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Contagion in the Collective Subconscious Should be Your Real Fear
Tags: PTSD, Marketing, Mental Health, Podcast, Branding

Whether it’s family members whose past includes the holocaust, an attack or terror campaign, being near the World Trade Center, near genocide in Rwanda, or any other any traumatic event…

Generational trauma is real.

Rachel Yehuda is the Director of the Traumatic Stress Studies Division at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. She’s discovered that “epigenetic changes biologically prepare us to cope with the traumas that our parents experienced.” This is a double-edged sword that (mainly) can hurt us.

Here’s how, “In an August 2015 study published in Biological Psychiatry, Yehuda and her team at New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital demonstrated that gene changes could be transmitted from parents to children.”

Specifically, she’s found that children of mothers with PTSD are three times more likely to be diagnosed with PTSD than children in her control groups. Also, children of survivors are three to four times more likely to struggle with depression and anxiety or engage more in substance abuse, when either parent suffered from PTSD.

Your family’s genes and collective consciousness is with you whether you like it or not. The challenging part is getting the most accurate information you can. You’re not just walking through a graveyard looking for ghosts, you’re walking through a minefield of emotions. Be careful, but don’t be too afraid to chart a safe course and then explore.

For those familiar with PTSD and intergenerational trauma, William Faulkner’s cautions ring true…

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

Until you put the bad parts of the past to rest with therapy and medicine. 😉

Tomorrow we’ll talk about looking for cycles of traumas from the past in our own lives.

– Chad Grills, Mission Founder and CEO
If Only I Had White Privilege When Looking For A Job
By: Rebecca Stevens A.
Tags: Diversity, Equality, White Privilege, Black Women, Racism

I wake up in the morning and start my job search. I set an objective of applying to at least 5 jobs today. I head to LinkedIn, happy that I can find a number of job adverts in one place. I don’t have to worry if the recruiter checks out my profile and sees my photo— in the majority of cases, I look exactly like the recruiters themselves, so if my qualifications match what the company is looking for, they won’t hesitate twice before calling me in for an interview.

Even if it is not a human being scanning applications, I know that the computer program or the algorithms scanning resumes will not discriminate against me. I'm not afraid of artificial intelligence machine bias — it is used to automatically shortlisting people that look like me. That’s such a relief, I don’t have to worry that one look at my LinkedIn profile would completely disqualify me from even being considered for the job.
Trinity
By: Darryl Willis
Tags: Christianity, Poetry, Poets Unlimited

photo by PhilipBarrington | pixabay.com

In the beginning

before there was death

was the Speaker,

Word, and Breath.

The three that is one and

the one that is three:

a paradox

and mystery.

A dance of love

to receive and to give;

eternal returning,

breathe in and live.
¿Qué criterios usas para medir tu éxito?
By: Diez Agencia
Tags: Marketing Digital, Marketing Elemental

in Both Sides of the Table
How to Overcome 5 Remote Work Challenges
By: Harun Güneş
Tags: Problem Solving, Work, Business, Motivation, Technology

How to Overcome 5 Remote Work Challenges

Never take your laptop to your bed

Photo by Mimi Thian on Unsplash

Remote work is one of the hottest topics today, it is not only good for lowering huge office costs but also bringing ease to businesses. Thanks to technological improvements, remote work is now commonly used by companies and freelancers. According to FlexJobs remote work increased 400% over the last 10 years.

Working from home will save both employee and employer time. Thanks to remote work, people have more time for themselves instead of spending time going to work and back home. It also provides you with the flexibility that you can choose the place to work, even during travel.

When an employee doesn’t feel good, giving the opportunity to work from home stops the spread of illness. Remote work is the best way to increase the limit so that you can get more customers and top talents worldwide without moving to other countries.

Challenges

Since it has many benefits, there are also some difficulties to overcome.

Distraction

Making your nest a workplace can be a bit confusing. But you should always separate them. You can make a plan that you are not checking Instagram or Twitter within working hours. Or not watching your favorite Turkish serial.

Remember, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Another solution can be setting up a dedicated workplace. If you have a possibility, you can make a corner workplace where you are doing only what you do in the office.

Miscommunication

Thanks to some tools (below listed), miscommunication is not a very big problem today. Maybe not as often as in the office but you can still have a connection with colleagues. Some messaging tools can provide instant support but the weekly or daily team meetings can be very helpful for workflow and motivation.

Overworking

While working from home it is easy to forget the time, because whatever you do, you are still at home. I usually set the time for the beginning and end of my workday, to track time, so I know when I am actually done. And don’t forget to take breaks.

People around

Unless you are living alone, there is another challenge. Family, housemates, or even pets. You need to make it clear when you are working and when you are not.

Being at home doesn’t mean you are available.

Let others know the timing that you are planning for your daily tasks, and when you are finishing, but never skip the time that you need to spend with your family.

Motivation

It is actually one of the biggest problems of humanity. Not only while working or studying, but even while practicing your hobbies. For me working from the place where I sleep was a bit difficult in the beginning. Like for distraction (the difference is lack of motivation is a long-term challenge), you need to separate work and home first.

During my remote work journey, I found 3 ways that you might want to apply, too:
Ubcoin Manifesto: Right to Wealth. Right to Anonymity. Right to Protection
By: Ubcoin. Cryptocurrency Reimagined
Tags: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Ubcoin Product, Ethrerum

Cryptocurrency holders and those who want to become crypto investors face ubiquitous limitations imposed by the state and financial institutions. Such impositions include stricter crypto investment regulations, ICO bans, and obligatory disclosure of personal data of crypto market investors. Furthermore, he failure of many other platforms highlights the importance in ensuring the protection of users’ assets.

We believe that such actions on the part of certain (not all) regulatory agencies, banks and other institutions make crypto market less autonomous and infringe on the three basic rights of citizens in the modern digital economy. Specifically, the right to wealth, the right to anonymity and the right to protection.

We know and we believe that it is possible to build a crypto world based on equal rights. A crypto world that does not allow money laundering or illicit trade, observes the principles of morality and justice, ensures protection from scams and fakes but is concurrently decentralized, free, uses common sense and is self-regulated.

1. Right to Wealth. No one is allowed to prevent a person from becoming a crypto investor and managing their assets in order to achieve financial success. Banks block crypto currency accounts ‘for establishing the provenance of funds’, crypto exchanges introduce minimum thresholds, states either ban cryptocurrencies or try to control them by imposing various regulations and taxes. Such limitations must be removed.

2. Right to Anonymity. No one is allowed to deprive a person of the right to confidentiality of their personal data. States and banks ban user anonymity and require people to register all transactions and disclose user information. Such bans must be lifted.

3. Right to Protection. A person joining the crypto community has the right to count on the protection of their assets and transactions. In practice, crypto market investors face unsophisticated safety systems in crypto exchanges, ICO and P2P platforms along with the absence of rules regulating these marketplaces, which makes users’ assets easy prey for fraud schemes and hacker attacks. This situation must change.

It is within our power to ensure that these rights are observed. Join Ubcoin — together we will make the crypto world better.

https://ubcoin.io/
Stupid, stupid, stupid. Colin Kaepernick tweet lights up twitter. When will athletes learn?
By: Paul Dughi
Tags: Wtf, 49ers, Colin Kaepernick

I’ll admit it. I have one of the man-crushes on 49ers QB Colin Kaepernick. Despite a sub-par season in 2014, I still remember those brilliant moments from the year before, running up to the SuperBowl.

So imagine how disappointed I was when #7 had a social media blunder. First, he’s trying to capitalize on the flooding in Houston. Second, he’s tried to coin this phrase #7tormsComing, which doesn’t — on its face — make any sense. And finally, it’s just plain insensitive and disrespectful.

The tweets been deleted and Kap’s apologized — or tried to.

But it was too late to walk it backwards. The twitter-verse lit him, and rightly so.
Be Gentle
By: Lubna Yusuf
Tags: Kindness, Haiku, Poetry, House Of Haiku, Life

Haiku is a form of poetry usually inspired by nature, which embraces simplicity. We invite all poetry lovers to have a go at composing Haiku. Be warned. You could become addicted.

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Pity the dog
By: Dermott Hayes
Tags: Ear Infection, Resistance Poetry, Poetry, Dogs, Politics

Trump found in dog’s ear: this is not a metaphor

Pity the dog

with such a burden,

I know you scratched

it was a warning,

you howled,

you whined,

and I ignored you.

I couldn’t look,

I wouldn’t see,

he hounds my life

my nights,

my mornings.

But when you began

to drag your bum

across the carpet

I knew the time

had come to

fix it,

a mutt with fleas

is better than

a POTUS.
The Woman as Wandering Wise Man
By: Lisa Martens
Tags: Sexism, Travel, Feminism, Women, Spirituality

Women were and are pressured to get married and be caregivers. More and more, we have the option of careerism (with a glass ceiling, of course).

But even so, careerism feels more like a terrible gift. That’s how it felt to my confused, teenage self as well.

I get to be stressed all the time! I get to work in professions that, in some cases, contribute to the abuse of the planet/other people! I get to be called a bad mother for working, and a bad employee for breast feeding! Hooray?

Men have the luxury of abandoning both family and career to pursue a spiritual path. Women, if they break from the traditional role, are sort of accepted in the career world, and severely limited when it comes to openly exploring the spiritual world.

I am a gateway to bringing more people into this world, but I can’t explore my spiritual side as freely, as openly as a man can? Without being ridiculed or called illogical? Without being warned constantly about the dangers of rape?

Because when you say “woman traveling alone” that’s what people remind you of. Nobody thinks “spiritual quest” when a woman first tells them they’re traveling alone. The concern goes right to the physical. Injury. Bondage. Violation. The base dangers, the primal emotions.

The impulse many people have when a woman says they’re traveling solo is to keep women down on the earth instead of letting them fly…by changing the discussion to be one about responsibility instead of liberation.

For the past three years, I’ve been living a nomadic life. I like to think that I have been on my own spiritual journey. But many people don’t see it that way: Men try to pair up with me or save me. Some people think I sleep around in order to afford traveling, and others believe my travels are just a series of flings.

Is it so strange to want to look at the stars alone, and sober? Is it weird to choose to be outside not because I’m broke, but because I too want to feel sand under my toes? Is it really that weird that I enjoy eating alone? That I’d rather eat at a cheap, local spot than have someone buy me a fancy meal? That I chose to learn Odissi dance in India, volunteer, do yoga, and work in a hostel?

Does it make me a bad woman, to want to be a traveling wise man?
Tips On Filling Out Your March Madness Bracket For Whose Time Is Up Next
By: Kristin Nalivaika
Tags: Wit Whimsy, Times Up, March Madness, Woody Allen, Donald Trump

If you want any chance of winning your office pool, heed this handy advice!

Filling out brackets can be daunting. Especially when, in industries varying from entertainment to journalism to government, so many people brought their A game to disgusting, inappropriate behavior in 2017!

Some of these individuals have experienced the spotlight of accusation in prior seasons, but the lack of results have kept on disappointing us year after year. Other entrants are fresh faces appearing in the tournament for the first time.

There are a million different combinations for the 68 individuals in the bracket who have not yet suffered appropriate consequences for their despicable actions. If you want any chance of winning your office pool, here are some tips on picking the Final Four creeps.

Never pick your winners based on history and prestige. Last year’s runaway victor, Harvey Weinstein, isn’t set to make a comeback anytime soon. It would be unimaginable if he won again this year.

A 16th ranked seed will never beat a number one seed in the first round. Sure, the physics TA who would uncomfortably stare at you in class seems like a promising choice, but it will bust your bracket!

If we’ve learned anything, it’s that surprises happen all the time. We were looking forward to placing Seacrest as our big upset to make it to the Elite 8, but then he didn’t even make it into the tournament. He was so close, it’s like WHAT HAPPENED?!

Teams with blue as their color have won the past 14 championships, making that Best Buy employee who followed you around the store for too long a contender to win it all.

Mel Gibson making it far is always an interesting choice. Expect him to either lose to a lower seed or make it to the Final Four.

A number 12 seed will always beat a number five seed in the first round. So make sure to pick that no-name comedian who crudely hits on his female colleagues, as he’ll make it further than you think!

Don’t forget about players like Kobe Bryant and Gary Oldman that made jaw-dropping tournament appearances in the early 2000s and have recently made rousing comebacks. They shouldn’t be counted out just yet.

Two number one seeds have never advanced to the finals, but this year, I can really see top picks Donald Trump and Woody Allen making it to the big dance. Both have been strong contenders in the tournament over the past 25 years, and it would be amazing to see one of them make it through to the end.

In fact, I really wish both of them could “win” this year. We’ve been waiting so long!
Lights Out
By: Sebastián González De León
Tags: Life, Literature, Poetry, Poem, Fear

History holds a mystery

Mystery holds a history

With a somber jealousy

That appears on the present we all try to understand

So we struggle in the past looking for meaning

But the light does not go on in our collective caricature of a mind

For there is no lightbulb

And it turned out that there is no switch

There is only a dark room in a present tense

That we explore together

Laughing, crying, joking, talking, fighting

Because some things used to be funny

Some sad

Some used to be jokes

Some belonged in a conversation

And some were reasons to fight for

Today they are things

That no longer hold that same meaning

Like the words: “phone”, “booth”, or “truth”

Or doesn’t even have a relation anymore

Like the pencil and the cassette

But as things change

Some of us start to get scared when no lights are on

Or no switch is there to be found

Some take a deep breathe

Calm down, relax and let the darkness hug us and caress us

To calmly crawl

And just look for each other with calm whispers
feelers
By: Darryl Willis
Tags: Written Tales, Poetry, Horror, Poetry On Medium, Poem

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Out of Tune — VIFF 2019. Although prison is no laughing matter…
By: Jennifer Hammersmark
Tags: Review, Narcissism, Prison, Incarceration, Movie Review

At times this film is funny and lighthearted, but at it’s heart it illuminates the brutality that exists within us, and within the system, when circumstances are forced. In prison, there is no doubt that a hierarchy exists, and how would we conduct ourselves in those conditions?

There are characters that you will love, ones you will hate, and often I found myself going back and forth between the two as the landscape changes.

Great film and worth the watch. Who will you love/hate, and will your opinion change throughout the film? A very provocative look at human behaviour.
ETH/USD Futures Trading
Tags: ICO, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Profit from the price movement of the eth/usd pair by using our DApp to bet on the future direction of eth/usd. Depending on the duration of the contract, bets can be made 24 hours, 3, 7, 14 days into the future. The most important concepts you need to understand before using the DApp is described as follows.

Leverage

The DApp provides a maximum leverage of 3,200%. Thus, if you deposit 1 ether of trading capital, you get 32 ether of leveraged capital . Your leveraged capital is what you place in the order book. All or some of this leveraged capital can be matched in the order book. The matched amount is called the matched leverage capital and this is what is used to calculated your trading profit & loss.

Contract Duration

Each futures contract has a start and end time expressed in ethereum blocks. The opening price (eth/usd) is derived using the timestamp of the start block and the closing price is derived using the timestamp of the ending block.

Note that no more trading can be done once the contract starts. The matching of buyers and sellers is done by the DApp during the trading period (usually 24 hours) which precedes the start of the each contract.

Maximum Profit & Loss

There is a maximum profit price and a maximum loss price. This means that regardless of the final eth/usd price at the end of the contract, your profit or loss is limited to the maximum amounts possible. This feature is configurable. The typical value is 3% up or down on the opening price.

If leverage is set at 3,200% and the maximum profit and loss is set at 3%, the profit you make on the futures contract is approximately 93% of the trading capital deposited. The reverse is true for maximum loss. Only deposit trading capital you can afford to lose.

Buy Ether Futures

If you think the price of eth/usd will go up at the end of the contract period, buy ether futures. From the above chart, you can see that the contract has a start and end time. At the end of the contract, the price is higher than the opening price, so you make a profit. However, the profit is capped at the maximum profit price (3% up from the opening price) even though the market price ended up higher.

Sell Ether Futures

Betting that the eth/usd price will fall at the end of the futures contract, you sell ether futures to profit from the anticipated fall. However, it doesn’t work out that way. At the end of the contract, the price is up instead of down. So, you make a loss on the trade.

Useful Links

Ether/Dollar Futures DApp -live on the Rinkeby Testnet

Rinkeby Ether Faucet

5 min Manual for Futures DApps

Documentation for Futures DApps
This Powerful Analogy Taught Me The True Meaning Of Happiness
Tags: Happiness, Positive Thinking, Life Lessons, Meaning, Life

17th June 2015. That was the turning point of my life.

I still remember it to this day. The first lesson of the day was just about to commence, and as I recall, it was an Arithmetic class.

Everyone was loitering around their desks, swapping gossip, and talking about the latest episode of How I Met Your Mother, where apparently Robin had just rejected Ted for the umpteen time.

Then Stephen entered the class. In a wheelchair.

The reactions were instantaneous. Loud exclamations of “OMG! What happened to you!” filled the air, and everyone flocked to him expressing their concern.

A little background about Stephen. He was one of our college’s star athletes, excelling in both basketball and floorball. In fact, he was on an exclusive scholarship, where the school actually paid for his education in exchange for his great contributions in their sporting arena.

Needless to say, Stephen was quite a popular jock in our class. Boys wanted to be him, girls wanted to be with him.

After much interrogation, it turned out that Stephen was on the way home the day before, where a careless driver who wasn’t paying attention to the road struck him with his car. Thankfully, the driver managed to somewhat brake before the impact, minimizing the damage caused.

But it was still two broken legs. The doctor told him he could not get back on his feet for at least eight months, and definitely could not be as adept as he once was until at least two years later.

This news would have crushed the spirits of anyone in Stephen’s position. But surprisingly enough, he was still as cheerful and radiant as before. He even joked that he could now “join the Paralympics.”

Needless to say, I was intrigued. Here was someone whose very purpose in life has been taken away from him, and he still appeared unfazed by it all.

So after the lesson, I mustered the courage and approached him at his desk.
Personal Geology
By: Amy Jasek
Tags: Geology, Poetry, Autobiography, Self Portrait, Pom Prompt

I have been working on this poem for a while but am publishing it now in response to POMprompt #16 ; this is the first of three poems that I have for that prompt. 3 at 43, singing the song of another year of me …
Mona Lisa’s Smile
By: Sam Kimberle
Tags: Inspiration, Smile, Poetry, Art, Relationships

Your smile

is just like that of

Mona Lisa —

I’ve seen her myself

surrounded by glass

and arm that spirals

embracing all of those

who wished to see her too.

A small portrait alone

in a white room

on a white wall

drowned out by the

white noise of on-lookers

humming and shuffling,

swarming to witness

the tiniest smile

up close — impossibly

moving around her as if

she is the center of

the galaxy or the gallery?
Computer Science & History
By: Paul Fishwick
Tags: Engineering, Education, Mathematics

Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t a new phenomenon. For that matter much of what we value in the way of formalism in Computer Science, isn’t new either since computers were analog (and human) before they were digital. Abstract concepts such as memory, state, event, iteration, and branching are ubiquitous in the real world. One exploring these concepts should not have to stare at a computer screen to learn them. The concepts are larger in scope than found in digital technologies. Jessica Riskin wrote a nice historical piece entitled Frolicsome Engines on the history of AI through mechanical automata, . In Computer Science (CS) we tend to be historically, if not culturally, illiterate. There are many issues at play here, with the main issue being that within Engineering, there are few electives since the goal is to educate students for specific skill sets. Maybe topics such as philosophy and history are tangential to CS? The core skill sets, theoretical or practical, stem from early mathematical research in the 1930s. Before the 1930s, I suppose we tend to think of the history of computing as non-existent. Do other areas in science or the liberal arts such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry suffer the same fate of removing history from their curricula? Do math teachers not talk of history when covering geometry, algebra, and calculus? I don’t have a good answer to that, but I do need to start digging for answers.
Project Euler — Problem 59 Solution
By: Yan Cui
Tags: Functional Programming, Programming, Project Euler Solutions

Project Euler — Problem 59 Solution

Each character on a computer is assigned a unique code and the preferred standard is ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). For example, uppercase A = 65, asterisk (*) = 42, and lowercase k = 107.

A modern encryption method is to take a text file, convert the bytes to ASCII, then XOR each byte with a given value, taken from a secret key. The advantage with the XOR function is that using the same encryption key on the cipher text, restores the plain text; for example, 65 XOR 42 = 107, then 107 XOR 42 = 65.

For unbreakable encryption, the key is the same length as the plain text message, and the key is made up of random bytes. The user would keep the encrypted message and the encryption key in different locations, and without both “halves”, it is impossible to decrypt the message.

Unfortunately, this method is impractical for most users, so the modified method is to use a password as a key. If the password is shorter than the message, which is likely, the key is repeated cyclically throughout the message. The balance for this method is using a sufficiently long password key for security, but short enough to be memorable.

Your task has been made easy, as the encryption key consists of three lower case characters. Using cipher1.txt (right click and ‘Save Link/Target As…’), a file containing the encrypted ASCII codes, and the knowledge that the plain text must contain common English words, decrypt the message and find the sum of the ASCII values in the original text.
The Guitarist
By: Jl Matthews
Tags: Short Story, Storytelling, Fiction, Music, Microfiction

The Guitarist

A 100-word story

Whoever said, “the hits just keep on coming,” had never met Jimmy.

At 22, everyone was sure he was the next Dylan. Four years later, the ideas had all dried up, and the money had all slipped away.

He’d put away his old guitar, which had given him so much at first. It had failed him when he needed it most — no hits, not even the start of a tune.

But now, it was all he had left. So he gave it one more try.

And wouldn’t you know it, Jimmy found something special — a hit.

Life’s funny that way.
Scribblings from the Desert
By: Lynne Nardizzi
Tags: Writing, Life Lessons, Poetry, Poem, Life

I can’t come out

and play today

I’m busy

incubating

my soul

deep in hibernation

in my twilight cave

it may take a while

it will take some time

some time it will take

to incubate

feeling all the feels

no running from

the void

covered

like a blanket

darkness

is a comfort

to let go

and just

let be

and in being

becoming

that what I am
Laughter vs Melancholy: What’s Best to Captivate Your Readers Attention
By: Nuno Fabiao
Tags: Writing, Sadness, Love, Life, Collateral Beauty

People like Jerry Seinfeld or Robin Williams are gods of the modern world. They personify humor in it’s best and pure way, by ridiculing life itself whenever they can.

We live in a society that fetishizes laughter.

Yet, there are always two choices you have in order to face life. Or you laugh or you cry. Or you see humor on it. Or you see sadness.

There is no plan B or C.

And society, for centuries, in a very intelligent way found that is much better (at least easier) to laugh about life.

In life, you pass through so many pain episodes, rather you lose someone, or be rejected by someone, or have a disease, or another hard thing to deal with.

So, like my dear mentor, Jim Rohn usually use to say, when something bad happens to you, you should always ask yourself the question: Isn’t that interesting?
Alias Function
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Poetry, Musing, Love, Imagination, Image

Alias Function

Love and other mysteries

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

Your name is still the secret that plunges between us

caught along with the scent of you

still in my head

I don’t know how to lead anyone through this confusion

the mastery of mocking flames

licking at every mouth

These letters keeping me just two feet from your white and glass

doorway

put up like a wreath to terrify others

This body tries its best to follow along, cut inside the lines

in case some mistakes are irreparable

Just don’t cut me off yet, just don’t leave me hanging from

the precipice of your longing

and the words that come out

The smoky misfit hiding in my house

has disrobed and is stepping outside now

to gape at the crowd

Nothing prepared, no speech of unity giving away part of the heart

but a cold liminal darkness

when I didn’t see your face among them
React Hooks: useState and useEffect.
By: Veronika Dodda
Tags: Flatiron School, JavaScript, Hooks, React Hook, React

useState is a Hook that lets to add React state to function components.

Example of useState Hook:

import React, { useState } from 'react';



function Example() {

// Declare a new state variable, which we'll call "count" const [count, setCount] = useState(0); return (

<div>

<p>You clicked {count} times</p>

<button onClick={() => setCount(count + 1)}>

Click me

</button>

</div>

);

}

Here is an state example with a class component to compare:

import React from 'react'; class Example extends React.Component { state = {

count: 0

};



render() { return (

<div>

<p>You clicked {this.state.count} times</p>

<button onClick={() => this.setState({ count: this.state.count + 1 })}>

Click me

</button>

</div>

);

}

}

What does calling useState do? It declares a “state variable”. The variable is called count but we could call it anything. This is a way to “preserve” some values between the function calls — useState is a new way to use the exact same capabilities that this.state provides in a class. Normally, variables “disappear” when the function exits but state variables are preserved by React.

What do we pass to useState as an argument? The only argument to the useState() Hook is the initial state. Unlike with classes, the state doesn’t have to be an object, it can be a number or a string. In our example, we just want a number for how many times the user clicked, so pass 0 as the initial state for the variable. We could use the call useState() twice if we need to store two different values in the state .

What does useState return? It returns a pair of values: the current state and a function that updates it. This is why we write const [count, setCount] = useState() . This is similar to this.state.count and this.setState in a class, except we get them in a pair.
Türkiye’de Sol’un Gelişimi: İkinci Bölüm / Silahlı Mücadelenin Başlaması ve 71 Darbesi
By: Salih Soysal
Tags: Mahir Çayan, Türkçe, Politika, Sol, Deniz Gezmiş

in Both Sides of the Table
CSS 專家密技/CSS Protips 14–24
By: Jane Lin
Tags: CSS, Frontend, Notes

▎19. 為破圖定義樣式

只要一點 CSS 就可以美化所有破圖：

img {

display: block;

font-family: sans-serif;

font-weight: 300;

height: auto;

line-height: 2;

position: relative;

text-align: center;

width: 100%;

}

接著新增一個 偽元素規則 (pseudo-elements rules) 來顯示使用者訊息，以及這張破圖的 URL 參考：

img::before {

content: "We're sorry, the image below is broken :(";

display: block;

margin-bottom: 10px;

} img::after {

content: '(url: ' attr(src) ')';

display: block;

font-size: 12px;

}

想學習更多這類樣式技巧，可以參考 Ire Aderinokun 的 原始文章。

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I'm on Fire
By: Gillian Brassil
Tags: Uti, Urinary Tract Infections, Home Remedies, Gillian Brassil, Comics

I write, draw, fact-check, and translate. Once I was on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. (I did not become a millionaire.)

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Facebook Reportedly Prepping for Post-Election Unrest
Tags: Misinformation, Technology, Election 2020, Facebook, Social Media

The social network is preparing tools that slow the spread of viral content and lower the bar for misinformation.

By Stephanie Mlot

With only eight days remaining until the US presidential election, Facebook is bracing for the inevitable post-results fallout.

The social network has reportedly readied internal tools that slow the spread of viral content and lower the bar for “suppressing potentially inflammatory posts,” The Wall Street Journal reported. The tools, designed for “at-risk” countries and previously employed in Sri Lanka and Myanmar, will be wielded only in dire situations, such as election-related violence. Facebook simply wants to be prepared for “all possibilities,” WSJ said, citing people familiar with the planning.

“We’ve spent years building for safer, more secure elections,” Facebook spokesperson Andy Stone told the newspaper. “We’ve applied lessons from previous elections, hired experts, and built new teams with experience across different areas to prepare for various scenarios.”

No matter the election outcome, users can expect a flurry of activity online. There is a fine line, however, between blocking exposure to sensationalism, incitements to violence, and misinformation and suppressing sincere political discussion.

“We need to be doing everything we can to reduce the chances of violence or civil unrest in the wake of this election,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Axios last month. Global head of communications and policy, Nick Clegg, later revealed that the company created “break-glass tools” in the event of a crisis.

Facebook has taken extra care to avoid the same mistakes it made in 2016, announcing a ban on new political ads one week before polling day and promising to temporarily stop running political, electoral, and social issue ads in the US on Nov. 3, after the election is over.
Seo For 2021 And Beyond – Globant – Medium
Tags: Seo For 2021 And Beyond

Our thoughts as a strategic disruptor in business and cognitive transformation. Visit us at www.globant.com
Single Dad is Best Choice for Virgin?
By: D. Yvette Wohn
Tags: Daily Doilies, Single Dad, Enchanted, Disney

I grew up watching Disney animations (my father still collects Disney videos…for potential posterity) so I had to watch Enchanted when it started playing on my red-eye flight back to Boston.

It was a cute movie, but I was terribly shocked by the few “twists” there were to the traditional Disney storyline. Indeed it was ironic that the happily ever after scenario took place in New York with a divorce lawyer as the modern day Prince Charming, but shocking was the fact that this prince was a single father.

I realize that this movie was not intended wholly for child audiences, but the implicit message that it carries seems to be a reflection of the unwanted truth, what with high divorce rates and increasing proportions of eligible women over eligible men. Reality is fine, but Disney still shouldn’t have to be so politically correct.
A finance strategy (CPPI), implemented on Streamlit/Python, deployed on AWS EC2
By: Eyup Gulsun
Tags: AWS, Cppi, Streamlit, Heroku, Insurance

A finance strategy (CPPI), implemented on Streamlit/Python, deployed on AWS EC2

The journey of building a financial web app…

In this article, I would like to show you how to design a CPPI (Constant proportion portfolio investment) strategy and publish it on the Internet. The result is http://18.219.211.47:8501/ (much more fun if you open the link on a big screen rather in a mobile browser)

Here are the steps.

First, let’s remember what CPPI is.

DIVERSIFICATION allows you to eliminate specific or idiosyncratic risks. It cannot help you deal with systematic risk as in 2008 crisis, when systematic risk impacted all the assets simultaneously.

The Bermuda Triangle of Investing

HEDGING, as an alternative, helps you with systematic risks but it is purely symmetric: you get protection on the downside only if you give up on the upside proportionately. Not very attractive…

CPPI Insurance Strategy gives you downside protection but offer much more upside potential by dynamic hedging nature. It is all about allocating to a risky asset in a multiple of the difference between asset value and a given floor, and then reducing the risky allocation if/when getting close to the floor.

The code below is a step-by-step implementation of CPPI. I agree a vectorized-implement code would be more efficient but also equally hard to understand.

Below show the benefit of CPPI over fully invested in Turkish equity indices. As you can clearly see, CPPI protects the investment in large drawdowns whereas it provides quite a lot of upside.

CPPI Implementation on BIST 100 index

Also, if you compare the risk parameters of two portfolios, you can clearly see how Sharpe ratio, VaR and Drawdown Ratios of CPPI portfolio show huge improvements over the risky portfolio.

Let’s also look at the performance of another index, the transportation index, with and without CPPI strategy below. Wow! Such a big protection in CPPI portfolio!

In the execution part, I implemented CPPI in nonparametric and parametric ways using several sector indices. I also included a random walk path to the assets using Geometric Brownian Motion. All parameterized!

Snapshot of the app

To make the app online and web friendly, I used Streamlit library of Python (https://www.streamlit.io/) . Definitely worth checking out!

Below is a shortened code snippet with Streamlit code, but you can fork the whole code from my github account: https://github.com/deimosnphobos/cppi_strategy

Final task was to deploy it on a Cloud Application Platform. I tried Heroku: Cloud Application Platform first, but somehow I couldn’t be able to run it smoothly -sometimes it worked, sometimes not. So I switched to Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2 - Amazon AWS). It was much harder to configure than Heroku, but just did what it was supposed to do!

The result is at http://18.219.211.47:8501/. Please feel free to play with it, and let me know if you have any questions about it.
Why Video Marketing Is The Next Big Thing
By: Andy Leverenz
Tags: Business, Marketing, Branding, Social Media, Video Marketing

If you ever find you are hitting any sort of plateau when it comes to getting engagement from your customers and followers you might consider video marketing.

Video is a fast-paced way to get attention through social media, email marketing, advertsiing and much more.

If your business is primarily done online (eCommerce, service requests, consultation, etc..) you can target a larger audience by creating small videos to help promote what it is you do and why.

On top of allowing people to learn more about your business you can start to create a relationship as more videos are published. In time, you may just build a community around your message thus getting more people to put trust into what it is you have to offer.
How “Controllable” React components maximize reusability
By: Noam Elboim
Tags: Components, Controllable, JavaScript, React

How “Controllable” React components maximize reusability

A deep dive into what really makes React components reusable

How many times have you tried using a component just to find out you could not manipulate its state?

How many times did the component just not work “out of the box”?

Stop pulling your hair out — we can do something about it!

In this article, I will show you how to increase your components reusability by managing your components data flow in a better way.

Photo by Riccardo Annandale on Unsplash

There are 3 different ways to manage your data flow:

The Uncontrolled way, where the component manages its own data. The Controlled way, where the parent manages the data. The Controllable way, where you get the best of both worlds!

Choosing the right way will have a tremendous effect on the component’s reusability.

FYI, all the examples are in React, but the discussion in this article is really about concepts pertaining to components data flow. Those concepts are easily applied to Vue.js or any other framework that support components.

Introducing Tabs

Our story is the story of Tabs:

The Tabs component, holds the Banana and Apple tabs

Clicking on any tab will change the active one, indicated by a style and content change.

Let’s write a simple markup for it:

So, how do you decide which tab is active?

The Uncontrolled Way

Uncontrolled is when the component manages its own data.

Let’s look on a simple input element:

<input/>

Typing in an input element

Typing text in the input will set the value of the element with that text. Changing value from the outside is possible only by a DOM manipulation, for example, by using React’s ref and accessing the element’s instance.

Applying the same approach to Tabs, we get this:
Choose Fulfillment Over Happiness
By: Kevin Canlas
Tags: Happiness, Stoicism, Purpose, Motivation, Fulfillment

Photo by Ian Stauffer from Unsplash.

As I get older, this one concept seems to ring truer every day:

Fulfillment outlasts happiness.

Happiness: a state of well-being and contentment.

— Merriam-Webster

Based on that definition alone, we already know that happiness is temporary because states change all the time. Our mood changes constantly. In one moment we’re ecstatic about getting those $1000 Yeezy’s, but in the next, we get buyer’s remorse. In one moment we’re taking four shots of tequila and having the time of our lives, but in the next, we’re throwing up in an alley. Was it worth it? Flexing your kicks to some kids who can’t afford it? Getting drunk to show people that you’re having “fun”?

Of course, happiness is different for everyone: For some, it’s the affirmation that they’re above others, acquiring material goods to brag about it. For others, it’s sex. And for others, it’s knowing that everyone likes them. There’s literally an infinite number of ways someone can achieve this feeling of happiness. However, there’s a question here that’s never being asked: “Why are you constantly chasing it?”. The problem with this is that emotion is temporary. To make matters worse, if you constantly chase happiness, you’ll be more likely to take the path of least resistance.

Here’s what that looks like: If your biggest obstacle to happiness right now is homework, what’s the easiest solution for happiness? Procrastinate and put it off for tomorrow .What’s the easiest way to pump up my ego? Buy something that most people don’t have and post it on social media.

More often than not, constantly chasing happiness leads to the path of least resistance, which typically yields no lasting reward.

This is why we should be chasing fulfillment over happiness.
Box 2(a story about box 1)
By: Timothy Braun
Tags: Poetry, Travel, Storytelling

By Randy and Avital, Come Out and Play Festival, Night Games, Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture, September 30th, 2016

Takes place in a magical land cursed by a calamity to be always winter

Children have grown up never knowing the joy of raises of sunshine

The sky is always cloudy

The lanterns are the only protect from the evil snow goblins

And the lanterns are almost out of oil.

The oil career is late.

Oil will not last the night and the wind is howling the oil is flickering

Randy-You head out on the trail

And before leaving

Your partner

Gives you a flashlight

A small light that lasts 24 hours.

You can only turn it on once.

You go down the trail as the last rays of light defuse through the cloud cover.

It’s dark when you hear whimpering behind the bend?

Na there lays the courier

With a massive n ail stuck in their foot

Pool of blood around her foot

A TRAP laid by the snow goblins

You use your scarf to bind the wounds.

Thankfully you have the scarf.

You strap the oil on the back

She hobbles along leaning against you

But at least she is not heavy,

With your freehand you use the flash light to illuminate the dark trail.

The snow goblins cackle.

As the last flickers of the lights are about to go out.

The snow goblins dare not enter their oar

You refill the lights with the oil.

And there is a big flash of light, and the town is safe for one more night.

THE END
A Friend or Foe
Tags: Blue Insights, Poetry, Poet, Betrayal, Relationships

We stand by those we trust,

All the while they transgress against us.

Friend or foe to behold?

For only they will surely know.

Trust someone in this day and age

Is nothing more than a noble cliché.

Slanderous words of dishonesty,

Destroying your character with their brutality.

The world believes them as they lie,

Who can one trust in this earthly enterprise?

Longing for the days of old

When men were men, as good as gold.

I long for days where a handshake meant

Your word a bond, and honor felt.

Agreements made without paper convention;

Handshakes were the business transaction.

Honor flowed throughout the lands,

Everyone gave a helping hand.

A favor wasn’t done for return,

As a friend indeed was someone earned.

Days of past will not return

As immoral acts are loved and learned.

Handshakes, a thing of the past,

Your word, a thing that no longer lasts.

© 2020, K. Saitta, Walk In Verse
Sikoba August 2020 — Update. This month, Francesca Lo Re has joined…
By: Sikoba Network
Tags: Sikoba, Sikobapay

This month, Francesca Lo Re has joined Sikoba as senior advisor in charge of institutional partnerships. We have also signed an MoU with Chelma Advisory Institute to provide micro-credits to women entrepreneurs in Kisii, Kenya. On the development side, the focus was on Sikoba’s web interface.

Francesca Lo Re joins Sikoba as Senior Advisor — Institutional Partners

Francesca Lo Re

Francesca Lo Re has joined Sikoba as senior advisor, to help forge partnerships with banks, impact investment firms and MFIs (microfinance institutions).

Francesca has more than twenty years of corporate banking and international development experience. For the past seven years, she worked with the World Bank Group in Bangladesh, Nepal, and Bhutan. Prior to that, she has been in the banking and impact investing’s sectors across Europe, Asia, South America, and Africa. She is now working as freelance International Development Specialist on financial inclusion, having recently moved back from Nepal to her native Italy.

Sikoba partners with Chelma Advisory Institute to provide micro-credits to women entrepreneurs in Kisii, Kenya

Laodicah Nyaribari — Director of Chelma Advisory Institute

Sikoba has signed an MoU with Chelma Advisory Institute, who are operating a microcredit program in Nakuru County and are now launching a similar program in Kisii County. Their focus is on women entrepreneurs in rural areas.

Chelma was officially launched in Kisii just a few days ago, with the key note address made by the Chairman of Kenya Chamber of Commerce-Kisii Branch. Laodicah Nyaribari, Director of Chelma, presented Sikoba and SikobaPay to a very receptive audience. We will provide more details about this partnership in the near future.

New Whitepaper &tc

We published a new whitepaper, as our old “Green Paper” from 2017 was getting old in the tooth. And among other new documents published:

More content, including documents in languages other than English, can be found on the Sikoba Reddit channel.

Development update

This month, we have made good progress on the Sikoba web app so that we should be able to start internal testing by mid-September. The user documentation for the web app is also being prepared. Finally, we did the first successful tests with our face recognition module.

#sikoba #sikobaPay #financialInclusion #reduceMoneyDependency #boostLocalEconomies #iouEconomy #sikobaReasearch
Promise
By: Kimberly Thomas
Tags: Poetry, Poetry On Medium, Love, Poetry Sunday, New Year

Promise

A poem

Photo by Eric Prouzet on Unsplash

Take all your pills

Rethink your drills.

It’s Saturn’s and Jupiter’s year

To contemplate your fears.

Remembering what hurt you the most

And the painful words with which we spoke.

Thinking about my love

Sending down haunted storms like doves.

The masses play tunes airing on repeat

Arresting their dreams with tears of defeat.

Off into the new season, we’ll go

Putting on nothing more than a show.