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Michael Didiuk Explains Why XRP (XRP) Is Not a Security
Tags: Crypto, Bitcoin, Smartereum

Michael Didiuk Explains Why XRP (XRP) Is Not a Security https://is.gd/7kJaDZ

Whether or not XRP (XRP) is a security has been lingering in the crypto space for some time. The U.S SEC, earlier this year, said that Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) are not securities. XRP enthusiasts became more worried as the SEC said nothing about XRP.

Michael Didiuk Says XRP Is Not a Security

However, Michael Didiuk recently said that XRP is a currency, not a security. Michael Didiuk is a former member of the U.S SEC. Didiuk also gave his reason why he believes XRP is not a security. He pointed out the Howey test that the Supreme Court laid out in 1946 to determine if an asset is a security. He said there are four factors to determine this, and they are:

SEE ALSO: Cryptocurrency Ratings: Ethereum and EOS (B), Steem, Neo and Cardano (B-), Bitcoin, Dash and Litecoin (C+), Monero and Ripple ©, Bitcoin Cash (C-) / Digital Currency Ratings — Fri Oct 05

Investment of fund

Expectation of profits

A common enterprise

The efforts of a promoter or intermediary to pioneer the expected profit.

Didiuk said it any of these factors are not present in an asset, then it’s a security. Didiuk said that XRP will continue to run without Ripple. As a result, there is an absence of an intermediary in XRP, making it a non-security.

XRP (XRP) Price Today — XRP / USD

XRP (XRP) have seen a considerable level of success in the crypto space. The digital currency is moving at a very fast speed, and anything can happen at this moment. Ripple is also strongly backing up the digital currency, providing it with all the support it needs.

Recently, Phillip Nunn — a well-known digital currency investor — said that XRP will be the Microsoft of digital currency. He said many won’t agree with what XRP stands for at the moment, but it will penetrate the industry just like Microsoft.

Ripple also has plans of dominating the finance industry. Ripple is building international payments that use XRP, further exposing the coin to the world. The firm is also working on a built-in payment system in web browsers. This would allow for payments to vendors, content creators, and loved ones in XRP.

With the recent trend and developments around XRP, the digital currency might surprise the world in 2019.

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Smartereum

#Bitcoin #BTC #ETH #LTC #XRP
[Golang] HTTP request and router. ในวันนี้เราจะมาพูดในเรื่องของการสร้าง…
By: Visarut Junsone
Tags: Golang, Golang Tutorial, Http Request, Programming, Routing

I’m Full-Stack Developer. ReactJS Golang C# Javascript C++ PHP and learning a lot more. Not lazy as it name. “Lazy-Dev”

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Are you AWESOME? We are hiring.
By: Artis Turba
Tags: Part Time Jobs, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Telegram, Artis Turba

Positions now open for Twitter/Telegram Community Liaisons/Ambassadors to assist with spreading ARTIS awareness and assist with questions that may arise in different languages, positions would be for each of the following languages;

1) Japanese

2) Chinese

3) Korean

4) Malaysian/Indonesian

5) Russian

6) Turkish

7) Arabic

More languages to follow shortly.

Note applicants should;

1) Be active on Twitter

2) Be bilingual in both English and the application language

3) Send a short description and links to Twitter and Telegram profiles of himself/herself to business@artisturba.com

4) Person with active social media accounts would receive preference
Merry Chanukah from Beverly Hills
By: Danna Reich Colman
Tags: Beverly Hills, Holidays, Christmas

At a very young age, I remember celebrating Chanukah. I’m not sure if we lit the Menorah or if we even had one. What I remember most is looking forward to receiving a gift every day. My favorite year was the boxing glove one when my brother David and I would stop fighting long enough to put them on before we lit into each other. Each year after that there was one less gift until there was one and then none. I’m pretty sure we had a small tree once or twice but nothing special. It was set up in the corner of our playroom, and it was adorned with some silver tinsel wire without a single ornament. I never knew I was missing the smell of gingerbread baking or latkes or even ham because my mother never cooked except for assisting our live-in housekeeper by tossing the salad. Of course there wasn’t any help on Christmas Day, so we would go to the country club, The Beverly Hills Hotel or the Beverly Wilshire. I didn’t think it was different in anyone else’s home in Beverly Hills until I spent the night one Christmas Eve at my friend Mary Lynn’s house. She had the most beautiful tree — — the kind in magazines and in storefront windows on Wilshire Boulevard. And the presents! There were hundreds (at least that’s what I remember) all around the tree, and I was told I could stay a little while after breakfast to watch my friend open a few. Their tree was the centerpiece of the magnificent living room, and the Christmas Carols and laughter as both sisters took turns opening their gifts made the most joyous music. I’m not sure if anyone noticed as I said my goodbyes and slipped through the back door where I would walk home across the alley to my house with no signs of it being a day any different than any other day. I think I’ve been sulking ever since about Christmas and all the other winter holidays that begin after Halloween. And when my daughters were growing up, they wanted so badly to celebrate, and I tried. But not nearly hard enough. There were several years of Christmas trees interspersed with Chanukah, but I never got into it. Except for Lawry’s every Christmas Eve for prime rib and yorkshire pudding. And those sides! Christmas Day there was always a movie and Chinese food. I prefer birthdays.
😶I Criticized Medium
By: Rolli, Https, Ko-Fi.Com Rolliwrites
Tags: Money, Medium, Corruption, Greed, Life

EXPOSED

😶I Criticized Medium

And haven’t been curated since

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In December of 2019, I publicly criticized Medium’s disastrous algorithm change, which robbed creative writers and artists, myself included, of up to 90% of their incomes, while rewarding generators of long, padded, click-bait style articles.

Until that point, my published Medium pieces were curated and recommended with regularity.

After that point, I was never curated again.

In fact, many of my pieces have been un-curated.

A year later, Medium has “improved” its algorithms yet again. Views are down dramatically for creative writers and artists, and earnings are in the gutter.

My own views/earnings have dropped this month by an additional 75%.

Aren’t billionaires wonderful?

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Due to the ever-accelerating ineptitude and greed of Medium and company, this post will earn no money. If you enjoyed it, please consider buying me a coffee. More coffee=more posts for you to enjoy.

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I am horrified and saddened that I had to find out about this brilliant light in a dark way.
By: Treathyl Fox
Tags: Entrepreneur, Crime, Obituary, Justice, Claps On Medium

Thought-provoking articles, opinion pieces, etc. on diverse topics that promote lively, constructive and productive discussion. Who knows? We may even save the world.

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Time Traveling Guinea Pig
By: J. Mcbride
Tags: Poetry, Humor, Haiku, Comics, Science Fiction

Poet’s Note

If the history of space exploration is any guide, animals will be the first time travelers.

I wonder what will happen if we send the animals too far into the future, and they come back smarter than us? Will the animals treat us like we have treated them? Will they return to our time enlightened or seeking revenge?

Will we have the sense to learn from our time traveling pets, or will we covet their power and seek to destroy them instead? These are the questions that keep me up at night.

Perhaps this one reason I am self-employed and haven’t had a “real” job in over eight years.
Fail Hard, Save Time
By: Bobi Pu
Tags: Debugging, Software Development

Bugs are inevitable. Debugging bad errors is a huge waste of time. Better error messages make engineers moving faster. To get better errors, we need to fail harder.

The following rules are the best practice I summarized, ranking in the order of implementation difficult

1. Fail loudly

Silent failure is terrible.

Product code should fail loudly in the UI, not console or logging. Infra code should fail loudly into its logs, not return NULL.

If we’re writing a library or service, the default should be to throw/spew and the user should have to go well out of his or her way to silence it. Never suppress exceptions (e.g. catch (Exception $e)) unless we’re just logging and plan to re-throw immediately.

Error Dialog

2. Fail verbosely

Fail verbosely instead of tersely. Errors with sufficient detail help reproduce the bug. Errors should contain way more information than you could ever possibly expect to need.

Interactive mode(or cmd line tool) is the best example. When we type something, the computer gives us a result. An ideal error message or log message will capture whatever you need to paste “python -i” or whatever to repro the error.

Error Example

3. Fail close to the root cause

Unlike #1 and #2, this rule involves changing code that doesn’t deal with error handling. It means making our software more brittle.

When you get a stack trace, it typically points to the proximate cause. We want to fail at the ultimate cause. When something goes wrong, you want to know as soon as possible.

The more brittle and intolerant your code, the easier it is to track down the ultimate cause of errors.
Three Questions to Ask Before Asking for the Sale
By: Chris Do
Tags: Startup, Careers, Sales, Career Advice

The Three Things to Ask Before Asking for the Sale

When I meet someone for the first time, my goal is to figure out what our relationship is going to be as quickly as possible. How do I frame our interactions? Is it going to be a student/mentor relationship? Who’s the student? Who’s the mentor? Is this a potential prospect for doing business?

If the person you’re talking to seems like a great prospect, it’s time to figure out a few things about them.

Question Number One: Do I Like This Person?

If you’re going to work with someone, you’re going to want to like them. Why bother building rapport with someone you can’t stand?

So as you interact with someone, ask yourself: Am I getting good energy from you? Do you stand for things that I stand for? Are your stances opposed to mine? Are you self centered? Do I like being around you? Listen and learn throughout your conversation to decide if this is someone you really want to work with.

Question Number Two: Do You Have Work that I can Do?

So you’ve found someone you like. Great! The next step is determining if they have work you can do.

If the person you’re talking to needs help landscaping, that’s nice, but you’re probably not the person to help them. They have work opportunities, but they’re not for you. It’s up to you to decide how much time you want to put into talking with someone who just doesn’t need what you can provide.

Question Number Three: Can You Afford Me?

Before you can continue your dialog with a potential prospect, you have to know if a sale is actually feasible. I meet with a lot of people who want to hire us, but the budget just isn’t there.

Knowing as much about the person as you can before you meet with them can help you determine if they can afford you. Check out their LinkedIn profile. See what they’re working on, or who they’re working for. Does it seem like the kind of business that can afford you?

Still not sure? Ask. Simple as that. Ask “Do you have a budget? Do you mind sharing it with us?” Or ask “What have you spent in the past?” If they don’t want to give you a straight answer, try saying something like”Give me an average — I won’t hold you to it.”

Know Who You’re Talking to Before Asking for the Sale

The more you know about the person you’re meeting with, the easier it will feel to ask for the sale. These three questions will help you figure out if this is someone you want to work with. Finding the answers will help you build the rapport that will make the ask go more smoothly. Put in the work early in the relationship and you’ll be rewarded when it comes time to ask for the sale.

You can also watch a video that we produced on the very topic.

Originally published at www.thefutur.com.
Distributed AI and Big Security
By: Alex Moltzau 莫战
Tags: Artificial Intelligence

Distributed AI and Big Security

Low-power devices may now be able to run some computer vision models

Karen Hao writing for MIT Technology recently wrote an article on computer vision on mobile phones. She was describes that training models for recognising actions in videos has grown expensive fuelling concerns about the technology’s carbon footprint and its increasing inaccessibility in low-resource environments. Researchers at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab have developed a new technique for training on devices with very limited processing capacity.

An algorithm may split video into image frames running recognition on each. It requires the algorithm to ‘remember’ what it has seen.

New approach is extracting basic sketches of objects in each frame, overlaying these. Rather than remembering, there is an impression. This trained the models three times faster than the state of the art quickly classifying hand gestures with a small computer and camera on a small amount of energy.

Karen Hao claims this is interesting in terms of Distributed AI: As more and more AI research gets translated into applications, the need for tinier models will increase. The MIT-IBM paper is part of a growing trend to shrink state-of-the-art models to a more manageable size.

The Biggest Data and Distributed AI

Amazon Web Services (AWS) division generated more than $25 billion in revenue in 2018.

“Amazon wants to become the preferred vendor for federal, state, county, and local government when police and intelligence solutions are required,”

— Stephen E. Arnold, a specialist in intelligence and law enforcement software

The company’s cloud-based facial-recognition software, Rekognition, which can detect age, gender, and certain emotions as well as identifying faces, is already being used by some police departments.

In 2018 Amazon bought Ring, which makes smart doorbells that capture video. Vice News revealed that Ring was helping provide video to local police departments.

If the biggest surveillance or defence contractors can utilise the computer vision on mobile phones or small systems where does it leave us?

A question for today to be explored another day.
Development Update September 24, 2018 | FAB Asia Roadshow | Kanban
By: Fab Info
Tags: Development, Updates, Blockchain, Smart Contracts, Coding

The FAB Foundation provides technical updates related to the project every week.

Mobile Wallet

This past week we have improved the Fabcoin functionality of the mobile wallet, synchronized an upgraded workflow and added in a display for the latest transaction block confirmation. The refresh button has also been added to the control panel to improve the overall workflow of sending and receiving Fabcoin.

This week will continue to upgrade the UI interface and work on process optimization adjustments and improvements for multiple transactions and balances.

Smart Contract

Front-end

The development of the online smart contract wallet is coming to an end, and online servers were set up last week.

Back-end

The smart contract has been running smoothly in the FAB test network, the new mining mechanism, and the full-node wallet. Equihash mining construction incorporates new parameters and upgrades CUDA mining software. Fabexplorer supports smart contracts.

Kanban

Kanban Consensus

This past week we have been working on the encryption algorithm, aggregate signature setup and optimized voting process.We are also embedding the aggregate signature into the Go version of the KANBAN code.

Kanban Tangle Version

Tasks from the past week included:

Handling public key encryption localization

hexadecimal transaction decoding

script signature and verification by adding special function calculations, using Tangle version for verification, testing and debugging.

Next week, we will continue to develop Fabcoin adapters, build smart workflows, and reduce dependencies based on Kanban Tangle version and Fabcoin.

Community Activity

Online Seminar: Reconstruction of Traditional Business Logic in Blockchain

On Saturday, FAB hosted an online seminar titled “Reconstruction of Traditional Business Logic in Blockchain”. The seminar was led by Professor Bo Zhiquan, Founder and Dean of the prestigious International Institute of Applied Science and Technology.

Professor Zhiquan is also the Founder and President of Huasheng Financial Technology and Huasheng Capital, and has more than 20 years of experience in system development and management. He has successfully held many innovation and entrepreneurial competitions in the the United States. Train, coach and incubate in blockchain. The seminar included discussions around the new era of blockchain, big opportunities, a global blockchain development overview, blockchain project evaluation, and blockchain economics.

FAB Asia Roadshow

The FAB roadshow continues this week into Beijing.

September 19-September 21 — Hefei (Anhui)

September 21st — September 23rd — Shanghai

September 24th — September 26th — Beijing

September 27-September 29 — Japan

…

For more information on the itinerary, please contact info@fa.biz.
Meet Grace.
Tags: Life Lessons, Gofundme Kid Heroes, Inspiration, Health, Philanthropy

“So many people showed up to help — I cried because I was so excited,” Grace recalls. “Now, a year later, we have over half of our student population as members.”

With the rapid growth of the club, Grace decided to start a GoFundMe during her senior year of high school to help cover the cost of card making materials. The 500 members of the Letters of Love club meet once a month tucked into the back of the art classroom to craft their important heartfelt messages to children staying at the nearby children’s hospital.

The mission of Letters of Love was something that resonated with many others. There are now over 20 clubs worldwide, and that number is expected to grow to 100 by next year. And just one year into its infancy, Letters of Love was granted 501(c)(3) status to establish the club as a nonprofit organization. So far, the club members have crafted and sent out over 60,000 cards, but Grace’s vision doesn’t end there. While coronavirus sweeps the nation, Grace has a plan in motion to help out.

“We’ve started a video campaign to help the kids in the hospital who aren’t able to see friends and family due to COVID-19,” Grace explains. “We wanted to find a way to let those kids know that the whole community is fighting for them and loving them during this time.”

Letters of Love has been asking folks to send in short videos with a few encouraging words for children spending time in the hospital without loved ones around. The community has certainly shown up — videos from professional athletes on the Minnesota Vikings and the Minnesota Wild have come in, as well as clips from high-profile actors and comedians. After the coronavirus passes, Grace has growth in mind for the new nonprofit organization.

“I decided I’m going to take a gap year before college to focus on building our nonprofit organization,” she says.

With emotional support for children at the heart of her cause, Grace is working on writing a children’s book. From there, she plans to facilitate animal therapy for children in the hospital — both things that require monetary donations from generous folks who believe in her cause. Grace’s passion for helping others started at a young age, but she hopes age doesn’t hold anyone back from making a difference.

“I think kindness is the most beautiful part of being human,” Grace says. “The smallest acts of kindness, such as making a card for someone, can change their life. You’re never too young or too old to make a difference — you can change the world with small acts of kindness.”

Learn how you can support Grace’s organization, Letters of Love.

Letters of Love is accepting videos through the end of May and you can submit a video of your own to lettersoflove.global@gmail.com.
Owner Ties His Dog to the Car and Drags it Along the Road
By: Aravind Balakrishnan
Tags: Animals, Animal Rights, News, Animal Welfare, Dogs

Owner Ties His Dog to the Car and Drags it Along the Road

You won’t believe why he did it

Photo by Pauline Loroy on Unsplash

If you are a dog lover, you might want to look away from this piece of news. It is sure to dent your heart and fill you with anger. However, there is peace at the end.

So, in an incident of unmatched cruelty, a dog was tied to the rear of a car by her owner, and was dragged along the road as the owner drove away in his sedan.

The incident happened in Kerala, the southernmost state of India. Akhil KS, a bike rider, spotted a white taxi car with a dog tied to its trunk. The car was moving at some speed, and the dog, unable to keep up with the pace, was dragged through the hard road.

A street dog, who couldn’t keep calm watching this callousness, ran along with the pet dog, trying to rescue her.

Akhil used his smartphone camera to shoot this horrendous video before stepping out and taking the driver on. The driver was callous and cold in his response, asking the bike rider why he is concerned about some random dog.

Akhil would overcome the driver’s defiance and eventually free the animal, who was in severe pain and bleeding. The insensitive driver soon left.

Police action against the driver

The video of the driver’s cruelty went viral, and Kerala police soon filed a case against the taxi driver, whose name was Yusuf. The driver was filed under Sections 428 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code and the Cruelty to Animals Act. The 62-year-old driver’s license was eventually canceled and the vehicle seized.

Why did the taxi driver do it?

A local online portal Marunadan Malayali reported that the taxi driver admitted to doing this heinous act because, according to his religious beliefs, it was wrong to keep a dog as a pet. As per several reports, it was not the first time the dog was subject to cruel treatment by her owner. It is quite inexplicable as to why the driver would choose to keep a pet in the first place if it was against his religious rules.

What happened to the dog?

Daya, an animal welfare organization, stepped in at the right moment to save the dog. With the help of Akhil, they went on to search for the mistreated pet. She was found in a paddy field not far from the point where she was freed.

The dog was then taken to a nearby veterinary hospital, where she received primary care. The doctor who treated her reported that the dog’s general health was fragile and that she was not fed for several days.

Currently, the dog is with Daya.

There was a massive rage against the driver on social media, and we hope he will receive the proper punishment for his crime.

Not too long ago, there was another unmatched cruelty from Kerala, where a wild elephant was served a pineapple with crackers.

If you want to know more about the incident, google ‘dog dragged Kerala’ and plenty of results would show up.
👨🏻‍🦳🏛 新總統舊國會，加稅、綠能空笑夢：美股 新聞 劃重點 U.S. stock news to watch 11/9/2020
By: Kyle Chu 微風捕手
Tags: 中文, News, 美股, 投資, Stock Market

Being tough on China is what unifies a polarized U.S., former trade negotiator says

Being tough on China is what unifies a polarized United States right now, according to former top White House trade…
5 Useful Golang Modules Developers Should Know in 2021.
By: Bryan Dijkhuizen
Tags: Technology, Golang, Software Development, Programming, Go

5 Useful Golang Modules Developers Should Know in 2021.

These Go modules will save you a lot of time

Go is an incredibly powerful and versatile language for multiple purposes. It’s reliable, fast, and easy to use.

Golang has fantastic documentation. Go also is very easy to scale. Today, we look into the best Go modules to make working with Go even easier. So here’s a list of ten useful Go modules!
The Weatherman
Tags: Funny, Weather, Humor, Cartoon, Comics

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Almost famous cartoonist who laughs at her own jokes and hopes you will, too.
¿Democracia o pragmatismo? Venezuela, China y la paradoja macrista
By: Lautaro N. Rubbi
Tags: International Relations, Argentina, Venezuela, China, Foreign Policy

Ph.D. and MG. in International Relations. Expert in International Security and War. Special interests in new technologies, productivity, and philosophy.

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Multiple input vulnerability bug vs Commercium Founder and Lead Developer, Anthony Clark
Tags: Commercium, Cryptocurrency, Press Release, Miv, Business

The timeline and actions towards creating a patch have been unprecedented and amongst the fastest by a single developer-founder in the cryptocurrency space. It also has been immediately confirmed that all existing Commercium coins are safe.

Anthony, Commercium’s lead developer has single-handedly patched the bug, built and compiled new binaries, liaised with exchanges, all to ensure that both, the network and consumers, are protected from any current and future risks. All this was done on a computer purchased while on a well-deserved break for some R&R. A formidable developer nonetheless interrupting his break to deliver solutions in under 90 mins while others take days or weeks. His attitude towards the bug was seen as if he was merely swatting a fly or mosquito away.

Commercium lead developer has embarked on building a dual blockchain crypto-currency since first launching Commercium. The first coin to attempt this with a thorough plan that compliments Bitcoin as an electronic cash system.

Commercium is purpose built to provide a series of services via its dual chain architecture. One such service is aimed at disrupting the current Masternode model system; through a new and refreshing method called Apostilles. More details can be discovered via the Commercium white paper.

We eagerly await the release of the new chain, Commercium X (CMMX) and the future disruption from Commercium within the disruptive environment of the emerging Cryptographic Currency sector.
Kenny Mathers, Votive Candle Masturbator, Still at Large
By: Christian Cholcher
Tags: Comedy, Humor, Satire, Religion

Authorities continue the search for thirteen-year-old altar boy Kenny Mathers, who fled Sunday services after performing a provocative gesture on a votive candle during divine liturgy.

What started as a run-of-the-mill liturgy at St. Mark’s Orthodox Church in Bare Back, OH, ended in carnage. Witnesses stated that Kenny performed a masturbatory action with the candle while Father Stacey delivered the sermon. During a speech on overcoming carnal desire, parishioners saw Kenny grab a red candle, blow out the flame and proceed to rub his hand up and down the shaft in an attempt to get a laugh from his fellow altar boys. The joke soon turned violent as Kenny continued to fondle the candle, even as the laughter subsided.

Robert Christopher, sub-deacon, saw the spectacle from the sanctuary. “He jacked it off,” said Robert. “No other way to put it. Kid just started whacking off that candle like it was no one’s business. It was nasty, but I gotta hand it to him, he’s got excellent form.”

Others were not as appreciative of Kenny’s talent for choking the chicken. Marybeth Williamson, Sisterhood treasurer and choir soloist spoke after the service. She sat in the back of an ambulance called for several women who fainted as Kenny bashed the candle. She had an emergency blanket draped around her shoulders. Marybeth managed to speak through her shivering:

“It was disturbing. One minute I’m enjoying Father’s moving homily, and the next I’m watching one of our most devout altar boys grab a candle and start…pumping it! He pumped it like he just got back from a week-long vacation to his grandmother’s house! I thought he’d melt the glass jar, he was going that fast. I thought I was going to die!”

Father Stacey, in an attempt to stop Kenny, threw himself between the altar boy and the gathering. Father suffered second degree burns to the face from hot wax shooting out from the molested candle.

As parishioners hid behind their pews in fear of further retaliation, one anonymous soul called emergency services. Within minutes, a cavalcade of police officers and bishops encircled the church, demanding Kenny’s surrender. After a heated standoff, Kenny managed to slip out by way of an old tunnel leading from the sanctuary to the rectory, and he sped off via pocket rocket. A tense chase ensued, ending in police officers losing track of Kenny, who turned down a dirt road into the woods.

Kenny now sits at the top of the state’s most wanted list, with police officers and church officials working in tandem to catch him. Trumbull County Sheriff Max Tomlin believes Kenny has crossed state lines. Kenny’s family denies any knowledge of their son’s whereabouts, but asks for sympathy and for Kenny’s safe return.

Several parishioners, who were absent from the service, started a GoFundMe in an attempt to aid the victims of Kenny’s outburst. Funds will go towards the intensive psychological care many of the parishioners now require. Pledges will also help raise money for replacement candles, which have all been retired since the incident.
My Rape is Valid
By: Laura Fox
Tags: Rape, Consent, This Happened To Me, Healing From Trauma, Women

My Rape is Valid

I have doubted myself for far too long

Image by Shamia Casiano on Pexels

The last train home was packed with panicked people. It was a Sunday so if anyone missed this train, they would have a hard time getting home. Every seat was taken but I didn’t mind. It hurt to sit so even if the carriages had been deserted, I would have chosen to stand anyway.

I shivered as I had forgotten my coat. It was the middle of November and I was wearing a thin jumper dress and a pair of leggings. I studied my outfit. Was this responsible for what had happened? I know you can’t really blame what a woman was wearing, but I gave it a try. I think I needed to understand why it had happened, so I was clutching at straws.

I thought about what my boyfriend had said to me as he dropped me off at the train station. He insisted I catch the two trains home instead of him driving me the forty-minute journey. When I offered to pay for his petrol he said “You need to go home on your own to help your anxiety. I can’t be behind you all the time.” This was quite a clever thing to do. Make a girl with an anxiety disorder feel like a burden. It will force her to be compliant.

I’m not sure how I managed to get home, but when I did, I jumped into the shower. I had watched films and TV programs where a character showers after they have been raped and describes feeling dirty. At that moment, I fully understood what they meant. I scrubbed and scrubbed but I couldn’t get clean enough.

Wait. Is that what this was?

But I love him. I must be wrong.

I hadn’t said no. I said, “I don’t know.” That’s not a no.

But it’s not a yes either.
Am I Losing my Grip on Reality?
By: A Singular Story
Tags: Life Lessons, Freelancing, Self, Love, Mental Health

Standing at the bus stop in Paris, I spot a large vehicle from the corner of my eye and nearly flag it down.

This is how you signal to the driver you want him to pick you up when you’re standing at a stop used for several routes. I start raising my arm before noticing my mistake: It isn’t a bus but a garbage truck. Bar for the fact both vehicles are bigger than a car, this is where the similarity ends.

Granted, I slept only two hours last night but the moment gives me serious pause for thought as it isn’t accompanied by nausea or tingles. Earlier this year, I nearly collapsed several times due to exhaustion and the symptoms were random and debilitating.

Today, my brain played a trick on me without prior warning, a sure sign that I desperately need to rest before something goes badly wrong.

“Cool, another dinner party story for dark days,” I thought before I grabbed my phone and messaged my stepmom to share. There isn’t a day when she doesn’t need cheering up so the sooner, the better.

And then I got on with the rest of my journey to Paris-Nord where I boarded a train to Amsterdam, amped up on two extra strong cappuccinos. European high speed trains offer Wi-Fi so I use travel time to work and I had set myself the modest goal to stay awake until Brussels, i.e. one hour.

At that point, things got even weirder, too weird to even contemplate taking a nap.
I Went to Bat For You
By: Michelle Monet
Tags: Life Lessons, Poetry, Poem, Friendship, Poems On Medium

I Went to Bat For You

I went to bat for you

I stood beside you

When no one would

I knew you wanted to

Save your life…

It was that urgent

I went to bat for you because

No one else saw

What I saw

What I knew

You felt no one

Would see it

Could see it

The urgency

The astronomical

Mind-blowing

Pain.

But I saw it.

People said you seemed fine

That you were fine

But you and I knew

You were not.
“When Empathy Meets the Economic Fallout” #EmotionAIChat Highlights from 6/17/2020
By: Behavioral Signals Team
Tags: Emotionaichat

This month, our #EmotionAIchat Twitter discussed the topic, “When Empathy Meets the Economic Fallout” Below are each of the questions along with some of our favorite answers for you to check out, but if you want to see the whole chat, head over to Twitter and follow the #EmotionAIChat hashtag!

Question 1: What are some of the key ways the pandemic has/will continue to impact the economy? #EmotionAIChat

Question 2: What are some of the AI solutions already in place to help combat these economic changes? #EmotionAIChat

Question 3: How can Emotion AI and its ability to increase empathy impact the economic fallout? #EmotionAIChat

Question 4: Do you think businesses and leaders will be inclined to implement AI that can help their customers/citizens through the use of empathy? Why or why not? #EmotionAIChat

Thanks to everyone that participated in this month’s chat! This is a re-occurring chat on Twitter every month so stay tuned for next month’s date and time! To learn more about Behavioral Signals head to our website or sign up for our newsletter here.
The Different Types of Browser Storage
By: Albin Issac
Tags: Technology, Security, Software Development, Programming, Browsers

Cookies

This is the legacy approach for storing data on the client machine — this was the only option pre-HTML5 web storage.

Cookies store client-side data to enable a personalized experience for the website’s visitors. Cookies are created on the server and are sent to the client on response, and the data is exchanged with the server on every request. The servers can use cookie data to send personalized content to users.

The cookies can be also created, updated, or read through JavaScript: document.cookie . The HTTPOnly cookie flag can be used to restrict the cookie access in JavaScript to mitigate some of the security issues — e.g., cross-site scripting (the cookies are only available for servers to access).

Cookie attributes

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; Expires=<date>

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; Max-Age=<non-zero-digit>

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; Domain=<domain-value>

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; Path=<path-value>

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; Secure

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; HttpOnly Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; SameSite=Strict

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; SameSite=Lax

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; SameSite=None; Secure // Multiple attributes are also possible, for example:

Set-Cookie: <cookie-name>=<cookie-value>; Domain=<domain-value>; Secure; HttpOnly

There are two types of cookies: session cookies and persistent cookies.

Session cookies

Session cookies don’t specify the Expires or Max-Age attributes and are removed when the browser is closed.

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies specify the Expires or Max-Age attributes. The cookies won’t be expired on closing the browser but will expire at a specific date ( Expires ) or length of time ( Max-Age ).

The cookies set on one domain are accessible to other subdomains based on the domain setting in the cookie header.

Set-Cookie: test=test-value; Domain=example.com - the cookie is available for example.com and sub domains

Restriction for the cookies

Can only store 4 KB of data — this limit will vary a little based on the browser implementation

The number of cookies allowed on a domain is restricted based on the browser implementation (e.g., 20)

The total number of cookies across domains is restricted (e.g., 300 ). The oldest cookie is removed once the limit has been reached in order to store the new cookie. The number is based on the browser implementation.

Cookie data is sent to the server on every request. This will consume the additional bandwidth and impact the performance.

Sharing data with third parties is allowed (e.g., third-party cookies)

Cookies lead to multiple security issues, so it’s now recommended to use modern storage APIs wherever possible.
Oprah’s Favorite Thongs 2020
By: Sara K. Runnels
Tags: Satire, Fashion, Culture, Humor, Holidays

Copywriter by day. Humor writer by night. Exhausted by afternoon. @omgskr / sararunnels.com
The Future of Money, Powered by Coinme
Tags: Announcements, Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Bitcoin, Coinme

We founded Coinme in 2014 with a vision of accessibility to digital currencies for everyone.

Since that point, we have increased accessibility through our network of 70+ bitcoin kiosks, a team of Private Client advisors who have conducted millions of dollars in digital currency transactions for clients worldwide, and held a token sale where thousands of participants, from dozens of countries, purchased UpToken, our kiosk-rewards utility token.

And now, in alignment with our vision, we excited to announce that today Coinme launches a collaboration with Coinstar® that will enable access for consumers to buy bitcoin at thousands of select Coinstar kiosks across the United States.

Coinstar owns and operates the largest fully automated, multi-national network of nearly 20,000 self-service kiosks located at mass merchants, grocery and drug stores and financial institutions. This collaboration, powered by Coinme, creates the most extensive network of bitcoin kiosks — providing access to millions of people to join the crypto economy.

To find your neighborhood Coinstar or Coinme kiosk, click here.

Locations map via coinme.com/coinstar

This collaboration is just one of many initiatives that the team at Coinme is focused on this year, and we can’t wait to share what’s next.

It is our belief that by providing easy access to digital currency we can help level the playing field so that everyone has a fair chance for financial prosperity. Our motto, Together We Rise, symbolizes this belief and our intention of empowering people everywhere with the access and knowledge needed to utilize the power of digital currencies.

With this intention, we look forward to being your trusted partner for buying, selling and storing digital currencies in the years to come.
Reisemittler werden sich ändern
By: Reinhard Lanner
Tags: Hotel, Hotelmarketing, Online Reisebüro, Reisemittler

in In Fitness And In Health
Educación en la era digital
By: Entel Ocean
Tags: Educación En Chile, Educación, Tecnología, Futuro De La Educación

in In Fitness And In Health
Adventure
Tags: Creativity, Poetry, Ideas, Adventure, Writing

The excitement builds, anticipation fluttering

rushing around to grab all we need

It’s been so long since the last escape

The feeling of the open road a distant memory

Childlike in wonder, fearless eagerness

Only one plan to head to the sea

The roar of the engine marks the start

Throwing up a cloud of dust we leap into the unknown

Breaking the rules, abandoning formalities

This is our time now, adventure is calling

First, we can sense it

Then we feel the cool of the breeze on our sun-scorched skin

The smell of the salt lingering in the air

Her untouched beauty unfolds

Before our eyes

And we are home

For she is home
Are You Really in Charge of Your Choices?
By: Sherry S
Tags: Branding, Marketing, Consumerism, Lifestyle, Customer Behavior

Are You Really in Charge of Your Choices?

A few things marketers don’t want you to know

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Throughout the most part of 2020, COVID-19 confined shoppers to their homes and left high street retailers struggling. But it hasn’t held back some of the online retailers from thriving. Amazon Prime Day, for example, saw the revenue of third-party sellers jump by nearly 60% from the previous year. And Alibaba’s Singles Day sales marked record growth too, bringing in a staggering $75 billion.

Clearly, the pandemic hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of holiday shoppers, particularly the impulsive ones. In fact, impulse shopping has grown by 18%, according to a 2020 poll.

But why are perfectly rational individuals making incredibly irrational choices when it comes to purchasing decisions? It’s often because your ability to make choices is influenced and manipulated all the time.
CSS Grid in 5 Minuten verstehen — und in Responsive Sketch Layouts übertragen
By: Christine Vallaure
Tags: Css Grid, Sketch, Web Design, Grid System, Responsive Design

The best collection of articles, tips, tutorials, and stories on designing and prototyping with Sketch and beyond

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An introduction to Cloudera’s Datalennials
By: University Recruiting
Tags: University, Big Data, Hadoop, Internships, Cloudera

The University Recruiting program at Cloudera just got a facelift. We recognize that the best and brightest minds come from near and far, and that “fresh eyes” are crucial to fostering the environment that drives innovation and open source technology. Our interns have a huge impact on the projects at Cloudera, and that impact reaches far beyond the company level.

This season, we are tackling problems that are “Bigger than Ourselves,” and we mean it in lots of ways. We are here to offer new perspectives, make an impact, and to disrupt things (ordo ab chao! — order out of chaos). From social justice to climate change, cyber security to government intelligence, we are deeply involved in important and relevant open source projects. We are part of the millennial generation that is transforming Big Data, not just using it every day. We are Cloudera’s Datalennials.

As a Datalennial, you can expect a few different things during your time here: you will meet the executives, co-founders and top technical leaders, and you will teach them a thing or two. You’ll meet investors and influential partners like Accel, you’ll work side-by-side on relevant projects with some of the most experienced in Big Data/Hadoop, and you will be dragged to baseball games with the rest of the squad. There’s other stuff, too, but you’ll have to come see for yourself.

Here are of some projects we were deeply involved with last season:

● Apache Spark / Apache Avro integration

● Fine-grained diagnostics for Apache Oozie, Impala, and Apache HBase

● Apache Sqoop2 on Apache Spark

● Tooling (SparkAid) for performance and productivity on Apache Spark

● Tooling (Spark Timeseries) for robust time-series analysis on Apache Spark

● Incremental Metadata Extraction & Metadata Analytics for Cloudera Navigator

● Generalization of Spark-Client module in Hive repository

We invite you to read future blog posts about why the Datalennials at Cloudera are one of the most important teams in the office(s), and why a lot of them keep coming back for more.
On Bullshit in Art and Data Science
By: Vlad Alex, Merzmensch
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Published Tds, Art, Culture, AI

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道德是來約束自己，談道德綁架陷阱、常見的謬誤話術？
By: 侯智薰 Raymond Ch Hou
Tags: 優勢, 中文, 羅輯思維, 道德, 觀點

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A Look at Recursion in JavaScript with Examples
By: Clarian North
Tags: JavaScript, Recursion, Programming, Tutorial, Coding

What Is Recursion?

Recursion is a programming technique that solves complex problems by elegantly simplifying a repetitive execution into smaller executions of a similar nature.

Upon even closer examination, by leveraging the call stack in JavaScript, recursion winds up nested functions and then unwinds them. In many instances, implementing recursive solutions can help provide readability and reduce the time needed to debug code.

But let’s not get ahead of ourselves. To begin with, let’s first define recursion. Recursion is a function that calls itself.

For example, here’s some pseudo-code showing how recursion works:

function recursion() {

return recursion()

}

recursion()

Notice that we are executing our recursion function twice, once within the scope of our function, and again outside in the global scope.

We execute the recursion function in the global scope first which then runs the recursion function script, which then calls the recursion function from within our recursion function. This, in turn, runs the function again, which again calls recursion — adding recursion continuously to our call stack, thereby creating a loop.

With the code as it is, an infinite loop of nested functions is being added to the call stack.

The call stack is an area providing continuous memory which allows for local context and keeps track of multiple functions. The event loop then monitors the call stack and sends events or function callbacks whenever the call stack is empty.

If we were to run the recursion function above in the dev console we would receive the following error:

This brings us to how we set up a recursive pattern in a function.

By providing a base case to our recursive function, we can regulate the call stack of our nested functions. The base case is our condition which we can write that switches our call stack from being recursively wound to unwound.
House of Candy
By: Fọlábòmí Àmọ Ó
Tags: Evil, Witch, Poetry, Haunted House, Sweet

Sleep

my little child

Drift

into the world

of my magical dream

Take the candy

from the house

in the woods

Don’t you like

the sweetness

on your tongue?

Don’t you want to

enjoy that taste

for the rest

of your youth?

So stay with me

in this house

of candy

And sugar

would never be

the problem.