomics and Flowchain.

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Launch a Hadoop Cluster in 90 Seconds or Less in Google Cloud Dataproc!
By: Kimoon Kim
Tags: Hadoop Cluster, Google Cloud Platform, Big Data, Hadoop

“I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent!” — Dr. Seuss

Hadoop, our favourite elephant, is an open-source framework that allows you to store and analyse big data across clusters of computers. This is achieved by using Google’s MapReduce programming model which you can learn more about here.

Now launching an on-premise Hadoop cluster is not an easy job. I have been fortunate enough to be involved in the process and know the effort it takes to build one. For reference, it generally takes a day and a half per node to launch a working cluster (e.g. a 10-node cluster usually takes around 15 working days). Who has 15 days to build a 10-node cluster?

Lately in South Africa, there have been a lot of interest in Hadoop among corporates and big data startups. That is why I thought it was a good time to write an article which shows how easy it is to launch a Hadoop cluster (step-by-step) using Google Cloud Dataproc. Cloud Dataproc is Google’s fully-managed Hadoop, Spark, and Flink services that allows you to deploy clusters in a simpler, more cost-efficient way. Let me show you how.

What you need

A Google Cloud project with billing enabled which you can learn how do do it here.

Write down your public IP address by typing “What is my IP” in Google.

1. Network Setup

Step 1

Go to your project dashboard that you have created on console.cloud.google.com