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Cryptocurrency, Blockchain and ICO Resources
By: Terri Mead
Tags: Ethereum, Cryptocurrency, Angel Investing, ICO, Bitcoin

Yesterday my neighbor asked me a question about ICO’s and cryptocurrency and wanted to discuss something he was thinking about doing. I realized that this could be a good topic for my daughter Rachel to work on as part of her independent study and started looking for a file I have (had) on resources I printed back in July. I turned my office upside down looking for the file and ended up doing some significant purging and filing as a result. I was pretty stressed out about it and started to recreate the list of resources. Finally, my neighbor showed up with a cocktail at my front door and…you guessed it…the file folder. I’d given it to his wife so she could take a look at the docs and she ended up leaving it on her filing cabinet for six months.

Taylor Pearson posted a list of the top cryptocurrency resources in July 2017 and I found the list incredibly helpful (it doesn’t seem to be available any longer so I’ve recreated below). I recommend consuming the information in the following order. I will be adding to the list over time now that I have a place to put the articles/podcasts I find (last updated 3/22/18).
Call for Vite Techies
By: Christy Li
Tags: Announcements, Vite Labs

Want to build something cool on the Vite public chain? Want to discuss and study Vite’s tech in real projects used by thousands? Want to meet Vite’s core developers? Want to explore Vite 2.0 with the team? This is the opportunity that you should never miss out.

We humbly call for community developers to work with the Vite dev team. You will have the chance to participate in all aspects of development in the Vite ecosystem, including the Vite public chain, wallets, ViteX exchange, SDKs, tools, and more.

We are looking for

Core members, having insights into the blockchain industry and in-depth technical knowledge of blockchain projects and the trend. Core members will attend the discussion of Vite’s tech prioritization, feature enhancements, protocol upgrade, new technology adoption, and complete prototype design/development as per the discussion. Key developers, working closely with the Vite dev team to finish the development of new requirements and tasks. The key developers should have strong technical skills and responsibilities to complete the development on schedule. Solid contributors, willing to contribute to the long-term benefit of Vite, and having sufficient time to work on the assigned task for a period.

You will be eligible if you are

Seasoned blockchain developer. Skilled in software development. Blockchain development experience e.g. Solidity, web3, browser extension wallet like MetaMask is a plus. Proficient in at least one of the following languages or frameworks: Go, Java, Python, Javascript/Typescript, Node.js, Vue, Solidity. Knowledge in C/C++, Swift, Android, encryption algorithms is a plus.

Kindly note this is NOT a paid task or a campaign. A Vite techie shall be awarded for the high-quality work, but in principle we do not make a commitment for rewards or payment a priori.

You are not a Vite Techie if you are

Looking for a job, including a part-time job. Bounty hunter. Non-technical.

Join us, and let’s create something cool!

In the meantime, Vite will soon form Vite Techie Club, which will hold regularly online events for everyone interested in the tech aspect of Vite. You are welcome to participate and share your thoughts! Please pay attention to our following announcements.

Join https://t.me/vite_en and shoot a message to the admin to be involved!
Self-Care and Financial Health in 2021
By: Christine Carrillo
Tags: Finance, Financial Planning, Self Improvement, Self Care, Financial Freedom

Self-Care and Financial Health in 2021

Financial Anxiety? Practice a different type of self-care by changing your relationship with money

Practice financial self- care to improve your life.

Do you have anxiety about money? Most of us do. Make 2021 the year you get healthy physically, mentally and financially. Financial stress affects our general mental health and well being. Take control and improve your relationship with money with these eight simple steps.

Journal about your spending and saving habits. Write down everything you owe. Reflect on how you feel about it. This is the first step in getting a clear picture of your financial reality and your feelings about it. Keep track of your bank account balances. You should be checking them daily, unlike the nearly 40% of Americans who don’t! By checking your bank account balances on a daily basis, you will get a very clear view of your financial reality and be able to track your income and expenses, and see some of your spending habits, which will most likely surprise you. Again, once you see everything clearly, you’ll be back in control and able to make changes. Create a budget. Once you have a clear view of your debt, expenses, and income and you are in the habit of checking your balances daily, you are ready to take control. Make a budget, and stick to it. (I use a simple Excel spreadsheet at home, and also the notes app on my iPhone to track purchases and spending when I am out and about. Write down every single purchase and be sure you know your daily balance.) Look for simple ways to cut back on spending.

Make coffee at home each day and cut down on that coffee shop bill.

Workout using YouTube workout videos and cancel that gym membership.

Cancel your cable and use a digital antenna and a streaming service.

(I have personally made all of these changes in my life and saved over $15,000 thousand over the past 5 years.)

5. Create realistic financial goals for yourself and be specific. For example:

I will create a $5,000 emergency budget over the next 12 months.

I will pay off $10,000 in credit card debt over the next 36 months.

I will save $20,000 for a down payment on a home over the next 48 months.

6. Attack debt aggressively. To get myself out of crushing personal debt, I have used the snowball method. In the snowball method, you pay off the smallest debts first, and your success will snowball from there! Note that credit card debt should definitely be paid off first, as they will have the highest interest rates and fees.

7. Learn from experts! Here is an excellent list of the top 10 best finance podcasts from 2020.

8. Treat yourself! When you reach a financial goal, such as a savings or debt payoff goal, gift yourself something. You could make a special purchase or take a special trip, as long as it doesn't break your budget!

Follow these steps in 2021 and you’ll be on your way to financial freedom and peace of mind. Good luck! I know you can do it!
Ama Sizden Değilim
By: Rüstem Yurteri
Tags: Öykü, Kitap, Nihan Kaya, Edebiyat, Türkçe

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How Not To Do Business
By: Kahli Bree Adams
Tags: Humor, Entrepeneurship, Satire, Business, Freelancing

How Not To Do Business

The surefire way to fail as a solopreneur

Photo by Dimitri Houtteman on Unsplash

Be content with the status quo

Stay in your comfort zone at all times. Don’t try new things! After all, that’s way too risky and you could lose out on something or have to work a little harder.

Be just like everyone else

Don’t stand out, under any circumstances. Avoid being different and shoving your USP in potential clients’ faces. No one wants a braggart. Play it safe and blend in.

Repeat whatever everyone else says

Don’t have an opinion! That’s a big no-no. Repeat and share what others are saying and refrain from adding your own comments or thoughts. After all, what if people don’t like them?

Always eat alone

Don’t waste your time scheduling lunch dates or attending networking brunches. That’s for losers who have no work to do. You’re busy, so keep your head down and scoff down your lunch at your desk while you’re answering emails. You’ll be so much more efficient than those networking time-wasters.

Follow every trend

If everyone else does it, it must be good! Follow the crowd, and don’t stand out. Hop onto the latest bandwagon every time. Nobody likes show-offs who think they know everything better.

Forget everyone’s birthday and important dates

Isn’t that what friends and family are for? It’s simply unnecessary to fill up your brain with useless details like client or peer birthdays or anniversaries. You’ve got bigger fish to fry!

Always compare yourself against your weakest competitor

Stay away from the big guns; they’re nothing but trouble! As long as you only measure yourself against the small fries, you’ll come out on top and be just fine. Just keep on keeping on, right in your comfort zone.

Only hang out with people you know

Making new connections is something for folks who can’t get any work and are desperate for new clients. That’s not you, for sure. Stick to who and what you know, and you’ll be all right. After all, you haven’t starved yet.

Don’t support anyone without expecting something in return

Make sure everyone knows you’re not a pushover and won’t be taken advantage of. Every time you do something nice for a client or help a colleague out, be sure to ask for a favour in return and keep a tally. Tit for tat.
Episode #2: Henry Lee (ICON)
By: Around The Block Podcast
Tags: Podcast, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain Technology, South Korea

List of Topics Covered in This Episode

00:00 — Introduction to Henry Lee

01:20 — ICON and how Henry got involved with the project

02:56 — How ICON became so popular

04:40 — The effect (or lack thereof) of the recent market on ICON and delivering on the roadmap

07:16 — How has South Korea taken to the idea of adopting blockchain technology

12:00 — Building a healthy ecosystem and alliances for market growth

15:20 — Challenges for ICON and future plans

17:48 — Closing remarks
【CryptoNews】Do You Know? 02: Token Supply Management?
By: Angelina H. Huang
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Defi, Flowchain, Tokenomics, Global

When talking about cryptocurrency or Defi, the market cap of the token project or the ecosystem is usually the first thing people want to know. We can say the market cap is the primary factor in deciding if it is a successful project. However, it is also the reason why the market cap is often targeted to manipulate. It brings out a new question. Is market cap still the best way to evaluate the true value of a token project/ ecosystem?

Flowchain adopts “Token supply management” to prevent such manipulation and proposes a more reasonable standard to evaluate a token’s actual value.

The “Do You Know? 02” will let you understand:

What is market cap? Why and how can market cap be manipulated? What does “Token supply management” do to prevent such manipulation?

On y va!
Lets try live API coding with Forbes featured hacker Viljami Kuosmanen
By: Jarkko Moilanen
Tags: Live Coding, Apiops, Apiopslive, Twitch

APIOps community is build around API driven activities. So far we have focused on organizing meetups in various cities. This time we’ll try something new and exciting. We will do live API coding with Forbes featured hacker! For updates follow hashtag #APIOpsLive and @APIOps in Twitter!

In APIOps community we listen to our community members to find out whats needed and wanted

How did we get this idea? In APIOps community we listen to our community members. During Saturday afternoon Aug 12th Viljami asked in Twitter:

I instantly replied that I would attend and suggested API focus!

After that discussion went on in Twitter and eventually the date for the session was set! We will try this now for the first time. If it works and there’s enough interest, we’ll make it a habit.

First round — Aug 13th at 1pm (EEST)

The first #APIOpsLive API coding session will be soon — tomorrow. According to Viljami he will not only do API coding. He promised to include the planning phase to show how he designs APIs in real life as well. I would expect entertaining and educational session!

What you can expect from live coding session?

Lets have fun and relaxed forgiving spirit :) Anything else is a bonus.

and relaxed forgiving spirit :) Anything else is a bonus. 1–2 hours long session. EDIT: Viljami notified that his session Aug 13th might take 5 hours :)

long session. EDIT: Viljami notified that his session Aug 13th might take 5 hours :) Interaction happens via twitch.tv chat

Who ever is coding, is expected to speak out what is happening, to think out loud

Sessions might be recorded and stored to APIOps Youtube for later use.

Live API related coding sessions concept

Idea is to get developers to do live coding. Doing errors, finding & solving bugs and making mistakes are fundamental part of this activity! Lets have fun and learn at the same time. First bold API hacker to put himself on fire is Viljami Kuosmanen. If the first round is a success this might become part of normal APIOps network activities.

For APIOps this is perfect activity between the meetups. People get ideas, learn new stuff and have fun. Sessions might be recorded and added to Youtube APIOps channel.

Online live APIOPs coding sessions should focus on:

Live API development or

Live consuming of APIs in app development

Where does it happen?

We will use https://www.twitch.tv platform for this.

How do I know when live coding events are?
Jia Jia 專欄：幣寶交易所評測（BITPoint入門手冊）
By: 動區塊聚 Blockmeet
Tags: Taiwan, Bitcoin, 交易所, Cryptocurrency

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I’m a Programmer But I Hate Programming
By: Kitami Prescott
Tags: JavaScript, Personal Development, Technology, Computer Science, Programming

Love Turned Into Hate

I started losing interest in programming when I began my Master’s degree in Computer Science. Strange, isn’t it? How can one lose interest in a subject that they pursued into the post-graduate territory? The answer to that question is that your environment plays a big part in it.

The stark contrast between undergraduate and post-graduate programming environments leaves much to be desired. The undergraduate environment is encouraging and friendly. You’re allowed to make mistakes; you are only just learning. It’s acceptable if you don’t know much about anything, and it’s of no consequence if you aren’t well known in programming circles. Life is easy and great.

Photo by Startup Stock Photos from Pexels

The post-graduate environment, though, for lack of better words, is a large-scale pissing contest. It is not an environment where your programming skills can simply grow and prosper. It’s a dog fight.

It’s a place where your code needs to be high-level and perfect, with hardly any room for mistakes. You vie for the attention of the best professors. You throw yourself into writing the best papers to be presented at conferences where you can win awards for the university you represent.

You need to constantly come up with new ideas, new research, and new theories for your code — otherwise, it won’t even be given a second glance. You are ignored if you haven’t published papers where you are the first author in at least two A+ rank computer science conferences. You don’t code for the love of programming in this environment; you code to survive.
4 New GitHub Products That Will Change How You Code
By: Ben Soyka
Tags: Programming, Github, Open Source, Coding, Security

4 New GitHub Products That Will Change How You Code

Exciting announcements from the first virtual GitHub Satellite event

Photo by Caleb White on Unsplash.

Just recently, GitHub ran its first-ever virtual GitHub Satellite event. Thousands of people tuned in for the day of live-streaming that featured a keynote, live-coded music, and more.

At the start of the day, GitHub announced a few new features coming soon to the platform, including a live web-based development environment. These new features are sure to change the way we make open-source happen in the future.
I’m Sorry but I Won’t Suck Your Dick
By: Brooklyn Thomas
Tags: Short Story, Sex, Sexuality, This Happened To Me, Self

I’m Sorry but I Won’t Suck Your Dick

Blowjobs have never been a turn on for me

Photo by Hayes Potter on Unsplash

When I first started having sex, I used to be so enthusiastic. It didn’t matter the task, I would attack it with 110%. I would give porn star worthy blowjobs. I’d lick, suck, gag. Play with balls, pop one (sometimes two) in my mouth. I made blowjobs my bitch. I could get guys to come in record time and soon enough it was something that they always asked for.

However, soon enough I realised that I was giving disproportionately to what I was being given. So I slowly began to change my behaviour. I decided from that moment that I wouldn’t suck the dick of guys who refused to go down on me. Sex shouldn’t be a transactional endeavour but times were hard, and this was the only way of achieving equality in bed. Young men, can be pretty selfish and it worked!

I would get pleasured and so would he. But alas all good things must come to an end. There seemed to be a pattern of men who would lick me out for 5 minutes before giving up whereas I would only stop when they’d cum.

So another reorganisation of my department was needed, and I decided from that point onwards that blowjobs were for relationships only. Many men complained but alas their threats were hollow and once they got over the initial shock things were fine.

But then the unexpected happened. Not giving blowjobs made me realise how much I didn’t miss not giving them. From there I began to question whether I actually ever had. I always knew that I didn’t find them a turn on. But my hiatus brought about the sheer extent to my dislike.

I realised that throughout the years I’d been giving them because I thought I had to and not because I wanted to. Very rarely had I given a blowjob and enjoyed it. In fact, they kind of creeped me out.

I’m bisexual so this led to a minor existential crisis where I contemplated whether I was actually a lesbian (after watching ‘The King’ I can confirm that I am not). In the end I accepted it’s something that I would rather abstain from.

If I want to give them, I will. However, in the past 2 years I have probably given around 3 so men, don’t hold your breath. As I said above, though sex isn’t meant to be transactional, I will happily omit receiving head so that I don’t have to give it. There is nothing wrong with straight forward fucking, or hand stuff!

I refuse to be a pillow princess! But I also refuse to do something that makes me uncomfortable. Maybe this will all change when I meet someone who sexually drives me insane? Maybe it’s not blowjobs but the men I’ve given them to? I don’t know. But for now just know it’s nothing personal guys, it’s just not my cup of tea.
7 Skills of Highly “Effective” Programmers
Tags: Programming, Humor, Software Development, Personal Development, Work

1. Learn How to Read Other People’s Code

Everyone but you writes terrible code.

That is why a great skill that has multiple benefits is being able to follow other people’s code.

No matter how messy or poorly thought out a previous engineer’s code is, you still need to be able to wade through it. After all, it’s your job. Even when that engineer was you one year prior.

This skill benefits you in two ways. One, being able to read other people’s code is a great chance to learn what bad design is. While you are looking through other people’s code you learn what works and what doesn’t. More importantly, you learn what type of code is easy for another engineer to follow and what code is hard to follow.

You need to make sure you gripe as much as possible as you are reading over other people’s code. That way, other engineers understand how much of a superior engineer you are.

Make sure you bring up points about the importance of maintainable code and good commenting. This further shows your dominance in the area of programming.

Your code should be so well-designed that it requires no documentation. In fact, you shouldn’t document any of your code if you are a good programmer. This is just a waste of time and you need to spend your time coding and in meetings.

Being able to read other people’s messy code also makes it easy to make updates when needed. This occasionally means updating code you lack experience in. For instance, we once followed a script from Powershell to Python to Perl. We had limited experience in Perl, but we still had enough context to figure out what was going on and make the changes needed.

This comes from having a decent understanding of all the code as well as being able to read the Perl scripts.

Reading other people’s code makes you valuable because you can follow even over-engineered systems that might stump others.
5 Node.js/Express Tutorials to Go From Beginner to Expert
By: Catalin Pit
Tags: JavaScript, Web Development, Expressjs, Nodejs, Programming

5 Node.js/Express Tutorials to Go From Beginner to Expert

Get better at Node and Express

Photo by Pankaj Patel on Unsplash.

I mainly build the back end of my applications using Node.js and Express. As a result, I have done a lot of courses on this topic. In this article, I want to present to you my favorite courses to learn Node and Express.

They vary in difficulty. Also, each course has its particularities. For instance, some teach you sessions and some do not. Therefore, they complement each other, even though there is some overlap between them.

With that said, remember that nothing helps you more than building projects yourself. Follow the courses and then put what you learned to use! Also, it’s important to note that the courses are in no particular order. Without further ado, let’s jump in.
Ilm
By: Dr. Fatima Imam
Tags: Knowledge, Professional Development, Self Improvement, Life, Poetry On Medium

Illuminating

Learning

Manifested through the acquisition of knowledge.

Ilm: Arabic roots and used in the Urdu language, as well: acquiring knowledge about the universe with logical reasoning and critical thinking. Thus, Ilm is not restricted to one subject, profession, or expertise: rather an encompassing term including absorption of facts, information, skills, theoretical frameworks, and education. The path from ignorance to truth is only paved through knowledge. *

© Fatima Imam

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So thankful to R. Rangan PhD for tagging me for this prompt. Happy Holidays and sincere thanks for all the inspiration. 😊😊

—

Reference: John L Esposito, ed. The Oxford History of Islam, chapter 2 & 4.
Ocean
By: Sean Zhai
Tags: Self, Sports, Oceans, Poetry, Art

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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Why Write for Written Tales?. Why Write for Written Tales
Tags: Short Story, Poetry, Writing Tips, Flash Fiction, Written Tales

And lastly, we will never censor our writer, no matter what the world considers PC or the norm. We here at Written Tales refuse to censor as we stand firm to protect free speech. Once speech is silenced, so is thought, then tyranny reigns free. And our ability to write freely ceases to exist.

We want to thank each and everyone for your continued support and following. I know the last few months has been hit and miss with the world events, but we are back strong. Short-staffed, but back.

Kindest Regards,

Kevin

Editor of Written Tales
A Letter to the Child I Will Never Have
By: Patrick Paul Garlinger
Tags: Life Lessons, Spirituality, Relationships, Self, Personal Development

You Will Be Amazed By Your True Self

The truth of who you are may surprise you. It did me. I thought I was here to write wonderful insights into stories about humans, from different lands, who spoke different languages, about the kinds of conflicts and dramas that humans have with each other, and what they tell us about what it means to be human. So I became a professor of Spanish literature.

When other questions called to me, about the nature of power and how we organize ourselves as people, I became a lawyer. There I wrote wonderful stories — judges call them “briefs” — about humans, about what happens to humans who fall into conflict with other humans, and how those conflicts might be resolved.

Along the way, other people showed up in my life to tell me that there was still more I wasn’t seeing, to dive deeper, to feel my emotions, to explore new adventures in new lands. I had some wild experiences, and began to forge relationships with still more human beings, from different lands, who spoke different languages, about what it means to be human. I became a spiritual author and a psychic channel. Now I write other kinds of stories about what it means to be human.

Along the way, I made choices, and the opportunities to have you, my unborn child, have dwindled. Does that make me selfish? Do you resent me for leaving you to an alternative dimension, and not this one, the one I inhabit? That is no doubt my projection. It is the part of me who wishes I had had the experience of being a father asking to be honored.

What would it have been like to hold you when you cried, to tell you I loved you, to tell you you mattered no matter how people saw you, to teach you to be okay with pain but still comfort you, to watch you grow and explore and ask questions, to see you reject me in search of your own truth and meaning?

I will never know that unique combination of joy and pain. So I can only write these words of advice about what it means to be human in this world, tinged as they are with a sense of grief for what could have been and will not be.

I close with this: whoever and wherever you may be, know that you are loved more than you can imagine. Even as a dream unrealized, as a possibility unfulfilled.

You’ll know this too when you travel to that center. There you will understand what it means to love yourself completely, to revel in the magic of your being, and to fully grasp just how wonderful your true self is, however shocking and unorthodox it might be to you.

Once you are there, all the stories you’ve told yourself about who you were supposed to be will fall away, including any story about a man who once taught literature, then practiced law, then wrote about life, who mourned the loss of a child he would never have and decided one day to write that child a letter so that he might set them both free.
Use Case: Smart Medicine, Authenticated and Verified by Fantom
By: Michael Chen
Tags: Blockchain, Smart Medicine, Government, Lachesis, Afghanistan

Video by Samuel Harcourt

As big believers of the theory that people will only adopt the technology if we set the right example, we’ve been looking into deploying a solution on top of our consensus-as-a-service platform and Opera mainnet that illustrates its reliability. After looking within our existing business development efforts, we decided to pursue the avenue of smart medicine, as we already have in Afghanistan with the Ministry of Health and its healthcare sector that spans across the Middle-East.

With the outbreak of COVID19, and the increasing amount of seizures in regards to antivirals and chloroquine at international borders, we’ve been looking to expand the smart medicine solution to be a showcase of not only Fantom technology, but the value of blockchain technology in general.

Learn more about the smart medicine solution in the video down below.
內容行銷下一年怎麼玩？2018 你必須知道的四大演進趨勢
By: Henry Hu
Tags: Editors Pick, Content Marketing, 內容行銷

Co-Founder of Chigyosha Marketing Copr. based in Taipei. Addicted in data mining and content marketing. Passionated by visions and dreams.

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Travel and Crypto trade
By: Bithemoth Exchange
Tags: Travel, Cryptocurrency, Lifestyle, Trading, Bithemoth

So you love to travel, and now since your cryptocurrency trading is in a level that keeps money flowing, traveling becomes a daily lifestyle. Or does it? Carrying your laptop everywhere and searching for chargers can become quite messy, as you might want to take a pleasant walk down the streets of Paris or hop on the local train in India.

Smartphones are the answer! With your phone, you can now trade with ease, and get notifications when it’s best to buy or sell a coin which allows you to enjoy this luxury while traveling.

Not many cryptocurrency exchanges have a well-developed mobile application for trading. In most exchanges, you have to visit their website to carry conduct transactions, which isn’t very user-friendly. The size of the website may appear too large, or even simple tasks such as clicking on certain buttons may be an issue.

Bithemoth takes the cryptocurrency exchange mobile application up a notch. Bithemoth believes in efficiency, safety and compatibility. All three will be taken into consideration when the application starts development in Q4 after the successful launch of Bithemoth’s Exchange.

Alright, so you’re in the airport flying to the beautiful islands of Mauritius, and your Bithemoth Exchange application is running in your mobile’s background when suddenly you hear a notification sound. You pick your phone, and you see the message ‘Bitcoin at $20,000”, and you think to yourself, “let’s sell and upgrade myself to a better hotel in the island and a couple of extra bucks to go scuba diving maybe”.

Another instance, you’re sleeping in the remote mountains of the Everest, and you yet again, you hear a notification sound. You check your phone, barely awake to see the message ‘Bitcoin at $4,000’ flashing! You quickly open the the mobile app to make the purchase you have been so long to make! Ah, the convenience!

Overall, you will be enjoying a lifestyle many dream of while trading your cryptocurrency with a smile on your face whether you’re at the beach, or up in the mountains. Even when you’re lost in the jungles of the Amazon (if you have wifi of course) will be a possibility soon thanks to Bithemoth’s Mobile Application.

Remember –

“To travel is to evolve.” — Pierre Bernardo
【共鳴讀書 no.166】~相信天賦，打造個人化教育環境 ，藝術可以幫忙
By: Jinna Sun
Tags: Education, Resonance, Book Review

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Apakah anda harus kembali ke kantor?
By: Fitra Akbar
Tags: Pandemi, Startup Life, Work From Home, Indonesia, Covid 19

Easy read, easy understanding. A good writing is a writing that can be understood in easy ways

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A King Who Poisons the Well
By: Samantha Lazar
Tags: Politics, Poetry, Masks, Fear, Covid 19

A King Who Poisons the Well

A poem

Photo by engin akyurt on Unsplash

don’t fear the thing

that’s killing us,

says the gambler,

it’s not really that bad

optics show and tell

this is how to be remembered

bravado shaking the handrail

a zoomed in white-knuckled grip

on his own reality:

he’s off to bed

a king who poisons the well

and drinks to prove a point

this isn’t sustainable

breathing in chaos

trapping it in fabric

what’s mine is mine

everyone can do

what he enables and get away

with it, especially those

at his false altitude

that is the way then

a quick grab through

a smashed window

and really was it worth

a felony charge

for cigarettes — menthols!

and a case of beer

probably now, yes

at least potentially

the crime is worth knowing

what the wait is for —

thickening the file

our files are all thick

will someday this poem

or your poem be the reason

we press charges

some digital footprints

are waiting a reckoning

the cyber space we share

a jail cell for the willing

is she smiling

I cannot tell

who is she really anymore

people change in isolation

people change

when days on days

we’re holding our breath

trapped in our own game

meanwhile, eyes dart

from grief, to compassion,

to hate, to guilt, to fronting

like we were never taught to read
Angular: Avoid the Subscribe() Method for Observables
By: Rohan Paul
Tags: Observables, Angular, Programming, JavaScript, Rxjs

Subscribe Function

We pass the Observable around, combining it and saving it to different variables with different combinations of operators, but at the end, an Observable<T> is useless on its own. We need a way to “terminate” the Observable and extract the type T out of it. That is what .subscribe is used for: to subscribe to the resulting stream and terminate the observable. TK (https://kimsereyblog.blogspot.com/2018/05/async-pipe-versus-subscribe-in-angular.html)

We all recognize this pattern where I dispose of a subscription with the unsubscribe() method:

With this pattern, I can be sure that my subscription will always be ended and I am safe from a memory leak! Note that we absolutely have to create the subscription during the initialization ( ngOnInit ) of a component, and later when it’s being destroyed, we need to check if the subscription is still live, cancel it, and clear all references to it. TK (https://medium.com/angular-in-depth/why-you-have-to-unsubscribe-from-observable-92502d5639d0)

But for most regular situations where I am just doing a simple subscription to get the value of a variable and passing it to the template, this pattern becomes tedious very fast with an increasing number of subscriptions.

For example, see the code below:

So here is how I can avoid the subscription completely.

But first, let’s look at the code where it’s a simple consumption of an Observable returned by a service function and how to handle this with the .subscribe() method

Let’s assume I have a serviceFunctionReturningObservable() function that returns me an observable of the following signature. And in the parent component.ts file, I want to subscribe to that Observable and pass that subscribed data down to Children to be consumed.

serviceFunctionReturningObservable( flag: Flag ):

Observable<boolean> {}

The suboptimal version of my code (without using an async pipe) with regular .subscribe()

And then in the corresponding .html template file, I access the data as follows:

[isSomeBooleanVarToPassDownToChildComp]="isSomeBooleanVarToPassDownToChildComp"

Now to understand what’s happening above, we need to note that normally to render the result of a Promise or an Observable , we have to:

Wait for a callback. Store the result of the callback in a variable. Bind to that variable in the template. TK (https://codecraft.tv/courses/angular/pipes/async-pipe/)

So going by that flow, what we are doing above is:
‘Holidate’ Review: An Unlikely Date, an Unexpected Outcome
By: The Film Addict
Tags: Netflix, Entertainment, Movies, Film, Emma Roberts

‘Holidate’ Review: An Unlikely Date, an Unexpected Outcome

There is something about the movie that can’t be quantified

Source: Netflix

“Discover Holidate. An online platform for singles around the world to virtually date each other on holidays. It’s fun! It’s safe, and it totally complies with the decade-long lockdown that the world is going through. Download now.” Sounds like a solid copy for an app getting launched in 2025. Beer festivals. New Year Eve parties. Those things you see in the movie, Holidate? They all seem to be increasingly distant from reality now.

Holidate (the movie) is about Sloane (Emma Roberts), a young, single lady just a little south of her big 30, who is constantly subjected to attempted match-makes by her desperate mother (Frances Fisher). Like all great mothers do, she fears that Sloane’s climbing age and reluctance to date will diminish her valuation in the ‘dating market’. After getting nudged by her mother and relatives about her love life in a holiday event, Sloane strikes a pact with a bloke, Jackson (Luke Bracey) to fulfill each other’s holidays, assuring themselves that they don’t share romantic interests. Coincidentally, Jackson is getting tired of casually dating just for the holidays and feeling pressured to commit.

So there it is. The stage is set up. Which initially did not sound too exciting to me, because to be frank, I am not a fan of romantic comedies. Why did I end up watching Holidate? Similar to how I ended up at the corner of the parking lot after a wild night of partying during my foolish days, I had very little idea. But hey, at least I remember watching the film and do not need someone else (read: party mates) to tell me what I did. “What’s in it for me?”, I thought to myself. Unlike grittier films like Rebecca, romcoms always end with an overwhelmingly positive note, and I could already picture what the ending would look like even before the duo knew each other’s names.

That’s not to say that Holidate kicked-off poorly. In fact, it didn’t. Naturally, things were a little flavorless at first, even more so given that Holidate is my first exposure towards the stars portraying the leading duo — I had no idea how Emma-Roberts-the-nephew-of-Julia (I kid you not) and Bracey would sound, or act like. That said, there are still plenty of laugh-worthy moments tucked within the early hours of Holidate’s itinerary to let the audience soak-in and familiarize with the characters.
Shaded gardens
By: Nuno Ricardo
Tags: Lit Up, Poetry, Challenge, Self, Tanka

Shaded Gardens

Photo by Jerry Wang on Unsplash

The earth and the moon

hesitant between two halves

dance to silent tunes

as we drift under the stars

bleaching bulbs before they bloom

Tamed by vain purpose

hubris conquers foreign land

synchronized movements

from impetuous senses

cradling gluttony to sleep

Rose petals blame wind

as they move from pond to pond

riding tornadoes

in search of shaded gardens

where seeds grow outside their husks

Discarded flowers

undressed petal by petal

let nightmares flourish

excusing ghostly whispers

past doors once locked by silence

Pursuing water

dragged far into the ocean

I found my island

unable to map the waves

that returned me back to shore
What the Soul Wishes Coming Here?
By: Jean Carfantan
Tags: Sacred Feminine, Discernment, Energy, Triggering, Newsletter

Attachment: prompt

What the Soul Wishes Coming Here?

Not being trapped in an infinite loop that we call karma

Photo by DDP on Unsplash

The trap in 3D is to be attached. Our 3D personality is longing for the infinity our soul felt on the other side before incarnation. We feel the need for more permanency. Our attachment is the awkward reflection of Love, of the Divine Love we lived in before.

We are us each a fragment of the Source and we do meet again those we loved here, in the Source. If we are attached, we project an illusion, and this projection may lead us to another loop here.
Diversity at Medium
Tags: Diversity, Tech, Culture, Company Culture, Company

What’s Next?

First, I’m really proud of our team. We already have a lot of support internally that has already lead to more people reaching out to us, like these tweets here:

The men at our company are also putting effort into this initiative. Dan discovered a diversity in the workplace event last month and invited the whole company, Jamie had a creative idea that he wrote up and he’s also applied to independently mentor students at CODE2040 and arranged for us to host three fellows next summer. It’s pretty awesome that so many people here voluntarily invest their time to improve diversity at Medium.

But there’s so much more we can do. People Ops will be prioritizing this issue in Q1 by building a strategy and seriously executing on it as its own initiative at Medium. To start, our goal is to grow our brand as a company that encourages diversity and create more sources for recruiting this talent. Here are some low hanging fruit we plan on tackling:

Host at least one event per quarter that supports women and/or minorities.

Sponsor organizations that align with our values. We will be supporting CODE2040 to start.

Participate in fellowships and mentorship programs.

Engage in more creative sourcing by posting our jobs in more unique places, like NSHMBA, USBEIT, and Society of Women Engineers (SWE).

I have a hypothesis that making our culture and values obvious to people outside of Medium will reduce ambiguity and they will be more comfortable applying for our jobs. I’m working on a consolidated “About Medium” landing page that will bring all of our resources together on one page so candidates can more thoroughly learn about us (big thanks to Katie for collection mixtapes!)

If you want to help, we’d love for you to be involved in our efforts. If you have any interesting or out-of-the-box ideas like Jamie’s, feel free to leave a response to this post. If you want to be involved in events, help write posts, or anything else that you’d like to do, just let me know. And if you have any questions, concerns, or suggestions, I’m always available.

This is a hard task that no one in our industry has been able to nail yet.

I’d love for us to be the first.
Bitpie Wallet Has Suspended the Deposit and Withdrawal of SAFE
By: Bitpie Wallet
Tags: Crypto, Cryptocurrency Investment, Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency News

Dear Bitpiers,

Bitpie Wallet has closed the deposit and withdrawal functions due to the mainnet upgrade of SAFE for the security of the assets of Bitpiers. Please wait for the resumption.

Notice: Before the resumption, please don’t receive and send SAFE in case of assets loss. The official website of SAFE is https://www.anwang.com/.

Bitpie Team

September 18, 2018

Find us on

Telegram: https://t.me/BitpieInternational

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BitpieWallet

Medium: https://medium.com/@Bitpie
Yin and Yang of Love
By: Glenda Thompson
Tags: Questions, Life, Relationships, Love, Philosophy

Yin and Yang of Love

A philosophical haiku

Image by Comfreak from Pixabay

Which is easier

To love or to receive love

Which brings the most joy

Receiving the love

Of a pure shining spirit

Filling you with warmth

Or pouring your love

Into a warm, willing soul

Watching while it grows

Which bring the most pain

Being loved by a mad man

Possessed and controlled

Or to hold, shelter

Give all to another heart

Just to see it stop
Ta dose crypto du jeudi 15 mars — Coinbase reçoit la licence E-Money
Tags: Ethereum, Blockchain, Coinbase, Bitcoin, Litecoin

BitGrail Denies Responsibility for Hack, But Will Refund Coins "Voluntarily" | Finance Magnates

A Telegram group for victims of the recent BitGrail hack has revealed that the exchange does not consider itself to be…
Not a Poem to Be Read Out Loud
By: Terry Bain
Tags: Mailman, Poetry, Poetry Reading, Memory, Poet

Cut and Paste by Terry Bain

There was a time, long before I was able to see

and before

there was earth

and before I had ever sold a single flower

when I wrote poetry.

A poem a day.

I clacked them out on a manual typewriter.

You know what I mean. I clacked them.

They were not good poems but there was one every day

like vitamins.

It was as important as your daily multi, your mother’s

milk.

I spent millions of dollars on my poems.

No.

I spent millions of hours…

Still no.

I spent and spent and spent and nobody knows

how much I spent or what I was spending

but I spent it all and

that is enough.

I lived in a brown basement apartment. Everything

was brown.

My mailman hated me.

One morning I left an envelope for him to pick up and

as he did so, he said,

“I can’t believe this fucking shit.”

It was right outside my door. My door was open.

I heard him. Loud and clear.

I don’t have anything more

to say about that.

It’s an unearthly business,

this kind of business.

And this is an ugly poem.

Unearthly and ungainly and not beautiful.

There’s nothing to be done for it.

Even speaking it out loud does nothing for it.

As you know.

As you all now know.
US Official Statistics and President Trump
By: Ivan Lapickii
Tags: Fact Checking, US Elections, Infographics, Trump, Data Visualization

In 2016, Donald Trump promised to reduce taxes and drive rapid economic growth, get rid of federal debt and create new jobs. Over the duration of his presidency, he’s made new pledges and claims that can — and frequently are — cross-checked with official data. Today we’re tapping into our deep catalog of official US government data to share a couple of examples of how you can use this data to evaluate some of the pledges and claims of President Trump to answer, “How is that working out?”

Talking Point: 3.5% GDP Growth

According to President Trump

“Over the next 10 years, our economic team estimates that under our plan the economy will average 3.5% growth…” [POLITICO, Sept 2016]

US Official Data

Although we are not 10 years in, average GDP growth is still far from his promised 3–4%. The IMF and the World Bank also predict that US GDP growth will decrease to 1.6–1.7% in 2021.

The US economy is actually in good shape, but it will be difficult to achieve a stable average 3.5% GDP growth rate over the next six years. Even the IMF and OECD are forecasting 1.7 and 1.8 percent US average growth rates respectively over the next 4 to 6 years.

Talking Point: Job Creation

According to President Trump

“Over the next 10 years, our economic team estimates that under our plan the economy … create a total of 25 million new jobs”. [POLITICO, Sept 2016]

US Official Data

25 million new jobs over the next 10 years means 2.5 million new jobs per year. Under the first three years of the Trump Administration then new jobs should exceed 7.5 million.

The historically low US unemployment rates were supported by the opening of new production facilities and increased jobs in the non-farm sector. Trump managed to open more than 12,000 plants in three years, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, a growth trend initiated during the Obama administration.

Talking Point: Eliminating the National Debt

According to President Trump

“We’re not a rich country. We’re a debtor nation…We’ve got to get rid of the $19 trillion in debt…I think I could do it fairly quickly…I would say over a period of eight years.” [Washington Post, Apr 2016]

US Official Data

Debt stands now at $24 trillion. Trump implemented a tax cut in 2018. This caused the budget deficit to increase from $666 billion in 2017 to $780 billion in 2018, making a reduction much less elimination of the gross federal debt more unlikely.

Debt reduction aims of Trump have not been realized, however, debt growth slowed noticeably. The budget deficit amounted to $666 billion in 2017 and increased to $780 billion last year. Even though many American companies chose to payout their federal tax savings to shareholders, 2018 was the worst year for the US stock market during the entire decade since the global financial crisis.
Here’s What I Know…So Far
By: The Brewer Nation
Tags: Trades, Players, Elvis Andrus, Brewers, Rumors

I tweeted this morning that I woke up to an interesting text message on my phone but that I wanted to chase details before sharing.

For those of you who demonstrated patience, thank you. Here is what I know right now.

The Milwaukee Brewers have requested a copy of the contract of a certain player so that they can review it.

I’ll share the name in a minute, but what that means is that they want to review all of the particulars of the player’s contract so that they’re aware of any bonuses, escalators, incentives, clauses, etc, which are above and beyond standard MLB contract language.

What this IMPLIES is that the Brewers are considering acquiring said player and want to know what they’d be getting into if they did so. In no way should this become a “the Brewers are absolutely trading for this player” declaration.

At least not yet.

The player in question is Texas Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus. Yes, that’s not Jurickson Profar but it’s still exciting. Andrus is a proven talent and still only 23 years old.

This has come about because the word is that the Rangers view Profar as MLB-ready and therefore could move to Andrus in a package to acquire a package of players centered around Brewers’ starting pitcher Zack Greinke.

Rumored to be involved going to Texas along with Greinke if this deal actually comes off? A relief pitcher and a position player. Yes I’ve been told the names, but too often the supporting pieces in a deal change so I’ll keep quiet on that for now. Rumored to be coming back to Milwaukee with Andrus is (at least) a touted minor league starting pitcher.

I’ll stay on this to see if it gets further down the road or if fizzles.

Try to remember that even deals announced as “done” by professional media (most recently Dempster to Braves) can still fall apart for a number of reasons.

And I’m not saying at all that there is a deal that’s fully on the table.

All I know for sure is that Milwaukee had cause to find out additional information about Elvis Andrus.

Keep that in mind.