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2020-21 NBA Eastern Conference Win Total Over/Under Picks
By: Brandon Anderson
Tags: Sports Betting, Sports, Culture, Basketball, NBA

THE RACE FOR THE TOP OF THE EAST…?

13. Boston Celtics — UNDER 45.5

I can’t shake this worrying feeling about Kemba Walker. Small guards in their 30s typically hit that first major injury and never really come back. The Celtics aren’t very deep, and don’t forget, they lost Gordon Hayward too. Hayward was good last year, and teams don’t just lose two former All Stars and not notice.

The counter argument is easy: Brad Stevens teams always overachieve, and they probably will again. But the hill is steeper this year, and this is asking an awful lot of Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown.

12. Philadelphia 76ers — OVER 43

Here we are at the start of a new NBA season, and we’re talking ourselves into the Philadelphia 76ers all over again. A familiar, empty feeling.

This Sixers roster genuinely feels different. Seth Curry and Danny Green are the perfect role players for a Simmons-Embiid team, and Doc Rivers is a big improvement at coach. He’ll get the most out of Tobias Harris and movement shooters like Curry, and Tyrese Maxey could be this year’s sleeper rookie. I really truly feel this team is different.

But I also have this awful deja vu of feeling the exact same thing the last three or four years with Philly too. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me any more than that and you must be “MVP candidate” “DPOY candidate” “Awesome 12 times a year when he shows up motivated and actually tries against some vastly inferior big man” Joel Embiid.

(I still picked the over. I’m a glutton for punishment.)

11. Milwaukee Bucks — OVER 49.5

The Bucks are still the best regular season team in the East by a wide margin. They’re also the best by a wide enough margin that they might not need to push for 50 wins. Of course they won 60 two years ago and played at a 63-win pace last year and closer to a 70-win pace for much of the season.

Jrue Holiday is better than Eric Bledsoe in every way, Giannis still somehow gets better every year, and Bud pushes this team every night and should have the #1 defense in the league again. The Bucks only have to play at a 57-win pace to hit this, and they should sleepwalk to that number even if they do take their foot off the gas a bit.
Don’t Interrupt Your Kids
By: Alexandre Porto
Tags: Kids, Education, Children, Conversations, Teaching

For adults, there’s another trick. The key is to listen and explore the idea together.

Attentively listen to what they have to say and only interrupt if you wish to make a question that will make the conversation richer. This means that if they are telling a story you should interrupt any time you feel that there’s a point of the story that the interlocutor can explore more.

S orry to interrupt, but can you talk more about this… Wait, can you describe the place this story took place?

anonymous 19th-century painter, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Impulse of Interrupting

To succeed in letting the interlocutor reach the logical end of their ideas one must contain oneself every time the impulse of interrupting the other arises.

This is imperative to a good conversation because — as I mentioned before — an interruption can wreck communication and will debilitate that person’s ability to accurately explore the subject.

The best way to hold back this impulse is to be conscious.

There’s no other way, actually.

With the presence of spirit and consciousness, it’s possible to identify the impulse of interrupting the other as it surfaces and then we can let it exist without expressing it.

Let the impulse come, and then let it go.

The Results

André-Henri Dargelas, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The overall quality of your interactions with co-workers, family members, friends, kids, etc… will increase drastically if you stop the impulse of interrupting them mid-story.

For children, this is especially effective because a kid must learn verbal self-expression by doing. They must speak to other people because when we talk to someone else we are not allowed to take mental shortcuts. This means that to successfully communicate an idea — any idea — one must logically structure the idea, organizing words comprehensively. This rarely happens when we work on an idea alone, without talking to somebody else.

If you want to understand any subject just try and explain it to someone else.

Stop interrupting your kids, they want to talk and they must be heard.

Don’t ever think that you are making them a favor by interrupting them mid-sentence and “correcting” them. Let them reach the correct logical conclusion by having a conversation with you.

Your job as a parent or educator is to serve as a context for an exercise that is fundamental to make them able to externalize the internal world of ideas.
What Meeting Planners Want and 9 Things that Drive Them Crazy About Speakers
By: Jay Baer
Tags: Research, Conference, Keynote, Public Speaking, Speakers

What Meeting Planners Want and 9 Things that Drive Them Crazy About Speakers Jay Baer Follow Feb 12 · 2 min read

Meeting planners have spoken, and we listened. On the subject of the selection and investment of a keynote speaker and what matters to them and their audiences, meeting planners are clear: it’s about substance, not showmanship.

“There’s riches in the niches.” ~Speaking Industry Adage

Our data shows that the old speaking industry adage is true. We asked, “What Are The Top Things You Want In A Keynote Speaker?” and the results were:

One half to two thirds of professional planners cite specific knowledge and demonstrated expertise as the top two criteria on which they base their hiring decisions. More important than being inspirational, funny, unique, a celeb or anything else, they want the real-deal speaker who is smart about their subject.

In addition, they want their speakers’ content to be tailored and to match expectations. Boilerplate speeches and bait-and-switch presentations are cited by three-quarters of meeting pros as the top two things that annoy them about keynote speakers.

Speakers don’t need fancy laser shows, tech riders, or to be big promoters — rather, do what you say and talk to their people. A little personalization goes a long way. Download our full report for the results and analysis of 150 professional meeting planners surveyed and find out what they are looking for from keynote speakers in 2020.
10 Pods to Use in a New iOS Project
By: Alex Nekrasov
Tags: Cocoapods, Mobile, Xcode, Swift, Programming

Working with Cocoapods

This is a brief overview of the Cocoapods system. If you’re familiar with it, skip this section.

If you still don’t have Cocoapods in your system, open the Terminal app and type:

sudo gem install cocoapods

Create a new project, open the containing folder in Terminal and type:

pod init

pod install

You’ll get a workspace file. From this moment, you should only open workspace, not a project, otherwise, Xcode won’t see your dependencies and you’ll get references to a non-existent code. To add dependencies use Podfile . It’s a Ruby script, but you don’t need to know Ruby to edit it. There are several simple rules.

First of all, let Cocoapods know your target system. For example, iOS. And don’t forget to specify your minimum iOS version:

platform :ios, '10.0'

As all warnings in external libraries are not my business, I usually add this line:

inhibit_all_warnings!

It will silence all the warnings in external libraries.

If you use Swift, you probably want to use frameworks. Some pods require this:

use_frameworks!

Each target can have separate dependencies. For example:

target 'MyApp' do

pod 'Alamofire'

pod 'Kingfisher'

# ...

end

As you can see, you can add comments with the symbol # .

Any target can have an unlimited amount of libraries. Sometimes you need to specify a version or a version range. In such cases, web pages of libraries give you instructions, but the general syntax looks like this:

pod 'Kingfisher', '~> 5.4'

And that’s it! Let’s move on to the ten libraries I use the most.
Haibun a Heart
By: Sylvia Clare Msc. Psychol
Tags: Challenge, Emotions, Love, Haibun, Poetry

Slightly scared, we sat upon the beach, talking — not touching, waiting for a signal this would become the deep passion we both felt within our beings, waiting to know if we both felt it, that it was safe to allow our inner selves to show. Love, a deep joy, a source of great pain when twisted and contorted, had taught us to be cautious, but our trembling was desire.

Waves advance slowly

creeping up on us as love

lapped our hearts’ edges
How to Find Opportunities in Your Challenges
By: Daniel P. Donovan
Tags: Self Improvement, Personal Development, Writing Life, Personal Growth, Writing Tips

How to Find Opportunities in Your Challenges

And use the bad stuff for something good

Photo by Jukan Tateisi on Unsplash

Every morning, I sit down at my desk to write an article.

I give myself no more than 33 minutes to do so.

That means (1) conceptualizing, (2) writing, (3) proofreading, (4) editing, and (5) publishing. All before my timer runs out.

At first, it was quite challenging.

To put zero forethought into a topic and then magically pull one out of a hat when it finally came time to write.

But with 300+ daily articles under my belt now, I think it’s fair to say I’ve found my groove.

Some days, I don’t have anything to write about.

Like today, for example.

But even then, it’s a good opportunity for me to talk about that — for me to talk about the challenges I’m currently facing.

The only thing is…

When I do that, I also have to find a way to spin it so it benefits you. I can’t just write about me. That’s boring, selfish, and downright disrespectful of your time.

So how do I spin something like this for YOU?

Well, think about it…

Right now, I’m talking about working with my challenges instead of turning away from them. I’m talking about a way to use those challenges instead of using them as an excuse.

How can you do the same?

How can you turn your challenges into an opportunity?

How can you use your challenges to create something with meaning?

Every challenge has attached to it an equal opportunity.

Find out what that opportunity is and then roll with it as much as you can.

The more you do, the more you’ll welcome new challenges into your life.

Because instead of being something that holds you back…

You’ll make them into something that launches you forward.
[Wallet] Assets on all exchanges can be managed in one IONIA
Tags: Wallet, Bitcoin

This is IONIA :)

Is it convenient to check the cryptocurrency scattered by the exchange in one place and manage assets?

The answer is Ionia.

As I said before, Ionia Wallet said it was possible to link up with about 18 different exchanges.

We’re adding more exchanges!^^

You can check all the cryptocurrency scattered across these exchanges at once in Ionia.

Let’s see what happens.Hah!

In fact, you can check the amount of coins you have on the exchange in real time.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aren’t you too comfortable?

This Exchange App, that Exchange App

No need to turn on multiple apps

In Ionia, go for it at once! All assets in all exchanges by coin!! Real-time asset value

And it also provides trading robot that can sell automatically 24 hours a day.

Download it now and quickly manage your assets easily and conveniently~~
Responsive cross browser lightbox using only html and css
By: Kim T
Tags: CSS, Efficient, Demo, Background, HTML

There are many great lightbox plugins out there, however lots of them rely on jQuery or other libraries. Also another negative aspect is that they use JavaScript for the resizing and other parts which really isn’t needed. So how can we make our own css only efficient lightbox overlay, which works cross browser IE8+?





Firstly we need the html wrappers for the content. We have four wrappers for the background, scrollable area, centering vertically and centering horizontal.

<div class="overlay">

<div class="t">

<div class="tc">

<div class="content">

<h1>This is the lightbox overlay</h1>

<p>Check it at different sizes to see how it works</p>

</div>

</div>

</div>

</div>

Now we add some css to the background outer wrapper, to position it on top and fill the screen with black:

.overlay {

width: 100%;

height: 100%;

position: absolute;

top: 0;

left: 0;

bottom: 0;

right: 0;

z-index: 5;

overflow: auto;

background: rgb(76, 76, 76);

background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);

}

Then the css added to the inner wrapper allows the content to be aligned vertically and horizontally:

.overlay .t {

margin: auto;

display: table;

width: 100%;

height: 100%;

}



.overlay .tc {

display: table-cell;

vertical-align: middle;

}

And finally the content wrapper can then restrict the content width and style the lightbox background/padding depending on the content type:

.overlay .content {

max-width: 680px;

margin: 0 auto;

padding: 20px;

background-color: #fff;

}

Here’s how that looks so far:

If you want a different background, rather than a black background you can blur the content behind using the following code:

<div class="page toblur blur">

<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Donec vitae quam in enim volutpat pulvinar.</p>

</div>

You then add the css to blur the background. The blur class can be added and removed to trigger the animation effect:

.toblur {

-webkit-transform: translate3d(0, 0, 0);

-webkit-filter: blur(0px);

-moz-filter: blur(0px);

-o-filter: blur(0px);

-ms-filter: blur(0px);

filter: blur(0px);

-webkit-transition: all ease-out 0.2s;

-moz-transition: all ease-out 0.2s;

-o-transition: all ease-out 0.2s;

-ms-transition: all ease-out 0.2s;

transition: all ease-out 0.2s;

}



.blur {

-webkit-filter: blur(5px);

-moz-filter: blur(5px);

-o-filter: blur(5px);

-ms-filter: blur(5px);

filter: blur(5px);

}

Here’s how that looks now:
Me
By: Saugat Acharya
Tags: Haiku, Desire, Relationships, Love, Poetry

Six Years of poetry-only publishing, PoetsUnlimited was a diverse, engaging and authentic poetry magazine. For most of that time a daily publication, it was always diverse and original, and free-to-read by all.

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How do Egyptians Spend Their Money? 5 Things We Discover from Numbers
By: Islam Salahuddin
Tags: Infotimes Stories, Money, Family, Egypt, Economics

As Egyptian, it’s not news to say that your annual spending has been increasing over the years. However, you might be interested to put that in number, and here it is; the annual average of Egyptian household expenditure has jumped by 227% between 2004/2005 and 2015, according to Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).

Interesting, isn’t it? Here are more 5 points we’ve discovered after looking at numbers of annual average household expenditure from CAPMAS’ latest statistical yearbooks.

We emphasize that what we explore here is just the nature of household spending with a very general look at its change over 10 years. This DOES NOT necessarily reflect household spending priorities, since we are not taking prices into consideration for now.
ICO Alert Crypto Minute: August 2, 2018
By: Brooke Robinson
Tags: Crypto Minute, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

ICO Alert Crypto Minute: August 2, 2018

Tourism in Australia more Crypto-Friendly, CoinMarketCap Quarterly Update Brings New Features, U.S. Treasury Discusses Crypto in New Fintech Report

Image via Shutterstock

Tourism in Australia more Crypto-Friendly

In a move backed by the Australian government, local crypto startup TravelbyBit will expand operations to bolster online sales of tourist experiences using cryptocurrency.

TravelbyBit is one of 70 domestic companies to receive a portion of the Advance Queensland Ignite Ideas grant, an AUD$8.3 million grant, given to companies looking to innovate in the region, according to CCN.

Although the TravelBit app is already in use in over 30 outlets in the region and 150 outlets across Australia, this new funding will support job growth and expansion that will attract more tourists by allowing them to purchase holidays with cryptocurrency from anywhere in the world.

CoinMarketCap Quarterly Update Brings New Features

CoinMarketCap, a Cryptocurrency market data website, has added several new features following its scheduled quarterly update.

As reported by Newsbtc.com, the additional components include a professional API, information on crypto derivatives markets, exchange ranking updates, a digital currency glossary, and more. These updates come on response to users requests for more functionality, and to address the growing number of institutional funds and cryptocurrency products in the space.

U.S. Treasury Discusses Crypto in New Fintech Report

In a new report on Fintech, the U.S. treasury addressed regulatory issues and innovations in the Cryptocurrency sector. Published on July 31, the report touched on Cryptocurrencies and distributed ledger technologies (DLT) such as blockchain, and advocates for more oversight and exploration. As reported by Cointelegraph.com, these and other issues being “explored separately in an interagency effort led by a working group of the Financial Stability Oversight Council.”
I asked my mother to hold my hand
By: Srishti Das
Tags: Poem, Poetry, Fiction Writing, Fiction, Poetry On Medium

Trigger Warning: Suicide

Credits — Unsplash

I spoke to God when I was three for the first time

and my mother watched a man push me into the deep end of the pool,

She told me to swim, swim, swim so I wouldn’t drown.

It would be years before I saw her face again but I’m patient.

Sixteen and floating in a rose painted bathtub,

I raise my hands up towards her

and she says wait for me,

i’m not finished with you yet.

It’s been a long day but I think one more can’t hurt

I speak to her again when my sister’s gone-

it could have been me, it should have been me-

my head’s in a porcelain sink and I see her watching me.

She says she’s not ready yet but I’m sick of waiting.

No one reads poetry to me anymore.

It’s been a few years and I’m watching

Pennsylvania’s sun melt into my wounds.

She stands beside me but I can’t meet her eyes.

Do you know where I go?

She asks me, like she wants me to pry

the words out of her cold, dead mouth

but i don’t, i can’t care anymore

I can’t look at fans,

I can’t swim in foreign pools.

I tell her,

wherever you go, take me with you

and this time she holds out her hand.
Edge Wallet Development Update
Tags: Xrp, Ripple, Qtum, Monero, Bitcoin

Over the last few releases our developers have been focusing on performance, optimization, and the little details that make the Edge Wallet not only a great multi-asset wallet but an application that feels great to use.

Today, we’re excited to our announce our latest release, v1.2.0, which includes support for some exciting additions including but not limited to new assets, in-app buy/sell with debit & credit cards, and advanced features such as private key sweeping!

We’ve been listening to our user base and have successfully extended our support for a few more top 20 crypto-assets(by Market Capitalization) that many in our community are aware of or have expressed great interest in. Edge users will now be able to secure, send, and receive Ripple(XRP), Monero(XMR), and Quantum(QTUM) right inside their user controlled wallet, directly interacting with these networks while having autonomy and privacy while doing it.

“While solutions exist to gain price exposure and invest in these currencies, there are no options besides Edge that let users hold, send, receive, and trade these currencies from a secure wallet they control, with no custodian, alongside a dozen other crypto assets. This is all from the convenience of their mobile phone.” Paul Puey, CEO and Founder of Edge.

Release Notes for v1.2.1:

Support to hold, send, and receive Monero (XMR)

Support to hold, send, and receive Ripple (XRP)

Support to hold, send, and receive Quantum (QTUM)

Support for buying and selling Bitcoin using credit card worldwide via Simplex integration

Ability to sweep private keys for Bitcoin, Bitcoin Cash, Litecoin, Dash, Qtum, Feathercoin, and Zcoin

Export transaction history to CSV and Quickbooks (QBO) files

Ability to restore deleted wallet

The latest version is available for download in the iOS App Store, Google Play Store, and as a direct download link from https://edge.app
Are You Still a Freelancer or Already a Business Owner?
By: Kahli Bree Adams
Tags: Small Business, Freelancing, Business, Solopreneur, Mindset

Are You Still a Freelancer or Already a Business Owner?

Shake off the ‘I’m just a freelancer’ image and start acting like a professional solopreneur

Photo by Bench Accounting on Unsplash

It’s time to shake off the ‘I’m just a freelancer’ image and start acting like professional solopreneurs. Here’s how to take your small business to the next level-with an entrepreneurial mindset.

The last time someone you just met asked you what you do for a living, what was your response?

‘Oh, I’m just a writer and sometimes I teach a bit on the side‘?

All too often this is what we tell others about what we do. But then how do we expect to be taken seriously as professionals? It’s high time we stop seeing ourselves as ‘just a freelancer‘ and start thinking and acting like business owners!
Lessons to raise the maturity level of your UX Research team
By: Bruna Alves Maia
Tags: UX Research, UX, Ux Maturity, Design Research

Lessons to raise the maturity level of your UX Research team

In October 5th of this year, I had a chance to participate in the Recon19, a conference dedicated to UX Research, in the heart of New York City.

I wrote an article about the main takeaways and learnings, and what I think are the trending topics about UX Research.

But this one, is focused on the first topic that I take as a personal lesson is: UX Research is growing and is growing fast so how are you dealing with this fact?

Most of the talks were aligned to the moment UX Research is going through, which means, the talks were stories about how to deal with the daily challenges at the same time you’re trying to increase the maturity level of the UX research department in your organization. It is a fact: usually, the UX researchers are a team of one and are struggling with the choice to deliver fast value or building the right process and frameworks. In the end, we’re living a day after another trying to make things right.

So, my first takeaway of participating in Recon was about the UX Research Maturity, which I summarized in the following main points:

Use technology to change the way you do research

2. You will never find perfection, it will always be about trial and failure

3. Embrace reporting changes

4. In the same sense, you should be de-escalating the level of research effort (level! not quality)

5. “Stop using research jargon and start speaking like a human being” (LIU, Kathy)

6. Become a trusted advisor

7. Never forget to influence the downstream

8. Metrify anything! Even innocent slack interactions with “Hi, a girl in my team mentioned that you could help me with a question about the users…” this is proof that UX Research has value!

9. Take a deep breath! Everyone is learning and you’re doing your best!

After all, we need to understand that we should be more strategists and fewer researchers. It’s hard to leave all the anthropologies and research concepts in a second plan, but if we don’t focus on business, no one will take us seriously.

That’s another important learning: the companies just gave a step forward to a high level of UX Research maturity when they introduced a research leadership to be on the same level as other business areas. The average between hiring the first UX Research for the organization and having a solid process of UX Research with metrification was 4 years, so, don’t feel down! If you just started with UX research in a company with a team that is structuring, you have time! And it’s super cool being a part of this change!

Also, to make it easy to sell your design ideas, the team should have clear goals for the product and the user experience. If you feel that they don’t have it or it’s not that clear, define this together with them. It will make your job easier and more focused.
SkyRocket launches IntoTheBlock Analytics for its traders
By: Alfredo Terrero
Tags: Ethereum, Intotheblock, Bitcoin, Crypto

A new Pro Analytics page is now powered by IntoTheBlock

SkyRocket is a crypto-trading platform integrated with popular exchanges, like Binance, Bitmex and OKEx. It offers a wide range of tools and functionalities for its traders that effectively increase transacting capabilities, such as trailing stop-loss or graphic monitoring of changes in a portfolio. It also provides a selection of algorithmic trading solutions, developed in collaboration with their partner Exeria.

Today, SkyRocket has released a new section on the platform completely powered by IntoTheBlock. When traders visit this Pro Analytics page, they are presented with a dashboard that delivers a new way of analyzing a crypto asset’s behavior. This dashboard is divided in two sections: The Token Summary displays, as the name implies, a quick view of a crypto asset showing several of IntoTheBlock’s indicators, which together provide a holistic view of a crypto asset’s behavior. The Actionable Signals section contains momentum signals based on IntoTheBlock’s underlying indicators.

For those traders interested in more detailed analysis, the “Dive Deeper” and “See More Signals” buttons redirect them to the IntoTheBlock Platform with access to a portfolio of over 120 intelligent signals about traditional crypto assets, specific markets such as DeFi and event price prediction models .

At IntoTheBlock, we are excited about this new partnership that enables us to deliver crypto intelligence to a considerable number of traders around the world. We look forward to hearing about your experience with SkyRocket and IntoTheBlock.
[Crypto] The Case of Hacking on the Exchange in Korea
Tags: Bitcoin, Crypto

17.12.19 Youbit secondary hacking

I am John :)

The cryptocurrency market in korea broke its record price in December 2017

When the heat for Bitcoin is soaring

When many people began to be interested in cryptocurrency with new assets

Once again, there has been a hacking case where the safety of the exchange is disrupted!! This time, the second hacking case where the exchange was hacked once more!!!

3. December 19, 2017 Youbit (formerly yapizone) Second hacking incident

17% Cryptocurrency loss of 17% to 17.2 billion won

This is the second time the YouBit has hacked because its former Yapizon Exchange has been renamed and operated since it was hacked. Once Yapijon was hacked, the Youbit who changed his name and operated was hacked again, and the damage was the highest ever.

The Youbit has come up with a plan.

Go bankrupt.

The damage to the hacking, which amounts to about 17.2 billion won, was complicated by the discovery that the cryptocurrency investors had to share.

And the government, at this time, didn’t recognize cryptocurrency as a financial instrument, so the investor was responsible for the loss.
Blinded by Blockchain
By: Andrey Didovskiy
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Crypto, Blockchain, Bitcoin, Economics

Blockchain dis-intermediates any and all[self-interested] parties from transactions, but still allows those transactions to take place…

Blockchain does not remove additional parties… Blockchain replaces them.

Blockchain is the shifting of TRUST from Middleman → to → Middleware

For more clarity, we have to revert “Blockchain” back to what it is, at it’s most raw.

A Database Structure.

This database structure is called a ledger.

This Ledger acts as a universal “source of truth”

This “Source of Truth” is used to verify and validate any [appropriate] statement.

Events are now to be appended onto this Ledger for future reference.

This creates the architecture for DEFI (decentralized finance). An architecture that automates the entire middleman process.

We wont be exploring the technical wonders of how blockchain works here, but a brief explanation is: Immutable — Append only — Chained — Competitive Decentralization

(in the case of the bitcoin Bitcoin)

At society’s current standard, all digital financial activities that happen are checked and verified against the Ledger that is owned and maintained by profit-seeking institutions, such as Banks.(no I am not against institutions, I believe that capitalism and open finance can co-exist).

So right now, if you or somebody you know go to do ANY digital financial transaction the systems that get updated would be everybody’s in between the transaction namely:

Banks → Credit Card Companies → IRS → Payment Provider → payment processors → Merchant — — and finally your own…

Blockchain structure is capable of handling the “work” that all those intermediaries do, do it for magnitudes cheaper, and secure it against grieving / malicious individual actors.

No matter how you want to phrase it or what Utopian ideology it would be nice to live in: Theory and Practicality are two divergent polar creatures.

It is impractical (and at the very least unnecessary) to remove all parties from transactions. When engaging in large scale economic activities it is highly recommended and ostensible to have a neutral third party guaranteeing compliance with any agreement terms.

Imagine blockchain as an always neutral (and uninterested in the outcome) third-party to all trading activity. (a third party which is a collaboration of self-serving third parties with a common goal) Which also happens to wield/be a source of truth which is used for verification & validation.

Blockchain promises to store data in a very specific way. In a distributed/decentralized ecosystem in which fictitious transactions cannot be executed (99.999% of them). It promises to be as resilient to hacking and breaking as it is widely adopted. It promises nothing when quantum computing floods the markets.
I’m a Stay-At-Home Mum in a World of Stay-At-Home Parents
By: Zita Fontaine
Tags: Family, Relationships, Parenting, Love, Self Improvement

An odd feeling was washing over me, like a strange déja vu from the past and I had a hard time putting a finger on it. I was trying to figure out what bugs me about being on lockdown; when my daily routine is not much different now than it was a month ago; when I am still working from home just like I had been doing it in the past two years; when because of my kids my social life is next to nothing anyway.

Then it hit me! I realised that I just time-travelled back to the time when I was a stay-at-home mum with two toddlers — two years apart from each other. And I recalled how much I hated it.

When I exchanged my high-paying fancy job to become a full-time mother — even if it was just for a short time — I felt that the world just turned upside down. I loved my daughter (and then both of them) and I loved spending time with her, I enjoyed being a mother, but I hated everything else around it.

I hated that I wasn’t useful anymore as a colleague. I hated that I was supposed to cook for myself. I hated to do the laundry. I hated ironing baby-clothes the most. I didn’t think these activities were useful — I believed they were a waste of time and I could have been doing so many other things instead. I was caught in a constant frustration loop of not enjoying anything and wanting something else.
XSN Lightning Swaps (Testnet) Guide
By: Stakenet Team
Tags: Stakenet, Xsn, Technical Documentation, Atomic Swaps, Bitcoin

Hello and welcome to a Stakenet Tutorial Guide.

In this guide, we will explain how to conduct your first Lightning Swap on the XSN and Litecoin (LTC) Testnet. I have tried to make this guide as simple as possible and will mainly consist of copy and pasting commands, however; we would advise that you have some working knowledge of using an Ubuntu VPS such as setting up a Masternode or TPoS server.

We will be implementing a one-click solution within our upcoming wallet so the average user is able to use it without the below steps as it will be implemented and automated by the wallet.

If you are a little tech savvy and want to help with the testing of this technology then please proceed and let us know any issues or bugs you come across.

Requirements for testing the Lightning Swap:

First things first, to be able to run the test, you will require the following:
On Being a Trans Woman … Who Doesn’t Pass
Tags: Defiant Sex, Transgender, LGBTQ

On Being a Trans Woman … Who Doesn’t Pass

Not all women look the same — and that should be okay

by LAURA KATE

Mainstream transgender acceptance in the United States has been a long time coming. And it’s got a long way to go.

America is getting more comfortable with a certain class of trans people. In particular, trans women who can pass as traditionally beautiful.

But what about those of us who can’t pass — or don’t think we should have to? Here’s to women with prominent Adam’s apples, five o’clock shadows and deep voices.

Here’s to women like me.

In the 1990s, trans women were punchlines — awareness by way of mockery. It felt like we only existed so the hero of Ace Ventura: Pet Detective had an excuse to comically vomit at the thought that he might have liked a trans woman, and then forcibly strip off her clothes and out her genitals in front of a crowd of vomiting onlookers.

At least someone was acknowledging our existence, right?

In that era, trans women in media were usually very feminine — but only to set up the punchline. The big reveal.

In the ’90s conception of a trans woman’s transition, we simply sneaked off for one secretive operation. We’d reappear with bandages on our faces — and slowly unwind the bandage to reveal the most unbelievably, effortlessly gorgeous woman anyone had ever seen.

The trend continued through the 2000s. Popular culture still portrayed trans women as flawlessly beautiful but with a horrible secret — a penis! You heard the transphobic slur “tranny” everywhere.

Trans men got no representation at all. Best I can tell, comedians found the concept of a “man” giving up his “manhood” funnier than they did a “woman” becoming more “manly.”

Things got a little better in the 2010s.

Firstly, we got our first high-profile examples of trans actors playing trans characters. In Orange Is the New Black — the first season, at least — Laverne Cox got to play a nuanced trans woman who suffered for being trans, but also got to be part of a story that wasn’t just about her transness.

Secondly, Caitlin Jenner publicly transitioned and appeared in a glamorous Vanity Fair spread.
Bitcoin cash hard fork; TRX and EOS mainnet swap
By: Shubham Yadav
Tags: Eos, Hard Fork, Bitcoincash, Bitcoin, Announcements

Bitcoin Cash hard fork is scheduled on May 15th

Dear Coindelta Users,

On May 15th 9:30 PM IST, 2018, the Bitcoin cash network is scheduled for a hard fork, also known as the “protocol upgrade”. We are pleased to announce that we will be fully supporting this upgrade.

How does all this affect you?

If you hold any Bitcoin Cash in the Coindelta Wallet, you do not need to worry at all. We will provide full support to any BCH holder on Coindelta. The BCH deposit and withdrawal services will be suspended 6 hours before the hard fork and will be back once the network becomes stable. As always, we ensure that your funds will remain safe with us. BCH-INR trading will not be affected by this upgrade. You can follow the development on BCH hard fork website here.
Too Many Hours Before I Get Home
By: Thomas Plummer
Tags: Life, Blue Insights, Poetry, Love, Poetry On Medium

Too Many Hours Before I Get Home

Long and wasted days alone on the road

By Wunder Visuals on IStock (image licensed by author)

Still long hours before I hug love,

stranded in a nameless airport as ugly as the rest,

sitting alone in a synthetic bar of fake happiness,

sipping wine I don’t want but need today.

All sense of civility has been beaten out of me on the road,

no interest in talking with strangers trying to deny their own loneliness,

sitting as hidden as a lost monk at the end of the bar,

yet still too close to too many people drinking away the day.

Delayed yet again on a sunny day from hell,

scribble madly in my notebook covering the pages with my silly poems,

one more glass of numbness killing another hour,

trying to find my way home and feel that elusive hug.
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Are You Trading Self-Worth for Others’ BS?
By: Modern Messy
Tags: Trade, Self Worth, Imperfection, Perfection, Comparison

Have you ever found yourself marvelling at how intelligent / well accomplished / sorted/wealthy or (fill in the adjective of your choice) someone is? Then immediately compared yourself to that person and jumped on the self-loathing wagon? Every time you did that, you bought a bucketful of BS and paid for it with your self-worth. Was it worth the price?

There are two ways this ‘trade’ usually happens. First is when the other person actively sells you the BS by promoting themselves. Second, and this might be hard to believe, you go out and buy it voluntarily without anyone even selling it to you.

To be perfectly clear, tooting one’s own horn is not bad in itself; in fact, it is a necessary skill in the times we live. It becomes a disadvantage when you fail to see it for what it is, self-promotion, and mistake the person’s achievements to be a person in their entirety. Someone’s achievement is not all of who they are. Just because someone is smarter, better educated, or wealthier does not make them better than you or nor does it make you lesser than them. That is the critical part because the tendency is to automatically serve our self-esteem on a platter to someone we think is better than us. You can think highly of someone and give them the credit for what they’ve accomplished, without comparing putting yourself down.

Coming to the second type of trade, where the other person is not even an active party. This happens so subtly, often subconsciously, and therefore goes unnoticed. You’re lying there on the couch, thoughts drift to certain individual/s and without consciously realizing, the comparison begins. By the end of it, you’ve bought into the fact of how good the other person is and how incompetent/unsuccessful/(fill in the adjective of your choice) you are. Just like that, you gave a part of your self-esteem to buy into something that’s not true in the context it is being considered. This likely happens more often with people you see as successful on social media, people you don’t personally know, but become aligned to, and subconsciously begin comparing. They seem like the epitome of perfection you aspire to become; however, aspiration and comparison are not the same and you end up trading self-worth to buy into the illusion of their perfection.

To be fair, in both the above trades the other person is not the villain; rather, the real issue is your willingness to give away a part of your self-esteem for someone else’s BS. And it is BS only when it is mistaken to represent the person in their entirety. You cannot look at certain dimensions of others and conclude that they are perfect while you are broken. No one is perfect, absolutely no one, because imperfection is a feature of the human model, not a bug. You can be imperfect yet stand in the power of perfect self-worth.
My journey through GSoC ‘19
By: Laksh Singla
Tags: Open Source, Intermine, JavaScript, Google Summer Of Code

My journey through GSoC ‘19

Community Bonding Period

INTRODUCTION

I am among the 6 selected students who will be working with InterMine during Google Summer of Code ‘19. During the period of 3 months, I will be working on making improvements in the imjs and im-tables libraries. Before I share my experience about the community bonding period, I would like to thank my mentors Aman and Yo for guiding me during the proposal period and the community bonding period, and trusting me with this task.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

InterMine helps in storing of biological data, and makes querying data from different sources easier. imjs is the client(web) side library used to eliminate the boilerplate code involved in achieving the above task. im-tables helps in displaying the queried data in a tabular format. imjs and im-tables are the primary libraries leveraged to build web-apps using InterMine's data sources. Dependencies of both of the libraries are out of date, and one part of my project aims to update these dependencies and ensure that the libraries build properly. Another part of my project aims to improve upon the current condition of the tests of the libraries by dividing them into integration and unit, and setup a response mocking framework in place. Documentation of both the libraries will be improved and helper functions for the intermine-registry API will be added to imjs. A more detailed version, additional tasks and proposed timeline for the project can be found out in my proposal.

As stated earlier, I’ve been assigned two mentors for my project, Aman Dwivedi and Yo Yehudi (yo) who will guide me throughout GSoC period and review my ideas .

WORK DURING COMMUNITY BONDING PERIOD

I was primarily focussed on upgrading the outdated dependencies. The current state of the dependencies (after the Community Bonding Period) is as follows:



1. imjs: I have successfully updated all of the outdated dependencies of imjs library to their latest version, and ensured that the tests pass. Extensive testing of the library in real scenarios still remains, and is important to ensure stability of the library as tests are not a formal and complete measure to prove the correctness of a software. Untested bugs could have crept in due to interaction of the newer versions of the libraries.



2. im-tables: Most of the dependencies have been updated. However `grunt-contrib-coffee` (and therefore `grunt`, listed as its peerDependency, whose newer version is incompatible with the current(obsolete) version of `grunt-contrib-coffee`) is causing the build to fail. CoffeeScript’s newer version introduces many breaking changes. The major issue arises because the plugin is unable to pinpoint which portion of the code is causing the error. Its like looking for a needle in the haystack. I might try using linters to see if I can find the error.
오늘날 디지털 콘텐츠 생태계에는 어떤 문제점이 있을까요?
Tags: Contentbox, Korean, Cryptocurrency

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WTF is Stability in Sorting Algorithms?
By: Christopher Agnus
Tags: JavaScript, Computer Science, Algorithms, Sorting

“person hands on laptop computer” by rawpixel on Unsplash

A stable sort is one which preserves the original order of the input set, where the [unstable] algorithm does not distinguish between two or more items.

A sorting algorithm is said to be stable if two objects with equal keys appear in the same order in sorted output as they appear in the input array to be sorted.

Further background: A ‘stable’ sorting algorithm keeps items in the same sorting key in order. For example, we have a list of 5-letter words:

peach

straw

apple

spork

A stable-sort that sorts by first letter of each word results in:

apple

peach

straw

spork

In an unstable sort, straw or spork may be interchanged, but in a stable sort, they stay in the same relative positions.

Some stable sorting algorithms are:

Insertion Sort

Merge Sort

Bubble Sort

Tim Sort

Counting Sort

Examples of unstable sorting algorithms are:

Heap Sort

Selection Sort

Shell Sort

Quick Sort

Interested in what you see here? Check out this cool visualization of different sorting algorithms.
How use Ledger in ZilPay wallet.
By: Rinat Khasanshin
Tags: Nodejs, Blockchain, Ledger, Zilliqa, Zilpay

This article presents to you on how to connect your very own Ledger Nano S hardware wallet to ZilPay. I hope this article will be useful as a guide to you!

Step 1: Installing the Ledger Nano S app

Download Ledger Live on your computer using the link below: https://shop.ledger.com/pages/ledger-live;

on your computer using the link below: https://shop.ledger.com/pages/ledger-live; Navigate to the Manager tab, search Zilliqa in the application.

Install Zilliqa application.

When the application is installed you will see on your device.

Step 2: Accessing your wallet via Ledger Nano S

After successfully installing the Ledger Nano S app, you need to install the ZilPay wallet in your browser. ZilPay is supported: FireFox, Chrome and Opera:

Move to account manager.

To connect ZilPay with you Ledger, let us “Import” the account via “Hardware” and choose “Ledger” as the preferred option.

Import page.

Key in an account index (starting from Zero) and click on the “CONNECT” button. You will then be prompted to confirm the generation of the public key on your Ledger Nano S device.

Confirm by pressing the right button and you shall see your imported wallet address on ZilPay!

Step 3: Sending a transaction on ZilPay via Ledger Nano S.

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Search and Replace with Capture Groups
By: Alex R. Young
Tags: Substitute, Motions

Once you get comfortable with :%s for searching and replacing across an entire file, you can start to unlock more power by exploiting Vim's rich regular expression handling. Coming from a GUI background, you might be tempted to look for a plugin to solve a seemingly general problem. However, a deeper knowledge of regular expressions may be all you need.

Here’s an example: bluMyst on reddit wanted to know how to generalise search and replace to add

" to lines that start with printf( . The solution suggested by "who00oot" was capture groups:

Use capture groups. Search for (printf("[^"]+) and replace with $1

(you may have to escape).