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Fun Recipes to Make With Kavanaugh’s Tears
By: Ellie Guzman
Tags: Politics, Women, Satire, Humor, Sexual Assault

Delicious.

2018 has brought us a bountiful harvest of ready-to-use white male tears. Don’t get me wrong; 2018 has also been the year of vomit-inducing male triumph and creepy smiles. However, the tear harvest has been bigger than ever, and us womenfolk are free to collect these tears for many fun recipes.

This week in particular brought us an exquisite yield of Republican tears, quite salty and hearty due to the fact that their blood is on average 98% sodium. Brett Kavanaugh, a human-like specimen that resides in a beer cocoon from what I’ve heard, provided an alarming amount of tears this week that will be sufficient to feed the continental United States.

We shall feast!

(WARNING: There is no guarantee that his tears did not cross-contaminate with the shit actively flying out of his mouth.)

Beverages:

I Have Two Daughters Water

Wait for Kavanaugh to say some bullshit about his daughters and then simply hold a cup under his face. Collect the water and use it to feed your house plant. Watch the plant die.

Frail Masculinitea

Bring your Kavanaugh Tears to a boil and then turn off heat. Throw an old Slim Jim into the pot and let it sit for a week. Gulp down the liquid and ask a loved one to take you to the hospital.

Appetizers:

Douchetta

This bruschetta-inspired recipe is easy to make within five minutes. Simply watch a segment of Kavanaugh’s testimony and then immediately vomit onto a baguette. Season with his tears and some of your own.

Anonymous Tip Dip

Tell Kavanaugh there’s another tip out about him. Watch him work himself into a frenzied desperate rage and place him directly over the spinach dip you’ve been working on. Mmmm, salty.

Entrees:

Not Roast

Make a delicious pot roast with a side of tears. Watch Kavanaugh eat it and then hear him say “that was not pot roast.” Reply that yes, that was pot roast. He will insist that it was not while taking a measured sip of his own tears. Tell him you watched him eat the pot roast. He will shrug and say that to the best of his memory, that was not pot roast. Resist the urge to put a fork through your own eye.

Sloppy Brett

This is like a Sloppy Joe, except the whole time you’ll just have to watch Kavanaugh yell, then cry, then mention his family, then yell, then cry again. Throw a piece of bread at him from a safe distance and watch him attack it like a feral raccoon. Have a passerby call you unreasonable for throwing the bread.

Dessert:

Key Lie Pie

While this Key Lie Pie is mostly store bought frosting mixed with tears and Bud Light, you can get added zest if you sprinkle pieces of ripped up paper from Kavanaugh’s weird little calendar on top.

Bread Pudding with Assaulted Caramel Sauce

Normally the caramel sauce is salted, but once you add some Kavanaugh it will be assaulted. Because, you know. That’s kinda the guy’s whole thing.

Enjoy the tears and don’t worry if you experience some intestinal upset. It’s absolutely normal for Kavanaugh to make you sick to your stomach.
Architecture as a Graph
By: Stanislas Chaillou
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Bayesian Statistics, Architecture

We turn now to the generation of adjacency graphs. Instead of using any form of procedural or rule-based technics, we prefer a Bayesian approach. This field of statistics is generally described as:

“the study of the conditional probability of an event based on data as well as prior information or beliefs about the event or conditions related to the event”.

For us, a Bayesian approach offers the opportunity to study and model the underlying set of relationships (causes) that condition the existence of rooms in a floorplan, as well as the potential existing connections between them. For instance, the existence of given rooms can cause the existence of another one, and condition the existence of connections between rooms. This reality can be captured using Bayesian statistics, across our database of 500+ floorplans.

We model rooms and connections as nodes and hope that our Bayesian model will help us infer the existence of causal relationships between them, as well as the relative weight of these inter-dependances.
Otto Scharmer. Accion Global Climatica I: El poder de la tierra
By: Helio Borges
Tags: Agricultura, Cambio Climático, Otto Scharmer, Fridays For Future, Sustentabilidad

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A Bro Hitting on a Woman in the Bar
By: Ms. Part Time Wino
Tags: Satire, Humor, Funny, Dating, Men

Hi beautiful, what’s your name?

Enough about you, I’m Chad. I couldn’t help but notice you seductively sipping your wine. The second I saw your friend get up to use the ladies’ room, I just had to sweep in to make my move.

So, whatcha drinkin’ there? Pinot noir? You know, I did my study abroad semester in Florence. That’s in Italy.

I love to travel so much. I’ve probably been to seven different countries by now. Some people want to go to China or Africa or whatever, but not me. I’m all about Cancun Me-hi-co, baby. Sure, Chipotle makes better burritos, but the ones in Cancun are pretty good too.

Yeah, you can probably tell that I have enough money to go on vacation like, a lot. My dad has a timeshare at a resort 23 blocks from the beach that he lets me use for two days out of every 14-week cycle. If you play your cards right, you might get to accompany me one day.

But don’t get me wrong, I’m a very successful man. I did my undergraduate in Economics at Arizona State University in just five years. Then I started as a junior associate in training at daddy’s law firm. Since then, I’ve just been climbing that ole corporate ladder! Workin’ that 9 to 5! More like 8 to 6 in my case. Like I said, I’ve very successful.

*loosening his tie* Man, I hate wearing suits. To be honest, I don’t really feel like “me” unless I’m rockin’ my pink polo and Sperry boat shoes.

Oh, guess what else? My dad also owns a boat. He took Usher’s manager out on it once in Floria. Pretty cool, huh?

Whoa, nelly — did you just fart? Because you really blew me away. I’m just kidding! Pick up lines are so dumb. I prefer to woo women with my charm.

Speaking of farts, my last girlfriend hated anal. What a stuck-up bitch! But I can tell from your crop top and ripped jeans that you aren’t anything like her. You’re a bad girl, I can tell *wink wink*.

I mean, I guess you could say I’m kinda a bad boy myself. I smoke the ganja every once in a while. And let me show you my tattoo. It’s Calvin playing basketball with Hobbs. I’m not gonna say getting a tattoo didn’t fuckin’ hurt — because it totally did — but I feel like it really expresses my truest, inner self.

Did I also mention that I have tons of money in my 401k? Yeah, living with my daddy and saving rent helps me plan for my future.

But don’t worry, I have a lot of privacy in his basement. I just picked up a sweet new Ikea MALM dresser to match my MALM bed frame. You should check it out.

So, what do you say? Can I get your number? I promise I won’t send any unsolicited dick picks…yet. LOL.

What, no smile? Not even a little one? Are you on your period or something?

Fine, be that way. I didn’t even think you were that attractive. I just felt bad for you.

I’m outta here. Laterz.
5 Lessons Americans Must Learn From This Election
By: Sikander Hayat Khan
Tags: Politics, World, Donald Trump, Election 2020, Government

4. And that’s where you come in

Because your act of “voting” isn’t just a right — it’s a duty.

And it’s one that 80 million Americans who voted for Biden carried out this year. Let me ask you this — what would have happened if millions of them had simply carried on with their non-voting ways?

I know you don’t want to imagine what the outcome would have been, but you have to. Because whether people have given up on the system or they simply don’t care, them not voting will make future elections look like carbon copies of 2016.

You see, it’s often the people who want honest and capable leaders who don’t vote. Why? Because they’re short on options — if they have any at all. The people who are willing to put up with liars on the other hand, they’ll vote — they’re spoiled for choice.

And here’s where the people who feel like they don't have options need to realise that they still have to vote. It may not be for who they want, but rather against who they don’t. If America had voted in 2016 the way they did this year — against Trump rather than for Biden — both the last four years and this election would have been very different.
TokenSoft Uses Chainpoint To Improve Compliance In Token Sales
Tags: Token Sale, ICO, Blockchain, Ethereum, Bitcoin

Tierion and TokenSoft are working together to improve the ability to conduct secure and compliant token sales. TokenSoft is now using Chainpoint to prove that data collected during token sales is accurate and hasn’t been modified.

What is TokenSoft?

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How does TokenSoft use Chainpoint?

Tokensoft uses Chainpoint to provide issuers and buyers with irrefutable proof of their token sale purchase. When a buyer completes their token purchase, their digitally signed record is linked to the Bitcoin blockchain. This establishes a timestamped audit trail for each purchase, allowing issuers to better meet compliance requirements.

“Chainpoint helps TokenSoft prove the integrity and timestamp of data collected during a token sale. Issuers and regulators can now have greater confidence that the data is accurate and hasn’t been modified. - Mason Borda, TokenSoft CEO

How can I learn more about Tokensoft?

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How can I learn more about Chainpoint?

Chainpoint allows software developers to link data to the blockchain. This process generates a Chainpoint proof, which can be used to prove the data is linked to a point on the chain — hence the name Chainpoint.

Blockchains are notoriously slow. Bitcoin can process about four transactions per second. Ethereum can process approximately fifteen transactions per second. Chainpoint overcomes these scalability limitations by linking thousands or even millions of Chainpoint proofs to a single transaction.

Software developers can learn more about Chainpoint by visiting the Chainpoint web site or GitHub repo. Follow @chainpnt on Twitter.
Comparing Marvel and DC with Data Visualization
By: Henry Heberle
Tags: Gender Equality, D3js, Comics, Data Science, Data Visualization

In this comparison, note that DC has more characters in the entire galaxy. This could cause a higher density around the sun.

Character Importance

The bigger the circles are, the greater is the number of works they are present in or the number of derived works (it sums them). The sum of the two is what I defined as importance.

If a character has importance equals to zero, the body is represented by a purple dust — circles with the smallest valid radius. When they have importance equals to 1 or more, their size is proportional to it.

Wolverine is the biggest body in the Marvel’s galaxy because he is present in 53 works (derived works included).

Wolverine has importance 53.

Using size to represent the importance pops up the most explored characters. By doing so, it is easy to check how galaxies compare considering the number of large bodies and dust.

While Marvel focused only on Wolverine, DC focused on Superman and Batman.

Still on importance, I defined that colours would relate to it too. When a character has more works than the average, I color it with yellow; otherwise, it is gray. Purple represents 0 works (dust).

Genders

I grouped genders into two main categories: males and non-males, which represents females, transgenders, and others such as the agender Phoenix Force.

Excluding characters with undefined gender, 80% of Marvel’s characters and 72% of DC’s characters present in over 10 works are male.

Those numbers get more balanced when we consider characters that appear in fewer works: 67% (Marvel) and 67% (DC) when considering characters with at least 1 work registered on Wikipedia; and 61% (Marvel) and 64% (DC) when considering characters with 0 or more registered works.

Giving that representability and diversity are been more discussed these days and because most of non-males are small bodies in the galaxies, I highlighted the non-males using white.

Mystique is highlighted in white because she is in the non-male category.

Yet, we can barely see the white circles. This reflects the gender gap that was being formed throughout the history of comics.

There are many reasons a Fictional Universe can have this gap; among them is the comic audience — comics created focusing on male readers may have more male characters.

Jacques Nyemb wrote an interesting article about this topic with his experience as a comic creator regarding the audience and his characters’ race and gender: Race, Gender and Comics… Oh My!

“Use their perspectives to tell stories and include all kinds of people. This inspires people to see more than color or gender but rather the contents of their characters.” — Jacques Nyemb

Partners and Children

Two types of relationship were extracted from Wikidata and represented by edges, partners in red and children in blue. Partners can be spouses and non-spouses.

I could not find any particular difference, like one network having more dense hubs than the other. You can see in the images below:
ARUM Capital found common ground with Serenity
By: Serenity Financial
Tags: Forex Trading, Escrow, Forex Brokers, Trading, Forex

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Alpha Version of Wallet is Here
By: Alexandra Petrova
Tags: Tokenbox, Crypto, Cryptocurrency, Investing, Tbxnews

As this is the Alpha version of the Wallet, our development team would very much appreciate as much feedback from the users as possible. Please let us know if you like our service (or not), and we will take all suggestions into account, and make it even better.

Here’s a short video explaining how to use the Wallet:

In just a few weeks the Wallet functionality will be extended by more features: more ERC20 tokens, as well as bank cards processing later on.
The First Storiqa Shop. Storiqa T-shirts Limited Edition
Tags: Crypto, Stqmarket, Storiqa, Bitcoin, Merch

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The Mountain Of Zen
By: Kevin Doberstein
Tags: Zen, Mountains, Poetry, Spiritual Secrets, Sunset

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How to create a high­ performance culture
Tags: Leadership Development, Work Culture, Leadership, Xcelerator

How to create a high­ performance culture

What companies can learn from the Blitzbokke and the Japanese rugby team about the key attributes of winning cultures.

Leon Ayo

The brilliant BlitzBokke are known around the world for much more than being South Africa’s national rugby union sevens team. They are also celebrated for the one key ingredient that differentiates them from their competitors — a high-performance culture. And it is this attribute that in today’s challenging economic environment, companies would do well to emulate to gain or maintain competitive advantage and sustainable growth.

An effective performance culture transcends international boundaries and regional norms, but still embraces the authenticity of individuals and their national culture. This is what the Blitzbokke do so well: they are a highly diverse team in which individual talents are celebrated, but they are also able to pull together as a side in which no individual is bigger than the team. Much like the Japanese national rugby team.

So what can companies learn from the Blitzbokke and the Japanese rugby team?

The key attributes of winning cultures are:

High aspirations and a desire to win. In high-­performance cultures, good is never good enough. Company managers & leaders are always pushing to go further, better, faster. It’s not just about short­-term financial performance — it is about building something sustainable.

External focus. Companies with high-­performance cultures focus their energies externally on delighting customers, beating competitors and caring for communities. They don’t get caught up in internal politics or navel-­gazing.

A ‘think like the owners’ attitude. A hallmark of a high-­performance culture is that employees take personal responsibility for overall business performance. They understand that their actions impact the bottom line, and they strive to do the right thing for the business, putting aside issues of personality or territory.

A bias to action. High-­performance cultures are impatient to get things done. They are doers, not talkers, constantly keeping an eye on where the value is to ensure their actions will enhance the business.

Individuals who team. Winning cultures encourage employees to be themselves and help individuals develop to their full potential. They also recognise the importance of teamwork, being open to the ideas of others, and exploring issues collaboratively.

Passion and energy. Everyone in a high-­performance culture gives 100%, striving to go beyond adequate to exceptional in the areas that really matter, and bringing an infectious enthusiasm to everything they do.

About Leon Ayo: Leon is Vice President Strategic Relations for the Xcelerator. He has consulted and led teams across four continents specializing in Leadership, High Performance Culture, Agile Thinking, Entrepreneurship and helping organizations navigate the 4th Industrial Revolution.
Potty training and pups: When carpet gets peed on more than grass
By: Shamontiel L. Vaughn
Tags: Dogs, Crate Training, House Sitting, Dog Training, Pets

Potty training and pups: When carpet gets peed on more than grass

Tips for house-training and crate-training your dog

Photo credit: Patrick Kool/Unsplash

If you’re a dog owner who is trying to crate-train or house-train your pup, you’ve done that Flo-Jo race to the door. The harness is in one hand, and the leash is in another. Or, you’ve reached inside of the crate to hook the leash and jogged your way to the door. You know if you don’t move fast, your dog will get out of the crate, hike a leg or squat, and let loose all over your rug. In her mind, she’s released herself. In yours, that was the entire point of the walk. You sigh and turn around to grab the pet odor eliminator spray.

Your dog is going to react in one of two ways: She’ll run underneath the table because she knows she’s done something wrong but just can’t help herself. Or, she’ll let you clean it up and then pee again. (You’ll swear she’s laughing on the inside.) You are not alone. It takes a lot of time and patience to get a dog to stop releasing herself all over your carpet, rugs or hardwood floor. And once she’s marked it, you better believe she’s going right back to that area over and over again.

By now you know that crate-training and house training takes a lot of patience and many accidents. Just as you wouldn’t expect a baby to come crawling out her mom and say, “Nah, I’m good, just show me where the restroom is” when you try to put a diaper on her, don’t expect the average dog to be a dog walking genius in her puppy years — minus one.
Creating Intriguing Visualizations
By: Samuel Beyer
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Wildlife, Data Visualization

In order to truly understand the ins and outs of our data, it is important to get a few preliminary graphs going. As a group we decided that the most effective tools in Python to do complete this task is both matplotlib and seaborn. We wanted to be able to see how the different. Both of these tools effectively visualize our dataset by showing how many wildfires occur per state and how large those wildfires are on average in each state. We were able to find the average size of the wildfire in each state as well as the average size of the wildfire based on the root cause. Each of these groupings provides us with the information necessary to determine how we are going to use machine learning to predict the cause of wildfires.
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Tags: Exnomy, Exchange

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Do We Need Object Oriented Programming in Data Science?
By: Rose Day
Tags: Programming, Software Development, Data Science, Technology, Machine Learning

When I first got into data science, it became clear that object oriented programming was not the main focus. Many data scientists wrote code in notebooks or as single Python scripts to clean data, develop models, and run them but did not put the code into functions or classes. Most classes center around understanding machine learning (ML) models, feature engineering, training/testing/validation sets, and more. The work was commonly done in a notebook environment and shared around between students and professors. Often, data scientists do not consider the end-user in the same manner as a developer during software development.

When I began working as a data engineer, there was more focus on object oriented languages and cloud technologies to host, clean, and provide the data to other teams. Even then, most of the programming lived in Lambda functions on AWS or using open source libraries to do the necessary work. By the time I switched into a data science role, I was back to long or chained notebooks, with some functions, depending on the developer. There was minimal object oriented code, and that was only there to interact with other teams who ingested our work and required it for running the code.

Now I work on a team whose main codebase is almost all object oriented alongside other libraries and tools that follow similar coding standards. There is a mix of notebooks, libraries, and automation with testing pipelines and release pipelines. Shifting towards an object oriented mindset has been very beneficial. This shift has allowed our code to be production-ready, easily readable, and extendable to new use-cases.
The Untold Tragedies of Classic Resident Evil
By: Adam Meadows
Tags: Videogames, Gaming, Culture, Horror, Art

The mansion is a haven turned against itself. A place where one big, ethically repulsive family lived in a sort of heinous harmony. This awful abode is the heart of Resident Evil’s tragic horror, as a setting in which human life should thrive is turned into a cannibalistic meat grinder — a contrast that only adds to the game’s underlying sense of tragedy.

Another story tells of the profound regret of those involved. It’s a note that reminds us that this catastrophe was an act of man — not a freak occurrence or a natural disaster. By this measure, it didn’t have to happen.

Until it did — because Umbrella’s researchers were as seemingly eager to meddle in life as they are compelled to feed in death. Umbrella is a single-minded entity driven by monstrous intent. Resident Evil isn’t just a reference to some monsters in a huge house — it’s a reference to the evil within humanity itself.

One note from the series’ GameCube debut depicts the downfall of Lisa Trevor, the teenage daughter of the mansion’s creator. We get a glimpse of her declining mental state as a result of various biological experiments through a note that briefly exposes us to the nature of her living hell. We’re invited to imagine her horrific transformation.

And that’s what makes these notes such a moving force within the warped world of the Spencer mansion: they invite you to imagine more than the narrative portrays. Imagination — not monsters, spooky shadows or steep staircases — is horror’s real source of power. The environment and its remnants of the past give our minds the tools to craft their fear, with the actual number of categorical jump scares in classic Resident Evil few and far between. In reality, we spend our time in fear of what we expect to come — and not always what is.

Resident Evil isn’t just a reference to some monsters in a huge house — it’s a reference to the evil within humanity itself.

These notes give our minds more to work with, as they offer a glimpse of how things were in the fall of this single-structure empire. That’s the real horror story here, the real tragedy. Resident Evil feels like an epilogue set dressed by the belongings of the very same people trying to kill us.

This effect is bettered in Resident Evil VII, which features a homestead that feels very much inhabited, a place where almost every room — from the kitchen to the garage to the bedrooms — feels like a place interrupted in the process of merely living. A snapshot of the lives of your enemies before they were so, a home video on pause.

In Resident Evil VII, artefacts of what was once an ordinary life surround us. Recently scrawled notes by the Bakers suggest profoundly changed, though still human, people. Their outward signs of humanity only that add to the sense of tragedy. In the early stages, their redemption seems only an arm’s reach away. They aren’t dying, decaying creatures transformed beyond all recognition — they’re human beings wearing human clothes doing horrific things in a distinctly human way.
Humanity and Technology Hits
By: Tree Langdon
Tags: Entertainment, Philosophy, Technology, Arts, Self Improvement

I’m excited to be a new editor at Technology Hits, the newest publication on Medium focusing on all aspects of technology.

This exciting new publication is the dream child of Dr. Mehmet Yildiz.

He has a direct connection to and access to thousands of writers, as well as a large audience of readers interested in all things technology.

‘Technology Hits’ brings these writers and readers together in one place.

I’ve been invited to feature a selection of the latest from the remarkable writers at Technology Hits, many of them have been curated, recognizing their valuable contribution to the tech conversation.
Part-3 Data Science Methodology From Understanding to Preparation
By: Ashish Patel
Tags: Machine Learning, Data Science, Methodology, Datasciencemethodology, Data Scientist

#1) Data Understanding

Understanding the data includes all activities related to creating the data-set. The “Understanding Data” section of the Data Science methodology answers the question:

Is the data you collect representative of the problem you are trying to solve?

Apply the understanding of our methodological data to the case study we are studying. To understand data on the onset of heart failure, descriptive statistics had to be established in the data columns that would become variables in the model.

First , these statistics included Hearst, Uni-variate, and statistics for each variable, such as mean, median, minimum, maximum, and standard deviation.

, these statistics included Second , pairwise correlations have been used to determine the degree of correlation between the linked variables and those that, if any, are highly correlated, meaning that they are essentially redundant, making it only relevant for the modeling .

, and those that, . Third, the histograms of the variables were examined to understand their distributions. Histograms are a good way to understand how values ​​or variables are distributed and what kind of data preparation may be needed to make the variable more useful in a model.For example, if a categorical variable contains too many different values ​​to be meaningful in a model, the histogram can help decide how to consolidate those values.

Univariate, statistics and histograms are also used to assess the quality of the data.

On the basis of the data provided, some values can be recorded or deleted if necessary, e.g. For example, if a particular variable has a lot of missing values.

The question then arises as to whether “missing” means something. Sometimes a missing value means “no” or “0” (zero), or sometimes simply “we do not know”.

Or if a variable contains invalid or misleading values; For example, a numeric variable called “age” containing 0 to 100 and 999, where “triple-9” actually means “missing”, will be treated as a valid value unless we have corrected it.
Make it go faster
By: Blog Moove-It
Tags: Devsnack

DevSnack #14: Web apps performance is crucial. If the app works fast the user experience is better, and this improves yours chances of success.

Ruby on Rails code optimization and cleanup, Rack MiniProfiler and more on this week’s DevSnack.

#1 — Web Performance is User experience

Lara Swanson (@lara_hogan) explains how the efforts to optimize your website’s performance could have a great effect on the entire user experience.

#2 — Web Performance Terms

Alex Pinto (@ad3pinto) created an amazing glossary with 50+ terms we need to understand on web performance.

#3 — Ruby on Rails code optimization and cleanup

Keeping your code clean and organized while developing a large Rails application can be quite a challenge, even for an experienced developer. Fortunately, Damir Svrtan (@damirsvrtan) outlines a whole category of gems that make this job much easier.

#4 — The Secret weapon of Ruby and Rails speed

Nate Berkopec (@nateberkopec) brings an exhaustive explanation about mini-profiler. Rack-mini-profiler (maintained by @samsaffron) is a powerful Swiss army knife for Rack app performance.

#5–20 Top Factors That Impact Website Response Time

Three seconds may not seem like a long time, but it could be the difference between making the online sale and losing a customer!
“I won’t wash my hands anymore.”
By: Jason B. Hobbs Lcsw
Tags: Christianity, Covid 19, Faith, Social Media, Fake News

I tried to stay out of the fray. My instincts have been honed through my work in the church and years as a therapist. I’m typically pretty good at moving back to what is actually important, avoiding “straw man” diversions or attempts to bait me into an argument.

My default is to return to the relationship between us versus simply trying to be “right”.

But that part, about being “right”, is where I got stuck recently.

The context was on someone else’s Facebook page, a post about hydroxychloroquine's ineffectiveness against COVID-19. This was immediately followed by several people posting responses detailing how the “real” results are being covered up in a worldwide conspiracy to sink the reelection of President Trump … or more generously that we should “keep an open mind”.

One post was from a reputable news source, but was an opinion piece, so against my better judgment, I pointed that out.

“It’s all opinions,” was the response I received.

Photo by Marina Kazmirova on Unsplash

And I could feel myself getting angry, frustrated, dismayed, and tempted to withdraw … to move into a nihilistic space where I think to myself “what is the point anyway?!?”.

“You know not to get into pointless arguments on Facebook, right?!?” I say in my head.

“It’s all opinions.”

“It doesn’t matter what you say, they are not going to listen. Their mind is made up.”

“It’s all opinions.”

“Don’t you remember what ‘confirmation bias’ is and that we just continually seek out information that confirms what we already believe?!? The minute you write something, you will be placed in a category as a co-conspirator or ‘sheeple’ or some other pejorative. The point is, no one will listen!”

“It’s all opinions.”

And then it struck me. This phrase, “It’s all opinions” brought to my mind Pilate’s words as he washed his hands before allowing an angry mob to kill Jesus. “What is truth?” Pilate said.

Photo by Taras Chernus on Unsplash

This phrase is cynical and dismissive yet likely emerges from someone who, like many of us, is overwhelmed and confused. In that stressed place, we can dismiss information challenging our worldview. In the face of an angry mob or a firehose of conflicting information, it is tempting to withdraw into skepticism … or worse yet … a destructive view that says “nothing matters”.

I am tempted to wash my hands of all of it, to turn my back and walk away because it is too much to argue, too challenging to be a voice that someone might listen to, too difficult to find ways to respond with care instead of frustration.

And I am reminded too that “there is no one without sin; no not one.”
JavaScript interview coding questions and answers from brute force to better Big O notation
By: Sathish Kumar Arumugam
Tags: Big O Notation, JavaScript, Coding Interviews, String, Arrays

Coding interviews in JavaScript will be fun and it is one of the best ways to hire the right candidate. Here are some frequently asked coding questions and answers from brute force to optimized complexity (Big O).
Alerts in SwiftUI
By: Archie Edwards
Tags: Mobile, Swift, Programming, iOS, Swiftui

Creating a Simple Alert

Creating an alert in SwiftUI can be done with a single @State variable of type Boolean and the .alert(isPresented) modifier. Whenever this variable gets set to true, the view will be reloaded and the alert will be presented. Once the alert is dismissed, Swift will handle setting the variable back to false.

Customising the alert

The content closure of the alert has to be of type alert . These can vary in complexity. Alerts, by default, have a title and a dismiss button, but they can be customised to have a message and up to two buttons which can be tied to any functionality.

Some examples below:

Alert with a custom message and dismiss button.

Alert with a custom message and a primary and secondary button.

Why this approach is not scalable

The above approach works well, but in practice, a view may need to show different alerts depending on the user's actions. In SwiftUI, a view can only have a single .alert modifier attached to it.
Private nodes
Tags: Bitcoin

Integro’s Learning Management and Reward System is used by Governments, Financial institutes and Research Organizations.

It is heavily used by these organizations for effectively managing their private contents, conducting internal training and knowledge transfer.

These organizations deal with a lot of high secured data and would pay a lot of money to host in a highly secured and an encrypted environment.

Private nodes provides these organizations the ability to host their own secured data in their own infrastrucutre with encryption enabled. They are able to apply their own encyrption to better protect their data.

To launch a private node, organizations will need to stake IGRO tokens for a minimum of one year. Staked tokens will be verified with the help of the Proof of Stake algorithm. Organizations can pull out their staked IGRO tokens to sell it back to the market if they wish to discontinue the service or they can hold them for continued service.

The benefit of staking tokens for the private nodes is that the organization will not have to pay per user on a recurring basis. Also these staked tokens reduce the supply of available tokens thus helping increase the relative demand.
New Year’s Resolutions
By: Floyd Mori
Tags: Resolutions, Kindness, New Year, Love, Life

New Year’s Resolutions

Many people make New Year’s Resolutions.

Resolutions can be made easily.

They are generally short statements.

I will work harder in the new year.

I will pay more attention to others.

I will be kinder to strangers.

I will be on time to every appointment.

I will spend more time on myself.

I will read one book a month.

I will look for ways to help others.

I will earn a lot of money.

I will do some writing every day.

I will find success in my work.
If not now, when?
By: The Blessed Hub
Tags: Seth Godin, Tips, Islam, Personal Development, Muslim

“ Care a little more.

Show up.

Embrace possibility.

Tell the truth.

Dive deeper.

Seek the truth behind the story.

Ask the difficult question.

Lend a hand.

Dance with fear.

Play the long game.

Say ‘no’ to hate.

Look for opportunities, especially when it seems like there aren’t any left.

Risk a bigger dream.

Take care of the little guy.

Offer a personal insight.

Build something magical.

Keep your promises.

Do work that matters.

Expect more.

Sign your work.

Be generous for no reason.

Give the benefit of the doubt.

Develop empathy.

Make your mom proud.

Take responsibility.

Give credit.

Play by a better set of rules.

Reward patience.

Leap.

Breathe.

Because we can.

It really is up to us.

Which is great, because we’re capable of changing everything if we choose.

All we can do is all we can do, but maybe, all we can do is enough.”

Shared post of Seth Godin.
FLETA project is about to launch.
By: Fleta Blockchain
Tags: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain

FLETA project is about to launch.
Introducing CryptoBall
Tags: Blockchain, Token Sale, ICO, Ethereum, Bitcoin

CryptoBall: A Fully Decentralized Lottery on the Ethereum Blockchain

What is CryptoBall?

CryptoBall is the first truly decentralized and trustless alternative of PowerBall. Without central intermediary, ticket, prize pool, winning numbers and payout are controlled entirely by Smart Contracts.

How To Play CryptoBall (illustrative, game parameters to be finalized)

Complete Decentralization and Trustless System

Inspired by CryptoKitties and EtherDelta, we envision a new breed of decentralized software that has no central ownership (think Satoshi Nakamoto) so the value is derived entirely from the trust of existing code base and network value from active network participants.

New token model allows us to solve chicken-and-egg problem traditionally faced by normal startups where the value of the network is accrued from the number of users on the platform. It is extremely difficult to get early adopters to join the nascent network and this is where normal startups fail to take off. By creating the right token economics, the network can incentivize potential users to join since day 1 and help grow the network. We will describe in later blog post on how our token economics work.

We believe in the power of decentralization to provide censorship-resistant solution with no particular owner yet has the power to bootstrap “the network effect” necessary in many businesses. A peer-to-peer game-of-chance will be one of the many applications that heavily rely on network effect and thus is most suitable to be built with the new decentralized business model.

Moving Forward

We will be releasing our whitepaper for community review soon. Please stay updated on our social media channels as we release more updates including whitepaper, development roadmap, beta product and ultimately the launch of our platform in 2018.

Please check out our website at cryptoball.tech and subscribe to our mailing list to receive regular updates. We will post updates through our mailing list, Reddit, Telegram (announcement, public channel), and Twitter.

Most importantly, check out our public Github for actual development update. We welcome every feedback.
A Chilling Encounter
By: Anthony Halliwell
Tags: Adventure, Short Story, Short Fiction, Flash Fiction, Centina

A Chilling Encounter

On the Arctic ice danger is lurking everywhere

Photo by Susanne Schwarz on Unsplash

The polar bear locked eyes with Graham and charged. It thundered towards him with ferocious intensity.

Graham had seconds to act. He raised his rifle, arms trembling.

Not today, buddy! He pulled at the trigger.

Nothing. With chilling dread, he looked down to see his finger was frozen stiff. He couldn’t fire.

Graham turned as white as the vast Arctic landscape. But the bear stopped.

What the..?!

Then he heard an almighty crack; the ground shook violently and a chasm opened in the ice, sending Graham plummeting down into a crevasse.

The bear watched, before turning and padding softly away.
Renault apresenta serviço autônomo de entrega de mercadorias
By: Futuro Exponencial
Tags: Transportation, Renault

in In Fitness And In Health
Dealing with the falling equity markets
Tags: Mutual Funds, Alumni Stories, Equity Market, Investing, Bear Market

Dealing with the falling equity markets

Opinion: steer clear from panic selling during the bear market

With the capital markets across the world nosediving, investors are in a panic mode. Our Joint Secretary, Mr. Narinder Wadhwa, offers his perspective on investing in the Indian markets during the current free-fall.

Mr. Narinder Wadhwa, Chairman, ASSOCHAM’s Council Capital Markets and Investor Protection

Disclaimer: The opinions expressed in this video are that of the speaker. The facts and opinions expressed here do not reflect the views of Basicolans
The Romanticist
By: Jordin James
Tags: Fiction, Short Story, Poetry, Blue Insights, Life

Photo by Salvador Martin Yeste

So I’ll leave a note like a romanticist with no one to love but my imagination. Who’s sitting alone on the sand bar between the seas of right and wrong, waiting for a ship to float by inhabited with the strangest of creatures that will take me home to play.

“This is a miracle…” the creatures will whisper, “We didn’t think there was anybody out there quite like you.”

And I’ll smile and say, “Thanks. You guys are great, too. But you’re just not what I’m looking for.”

They might be sad or they might understand. Either way, I’ll pack my bags for my solemn departure, never to return again.
How Matthew McConaughey Became ‘Alright, Alright, Alright’
By: Brendan Vaughan
Tags: Film, Hollywood, Richard Linklater, Matthew McConaughey, Dazed And Confused

Of all the stereotypically Gen X things about my taste and overall worldview, probably the most stereotypical of all is my goofy love for Dazed and Confused. That’s why I couldn’t be more delighted to point you to this excerpt from Matthew McConaughey’s new memoir, Greenlights. And not just any excerpt! It’s the origin story of “alright, alright, alright.”

Here’s a taste: “Matching him drink for drink, I had no interest in Don calming down either, so we were unpeacefully escorted out of the Hyatt. Now past two in the morning, as he rode with me in a cab to drop me off at my apartment, I pulled out a joint and we smoked it.”

(BTW, this is not GEN’s only detour onto the McConaughey beat. Back when he was announced as a University of Texas film professor, we made up this syllabus.)
[Tutorial] How to Lock & Mine Dash on Huobi Pool to get rewards?
By: Huobi Global
Tags: Blockchain, Dash, Crypto, Staking

First, you will need an account on Huobi to join click here.

Huobi Pool official website: https://www.hpt.com (follow step 2 to step 4)

Step 1:

Step 2:

Step 3:

Step 4:

Not on Huobi? Register here.

Risk Reminder:

1. Trading in digital assets comes with high risks due to huge price fluctuations. Users should be fully aware of the risks associated with digital asset trading and make prudent trading decisions.

2. Huobi Global’s announcements and information do not constitute investment advice, and Huobi will not bear responsibility or provide compensation for direct or indirect losses arising from trading decisions whilst relying on this information.
GDPR, Data Protection and Blockchain
By: Judd Bagley
Tags: Judd Bagley, Gdpr, Blockchain, Everny, Identity

The EU’s new data protection regulations went into effect on May 25. In this episode, Elizabeth Renieris and Jamie Smith, two experts on GDPR, discuss the impact of the rules on individuals and businesses, while looking at how distributed technologies like blockchain and peer to peer technologies like those built by Evernym, factor into this new reality.
Emergency Node Maintenance Notice
By: Allen Liu
Tags: Vitex, Blockchain, Announcements, Emergency, Vite

Starting at 8:00 AM on November 28th (UTC+8), due to a technical problem, some full nodes stopped synchronizing and users cannot send transactions through the affected nodes. Currently, the Vite wallet, ViteX exchange, and Vite block explorer have been back to normal. We are reaching out to Binance, OKEX, and other exchanges to ensure the deposit and withdrawal services are restored.

In the meantime, all community full nodes and SBP operators are required to check the height of their node as soon as possible and restart the node if it is not syncing normally. For any technical issues, please reach us at https://discord.gg/nY8AGBQ2.

The security of users’ assets won’t be impacted.