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Token Report’s Next Chapter
By: Galen Moore
Tags: Ethereum, ICO, Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, Blockchain

We launched Token Report in the second quarter 2017 as an investor newsletter focused on initial coin offerings (ICOs). We quickly discovered that the underlying data we needed to write analyst notes about projects was so fragmented and hard to find that fact-finding took up most of our efforts. So, we set about building a fact-finding machine and a structured way to incorporate information about every ICO on the planet.

Since then, we’ve explored ways to deliver that information to users — and to add new data sets to it. We even explored and socialized a way to issue a token related to the network of information resources we are building.

I’m happy to announce today that we’re entering an exclusive client/investor relationship with New Alchemy, one of the world’s largest blockchain advisory firms. New Alchemy managing director Peter Vessenes has been an investor in Token Report since the beginning. We look forward to pooling our resources to provide a better understanding of the market for New Alchemy clients, and for the digital currency community as a whole.

As part of this relationship, some Token Report staff will be embedded inside New Alchemy, working closely with New Alchemy’s existing market analysis, research and advisory teams.

We also have some tough product decisions to make. Token Clarity, the Telegram bot that interfaces with our database, has been a popular product. We’ve learned a lot from interacting with the roughly 1,000 users who participated in its beta phase and I want to big-up Andy Cernera and Gary MacDougall, who helped us build it. Personally, I use it multiple times a day for quick access into and out of project white papers, Bitcointalk announcements and Telegram forums, as well as fundraise data. However, it doesn’t align with our strategy right now and we are not able to maintain it to the standards we’ve set. As a result, we will withdraw it, for now. I hope at some point in the future we will be able to return with a public-facing product that delivers some of its utility and applies the lessons we learned.

We will continue to support our forum for general discussion of token projects and our recently rebooted weekly newsletter for data and knowledge on digital currency markets.

With our combined resources, there’s no limit to what Token Report and New Alchemy can do to advance understanding and transparency in digital currencies. We’ll be partnering with other organizations and hiring staff related to these projects. We look forward to making announcements about both, soon.
How Walking Can Ignite Your Creativity
By: Nick Maccarone
Tags: Life Lessons, Travel, Life, Inspiration, Writing

How Walking Can Ignite Your Creativity

What we can learn from Charles Dickens and his 20-mile strolls

Photo by Dekeister Leopold

It’s widely believed Charles Dickens was paid by the word for his novels. It turns out he was compensated not by the breadth of his prose but by the portions he submitted.

The works of Dickens were published over several weeks, which was a great way of building up anticipation among his anxious readers. Many of his classics like Dombey and Son and Bleak House were introduced in monthly installments.

But regardless of how he wrote, Dickens’s productivity is undeniable. By the time he died in 1870, Dickens had written 15 novels and several short stories.

So how’d he do it?

It turns out Dickens sought inspiration for his classic tales by walking the streets of London. In fact, his walking exploits are celebrated to this day through books and guided tours. Tracing the nearly two-hundred year footsteps of England’s greatest novelist has become quite the pastime.

It’s said, Charles Dickens routinely walked 20 miles a day! Quite a feat on cobblestoned streets and a century or two before the first pair of New Balance shoes were laced up.

What compelled the man whose troubled childhood contributed to the humanity in his stories to amble so far and wide? And is there a connection between walking and creativity?

It turns out there is.

Dickens used the people he encountered and the scenes he witnessed for his stories. The timeless characters that leap from the pages of his novels were just byproducts of his imagination resurfacing the events of his long strolls.

These little “creativity walks” were also important parts of the lives of other prolific artists like Beethoven, Darwin, and Steve Jobs.

These deep thinkers understood the deep intuitive connection between walking, pondering, and writing.

And as it often does, science provides more objective reasoning for why walking is so productive.

Photo by Elena Saharova

When we walk, our heart pumps faster which means it circulates more blood and oxygen to all of our organs, INCLUDING the brain.
The Trump Brand // An Acting Career in Movie Types // Optimising Video Ads for Digital // The Value of Books // Around the Web Ads
By: Ben Johnson
Tags: Movies, Internet, Advertising, Books, Donald Trump

Ben, CEO

There is little room for bullshit in numbers like these. In today’s connected world, what you say you do what and you actually do are only becoming easier to analyse.

Mirona, Marketing Lead

A little number crunching shows us where Emily Blunt has been and where she should go next to keep growing her career.

Stephen, Innovation Director

Converting video made for TV to digital is trickier than it sounds. YouTube’s recent test showcases just some ways that video can be optimised for greater digital consumption.

Franco, Digital Designer

“Today, the sophisticated consumer of digital text competes for cultural affirmation with the reader of physical books, but which performance of reading ought to be valued most?”

Johnny, Lead Developer

If you’re like me, you’ve been disgusted, mildly amused or both by those links at the bottom of web articles, claiming to be from “around the web”. If you’re like me, you had no idea how much revenue they make the publishers who host them, nor how shady some of those ads were.
The $700 Juicer That Didn’t Make Juice
By: Stephen Moore
Tags: Marketing, Startup, Ideas, Business, Design

The $700 Juicer That Didn’t Make Juice

They blew $120 million for what you can do with your hands

Photo: Courtesy of Juicero

The Juicero was an interesting concept. It was a Wi-Fi-connected, cold-pressed juicer, priced at $700, that looked like the love child of an alien spacecraft and an Apple product.

The product was marketed as a modern solution to healthy living — “raw, plant-based nutrition” — with a lot less mess and a lot more convenience.

As Atlantic writer, Derek Thompson put it best. “To review: Juicero cuts up fruits and vegetables and sells them to consumers, who drink the produce in liquid form. That’s what juice companies do. It publishes an expiration date for consumers. That’s what juice companies do. So, Juicero could have gone around Silicon Valley and said: “Hi there, we’re a juice company. We sell juice. The juice is so good.”

And yet, Silicon Valley drank it up and wanted seconds. The product quickly raised $120 million in funding. The concept had “so stupid, it might be brilliant” written all over it.

Except, in the end, it was just stupid.
MOAC signed a cooperation agreement with IntelliShare on July 19th.
Tags: Blockchain, Crptocurrency, Moac Annoucements, IoT

What is Intellishare:

The core of blockchain is to lock the values. The IntelliShare uses the blockchain technology to perfectly create such a self-organized, self-expanding business ecosystem, thus, forms an ecological environment that delivers and locks the values for Mesh Network. IntelliShare has constructed a distributed, self-expandable Mesh network validation system that uses each single node to confirm under common protocols.

On the basis of the confirmation of distributed information data, the multi-dimensional ecological applications will be further built around the commercialization of Mesh networks, from the information-confirm to the value-exchange, from the confirmation of distributed single nodes to the promotion of the entire distributed community, and from the identification of single structure to the identification of accurate structures , combining the underlying blockchain distributed ledger system, thus, provide a distinctive and versatile Mesh commercialization system.

IntelliShare officials:

Source:

Where to Find Us

Website: https://moac.io/

GitHub: https://github.com/MOACChain/moac-core

Twitter: https://twitter.com/moac_io

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/MOAC/

Medium: https://medium.com/moac

Steemit: https://steemit.com/@moac-official

Telegram(International): https://t.me/moacblockchain

Telegram(Developers): https://t.co/8m3m9RD5ix

Telegram(China): https://t.co/73rU9sHWLH

YouTube (Event Channel):https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBU405W7vfOPBicLwW9-QOA

Youtube (Technical Channel) :

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_U54wsGNrm_Yivj5bH9i7Q?view_as=subscriber

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/moacchain/

Weibo:https://weibo.com/u/6563458350
Bounty STARTA ICO
By: Starta Ico
Tags: Bounties, Investment, Startaico, Bitcoin, Blockchain

Budget is 0,9% from ICO. But not more than 45 000 Starta tokens.

1. Social media campaign

Budget is 0,1% — maximum 5000$.

Social media campaign is managed through TVE service

https://theviralexchange.com

— Register and connect your social media pages to the service

— Make some tasks as retweet, “like” page on Facebook or subscribe to Youtube channel

Earn Viral points doing these activities.

You can exchange Viral points to Blitz afterwards and trade them on exchange.

New tasks will be added every work day (Monday — Friday), and updates will also be published in the thread.

2. Bounty for Translations and moderation of threads on local boards

Budget is 0,1% — maximum 5000 Starta tokens.

Translation of topic — 30 Starta tokens with 1 update per week as moderation.

(Price for moderation can be discussed and increased)

- German

- French

- Spanish

- Italian

- Korean

- Japanese

- Thai

3. Bitcointalk Signature and Avatar campaign

Budget is 0,7% — maximum 35000 Starta tokens.

Signature campaign rules:

Participants need to keep the signature until the end of ICO.

Duration of ICO for 30 days.

Any attempt at cheating will be punished with disqualification from the campaign.

You can not advertise any other websites/threads in your signature!

Any user with negative trust will not be allowed to participate.

Only good quality posts and that are relevant to the thread will be counted.

If we find spam posts you’re making, you will be removed from the campaign and receive no payment.

Every participant needs to make 40 quality posts (including 5–10 posts in this thread) during Bounty campaign on BCT to be eligible for the bounty.

Junior Member 1 stake

Member 2 stake

Full 3 stake

Sr Member 4 stakes

Hero\Legendary 5 stakes

Stakes are added weekly. Only full weeks are in count towards the bounty calculation.

Avatar campaign

Avatar Campaign is for Full Member rank and higher.

And it gives 1 Stake per week.

We will accept maximum 500 participants.

Install BB-code into your signature and don’t change it until the end of ICO.

The whole bounty pool will be divided among the participants proportionally to the amount of their stakes.

To apply participation in Signature and Avatar Campaign fill out the form here.

You can check your application status to Signature and Avatar Campaign here.



If your rank changes, you will need to fill out the form and send us a private message or in thread. Rank updates are made on Fridays after stakes have been added, rank’updates are added according to your rank in the beginning of a week here.

Details of Campaign read here: Bitcointalk Forum

Starta ICO will be held in the coming weeks. To register for updates or to find out more, visit startaico.com
Derin Öğrenmede İleri Teknikler I :Mimari
By: Ömer Özgür
Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Derin Ogrenme, Deep Learning, Veribilimicat, Yapay Sinir Ağları

Advanced Deep Learning with TensorFlow 2 and Keras — Second Edition

The first of the three networks we will be looking at is the MLP network. Let’s suppose that the objective is to create…
For Her
By: Vaghawan Ojha
Tags: Poetry On Medium, Poetry, Life, Children, Loneliness

Image Source : Flickr by Paul Lettieri

So where would you

Little angel find your world,

Not in the anguish of all these people

Claiming you as their own,

Not in the thin hope,

Springing and decaying inside your head,

Almost like a collection of broken snapshots,

Her untimely love,

Guiding you towards the disdain,

A friendly hand,

That is what you all care,

Nowhere to be seen,

Apart from the air of your thought,

Syncing in your agony,

I look at the world,

And mourn with you,

But,

Where would you

Little angel find your world,

Where would you

Little angel search for the hope,

Where would you

Little angel unite with faith,

A fear of life,

Flourishing in your eyes,

Calm, your body rests,

Disguising her shadow,

She wakes up,

And you follow

Her mundane affinity,

Towards her child,

A small bake of smile,

Like a small remains of berry,

For a flinch,

Wanders in your head,

Like a little desire,

That you could make,

So I renounce,

Here’s the world

My dear,

Here’s your world,

In the full bloom of your heart,

Pounding for the love,

As it throbs in mine

All these griefs in the trees of flowers;

So, you sit there

Ever Alone,

Always in the same chair,

Bending your eyes towards the sky,

Unmoving,

Finding an ocean in your silence;
No snowmen in Islam?
By: Afeef Nessouli
Tags: Politics, Saudi Arabia, Culture, Law, Religion

It snows in norther Saudi Arabia and as such, people decided they wanted to build snow camels in a tribute to the local culture. One citizen in the Province of Tarif used his creativity to create a camel with colors of local teams. Another guy decided to make a traditional ghitra and agal to cover the head of the snowman he created. The problem is that a religious scholar just said that building snowmen or snow creatures was not acceptable in Islam.

This fatwa by Mohammad Saleh Al Minjed believes that building snowmen or any replica of an animal, even for fun, is unacceptable. He believes that only lifeless things and inanimate objects can be imitated. The fatwa was circulated on social networks which resulted in a wide debate among Gulf nationals. People on the one side believe it is a weird imitation of Westerners, while others think a fatwa on the subject is ridiculous.
Pivot Table Ascending Descending Order in Google Sheets and Excel: 1-Minute Ultimate Beginner’s Guide
By: Stephanie Lehuger
Tags: Google Sheets, Pivot Tables, Excel Pivot Tables, Pivot Table Tutorial

Hi there!

I wanted to show you something that is very different in Google sheets and in Excel:

How to sort data in a pivot table

So let’s first sort data in Google sheets

Here I have data that is sorted. When you look at the right hand side of the screen, you can see that the cities are sorted in an ascending order. When you check in the pivot table, you can verify that you indeed have Barcelona first, then the letters B, L, M etc.

The sum of revenue though is not sorted. It would make sense to have your revenue sorting rather than the cities, you’ll probably want to sort it either in a descending or

or descending order.

Actually, it’s super simple but it’s crazy how long it took me to understand how to do it. Most probably because it’s so different in Google Sheets and in Excel.

In Google Sheets, in the same drop-down menu where you can sort the City data (my 1st column), you can also choose The sum of revenue (my 2nd column).

And here it is! You can either sort it in ascending or descending order. Yes, it’s that simple! It’s really quick and easy but you first need to find where it is hidden.

Now, let’s sort data in Excel

In Excel, it’s very different. This might be why it’s so confusing when you try to do the same thing in Google Sheets.

Here, I just need to select the cells in The sum of revenue (my 2nd column), then go in Sort and filter, and click on sort From smallest to largest or From largest to smallest.

Boom, here it is!

Enjoy your new skills 😉

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Robert De Niro Also Owes Me Twelve Million Dollars
By: Simon Black
Tags: Funny, Satire, Film, Bunny Blog, Humor

Bunny Blog

Robert De Niro Also Owes Me Twelve Million Dollars

He was a horrible boss

Photo by Waranya Mooldee on Unsplash

Maybe you heard that a woman is suing De Niro for that much money because he assigned her office tasks that were “stereotypically female” over a period of years employed by his film company. Those tasks apparently included mending clothes, vacuuming and selecting gifts for his children.

Well, it so happens that I also was employed by Mr. De Niro for a few years and, surprise, surprise, he assigned to me duties that were “stereotypically bunny.”

These tasks included: cuddling, looking cute, and of course, hopping.

“Hope over here, bunny,” De Niro would say, when his friend Joe Pesci came over. “Look at that bunny hop. Isn’t that a riot.”

Yeah, it was a real riot, Mr. De Niro. It was a 12 million dollar riot and I am lawyering up.

My lawyer pointed out that De Niro did not pay me nearly as much as the human employees in his office.

In fact, he didn’t pay me any money at all. What did he pay me? Pellets and occasionally some lettuce or carrots. But mostly pellets.

Yes, it’s true I used Mr. De Niro’s Netflix account, but it wasn’t to watch Friends, as he alleged against Ms. Robinson.

I used his Netflix account to watch faith-based Easter films (they often prominently feature bunnies — very sexy bunnies.)

Also, there was gratuitous physical contact. He would grab me. I mean, imagine Robert De Niro grabbing you and lifting you up! Then he would do his Taxi Driver voice. Imagine my trauma. “You talkin’ to me, bunny? Well, who the fuck else are you talkin’ to?”

“I’m not talking to anyone, Mr. De Niro,” I would say. “I can’t even talk. I’m a bunny!”

And then he and all his friends would bust out laughing.

Yeah, it was real boys club over there. As a rabbit, I didn’t get the respect I deserved. The respect I currently do receive at my present place of employment — The Dingle.

Down here in the Dingle, I am treated so much better. They gave my own column to write. People don’t pick me up and torment me. The editors are very kind. And I couldn’t be happier.

In fact, if I get some money out of this lawsuit — a few million say — I am definitely going to buy them some pellets and lettuce.

And maybe throw in a few carrots.

Share the wealth, I say. Share the wealth.
css3 Radio Switcher
Tags: Css3, Cool Stuff, Tutorials

I needed a css 3 radio switcher for a project I am working on, coded it, and sharing with you.
How Blockchain Technology is Transforming Sustainable Development
By: Julien Breteau
Tags: Ethereum, Bitcoin, Videos, Blockchain, Founders

ixo Foundation is a South African organization leveraging blockchain technology to optimize sustainable development impact. Using the ixo protocol, organizations and funders can use a decentralized impact exchange to create verified impact claims, essentially “proof of impact”. This proof can be used to access social impact bonds and government subsidies, and drives down the cost of evaluation. The data from these impact claims becomes a part of a global impact ledger, an open data commons that organizations, governments, and researchers can access to make informed decisions and optimize impact initiatives. ixo is proud to be partnered with Singularity University Venture, Innovation Edge, and UNICEF.

Shaun is an explorer and creative thinker who is on a personal quest to discover, design and invest in better ways for people to meet their health and human development needs.

Working as a medical doctor and international development practitioner, his career mission has been to increase access to better quality health services and life-saving medical interventions.

He has pursued this through conceptualising and implementing innovative development projects and by founding ambitious social ventures that have become successful programmes at scale and sustainable enterprises that continue to deliver social impacts.

Shaun Conway:

LinkedIn | Twitter

Ixo Foundation:

Website | Facebook | Medium
The First Real Gold Rush
By: Daniel Ganninger
Tags: Mining, History, Wealth, Gold, Business

The first gold rush in the U.S. didn’t occur in California, as many believe. The first significant gold discovery took place in Cabarrus County, North Carolina, in 1799, while the California Gold Rush didn’t start until 1848.

The gold nugget that started the rush was found on the farm of a former Hessian soldier named John Reed. Reed’s 12-year-old son had spotted the shiny rock in Little Meadows Creek, which ran through their property. He decided to take it home, but the elder Reed thought it was just an ordinary rock and paid no attention to it, other than to use it as a doorstop for three years. The real gold rush didn’t start until Reed took it to a jeweler and discovered that the rock that had kept a door propped open was indeed a gold nugget that weighed 17 pounds. Reed turned Little Meadows into a small mining operation and found even more gold. At one point, he even discovered a 28 pound nugget.

Miners from around the country began flocking to North Carolina after the news of the discovery. Up until the beginning of the civil war, gold mining was the second most held occupation behind farming in North Carolina as gold began to be discovered in other counties in the state. The United States Mint even built a branch in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1837. In 1828, there was a second gold rush, but this one took place in Dahlonega, Georgia, in the northern part of the state. The U.S. mint established a branch there too in 1835 that ran until 1861. North Carolina remained the largest producer of gold in the United States until the California Gold Rush began in 1848.

Sources: UNC, Today in Georgia History, Vintage News

Want to delve into more facts? Try The Wonderful World of Completely Random Facts series, here on Medium.
If content is king, then these 35 clickbait titles are … … …
By: Tony Yeung
Tags: Technology, Social Media, Marketing, Clickbait, Business

Clickbait Title: It is common on Buzzfeed and Cracked

When you go to Buzzfeed or Cracked.com, it is not difficult to find all clickbait titles. The title apparently indicates that the article would be a list and not just an article. It makes the reader know what the link is going to be before clicking.

In fact, click-baiting is a form of social media marketing where the advertisers use some catchy titles, descriptions, or headlines in order to attract the users to click on them. It is a common practice for them to generate the revenue. (Sometimes, the advertisers also use catchy photos, gifs, or video snippets for the same purpose.)

There are some emotions and psychology ideas behind the clickbait titles.

Most readers clicking the articles because of fear, anticipation, surprise, or curious. There are many different forms cause and effect emotions of the clickbait titles.

On the other hand, the clickbait titles also create a certain state in the reader’s mind where they know the content of the link without reading the whole article.

Many media brands, such as Buzzfeed, the Huffington Post, New York Times, etc use click baiting techniques in order to attract the reader to click their links.
Fading Past
By: Randy Shingler
Tags: Meditation, Poetry, Freedom, Self, Self-awareness

Reflecting on long distant past

While allowing it to fade away

Perceiving current realities now,

Past baggage often weighs us down

When held too close in present days.

Self-awareness in passing moments

Meditations on what abides within

Letting that by my spiritual guide,

Moving forward with spirit bare

Of all misdeeds from distant past.

Watching sunrise herald new day

New energy from nature’s source

Arousing fresh love in my heart,

How to share inner peace I have

In a world so frequently troubled.

Fully cognizant of where I am

With spirit that abides within

Grateful for my self-awareness,

Freedom from my fading past.
Strapped
By: J.D. Harms
Tags: Image, Poetry, Broke, Poor

Strapped

A Poem

Photo by Jr Korpa on Unsplash

The coherence of money

has firmly evaded me

and my siren call, fading

and then the dismantling

of the other things I bought

took the rest of the cash

from the thread-bare

wallet, disuse and discontinuity

branded on the sides

running through account numbers

to escape total poverty

because, you see, I can add them

up to the nearly invisible

decimal; being strapped

isn’t the worst thing in the world

but, damn, it’s rough

on the head
21 Rising Sync Releases Beguiling “Striped Lines”
By: Randall Radic
Tags: New Music, 21 Rising Sync, Music, Synth Pop, Striped Lines

21 Rising Sync — ‘Striped Lines’

21 Rising Sync Releases Beguiling “Striped Lines”

Dynamic synth-pop with seething with dark, dreamy textures.

Just a few days ago, 21 Rising Sync released “Striped Lines,” written by Tom Sp​akoski and performed by Joey Gonzalez.

Inspired by the hypnotic trance associated with long drives, Tom found his mind roving from space to space, while the endless striped lines of the road conjured up nebulous memories. Translating the images into music and lyrics, the song revolves around driving synths and electric guitars, shaping the intermingling pressures of actuality and the mystical chimera of daydreams.

Recently formed, 21 Rising Sync’s sonic mission is to provide a soundtrack for the events and feelings of life, capturing innovative sounds blended without reference to the rigid limitations imposed by genres.

21 Rising Sync comprises Joey Gonzalez and Tom Spakoski — West Coast meets East Coast. From New York, Tom’s career in music encompasses more than four decades, performing thousands of shows reflecting the signature sound of ’60s Brit-pop.

On his part, California-based pop-rock artist Joey Gonzalez delivers his rich, evocative voice, as well as his experience as a singer-songwriter of vast perspicacity. Together, the two artists merge their artistic gifts, producing fresh, contemporary music.

“Striped Lines” opens on dark, resonant colors rumbling with spectral energy. A measured rhythm composed of a vibrating bassline and taut percussion gives the tune an edgy cadence, while surging layers of shimmering textures glide and expand on portentous surfaces.

Joey’s urgency-laced tones infuse the lyrics with wisps of nostalgia, recollection, and haunting desire to return to his lover.

Thrumming with wickedly alluring potency, “Striped Lines” delivers compelling layers of sound rife with emotional encounter.

Follow 21 Rising Sync Website | Facebook | Instagram | Spotify
Friend — THE Internet Operating System
By: Hogne Titlestad, Co-Ceo, Founder, Friend Software
Tags: Operating Systems, Internet, Cloud Computing, Blockchain, Web Development

Friend is on a mission to nurture the free and open Internet — creating a decentralized Internet Operating System for everyone.

The Internet is becoming the place where we communicate, work, play and evolve our shared global culture. It has become an integral part of modern life. We have become dependent on it.

Our devices connect to it around the clock — through WIFI, 4G, 3G, Edge and other protocols which retain a link to the network in different geographic locations. The Internet is everywhere.

Friend is a new operating system that offers users a personal and private workspace where they can create, share, collaborate, communicate, work and play — powered by the Internet and available on any device that can display web pages. It is protocol agnostic, even allowing us to innovate on how the Internet works.

It is perhaps not a coincidence that Friend was developed in Norway in 2014. That year, the country had an estimated 99% 3G broadband coverage. Hikers here can easily listen to online media while in the mountains or deep forests. Web broadcasts are more available than DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) — which ironically replaced FM back in 2017, to the listeners’ dismay. Norway may be on the forefront of connectivity, but the rest of the world is not far behind. Large area WIFI via satelite, 5G and many other developments are making sure of it.

Friend has been engineered to work as an Internet operating system. As mentioned in articles before, we see both the Internet itself, and computing in particular, as a human right. We do not believe in licensed speech. We believe in free speech. Similarly, we believe in free computing as opposed to licensed computing. Because both your speech and your ability to process information has become requirements to fully participate in free democracies.

Learn more about our ethos in our Five Pillars, which you can read about here.
✈️Binance Move to Malta 🗞️News Roundup — Cryptos for the Rest of Us
By: Shan Han
Tags: Hong Kong, Binance, Finance, Crypto, Regulation

🇲🇹 Binance Move to Malta

What’s the Story?

Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, is moving its business from Hong Kong, where the company was founded, to Malta.

Why the Move?

Binance has had trouble with Asian regulators recently. Earlier this month it was one of seven regulators in Hong Kong to receive a warning letter from the Securities and Futures Commission, one of Hong Kong’s financial regulators for handling tokens that may be considered securities under Hong Kong law.

In addition, they received a warning from Japanese regulators for operating an unlicensed exchange. When this news broke it hit the market hard.

It’s been reported that Binance has been in discussions with Hong Kong’s regulators for the while. Reading between the lines it appears these discussions have not gone well.

Malta on the other hand recently launched a ‘Digital Innovation Authority’ in February 2018 which has helped create regulatory certainty for cryptocurrency related businesses and the ICO process.

Very progressive when it comes to crypto and fintech

– Binance CEO Zhao Changpeng discussing Malta

What Does this Mean?

Although only a little over a year old Binance is already a massive company. Profits last quarter alone were reported to be over USD200 million. They also plan to hire over 2,000 staff this year.

For Malta, this could be a big windfall. For Hong Kong, a big loss.

The regulators are no doubt caught between a rock and a hard place. Nobody would deny that having Binance in Hong Kong is a good thing. However, their role is to enforce existing laws within Hong Kong. Making an exception just to keep Binance would be clearly unfair to other financial operators who abide by these rules — many of which are put in place to protect investors in the first place.

The case is reminiscent of when Hong Kong lost Alibaba’s listing to the New York Stock Exchange because dual-class shares are not permitted on the Hong Kong Exchange. Weighted voting rights via dual-class shares are a common feature of Western technology companies these days and in the end, the Hong Kong Exchange ended up capitulating and changing their requirements.

In the case of cryptocurrencies, as long the demand exists we’ll either see regulators changing or businesses shifting to jurisdictions more favourable.
Tether woes show need for bank-backed stable coins
By: James Jansson
Tags: Cryptocurrency, Bitcoin

Today Tether, dropped down to 85 US cents on some exchanges. Tether is far from living up to its name! Of course, many will claim “It’s just FUD!” (Fear uncertainty and doubt) spread by a fake email purporting to be from Binance.

Of course, it was FUD. The email was a fake. However, we believe that it doesn’t matter that it was only FUD.

If you received an email about Bank of America being insolvent and depositors losing all their money, you wouldn’t believe it. But why?

Firstly, we know the banks are regularly audited. Tether has never been audited. Although it is possible a GFC2 may happen, we largely know that the bank has at least some of the money they say they have. Tether’s trust is essentially blind-faith, and this faith has been rocked multiple times in the past.

Secondly, if a bank were to actually fail, the deposits are insured (how much it is insured varies by country). Tether on, the other hand, is a depositor at a bank/banks, opening it to even more counterparty risk than a regular bank deposit.

Given the next bear market may be triggered by the downfall of a large and trusted stablecoin, it is important that all cryptocurrencies and exchanges take this threat seriously. So what do we need?

Some say that we need decentralised stable coins. While this would be best, the reality is that a third party is needed to keep the value of such a token pegged to the value of the dollar.

This is where banks (or central banks) can step in. Banks (or a central bank) could offer bonds, tokenized to a blockchain, and redeemable by sending the token back to the bank’s address. There are benefits for the bank as well. By tokenising fiat, they can take the deposits that back the bonds, and use it to invest into other interest generating products like home loans, potentially with the confidence that the government will bank those bonds in a similar way they may back deposits at a bank. The time is now for a regulated financial institution to get serious about cryptocurrency (rather than just talk about it as they have done for 5 years) and create bank-backed stable coins which are truly stable and FUD resistant.

We believe that this stable coin should be traded on top of a trustless, distributed blockchain, that hosts a cryptocurrency and possibly other tokens. This doesn’t mean that the stable coin will be completely trustlessly traded. Banks will still need to conform to KYC and AML laws in their country. Rather, a stable coin should be built on top of a blockchain that allows stable coin transactions to occur on permissioned addresses, while being free to trade between the stable coin-backed fiat and the underlying cryptocurrency and tokens seamlessly.

This story was co-written by Hill (Jiuyuan) Tan.
Implementing Semantic Monitoring
By: Mathias Lafeldt
Tags: Continuous Integration, Testing, Monitoring, Microservices, Prometheus

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Trivializing Trauma Is Not Allyship
Tags: Politics, Social Media, Culture, Indigenous, Race

Harm Is As Harm Does

Image by Laura Hamilton from Pixabay

To start, yes many of us (Black people, PoC) are told we have Native American ancestry, some of us may have checked that box, along with others; however, the issue is both who is doing this and why they are doing this.

Comparing her mistake to Elizabeth Warren’s is not the same. In Yvette’s own words, she checked that box because of pride in her perceived heritage. Furthermore, in her own words, she understood there is little to be gained, as a Black women, by checking the Native American box.

Being part of a marginalized, discriminated, devalued group and ticking off another is a far crime from a white woman, who looks white, who grew up white, occasionally choosing to select a marginalized demographic. Especially with policies employed specifically to give assistance to non-white people, a white women selecting that box, or any white person choosing to select a box outside of white stems from a calculated attempt to game the already rigged system to further themselves in a society that already shows their adoration for whiteness, from papers to government.

Image by Trenna Sonnenschein from Pixabay

This is not a one-off incident. Nor is confined to one marginalized group. There have been news articles both in the past and recently of white people claiming Native American status to receive government contracts. There are white people using their money to cheat, lie and bribe schools for their mediocre children. There are legacies that get into the most prestigious schools for no other reason than they are white people with money. Yet, this is accepted because white people are the center in this society. But every person outside of this center is questioned regarding how they received their positions, money and skill.

White people, who are told they are part Native American stems from a desire to have part of the “other” while maintaining the distance that being white affords them. They get to feel “exotic” without the corresponding racist labels of “primitive” or “savage”.

Furthermore there is a difference between checking a box while you are a young person who is marginalized — there is no benefit for you, and checking the box when you are an older white person trying to gain a position and selecting the box to get an edge over the competition.
Smartest Machine on Earth… Plays Jeopardy
By: Robert Merrill
Tags: AI, Jeaopardy, Linux

Watson, the “Smartest Machine on Earth” was built by IBM with the daunting task to be able to play and win at Jeopardy, the challenging game show. See the back-stage experience online here:

Watch the full episode. See more NOVA.

Watson can run many operating systems, but tuned up and ready to rock Jeopardy! with Novell’s Suse Linux under the hood.*

“According to David Davidian, an IBM Senior System Architect, “Watson is a massively parallel system based on the IBM POWER7 750 in a standard rack mounted configuration.” It can run AIX, IBM’s house-brand Unix; IBM I; and Linux. To compete on Jeopardy Watson is running Novell’s SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.”

In a press-release, Novell explains some of the benefits to the Suse Linux platform for Watson:

“Watson’s ‘Jeopardy!’ appearance is a remarkable event in the history of Linux and a landmark accomplishment within the 20-year technical partnership between IBM and Novell,” said Markus Rex, senior vice president and general manager of Open Platform Solutions at Novell. “Watson’s ability to compete head-to-head with human contestants showcases just how powerful, sophisticated and versatile the SUSE Linux Enterprise platform is. We very much look forward to seeing its capabilities in action when the episodes air later this month.”

*Note: Novell is my employer.
Acceptance — A Hidden Spiritual Secret
By: Ruchi Thalwal
Tags: Spirituality, Poetry, Life, Dark Night Of The Soul, Acceptance

What would happen,

if water resisted evaporating

fearful of its dying

Transforming in the unknown vapor state

Remain as it is, where it is

With no flow to the ocean

stagnating with resistance

What if the clouds become adamant

‘No, we will not drain the accumulation

Which we collected after so many months’

Taking their load everywhere they float

With heavy density, putrefying the sky

What if rivers made a resolute

‘They have polluted my every tributary

No water will flow down the hill

Swell if I may,

burst open come what may’

But Nature is acceptable to change

even if it means converting various life forms

Yet man is so stubborn

Resisting every phase of life

Believing it his birthright

Ignorant that change can transform

Opportunity to give birth

to a new self in each moment

Relieving the densities

dropping all the expectations

Acceptance is difficult

even if we remain true

Why you ask?

Because of my experiments with the truth

Accepting the ugly within

The suppressed anxieties and fear

The lifetime burden of expectations

From society, from family, from self

I tried to bare all

The more I dug, the more pain I got

The heart cramped in pain

As I resisted and went through its each layer

The fear gripped me

When foul emotions erupted

Volcano of anger and frustrations

Ashes of hatred and disappointments

I cried, I wept,

I prayed, I left

But for how long can I run?

If I need THE truth, it is the only path

Saints have named it as penance

To be free, to be authentic me

There is no other way

but allow me to die a little

Each time when it happened

The universe supported me

with a loving guide

He held my hand

when I was drowning within my tears

Making the path illuminated

When I blamed everyone

It was me and my beliefs,

My mind’s story scattered everywhere

When the path to me is through me

The destination is me

The route is me

Everywhere I meet is just me

Rendezvousing the suppressed

and ignored version of me

All is me, what I can see

The fallacy has to fall

The deception will drop

It is the only Truth

If I resist it is all my fault

Fault?! — Oh yes,

It needs acceptance, too

Accepting the ugly and the beautiful alike

After all, it is the mind’s make up

on every little thing of life

Life is flowing as it is

with no judgments

it births, it kills

Letting the old die,

Renewing each moment

letting go of past

even if it was one second back

Acceptance is the life-changing mantra

only to those

who yearn for the truth

The old me dies as I accept

‘Me’ which is here

I may not even recognize

Being aware even for anxieties

and heavy emotions

Tie a knot around it

Keep pulling it out

Till it is released in the light of consciousness.

The complexity left behind far

When I woke up from the matrix of thoughts

Realizing I am not my opinions

This vast shapeless awareness

Pulsating and expanding all around

Now, what to designate as me

Who is left behind

All you and I can see is this body

But I don't know where to point.
What Big Pharma Does Not Want You to Know
By: Robert W. Locke
Tags: Satire, Big Pharma, Medicine, Health, Humor

Health

What Big Pharma Does Not Want You to Know

Placebo or nocebo effects are nothing when you see what is really going on

Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash

We all know about the placebo effect. Once we get the prescription, we are ready. It does not matter if it is the real drug or just an inert substance. Just take it and we will enjoy great health.

I love the placebo effect. Makes you want to give up all your meds. Go on, you will be fine.

We all know about the power of having an injection which is supposed to fix the backache. Whether it is a steroid or a fake substance, we will feel immediately better. If you want the inert substance you will need a fake prescription, though.

The trendy word at the moment is the nocebo effect. This is the twin brother of placebo and they make a great team. This time, the mischief-makers are out and you know that this darn drug (whether fake or real) is just going to cause you so many side effects that really, you would prefer not to take it at all!

So placebo and nocebo make a great team. In spite of them, Big Pharma seems to be doing very well. The nos have it.

Here are the other terms that nobody is talking about but there is a lot of secret research that Big Pharma does not want you to know about.

Chocebo effect:- Just eat chocolate and throw out the anti-depressants. Why do you think there are no massive research studies on this wonderfully happy sweet little thing? Or if there are, they have not been published.

Meatocebo effect:- Worried about antibiotics? Lots of antibiotics in the meat we eat. Just eat more and more beef burgers and you will be fine.

Trickcebo effect:- This is officially called a “random clinical trial” and all the subjects were drugged. They thought it was a sort of trick or treatment and they fell for it. They weren’t even paid!

Dopaminecebo effect:- No need for mood lifters. Just party more!

Vaxxcebo effect:- These people will live forever and ever, unfortunately. By the way, we now know that the Russian COVID-19 vaccine is the best one of all. Soviet.

Fatcebo effect:- Good fats, bad fats, and trans fats. You prefer a gender-free world so don’t fall for that bigotry.

HDLcebo effect:- Some meds are cholesterol intolerant so your bad or good cholesterol face discrimination. You don’t want to be like a fat alien, do you? They are also called extra- cholesterols.

By the way, Big Pharma has strenuously denied that all their statins are manufactured on Staten Island!

Cardiocebo effect:- Your heart and soul are free to do anything they want. Avoid the cardio meds because they affect your veins and vents. They might give you a cardiac arrest.

Finally, I am looking for ways to be a whistleblower on all these so-called drug trials which have never been published.

So, if you have fallen for the trick or treatment malarkey, just let me know!
Free Courses — 05.05.2020. I share today’s free tutorials below.
By: Mert Alemdar
Tags: Udemy, Udemy Coupons, Free Course, Free Courses Udemy

I share today’s free tutorials below.

I hope it helps you guys. If you’re taking advantage and participate to the courses please comment below. So other friends who see what you write can also be motivated and take free courses.

Thank you very much.

Software Development:

Design & Video & Audio:

MS Office Applications:

Financial Analysis in Excel: Asset Management Ratios (19 hours to end)

Personal Development (Business):

Personal Development (You):

Language:

No new course today :(

Hobby World:
unbearable
By: Dr. Rachel Kallemwhitman
Tags: Depression, Life, Mental Illness, Health, Mental Health

Depression is not about wanting to die.

Depression is about wishing you never existed.

Repeat after me: Depression is not your life

Depression poisons your logic. And while its perspective is initially unfamiliar it speaks to you so fluently that it soon makes sense. It tells you how much you hurt others around you. How you make them worry, how you inconvenience them, how you make them feel unsettled, and how you hold them back. They are the truest words you’ve ever heard and you agree that you’re nothing but a burden. And here’s the thing — the reality is that the last thing you want to do is kill yourself and put anyone through anymore pain, but you can barely handle the hurt much longer. And it feels like you don’t have many options.

Your existence has always been so exhausting.

Depression is marked not by the back-and-forth counter arguments between killing yourself and trying to live, but by the deafening desire to cease existing. A feat that is completely and frustratingly unattainable. Living hurts, chasing after death hurts others, and the only thing you want is impossible to reach because no matter what someone is harmed. You can’t flick a switch and un-exist. Go back in time and erase yourself from everybody’s life. If you could, lord knows you would.

Depression is a holding cell.

Depression is the liminal space in which you are stuck between life and death.

Depression is the triangulation between irresponsible death, hopeless life, and the unfettered but unfeasible dream to have never been born.

I am so stuck and so lost.
Do You Know About the Keyboard Tag in HTML?
By: Ashay Mandwarya
Tags: JavaScript, Education, Startup, Programming, HTML

Do You Know About the Keyboard Tag in HTML?

Better text formatting for keyboard commands

Photo by Florian Krumm on Unsplash

The <kbd> tag in HTML5 is used to provide keyboard input. Wrapping the keyboard command text with this tag will provide more semantically correct results and will also allow you to target so that you can apply some cool styling. Use of the <kbd> tag is especially well suited to documentation.

Let’s see it in action.