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ウォール街の疑惑を払拭！「AI+ サイバーセキュリティ」が収益を生み出す強力なツールとなり、パロアルトの業績が予想を上回ることに貢献

Zhitong Finance Appは、金曜日の米国株式市場後、米国のサイバーセキュリティ会社$Palo Alto Networks(PANW.US)$の株価が11%以上上昇したことを知りました。来年度の同社の総受注見通しはウォール街の予想を上回り、サイバーセキュリティ需要の減速が同社や業界全体に影響を与えるのではないかとの市場の懸念が和らいだ。同社は２０２４年度の契約受注総額が１０９億─１１０億ドルになると予想しているが、アナリストの平均予想は１０８億ドルとなっている。しかし、2024年度の総収益見通しはアナリストの予想を下回っている。同社は2024年度の総売上高レンジを81億5000万ドルから82億ドルと予想しているが、これはアナリスト予想の83億8000万ドルを下回る。

さらに、同社の第4四半期の収益と次の会計四半期の収益見通しはアナリストの平均予想を下回った。財務データによると、7月31日までの2023会計年度第4四半期のパロアルトの四半期売上高は19億5,000万米ドルで、前年比26％増となり、アナリストの平均予想である19億6,000万米ドルをわずかに下回りました。ドル。非GAAP基準に基づくと、パロアルトの第4会計四半期の一株当たり利益は1.44ドルで、アナリストの予想を15セント上回り、前年同期の80セントを上回った。パロアルトは10月までの第1四半期の総売上高が16～18％増の18億2000万～18億5000万ドルになると予想しており、アナリスト予想の19億3000万ドルを下回っている。

パロアルトが提供する比較的前向きな業績見通しは、おそらくサイバーセキュリティ業界の最大のハイライトです。$Fortinet(FTNT.US)$と$Check Point Software(CHKP.US)$他の同業他社が以前に発表した結果は、テクノロジー支出の一般的な減少と不安定な経済成長により、業界全体の成長率が鈍化していることを示しています。

公開情報によると、パロアルトネットワークスはカリフォルニア州サンタクララに本社を置くアメリカのサイバーセキュリティ企業です。同社は、サイバー攻撃、マルウェア、データ侵害、その他のサイバー脅威から企業や組織を保護するために設計されたサイバーセキュリティ ソリューションの提供に重点を置いています。現在、AI テクノロジーをサイバーセキュリティ分野に統合することに注力しているパロアルトは、今年の世界的な AI 投資の熱狂の最大の勝者の 1 つです。年間の上昇率は50％を超え、ナスダック100指数の上昇率をはるかに上回った。

パロアルトは、人工知能 (AI) や機械学習 (ML) などの高度なテクノロジーをサイバーセキュリティの分野に適用して、セキュリティ ソリューションの有効性を高めています。たとえば、AI テクノロジーを統合すると、パロアルトが大量の脅威インテリジェンス データを分析してパターンや相関関係を発見するのに役立ちます。これは、新しい脅威や攻撃方法を特定するのに役立ちます。また、悪意のあるIPアドレスを自動的にブロックしたり、感染した端末を隔離したりするなど、パロアルトのセキュリティシステムが自動で脅威に迅速に対応することも可能になる。

パフォーマンスを利用してウォール街の疑念を打ち破る パロアルトのニケシュ・アローラ最高経営責任者（CEO）は声明で、同社の戦略はますます多くの顧客の共感を呼び、継続的な統合を推進していると述べた。同氏はまた、同社のAIベースのセキュリティプラットフォームが顧客コミュニティの間でどれほど人気が​​あるかに非常に満足しているとも述べた。

同社の通常のスケジュールとは異なり、最新の決算報告は金曜日の市場終了後に発表されたため、同社の実際の業績は楽観的ではないのではないかとの憶測が広がった。投資家の間に「純粋な恐怖」が広がったことで、同社の株価は決算発表の発表以降、約２割下落した。

ウォール街の投資会社ウェドブッシュは、この動きを「悲惨なタイミングの選択」とさえ呼び、テクノロジー業界を取材してきた数十年間で最大の広報上の惨事だったと同局は述べた。ウェドブッシュ氏は以前、パロアルトネットワークスの2023会計年度第4四半期の売上高と1株当たり利益は市場予想をわずかに下回る可能性があると予想していたが、実際の業績によって同局の疑念は完全に打ち砕かれた。

同社のアローラ最高経営責任者（CEO）は決算会見の冒頭で、金曜午後遅くに業績会議を開催するという同社の決定によって生じた「特別な懸念」だったと述べ、会議のために十分な時間を確保するためだったと述べ、謝罪した。日曜日の営業会議が始まる前にアナリストと一対一で会話した。

アローラ氏は、サイバーセキュリティ業界は、現在 4 ～ 6 日かかるのではなく、リアルタイムで攻撃を阻止できるソリューションにさらに移行する必要があると考えています。

"これは受け入れがたい; これは分単位で正確でなければなりません。」アロラ氏は、ネットワーク ソリューションを加速する理由の 1 つを挙げています。それは、SEC が上場企業に対し、大規模なサイバー侵入を特定してから 4 日以内に開示することを義務付ける新しい規則を導入したことです。

CEOは、人工知能テクノロジーはこのリアルタイム自律ソリューションの提供に役立つ可能性があるが、さらなる投資が必要であると強調しました。同氏は、人工知能にはいくつかの「暗い側面」があり、業界は悪用を防ぐためにこの問題に取り組む必要があると付け加えた。同氏はまた、パロアルトが「4倍」、つまり正確な人工知能テクノロジーをすべての製品に確実に導入しようとしていると強調した。

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Introduction: Yoga, an ancient practice with roots in India, has transcended time and culture to become a cherished method of holistic well-being around the world. Beyond its physical postures, yoga encompasses a profound philosophy that promotes the unity of body, mind, and spirit. In this article, we delve into the rich history, diverse practices, and numerous benefits of yoga.

A Journey Through History: Yoga's origins date back over 5,000 years to the Indus-Sarasvati civilization in ancient India. Its teachings were first documented in the sacred text known as the "Yoga Sutras" by sage Patanjali, which laid the foundation for the philosophy of yoga. Over centuries, various schools of yoga emerged, each emphasizing different aspects of the practice.

The Pillars of Yoga: 1. Asanas (Physical Postures): The most visible aspect of yoga, asanas are the physical poses that promote flexibility, strength, and balance. They serve as a gateway to mindfulness and a means to prepare the body for meditation.

1. Pranayama (Breath Control): Pranayama involves the regulation of breath to enhance vitality and relaxation. Conscious breathing techniques calm the mind and infuse the body with prana, or life force.

2. Dhyana (Meditation): Meditation is a central component of yoga, enabling practitioners to quiet the mind, cultivate self-awareness, and achieve a deep sense of inner calm.

3. Yamas and Niyamas (Ethical Guidelines): These principles guide moral conduct and self-discipline, fostering a harmonious and balanced life both on and off the mat.

Benefits of Yoga: 1. Physical Well-being: Yoga improves flexibility, muscle strength, and posture. It enhances blood circulation, lowers blood pressure, and supports the immune system.

1. Mental Clarity: Through mindfulness and meditation, yoga cultivates mental clarity, reduces stress, and enhances emotional stability.

2. Spiritual Connection: Yoga encourages self-discovery and connection with the inner self, leading to a greater sense of purpose and spirituality.

3. Stress Relief: The practice of yoga stimulates the parasympathetic nervous system, promoting relaxation and reducing the harmful effects of chronic stress.

4. Enhanced Focus and Concentration: Practicing mindfulness in yoga sharpens focus and concentration, boosting cognitive function and productivity.

Yoga in Modern Times: Yoga's popularity has grown exponentially in recent decades, with various styles catering to different needs. Hatha, Vinyasa, Ashtanga, Kundalini, and Restorative yoga are just a few examples of the diverse approaches available.

Incorporating Yoga into Your Life: 1. Start Small: Begin with beginner-friendly classes or poses, gradually building flexibility and strength.

1. Consistency is Key: Regular practice yields the best results. Even a few minutes of yoga daily can make a significant difference.

2. Listen to Your Body: Respect your body's limits and avoid pushing yourself too hard. Yoga is about self-care, not competition.

3. Find Your Flow: Experiment with different styles to discover what resonates with you. Yoga is a personal journey, and each style offers unique benefits.

Conclusion: Yoga is a timeless practice that transcends physical fitness to embrace mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Its ancient wisdom continues to inspire and guide countless individuals toward a life of balance, harmony, and inner peace. Whether you're seeking physical vitality, mental clarity, or a deeper spiritual connection, yoga offers a path to holistic well-being that can enrich every facet of your life.

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Introduction: Exercise is a diverse world, offering a myriad of options to cater to individual preferences, fitness goals, and lifestyles. From heart-pounding cardio workouts to serene mind-body practices, the types of exercise available are as varied as the benefits they provide. In this article, we'll take a comprehensive look at some of the most popular types of exercise, helping you find the perfect fit for your fitness journey.

1. Cardiovascular Exercises: Also known as aerobic exercises, cardio workouts get your heart pumping and your blood flowing. They enhance cardiovascular health, burn calories, and improve endurance. Common examples include:

• Running
• Cycling
• Swimming
• Jump rope
• Dancing

2. Strength Training: Strength training involves resistance exercises that build muscle and increase overall strength. This type of exercise is vital for improving metabolism, enhancing bone density, and promoting functional fitness. Examples include:

• Weightlifting
• Bodyweight exercises (push-ups, squats, pull-ups)
• Resistance band workouts

3. High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT): HIIT combines short bursts of intense exercise with brief recovery periods. This approach improves cardiovascular fitness, burns fat, and boosts metabolism in a shorter amount of time. Examples include:

• Tabata workouts
• Sprints
• Circuit training

4. Flexibility and Balance Exercises: These exercises improve flexibility, balance, and posture while reducing the risk of injuries. They often integrate mindfulness and relaxation techniques. Examples include:

• Yoga
• Pilates
• Tai Chi

5. Mind-Body Practices: Mind-body exercises focus on the connection between mental and physical well-being. They emphasize relaxation, stress reduction, and spiritual growth. Examples include:

• Meditation
• Mindful walking
• Qi Gong

6. Functional Fitness: Functional fitness exercises mimic real-life movements to improve strength, stability, and mobility for daily activities. Examples include:

• Kettlebell swings
• Medicine ball exercises
• TRX training

7. Group Fitness Classes: Group classes offer social interaction and structured workouts led by instructors. They cater to various preferences and fitness levels. Examples include:

• Zumba
• Spin classes
• Bootcamp

8. Outdoor Activities: Outdoor exercises provide fresh air and exposure to nature. They can range from moderate to intense, offering a refreshing change of scenery. Examples include:

• Hiking
• Trail running
• Beach volleyball

9. Low-Impact Exercises: Low-impact exercises are gentle on joints and suitable for individuals with physical limitations. They still offer fitness benefits while minimizing stress on the body. Examples include:

• Swimming
• Elliptical training
• Walking

10. CrossFit: CrossFit is a high-intensity fitness regimen that combines elements of cardio, strength training, and functional movements. It emphasizes varied and intense workouts for all-around fitness.

Conclusion: The world of exercise is a diverse and exciting realm, offering options to suit everyone's preferences and needs. Whether you're seeking to build strength, enhance flexibility, improve cardiovascular health, or find inner peace, there's a type of exercise that aligns with your goals. The key is to explore different options, listen to your body, and find the activities that bring you joy, vitality, and a sense of accomplishment on your journey to better health and fitness.

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Introduction: Exercise is a fundamental aspect of human life that goes beyond physical fitness. It has the remarkable ability to positively impact both our bodies and minds. In this article, we explore the multifaceted benefits of exercise, shedding light on how it contributes to our overall well-being.

Physical Benefits: 1. Weight Management: Regular physical activity is a key factor in weight management. Engaging in exercises like cardio, strength training, and high-intensity interval training (HIIT) can help burn calories and maintain a healthy weight.

1. Stronger Muscles and Bones: Strength training exercises improve muscle mass and bone density, reducing the risk of conditions like osteoporosis.

2. Improved Cardiovascular Health: Cardiovascular exercises, such as running, swimming, and cycling, enhance heart health by increasing blood circulation, reducing the risk of heart disease, and improving overall cardiovascular function.

3. Enhanced Flexibility and Balance: Activities like yoga and Pilates improve flexibility, balance, and posture, reducing the likelihood of injuries and enhancing everyday mobility.

Mental Benefits: 1. Stress Reduction: Exercise triggers the release of endorphins, often referred to as "feel-good" hormones. These chemicals reduce stress and anxiety, leading to improved mood and mental clarity.

1. Cognitive Enhancement: Regular physical activity is associated with improved cognitive function and memory. It stimulates the growth of new brain cells and enhances neural connectivity.

2. Boosted Self-Esteem: Achieving fitness goals and seeing physical progress can boost self-esteem and self-confidence, contributing to a positive self-image.

3. Combatting Depression: Exercise has been proven to alleviate symptoms of depression by increasing serotonin levels, regulating mood, and providing a sense of accomplishment.

Lifestyle Impact: 1. Better Sleep: Engaging in regular exercise can improve sleep quality by promoting relaxation and reducing insomnia.

1. Increased Energy Levels: Paradoxically, exercise provides more energy by improving blood circulation and oxygenating the body's cells.

2. Social Interaction: Group exercises, sports, and fitness classes encourage social interaction, fostering a sense of belonging and support.

Making Exercise a Habit: 1. Set Realistic Goals: Start small and gradually increase the intensity and duration of your workouts to prevent burnout or injuries.

1. Find Enjoyable Activities: Choose exercises you genuinely enjoy to make the experience more sustainable. Whether it's dancing, hiking, or playing a sport, finding joy in movement is essential.

2. Prioritize Consistency: Consistency is key to reaping the benefits of exercise. Create a manageable routine that fits into your schedule.

3. Listen to Your Body: Pay attention to your body's cues. Rest and recovery are just as important as the workout itself.

Conclusion: Exercise is a transformative journey that transcends physical appearance. It's a holistic approach to well-being that nurtures both the body and mind. By embracing regular physical activity, we empower ourselves to live healthier, happier lives, reaping the rewards of improved physical fitness, mental clarity, and overall vitality. So, lace up those sneakers, find your favorite activity, and embark on a path to a better you. Your body and mind will thank you for it.

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中日韓友好交流會的8月例會，挽請顧曉東先生開講《中日電影45年》。看到海報，自己跟自己激情鼓掌了一分鐘，精準精準，顧桑確實是，講這個主題的不二人選。

這個立項和邀請，來自中日韓友好交流會的現任主席傅滔滔。不過呢，等看到當日流程表，我又急出一脊背的細汗來，啊？只給顧桑40分鐘的時間，讓人家講45年中日電影？開啥玩笑啊，一年一分鐘都不到，簡直是不可能完成的任務。

我在一邊急得哇哇叫，顧桑笑淡淡一句意見都沒有，滔滔無法可想，乾脆顧左右而言他。

結果，昨天下午的那個40分鐘，顧桑一個字的講稿都不用，43張PPT，飛流直下三千尺，一氣呵成，講了回腸蕩氣的45年，無一句廢話，無一段疲弱，40分鐘一飛而逝，完整回顧了往昔、點評了目前、展望了未來。那種45年親歷者的沉酣與清醒，不喧嘩，不氣急，不聲嘶力竭，顧桑一派三浦友和式的糯風蕩漾。

中國引進的第一部日本電影，《追捕》，於1978年，也是中國引進的、第一部非社會主義國家的電影，顧桑講到此處，以深厚的男低音啦啦啦了一句，當年人人耳熟能詳的一句啦啦啦，此時此刻，如還魂的神來之筆，集體記憶煥然甦醒。 高倉健出現在中國大銀幕，直至《千里走單騎》，2005年，張藝謀為高倉健特製的劇本。

中日第一部合拍片，1982年的《一盤沒有下完的棋》，趙丹最想演，可惜沒有等到，後來是孫道臨演的，三國連太郎那樣的大牌，嘖嘖嘖嘖。

《生死戀》來了，栗原小卷穿著白色的網球裙，一句"太高了"彷彿來自天堂雲端，白色的網球裙啊，剛剛看完十年樣/板/戲的吾國吾民，下巴都要掉下來了，愛情是那麼美，那麼可靠，那麼不可置信。

《蒲田進行曲》裡的松阪慶子，踏著八/十/年代文藝復興的浪潮，款款向我們走來，如此美人，我們久久久違了。

《雾之旗》《絕唱》《伊豆的舞女》，讓我們看見了山口百惠。

等等，等等。

顧桑的PPT，用了一句簡單的話：那些難忘的日本電影。

同時代的中國電影，亦可歌可泣，《芙蓉鎮》《清涼寺的鐘聲》，讓謝晉和山田洋次兩位大導演，成了莫逆。2007年山田導演來上海，顧桑陪他去謝晉府上做客，聽晚年耳背的謝晉哇啦哇啦，我還有兩部電影要拍。可惜的可惜，次年的2008年，謝晉先生往生。

顧桑的演講好聽，除了他專業上的高度嚴謹紮實，還有他一肚子的細節猛料，隨便抖抖，都是恰到好處的閃閃碎鑽。

比如講到中國名片《那山那狗那人》，日本上映時候，片名翻譯做《山の郵便配達》。這個片子，在神保町，創下過單廳9億日圓的票房記錄。

再比如，顧桑講到曾經一起合作了《燕尾蝶》的導演岩井俊二，當年岩井俊二不過是電影屆的一個小鬼，無錢、無背景、無機會，跟全世界所有的三無年輕人一模一樣。 他拍《情書》時候的種種捉襟見肘，一次一次的難以為繼，如今想來，何等唏噓。整個電影拍攝期間，男女工作人員，統統睡的大通鋪，一個女宿舍，一個男宿舍。 而《情書》，今天是教科書級別的佳作，1000萬投資僅僅，岩井俊二從此亦成為深受投資人喜愛的導演。

演講之後的晚餐，與顧桑並肩，一邊燒鳥一邊聊天，顧桑講給我聽，過幾天要去日本聽演唱會，長渕剛，我的天啊，《乾杯》啊。然後我們又講了一會兒佐田雅志，《風中獅》《關白宣言》《長江》，啊啊啊，這幫老而彌堅的老傢伙。

深夜回家，跟顧桑討他今天演講的PPT，燈下慢慢重溫了一遍，唯一的遺憾，是沒有聽過癮，一隻一肚子好物的八寶鴨子，只吃了兩三寶，還有五六寶根本沒來得及下箸。跟顧桑相約，我們要找時間，重新請顧桑開講，講透、講過癮，才好。

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南潮雅宴的午餐，有江南，有潮粵，輕巧熔於一爐。上海真有本事，納百川不在話下。這一餐，最得人心，是如此烏蘇天氣裡，餐霞飲秀，食得一個清爽飄逸，心神安詳，真真難得。

八個冷碟子，生嗆西施舌，絕不會錯的金牌裡的金牌，妖冶無比味美無比，誰會不愛呢？那種鮮脆甜軟集於一身的欲仙欲死。

啫喱海蜇花醋汁，美美的一朵繽紛，很清涼很討喜，這種精緻，我是很需要和很喜歡的。

撈生是食潮州菜的規定動作，今天拿富山白蝦來撈，軟糯細甜，別具一格。

湯是眉眼。錢塘江的米魚，與當令的雲南鮮菌，堂灼。淡水的米魚，非常細膩滑嫩，濃稠魚湯灼來，鮮得滿地找眉毛。

同桌飯伴食完，感慨道，有了這個錢塘江米魚，可以不想大黃魚了。

我追隨著這個思路想了一會兒，好像從小到大，一直是喜愛小黃魚，遠遠多過大黃魚很多很多。家裡用得最多的快手菜，常常是乾煎小黃魚、清蒸小黃魚，後來還做南蠻小黃魚，跟日本人學的，拿小黃魚平替了他們的竹莢魚。

豆醬沙蔥雪花牛肉，非常fusion的一盤牛肉，蔥香撲鼻，細巧清俊，沒有過多地折磨牛肉，很高級。

油嗆藍貽貝，用的法國貽貝，極鮮極嫩極簡白，滿分。

兩道電飯鍋菜，很懷舊，很紮實，很華夏民族。一道是電飯鍋焗奄仔蟹，還有一道是高壓鍋五花肉燜米飯，一大條兩頭烏五花肉，鍋蓋一掀開，瞬間美好得像過年一樣。米飯燜得纏綿悱惻，五花肉厚切兩片，啊嗚啊嗚，好飯好肉肉。人生至此，不能更滋潤了。

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"It is truly heartbreaking to see people in pain, not understanding why everything keeps getting more expensive… not understanding why, no matter how hard they work, they can never seem to get ahead… not understanding why $100 can fill their fridge one year, and barely buy a couple days worth of food the next…"

— Walker

Welcome to the latest issue of the Bitcoin For Families newsletter. This issue is a wake up call for all who are struggling to make ends meet and don't know why.

Do you know anyone who doesn't understand why he/she can't move forward no matter what? Do them a favor and forward them this article.

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The last two weeks have featured many posts on Nostr with videos of people who are desperate; they work hard and yet can barely make ends meet between rent, bills and groceries. Like Walker said, their desperation is heartbreaking and what's even more heartbreaking for me is the fact that they don't understand why.

The fiat experiment that we're living in has turned out to be the biggest transfer of wealth from the low and middle class to the upper class and this same upper class has very cleverly managed to hide it from everyone, blaming this human disaster on anything and everything else except the real culprit.

How do they get away with it? Why is it that most people do not know who is causing their financial misfortune and how?

It's the inflation, stupid

Inflation is the reason why everything is so expensive.

One of my first articles on the Bitcoin for Families newsletter explains how inflation works, why housing is so expensive and why consumer prices only have skyrocketed now.

Check it out to understand why, no matter how hard you try, you can't save for a house, can't afford the rent and things getting more and more expensive.

It's the politicians that keep printing money out of thin air to pay for things that we can't afford.

It all started with Nixon lying

"Your dollar will be worth just as much tomorrow as it is today." — Richard Nixon, 1971

On August 15, 1971 Nixon announced to the American people that he was temporarily suspending the dollar convertibility to gold, effectively starting the experiment of a fiat economy. During his speech, he promised Americans that your dollar will be worth just as much tomorrow as it is today.

Since then, and according to the official figures of the Federal Reserve, the US dollar has lost 87% of its value. One dollar on August 1971 is now worth 13 cents.

Have salaries gone up 87% since? Nooooooooo! But the rich people have gotten richer thanks to the constant printing of money out of thin air.

Nixon sacrificed the future savings of Americans to continue paying for the Vietnam War.

And all presidents since have kept robbing you.

ALL OF THEM.

The media hides the truth

Imagine if, that night, Nixon had announced that we're going to start a new national economy rooted on trusting that the politicians will do the right thing at all times when it comes to how much new money to insert into the economy.

Everyone would had immediately said thanks but no, thanks.

The media is not dumb. It was not dumb then and it is not dumb now. They could have easily called Nixon out. But they didn't. And they continue to hide the truth from the people.

Why? Because the media is owned by the very same people who benefit from the wealth transfer that the fiat economy represents.

Below is a chart from the fantastic website https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/ that shows the extent of the wealth transfer.

Politicians love hating the 1 percenters and constantly talk about how they will end the income inequality, but they NEVER tell you why it is happening. Why is that?

They don't want you to know. That's why inflation is not taught at school. That's why the concept of money, and how it works, is not taught at school.

And that is why the media tries very hard to blame inflation on anything else but the real culprits:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/11/us-inflation-market-power-america-antitrust-robert-reich

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/24/business/inflation-russia-ukraine-explainer/index.html

This article on CNN takes the crown: inflation is actually good for you 👏👏👏 https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/01/economy/inflation-good-bad-winners-losers/index.html

Educate yourself about inflation

This speech by Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman explains inflation in a very accessible way. He even predicts the headlines that I pointed out above.

Learn Bitcoin

Now you know what is pushing you down. It's the politicians that keep printing money out of thin air to pay for things that we can't afford.

What can you do? How do you protect your savings? The answer is Bitcoin.

You can start learning about Bitcoin.

Go to my archive of newsletters: https://newsletter.bitcoinforfamilies.com. And here are some interesting books to check out:

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Walker is a brilliant educator and the creator of the Nostrich logo for Nostr.

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I've been in Thailand for a little over a month now. I ventured out here to play football as well as to explore the country with my girlfriend.

I think it's safe to say Thailand has quickly become one of my favorite countries in the world! Bangkok, where I stayed for the first few weeks, is a busy but beautiful city, buzzing with energy, and blending the sacred Buddhist temples with the stimulating, modern malls. Chiang Mai, my personal favorite thus far, is captivating, combining culture with cuisine, and calming and less chaotic compared to Bangkok. And Phuket, where I'm staying now, is a paradise, with peaceful beaches, and plentiful parties and night life.

But what has been the most amazing for me here in Thailand outside of experiencing the many wonders this country has to offer, has been the Thai people and their hospitality. Thai people are some of the most genuinely kind people I have ever met! And none of their kindness comes from expecting something back, it's true kindness coming from a place of love and selflessness.

I will go into more depth of my experiences coming to Thailand for the first time after I depart, but if you are on the edge of deciding whether or not to come to Thailand, I would say, "Do it!!"

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1 — Missed Identity Layer

SSI augments the Internet with missed Identity layer that gives a digital identity to a user and provides the user an instrument to share data about himself and others in an end-verifiable way.

2 — It is more philosophical

SSI is #architecture and a set of #principles that build user-centric and data-centric networks where the user has untakable rights to control and access his data and identity without needing centralized organizations or other medium systems. Every network user has the same rights and functions that allow them to manage their data and identity. It is sovereign to you in a network.

3 — The Principles

#Existence — exist in real life
#Control — control their identities.
#Access — access to their data
#Transparency — Systems and algorithms must be transparent.
#Persistence — must be long-lived.
#Portability — identity must be transportable
#Interoperability — Identities should be as widely usable as possible.
#Consent — Users must agree to the use of their identity.
#Minimization — Disclosure of claims must be minimized
#Protection — The rights of users must be protected

4 — Protocols and Open Standards

#Transparency , #Portability, #Interoperability enforced by open standards and portable self-explaining and self contain data format and distributed data with meaning and context understandable for machines and humans. Together with data, we have interoperability of behavior achieved with #protocols that describe data, user roles, and expected behaviors.
5) Full Decoupling of identity, protocols, and data from applications allows the building of entirely decentralized and open-distributed systems for the good of all

5 — Decouple

Full Decoupling of identity, protocols, and data from applications allows the building of entirely decentralized and open-distributed systems for the good of all

6- SSI Tools

SSI tools are like an onion of tools and functions that form your digital identity:

- Asymmetric Keys + Signatures — backbone of decentralized identity in #web3 and #web5 that give #algorithmic #cryptographical basics of identity.
- #DID give Decentralized Public Key Infrastructure that distributes your Public Keys and service endpoints to a broader audience.

- #VC Verifiable credentials allow you to share information about yourself and others in a temper-proof and end-verifiable way. VC contains the issuer’s signature, a person, and an organization that creates a data statement.

- #VP or verifiable presentation solves a problem of proof of Ownership. It is like an envelope with multiple #VC from different issuers or self-issued statements combined with your signature proving your data ownership.

#VP + #DID form your digital identity

7 — Exchange Protocols and SSI Triangle

#Control , #Consent, #Minimization , #Interoperability enforced by user-centric, exchange protocols. In the scope of these protocols, we have a role:
- holder — a party that owns data and gives content to share data with others via VP
- issuer — party that creates a data point via VC and shares it with a holder
- verifier — attest and check data
Roles are not the permanent user could change roles during the exchange session

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Introduction

Bitcoin is a blockchain technology which has been running since 2009. Ever since Satoshi Nakamoto has left the project, the Bitcoin blockchain has been running stable without a single episode of failure. However, changes are needed for various reasons; to reduce transaction costs or to add functionality to the blockchain. These changes, nevertheless should not compromise users who prefer to use the original blockchain. As a win-win solution, soft-forks are implemented. soft-forks are bitcoin improvement that is activated as an opt-in; should the user or client choose to accept it, it will bring extra functionality to them. here we will explore how these soft-forks impacted the address design of your Bitcoin wallet.

1. Legacy address

Legacy address are the original Bitcoin address. the address starts with "1" as shown below:

1JQe8QcouwvqBD3KBfXsGXeUHV1Aw9ddp8

these address has no added functionality and transaction using this address cost the most transaction fee.

2. Pay to script hash (P2SH) address

These kind of address has scripts that specify certain transactional condition, which could include a segwit functionality. it starts with a "3" such as:

34BYTiqoTunKEjNoPLjMYCk6WPNvUy4khV

transaction on this address is 26% cheaper than legacy address.

3. Segwit address

segwit is a block rearrangement mechanism whereby the signature is collected and combined outside of the blockchain. This not only obsfucate the transaction, it also make the transaction more compact, reducing transactional cost altogether

Image1: Segwit moves the signature to one end, improving transaction size

a segwit address starts with a "bc1q" such as :

bc1qav04kv6k2dq8whxw9zyf5zw3c8ecyhrk6rf2yw

a transaction using segwit addresses are 38% cheaper than a legacy address transaction.

4. Taproot address

Taproot is a technology that allows batching of multiple signatures and transactions together, making it easier and faster to verify transactions on Bitcoin's network. Not only transaction will be cheaper, it also allow the attachment of additional data. such innovation has allowed the birth of several innovations, such as the ordinals. A taproot address starts with a "bc1p" such as :

bc1pmzfrwwndsqmk5yh69yjr5lfgfg4ev8c0tsc06e

their transaction fee cost is similar to segwit, though their functionality differs. however, the support for taproot addresses are currently still limited.

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I am one of the many victims of the BlockFi bankruptcy, a flow on effect from the FTX crash. Yes, laugh as you will! “Not your keys, not your Bitcoin”. I’ve always known this, but I was too complacent and lazy to move it out.

One reason was that I could never find a wallet I really liked, and that I could feel I could trust. So I decided to build my own: Beme. Once finished, this wallet will be open-sourced. The things I am trying to achieve with my wallet are things that I felt no other mobile wallet really got right:

• Ability to make multiple wallets in the single app, including single-key Bitcoin, multi-sig Bitcoin, and lightning

• Ability to send funds between my own wallets without having to copy QR codes or BTC addresses

• Ability to send funds to other wallets without having to copy QR codes or BTC addresses

• Ability to message users I have sent funds to

• Ability to track the BTC price and the value of my wallet

• Ability to track my transactions, attach descriptions and download a CSV of all transactions

• Ability to create a non-custodial lightning wallet without having to run a node

I’ve explored countless wallets, some of which achieve some of the above but none that get close to all. In my experience, some outstanding wallets include Blue wallet, Wallet of Satoshi, Samourai wallet and Mutiny. Before I get into my DevX experiences, I need to give a particular shoutout the open-sourced Blue Wallet, without which I would never had made such progress.

Beme Architecture

Beme wallet architecture: Beme is a bitcoin/lightning wallet that allows users to create multiple wallets. It is powed via nostr to allow simple P2P payments and messages.

The wallet does not require any KYC or any user information. Beme allows you to create three types of wallets: Beme Bitcoin wallet, Beme multi-sig wallet, and Lightning Beme wallet. You can only create one lightning wallet and as many Bitcoin wallets as you need. The Bitcoin wallet is created and stored on the phone. The wallet is encrypted and stored using react-native-async-storage. Accessing the wallet data requires biometrics to unlock the wallet and access the seed-phrase.

The lightning and Beme Bitcoin wallets can be connected to Nostr to enable easy P2P payments. To keep the Beme multi-sig wallet more secure, this wallet does not allow connection via Nostr to other users.

The Beme API is used to control the lightning wallet, improve the speed of Nostr queries, and to collect basic de-identified usage information.

Technologies

To create Beme, I have explored the following technologies:

• Cloud: AWS & Google cloud

• Messaging: Nostr & cloud API

• Mobile: React-native & expo

• React Libraries:

  • Bitcoin: BitcoinJs Lib
  • Lightning: LN-Zap, LND, LNDHub (blue wallet), Greenlight (Blockstream), blixt

From a DevX point of view, the best technology to use has been Nostr. It is truly plug-and-play and extremely powerful. Its ease of use has enabled rapid development around the communications side of the app. Prior to Nostr, I explored doing something similar on google cloud, but Nostr worked out of the box and achieved all that I needed.

I had already used BitcoinJs in a previous react web-app project so I naturally chose it for this project. However, it was far more challenging with react-native compared to web. My first version of the app was created using expo which is not supported by BitcoinJS. So I re-wrote the app in plain react-native to get it working. A further challenge has been navigating library versions that work properly together. The biggest challenges have been: - react-native: currently v0.71.8 - react-native-reanimated: currently v3.0.0 - react-native-crypto: currently v2.1.0 - tiny-secp256k1: currently v1.1.6

I attempted to use react-native turbo modules which required upgrading react-native-reanimated, react-native and various other libs. However, I could not get it to work properly with react-native-crypto and tiny-secp256k1. I attempted to get it working by applying a patch package to various libs within tiny-secp256k1 — but in the end I was patching so much that it felt easier to write a whole new package. I have not ended up upgrading.

The most difficult technology to use, by far, has been lightning. From a devX point of view, this has been the most painful. This is partly the reason I explored so many options. If you are going to work with lightning, I can recommend you do not waste time with the following:

• LN-Zap: the library was out-dated compared to LND and I could not get it to work properly on testnet.

• blixt: This was very complicated and, while I could get it to run, it was buggy and difficult to debug.

Greenlight has the potential to be extremely powerful, but it is still very early. I have joined their testing platform which works well in python, but their JS implementation does not yet work. If you attempt Greenlight, I recommend using their rust/python framework.

I ended up going with LND (lightning labs) combined with LNDHub to communicate with the wallet. LND was challenging to set up and to understand what was really going on under the hood. I also think it is overly bloated for what I am trying to do.

LNDHub was relatively easy to set up and makes communication to the LND node much simpler. I highly recommend coupling an LND node with LNDHub.

Cloud

Beme allows you to create a lightning wallet in the cloud. The current implementation uses Google cloud for the API and AWS for hosting the lightning nodes. Breaking it up between two cloud providers has been mainly driven by cost; Google cloud is free for a small number of monthly active users, and AWS provides free t2.micro instances for 1 year. Eventually, the idea will be to consolidate to a single cloud provider.

Communications between the wallet and the cloud is facilitated via the Beme API. This architecture means the lightning wallet only needs a single IP address open (the API server), providing a far more secure system. Each lightning wallet is run in a docker container on AWS. The API facilitates the creation of a wallet and the communications to control the wallet. Users can retrieve their keys at any time and optionally choose to run their wallet themselves.

Tradeoffs

There are a few tradeoffs from using Beme that users should be aware of:

1. A mobile wallet will always be less secure than a hardware wallet. The tradeoff here is between UX and security. I would not recommend users to keep their life-savings on Beme. Instead consider using a hardware wallet for large amounts and Beme to simplify the use of regular payments.

2. The lightning implementation on the cloud is costly to run. In order to provide the lightning wallets to users for free, all lightning wallets created through Beme are routed through the Beme lightning node. This means that Beme can always collect a routing fee which offsets the cloud costs.

3. Nostr is a powerful protocol. The advantage of using it is that users own their data and they can always access it by deriving it from their seed-phrase. The downside is that it is still a slow protocol compared to a cloud API, and is sometimes inconsistent with the messages it retrieves. I’ve run experiments where every now and again, messages are dropped for an unknown reason. Nostr has also made it difficult to optimise the app for speed. I’ve had to store a lot more data locally rather than fetch it as required due to its slow speed.

And thats it! I hope you have found this exploration of technologies useful. I hope you find the wallet useful once it is released.

Bitcoin Beme

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La Seguridad del Estado arrestó a Sergio Pérez Amigo, uno de los cubanos repatriados por el gobierno de Estados Unidos en julio pasado. La arbitraria detención ocurrió a las 3:30 p.m. de ayer jueves, luego de que el hombre y su primo abandonaran la sede del grupo opositor Damas de Blanco.

Berta Soler, líder de dicha organización, confirmó en Facebook el arresto, mencionando que ambos fueron movilizados a la unidad policial de Aguilera, donde oficiales de la policía política del régimen procedieron a interrogarlos y emitir diversas advertencias.

Este hecho causó indignación entre los internautas que dan seguimiento a los reportes de la líder de las Damas de Blanco. En los comentarios, se exigió la liberación de los dos arrestados y también recriminaron la actitud represiva del gobierno cubano.

Pérez Amigo fue partes de los 33 cubanos devueltos a la Isla a través del cuarto vuelo de deportación autorizado por el gobierno de EEUU. Estos trayectos se reanudaron tras unos acuerdos establecidos entre La Habana y Washington.

El cubano había arribado a EEUU hace cuatro años. Tras perder su caso de asilo, recibió la orden de deportación mediante el formulario I-220B, que no se hizo efectiva de manera inmediata por encontrarse suspendidos dichos vuelos.

El antillano relató que todos los deportados fueron conducidos esposados al avión, donde no tenían permiso para levantar las cortinas de las ventanillas. Al arribar a la capital cubana, fueron recibidos por agentes del Ministerio del Interior (Minint).

La repatriación de Pérez Amigo causó indignación en la comunidad cubana, debido a que fue separado de su hijo de 10 años, quien se quedó en el país norteamericano. “El momento más duro de mi vida ha sido este, separarme así de mi familia, de mi niño”, expresó el progenitor al ser entrevistado vía telefónica por Telemundo 51.

En sus declaraciones al canal estadounidense, también mencionó: “Cuando estaba hablando con él, me dijo: ‘papi, tú no te vas a ir para ningún lado’, y la verdad que es duro, todo el que sea padre sabe lo que eso significa, que tu hijo te diga eso con esas palabras y a los diez minutos te recojan y te lleven para una celda sin decirte nada, sin darte un papel, sin una explicación, como si tú fueras un número”.

La administración de Joe Biden ha realizado cinco vuelos de deportación desde el mes de abril para devolver a la Mayor de las Antillas unos 287 cubanos que ingresaron de manera irregular a EEUU.

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Un adolescente cubano de tan solo 14 años perdió la vida de manera violenta en medio de una fiesta que se realizaba en el reparto Poey, del municipio habanero Arroyo Naranjo, según diversas fuentes en redes sociales.

El joven, identificado con el nombre de Antoni, fue víctima de una pelea que se desencadenó en horas de la madrugada de este viernes. Los detalles del lamentable hecho aún no se encuentran claros.

En Facebook se publicaron emotivos mensajes y condolencias a los familiares del menor. Algunos usuarios dieron a entender en sus escritos que el joven se encontraba vinculado con compañías peligrosas.

“Mi primer ahijado, cuánto siento esta partida mi niño transparente, fue algo insuperable, solo sé yo y el mundo que fue a traición porque de frente no hay quien te gane. Serás el menor que pondrá a Poey de luto” , dijo la madrina, identificada como Alianna Cárdenas.

Otro conocido de la víctima expresó: “Mi niño, asere, mil veces hablé contigo. Te dije de ese ambiente, yo prometo siempre recordarte como el mejor menor de Poey”.

En los comentarios, un usuario llamado Jaime Morón dio un mensaje importante a los padres de adolescentes en la Isla. “En paz descanse, no es el momento para culpar a nadie por su partida, solo quiero decir algo, los padres tenemos que chequear bien de cerca con quién se reúnen nuestros hijos”, manifestó.

Cuba ha estado lidiando con un incremento en los índices de criminalidad en los últimos tiempos, y este incidente ha encendido las alarmas en una comunidad que anhela un entorno seguro.

Según la organización no gubernamental Observatorio Cubano de Auditoría Ciudadana, la nación caribeña registró 33 asesinatos en el primer trimestre del año; y en el segundo, esta cifra tuvo un aumento del 43%. Este acto delictivo, junto con los robos, se detectaron en gran medida en las provincias de La Habana, Villa Clara y Guantánamo.

La organización precisó que las estadísticas oficiales pueden no reflejar la magnitud real del problema, debido a la falta de transparencia gubernamental y la reticencia a denunciar crímenes.

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細細思忖了一下，我於上海往還的潮州友人，彷彿清一色，是男的。潮州女子是不是都在家裡閉起門來、清甜納福？深深羨慕。

想想上海果然是一汪海，出門泛海的，總是男人。

潮府館的主人家黃謙先生招食，黃先生這裡，每次一坐定，必有好茶飲，通常是潮汕獨門的單欉，今晚除了單欉，還有黃先生最近新製的小青柑。2017年的東甲陳皮，匯合了2010年的普洱老金芽。小青柑差不多是茶裡的小甜心，人見人愛，我甚至看見過從來不飲中國茶的洋人，初遇小青柑，都能跌入愛河，粉身碎骨，一邊渴飲一邊沉醉。小青柑甘潤厚樸，無論怎麼泡，都順喉好飲，一點不欺生。單欉相比之下難服侍得多，高華俊秀，又挑水、又挑手勢，沸火滾湯一盅入口，真如一道耿耿清暉，開人心胸。

吃吃茶，吃吃字。潮州菜裡出名的魚飯、白糜，這種古韻盎然的字，實在是美到讓人低迴不已，可惜可嘆的是，今天的人，無論如何，造不出如此古樸蒼秀的字詞來了。
 

黃謙先生在我左肩，娓娓講給我聽，從前糧食短缺，潮州人不得已，向海裡尋口糧，捕到了魚，甲板上支口簡單的鍋，各種漁獲白水裡煮熟，牽根繩子晾起來，可以多食幾日，如此這般，就是魚飯了。黃先生講得清白，聽起來，如一支海風裡的悠悠短笛。

白糜，就是白粥，糜字，亦絕美。潮府館的一碗白糜，是上海灘的一種絕色。不過是水與米的白粥罷了，卻熬得溫潤如玉，是宴席上白牡丹一般的存在，帶一點點竹青色，白粥而有如此厚味，秀、潤、清、雅，一碗俱全，實在是，清福裡的艷福。
 

黃謙先生講給我聽，幼年時候，家裡口多糧少，無法可想，不得不三餐食糜。大鍋煮起的白糜，拿漏勺撈一勺煮爛的米粒，盛一碗，那是給出遠門去讀大學、或者遠赴泰國去做生意的人吃的，難得得不得了。天長地久，潮州人煮白糜煮成了獨步天下。黃先生說，我在上海開潮州菜館，菜單上有白糜，我原來以為不會賣得太好，想不到上海食客很接受，白糜一直是我們深受客人喜歡的一道糧食。然後黃先生講了一句昇華的，我很感謝上海人的海納百川。然後黃先生又講了一句拐彎的：在我們潮州家鄉，我估計上海菜館，或者其他流派的菜館，大概都開不下去的。如此跌宕有致的談話，讓我的心臟很忙碌很奔騰。黃先生說，我們那裡的人，很牛的，一家做菜頭粿的小攤販，一天只做一個半小時，下午三點，賣到四點半，90分鐘賣完就收攤。你跟他說，生意這麼好，你多做一點賣啊；他才不要。你跟他講，你手藝這麼好，到上海來開一家啊；他聽都不聽。
 

一天90分鐘的菜頭粿，綿綿不絕縵縵奈何的鄉土煙火，我是多麼眼熱。我們再也回不去的那些童年點心，一碗縐紗小餛飩，一客酥脆春卷，下午三四點鐘的尋常巷陌，海納百川的上海，早已走樣走得無邊無際。

潮府的晚宴，幽咽迷人的36個月獅頭鵝，陣容繽紛的碳烤大響螺，一道是極香，一道是極鮮，幾乎都是單品的單打獨鬥，潮州菜勝在一個食材的至精至良，手法簡白，大味無味。金不換炒薄殼，那種娟秀溫潤的細肥美，是讓人熱淚盈眶的。黃先生說給我聽，薄殼這個東西，一年裡只有一個月，是最肥美的，眼下差不多就到尾聲了。薄殼於潮州人，有點像大閘蟹於江南人，上海如今蟹宴頻頻不足為奇，我們潮州，也有薄殼宴。我聽得神往不已，如此細肥鮮美之物，做一整席，實在太芳菲了。問黃先生，潮州有沒有古書、古菜譜，寫到這種薄殼宴？黃先生說沒有，我深感惋惜，如果有記錄，那麼，想來一定是韓熙載夜宴圖的潮州版，我師兄陳躍先生亦惋嘆，沒有人整理記錄下來的苦。

潮府館最惹我相思，除了一碗白糜，還有一道珠瓜腩肉，真真俊美極了。主廚陳撲泉師傅說，珠瓜大約是最好的苦瓜了。四指寬的苦瓜，釀了一大切五花腩肉在瓜內，燉得纏綿，端上桌的時候，一派古玉的蒼秀。刀叉切食，清苦得至肥至糯，太高級了。苦得肥糯的口感，殊為罕見，那種渾然天成，實在是優雅得不得了。跟這種亦飄逸亦沉鬱的清苦比，任何直來直去的甜酸苦辣，都蠢笨庸俗得不可言說，絕贊。
 

我也學習黃謙先生，寫一句昇華的，珠瓜腩肉，像極了潮州男人，那種悲欣交集，難以與君說。


當晚的伴飯話題，突然來了一個大轉彎，我們談到了預製菜，如火如荼的預製菜。
 

黃先生平靜講，預製菜是方便麵的升級版罷了，潮府館拒絕預製菜。
 

曹國琪先生鏗鏘，講，一個民族的墮落，是從預製菜開始的。
 

曹先生解釋：把人越搞越聰明，那麼這個民族是有希望的。預製菜把人的嗅覺味覺都搞沒了，把人的辨識能力都搞沒了，是不是問題太大了？
 

據統計，預製菜在目前的餐飲市場上，已經佔到60%了。darling你覺得了嗎？吃一碗大排麵，那個大排是預製菜；吃個蝦餃燒賣炸乳鴿，差不多都是預製菜一二三四五。

預製菜可以有，就像方便麵會永垂不朽。但是至少應該在菜單上明確標示，這是預製菜。這樣，對吃客比較公平，對其他不做預製菜的餐館，也比較公平。darling 儂講呢？

潮府館把拒絕預製菜，寫在餐館門口

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La Fiscalía cubana ha solicitado una condena de cuatro años de prisión para la activista Aniette González, acusada de “ultraje a los símbolos patrios” por retratarse arropada con una bandera. La artista de 43 años, fue detenida el 23 de marzo en la provincia de Camagüey, tras compartir en sus redes sociales fotografías de su cuerpo cubierto con la enseña nacional.

El periodista independiente José Luis Tan Estrada reveló que González le contactó desde la cárcel de mujeres Kilo 5 en Camagüey, donde se encuentra recluida la opositora, que solo “se tomó una foto con la bandera cubana”, que es “de todos”.

Tras su arresto en el mes de marzo, González pasó varios días retenida por la Seguridad del Estado de Camagüey y sin que se le presentarán cargos formales, pero luego la policía notificó a su familia de que sería sometida a un juicio por las fotografías que compartió en línea y que forman parte de una performance artístico en la que González posa con la bandera cubana cubriendo su cuerpo, uniéndose así a la campaña opositora La bandera es de todos, en solidaridad con el artista Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara.

Precisamente Otero Alcántara, realizó en 2019 la obra Drapeau, donde utilizó la bandera como símbolo de la población cubana y por lo cual enfrentó represión por parte del régimen. Aunque fue liberado tras denuncias de defensores de derechos humanos, el artista fue arrestado nuevamente en julio de 2021 antes de las protestas que estallaron en la Isla. En junio de 2022, finalmente, fue condenado a cinco años de prisión por un Tribunal Municipal Popular de Centro Habana.

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Table Of Content

• The Origins of Bitcoin's Civil War

• Lessons Learned from Bitcoin's Civil War

• Conclusion

• FAQ

Bitcoin, the revolutionary digital currency, has garnered significant attention and adoption since its inception. However, its path to success was not without obstacles. In this article, we delve into the intriguing tale of Bitcoin's Civil War—a conflict that shook the cryptocurrency community to its core. Through examining the lessons learned from this historical event, we uncover their modern relevance and shed light on the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

The Origins of Bitcoin's Civil War

The seeds of Bitcoin's Civil War were sown in 2017 when a heated debate emerged regarding the scalability and future direction of the Bitcoin network. The conflict primarily revolved around the issue of block size—whether to increase it to accommodate more transactions or maintain the original size to preserve decentralization.

The Block Size Debate: To Scale or Decentralize?

The proponents of increasing the block size argued that larger blocks would allow for faster and cheaper transactions, thereby enhancing Bitcoin's usability as a currency. On the other hand, those advocating for maintaining the block size believed that prioritizing decentralization was crucial to preserve the fundamental principles of Bitcoin.

The clash of ideologies led to a profound divide within the Bitcoin community, resulting in a fork that created two distinct cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash. This event, often referred to as the "hard fork," marked a critical turning point in Bitcoin's history.

The Forked Path: Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash

Bitcoin Cash, born out of the hard fork, aimed to address the scalability concerns by increasing the block size to 8MB. In contrast, the original Bitcoin network, commonly known as Bitcoin Core, chose to pursue alternative solutions such as Segregated Witness (SegWit) and the Lightning Network.

Lessons Learned from Bitcoin's Civil War

The conflict and subsequent split in the Bitcoin community taught us valuable lessons about the nature of consensus, governance, and the challenges inherent in scaling decentralized systems. Here are some key takeaways:

1. Consensus is a Delicate Balancing Act

Maintaining consensus within a decentralized network is a complex task. Bitcoin's Civil War exposed the challenges of achieving widespread agreement among stakeholders with diverging opinions. It highlighted the need for effective governance mechanisms to navigate contentious issues.

2. Decentralization is the Bedrock of Cryptocurrencies

Bitcoin's Civil War emphasized the importance of preserving decentralization in cryptocurrency networks. Decentralization ensures censorship resistance, security, and resilience against attacks. Striking a balance between scalability and decentralization remains a fundamental challenge for blockchain-based systems.

3. Innovation Requires Collaboration and Compromise

The conflict spurred a wave of innovation as both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash sought to improve their respective networks. However, it also underscored the necessity of collaboration and compromise. The competing factions could have potentially achieved more by working together to find scalable and decentralized solutions.

4. Community Consensus Trumps Technical Merit

The Civil War demonstrated that achieving consensus within the community can override technical merits. Despite technical arguments favoring one approach over another, it was ultimately the community's support that determined the success of a particular path.

5. Adaptability is Key to Long-Term Survival

Bitcoin's ability to adapt and evolve in the face of challenges played a vital role in its survival. The Civil War highlighted the importance of flexibility and the ability to embrace new technologies and ideas while staying true to the core principles.

6. External Factors Can Influence Internal Conflicts

External factors, such as market dynamics and regulatory developments, can intensify internal conflicts within cryptocurrency communities. Understanding and navigating these external influences is crucial for the long-term success of cryptocurrencies.

Conclusion

Unlocking the Secrets of Bitcoin's Civil War provides valuable insights into the journey of Bitcoin and its ongoing evolution. The lessons learned from this historical conflict remain relevant as the cryptocurrency ecosystem continues to grow and face new challenges. Balancing scalability and decentralization, fostering collaboration, and adapting to a changing landscape are key factors that will shape the future of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. By understanding the past, we can better navigate the road ahead, unlocking new possibilities and embracing the potential of decentralized digital currencies.

FAQ

What caused the Civil War in Bitcoin? The Civil War in Bitcoin was primarily sparked by a debate over the block size—whether to increase it for better scalability or maintain the original size for decentralization.

What is the significance of the Bitcoin Civil War? The Bitcoin Civil War highlighted the challenges of achieving consensus and balancing scalability with decentralization in cryptocurrency networks.

Did Bitcoin's Civil War have any positive outcomes? A: Yes, the conflict spurred innovation and prompted both Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash to explore new solutions for scaling their respective networks.

How did the Bitcoin community handle the Civil War? The Bitcoin community navigated the Civil War through a hard fork, which resulted in the creation of Bitcoin and Bitcoin Cash as separate cryptocurrencies.

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Libraries in Solidity Smart Contracts

Solidity libraries play a crucial role in enhancing code reusability and modularity within smart contracts. This article explores the concept of Solidity libraries and their practical applications.

What are Solidity Libraries?

Solidity libraries are blocks of reusable code that contain functions designed to be utilized by other contracts on the blockchain network. These libraries promote the principles of object-oriented programming, allowing developers to structure their codebase in a modular and organized manner.

Advantages of Using Libraries

Using libraries in Solidity smart contracts offers several advantages:

1. Code Reusability: The primary advantage of libraries is their ability to promote code reusability across contracts. By using libraries, developers can prevent code duplication and maintain cleaner, more efficient codebases.

2. Gas Savings: Libraries contribute to gas savings by preventing the deployment of identical code multiple times on the blockchain. Instead, the same code can be reused by various contracts, optimizing resource consumption.

Characteristics of Solidity Libraries

Solidity libraries possess specific characteristics and constraints that differentiate them from regular contracts. These include:

• Singletons: Libraries are designed as singletons, meaning they are deployed only once at a specific address and reused by various contracts.

• No State Variables: Libraries cannot include storage or state variables that change over time.

• No Fallback Functions: Unlike regular contracts, libraries cannot have fallback functions.

• No Event Logs: Libraries do not generate event logs.

• No Ether Holding: Libraries cannot hold Ether or cryptocurrency.

• Stateless: Libraries are inherently stateless, emphasizing their role as code utility rather than data storage.

• No Destruction: Libraries cannot be destroyed, ensuring their persistence throughout the contract's lifecycle.

• No Inheritance: Libraries cannot inherit from other contracts, nor can they be inherited by contracts.

Using Libraries to Enhance Functionality

One of the primary uses of libraries in Solidity is to enhance the functionality of data types within contracts. For instance, developers can employ a library to augment the capabilities of variables with a specific type, such as uint (unsigned integer).

Library Code Execution

When a library function is called, the code is executed in the context of the calling contract. This means that the library can access state variables from the calling contract, but only if these variables are explicitly provided as parameters.

Creating a Library Contract in Solidity

To create a Solidity library, follow these steps:

1. Define the contract using the library keyword, not contract.

1. Libraries can support various data types, including constants, user-defined structs, and enums.

1. Example: Below is a library called MathLibrary that performs basic multiplication.

Deploying a Library in Solidity

Libraries in Solidity can be deployed in two ways:

1. Embed in a Contract: If a library consists only of internal functions, it can be included within the contract that uses it. No separate deployment is required.

2. Link to a Contract: When a library contains public or external functions, it is deployed as a separate contract. The calling contract must reference the library's contract address.

Using a Library in a Solidity Smart Contract

To use a library within a Solidity smart contract, follow these steps:

1. Embed the library code within the contract using the import statement or write the library code directly in the contract.

2. Use the using directive to attach library functions to specific data types in the contract.

For example, to use the MathLibrary in a contract:

Calling a Library Function

To call a library function, use the following syntax:

The variable is implicitly passed as the first parameter, and additional arguments are provided as needed.

Linking Contracts Using Remix

1. To link a deployed library to a smart contract using Remix:

2. Deploy the library contract to a test network.

3. Configure Remix with the deployed library's address.

Deploy the calling contract, ensuring that the metadata file references the library's address and sets autoDeployLib to false.

Conclusion

Solidity libraries are a powerful tool for enhancing code reusability and maintaining modular smart contracts. By understanding their characteristics and usage patterns, developers can optimize their contract development processes and create efficient and maintainable blockchain applications.

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Introduction

GameFi is a combination of gaming and finance, allowing players to earn money while playing games. The GameFi market has experienced waves of turmoil in 2022, from StepN's exit to the collapse of Luna, from the bankruptcy of 3AC to the thunderstorm of FTX, from the liquidation of DCG to the lawsuit of Axie Infinity, GameFi projects and players have suffered huge losses. According to statistics, the total market value of the GameFi market will shrink by 87% in 2022, and most project tokens will fall by more than 90%.

However, GameFi did not die there, but sought a turning point in the crisis. On the one hand, the GameFi project began to pay more attention to the quality and experience of the game itself, instead of simply pursuing hype and harvest. On the other hand, GameFi players have also begun to choose games more rationally and prudently, and no longer blindly follow suit and speculate. These have laid the foundation for the healthy development of the GameFi market.

Related Projects & Cases

In 2023, there are still many projects and trends worthy of attention in the GameFi market. For example, Star Atlas, Illuvium, Guild of Guardians, Ember Sword, The Sandbox, Decentraland, CryptoBlades and other Web3 game projects have good reputation and potential. Here is a typical case:

• Star Atlas: A space exploration and war game built on the Solana blockchain.Star Atlas is a grand strategy game set in the distant year 2620. Three factions are split, competing with each other for valuable resources and assets. The ultimate goal of the project is to become a digital world parallel to our physical world through self-sufficient economic and commercial activities.
• The main driver of value in the Star Atlas game world is the monetary reward system (or Play-To-Earn) provided through the decentralized economy and game mechanics. There are two main fungible tokens used as in-game currency, ATLAS and POLIS. The game is built on the Solana blockchain, which allows for high throughput and low transaction fees. Integration with Serum, a DEX based on the Solana ecosystem, makes it easier to participate in DeFi activities such as lending, staking token interest, and earning fees from AMMs.
• Star Atlas seeks to redefine the future of the NFT-based blockchain gaming industry by connecting top blockchains, real-time graphics, multiplayer video games and decentralized financial technology. Star Atlas' ambitions for cinema-quality graphics are also on a level that no other competitor in the blockchain space has yet attempted.

For the gameplay and reward mode, I won’t go into too much detail here, and those who are interested can go to the official website of Star Atlas to experience it.

Development status and characteristics

From the above cases, we can see the development status and main forms of GameFi, which can be summarized into the following points:

1. GameFi is an innovative fusion of the blockchain and the game industry. It can provide players with more autonomy, participation and incentive mechanisms, and it can also provide developers with more creative space, revenue sources and users sticky.
2. GameFi is one of the applications closest to the real economy in the encrypted economy. It can let more ordinary users get in touch with and understand the concept and value of blockchain and DeFi through gamification, and it can also let games Assets realize cross-platform, cross-chain, and cross-ecological circulation and transactions.
3. GameFi is an important part of the Metaverse. It can provide players with a richer and more diverse virtual world experience, and it can also provide more content, communities and infrastructure for the construction of the Metaverse

vision and vision for the future

• On a technical level:

In all encrypted economies, GameFi is about scene modeling, and the world architecture is very demanding. In 2023, Star Atlas and the like will be able to appear. Using Unreal Engine 5's Nanite technology to create a real sense of immersion, making the game super realistic movie visual effects. This has a great impetus for the metaverse to build a virtual world.

The design of GameFi's dual-token incentive model makes the trading system more stable and plays a transitional role in the connection between the game world and the real world. If we regard a GameFi project with a strong background as a small metaverse model, then the dual The token models represent the real world and the virtual world respectively. The native token of the platform is used as the transaction currency in the virtual world for activities and transactions in the virtual world, and the governance token of another game is used as the real world counterpart. The governance token of the universe, used for voting and formulating the laws and regulations of the metaverse, etc.

• In terms of horizontal field expansion:

As an entertainment activity on Web3, GameFi attracts a large number of users. It not only enables more users to actively understand concepts such as DeFi, but also promotes the diversified development of Web3 and creates more opportunities for the centralized financial field. In the form of yuan, in the future, education finance for specific industries can be formulated in the aspect of education, and a more open platform can be provided for film and television works.

Or expand the functions of GameFi, no longer limited to the field of games, and add more social, educational and other fields to make a small smart community, including a variety of projects in the community, social, music, games, learning and other aspects, And apply the technology of game special effects to render the community more realistically. This is the ability to build the world that the current SocialFi and other DeFi projects do not have. A few years ago, Baidu released a Metaverse APP called Xi Rang. The scenes built during the testing phase were not satisfactory. The reason is that the technical level of the modeling team is limited. The Engine 5 team is still far behind.

• Outlook for the future：

The future direction of GameFi may pay more attention to the quality, gameplay and experience of the game, rather than simply embedding blockchain and DeFi elements into the game. GameFi needs to create more high-quality, highly creative, and highly immersive game works in order to attract and retain more players.

The future direction of GameFi may pay more attention to the social interaction and interaction of games, rather than simply buying, selling and speculating on game assets. GameFi needs to build more game communities, platforms and ecology, so that players can have more communication, cooperation and competition, and developers can have more cooperation, innovation and win-win.

The future direction of GameFi may place a greater emphasis on diversity and inclusion in gaming, rather than just being limited to certain types or styles of games. GameFi needs to embrace more game types, themes and cultures, so that different players can find their favorite and suitable games, and also allow different developers to express their ideas and creativity.

Above all, although there have been ups and downs in the overall development of GameFi in the past two years, the application scenarios and development prospects in the future are still very good.

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I am one of the many victims of the BlockFi bankruptcy, a flow on effect from the FTX crash. Yes, laugh as you will! “Not your keys, not your Bitcoin”. I’ve always known this, but I was too complacent and lazy to move it out.

One reason was that I could never find a wallet I really liked, and that I could feel I could trust. So I decided to build my own: Beme. Once finished, this wallet will be open-sourced. The things I am trying to achieve with my wallet are things that I felt no other mobile wallet really got right:

• Ability to make multiple wallets in the single app, including single-key Bitcoin, multi-sig Bitcoin, and lightning

• Ability to send funds between my own wallets without having to copy QR codes or BTC addresses

• Ability to send funds to other wallets without having to copy QR codes or BTC addresses

• Ability to message users I have sent funds to

• Ability to track the BTC price and the value of my wallet

• Ability to track my transactions, attach descriptions and download a CSV of all transactions

• Ability to create a non-custodial lightning wallet without having to run a node

I’ve explored countless wallets, some of which achieve some of the above but none that get close to all. In my experience, some outstanding wallets include Blue wallet, Wallet of Satoshi, Samourai wallet and Mutiny. Before I get into my DevX experiences, I need to give a particular shoutout the open-sourced Blue Wallet, without which I would never had made such progress.

Beme Architecture

Beme wallet architecture: Beme is a bitcoin/lightning wallet that allows users to create multiple wallets. It is powed via nostr to allow simple P2P payments and messages.

The wallet does not require any KYC or any user information. Beme allows you to create three types of wallets: Beme Bitcoin wallet, Beme multi-sig wallet, and Lightning Beme wallet. You can only create one lightning wallet and as many Bitcoin wallets as you need. The Bitcoin wallet is created and stored on the phone. The wallet is encrypted and stored using react-native-async-storage. Accessing the wallet data requires biometrics to unlock the wallet and access the seed-phrase.

The lightning and Beme Bitcoin wallets can be connected to Nostr to enable easy P2P payments. To keep the Beme multi-sig wallet more secure, this wallet does not allow connection via Nostr to other users.

The Beme API is used to control the lightning wallet, improve the speed of Nostr queries, and to collect basic de-identified usage information.

Technologies

To create Beme, I have explored the following technologies:

• Cloud: AWS & Google cloud

• Messaging: Nostr & cloud API

• Mobile: React-native & expo

• React Libraries:

  • Bitcoin: BitcoinJs Lib
  • Lightning: LN-Zap, LND, LNDHub (blue wallet), Greenlight (Blockstream), blixt

From a DevX point of view, the best technology to use has been Nostr. It is truly plug-and-play and extremely powerful. Its ease of use has enabled rapid development around the communications side of the app. Prior to Nostr, I explored doing something similar on google cloud, but Nostr worked out of the box and achieved all that I needed.

I had already used BitcoinJs in a previous react web-app project so I naturally chose it for this project. However, it was far more challenging with react-native compared to web. My first version of the app was created using expo which is not supported by BitcoinJS. So I re-wrote the app in plain react-native to get it working. A further challenge has been navigating library versions that work properly together. The biggest challenges have been: - react-native: currently v0.71.8 - react-native-reanimated: currently v3.0.0 - react-native-crypto: currently v2.1.0 - tiny-secp256k1: currently v1.1.6

I attempted to use react-native turbo modules which required upgrading react-native-reanimated, react-native and various other libs. However, I could not get it to work properly with react-native-crypto and tiny-secp256k1. I attempted to get it working by applying a patch package to various libs within tiny-secp256k1 — but in the end I was patching so much that it felt easier to write a whole new package. I have not ended up upgrading.

The most difficult technology to use, by far, has been lightning. From a devX point of view, this has been the most painful. This is partly the reason I explored so many options. If you are going to work with lightning, I can recommend you do not waste time with the following:

• LN-Zap: the library was out-dated compared to LND and I could not get it to work properly on testnet.

• blixt: This was very complicated and, while I could get it to run, it was buggy and difficult to debug.

Greenlight has the potential to be extremely powerful, but it is still very early. I have joined their testing platform which works well in python, but their JS implementation does not yet work. If you attempt Greenlight, I recommend using their rust/python framework.

I ended up going with LND (lightning labs) combined with LNDHub to communicate with the wallet. LND was challenging to set up and to understand what was really going on under the hood. I also think it is overly bloated for what I am trying to do.

LNDHub was relatively easy to set up and makes communication to the LND node much simpler. I highly recommend coupling an LND node with LNDHub.

Cloud

Beme allows you to create a lightning wallet in the cloud. The current implementation uses Google cloud for the API and AWS for hosting the lightning nodes. Breaking it up between two cloud providers has been mainly driven by cost; Google cloud is free for a small number of monthly active users, and AWS provides free t2.micro instances for 1 year. Eventually, the idea will be to consolidate to a single cloud provider.

Communications between the wallet and the cloud is facilitated via the Beme API. This architecture means the lightning wallet only needs a single IP address open (the API server), providing a far more secure system. Each lightning wallet is run in a docker container on AWS. The API facilitates the creation of a wallet and the communications to control the wallet. Users can retrieve their keys at any time and optionally choose to run their wallet themselves.

Tradeoffs

There are a few tradeoffs from using Beme that users should be aware of:

1. A mobile wallet will always be less secure than a hardware wallet. The tradeoff here is between UX and security. I would not recommend users to keep their life-savings on Beme. Instead consider using a hardware wallet for large amounts and Beme to simplify the use of regular payments.

2. The lightning implementation on the cloud is costly to run. In order to provide the lightning wallets to users for free, all lightning wallets created through Beme are routed through the Beme lightning node. This means that Beme can always collect a routing fee which offsets the cloud costs.

3. Nostr is a powerful protocol. The advantage of using it is that users own their data and they can always access it by deriving it from their seed-phrase. The downside is that it is still a slow protocol compared to a cloud API, and is sometimes inconsistent with the messages it retrieves. I’ve run experiments where every now and again, messages are dropped for an unknown reason. Nostr has also made it difficult to optimise the app for speed. I’ve had to store a lot more data locally rather than fetch it as required due to its slow speed.

And thats it! I hope you have found this exploration of technologies useful. I hope you find the wallet useful once it is released.

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Look.

Regardless of whether you nothing, individuals are as yet going to talk poop about you despite your good faith. That excessively MORE. Calling you No one important.

Yet, in the event that you fall flat, learn, retry and get to a specific level, you are as yet going to be the subject of conversation.

So why not follow through with something and let the world discussion about your work?

It's greatly improved right?

Your work has the most uproarious voice It seldom matters assuming that you have ability.

On the off chance that you are into something and get things going, you are set to outflank each skilled people who stay qualified for their ability.

Your work must be so strong than it can demonstrate everything even without your words.

Such countless individuals have this unfortunate behavior pattern.

They simply Contend like anything.

Hawks don't contend with crows. They have work to be finished. Furthermore, that do whatever is necessary demonstrate their value.

Time to move past this contention poop!!

A lot talking removes your time OK you safeguard your fantasies with a couple of words.

FINE.

Yet, how long would you say you will do this?

Like the world will tell something or the other to you without a doubt.

What's more, this is for the most part a psychological distraction.

You blow your top and start contending, you have proactively lost the game before it has even started.

We have the mouth to have wonderful discussions. Not to contend like a distraught individual.

Also, who contends? SHEEP!! Lions don't actually. They are simply bustling crushing.

You are one of them?

Compassion will not tackle the issue Normal people can't allow themselves to quit crying about their concerns with the whole world.

That is the reason they are normal. Also, might be For eternity.

Look amigo.

Compassion is the surest method for losing your worth to the world.

Presently you request compassion from anyone. You will get it without a doubt.

In any case, that in the end turns into THEIR solidarity and YOUR shortcoming.

You are getting it?

Enough of concealing like a sheep It makes sense to me.

You find it hard to stand up to individuals. Since you can't help thinking about the thing they will say regarding you.

Presently in the event that you simply continue stowing away and having a powerless character, you think they will be good to you?

NO. NEVER.

The world regards the Striking people. Not the great ones.

So enough of being guiltless. That fit the best in your life as a youngster.

However, not any longer.

Time to be a piece intense At this point!!

Last contemplations I accept disdain is a type of free exposure.

The less you respond to it, the more power you gain over the long haul.

Furthermore, in the event that individuals disdain you for conflicting with the ordinary standards, this is on the grounds that you are good to go to be a Radical.

Rebels are loathed and regarded the most.

What are you hanging tight for?

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As a parent, it's normal to stress over your youngsters' future, particularly when they're in their twenties and changing into adulthood. This is the point at which they go with significant choices that will deeply influence their lives, such as picking a lifelong way, tracking down an accomplice, and laying out their characters.

You need the best for themselves and stress over whether they'll find success, blissful, and safe.

While having your grown-up kids home is a gift and a revile. This late spring, I have an unparalleled view to my kid child's life. As though it's not awful enough when we visit him at school to observe the Creature House-style presence he's delighting in, presently he's residing at home for a considerable length of time while filling in as an understudy close by.

I'm pleased with him for getting an entry level position, yet I wind up flinching a ton about how he carries on with his life.

He's chaotic, spends each dime he makes, and seldom takes a beat to unwind. He frequently surges home from work to play golf or go out with companions. He remains out late, every now and again snatches cheap food in a hurry as opposed to dining with us, and rests through his caution most mornings until I maneuver his covers to the side and nudge him into cognizance.

I advise myself that he's a grown-up man fit for pursuing his own choices and gaining from his mix-ups. In any case, I can't help thinking about how he's always going to make it in reality — when I'm not there to prepare his lunch, do his clothing, or bother him about his own cleanliness.

When to reach out and when to keep your mouth shut. I've been dealing with my child since he was conceived. It's difficult to stop.

I battle with whether I'm helping or empowering him at times, and I realize I might be keeping him from learning a couple of things all alone.

At the point when I put together a lunch for him in the first part of the day, I hear a little voice saying, "Let him make his own lunch!" However, what's the damage in that? I know a wide range of individuals who pack nourishment for those they care about — to be great or in light of the fact that they would be able.

Throughout the long term, I've given my child a lot of room, watched him test his wings, and become progressively more free. He's only not there yet.

He actually needs a prod occasionally — to clean his teeth, wash his hair, and not head off to work in a similar garments he snoozed! ( I can hear the pundits accepting at least for now that I'm a helicopter mother when I'm pretty chill as a general rule. Ask any individual who knows me. Regardless, I've given him more opportunity than his more established kin).

At the point when a gander at the past offers expect what's in store. Throughout the end of the week, I saw something that reassured I a piece. Call it a sign from the universe guaranteeing me that my child will ultimately develop.

My better half and I got along with a portion of his school pals who as of late shaped a band. They'd welcomed us to hear them play at a neighborhood bar, and I was unable to accept my eyes when I gazed up at the stage.

Never ever might I at any point have envisioned these folks looking and behaving like they are in 2023 in the wake of knowing them during the '80s.

The lead vocalist looked like an individual from the Thankful Dead with his Birkenstocks, splash-color shirt, and long wavy silver hair — a long ways from the clean-cut chief of the football crew I recollect from some time ago. At the point when he gladly called his adolescent girl to the stage to go along with them in singing Avalanche, I could scarcely keep down the tears.

The drummer (and the bar proprietor, which is the reason this specific gathering of wannabe artists was permitted to play openly) still appears to be identical. His hair is likewise dim yet trimmed tight (maybe to conceal a retreating hairline or arising bare spot toward the back). He's more streamlined than he was in school, yet there's no mixing up his Hollywood great looks, helping me to remember why each young lady nearby really liked him.

Then there's the bass player. He was notorious during school. Besides the fact that he pursued me and a couple of my companions into the women's bathroom at a sorority formal with a Tequila worm ground between his teeth, yet he's unbelievable for throwing a sofa from a second-story quarters window. Thirty+ years after the fact, he no looks "unnerving," which is definitively the way that I used to depict him. Rather than a goliath mass of muscle with clear displeasure issues, he's currently a teacher with a nice disposition and an endearing personality.

My point?

In the event that this gathering of folks can change, there's potential for everybody.

In school, they were wild, scaring, and most certainly not known for being dependable or merciful young fellows. They used to share the sh*t out of me — such a lot of that I never at any point viewed as passing their lunch table in the understudy association. Assuming that they showed up before I did, I'd enter through the side way to try not to catch their eye. I frequently asked why my better half spent time with them as they didn't seem to share a lot of practically speaking.

Presently they're all functioning experts, spouses, and fathers. Their pre-show discussions rotated around a mission trip one of them had as of late taken, where their children were all residing, and obviously, which melodies they would play during their most memorable set. I snickered at how they're presently holding over some moderately aged fantasy about becoming heroes, finding their enduring companionship adorable and charming.

I'm not recommending my child resembles this gathering of folks all around. He was a lightweight secondary school grappler (not a school lineman), graduated at the highest point of his group, and I hear individuals believe he's benevolent and considerate (notwithstanding entertaining and the energy everyone needs). Be that as it may, he obviously has a best approach prior to settling down and slowing down his constant tricks.

Last contemplations. In one breath, I envy my child — for his childhood… his casualness… and his capacity to live so lighthearted.

In any case, on the breathe out, I recall that I'm his mother. I stress over everything he might do. Will he get carried away in some way? Will he stay protected and in the clear?

Until somebody creates a dependable precious stone ball, there's nothing left but to continue to trust that this is simply one more stage. That he'll outgrow it, lose interest in celebrating like the majority of our companions ultimately did, and grow up to be a capable grown-up.

Up to that point, I surmise I continue stressing… ..and annoying him to clean his teeth!

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无论是“人工智能之父”Geoffrey Hinton，还是明星公司Deepmind的创始人Demis Hassabis，他们都不仅是计算机科学家，还是神经科学学家。实际上，Hinton在本科时期在神经科学、艺术史与哲学学科间徘徊流连，对计算机几乎一无所知，对数学也兴趣不大；从小学习象棋、自称痴迷于游戏的Hassabis也更感兴趣于大脑如何运作——这是他们的终极问题，而计算机这个人类造物更像是他们用以检验想法的工具。但在这个过程中，计算机科学和认知科学相互促进，彼此成就。 所以，不同的人工智能实现路径，也可被看做对人类认知的不同理解。在早年间，不同理解所代表的学派们相互斗争、争论哪种方式能真正实现人工智能——尤其体现为符号主义和连接主义之间的纠葛。

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Since the inception of scientific journals, they have served as a conduit for the dissemination of knowledge between the academic community and the general public. However, with the rapid advancement of digital and internet technologies, the traditional journal paradigm faces unprecedented challenges. Fortunately, the emergence and rapid evolution of Web3 and AI technologies not only offer solutions to these challenges but also provide a novel perspective and realm for the innovation and evolution of journals.

1. Fundamental Principles of Web3 and Artificial Intelligence

Web3, often characterized as the third generation of internet technologies, embodies a decentralized network paradigm. In contrast to traditional centralized servers, Web3 operates on blockchain technology, ensuring the transparency and immutability of data transactions. Within the Web3 paradigm, users not only attain a more secure and private online experience but also retain ownership of their data, rather than relinquishing it to centralized institutions or corporations. This model offers the potential for a more open, equitable, and user-centric digital space. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a subfield of computer science aimed at constructing systems capable of emulating human cognitive functions. This encompasses learning (extracting knowledge from data), reasoning (utilizing knowledge to address specific challenges), autonomous decision-making, visual recognition, and natural language processing, among others. The objective of AI technologies is to enable machines to execute tasks in complex environments, and in some instances, to potentially surpass human performance.

2. Transformation of the Journal Ecosystem

Innovation in the Journal Publication Process: Leveraging Web3 technology, we can construct a decentralized interactive platform, facilitating seamless communication among authors, reviewers, and readers, thereby promoting a freer circulation of knowledge. Additionally, each article has the opportunity to undergo unbiased reviews on a global scale, vividly reflecting the comprehensiveness and fairness of evaluations. Importantly, through blockchain technology, the entire review process becomes fully transparent; every piece of feedback and decision can be accurately logged and traced, ensuring transparency and trustworthiness throughout.

Revolutionizing Reader Experience: With AI technology, journals can now offer readers more precise personalized content recommendations, not only based on their reading history and interests but also anticipating future needs. Furthermore, data visualization and interactive displays become feasible, affording readers an enriching and intuitive learning experience. As readers delve deeper into a subject, AI intelligently suggests other relevant research and resources, meeting their academic exploration needs more holistically.

Transition in Journal Business Models: Constructed on Web3 technology, we are witnessing the rise of an innovative economic paradigm: the token economy not only incentivizes readers, authors, and reviewers to actively participate in all facets of the journal but also breathes new life into the journal's ongoing operations. This model genuinely restores data ownership, allowing every author and reader to maintain complete control over their content and data. This not only reinforces their rights but also paves the way for new business opportunities for the journal. In terms of distribution, decentralized technology facilitates more rapid and widespread knowledge dissemination, enabling people everywhere to effortlessly access academic materials.

Renewal of the Journal Review Process: To uphold and elevate the quality and innovation of the journal ecosystem, we ardently advocate for a new model, where the enthusiasm and expertise of reviewers serve as the core driving forces for change. Utilizing Web3, through tokenized incentives and blockchain technology, we not only spark reviewers' enthusiasm but also provide a robust and fair foundation for their professional accreditation. Coupled with AI technology, we offer reviewers real-time academic updates and instant feedback, ensuring their expertise remains at the cutting edge of the industry and fostering profound interactions and collaborations within the academic community. Such innovations will undoubtedly usher the academic publishing realm into a more open, transparent, and efficient era.

3. Practical Applications

Scientific journals currently stand at a pivotal juncture of innovation and exploration. Considering contemporary technological trends and practical application scenarios, the following can be discerned as significant developmental directions in this domain:

Further Innovations in Preprint Platforms: Platforms like arXiv and bioRxiv exemplify a new paradigm in academic publishing. They afford researchers the opportunity to share their findings prior to formal publication. By integrating AI, rapid screening and recommendations can be made for these preprints, while Web3 technology ensures the authenticity and permanence of documents.

Openness and Transparency in Peer Review: As an increasing number of journals and platforms experiment with open peer review processes, the application of Web3 ensures transparency and trust throughout the procedure. Moreover, AI-assisted features, such as plagiarism detection and preliminary quality assessment, provide robust backing for the review process.

Revolution in Personalized Recommendation and Search Experience: With the growing maturity of natural language processing and machine learning technologies, literature search and recommendation systems are not only becoming more intelligent but are also catering specifically to the nuanced needs of researchers. Advanced models like ChatGPT, by understanding user queries, can offer more pertinent academic material suggestions, steering users towards their genuine research interests. Such technological advancements ensure that researchers can swiftly pinpoint and efficiently access the content they require amidst vast information troves.

Decentralized Storage and Dissemination: Web3 and associated technologies, such as IPFS, furnish scientific data and articles with a stable, secure, and tamper-resistant storage environment, safeguarding the longevity and integrity of research outputs.

In summation, these technologies not only accelerate the dissemination of scientific knowledge but also offer potent tools to ascertain its genuineness and originality. Concurrently, they enhance the operational efficiency and transparency within the academic community.

4. Challenge and Opportunity

The application of technology invariably comes with challenges, encompassing aspects such as technological maturity, ethical dilemmas, legal regulations, and societal acceptance. Consequently, before these technologies achieve comprehensive implementation, a profound exploration and discourse are imperative.

For a multitude of editors, authors, and reviewers, emerging digital technologies like Web3, AI, or blockchain may represent uncharted territory. Venturing into this domain might necessitate significant time investments for learning and adaptation. Simultaneously, the intricacies and unfamiliar nature of these technologies could engender resistance among certain factions of the academic community.

Relying excessively on AI for literature reviews might overlook nuances that hinge upon human experience and intuition. This raises concerns about whether machines can truly capture the essence and subtleties of scholarly works in every instance.

Legal frameworks addressing novel technologies such as Web3 and AI might still be in their embryonic stages, presenting potential legal risks for journals during their adoption and implementation. As the legal realm continues to evolve, journals need to tread cautiously, ensuring they remain compliant while embracing the future.

5. Conclusion

Scientific journals are currently at a historic inflection point, predominantly attributed to the advancements and implementations of Web3 and AI technologies. These journals are evolving beyond mere conduits for knowledge dissemination, morphing into interactive, intelligence-driven, and decentralized platforms for knowledge sharing. As we look to the future, sustained technological innovation holds the promise of ushering in a new era of scientific journals—characterized by heightened openness, equity, and intelligence.

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Today, when I was getting some medicine out of a jug, I ended up peering down at my hands for not a really obvious explanation. Setting the pills to the side, I spread my fingers on all fours to cruelly concentrate on them. It overwhelmed me to see the kinks, veins and spots that covered them.

Goodness, I thought, do they look old at this point? I read in a magazine once that said telling the age of a lady by her hands is simple. Could individuals tell I'm in my fifties by simply checking mine out? Gracious man, I disdain going downhill.

I gazed at my hands for a really long time, turning them over and back. Why had I not saw them previously? They were as of now not delicate and graceful the manner in which they used to be. I was unable to accept I strolled around with those hands for what seems like forever, and it never seemed obvious me that they could some time or another look more seasoned.

Unexpectedly, all of a sudden, a memory jumped into my head. I considered when I used to follow my most memorable child's cheek with my finger. I understood that I had utilized my hands to hold my youngsters as well concerning many feedings and diapers.

I reviewed every one of the times I held my little ones' hands crossing a parking garage, the times I played patty cake with them and furthermore pushing them on the swings while they chuckled. I applauded every one at their school shows and plays.

The recollections came quicker. I thought about my rotund, small baby hands with dimples at the knuckles while going after toys, my little kid's hands holding up a hair curler consistently for seemingly 60 minutes, the manner in which I held my pencil in school (which every one of my educators said was bizarre).

I pondered giving my hand in marriage as a young lady and afterward to a the best man love of my life.

I utilized my hands to scour and clean flawlessly in each spot I at any point lived, until they became red and dry. I painstakingly made beds that my family would stay in bed, and I washed their dishes to eat with.

It seemed obvious me that I ought to have paid attention to my mom when she advised me to utilize cream. It would have been so natural, yet I brushed it off like all her other exhortation.

I've abused my fingers during my clinical record vocation, composing many words consistently for almost thirty years until my hands hurt.

For what seems like forever, I have composed stories, either with a pen or a PC. Every one of the sentences emerged from my head, however without my hands no one would have at any point understood them.

My hands helped save me from the most exceedingly awful of maltreatment in my marriage. I extended them before me to get my better half far from me so he was unable to push or shake me.

I likewise held the hands of others who assisted me with recuperating after I separated from him. Doing that caused me to feel less alone.

One of my number one purposes of my hands was continuously playing with cosmetics, despite the fact that I was never persuaded I was applying it precisely on. Investing energy after my shower evaluating every one of the shades of my cosmetics pack satisfied me. It seemed like making workmanship more than vanity, and I didn't do it for any other person yet myself.

Rather than being mooched about the manner in which my hands looked, I unexpectedly saw them another way. They seemed to be a day to day existence, a presence, verification that I was here and had made due. They weren't a thing to be embarrassed about by any stretch of the imagination. I thought they looked delightful, truth be told.

There in the washroom, I set up my hands and attracted them to my chest with an eruption of joy. It didn't make any difference what any other person thought. I was glad to have my hands and of the relative multitude of things I did with them regardless of whether they look more seasoned.

Oddly, it was most likely whenever I first really cherished myself or possibly a piece of me, and that in itself was a gift I wasn't anticipating on a customary morning.

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I attempted to compose reliably for quite a long time.

I expected to 'feel like it.' At the point when I didn't, I halted. That one-day interruption would transform into weeks.

Then, at that point, I understood composing presented to me a few succulent advantages and potential open doors.

Along these lines, I did how I expected to appear.

These are the best examples I learned:

It needn't bother with to be awesome — it necessities to finish. Indeed, you maintain that your composing should get along nicely.

Indeed, you maintain that it should be top notch.

Notwithstanding, the issue is that when we take a stab at flawlessness, we get terrified.

We abstain from distributing.

You should adjust accomplishing great work and being savagely one-sided to the end and sharing.

Try not to consider writing to be isolated from life. Composing shouldn't even need to be viewed as some siloed equal action.

Composing is — for me — part of living and thoroughly considering my difficulties and those of individuals I know. I have my telephone and take notes at whatever point I have an extra second.

I've composed full string records on the cable car.

Composing helps me cycle and request my considerations, and that is significant for my psyche.

My body has become receptive to composing.

Presently I'm spilling over with material I can toss into a web-based post with less driving.

Transform it into a discussion. Large numbers of us battle to compose on the grounds that we consider it to be a firm errand.

It isn't until you acculturate the experience that things get intriguing.

I frequently have an individual at the top of the priority list with whom I'm talking straightforwardly when I compose.

It's normally a more youthful variant of me, a striving client, or a dear companion.

Composing is chatting with feeling with words on a page. Go there.

Quit composing stuff you believe you 'ought to' compose. Center around satisfied that has the most elevated potential for you to appreciate composing it.

This could expect you to conceptualize a few thoughts prior to picking that impacts YOU the most.

On the off chance that you find it hard to complete a piece, it could be on the grounds that it doesn't intrigue you as a point enough.

Augment your energy overall quite well. Compose now and again of the day when you realize you have the most energy to compose.

Do it after a walk or the exercise center, if that makes a difference.

Try not to compose on a weighty, full stomach. Gather speed by composing consistently.

Give yourself the most ideal benefit, beginning with understanding your energy levels.

Adjust your measures for progress. This was a unique advantage for me.

I generally attempted to do anything when my meaning of progress was to have a post that became famous online or had great commitment.

Assuming that we characterize achievement along these lines, we'll feel opposition.

This heaps on the strain to perform and, incidentally, will diminish your imagination.

Have your meaning of progress be consummation. Take one of your drafts and make it happen and out today.

That is a tremendous success.

You should put words down that have neither rhyme nor reason. Many individuals come up short at composing reliably in light of the fact that they are in 'altering flawlessness mode' straight off the bat.

Extraordinary journalists will go through a stage in their cycle where they are just free-composing whatever rings a bell.

Free-composing frequently contains a ton of garbage and garbage.

This is the puff that surfaces while you're pulling around for good thoughts that resound.

This is normal and is essential for the interaction.

You are digging diamonds, and this requires uncovering a great deal of mud.

Your dominance of correspondence is objective Numero Uno. At the point when our motivation for composing is to make a ding in the Universe, we can get deterred. Why?

Since we don't see it happening right away.

Thus we quit.

Impacting the world is a decent point, yet it ought not be your essential point. Your development as a trained and compelling communicator ought to be.

This really intends that with each article you post, you become somewhat better, and that is the best motivation to compose.

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At the point when Wellington Lytle looked into a Milwaukee lodging after the 1929 financial exchange crash, he was down to his last four pennies and purged of trust.

In any case, before he put a gun to his head, he took out a pen and left the accompanying note:

"My body ought to go to science, my spirit to [Secretary of Treasury] Andrew W. Mellon, and compassion to my banks."

Indeed, even in his last minutes, Lytle needed his physical remaining parts and soul used by the world he was leaving. After a century, men actually worry about this concern — their self-esteem is attached to their handiness.

Today we refer to these utilitarian men as "great suppliers." And keeping in mind that society ties itself in tangles, characterizing being a supplier, for some men, it comes down to feeling helpful.

Sadly, when men are approached to rests in this Procrustean bed, many answer in one of two risky ways.

A. They work themselves far too much, getting a large number free from obstacles in a determined quest for some fake domineering meaning of manliness that in the long run kills them sooner than ladies.

B. They genuinely pull out and unobtrusively stew in misery, hatred, and the trepidation that their commitments won't ever be satisfactory. ( Or if nothing else never enough to draw in a soul mate or get cultural status.) This withdrawal to some extent makes sense of why sex rates have dropped in young fellows however not young ladies.

So given the confounding condition of manliness, it presumably won't astound anybody that when scientists concentrated on the final expressions of self-destructive men, they found the two most familiar words utilized were "futile" and "useless."

We ought to all know the measurements at this point. Despite the fact that downturn rates are higher in ladies, young fellows pass on by self destruction at multiple times the pace of young ladies.

Tragically, men are additionally inculcated to quietly endure. A new report found men who pass on by self destruction were less inclined to have been determined to have misery.

Then there is the instruction hole. In his most recent book, Of Young men and Men: Why the Cutting edge Male Is Battling, Why It Is important, and What to Do about It, Richard Reeves frames a few disturbing insights. Ladies dwarf men in universities 4 to 3 and are bound to graduate secondary school. This drop in taught men means something bad for their future work choices. 1 out of 3 men without a secondary school recognition has exited the workforce. ( Not jobless, not working.)

In any case, what is genuinely baffling about the training hole is it didn't work out pretty much by accident. Men's schooling levels started dropping during the 1980s. For what reason would we say we are at long last tending to it now?

Reeves' answer is to "red shirt" young men — have them signed up for school a year after the fact to address formative deferrals. Whenever I previously heard this arrangement, I recoiled, however Reeves makes an admirable statement. We changed STEM projects to draw in additional ladies yet never changed the school system to address the young men who slack in capacity to appreciate people on a profound level. ( Measurably, they make up for lost time to young ladies.)

Reeves additionally brings up that this "men as suppliers" conviction perseveres in spite of the end wage hole inside relationships. As indicated by a 2021 U.S. Authority of Work Insights study, 30% of spouses presently acquire more than their husbands. Be that as it may, as Psychos manliness is abandoned with poodle skirts and slug bras, numerous men are not cheering. Families in which the spouse is the provider are half bound to end in separation, and husbands who make not exactly their wives are bound to swindle.

Bad-to-the-bone women's activists chide individuals for not advancing quickly enough. However, for what reason should men's convictions change when society continually supports chronologically misguided beliefs of manliness? A valid example. A 2017 Seat Exploration Center investigation discovered that 71% of Americans accept "a man genuinely must have the option to help a family monetarily to be a decent spouse or accomplice." ( Just 32% felt a lady's monetary commitment characterized her as a "great accomplice.")

Tragically, 81% of men with a secondary school training or less buy into this supplier mindset, while just 61% of men with a four year certification trust something similar. Subsequently, the ones who most accept they ought to be providers will likewise be the probably going to feel like disappointments.

Ideally, masculinity would be likened with genuineness. Taking care of business ought to be characterized by being your actual self, as long as your excursion toward self-realization doesn't hurt others. ( Read: Try not to be a douche to excel.)

However, another Seat Exploration Center review focuses a crueler dark light on manliness. Scientists asked ladies and men where they tracked down importance, satisfaction, and fulfillment. They found ladies tracked down joy through different sources, however men didn't.

Therapists portray the individuals who find significance through various social jobs as having high self-intricacy. What's more, ladies are a definitive shapeshifters. We track down importance through our jobs as moms, managers, dearest companions, and spouses. For instance, 43% of ladies said kids and grandkids gave their life meaning, yet just 24% of men said something very similar.

Men track down significance in one job — supplier.

Nonconformists' answer is to censure men as having "harmful manliness," while traditionalists need to turn around the tickers on ladies' freedoms as though fairness is a lose situation. Neither one of the methodologies works.

However, here's the genuine issue. We destroyed manliness and didn't pass on a plan to construct the new digs. Or on the other hand, to put a better point on this discussion, specialist Jonathan Decker set that "restricting manliness," not poisonous manliness, is at fault for this wreck. All in all, how we characterize manliness is excessively limited.

Caught by these unthinkable belief systems, it's no big surprise that young fellows go to destructive forces to be reckoned with like Andrew Tate, Joe Rogan, and Jordan Peterson. These amusement park barkers pawn their rendition of manliness as mysterious elixirs. Or on the other hand, much more dreadful, they outline manliness as hostility, risk-taking, savagery, and sexism.

At the point when a gathering becomes disappointed, the void will be filled by the most intense and frequently ugliest voices.

"Just ladies, youngsters, and canines are cherished genuinely. A man is just cherished under the condition that he gives something." — Chris Rock

In exploring this piece, I surveyed north of 20 male companions with the accompanying inquiry.

"What's the significance here to you to be a decent supplier?"

Large numbers of my companions disregarded the inquiry and gave shifty answers about being productively utilized and wearing clean clothing. Yet, a portion of my companions are profound masterminds.

Julius is such a man — a mass of Catch 22s that would confound most ladies. He is creative, beautiful, delicate, and made. Quiet at minutes. Garrulous at others. He is what ladies would call the "dull and baffling" type.

Julius likewise served in Iraq. Today, he is a self destruction survivor who fights PTSD.

(Note: Julius requested that I utilize his genuine name. He advises ex-military experiencing PTSD and is exceptionally open about his fight with misery.)

Julius grins an easygoing smile when I ask him how he characterizes being a decent supplier and answers;

"Men play this round of seeming sure, unyielding, and emotionless, while ladies should seem the inverse — coy, defenseless, and compassionate. It's absurd that society acknowledged this chauvinist perspective despite the fact that everybody states on their dating profile… . ' I'm searching for a legit, mindful, smart man'… these are characteristics that we find in ladies, not in men, but the deception lives on."

Tragically, numerous men don't endure this pietism. Yet, on the off chance that we don't show our children that there is more than one method for being a decent man, some might decide to be terrible men. Others will hurt themselves.

We can improve. We owe it to our children to basically attempt.

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The outsider made a direct route toward my better half and me through the ocean of Christmas customers suffocating in the urgency to find the ideal somewhat late present in Pecan Stream's outdoors shopping center, Broadway Square.

"Goodness, you have an astonishing grin!" He said.

I stressed my tops so my eyes didn't roll. I put stock in being courteous to everybody, except I understand what's coming: " Could you be keen on selling my shoddy item so I can get rich from your local area, resign, and potentially win the current month's challenge — a pink medium size vehicle? In the event that you get enough of your companions to sell this toothpaste, perhaps I can at long last take my better half to Maui, similar to my jewel level coach John, before she leaves me."

He is essentially dead on; I really do have an energetic grin. However, it took me some time to comprehend that individuals don't commend your grin in the main sentence they address you.

I wasn't destined to detect when somebody was deceitfully praising my grin to get something in return. Strangely, it required me a long investment to realize this since I have commended others' grins prior to asking them for something consequently.

I administered and prepared fifteen cold-guests to intrude on individuals' days and inquire as to whether they needed to help the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society by purchasing memberships to magazines they could never peruse.

That is where I met Jamal.

Jamal was one of my business folks, and we promptly fortified over our excursion as workers and our longing to get rich.

We kept in contact after we both left the engine compartment type deals. He called me a couple of years after the fact and asked me for a gathering at my home; he sounded formal in a manner he had never sounded in our companionship. Be that as it may, I enjoyed him, so I let him know I'd adore for him to come by.

The individual who strolled into my family room was an outsider in my companion's body. He asked me, "Could any of your blades at any point slice through a Coca-Cola can?"

I felt senseless conceding they didn't. How might I respond in the event that a recipe called to sprinkle chards of aluminum over harissa chicken?

My companion pulled a soft drink can out of his man satchel, alongside the arrangement of blades he was attempting to sell me, and cut the can in two.

I didn't buy a blade from him that day.

It wasn't simple telling him no — not on the grounds that I fear saying no but since I'm anxious about expressing no to a man with a sack loaded with blades which means next to no deals and a ton of dismissal.

A couple of months after the fact, as a wedding gift, Jamal gifted me a utility blade with a basic however exquisite etching, "Felicidades."

It has been over decade since our wedding, I actually utilize that blade practically day to day. I laugh each time I split my Pamplemousse La Croix can in two preceding stuffing it into a rotisserie chicken.

I don't hate Jamal.

I, as well, have succumbed to the get-rich charm of Staggered Showcasing plans.

As far as I might be concerned, it wasn't such a lot of the entryway thumping deals open doors yet the courses where they show you every one of the mysteries of the one percent. I'm disheartened to concede that I have been to more than one of those.

I recollect the sensation of fervor at the first I went to.

I was right there, enthusiastically moving toward turning into a mogul.

It wasn't my initial step, all things considered. I read the book on the monetary pseudo-big name behind the class. The books are generally sufficiently unique to make a brand yet comparable enough to perceive what they are the point at which they are shown at book shops.

"Unfortunate Niece, Rich Auntie; A multimillionaire's Neocortex, The Tycoon on the parkway, Holey-Moley, our neighbors are rich!"

I was right there, a fresh out of the plastic new foreigner, prepared to consume all the data to kick me off on the quite American way from poverty to newfound wealth. The class coordinators were ready to give me considerably beyond anything I had expected. I got a handbag and a thumb drive.

"Amazing, being rich makes you liberal. This is the explanation I moved to the States!" I thought.

I took with me the main individual I knew was keen on being rich more than I was — my mother.

We sat down nearer to the front. All things considered, the back is for individuals not prepared for overpowering abundance.

The show had no genuine insider tips. There was no person from the book cover.

The workshop was only a hard deal from a person I had never known about before who yelled at us, "In the event that you don't buy the following course, you are a failure, and you will be for the rest of time broke!!!"

I wasn't persuaded, however when I saw the principal individual sign up, I told my mother, "We should put this on our Mastercard," which implied her charge card. " It will more than pay for itself when we are eating gold caviar in Tahiti with the remainder of the family."

Gold caviar isn't a thing, yet it sounds very extravagant.

The workshop wasn't simply costly. It was 500 bucks, yet I didn't have an additional 500 bucks or a Visa in my possession. I had quite recently moved to the US from Colombia, and at 23, I was no one worth mentioning to the credit authorities. My main credit record at the time was purchasing a beat-up, dim Nissan Sentra with colored windows shared by my whole family for the initial not many years we were here.

I later gained the vehicle was rescued from a horrendous mishap and had no airbag, a detail my vehicle seller neglected to make reference to when she outfitted us up with an "settler selective" 30% APR car credit.

My mother concurred, and we put the course on her card. The date for the following course was set, and we planned to find out pretty much every one of the insider facts of rich individuals, handshakes what not

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The abrupt decay of Pax History of the U.S has never been so evident or definitely felt by a huge number of residents… The dollar is close useless.

Long periods of methodicallly defiling its own money via running impractical deficiencies and pursuing idiotic conflicts, have started to chomp America in the back more than ever.

Progressive states' spending on silly conflicts and tax reductions for the most affluent in the public eye was continuously going to make its own arrangements of issues.

Yet, presently in 2023, the retribution is well and genuinely upon us.

The gamble of America defaulting on its obligation has never been more evident or more clear.

Furthermore, also, the vultures are revolving around round the prey.

Saudi Arabia has awakened and started to assemble new areas of strength for and with previous enemies in Iran.

China, then again, is furrowing ahead with its expansionist plan, contacting all aspects of the globe. Not even the interruption of its extraordinary opponent supporting Taiwan has gouged its step.

Profoundly worried by how much their gold mine is unwinding, the cash men sent a centenarian to Beijing to attempt to make peace with the Chinese President.

In any case, this is 2023 not 1973.

Sticking the expectations of a multi-trillion realm on a 100 year old conflict criminal must be one of the most frantic demonstrations ever.

Furthermore, for this reason the news that Fitch had minimized America's credit score truly shouldn't profoundly shock anybody.

It's been bound to happen.

What Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and co, are doing is to hide the faults of a significantly bankrupt and depleted endeavor.

Subsequently the title of the article: This is the most obviously terrible time in history to be an American President or an American so far as that is concerned.

What we have seen throughout recent years is more than adequate proof of this reality.

Despite the fact that Trump hasn't been responsible for his country's undertakings for the last three and a half years, his presence follows each mainstay of American culture.

The conservative ruled high court has in essence killed the hard won freedoms of the last 50 years, while the real party itself has reeled to the super right of the country.

The ongoing president, regardless of his earnest attempts in fixing his harmful ancestor, by having him face various charges for his numerous violations, is attempting to force his vision on his declining country.

A great many ladies across the US can't have an early termination, Blacks and Hispanics can't cast a ballot, and the people who have piled up gigantic sums in educational loans will spend the greatest long periods of their lives taking care of their obligations to the public authority.

Furthermore, we additionally have any semblance of DeSantis multiplying down on his main goal to cancel American history from the school educational plan.

There truly is certainly not a more terrible time in history to be American president or an American resident so far as that is concerned.

Also, learn to expect the unexpected.

Deteriorating is about.

The conflict in Ukraine will keep on seething without delivering an unmistakable victor which will additionally deteriorate America's now impractical shortfalls.

The other credit score offices — Moody's, Standard and unfortunate will take action accordingly and minimize the dollar.

Also, ought to Best win the following year's decisions?

Be have confidence that you are seriously screwed.

Anything that's left of minority and ladies' conceptive freedoms will be totally destroyed at state and metropolitan level.

To any individual who has made it this far, you may be enticed to see this as your generally common Judgment day article.

Then again, actually it isn't.

The American domain is in terminal downfall.

I compose this from the vantage reason behind being brought into the world in a country which used to run the world nevertheless hasn't recuperated from the deficiency of its realm. And furthermore from the vantage purpose in having lived in a country which was colonized by England.

Given the scale and extent of its concerns, it is close to difficult to say on the off chance that the US of America will arise flawless as it did in the consequence of the nationwide conflict in the nineteenth 100 years.

For America to have any future, it will require the 'inventive annihilation' of its political and monetary foundations.

The inquiry is, is there adequate will from the American nation to embrace the truly necessary medical procedure to save the association?

This is really the most terrible time in history to be an American President or resident, so far as that is concerned.

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機関投資家やその他の投資家が金市場に参入すると、需要ははるかに高い価格でしか満たされず、その価格は現在の価格のゆうに10倍になる可能性があります。

金が今世紀で最もパフォーマンスの高い資産クラスであるなら、なぜ世界の金融資産のわずか 0.5% が現物の金に投資されているのでしょうか?

答えは簡単です。ほとんどの投資家は金を理解していない、または追随していないため、金が非常に安いのです。

過去 22 年間、金が最もパフォーマンスの良い資産クラスであったことを知っている投資家は事実上誰もいません。

しかし、インフレが上昇し続けると、機関投資家（特に）はインフレ保護を購入する必要があります。 株式、債券、不動産は、大きな下振れリスクを伴う資産バブルとなり、インフレを防ぐことはできません。

したがって、多くの投資家は金現物や貴金属鉱山株に目を向けるだろう。

33 の最大の鉱山株の総額はわずか 2,100 億ドルで、そのうち 100 億ドル以上の価値があるのは 6 銘柄だけです。

世界の時価総額は90兆ドル強で、金鉱山株はその0.2％に過ぎない。

そして、民間投資のための現物の金の総額を加えると、投資された金の資産総額は 2 兆 5,000 億ドルになります。 世界の金融資産は 220 兆ドルに達しており、金現物市場は世界資産の 1% 強を占めています。

金鉱山株や現物の金に投資される総額は、世界的な金融投資に比べれば微々たるものです。

したがって、機関投資家やその他の投資家が金市場に参入し、その保有額が世界の金融資産の0.5%から1%に増加すると、金と金採掘に1.1兆ドルの投資が必要となり、現在の価格でこの額の50%に相当します。世界中の市場。 そして、金への投資が世界資産の 0.5% から 1.5% に増加した場合、投資用に世界中で利用可能な金をすべて購入することになります。

言うまでもなく、これらの量は入手できないでしょう。 金ビジネスで増大する需要を満たす唯一の方法は、現在の価格の10倍にもなるはるかに高い価格を支払うことだろう。

この記事がお役に立てば幸いです。

もしそうなら、チップをおくるどうぞ

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1. Introduction to AI4S AI-driven scientific research (AI4S) is an emerging research direction that has become increasingly prominent in recent years, highlighting the deep integration and practical application of artificial intelligence in fundamental research. Leveraging advanced AI technologies such as neural networks, deep learning, and reinforcement learning, AI4S has achieved remarkable results in fields like mathematics, physics, biomedicine, and materials science. Especially in complex tasks like protein folding prediction, intelligent control of nuclear fusion, molecular design of anti-COVID drugs, and the discovery and optimization of new materials, AI technologies have not only significantly improved computational efficiency but also optimized data processing workflows, further pushing the boundaries of scientific innovation. Additionally, transfer learning and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) play a crucial role in experimental simulation and data augmentation, helping researchers obtain more precise results in a shorter period.

Cited by https://science.ai.cornell.edu/

2. Applications of AI in the Field of Chemistry Large AI language models have demonstrated significant potential and application value in the fields of chemistry and computational chemistry. Not only can they rapidly extract and interpret key information from vast amounts of literature, presenting researchers with the latest advancements in the domain, but they can also effectively predict various properties of compounds, such as solubility, stability, and toxicity. Going further, these models play a pivotal role in molecular structure optimization, drug discovery, and the design of new materials. With the augmentation of AI, chemists can now anticipate and explore previously unknown chemical reactions. Meanwhile, in computational chemistry, these models simplify the simulation process, automatically generate code, and assist in data analysis, identifying key patterns and trends.

In chemical engineering research and development, such as in lithium battery materials, the primary components include the cathode materials, anode materials, and electrolytes. Taking the electrolyte as an example, it needs to maintain a strong diffusion capability as lithium ions move back and forth, especially under high-temperature impacts it should have high stability to ensure the safety of the battery. Its thermal stability, phase change resilience, and high-pressure tolerance are all critically important. In the past, the development of these materials depended on a vast amount of trial-and-error experiments. Now, with the predictions made by AI models, we only need a few experiments to find new formulations that optimize lithium battery performance, such as improving energy density, charge-discharge performance, safety, or reducing costs.

Deep neural network models can predict the electronic properties of pyridine derivatives. The input to the model consists of atomic coordinates and element types of the molecule, while the output relates to electronic properties such as electron affinity and ionization potential. For instance, for 4-aminopyridine, the electron affinity predicted by the model closely aligns with experimental values, validating the accuracy of this method. Compared to traditional quantum chemistry computations, this deep learning-based approach processes a large number of molecules in a short time, providing essential reference information for drug screening and material design.

In the study of the addition reaction between ethylene and hydrogen iodide, researchers utilized reinforcement learning to predict and optimize the reaction conditions. The reinforcement learning agent, based on historical data and the current state, selects the optimal reaction temperature, pressure, and type of catalyst with the aim of maximizing the yield of 2-iodoethane. After thousands of training rounds, the AI agent identified a new molybdenum-based catalyst that significantly improved yields compared to the traditional rhodium catalyst. This AI-based approach not only reduced the number of experiments and costs but also revealed to chemists a previously unknown optimal catalytic system.

Traditional chemical experimental processes largely rely on the experimenter's expertise and physical labor, which can lead to inconsistent results and inefficiencies. However, intelligent experimental methods based on AI algorithms are gradually changing this landscape. These smart scientific facilities can offer innovative features like high-throughput autonomous experimental design and optimization, facilitating large-scale, standardized experimental observations and ensuring result consistency. For instance, through this approach, researchers can conduct precisely controlled chemical syntheses, detailed modifications of proteins, and validate and screen new mechanisms and methods such as material genomics. Especially in high-risk experimental environments, these high-throughput autonomous platforms offer safety assurance for experimenters, automating tasks that previously required a high level of skill and experience. For example, in the unmanned synthesis of drugs, AI can automatically adjust synthesis parameters based on desired properties, quickly screening prospective drug candidates, greatly accelerating the drug development process.

3. Case Studies of Relevant Models Recently, a research team from the University of California targeted the specialized and time-consuming task of scientific literature retrieval, utilizing the AI large language model ChatGPT for text mining, as detailed in the paper "ChatGPT Chemistry Assistant for Text Mining and the Prediction of MOF Synthesis." Using the data gathered, the team further developed a model to predict experimental outcomes. In the study, to efficiently auto-extract synthesis conditions for Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) from scientific literature of various formats and styles, researchers employed prompt engineering techniques to guide ChatGPT, substantially reducing the occurrence of information hallucination — a persistent challenge when using large language models (LLMs) in research. This system, named the ChatGPT Chemistry Assistant (CCA), is not only applicable to MOF research but can also be extended to other subfields in chemistry. It aids researchers in determining detailed chemical information about compounds, such as optimal synthesis conditions, physical properties, and chemical characteristics, which remain central exploration goals in chemical research.

4. Challenges Faced In the realm of deep learning, data is regarded as one of the three core drivers. However, in chemical applications, data faces several challenges: Firstly, there's a relative scarcity of high-quality labeled data, and the cost of labeling this data is high. Secondly, the distribution of the data is often imbalanced, which can lead to biases in the models. Lastly, concerns related to privacy protection and data security cannot be overlooked. To address these issues, a range of learning paradigms have been proposed and implemented: Active learning effectively utilizes limited labeled data; Causal learning and contrastive learning assist in capturing deep structures and patterns from data; Multi-task learning allows for information sharing across various tasks, enhancing the model's generalization capability; and transfer learning leverages pre-trained models, reducing the reliance on vast amounts of labeled data. As for data security and privacy issues, federated learning offers a method to train models on distributed data without the need to share the original data. This presents both new opportunities and challenges for AI applications in the chemical domain.

ChatGPT is built upon large-scale pre-trained language models, such as GPT-3. Such models can be perceived as implicit knowledge repositories drawn from vast datasets. In practical applications, especially in the field of chemistry, merely relying on a model's pre-training might not meet specific output quality and style requirements. This is where prompt engineering becomes particularly vital. Prompt engineering is not only a strategy to guide the model in producing desired content but also a method to ensure the generated content aligns with human interaction styles, ethical considerations, and professional standards. Within the realm of chemistry, effective prompt engineering ensures that outputs are not only accurate but also consistent with the interaction styles and expectations of researchers, thereby enhancing their effectiveness and reliability in real-world applications.

5. Development and Outlook The advancements of AI in the field of chemistry, especially in terms of organizational transformation, have become a pivotal topic in the evolution of scientific research. Currently, internationally, there has emerged a novel mode of research and product development, namely DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) and DeSci (Decentralized Open Science Movement). A common feature of these two paradigms is their utilization of the latest advancements in Intelligent Science and Technology (IST), such as digital organizational and governance structures implemented through blockchain technology and smart contracts. This decentralized, open model for research and organization not only accelerates the research process more efficiently but also ensures transparency and verifiability of research outcomes. It's worth mentioning that the successful implementation and application of ChatGPT, to a large extent, also benefits from such open research and organizational modes. Consequently, DeSci and DAO not only represent the current trends in scientific research but also provide us with a robust reference for exploring the future direction of AI in the realm of chemistry.

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A new investigation of information researchers made the accompanying very distinct end: " The run of the mill information researcher works for an enormous tech firm — where they have been utilized for about one year with a normal of 6.2 long periods of related knowledge in the field. Prominently, they have exchanged organizations two times (or more) beginning around 2017 and will probably stay with their ongoing business for a simple 1.7 years overall. Just a small minority of those overviewed (2%) had not changed positions inside the most recent five years."

Turnover is a major issue in the information science and information designing callings, and it harms everybody. Information researchers and designers themselves would rather not be hopping every now and again from one situation to another, as that doesn't assist them with building long haul abilities and skill and looks terrible on their CVs. Similarly, for managers, it is hard and costly to supplant these abilities. Finding the particular specialized foundation is difficult, and the increase season of new joiners is a further open door cost. Frequently, the longing to rapidly supplant somebody prompts an endless loop of ineffectively qualified recruits which intensifies the turnover issue.

So we should spread out the primary justifications for why information researchers and information engineers find employment elsewhere. Comprehensively, these reasons fall into three classifications: financial, specialized, and natural. Managers need to address every one of the three to have a possibility of building long haul maintenance in their information science staff.

Financial reasons The financial reasons are genuinely clear and notable, I think. Many, numerous businesses have no clue about how to value the abilities of information researchers and architects, and without a trace of good insight, they cost excessively low.

In a new model on LinkedIn, Moez Ali got down on a task posting mentioning somebody with 6+ long periods of work insight, yet portraying it as "passage level" and offering a compensation of around USD 65,000. There are many, numerous instances of these sorts of occupation postings, including gullible work postings that request for a 5+ long stretches of involvement with a product bundle that has existed for under 3 years.

Making position postings like this offer that businesses have no clue about the jobs and abilities they are employing for, and are a decent sign to any information researcher/engineer deserving at least moderate respect that they will join a climate that doesn't suitably esteem their abilities. As well as being reflected in remuneration, this absence of acknowledgment will likewise probable reach out to different viewpoints that influence work fulfillment and maintenance, similar to a portion of the reasons that continue in the following passages.

Specialized reasons Regardless of whether bosses compensate fairly, on the off chance that they are not dedicated to a specialized climate to help crafted by information researchers/engineers, they can not hold them. Information researchers and specialists are enthusiastic about the viability and proficiency of their strategies, and they need to work with the most recent tech. The following are a couple of instances of specialized disappointments regularly experienced in numerous associations:

No obligation to information administration/designing. Numerous associations won't put resources into a layer of designing to their venture information, implying that information experts are supposed to work with muddled, conflicting source framework information persistently. This has led to the proverb that '80% of information science is information cleaning'. This doesn't need to be the situation, however in numerous associations it is, tragically. No utilization of GitHub/rendition control. It's difficult to envision, yet in numerous conditions individuals are as yet sending each other code over email, or sharing through Box or Sharepoint. It's unimaginably demotivating to attempt to determine and reuse code along these lines. No help for tooling. In numerous associations, information researchers need to download their own IDEs and other tooling, and battle to distribute their work due to an absence of stage to do as such. They are frequently disappointed by firewalls and security layers worked in times when information researchers weren't a thing. Large numbers of the most recent cloud tooling is inaccessible because of absence of a strategy for facilitating endeavor information or code on AWS or other cloud suppliers. Every one of this causes information researchers to feel like they are being confined into last-century tooling. Driving wasteful/dated yield. Authoritative correspondence societies worked around Powerpoint and different apparatuses have neglected to adjust, and information experts are compelled to deliver every one of their outcomes in programming that is wasteful and manual in nature. An excessive number of information researchers out there actually invest a piece of their energy altering Powerpoint slides. No preparation/improvement support. In a profession where new and better specialized devices are coming thick and quick, information researchers and designers ought to be very much upheld to go to the most recent specialized meetings and learning programs connected with their space. They shouldn't need to ask or go through different endorsement layers for this. This ought to be all around valued in to authoritative spending plans for information experts. Natural reasons Assuming you are adequately fortunate to work for the interesting manager that hits every one of the above buttons, then leave at your hazard, since you might be going from the skillet into the fire. However, there is another component to consider, and that is the climate where information experts work.

Directors, pioneers and partners in numerous associations basically don't have the foggiest idea about what information researchers and architects do, and this can prompt information experts being treated in manners that chip at their confidence and feeling of worth. Models include:

Anticipating that they should perform humble information errands. You needn't bother with an information researcher or design to download an informational collection, or to run a basic examination in Succeed. That isn't the reason you recruit information researchers or architects. Doubting work for not a great explanation other than absence of work to figure out it. You are employing these experts to offer further developed strategies for real value, so you shouldn't limit them when they approach with such techniques, since you lack opportunity and energy to comprehend it completely. Not articulating a lifelong movement. Information researchers and designers are all around as aggressive as any other person. In the event that you can't expressive a way where they can advance through your association and advance as far as effect and prize, they are similarly possible as any other person to leave. Assessing them altogether against non-specialized rules. Information researchers and designers have been recruited on the grounds that they have unmistakable and required specialized abilities. They shouldn't then be compelled to perform completely against assessment standards utilized for non-specialized staff. This is demonstrative of a culture where information abilities are less esteemed contrasted with non-information abilities, and mirrors a hierarchical pomposity which can hurt the confidence of information experts. I'm certain I've missed numerous different justifications for why information experts find employment elsewhere, however the reasons I take care of are among the most endemic in managers by my perceptions. Numerous associations could profit from more prominent mindfulness or training on this significant issue, so go ahead and add any perceptions you might have in the remarks underneath.

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$1,000,000.00.

Simply see that series of numbers with 2 commas.

Many individuals I know try to hit this series of numbers in their ledger before they resign.

Indeed, it feels better. Indeed, it infuses a feeling of solace realizing we have a heap of money to lie our backs on. Also, yes. It provides us with an apparent feeling of command over our lives. I can leave my place of employment! It comes from my own experience as well.

Father drummed it into me since youthful.

"Child, you should simply procure 1 million bucks, and you can remain at home to play Road Warrior the whole day."

Haduken the whole day? Really! That's what I like!

Father actually had confidence in the enchanted million today.

Inconvenience is…

I never again do.

The Cash Retirement Game How much cash do we have to easily resign?

Many articles online recommend the accompanying.

A fixed-dollar sum like $1.6 million or another number. A guideline, for example, 10x your ongoing yearly compensation by Age 67. An overall proposal, for example, saving 30% of our pay in our 30s, 40% in our 40s, and so on. I like these articles.

They gave me a reference moment that I was dumbfounded. I was. Believe me. I realized nuts about retirement arranging in my 20s and mid 30s.

All I ponder is…

Doctor's visit expenses will bite away my lifetime fortune when I'm in my 50s. Pondering that makes me sweat in my jeans.

I should be ready.

Throughout the long term, I've understood that retirement is an intricate subject, very much like cash. Or on the other hand advanced education. Or on the other hand abundance dispersion.

There aren't clear responses.

As a matter of fact, the most horrendously terrible method for getting ready for retirement is to interface a dollar total to mature, in addition to a supposition that we will do (literally nothing.

Assuming that is what you would consider retirement and future preparation — Do this.

Compose that thought onto a piece of paper. Smash it when you are finished. Remove it from the window. We should begin once again.

Here's the reason.

1/I Don't Think Cash Has A say in Our Retirement For what reason would it be advisable for it?

Certainly, our money heap and cashable resources cover for our bills.

That's what you know. That's what I get. We as a whole do.

However, I contend that that logic doesn't have anything to do with retirement, in essence.

Contemplate that briefly.

At any rate, we really want cash to pay our utilities, telephone, and hospital expenses in our 20s, 30s, and 40s.

It isn't exceptional to retirement.

Also, this is the thing.

Life in our Brilliant Years is more than covering bills. It is about a daily existence we want when we can at long last go to equip 2.

We work a bit, we nibble a bit. We exercise a bit, we walk a bit. We assist our youngsters with their monetary weights when we can. We pay for our dinners with companions as we can. It is about our way of life decisions.

That we can do what we need… without committing suicide for cash to fund what we love.

This article says it well.

"Take a shot at something new, for example, photography, Zumba, drama singing, learning another dialect or partner dancing. Try not to be modest and accept that specific exercises… are just for youngsters. Pursue courses, meet individual devotees and enjoy new encounters… "

This opinion has been reverberated by numerous ongoing dynamic retired people I have talked with.

You can peruse them here, here, and here.

2/Age doesn't have Anything to Do with Retirement Sam said all that needed to be said.

"The point about turning into a resigning computerized traveler is to carry on with the existence we need and money our way of life. I’m 58. I like to be progressing. I should cover my movement expenses regardless of how high or low. That is all there is to it, truly."

It used to be that we had an age for retirement.

We study until 20. We stay in work for the following 40 years. And afterward we begin valuing the dusk from 60 and onwards. I realize that this generally will be the situation. My Father survived this model.

What's more, this model, set up since the 1950s, has encountered social pressure breaks obvious to our age (To be completely forthright: I'm brought into the world during the 1980s).

The anxiety toward working environment age segregation once we hit the Huge 40. Age-based mental and portability based separation… when we arrive at the Huge 50. Long haul business converts to year-on-year reestablishment after the Huge 60. I'm certain you have seen this event.

Be that as it may, times have continued on.

Presently, we have a decision.

Presently, we can seek after amazing open doors during our late night. WiFi and workstations empowered us to become computerized migrants in a Gig economy.

Today, we can separate from our work from the desk areas assuming that we decide to. It is something lovely.

We want a PC. Yet, that isn't the genuine difficulty.

This is.

Do you have any idea about what you wouldn't fret working for during your Brilliant Years… assuming you should bring in some cash?

3/The $1 Million Retirement Void Talk It's a good idea to gather $1 million as the pass to retirement…

… assuming that you choose to quit doing anything during your Brilliant Years.

Obviously. What's more, that mirrors the crucial distinction among pay and cost.

Pay might stop. Expenses go on forever. Sounds abnormal, correct?

In any case, that is reality.

Dynamic pay will end when we quit working. That is the great explanation we own monetary resources. They spit cash.

In any case, costs? They go day in and day out.

Could you at any point quit eating? Nope. Might you at any point quit driving? I have to strongly disagree. We are intended to move around. Might you at any point end all energy-related consumptions? I question. You require warming in winter and cooling in summer. Cash permits us to make due.

In this way, that $1 million is a non-debatable piece for somebody seeking after traditional retirement. Such retired folks spend their money heap to continue onward.

Nothing out of sorts there, obviously.

But.

Consider the possibility that they erase their last dollar.

Well… you know the response.

This, as far as I might be concerned, is the genuine retirement issue, and it can't be settled by 1 million bucks.

Make it $1.5 million.

Push it to $2 million.

Or on the other hand take $2.5 million.

The first issue remains, and it connects with the monetary idea of pay and costs.

In this way, I think having $1 million for retirement is a distraction.

It's great assuming we have it in our vaults.

It gives monetary solace.

However, over all that, we should track down ways of bringing cash into our pockets during our Brilliant Years.

Think top level salary abilities. Think 1-individual business. Think cashable resources. They protect our retirement reserve funds and create income.

The actual cash doesn't.

The Nearby We are fixated on the 7 digits.

We are. Having 7 digits in our total assets gives an exceptional status in the public eye. We made it. We are moguls.

It applies to retirement, as well.

Goodness, we can at long last resign with our cash.

However, I believe that is off track thinking. Retirement is unfathomably complex. Cash is one piece of it, not every last bit of it.

At the foundation of the Enormous R is us.

We should understand what we need when we show up in Retirement Rome.

No measure of cash can assist us with that.

Not even with $1,000,000 in the bank.

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I've been composing for by far most of my grown-up life. It's the main profession I've at any point had, beside a couple of random temp jobs as a clerk and what have you.

My enthusiasm for the composed word unfolded during my pre-adolescent years, when I'd invest my free energy penmanship war stories and outlining the characters delivered by my adolescent psyche into the pages of endless scratch pad.

I conveyed that enthusiasm into adulthood, and I molded it into a suitable profession. Presently, my everyday work comprises of perusing, altering and distributing somewhere in the range of five to ten articles for my distribution, Psyche Bistro.

My work provides me with the advantage of perusing every kind of canny articles about self-awareness, brain research and replies to the subject of joy. In any case, it is here, sitting at my PC every day, that I notice really skilled journalists messing up the same way again and again.

Obviously, each creator ought to keep up with their novel voice. They ought to compose uninhibitedly and per their style, in accordance with their qualities and expectations. However, in any event, while doing as such, there stay a few basic, effectively fixable mistakes that appear to litter their generally excellent work. These errors might be keeping truly capable writers from advancing into top distributions, books and places of work.

While the three goofs recorded underneath probably won't appear to be disastrous, taking everything into account, honing up these little things could change your composition. In any case, why should I let you know what you're fouling up? For what reason would it be advisable for you to pay attention to me?

All things considered, I'm not a top rated creator. I have no degree in the English Language. My putting down hasn't broken any accounts, and I unquestionably haven't won any honors.

However I see undeniably more composed work than the typical individual, and I must actually take a look at it for mistakes and guarantee that it satisfies an outstanding guideline. I probably won't be a composing master, yet worldwide media goliath, Medium, has depended me as their accomplice. With their help, I deal with a viral distribution full-time — a computerized magazine with over 1.5 million month to month perusers.

Besides, I've been filling in as an independent essayist for many various clients across the globe for over six years. Those clients range from little neighborhood organizations to million-dollar organizations and offices. I probably won't be an 'specialist', yet it seems others have confidence in my capacities. That should mean something.

At any rate, I diverge — yet diversion isn't one of these three missteps, so my card will stay plain until further notice. While trying to save the maturing essayist from avoidable dismissal, I've assembled a rundown of normal blunders I run over practically everyday. By understanding them, you'll have the option to avoid them.

1. Conveying a Powerless Presentation When you begin looking at an article, how long do you generally peruse it for? Concentrates on show that a normal of 55% of individuals will peruse an article for under fifteen seconds. You have fifteen seconds, typically less, to persuade your peruser to wait while you grant your pearls of astuteness into the rich soils of their psyche.

Your presentation is your second. It's your main opportunity to attract individuals. You could have the most stunning, historic, extraordinary article the world has seen since Hemingway, yet on the off chance that your presentation is exhausting, no one will peruse your work.

Your initial section is everything. It'll represent the moment of truth you. As Gary Executive, writer of 100 Methods for working on Your Composition, puts it,

'Your snare is anything it takes to lead your perusers so profoundly into your story or article that they won't turn around except if you stray from the way you have placed them on.'

Try not to bounce straight into your piece with seven hints about god-knows-what focused on who-knows-who without first laying everything out. Try not to utilize your initial five lines to format a convoluted way of thinking and confound your peruser to damnation before you even stand out.

Get individuals connected without skipping a beat. Present a convincing person that provokes their curiosity; shock them with an extreme opening that is overflowing with activity; address them straight by clarifying pressing issues and tending to them by and by — everything except a long, dull continuous flow that will lose them before you even truly have them.

Send the various weapons you have in your stockpile. How about you draw individuals in with a facetious inquiry? ( See what I did there?) Or then again could you address your perusers straightforwardly? Or on the other hand how about you simply go all-firearms bursting with a high speed introduction like the one Jordan Gross utilized in his article for Psyche Bistro:

"There was blood all over. Yet, pause, let me backtrack."

"This piercing voice was shouting uproariously to such an extent that I could hear her from the subsequent floor. She lives on the fourth. I'm a medical caretaker, so when I hear someone shrieking, "Heeeeelp! Heeeeelp!”

I need to peruse on, isn't that right? Thought so. That is the response you need to evoke in everyone that snaps on your article. You maintain that they should pose inquiries that you'll offer the response to — yet provided that they read.

Illustration one: Try not to wreck your presentation.

1. Utilizing Exhausting Sentences When you stand out, you really want to keep it. That is task number two. Anytime in your article, you stand to lose their advantage as fast as you acquired it. You would rather not commit that error.

In any case, how precisely would we say we should keep up with our perusers' interest all through the total of our article? Indeed, while there are no dependable ways of ensuring that individuals read your work, there are a few deceives you can use to support your possibilities. One of the least complex ways of keeping things drawing in is to differ sentence structure.

Recorded as a hard copy, you have a scope of various sentence structures available to you. There are straightforward sentences, for instance. Short, smart and direct.

Then there are longer, more muddled sentences — sentences with various conditions very much like this one. Such designs give somewhat more data than basic sentences, empowering you to plunge further into themes and investigate subjects further. Yet, these sentences are more enthusiastically to follow. We need to split them up with more limited sentences. The ear loves a little assortment from time to time.

Your undertaking as an essayist is to keep your peruser connected as you recount your story. Repetitive sentences will drain the existence out of your abstract manifestations and drain them dry of any energy, fervor, or mood. Simply check out at the accompanying model from Gary Executive.

"This sentence has five words. The following are five additional words. Five-word sentences are fine. In any case, a few together become dull. Pay attention to what's going on. The composing is getting exhausting. Its sound robots. It resembles a stuck record. The ear requests some assortment."

Be that as it may, presently tune in. At the point when I shift the sentence length, I make a beat. Music. This sort of composing streams normally, similar to the sections of a melodic tune. These sentences are a little more straightforward on the ear. And afterward, when you're certain your peruser is tuning in, you can toss in a sentence that is overflowing with energy and surface and could try and be somewhat longer, yet they wouldn't fret — in light of the fact that they're intrigued. See?

At the point when you compose, you need to stir things up. You need to keep your substance fascinating, and a straightforward change in sentences design can accomplish that. It'll mix your pieces with life and character, whether they're philosophical thoughts or beautiful works.

Illustration two:

1. Overcomplicating Everything Whether you compose history books, dream books or self improvement articles, you're a narrator. Without a doubt, few out of every odd one of these strategies drives you to concoct made-up characters or legendary monsters. Be that as it may, in any piece of composing, you must take perusers on an excursion through your psyche.

Indeed, your brain's a convoluted spot, right? There's such an uproar up there in that skull of yours that you can't hope to just offload your mental stuff onto paper and trust that individuals get your meaning. No, as a narrator, you need to assist individuals with understanding what you're talking about. Furthermore, the most ideal way to do that is to keep things straightforward.

We are in general glad proprietors of a psychological word reference containing words that a couple of individuals know. Furthermore, it's enticing to utilize the most mentally noteworthy words you have available to you while making a piece out of composing.

For sure, you might well long to confound your crowd with a bunch of separating equivalents, metonyms and exaggerated articulations of inebriating extravagance. Maybe they'll make you sound astute and very much read. Yet, will anyone truly know what you're talking about?

It couldn't be any more obvious, while you're composing, your errand isn't to intrigue perusers. At any rate, not to the point that your extravagant words leave them actually looking at the word reference like clockwork.

It really depends on you as a narrator to guarantee your crowd knows what you're talking about. The capacity to communicate confounded thoughts just is an indication of a talented creator, however much we could believe the inverse to be valid.

Take George Orwell, for instance. Orwell is frequently professed to be quite possibly of history's most celebrated essayist, however there's nothing showy or weighty about Orwell's composition on a shallow level. The peruser isn't wowed by his master dictionary or whimsical designs.

No, what makes Orwell such a phenomenal essayist is that he keeps things basic. He writes in plain English. As would be natural for him, Orwell recorded a small bunch of decides that all great essayists ought to follow:

Never utilize a long word where a short one will do. On the off chance that it is feasible to remove a word, consistently cut it out. Never utilize the detached where you can utilize the dynamic. Never utilize an unfamiliar expression, a logical word, or a language word in the event that you can imagine a regular English same. Defy any of these guidelines sooner than say anything altogether uncouth. Great composing isn't confounded composition.

The gifted writer is now certain of his capacities. He wants to flaunt to acquire regard. He comprehends that his responsibility is to help individuals in grasping his considerations — and to keep up with their advantage at the same time.

Illustration three: Keep things basic. Try not to lose your peruser trying to sound shrewd.

Outline There is no right method for composing, truly. Everything seems OK and nothing is squarely in the realm of the composed word. However, there's no questioning the way that particular strategies will work on the coherence of your substance.

While I'm composing, I over and over end up committing the errors recorded previously. I've clipped many pointless words out of this article and traded out extravagant modifiers for more straightforward terms. I've needed to cleave down sentences and fix together others. I'm not insusceptible to the mistakes that get us full scale.

Truly, you may very well never arrive where all that you compose is completely drained of shortcomings. That is the significance of altering.

I've perused this single article almost multiple times, and each time I find something I might want to change. Let this be proof that, assuming there's one thing more significant than some other practice recorded as a hard copy, it's re-perusing your work.

At the point when you do, recall the errors recorded previously. Hone up free screws and clean down dusty sentences. Thusly, your composing will steadily improve, and your abilities as a creator will foster to an ever increasing extent.

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Take Like a Craftsman: 10 Things No one Enlightened You Concerning Being Imaginative is a book by Austin Kleon distributed in 2012.

Here is an outline of examples I gained from every part. Ideally toward the finish of this article, you will pick up the speed to peruse this great book. How about we go!

1. Being inventive doesn't mean being unique. You can become imaginative in your field assuming you encircle yourself with the applicable materials. Play part models, crowd great stuffs and motivations, or more all, instruct yourself.

2. Begin presently, don't hang tight for the ideal time. Begin living like who you need to be. Counterfeit it till you make it.

3. Accomplish the work you need to see done. At the point when you find something missing, add the imagination in you. Improve. Improve. Improve.

4. The most effective way to create thoughts is outside the screen. The PC ought to be where you make and distribute your work. Utilize your hands, utilize simple apparatuses and notice the good times.

5. Do everything that satisfy you. At the point when you feel exhausted, practice your side interests. On the off chance that you love fishing don't stop on the grounds that your pay relies upon web based showcasing.

6. Remember to share your great work. Have an internet based presence and interface with individuals who love exactly the same things as you do.

7. Make your own reality. Find a spot which takes care of you imaginatively, socially, profoundly and in a real sense. Encircle yourself with books and stuffs you like.

8. Be great. Treat individuals well, don't sit around grumbling, don't search for approval and become familiar with being misjudged or disregarded.

9. Be exhausting. Concentrate your energy just in being imaginative, find out about cash and monitor your day to day exercises. What's more, for the reward, wed well.

10. Leave out the pointless. Set aside a few minutes, space and materials you have right now for the main thing.

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I'm learning as I go, so take the text below for what it is: my notes on the process. These steps could become outdated quickly, and I may have some wrong assumptions at places. Either way, I have had success, and would like to share my experience for anyone new to the process. If I have made any errors, please reply with corrections so that others may avoid potential pitfalls.

!!! If you have "KYC Bitcoin", keep it in separate wallets from your "Anonymous Bitcoin". Any Anonymous Bitcoin in a wallet with KYC Bitcoin becomes 100% KYC Bitcoin.

!!! It took me several days to get all the right pieces set up before I could even start an exchange with someone.

!!! Using a VPN is highly recommended. If you're not already using one, take the time to find one that suits you and get it running.

!!! If you don't normally buy Amazon Gift Cards, start doing so now, and just send them to yourself, or friends that will give you cash in return, etc. For my first trade, Amazon locked me out of my account for about 22 hours, while I was in the middle of an exchange. All because I had never purchased an Amazon Gift Card before. It was quite nerve wracking. My second trade was for $300, and although my Amazon account wasn't shut down, that order had a status of "Sending" for about 22 hours, due to the large amount. In each of these cases I had multiple phone calls with their customer support, all of whom gave me false expectations. Had I already been sending gift cards to the anonymous email address that I created in the steps below, and maybe other anonymous email addresses that I could make, then I might not have been stalled so much.

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1. Install Tor Browser for your OS. The RoboSats.com website issues a warning if you are not using Tor Browser. If you don't know what Tor is, I won't explain it all here, but trust me, it's cool and helps keep you anonymous. If you use Firefox, the interface will look very familiar to you.

2. Create a KYC-free e-mail address. I used tutanota.com in Firefox, as it would not allow me to create an account using Tor Browser. After the account was created, using Tor Browser to login, check emails, etc. has been working perfectly. Tutanota requires a 48 hour (or less) waiting period to prevent bots from using their system. You'll be able to login, and even draft an email, but you won't be able to send. After you've been approved, you should be able to login and send an email to your new address. It should show up in your Inbox almost instantly if it's working.

3. Have, or create, at least one Lightning wallet that is compatible with RoboSats.com and has no KYC Bitcoin in it. The RoboSats website has a compatibility chart available to find the best wallet for you. During an exchange on RoboSats, you will need to put up an escrow payment, or bond, in Satoshis. This amount is usually 3% of the total amount being exchanged. If the exchange is successful, the bond payment is canceled, leaving that amount in your wallet untouched, and with no record of it having been used as escrow. If you don't hold up your end of the trade, the bond amount will be transfered from your wallet. I created a wallet, using my new email address, with the Alby extension in the Tor Browser. This anonymous wallet was empty, so I used a separate wallet for the bond payment of my first trade. This wallet had KYC Bitcoin, but since it is being used for a bond payment, and no transaction will be recorded if everything goes okay, I don't mind taking the minuscule risk. After the first trade, I don't need to use the "KYC wallet", and I will use only my anonymous Lightning wallet for transactions related to performing a trade.

4. Create a new Robot Token by going to RoboSats using the Tor Browser. Copy the Token (Robot ID) to a text file as a temporary backup. It is recommended to create a new robot-token for every session of exchanges you make.

5. Select "Offers" to browse what others are presenting. "Create" is for when you want to create an offer of your own. You may need to create your own offer if none of the existing offers match your criteria.

6. Select "Buy" at the top of the page.

7. Select your currency (USD).

8. Select your payment methods by typing "amazon" and selecting (Amazon Gift Card). Repeat this process and select (Amazon USA Gift Card).

9. Determine Priorities - If you prefer to trade quickly, and don't care as much about premiums, look for users with a green dot on the upper-right of their robot icon. If you're not in a hurry, sort users by premium and select the best deal, even if they are inactive. They may become active once they are notified that their offer has activity from you.

10. The Definition of Price = the price with the premium added, but not the bond

11. A. Find A Compatible Offer - Select the row of the desired offer and enter the amount you would like to buy. i.e. $100 If you do not find a compatible offer, you will have to create your own offer.

    B.  **Create An Offer** - First, take a look at "Sell" offers for your same currency and payment method(s) that you will be using.  Take note of the premium those buyers are willing to pay.  If your premium is drastically less than theirs, your offer may get ignored.  Select "Create" at the bottom of the screen.  There is a slider at the top of the screen, select it to see all the options. Select "Buy". Enter the minimum and maximum amount that you wish to spend.  Type "amazon" to select the methods that you would like to use (Amazon Gift Card, Amazon USA Gift Card).  For "Premium Over Market", enter an amount that is competitive with premiums you saw at the start of this step and do not use the % sign!  You can adjust the duration, timer, and bond amount, but I leave those at their default settings.  Select the "Create Order" button, and follow the instructions for making a bond payment.
    

12. Pay the Bond - Copy the invoice that is presented. From your wallet that contains bond funds, select "Send", and paste the invoice as the recipient. This money will never leave your account if the exchange completes without issue. No transaction will be recorded. If there is a complication with the exchange, it is possible that this transaction will complete.

13. Create and Submit Your Invoice for Their Bitcoin Payment To You - Select "Lightning", if not selected by default.* Select the Copy Icon to copy the correct amount of Satoshis. This amount already has the premium deducted. From your anonymous Lightning Wallet, select "Receive", and paste the Satoshi amount. If you enter a description, it's probably best to keep it cryptic. Copy the invoice and paste it into RoboSats; then select "Submit".

    * If you plan on "mixing" your Bitcoin after purchase, it may be better to select "On Chain" and pay the necessary fees swap and mining fees. In the example this comes from, Sparrow wallet is used and has whirlpool ability in its interface.

14. Connect With Seller and Send Funds - Greet the seller in the chat window. The seller has now provided RoboSats with the Bitcoin to transfer to you. Your move is to buy an Amazon eGift Card for the amount of the trade. Log in to your Amazon account and start the process of buying an eGift card. For delivery there is the option of email or txt message. Ask the seller what their preference is, and get their address, or phone number, to enter into Amazon's form. Complete the purchase process on Amazon, and check the status of your order. Once you see the status of "Sent", go back to RoboSats in your Tor Browser.

15. Confirm Your Payment - Select the "Confirm ___ USD Sent" button and notify the seller to check their e-mail/txt messages.

16. Seller Confirmation - Once the seller select their "Confirm" button, the trade will immediately end with a confirmation screen.

17. Verify - If you check the anonymous wallet, the new amount should be presented.

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バルト海取引所のドライ指数とは、世界の主要な海運ルートで貨物船の運賃を平均したものです。この指数は、鉄鉱石や石炭などの原材料や穀物などの食料品を輸送するドライバルク船の需要と供給のバランスを反映しています。ドライ指数は、世界経済とマクロ経済において重要な指標である理由は、以下の通りです。

• ドライ指数は、世界の産業生産や消費活動の動向を示す先行指標として利用できます。例えば、ドライ指数が上昇すると、世界の経済活動が活発化していることを意味します。逆に、ドライ指数が下落すると、世界の経済活動が低迷していることを示唆します。
• ドライ指数は、国際商品市場の需給や価格変動に影響を与えます。例えば、ドライ指数が上昇すると、原材料や食料品の需要が高まっていることを示します。これにより、これらの商品の価格も上昇する可能性があります。逆に、ドライ指数が下落すると、原材料や食料品の需要が減少していることを示します。これにより、これらの商品の価格も下落する可能性があります。
• ドライ指数は、海運業界や関連産業の業績や投資判断に影響を与えます。例えば、ドライ指数が上昇すると、海運会社や造船会社などの収益や株価も上昇する可能性があります。逆に、ドライ指数が下落すると、海運会社や造船会社などの収益や株価も下落する可能性があります。

この記事がお役に立てば幸いです。

もしそうなら、チップをおくるどうぞ

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In a prosperous nation like Australia, the issues that Bitcoin aim to solve are far less perceivable compared to other poorer or authoritarian nations. Bitcoin’s value proposition is less relatable because we have access to banks, our economies are generally tolerable, and everything to some degree just works.

Conversations about Bitcoin in the workplace or among friends and family can be difficult. You may often be dismissed, called names (mine is “future boy”), or perceived as someone belonging to a cult. And people will bring up the common arguments against Bitcoin purported by the media: 1) it uses to much energy, 2) it is volatile, 3) it encourages criminal activity like the silk road, 4) it is a Ponzi scheme, 5) its an intangible asset, and 6) its a speculative and immature technology.

Here I will offer some tips I have learnt when talking to people about Bitcoin. My frame of reference is as a Bitcoiner living in Australia, but I think my experience may translate to other developed nations.

Tip 1: Never try convince someone they should buy Bitcoin.

My first tip is to never try convince people to buy Bitcoin, but instead, teach them about Bitcoin and guide them towards sources where they can learn more themselves. The value proposition behind Bitcoin is difficult to understand and people shouldn’t necessarily hold any before they understand the risks and benefits behind the technology.

In my mind, the most important part of a person’s orange pilling is the will and interest to find out more themselves, and make their own decision to buy some.

So your primary aim should be just to find a way to make them interested enough to seek out more information. Here is my shortlist of books, podcasts, and other valuable sources I use when pointing people to find out more.

Tip 2: Bitcoin is an inclusive technology.

One major problem I see with the Bitcoin community is that Bitcoiners set up walls where you are either enlightened Bitcoiner, or you are a “normie”. For someone seeking to find out more about Bitcoin, the community can appear cultish, and being referred to as a “normie” or other names creates an exclusive environment that can dissuade people from finding out more. Everyone will have their own path of discovery as most of us did. Help others find Bitcoin by making the community inclusive.

Tip 3: Be prepared to combat common misconceptions or misunderstandings

1. Bitcoin uses more energy than some country in Europe

This is probably the most common argument I hear. But as you will see, the real question here is not about the absolute amount of energy use, but a person’s perception of the value per unit energy that it delivers.

The adoption of any new technology that advances society has required energy. This energy consumption is often intense at the beginning and becomes more efficient as the technology develops and drives further investment. Bitcoin miners are the primary consumers of energy in the technology. Most people don’t actually understand why Bitcoin consumes energy — Bitcoin consumes energy to cryptographically protect the value contained within the network. However, inherent to Bitcoin is an economic incentive to reduce energy costs and maximise profits. Miner’s therefore naturally seek out more efficient technologies and cheaper sources of energy.

Over a 5 year period from 2018 to 2023, the energy required per terrahash (energy per unit work) declined by 63%. It is also useful to highlight novel ways in which Bitcoin miners are consuming wasted energy or using renewable sources, such as Iris energy, or Gridless. These and other companies are investing into renewable energy sources. Current estimates of Bitcoin’s renewable energy usage is between 25% and 50%.

In 2016 the power consumption of data centres was estimated to be 200 TWh/y. By comparison, Bitcoin consumes between 75.4 TWh/y and 122 TWh/y. The traditional financial system is estimated to consume 5,000 TWh/y which pales to Bitcoin’s consumption. This is not to say we should be complacent about Bitcoin’s energy use; these are all staggering amounts of energy consumption! But in most people’s mind, the value of data centres and the legacy financial system seems so obvious that they wouldn’t question its energy usage. So the real question should not be about the absolute value of power consumption, but rather whether Bitcoin provides the same global value per unit energy consumed.

Framing the energy argument in terms of the value per unit energy should help to open a discussion on Bitcoin’s value proposition.

2. Bitcoin is volatile

Yes, Bitcoin is volatile! But why is this bad? Most people making this claim are comparing Bitcoin to holding shares in some big tech company. Bitcoin is not a company! Comparing it to a company means you haven’t understood the Bitcoin’s true value proposition of it becoming the hardest form of money. Furthermore, despite its current volatility, Bitcoin continues to outperform most stocks and gold.

Bitcoin is a truly free market asset, unlike other forms of investment influenced by capital controls which act to dampen volatility. Bitcoin’s adoption still sits below 5% globally. As adoption increases, its price will continue to stabilise as it has been over the past decade (see figure below).

Bitcoin price volatility index (source: https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/volatility-index/)

Volatility will continue to be a feature of Bitcoin in the near future. But this is not necessarily bad. Investment into Bitcoin, like any asset, should be taken with consideration of a person’s financial position and their ability to weather this volatility.

3. Bitcoin facilitates illicit activity and the anonymity of the criminals.

There is no escaping the fact that to some degree Bitcoin has facilitated the exchange of drugs and other illicit activity. However, Bitcoin offers a level of traceability that hasn’t existed previously with cash. Bitcoin is not anonymous, it is pseudonymous. It depends on a public ledger that facilitates the tracking funds, and KYC (Know-Your-Customer) on/off ramps that help link transactions back to individuals. This tracking has led to the downfall of the silk road and several associated criminals since. Law enforcement and journalists are constantly coming up with tools to track the the movement of cryptocurrencies used in illicit activity.

Bitcoin is a neutral technology. Blaming Bitcoin for the drug problem is as silly as blaming the internet, the postage service that sends a large portion of drugs, or cars that drive them from location to location. It will never be escape the fact that some people will use it for illegal activity, as people have and will continue to do with any form of money.

4. Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.

Many other cryptocurrencies which are actual Ponzi schemes have given people a negative impression of Bitcoin. I once had a family member, who knew about my great interest in Bitcoin gleefully exclaim “Hey did you hear!? Bitcoin is dead!” She was referring to the news about the downfall of OneCoin. This comment made me realise how important it is to help people understand the fundamental difference between a decentralised Bitcoin and a centralised crypto Ponzi.

In simple terms, Bitcoin being decentralised means there is no single entity in charge or profiting from the value of Bitcoin, nor are there profits derived from getting people into Bitcoin.

A follow-on comment I often get is that early adopters cause an imbalance in the distribution of wealth. This is currently true. It is estimated that 0.01% of addresses hold 58% of all Bitcoin. But we currently live in a world of rapidly rising inequality and a financial system that promotes the financial privileged. Over the past 40 years, the top 1% of income earners has seen their share increase from about 11% to almost 20% in the USA (see figure below).

Total share of income of the top 1% of earners (source: https://wid.world/)

You can research into the effects leading to inequality and you will read very contradictory arguments from both sides of the Bitcoin camp. So I’m not going to argue that Bitcoin solves the problem of wealth inequality; that is yet to be seen. But the growing digitisation of financial services is already creating a positive effect in reducing wealth inequality around the world. One of Bitcoins main benefits is that it promotes financial inclusion, which I believe can only result in a positive outcome for reducing inequality.

5. Bitcoin is an intangible asset

I once tried to explain to a family member the link between physical gold and Bitcoin. I used the analogy that energy is trapped in physical gold, and energy is required to extract it. This is similar to extracting and storing energy in Bitcoin. He laughed at me smugly.

Some people will have a really hard time comparing a physical asset to a digital one. They assume a digital asset can be copied, and it has no meaningful use in the real world. Bitcoin requires some tech literacy which you cannot teach in an evening!

Instead, you can highlight that a physical asset like gold is a great store of value; we have been using it to store value for millennia. But it is not a great medium of exchange. How can you break it up into smaller pieces? How do you send it across the world?

Bitcoin solves these problems. Like gold, Bitcoin cannot be copied or debased. But unlike gold, you can send fractions of a Bitcoin instantly anywhere across the globe.

6. Bitcoin is a speculative and immature technology.

Trace Mayer used to talk about the seven network effects of Bitcoin: Speculation, Merchant Adoption, Consumer Adoption, Security, Developer Mindshare, Financialization, and Adoption as a World Reserve Currency.

Speculation, being the first network effect, is an important part of Bitcoin’s maturation. Speculation drives early adoption and leads to the initial growth and innovation. Early adopters face larger risks as the price is more volatile, but also reap larger rewards. As more people adopt, merchants begin to accept it as forms of payment, leading to the second network effect and so on.

Yes, Bitcoin was a speculative asset but it is far beyond it speculative stage. We are currently closer to the “Developer mindshare” stage, where developers are working on new tools and new products that now integrate multiple technologies, like lightning and nostr.

Bitcoin is no longer speculative. I would also argue it is not even immature, even though it has only been around for a decade. But a misconception people often make is that the dollar (AUD or USD) is mature. The dollar as we know it is an experiment that has been running since around 1971, and politicians and economists still have no idea how to control it! Levers are pulled, money is debased and debt is increased time and time again.

Debt to GDP since 1970. Australia saw a moment of recovery duing the early 2000s but began increasing after the global financial crisis in 2008. Japan’s debt skyrocketed in the 1990’s and currently sits around 260%. On average across the G-20 nations, debt has increased from a low of 23% to around 95%. (source https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/CG_DEBT_GDP@GDD/SWE)

And thats it! I hope you found this useful for the next time you’re speaking to someone about Bitcoin in a developed nation.

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Clinical Twitter (or is it X at this point?) has been humming recently with another article from the Washington Post. The article depended on a functioning paper named "Who Values Human Business people's Human Resources? The Income and Work Supply of U.S. Doctors" by specialists at the Public Department of Monetary Exploration.

I understand this can be a warmed theme and simply needed to put out certain realities about me:

I cause not exactly this article claims and to feel exceptionally lucky to have all I do I left residency with $500k+ under water I needed to be an essential consideration doctor and never truly felt a sense of urgency to be an expert in spite of the capacity to get much more cash-flow Presently let us examine some data on clinical preparation overall so expenses can be all the more obviously shown.

Dreams are costly School is costly. Graduate school is costly. Clinical school is Costly.

Happy I got to take a shot at each of the 3! I went to a state school which charged semi-private educational cost and in the wake of graduating, in spite of having a decent GPA of 3.5+ in a twofold major, research, EMT experience, and a decent MCAT, I didn't get into clinical school. I had the choice of doing a post-bacc program (taking prescription school classes for $40-50k so you can do well in real drug school) however rather decided to get my Lord of General Wellbeing. I adored it and don't think twice about it at all. It was whenever I first genuinely appreciated scholastics. It was likewise whenever I first comprehended medication on a populace level. It ought to be required learning for everybody in clinical school.

So among school and graduate school, I was entering clinical school with a respectable measure of obligation. Clinical school was likewise costly, something like $70k per year at a credit rate (back in 2011) of ~7%.

After clinical school, I required 3 years in a family medication residency. I developed thus did my obligation. I left residency with more than $500k under water. Happy I decided to go into family medication, among the most reduced paying callings in medication! Yet, no one goes to clinical school for cash. Security of a profession, sure. Love of medication and science, sure. The adoration for scholastics, sure. Distinction, definitely certain perhaps. Be that as it may, not cash. Allow me to make sense of why.

Residency time and pay Before I was an occupant, it were not exactly directed to work hours. To that end my sibling worked 100-120 hour weeks as a careful inhabitant. I maximized at 80 hours more often than not.

The typical compensation of an occupant fluctuates in view of living expenses, years worked, and strength. By and large, the principal year would pay $50-$60,000. Allow us to take the higher finish of that reach. This comes to something like $28.50 60 minutes. In any case, that is for 40 hours, so normal compensation comes to something like $14.25 an hour if working 80 hours. I recall mine being nearer to $12 yet, you know, expansion.

This compensation, whether $12 or 14.25 60 minutes, doesn't manage the cost of an inhabitant the capacity to settle credits. Subsequently, it checks out why the typical obligation leaving school in 2017 at $246,000 can expand quickly.

Separating it On the off chance that you include undergrad time at 40 hours per week for a long time, which is logical an underrate, this comes to 6400 hours in 4 years.

Clinical school comes to something like 80 hours of the week for a considerable length of time out of the year, or 15,360 hours.

Residency at 3 years, 80 hours every week, 48 weeks comes to 11,520 hours.

I'm leaving out every one of the expenses (money related and hourly) of MCAT prep classes, MCATs, loads up (DO and MD since I went to a DO school), travel for meetings and residency applications.

Taking a gander at time, it took something like 33,280 hours to turn into a doctor. Furthermore, that is on the least finish of the time skyline. Over two times that figure for specialists and different trained professionals.

Assuming the normal compensation is $350,000, salary would be $19,473.17 each month or $233,676 yearly.

Assuming that the normal doctor labors for a very long time of their life, they can expect complete income of just shy of $6 million. 25 years of work, 40 weeks per year, at 40 hour weeks, comes to 40,000 hours.

Lets add 40,000 worked hours to 33,280 hours of schooling to get 73,280 hours absolute. Partitioning that into $6 million lifetime profit gives an hourly lifetime pace of $82 dollars each hour. Removing obligation of $500,000 (excluding revenue) makes this rate nearer to $75 60 minutes.

MANY specialists make under $350,000 each year as the normal might be high, however it is slanted by anomalies. Plastic specialists who don't take protection are not making $350,000 yet rather closer to $4 million every year as indicated by the article.

That being said, assuming you take a typical doctor, with the least long stretches of preparing post graduation and a typical measure of obligation (recollect mine expanded to over 500k, it added up to nearer to $350k toward the beginning), we make about $75 dollars an hour regardless.

Is that a great deal? Absolutely. It is a lot of cash to live on. In any case, is it over the top? No. The estimations made above emerge to about what lucrative IT occupations get in the US.

The Chief of Joined Medical services brought back home about $18 million last year. One President of one medical organization brought back home multiple times the typical doctor pay over a long period. It is no big surprise that doctor pay rates make up a little part of in general medical services use at 10%.

Why bother with all that? I have seen a great deal of setting off on the two sides of this contention. Specialists feel they ought to be made up for their work. Everybody is vexed, legitimately, that their admittance to clinical consideration is attached to a task they are typically not remunerated decently for. What's more, the consideration they get is costly, holds up are long, drugs are generally excessively expensive, and a health related crisis can prompt vagrancy.

My conversation was implied just to show that articles like the one I referenced, while being well-informed and introduced, can start perusers to reach fast resolutions just from the title. The normal is slanted and doesn't mirror the truth particularly for those specialists on our bleeding edges (ICU, trama center, Essential Consideration, OBGYN, Pediatricians) who make less for comparative or longer preparation.

I trust there are changes later on that make more cost straightforwardness. This will permit specialists to figure out costs for their patients and furthermore have greater lucidity on their own pay. However, for the present, the framework is made deliberately muddled so the President can legitimize their compensation. Indeed, even while being answerable for 90% of medical care costs, the partnerships push fault on the laborers. However, hello, isn't that the American way

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Remember that feeling when you were a child, and the world seemed to be a wonderful place full of possibilities? You were full of hope and had many dreams; everything seemed possible.

As you grow older, you learn about the numerous atrocities committed throughout history and even today. Every day, so many people are economically exploited by others, leading to a great amount of suffering. You start to feel hopeless, frustrated and overwhelmed, thinking that you, as a small part of the world, might not be able to do anything about it.

Then, you learn about the crucial role money plays in allowing that exploitation, wars, and tyranny, specifically fiat money controlled by corrupt individuals. You begin questioning what money truly is and how broken the current fiat world has become.

You realize why Bitcoin was created and start going down the rabbit hole, learning all the details about how it achieves the goal of being the best form of money humankind has ever seen.

And then... an incredible thing happens in your mind. That amazing, childlike feeling of wonder and endless possibilities returns. You start to feel hope again and believe that one person using the right tools can make a significant difference in the world.

Once that happens, your life is completely transformed. Your priorities change – low time preference – and you start evaluating how you spend your time, professionally, for instance. You begin to think about how you can use your time in a way that not only increases bitcoin adoption but also contributes, even in a small way, to fixing the problems you see in the world.

You understand why proof-of-work is critically important, not only in securing the Bitcoin network but also in every small detail of life and interactions between people. Hardworking individuals shouldn't have their savings for the future stolen by parasites, exploiters, fleas and those who avoid work at all costs.

Bitcoin is a tool in this peaceful war against laziness.

Bitcoin enforces an ethical and fair world for people who embrace work as proof of their livelihood.

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Actually, the best way to alleviate constipation is by increasing fiber intake, although this process is relatively slow. However, there is one type of fiber that is quite effective, which is psyllium husk.

Psyllium comes from the plant genus Plantago whose seeds are used as a traditional preparation to treat constipation and mild diarrhea. Its mechanism of action is as a bulk-forming laxative. It has a lower dependency effect compare to lactulose. Additionally, it also has other co-beneficial effects such as being a normoglycemic (reduce blood sugar) agent and a hypocholestremic (reduce cholesterol level) agent.

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Not certain anybody knows without a doubt whether we compose fiction or true to life

Nobody knows anybody who has composed what has occurred exactly as it worked out

Nobody knows anybody who has composed about what will occur consistent with the smallest subtleties.

Nobody is sure where in the continuum of time the line we cross marks the limits of authentic account or on the other hand inventive verifiable

True to life occurred to somebody some place some time we think we know

We name fiction what may yet occur to somebody some place at the point when we don't have any idea

We have without a doubt numerous forms of a similar genuine story

from various points in various shades in various styles

what's more, when realities meet various eyes or ears what we trap is what the organs can take.

Perhaps not substantially more furthermore, perhaps that's it

However a few energies get lost or on the other hand become dim, some are reverberations also, shadows of the first.

Try not to inquire as to whether we compose realities or fiction, for your understanding may pick the crate

to tick and eradicate furthermore, tick once more as you exchange the things you see.

We are just couriers of the divine beings who don't inquire in which sack we'd put the things for conveyance

Assuming they know, they won't tell for existence vary here based on what's in different domains, we scout and wander

"It was a made up story, yet like any great fiction, without the need to change or hide reality, it really may be the best articulation of truth." ― Jacqueline Simon Gunn

"To peruse fiction means to play a game by which we give sense to the hugeness of things that occurred, are going on, or will occur in the real world. By understanding story, we get away from the nervousness that assaults us when we attempt to offer something valid about the world. This is the supporting capability of account — the explanation individuals recount stories, and have recounted stories since forever ago." ― Umberto Eco

"Who makes things up? Who recounts the genuine story? We as a whole transform our lives into stories. It is a main trait of our species. We retell our encounters. We rapidly realize which parts are intriguing to our audience members and which parts slack, and we shape our accounts as needs be. It doesn't mean we aren't coming clean; we've essentially realized what parts to forget about. Each time we recount the story once more, we don't return to the first occasion and begin without any preparation, we return to the last time we recounted the story. It's the story we shape and develop, we don't change what occurred. This is likewise a way we have of safeguarding ourselves. It would be excessively excruciating to remember a youth sickness or the demise of your dearest companion each time you needed to discuss it. By recounting the story from the story, rather than from the genuine occasions, we can limit any association with our misery. It likewise allows us the opportunity to make the story something individuals can hear." ― Ann Patchett

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Food For The Spirit

The connection between food instability and emotional wellness

In the midst of the unpredictable embroidery of human life, an unquestionable connection between food uncertainty and emotional wellness arises. This unique relationship coaxes us to dive further into its complexities, looking for a significant comprehension of its effect. Investigating this association reveals a snare of intricacies, intertwined with broad outcomes.

Right away, the relationship between's food instability and emotional wellness might appear to be clear. All things considered, the nervousness and stress of not knowing where our next feast will come from can negatively affect our close to home prosperity. However, as we disentangle the intricacies, we understand that the interaction between these two domains stretches out past superficial perceptions.

Food uncertainty energizes an endless loop, propagating emotional well-being difficulties with constant assurance. The biting vulnerabilities and consistent concern related with deficient admittance to nutritious food go about as fuel, lighting the flares of pressure and tension inside people. These mental weights, escalated by the diligent battle for food security, cast a dull shadow over one's psychological scene.

Melancholy and state of mind issues are likewise impressive buddies on this exhausting excursion. The shortage of sustenance denies the group of fundamental supplements as well as strips away the energetic tones of trust and euphoria, abandoning a forsaken close to home scene. The heaviness of depression, exacerbated by the relentless hold of food uncertainty, can cover people dazed of despairing, influencing their generally speaking mental prosperity.

Besides, the ramifications of food instability reach out past profound misery. Mental capability, as well, endures the worst part of this intricate interchange. The cerebrum, a marvelous guide of our viewpoints and feelings, depends on a consistent stock of supplements for ideal execution. Without even a trace of this food, mental capacities might disappear, preventing fixation, memory maintenance, and generally speaking smartness. The subsequent mental degradation can additionally intensify the difficulties looked by those wrestling with food uncertainty.

Disentangling the intricacies of the connection between food weakness and psychological wellness illustrates the significant effect it holds. However, this understanding is just the most vital phase in our excursion toward tending to these difficulties. It is through diving into the profundities of this association that we can expect to produce a way toward mending, versatility, and a more splendid tomorrow.

Endless loop: How food uncertainty powers psychological wellness challenges Like a complicated dance between two accomplices, food frailty and psychological wellness take part in a determined tango, powering an endless loop of provokes that push people as far as possible. Inside this wild hug, stress and tension become the dominant focal point, intensifying the difficulties looked by those wrestling with food uncertainty.

The persistent vulnerability of not knowing when or where the following dinner will come from puts a massive weight on people, making a favorable place for pressure and nervousness to prosper. Every day turns into a tightrope walk, adjusting on the cliff of craving and distress. The psyche, consumed by the consistent concern and feeling of dread toward doing without food, turns into a milestone where stress rules.

As stress entwines its ringlets with tension, the psychological scene turns into a many-sided labyrinth, with not a single clear getaway course to be seen. The heaviness of food weakness overwhelms people, choking out their conviction that all is good and security. Relentless uneasiness turns into the unwanted buddy that shadows everything they might do, disintegrating their generally mental prosperity and personal satisfaction.

Inside the grip of this fierce cycle, wretchedness and state of mind problems arise as imposing foes. The tenacious battle for food security works on the dynamic quality of life, abandoning a distressing material of sadness. The shortage of sustenance influences the body as well as dives the brain into a profound chasm of despairing. The heaviness of sadness, amplified by the unflinching hold of food uncertainty, turns into a significant weight that people should bear.

Past the inner strife, the ramifications of food frailty reach out to the domain of mental capability. The mind, an inexplicable machine, depends on a consistent stock of supplements to perform at its pinnacle. Nonetheless, the shortage of sustenance disturbs this fragile equilibrium, disabling mental capacities. Focus becomes slippery, memory maintenance wavers, and smartness dulls. The actual quintessence of mental capability endures, further

Breaking down the mental impacts of food weakness As we dig further into the many-sided embroidery woven by the connection between food instability and psychological wellness, we experience a heap of mental impacts that rise out of this turbulent association. Separating these impacts permits us to acquire a significant comprehension of the many-sided layers that shape people's encounters.

One significant outcome of food uncertainty is the expanded gamble of creating dietary problems. The steady battle for food, combined with the shortage of nutritious choices, can make a disarranged relationship with food. The brain, frantic to recapture a feeling of control, may fall back on outrageous ways of behaving, for example, prohibitive eating or gorge cleanse cycles. The endless loop of food uncertainty worsens the weakness to these problems, as people look for comfort or control through their relationship with food.

In the fight against food frailty, the conflict pursued inside one's brain reaches out past dietary problems. Self-perception issues and low confidence become unfaltering foes, creating a shaded area over one's view of self. The battle to achieve a romanticized body turns into a far off dream, as the center movements to the essential need of getting food. The outcome is a broken mental self view, frequently defaced by deep-seated insecurities and self-question. The mental cost of food frailty discolors the focal point through which people view themselves, further convoluting their excursion toward mental prosperity.

Close to home misery and injury arise as sidekicks in this complicated embroidered artwork. The consistent fight against yearning, vulnerability, and the anxiety toward doing without sustenance leaves people genuinely battered and powerless. The heaviness of these difficulties can set off an outpouring of personal disturbance, with sensations of dread, bitterness, outrage, and disappointment entwining in a tangled wreck. The close to home pain experienced despite food instability turns into a quiet injury that reverberations inside people, forming their attitude toward the world and their place inside it.

Disentangling the mental impacts of food weakness uncovers the profundities to which people are impacted by this perplexing interchange. The increased gamble of dietary issues, the disintegration of self-perception and confidence, and the close to home misery and injury that go with food uncertainty feature the critical requirement for far reaching emotionally supportive networks. It is through understanding these impacts that we can encourage compassion, advocate for change, and work towards a future where nobody should confront the staggering effect of food uncertainty on their psychological prosperity.

Sustaining versatility: Systems to address influence Even with the significant effect of food uncertainty on emotional well-being, sustaining versatility turns into a fundamental undertaking. It is through a complex methodology that we can address the difficulties presented by this complicated interaction, making ready for recuperating and strengthening.

At the groundwork of any procedure lies the crucial requirement for admittance to nutritious food. Perceiving the job that appropriate sustenance plays in forming mental prosperity, it becomes basic to guarantee that people have solid and fair admittance to healthy food. By destroying boundaries and carrying out comprehensive arrangements, we can lay the preparation for versatility, furnishing people with the fuel they need to explore the intricacies of life.

Training, especially psychoeducation, turns into an integral asset in battling the effect of food frailty on psychological wellness. By dispersing information about the mental impacts of food frailty, we can break down marks of disgrace and misinterpretations, encouraging compassion and understanding. Outfitting people with the instruments to perceive and address their close to home battles, as well as directing survival strategies and taking care of oneself practices, enable them to explore the difficulties with strength.

Close by psychoeducation, emotional well-being support remains as a support point in our undertaking to address the effect of food frailty. By incorporating emotional wellness administrations into existing food help programs, we can offer people the help and assets they need to explore the close to home and mental cost of their conditions. Developing a protected and merciful climate, where people can look for proficient assistance and associate with other people who share comparable encounters, turns into a significant resource in their excursion toward mental prosperity.

Local area based drives and backing assume a significant part in driving fundamental change and tending to the complex difficulties presented by the convergence of food weakness and psychological well-being. By encouraging cooperation between different partners, like local area associations, medical services suppliers, policymakers, and people with lived encounters, we can enhance the voices of those impacted. Together, we can advocate for strategies that focus on both food security and emotional wellness, taking a stab at a future where admittance to sustenance and close to home prosperity are viewed as central common liberties.

Supporting strength notwithstanding food uncertainty's effect on psychological well-being requires an exhaustive methodology. By focusing on admittance to nutritious food, giving psychoeducation and emotional well-being support, and preparing local area based drives and backing, we can make an establishment where people can flourish in spite of the difficulties they face. It is through these deliberate endeavors that we can ingrain trust, engage people, and work towards a general public where the interlaced prosperity of body and psyche is at the front of our shared perspective.

Going up against food instability, focusing on emotional well-being Even with the stunning effect of food instability on emotional well-being, a reverberating source of inspiration reverberations through the halls of progress. We should defy the difficulties head-on and focus on the entwined prosperity of people and networks. This source of inspiration requests a diverse methodology, incorporating strategy changes, cooperative endeavors, and the strengthening of people and networks.

Strategy changes and fundamental mediations stand as an impressive power as we continued looking for extraordinary change. By pushing for strategies that address the main drivers of food frailty and emotional well-being difficulties, we can prepare for an enduring effect. These strategies ought to endeavor to destroy fundamental hindrances, guaranteeing impartial admittance to nutritious food and psychological well-being assets. By putting the prosperity of people at the very front, we can encourage a climate where nobody is abandoned despite food instability's effect on emotional wellness.

Cooperative endeavors across areas become a fundamental fixing in our recipe for change. It is through associations between government offices, non-benefit associations, medical care suppliers, instructive foundations, and local area pioneers that we can use aggregate skill and assets. Coordinated effort permits us to pool our insight, share best practices, and execute thorough arrangements that address the diverse difficulties within reach. By separating storehouses and encouraging coordinated effort, we can construct areas of strength for an of help that is equipped for establishing significant change.

Nonetheless, the ability to impact change doesn't exclusively dwell in that frame of mind of policymakers and establishments. Enabling people and networks is a vital piece of our source of inspiration. By furnishing people with the devices, information, and assets they need to advocate for them as well as their networks, we empower them to be influencers. Strengthening comes as training, mindfulness, and cultivating self-viability. It is through this strengthening that people can get comfortable with themselves, share their encounters, and work towards a future where food security and emotional wellness are focused on.

Together, strategy changes, cooperative endeavors, and the strengthening of people and networks make an orchestra of progress, reverberating with the criticalness of our source of inspiration. We should defy the many-sided difficulties presented by food instability and focus on emotional wellness with faithful assurance. It is through this aggregate exertion that we can construct a general public that esteems the prosperity of its individuals, making a future where food security and emotional wellness entwine agreeably, elevating people and networks the same.

A manageable future for food security and psychological wellness In our quest for a manageable future for food security and mental prosperity, a painstakingly created recipe for change arises, joining fundamental fixings that make ready for change. By advancing practical agribusiness and food frameworks, reinforcing social security nets and encouraging groups of people, and focusing on psychological wellness in food security plans, we establish the groundwork for enduring effect.

Advancing manageable farming and food frameworks fills in as a foundation in our recipe for change. By embracing naturally cognizant practices, for example, regenerative cultivating and decreasing food squander, we can address the fundamental factors that add to food instability. Feasible farming guarantees the accessibility of nutritious food as well as jelly biological systems, shields biodiversity, and mitigates the effect of environmental change. By developing a comprehensive way to deal with food creation and utilization, we make an economical establishment that benefits both our actual prosperity and the strength of our planet.

Reinforcing social security nets and encouraging groups of people turns into a fundamental component in our recipe for change. By laying out hearty social government assistance frameworks, we can furnish people and networks with a security net during seasons of food instability. This incorporates carrying out compelling and comprehensive food help programs, growing admittance to reasonable lodging, medical services, and schooling, and setting out open doors for monetary strengthening. By reinforcing encouraging groups of people, we guarantee that nobody faces the difficulties of food instability and emotional well-being separated from everyone else, cultivating a feeling of local area and flexibility.

Focusing on emotional wellness in food security plans adds a pivotal aspect to our recipe for change. By perceiving and tending to the interweaved idea of food uncertainty and mental prosperity, we can establish complete approaches and projects. This incorporates coordinating emotional well-being screenings and backing administrations into food help programs, advancing injury informed care, and bringing issues to light about the mental effect of food weakness. By focusing on psychological wellness, we guarantee that people approach nutritious food as well as the help they need to explore the profound and mental difficulties that emerge.

As we mix these fixings, we make a recipe for change that supports both body and psyche. Advancing feasible farming and food frameworks, fortifying social wellbeing nets and encouraging groups of people, and focusing on psychological well-being in food security plans consolidate to make a maintainable and sympathetic future. This recipe guarantees that everybody has impartial admittance to nutritious food, strong emotionally supportive networks, and the instruments to explore the difficulties of food frailty while keeping up with their psychological prosperity.

In embracing this recipe for transform, we make ready for a general public where the entwined prosperity of people and the climate is at the center of our shared mindset. By cooperating, upholding for strategy changes, and cultivating a feeling of compassion and strength, we can make a maintainable future where food security and mental prosperity thrive connected at the hip.

The force of solidarity: Coordinated effort for a more promising time to come In the journey for a more promising time to come, the force of solidarity becomes the dominant focal point, underlining the meaning of coordinated effort in handling the perplexing difficulties of food weakness and its effect on emotional well-being. Through interdisciplinary examination and joint effort, organizations between emotional wellness and food security associations, and enhancing the voices of underestimated networks, we can produce a way toward significant change.

Interdisciplinary exploration and cooperation stand as points of support in our quest for understanding and tending to the perplexing associations between food weakness and emotional wellness. By encouraging coordinated effort among analysts, policymakers, medical services experts, and local area advocates, we can tackle assorted points of view and aptitude. This coordinated effort permits us to investigate the multi-layered components of the issue, uncover new bits of knowledge, and foster extensive arrangements that range across disciplines. By breaking down storehouses and embracing interdisciplinary methodologies, we lay the foundation for a more nuanced comprehension of the intricate interchange between food instability and mental prosperity.

Organizations between emotional well-being and food security associations act as impetuses for aggregate activity. By uniting, these associations can consolidate their assets, assets, and information to make effective drives. Such associations empower the combination of psychological well-being support inside food help programs, guaranteeing that people encountering food frailty additionally approach the profound and mental help they need. Cooperative endeavors consider a more comprehensive way to deal with tending to the prosperity of people, spanning holes in help conveyance, and making a brought together front in the battle against food uncertainty's effect on emotional well-being.

Enhancing the voices of minimized networks becomes vital in our cooperative endeavors. It is significant to make spaces for people with lived encounters to share their viewpoints and add to molding arrangements. By centring their voices, we gain significant bits of knowledge into the remarkable difficulties looked by minimized networks concerning food frailty and emotional well-being. This intensification of voices not just encourages a more comprehensive way to deal with resolving the issue yet additionally enables people to advocate for them as well as their networks. It is through the aggregate force of these voices that we can drive significant change and guarantee that approaches and projects are fair and receptive to the requirements of all.

In embracing the force of solidarity, we develop a scene where joint effort, organization, and enhancement of voices rule. By cultivating interdisciplinary exploration, uniting psychological well-being and food security associations, and centring the encounters of underestimated networks, we make a cooperative biological system that drives groundbreaking change. Together, we can enlighten the way toward a future where food uncertainty's effect on psychological well-being is extensively tended to, where the prosperity of all people is focused on, and where solidarity prepares for a more splendid and more comprehensive world.

An all encompassing ways to deal with food security and emotional well-being We should take a stab at a decent plate that supports both the body and the brain. To accomplish this agreement, we should embrace comprehensive methodologies that coordinate emotional wellness into food help programs, give instruction on nourishment and mental prosperity, and underline the significance of taking care of oneself and self-strengthening.

Coordinating psychological well-being into food help programs turns into an essential move toward our excursion toward comprehensive prosperity. By perceiving that food instability and emotional well-being are interwoven, we can guarantee that people confronting food frailty get sustenance for their bodies as well as help for their psychological prosperity. This joining includes inserting psychological wellness screenings, guiding administrations, and references inside food help programs. By tending to the close to home and mental necessities of people, we make a more complete and empathetic way to deal with supporting their general prosperity.

Training on nourishment and mental prosperity fills in as a foundation of enabling people to pursue informed decisions. By giving open and socially delicate instructive assets, we can furnish people with the information to pursue better food decisions that decidedly influence their emotional well-being. This instruction goes outside essentially ability to comprehend the healthy benefit of food yet additionally dives into the association among diet and mental prosperity. By advancing a reasonable eating routine that upholds emotional well-being, we enable people to assume command over their prosperity.

Underscoring taking care of oneself and self-strengthening finishes the recipe for all encompassing ways to deal with food security and emotional well-being. By empowering taking care of oneself practices, like pressure decrease strategies, care, and actual work, we enable people to focus on their psychological prosperity in the midst of the difficulties of food uncertainty. Self-strengthening includes encouraging a feeling of organization and versatility, empowering people to advocate for themselves, look for help when required, and effectively partake in their mending process. By stressing taking care of oneself and self-strengthening, we encourage a culture of prosperity and versatility that rises above the limits of food security and psychological wellness.

In embracing these comprehensive methodologies, we make an amicable ensemble that resounds with the standards of equilibrium, information, and self-strengthening. By incorporating emotional well-being into food help programs, giving schooling on sustenance and mental prosperity, and stressing taking care of oneself and self-strengthening, we establish the groundwork for a fair plate that supports both the body and the brain. This comprehensive methodology recognizes the interconnectedness of food security and mental prosperity, directing people on a way toward in general health.

As we push ahead, let us embrace the force of all encompassing methodologies, perceiving their capability to make a groundbreaking change in our comprehension and reaction to the difficulties of food frailty and psychological wellness. By embracing a fair plate that envelops the physical and mental parts of prosperity, we produce a way toward a future where people are enabled, upheld, and prepared to flourish even with misfortune.

Trust for a better and more joyful tomorrow We should embrace the commitment of flourishing past instability. This vision calls for putting resources into long haul arrangements, praising examples of overcoming adversity and achievements, and building a reality where food uncertainty and emotional wellness disgrace are simple leftovers of the past.

Putting resources into long haul arrangements turns into our directing compass, controlling us from silly fixes toward manageable change. It requires tending to the underlying drivers of food uncertainty and psychological well-being difficulties by pushing for strategies that focus on impartial admittance to nutritious food, reasonable medical care, and steady friendly frameworks. By putting resources into schooling, open positions, and social security nets, we lay the foundation for a general public where people can break liberated from the pattern of uncertainty and flourish.

Praising examples of overcoming adversity and achievements fills in as an encouraging sign and motivation. By featuring the excursions of people who have defeated food instability and explored emotional wellness challenges, we separate the hindrances of shame and enlighten a way for other people. These accounts are a demonstration of versatility, boldness, and the force of local area support. By sharing and praising these victories, we encourage a feeling of trust, building up the conviction that a better and more joyful tomorrow is accessible for all.

Building a world without food frailty and psychological wellness shame turns into our definitive goal. It requires destroying the obstructions that sustain these issues and cultivating a general public that esteems the prosperity of every one of its individuals. By testing generalizations, upholding for strategy changes, and advancing sympathy and understanding, we establish a climate where people confronting food instability and psychological wellness challenges are met with empathy and backing as opposed to judgment and disgrace. It is in this world that we can genuinely flourish, unburdened by the heaviness of frailty and disgrace.

As we imagine a future liberated from food frailty and emotional well-being disgrace, let us rally together, determined by the conviction that change is conceivable. By putting resources into long haul arrangements, praising examples of overcoming adversity, and working by and large to destroy disgrace, we make ready for a better and more joyful tomorrow. Together, we can fabricate a reality where each individual approaches nutritious food, mental prosperity is focused on, and the shame encompassing food uncertainty and psychological wellness turns out to be just ancient history.

In embracing this vision, we leave on an excursion where trust impels us forward and where our aggregate endeavors shape a more promising time to come for a long time into the future. Allow us to stand joined in our obligation to flourishing past frailty, knowing that together, we can make an existence where all people have the valuable chance to prosper, unhampered by the weights of food uncertainty and emotional wellness disgrace.

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Latin America is a messy, culturally-rich, and prickly place.

Though it is blessed with bountiful resources in its sprawling jungles, deserts, and jagged mountains, it has for most of its history been caught in the oscillating winds of colonial powers and external forces.

While the 19th century saw the withering influence of Spanish colonialism against the rise of independence movements, the first part of the 20th century was defined by constant overt and clandestine interventionism on behalf of the Anglo powers, namely Britain and certainly the United States.

From the 1950s onwards, those interventions multiplied, as foreign intelligence services and corporations supported factions and political leaders who swung voraciously between socialist and fascist iterations of violence and strength.

Populist-led left-wing movements led to mass nationalization of properties and businesses, only to be countered by strong-fisted military juntas who carried out mass persecutions. Political violence was the norm, practiced brutally by the right and harshly by the left.

In the second decade of the 21st century, that naked political violence is isolated to regional narco-gangs, but interventionism is now practiced enthusiastically by economically left-leaning political governments with broad social agendas.

Nowhere has that been the case more than Argentina, once the crown jewel of the Spanish-speaking world.

Though it was a booming economy in the late 1800s, at a various points of the 1900s, its last two decades have proven to be a catastrophic economic failure. Kirchnerism, Argentina’s version of left-wing populism, has scarred its citizens with years of bank runs, currency devaluation, and eye-watering inflation.

The “Argentina paradox” continues to befuddle us.

ENTER THE HAIRDO

Skipping over plenty of historical and political history, Argentina today remains a basket case. Inflation has reached an abysmal 113%, its working population is far outnumbered by pensioners and those who live on government aid, and its debts are long past sustainable.

Rather than continue to shackle Argentines to the doomed Kirchnerism, economist and political upstart Javier Milei is promising something different.

The leader of the La Libertad Avanza coalition, Milei is an iconoclast.

With his wild hairdo (which he claims he never combs), sideburns, and salty tongue, he takes his inspiration from the Austrian School of Economics, professing daily his hatred of central banks, central planners, and the central political elite who have “looted” Argentinian prosperity through taxation and subsidies. Did I mention he loves Bitcoin?

In the usual lazy journalistic trope, coverage of Milei’s presidential aspirations in the Anglosphere pin him ideologically to Donald Trump or Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro. They call him “far-right” and the new populist of the right.

And while he may throw bombs in his rhetoric, Milei is no slouch.

He’s written over 50 academic papers, 9 books, and has had an impressive career as both a university and private sector economist.

He identifies as an anarcho-capitalist, and regularly claims “taxation is theft”. For him, China is a communist dictatorship and most global trade deals are “managed” to benefit the politically connected. Free trade and free exchange are the saviors, not state control.

For those of us familiar with the Austrian tradition and a healthy skepticism of both centralized power and central banking, Milei proves interesting. For Bitcoiners, he’s an all-out star.

On top of that, he just won the first round of the presidential primary with over 30% of the vote. He’s not just a phenomenon among Bitcoiners and libertarians, but it seems his message is popular with a large slice of the Argentinian population.

THE MILEI PLAN

Unique to the moment, Milei focuses almost exclusively on economic policy in his speeches and interviews. He’s left most foreign policy and non-economic domestic issues to his running mate, Victoria Villarruel, who is a hawkish right-leaning lawyer (much more could be written about her).

Rather than choose between the “socialists with good manners and those with bad manners,” Milei posits that the people of Argentina want a return to fiscal sanity, and he is the man to make it happen.

How will this be achieved?

A radical dollarization plan, an end to the Central Bank, record slashing of public spending, and a healthy bout of privatizations of public institutions.

He describes his economic plank on four different axioms:

• Moral: the current system perpetuates robbery of the people by the elite through inflation and high taxes
• Technical: there is no natural demand for the Argentinian peso, and thus its real value is zero
• Instrumental: there are existing plans for adopting the US dollar that he would endorse (including research by economist Emilio Ocampo)
• Political: politicians who benefit from the system will fight tooth and nail to defend it, and thus the goal should be to disempower them by reducing the size of the state

For Bitcoiners, his best moments have come from his disparaging of the government’s monopoly on money creation, which he believes have been pivotal to Argentina’s failures. Money should be a “creation of the private sector,” he claims, hence why he is fascinated by Satoshi’s innovation of Bitcoin.

BEYOND THE PESO AND DOLLAR

Though many in the United States deplore the role of fiat money and the US dollar, Milei is steadfast in his commitment to get his country on the US dollar standard.

Many Bitcoiners may balk at this, but it makes sense for Argentina.

Stripping control of the money supply from the politicians and central bankers — who have ushered in decades of low growth and inflation — is about as radical as you can go in Latin America, and it would be a paradigm shift for an economy as large as Argentina’s.

Milei has flirted with free banking and welcomes currency competition, so it’s no surprise that Bitcoin may play a part in his success if he’s elected this fall.

Until then however, Milei will have many enemies to slay. Apart from political attacks from his opponents, we can expect that a hostile media will aim to counter each point he presents to the public. Central bankers and those connected to them will use all means possible to dissuade the people from choosing Milei as their man (which we saw in the dumping of bonds in the market this week).

Milei’s path will not be easy and many taboos will be broken.

His attacks on the “parasitic political caste” and more conservative social views have been enough to warn off many liberals and libertarians who would otherwise be favorable to his economic agenda.

But in a time of festering bad ideas on economics, trade, and how to make our societies more well off, Milei is a welcome distraction.

“What's the difference between a genius and a madman?” he asked in an interview this week. “Success. And that we shall see that on October 22.”

Best,

Yaël

Originally published on Fix The Money

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On the off chance that you don't have the foggiest idea what pickleball is, it's a game that a few rich individuals concocted when they made an appearance at their confidential badminton court (changed to tennis later) and acknowledged they'd brought a wiffle ball and ping-pong paddles rather than racquets and birdies. They said, "It's too soon to get squandered, so we should sort out some way to play with what we have."

Most would agree that the prominence of the game has detonated. It's especially well known among individuals who are resigned.

Taking everything into account, that is totally perfect. There's a public court close to my home and I play frequently with my loved ones. I like seeing individuals out locally living it up.

Sadly, there has been a new pattern of crazy analysis and hatred coordinated at the round of pickleball. Individuals could do without "the clamor," and on top of that a few people are working themselves into a fury in view of a questionable contention of how pickleball is denying them of "what is legitimately theirs."

Reality that our nation would rather not perceive is that under all the enthusiasm and public pride, there is a degree of stewing disdain. Everyone is irate and baffled, and this should be visible in the manner in which guiltless gatherings become the objective of unmerited analysis.

Actually things could move worse until we strip away the misleading publicity and start to have genuine conversations about the numerous ways the USA is bombing its residents. There should do less being shortage in "the most extravagant country in mankind's set of experiences."

Stop permitting oppressors to divert your displeasure Pickleball is fun, yet I can likewise perceive how it would considered disturb. In my humble community of a little more than 13,000 individuals, there's a city block devoted to public pickleball courts. The time between the undertaking's proposition and the strip cutting was incredibly quick.

This is a city that is needed to manage some pivot breaking potholes for quite a long time. The schools never have sufficient cash. However, the second a specific gathering chooses, "Kid, couldn't it be good to have some pickleball courts?" each and every other issue is dropped and the joined assets of our local area are put forth towards that objective.

Then, at that point, they celebrate with a lot of plaques saying thanks to the "supporters" that presented to us these "brilliant courts." In the mean time, each and every individual who has a house close by needs to move to move away from the perpetual "whack, whack, whack" sound of wiffle balls getting hit constantly. You can see who used to live there when you see them at the general store in light of the fact that their eyes jerk and they hold their hands.

It all makes sense to me. The stage is set for outrage, yet there are ways of dealing with these issues in a manner that is conscious and useful. We get into issues when crowd mindset dominates and a silly statement is raised as the main way forward.

How would we unwind this wreck? Individuals who play pickleball will generally be resigned. It shows the clout retirees have locally by the tasks that get hurried to the end even as our kids need to manage unacceptable materials at school. However, that is America for you, we have favored gatherings and we have bunches no one thinks often about. In reality, retirees frequently fall into the classification of gatherings no one thinks often about. There's a lot of unfairness to go around.

The US is in a never-ending condition of fuming hatred that is straightforwardly at individuals who don't actually merit it. The old loathe the youthful for needing to get training. The youthful hate the old on the grounds that the old approach associated medication that is denied to the remainder of the populace. Lawmakers stir up stewing disdain and utilize the resultant burst to occupy consideration from the genuine guilty parties answerable for our aggregate hopelessness.

The genuine kicker of America is that there is sufficient cash for everybody to have great medical care. There is sufficient cash for pickleball courts. There is sufficient cash for training. In any case, we don't get any of those things since you get excluded as being "traitorous on the off chance that you attempt to have a sane discussion about the issues standing up to our general public.

The risks of positive energy "America can't have any issues, America is the best country on the planet," says the one who can't work in view of his draining ulcer brought about by fuming disdain. Yet, despite the fact that he won't make the slightest effort to help himself, he'll rapidly raise a clench hand assuming you attempt to begin the discussion that will change our entire society to improve things.

At the point when there is a shortage of assets, human way of behaving becomes forceful and resentful. Shrewd individuals know this. Government officials ought to know this. This is essential for the explanation the division aggravating way of talking that is so ordinary in our general public is totally unsuitable.

Free enterprise is hypothetically a financial framework in light of rivalry. In the US, numerous shady frameworks are legitimate by the contention that our laid out organizations are the ones that arose successful from a level battleground. But, it's quite simple to follow the number of organizations that get immense benefits from the public authority.

Regulations intended to take out contest and boost corporate benefits For quite a long time, the central government was not permitted to arrange drug costs with the drug business. How much that reality subverts nearly all that we're instructed to accept about our nation is amazingly neglected. How can it address "unregulated economy private enterprise" when the biggest buyer of an item isn't permitted to request a fair cost?

Indeed, obviously it's not unrestricted economy private enterprise. The issue is that the drug business claims our legislators and gives them gigantic measures of cash. Normally, the drug business is perhaps of the most beneficial industry in the entire world. This isn't on the grounds that they've "arose successful from a level battleground," this is on the grounds that the situation is fixed for their potential benefit.

However, Americans are prepared to accept that the as it were "devoted" thing to do is continually sing the commendations of this country. Quit worrying about that we're continually ripped off by our political chiefs and the medical care industry. On the off chance that you offer even a breath of analysis, you're not kidding "resentful" or "desirous" or "lethargic" and "you ought to discover another country to move to."

Neglected debasement intensifies over the long run Since we're not permitted to coordinate our fury at the people and associations that merit it doesn't imply that fury disappears. That rage continually develops, and it doesn't make any difference the amount we drink on the ends of the week to attempt to neglect. The fury is staying put. A toxin lives inside us that, somehow, will get its out.

In such countless ways, Americans are prepared to "simply persevere" different types of social shamefulness. Assuming your manager deals with you like trash at work, you're not kidding "you're fortunate to have some work." You can buy a "packed in" guarantee for your vehicle, just to find that your most memorable breakdown isn't covered.

The sales rep who was overall quite well disposed to you during the discussion about purchasing the guarantee shows something else entirely when you demonstrate up anticipating that the guarantee should be regarded. A piece of growing up is perceiving how habitually you are faced with this inconsistency of demeanor.

The main thing all organizations do ably is send you the bill Basically, with regards to you paying, everyone is blissful. Everyone is your companion. Individuals lounge around the table waving their scaled down American banners and discussing how incredible this nation is.

Nonetheless, when it comes time for you to get the labor and products that you were guaranteed, abruptly everything is antagonistic. Unexpectedly no doubt about it or you're not kidding or "you misconstrued."

As far as I can tell, organizations will misunderstand your booking, they'll wreck the work they should do, and they'll appear late. Fundamentally, they'll ruin each and every part of maintaining their business.

In any case, the one thing they generally figure out how to do right is hit you with the bill. Some way or another the bill won't ever get "neglected." Some way or another each "charging blunder" blows up as opposed to diminishes the sum owed. You will pay regardless of whether the work was finished, and there's no one to go to in light of the fact that the public authority inclines toward the business over you.

"They're the work makers, you ought to suck it up and be thankful."

We want to begin perceiving the debasement surrounding us Everyone in the US realizes this is the situation. At the point when you were a youngster and you attempted to get your folks to discuss it, they'd say, "You'll comprehend when you're more seasoned." The explanation they say that is on the grounds that they've molded themselves not to perceive how taken advantage of they are. They feel defenseless, so they sit on the patio toasting intentionally try not to ponder their well established feeling of outrage.

Yet, that disappointment doesn't disappear. That disappointment just forms and gets uglier. In the long run, that dissatisfaction makes the overall population attack individuals who don't merit it.

No, pickleball isn't costing citizens cash I've been seeing articles recently where individuals are blaming pickleball and asserting the game costs citizens an unreasonable measure of cash. This is the very thing baffled individuals do when they remember they're being squeezed by a fake shortage of assets.

The American public is savvy to the point of realizing that it's unreasonable that certain individuals get citizen subsidized clinical consideration and most of us don't. Be that as it may, the American public has been denied the option to communicate this disappointment. Thus, they make ways of grumbling about it while coordinating their indignation at guiltless gatherings.

Pickleball is in no way, shape or form the main sign of this melancholy type of conduct. You get hordes of people who gather a grouping of semi sensible explanations, come to a ludicrous end result, and choose they're "supported" in going after the State house.

Here is the crazy pickleball contention:

Individuals on Federal health care like to play pickleball Citizens are left with the bill for Government medical care Pickleball prompts wounds Consequently, pickleball is costing citizens a large number of dollars Barstool rationale can't be permitted to become public arrangement Obviously, the counter pickleball contention is a lot of bunk. It doesn't take a virtuoso to remember it's not pickleball costing us cash, it's the bad medical services industry. Notwithstanding, Americans are prepared they should NEVER censure an effective business. They step around shouting, "On the off chance that you could do without it here, then, at that point, go live somewhere else," constantly. They remove their caps when the public song of praise plays at each game.

Over and over and again our ludicrous and lost public pride is supported. The object is that when ordinary residents are faced with an illustration of outrageous shamefulness, they search for a blameless party to substitute. It's a demonstration of weakness. General society needs to quit bowing to mental cacophony and perceive that the framework we have set up isn't working.

Glance around. It's not working! It simply isn't!

We've taken a stab at everything except the way of reason It won't "save America" assuming that we destroy each pickleball court. That is hogwash. The method for saving America is to quit permitting the medical care industry to crush each resident under its heel. On the off chance that we destroyed the benefit pipe that falsely made sociopathic very rich people, there would be significantly more assets until the end of us to appreciate.

Yet, you basically can't disclose the American figure out this. It's more straightforward for them to skip about screeching "regard thy elderly folks" even as they assault individuals on Government health care for a totally exaggerated reason like a lot of odious wolves in sheep's clothing.

The zinger is that pickleball most likely sets aside citizens cash since it's better for individuals on Federal medical insurance to be making the rounds getting exercise than it is for them to deteriorate in their homes. Be that as it may, when the stewing rage crowd gets something into their head, it's close to difficult to unstick the thought.

Individuals have so minimal that there's no motivation to be enlightened This model ought to offer a sobering acknowledgment concerning how much present day American culture is bombing the typical resident. Individuals are just a delicate push away from discarding all that they've worked for, getting a lance, putting on face paint, and walking off to break a few windows.

Contemplate that. Individuals in this nation have so minimal that they see no good reason for directing their own way of behaving to safeguard the lives they've fabricated. How does that address a "free and prosperous" society?

The most terrible part is that evil and self-serving powers generally, consistently, in every case direct this outrage at the honest as opposed to at the shifty establishments that really ought to be the objective of disdain. That is the reason nothing at any point sorts out. That is the reason everything generally deteriorates. The residents of the US are too apprehensive to even think about facing the domineering jerks.

My answer We must effectively kill the stewing rage that is the always present, exploitable foundation clamor of our country.

In the event that "unregulated economy" is the special stepped area we love, for what reason might we at any point have one in the medical care industry? When did you last tell a specialist, "The cost you charge for this surgery is excessively high, I'm going to your rival?"

You've NEVER said that since we DON'T have a "unrestricted economy" medical care framework. The following time you get a chance to converse with a lawmaker, pose them that inquiry. Municipal centers are a favored political discussion. On the off chance that there's one in your space, regardless of which lawmaker is joining in, appear and ask them for what reason we can't include contest inside the drug business to hold costs down.

This question is purposely excluded from the political conversation, from virtual entertainment stages, and from the media overall. All things being equal, the legitimate resentment you feel over the unmitigatedly clear treacheries of our general public is aimed at honest gatherings who don't have anything to do with the shortcomings you're encountering.

It's not a result of pickleball that you don't approach respectable medical care. Try not to permit yourself to be the accidental apparatus of abuse. Try not to be hoodwinked into quarreling with your partners. All things considered, unite with your partners and consider the oppressors responsible.

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Progressed However Not Familiar? Understand This to Become Bilingual

Most of individuals quit any pretense of learning an unknown dialect since they get deterred by how much work that goes into it.

It's simple toward the start, when everything revolves around essential discussion, the letter set, and current states. Yet, when you continue onward and you get to a transitional to cutting edge level, making that stride that carries you to the familiar band is a lot harder.

Assuming that this sounds like you... you can definitely relax. This is incredibly normal.

A review did by the Watchman in 2014 reports that most of understudies that gain proficiency with an unknown dialect in school (like Spanish, German or French) say that they can grasp fundamental sentences. Notwithstanding, a similar report likewise shows that understudies would like to learn and believe that dialects are valuable, yet, they find it challenging to get to a phase where they can without hesitation communicate in a subsequent language.

In any case, for what reason is it so difficult to become conversant in an unknown dialect? As you would be aware, learning a language isn't like figuring out how to ride a bicycle. Language learning is a long interaction, so it requires a ton of devotion, consideration, and practice.

Many individuals are exceptionally excited when they start their excursion, yet sooner or later they could get exhausted, drained or deterred. The principal tip I can give you is that main the ones that endure and think long haul are the ones that will effectively become bilingual. Obviously, this doesn't make a difference to the fortunate ones who have forever been bilingual (or multilingual).

Gaining another dialect without any preparation requires an enormous measure of mental exertion too. It is like figuring out how to think in something else altogether. You in a real sense need to figure out how to change the default of your cerebrum that makes you think, talk and even demonstration the manner in which you regularly do.

Another dialect is rarely pretty much talking. It's tied in with understanding a culture, how to collaborate with individuals that communicate in that language, how to be pleasant, entertaining and, surprisingly, discourteous in the other language.

For instance: In Italy, when you go to a bistro and you believe should arrange an espresso, individuals typically say:

Per me, un caffé. ( For my purposes, an espresso).

In any case, here in Ireland (and perhaps in the UK too), in the event that you said in English "For me an espresso" they would think you are shockingly impolite. Individuals say all things being equal:

Might I at any point if it's not too much trouble, get an espresso?

So despite the fact that you are obviously communicating your thoughts in another dialect, and the syntax might be right, you are not imparting actually on the off chance that you don't figure out how things are said in your objective language.

See it along these lines: A language is only an instrument of articulation. Who utilizes the apparatus (and how) is similarly all around as significant as the actual device. The slip-up that the vast majority do in language learning is that they treat a language as a language, and overlook the wide range of various social and conduct perspectives that the language involves.

This is the kind of thing I didn't be aware at first yet that I picked up during my years in Ireland.

At the point when individuals meet me, they praise me on my great English and my Irish Italian articulation. They generally pose me similar inquiries: 1. “ did you know English when you came to Ireland?" and 2. “ How is your English so great?"

The responses are:

Indeed, I knew a touch of English when I came yet it was very fundamental (comparably to the review done by the Gatekeeper, I could talk and grasp essential discussions). In spite of the fact that I read up English for around 10 years in school, how it is educated is just about language structure, which doesn't help, in actuality, discussions. I in a real sense couldn't assemble a sentence in spite of long periods of learning. I spent my most memorable year in Ireland simply spending time with local people, or individuals who couldn't communicate in Italian. I in a real sense constrained myself to learn for endurance. I went out with locals and paid attention to how they articulated words, how they kidded, and how they acted between them. It sounds a piece frightening however advancing by impersonation is in a real sense everything thing you can manage with dialects. So on the off chance that you, similar to me previously, have heaps of sentence structure information however find it hard to talk and to normally retain the language, I will let you know what I realized in my language learning venture that caused me to become bilingual and is presently assisting me with Spanish also:

Prevent examining from a book. On the off chance that you have great sentence structure information yet can't talk, more hypothesis won't help. Get out there and practice a ton. Find individuals you can converse with, and who don't communicate in your most memorable language. Attempt to drive yourself to communicate in that language. On the Web, in actuality, anything will finish the work. Retain like a wipe. Very much like me dissecting local speakers talk and act as they came from a different universe, I suggest you do likewise to become familiar. Encircle yourself with the language. Music, books, papers, digital broadcasts for your cerebrum to switch you need to give it no other choice. Try not to be terrified of committing errors. Botches are great. You are bound to recall something that you expressed wrong at first that some other word. At last, recall that there is a distinction between talking fluidly and dropping your inflection. Our pronunciation is our story and what makes us extraordinary. Individuals generally love unfamiliar accents on purpose: it's exceptional. That's what never lose. It could happen that a touch of it disappears assuming you live in an unfamiliar country for quite a while, however by the by, concealing your pronunciation ought not be the ultimate objective.

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The Golden Tech Stack

Welcome

Time is lovely, isn't it? It just flows on like a river. Anyway, some stuff has changed and an update is due! I hope you are well and excited for another edition of my blog.

This edition of the blog, I asked a simple question to my bitcoiner pals over at the Jupiter Broadcasting Matrix channel: "What would you like to see me write about or have my opinion on?" HAL9000 answered with: "I'd love to know your tech stack" (I am simplifying a bit, but, that is the jist), so, thank you for that!

Before I get to that, here are some

Updates

Since we last chatted over the blog, I have been trying (and failing) to get comments on here. I will be trying to make a small python app for that as a learning tool for developing python. Shouldn't be too hard, I hope. Do you think it will be?

I have also joined up with the Nostriches and have both a Nostr Blog on Habla.News and a regular twitter style nostr account (one in the same, really. Just different front ends and relays) My npub for seeking me out is: npub1x4fue7jz3y4gjjce6le9qkawapnrjkq92za78wr8qp36m4czggtshxdfxs

DISCLAIMER We should all have hope and look toward the day where a man realizes the sounds -ahem- sorry

Actual disclaimer: This blog will be mirrored over on Habla.News, so I may have to take some liberties for that ie photos will be linked for your viewing pleasure!

The Stack

I am surrounded by technology. Probably some tech debt, if I am honest. Just at this desk alone, I sit amongst four computers of varying scopes. "But, Dragon, why couldnt this be condensed down?" I did. This desk was full of monitors and the like, and I may still condense down to just one and make the rest headless, minus the laptop.

Here is the top level overview of what I use on a regular basis and (if i can remember) some specs:

It's GNOME, its XFCE, Its..!

Just a Mac Mini

The last gen of Intel-based Mac Mini computers. This is my daily driver and will soon become my dev machine. What I am considering is this:

Linux Hugo NGINX or Caddy (havent decided on the web server yet) MySQL Python

As for specs, this thing is Spec'ed OUT my dudes. And was given to me as a gift. My donor can let me know if they would like credit for this. Its been alluded to for sure, though! In it's current state, I am able to help my wife design stuff for our business, which won't change. I will just not be able to use her software (Cricut Design Space). If anybody out there has any luck running this in a VM, let me know.

The Blog Writer

This one is a little MicroMini Node, Lenovo style While not very powerful, like my Mac is, this tiny pc site behind my curved monitor and lets me write my blog with ease. Currently running Debian 12 Stable XFCE (email me that hate), it gets out of my way and just goes. Initially intended as a Monero rig, I realized that I wouldnt really get much out of that except the memes and I am (mostly) serious about my work. My blog stack is pretty simple:

Markdown files parsed by > Hugo sent to > GitHub hosted by > Netlify > to your lovely face.

The Server

Ahh, yes. My good ol' Dell This server is mainly a Nextcloud rig. Did host Jellyfin and ripped Anime, but, need to set up the latter again. Big fan of Serial Experiments Lain.

My Nodes

Did I mention I am a new Bitcoin Maxi? I have two nodes now. I have an Ancient eMachines with built-in Nvidia GPU and AMD Sempron CPU as well as a Kamrui Mini PC that I picked up second hand that somehow works

The top one is my Umbrel node and the Kamrui is my new Start9 Node. The Start9 node will be the one where my Blog sats will be (we will get to that in a moment!) As of now, Start9 cannot connect with Tailscale, but, I will see if I can change that. Probably not.

Misc

In addition to that, the boost button is proxied on a Nanode over on Linode and the Python Comments app I hope to develop will be over there as well. Once I learn how boosts work and how to work with API's, this will all just be peachy keen.

Future-sim aka Where this all goes

Eventually, I have a feeling I will be back to just a computer and a laptop, with headless nodes running in a 3d printed, fan cooled cabinet. What I would really enjoy would be my Mac being my base system, probably Arch or Debian. I would like to figure out exit nodes as well so that I can cut back on 5g data perhaps and just use my home internet.

The stack is nothing really golden, I just have a lot of extra tech that I wanted to put to use.

Support time!

This week, we (and by we I mean ThothLoki) blew my mind and sent over a whopping 5000 satoshis! I really appreciate it and that will be here on my Start9 node very soon with the other 300 satoshis from last blog post.

If you would like to support the blog, you too can send your value over by using the button below. If you are on Habla, you can Zap me and that will go directly to my node and I will send that over to the blog node as well.

Alternatively, you can send me directly via your wallet if it supports LNURL addresses! You can fund me directly with a send to TGDHaku@boost.goldenblogathon.com

It is night as I write this. When I wake, I hope the sun is warm. I hope that you are warm when the sun rises, too.

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Unknown dialect Learning Guide

Correspondence is a fundamental component for each living thing. In the event that we can't convey, it is undeniably challenging for us to see one another. So what is this correspondence? We people speak with our "voices" like creatures, yet every individual's voice is unique. This is where dialects become possibly the most important factor. Various countries have various dialects and experience issues understanding dialects other than their own. Everything thing we can manage to comprehend those dialects is to discover that language. So how would we get familiar with these dialects or for what reason would it be a good idea for us to learn them? Is it truly critical to grasp others? Obviously, few out of every odd individual can become familiar with each language, it is very troublesome, yet we can gain proficiency with a few dialects. So what are the motivations behind language learning? For what reason truly do individuals invest such a lot of energy learning another dialect? We should investigate this.

Legitimate Explanations behind Another Dialect Since it isn't feasible as far as we're concerned to get familiar with each language, individuals get familiar with a portion of the dialects they pick. The explanations behind learning the language picked by every individual are unique. These reasons can here and there be private, in some cases business related, in some cases schooling and that's only the tip of the iceberg. Regardless of whether you have a unique motivation to master, learning the language of a culture you love will cheer you up. Essentially, the justification for learning Japanese, which is so famous the present moment, is that individuals love watching anime and are interested by Japanese culture. People who learn Japanese get the opportunity to realize their way of life better and to be nearer with Japanese individuals. This is really the most straightforward motivation to get familiar with another dialect, regardless of whether you have an exceptional explanation, as I said.

SO HOW Might I Get familiar with Another Dialect? In the wake of deciding the language you will learn, you ought to initially check the amount you are familiar that language. What is your level in that language, you ought to find out. There are many tests on the web for this, you ought to tackle one of those tests and follow a way as indicated by your outcome. Suppose you're somebody who doesn't have the foggiest idea about the language by any stretch of the imagination. Then I will make sense of for you how to gain a language all along.

Assets COURSES: The most seasoned and most normal technique for learning a language is taking a course. Learning a language is simpler in a course, because of educator direction and, surprisingly, unique consideration regarding you. It is as yet valuable to explore the productivity of the course and regardless of whether it is great, on the grounds that all things considered, you are paying for these courses. Since you can find numerous language courses where you reside, this sort obviously will be valuable on the off chance that you can pay for it, however recollect that in certain spots it is feasible to find free language courses, so the course doesn't generally mean cash. On the off chance that the courses you find in your space are a long way from you, or on the other hand in the event that you have not tracked down a decent course, regardless of whether you are too sluggish to even consider going, you can likewise think about web-based courses. Because of the pandemic circumstances, online instruction has become exceptionally normal and the quantity of web-based language courses has expanded. Online courses can be essentially as effective as up close and personal courses. SCHOOL: A significant number of us start our language instruction at school, truth be told. There are necessary language courses in pretty much every nation and it tends to be extremely valuable assuming that we give due significance to those examples and assuming our educators are great as well. While learning a language at school, my recommendation is to constantly effectively take part in the example and to work everyday on school subjects by doing the doled out schoolwork consistently. On the off chance that you concentrate on some additional jargon while working along these lines, you will really know a considerable amount in that language until you move on from secondary school. A few schools truly have a great deal of chances and proposition you a second or third language as an elective course. You ought to think about these classes.

YOUTUBE, Sites AND Applications: There are for sure such countless helpful and free assets on the Web that utilizing them would be stupid not. It is presently conceivable to track down courses for nearly anything on YouTube, and the greater part of them are exceptionally helpful. You can find numerous assets for practically any language you need to learn and concentrate routinely all alone. Aside from Youtube, there are sites and applications where you can get familiar with a language. For instance, because of Duolingo, the most well known of these applications, you can gain proficiency with another dialect without investing an excess of energy daily. In the event that you will advance by working at home without anyone else, my recommendation is certainly to have a review program. Figure out which subjects you will work on and what you will settle consistently. Partition these into days and set a day to day working time for yourself. In the event that you don't design and don't be efficient, sadly, you will neglect to work consistently and it will be extremely unpredictable, which makes it hard for you to learn.

LANGUAGE Improvement Techniques I'm learning the language some way or another, yet how might I broaden what I've realized? How would it be advisable for me to respond?

Such inquiries come to the personalities of nearly each and every individual who learns a language, and as a matter of fact, they make you be trapped where you can not work on in the language. On the off chance that you can't settle these inquiries. In the wake of learning the important data, there are very fun ways of further developing the language you are learning.

READING: Peruse, endlessly read more. Perusing is dependably helpful for us, however shouldn't something be said about perusing in the language you learn? This is much more valuable. In the event that you begin perusing books that are reasonable for your level while learning a language, you will see more appropriate uses as far as punctuation and you will glean some significant knowledge of new words. Assuming there are words in the book that you don't have the foggiest idea, don't be apprehensive, simply take a note pad and record those words with their implications. Subsequently, you can make Streak Cards from those words and work on them, which permits the words to have an extremely durable spot to you.

LISTENING: It will be exceptionally useful for you to begin standing by listening to the melodies of the language you have begun to learn, both concerning your articulation and again with regards to jargon. While paying attention to the melodies, first attempt to comprehend the words yourself, this will assist you with becoming acclimated to the language, and afterward attempt to comprehend by perusing the verses, and in the event that you can't comprehend, keep a rundown with the implications of the words you don't have any idea. One more method for advancing by listening is to stare at the television series. On account of these series you will watch, you will become acclimated to the day to day utilization of that language. SPEAKING: On the off chance that you don't work on communicating in, that language isn't exactly helpful on the grounds that our responsibility is to impart. It is undeniably challenging in the event that there are no individuals communicating in an unknown dialect in your own nation, so you can meet individuals who communicate in the language you learned on web-based locales and make new companions and practice by talking with them. On the off chance that you have the chance to go to a nation where the language you are learning is spoken, it is much more gainful in light of the fact that you can rehearse straightforwardly up close and personal. This will make it simpler for you to become acclimated to and learn.

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Summer Sheep: Photograph by Jørgen Håland on Unsplash

Section 1. They called her Eve. Brought into the world on December 26th, 2002, she would quickly turn into the focal point of contention — and of a revolting authority fight. DNA tests would be requested, postponed, requested once more, a Florida lawyer would sue, looking for a brief gatekeeper for the youngster, and in the interim the specific area, and, surprisingly, the genuine name, of Child Eve remained totally confidential. The legitimate question would at last bring about a legislative hearing, a House Goal, and government regulation. Since Eve, on the off chance that she existed, was a clone.

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Eve's story starts a couple of years sooner, at a September 2000 question and answer session in Montreal. At the table was a man named Claude Vorilhon, a previous French writer and the organizer behind a strict development called Raëlism. He wore a little, close bun in his hair, however his slanting bare pate focused somewhat in camera light. With him was a lady maybe much seriously striking: Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, with her copper-light hair, cool scholarly impressive skill, sharp mind, and Parisian pronunciation. They declared they had established another organization, CLONAID, and professed to be at the front line of clone-driven conceptive innovation. They additionally hand financing. An American couple had previously consented to set up a portion of 1,000,000 bucks with the goal that they could clone their 10-month-old child, who had kicked the bucket because of clinical negligence.

CLONAID additionally had the substitutes. Situated at the press table were five young ladies (of ten), each a Raelian helper who had consented to be belly space for the cloned undeveloped organisms — an important majority, as not all would end in feasible pregnancy. As with such a great amount in science and medication, then, at that point, as now, achievement is a numbers game. A sound human giver can deliver 20 eggs following a month of chemical medicines; regardless of whether two were moved to every substitute, just a single in 100 could endure to the point of being conceived. This additionally implies that 99 of them didn't.

Claude, who had expected the name Raël, reported that the expectation of Clonaid was "to free people from death." Raëlism, all things considered, was "more way of thinking than religion," very nearly a love of innovation and how it might expand life. Cloning the human was, Raël made sense of, the method representing things to come. He then gave the floor to Dr. Boisselier.

Boisselier holds not one however two PhDs in science. She had been head of exploration for a substance organization in Lyons, France, and played assumed the part of logical guide to Raël at some point in 1997. In estimated tones she made sense of for the assembled press corps that the cloning lab was at that point being constructed, that they had a group of scholars, gynecologists, and natural chemists, that they had previously detached the DNA of the departed kid. Likewise with Cart the sheep, cloned in 1996, the Clonaid group expected to embed the DNA into an emptied out egg. They expected that the undeveloped organism be cloned, embedded, and filled so as to be brought into the world on Christmas, 2001. " At the point when another innovation shows up," made sense of Boisselier, it faces "dread, then, at that point, questions, then, at that point, you gradually acknowledge." When the world sees this kid, the same than some other, not any more supernatural than the 'unnaturally conceived children' of invitro preparation, individuals would lose their feelings of dread about the worth of regenerative cloning.

The man whose work enlivened Boisselier's declaration significantly clashed. " It is totally criminal to attempt this in a human," said Ian Wilmut, the maker of Cart the cloned sheep. Wilmut's work had stunned established researchers and presented another field of examination — and theory. He recognized that certain individuals may attempt human cloning, especially barren people who in any case needed to pass on their qualities. His protest had nothing anything that to do with the can, yet the ought to. Human cloning was conceivable; he didn't think it merited the gamble — however he illustrated the expected utilization of "atomic exchange" which could depend on a cloned incipient organism, as opposed to a cloned grown-up. Assuming the line among that and what Clonaid were arranging appears to be extremely fine, that is on the grounds that it is.

The tale of cloning starts well before "Eve," but it's dependably an anecdote about Eve. It begins in the some time in the past and distant, in strict iconography of the "extraordinary mother," in narratives of twins and enormous births, in the organic truth of normal parthenogenesis (unconstrained self-cloning proliferation), and in the lived insight of those frantically attempting to consider a kid through progressively mind boggling and to be sure supernatural innovations.

What is a clone? In the event that I take a piece of myself, and from that DNA build a new, hereditarily indistinguishable match, it will regardless grow in an unexpected way, have various encounters, be — basically — no more myself than a twin kin would be. Yet in addition: no less. Replicants have a long history. Lab cloning has been with us starting from the primary misleadingly parted lizard egg, isolated in 1902; it has been considered among geneticists from the 1920s to the 1960s, and cloning enormous warm blooded creatures has been inside our power since Cart the sheep made her firsts strides.

For what reason do we clone? Remedial cloning (under the pennant of undifferentiated organism research) has figured out how to find a home at esteemed colleges like Harvard and Yale, while regenerative cloning has been named shameless, off-base, even wicked. This book will investigate the morals and way of talking that permitted one to be acknowledged while different has been the subject of contempt and censure. Restorative cloning is characterized as the most common way of copying cells, tissues, and, surprisingly, entire organs (Lanza et al., 1999). “ Regenerative cloning," as the name recommends, expects to imitate the whole living being. However, as friendly researcher Mary Waters Ingram composed soon after fresh insight about Eve broke, the two sorts of cloning start in similar arrangement of methods: the proliferation of lab-developed human undeveloped organisms. The utilization of undeveloped immature microorganisms, got from the internal cell mass of a blastocyst, has been with is over 10 years. They are pluripotent, meaning they can turn out to be all unique cell types, can self-recharge and self-fix, and they partition as often as possible. That makes them extraordinarily valuable. It additionally puts them at the core of discussion, on the grounds that to gather is likewise to annihilate.

As per California's Immature microorganism Organization, the four to multi day-old incipient organisms are "left finished" from in vitro treatment (IVF). They develop and separate, are reaped, and are annihilated, not so not the same as the refined Hela cells of Henrietta Needs. Benefactors should agree to the making of immature microorganism "lines," over and again cloned and gathered ages from those unique eggs. Yet, these cloned incipient organisms are additionally possibly suitable. Embedded into a human belly, they would (or could) get by and be conceived.

It is assessed that 30% of Americans have either been straightforwardly impacted by conceptive innovation or know somebody who had. My own niece was once a treated yet unused egg. My twin nephews were a solitary egg, embedded by in vitro treatment, that split in two. They are 'clones' of a kind, in fact. My niece, however absolutely novel (and eccentric), may very well as effectively have been given to immature microorganism labs as an extra, and clones developed from her undeveloped tissue to be gathered as stem societies. This didn't happen, basically in light of the fact that my sister by marriage had long viewed as this egg as her 'young lady on ice,' a potential kid she planned to have embedded sometime in the not too distant future. That isn't to propose that giving to science is off-base; it is simply to say that quite a few potential "Eves" as of now exist.

The cloning of people and human tissue has occurred on display, in the new thousand years, right underneath our noses. It is as of now progressing in government-supported, all around regarded labs across America and then some, and it has profoundly impacted the manner in which we moved toward both treatment and antibodies for Coronavirus. It seems like sci-fi; it appears to be excessively great (or maybe too unnerving) to be in any way obvious. However science has been profoundly put resources into hereditary cloning since before WWII, and effectively cloned mice and sheep a fourth of 100 years back. All the more as of late, Chinese researchers cloned two crab-eating macaques (Zhong and Hua) — and on September twelfth of 2020, researchers from US-based Resuscitate and Reestablish cloned a Przewalski foal, last of the genuine wild ponies, from 40-year-old DNA. The science, at the end of the day, as of now exists, and effective human incipient organisms have been cloned and considered for undifferentiated cell research since something like 2008. The response to the inquiry "have we genuinely cloned a human?" is Yes. A Lot. Have we utilized atomic exchange to clone a human the manner in which Wilmut had finished with Cart?

Until the introduction of Louise Brown, the first "test tube" child in 1978, it appeared to be profoundly far-fetched that IVF might at any point prompt solid births. Louise's conveyance had been shrouded in mystery; specialists worked in close to murkiness and under police escort, her character shielded from the papers and at times from the clinical staff. She is currently in her forties, and the quantity of children brought into the world since through IVF or other regenerative advancements is north of 8 million, universally. More than standard, it is currently a whole industry. Notwithstanding the incredible additions, in any case, there are some for whom even these advances offer little expectation. Barrenness, latent hereditary markers (which could mean gamble of birth imperfections), or even the departure of an accomplice can spell almost certain doom for an imminent parent's expectations. On account of Eve, notwithstanding, the mission to clone started with the departure of a kid.

Mark Chase was a legal counselor and a legislator in Charleston, West Virginia — as well as a possibility for the US Place of Delegates. His better half Tracy had brought forth their most memorable child, Andrew, in 1998, yet he was brought into the world with an inborn heart imperfection. A cheerful child with dazzling blue eyes, Andrew went into the emergency clinic at ten months old for remedial medical procedure. He wouldn't endure the system. Chase won a negligence suit, however it didn't facilitate the misfortune, and it didn't bring Andrew back. " You can't envision the outright wretchedness," he would later tell ABC news. " It's more than despondency. It's actual aggravation." In the corner of his misery, Chase had Andrew's cells protected. He would not completely accept that this was the end; Cart the sheep had been cloned a couple of years sooner in 1996. Why not clone a human kid? Be that as it may, it wasn't to be. Constrained into the spotlight, with the danger of against cloning gatherings and strain from the Food and Medication Organization (FDA), Chase started to feel a little unsure. Soon after, the FDA struck Boisselier's West Virginia research facility, and the issue of cloning in the US turned into a question of the law. In August of 2001, the 107th Congress passed the Human Cloning Denial Act; it restricted the cloning of any tissue that could "lead to an undeveloped organism," and forced weighty fines and even prison time. It was the finish of Chase's expectations. Be that as it may, it wasn't the finish of Eve.

Boisselier funded another organization as a free endeavor (with another name she kept out of the papers). She looked for new givers, and opened another lab reputed to be situated in South Korea. In any case, human cloning as a conceptive innovation had new and enthusiastic allies, as well. Cyprus-conceived physiologist Panayiotis Michael Zavos affirmed before Congress that five different barrenness facilities were dashing to be first to clone. Italian gynecologist Severino Antinori (well known for having helped a 61 year-elderly person to conceive an offspring) had joined Zavos' Lexington, Kentucky fruitfulness center, and they were likewise cloning undeveloped organisms — however they presently couldn't seem to embed any. His strategy, the most well-known and furthermore at the core of Cart's turn of events, is called substantial cell atomic exchange (SCNT). Any cell in the body, even skin, might be utilized insofar as it has full hereditary code of an individual. The core of such a cell is taken out and moved into an emptied out egg cell, where a slight beat of electrical energy can make the cells partition and create. " The cloned youngster is coming," Zavos kept up with gladly. " It is absolutely impossible that that it won't work out" [interview, Culture of Life, 2009]. Both China and Russia were supposed to explore different avenues regarding human cloning, also, and to keep up with his edge over the opposition, Zavos professed to have embedded cloned blastocysts into five barren ladies in May of 2002. None brought about pregnancies. Dr. Boisselier stuck around for her opportunity.

"I need to help families," she made sense of [personal interview with B. Schillace]. She had been working with new clients; a barren couple from Israel, a lesbian couple who wished to consider without help of a man. They generally needed to have kids; " it is grievous," she said — is there any good reason why she shouldn't utilize all the innovation accessible to get that going? Scientists like Wilmut said creature models should start things out; mice and sheep, pigs and canines, and afterward maybe primates. There ought to be no human investigations of the sort Zavos appeared to be making; it abused morals. In contrast to Zavos or the frequently showy and aggressive Antinori, Boisselier stayed silent. She didn't uncover her work even to the Raelians, who had initially upheld the undertaking — not even to Rael, himself. Similarly as with the primary unnaturally conceived child, and with the mystery of Louise Earthy colored's introduction to the world especially as a main priority, Boisselier basically made a declaration of the birth. It was Boxing Day, December 26, 2002. " We call her Eve," she said — not on the grounds that it was the youngster's name, however she addressed an ideal. An Eden. A quest for starting points. Be that as it may, would she say she was genuine?

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In a prosperous nation like Australia, the issues that Bitcoin aim to solve are far less perceivable compared to other poorer or authoritarian nations. Bitcoin’s value proposition is less relatable because we have access to banks, our economies are generally tolerable, and everything to some degree just works.

Conversations about Bitcoin in the workplace or among friends and family can be difficult. You may often be dismissed, called names (mine is “future boy”), or perceived as someone belonging to a cult. And people will bring up the common arguments against Bitcoin purported by the media: 1) it uses to much energy, 2) it is volatile, 3) it encourages criminal activity like the silk road, 4) it is a Ponzi scheme, 5) its an intangible asset, and 6) its a speculative and immature technology.

Here I will offer some tips I have learnt when talking to people about Bitcoin. My frame of reference is as a Bitcoiner living in Australia, but I think my experience may translate to other developed nations.

Tip 1: Never try convince someone they should buy Bitcoin.

My first tip is to never try convince people to buy Bitcoin, but instead, teach them about Bitcoin and guide them towards sources where they can learn more themselves. The value proposition behind Bitcoin is difficult to understand and people shouldn’t necessarily hold any before they understand the risks and benefits behind the technology.

In my mind, the most important part of a person’s orange pilling is the will and interest to find out more themselves, and make their own decision to buy some.

So your primary aim should be just to find a way to make them interested enough to seek out more information. Here is my shortlist of books, podcasts, and other valuable sources I use when pointing people to find out more.

Tip 2: Bitcoin is an inclusive technology.

One major problem I see with the Bitcoin community is that Bitcoiners set up walls where you are either enlightened Bitcoiner, or you are a “normie”. For someone seeking to find out more about Bitcoin, the community can appear cultish, and being referred to as a “normie” or other names creates an exclusive environment that can dissuade people from finding out more. Everyone will have their own path of discovery as most of us did. Help others find Bitcoin by making the community inclusive.

Tip 3: Be prepared to combat common misconceptions or misunderstandings

1. Bitcoin uses more energy than some country in Europe (no one ever remembers which)

This is probably the most common argument I hear. But as you will see, the real question here is not about the absolute amount of energy use, but a person’s perception of the value per unit energy that it delivers.

The adoption of any new technology that advances society has required energy. This energy consumption is often intense at the beginning and becomes more efficient as the technology develops and drives further investment. Bitcoin miners are the primary consumers of energy in the technology. Most people don’t actually understand why Bitcoin consumes energy — Bitcoin consumes energy to cryptographically protect the value contained within the network. However, inherent to Bitcoin is an economic incentive to reduce energy costs and maximise profits. Miner’s therefore naturally seek out more efficient technologies and cheaper sources of energy.

Over a 5 year period from 2018 to 2023, the energy required per terrahash (energy per unit work) declined by 63%. It is also useful to highlight novel ways in which Bitcoin miners are consuming wasted energy or using renewable sources, such as Iris energy, or Gridless. These and other companies are investing into renewable energy sources. Current estimates of Bitcoin’s renewable energy usage is between 25% and 50%.

In 2016 the power consumption of data centres was estimated to be 200 TWh/y. By comparison, Bitcoin consumes between 75.4 TWh/y and 122 TWh/y. The traditional financial system is estimated to consume 5,000 TWh/y which pales to Bitcoin’s consumption. This is not to say we should be complacent about Bitcoin’s energy use; these are all staggering amounts of energy consumption! But in most people’s mind, the value of data centres and the legacy financial system seems so obvious that they wouldn’t question its energy usage. So the real question should not be about the absolute value of power consumption, but rather whether Bitcoin provides the same global value per unit energy consumed.

Framing the energy argument in terms of the value per unit energy should help to open a discussion on Bitcoin’s value proposition.

2. Bitcoin is volatile

Yes, Bitcoin is volatile! But why is this bad? Most people making this claim are comparing Bitcoin to holding shares in some big tech company. Bitcoin is not a company! Comparing it to a company means you haven’t understood the Bitcoin’s true value proposition of it becoming the hardest form of money. Furthermore, despite its current volatility, Bitcoin continues to outperform most stocks and gold.

Bitcoin is a truly free market asset, unlike other forms of investment influenced by capital controls which act to dampen volatility. Bitcoin’s adoption still sits below 5% globally. As adoption increases, its price will continue to stabilise as it has been over the past decade (see figure below).

Bitcoin price volatility index (source: https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/volatility-index/)

Volatility will continue to be a feature of Bitcoin in the near future. But this is not necessarily bad. Investment into Bitcoin, like any asset, should be taken with consideration of a person’s financial position and their ability to weather this volatility.

3. Bitcoin facilitates illicit activity and the anonymity of the criminals.

There is no escaping the fact that to some degree Bitcoin has facilitated the exchange of drugs and other illicit activity. However, Bitcoin offers a level of traceability that hasn’t existed previously with cash. Bitcoin is not anonymous, it is pseudonymous. It depends on a public ledger that facilitates the tracking funds, and KYC (Know-Your-Customer) on/off ramps that help link transactions back to individuals. This tracking has led to the downfall of the silk road and several associated criminals since. Law enforcement and journalists are constantly coming up with tools to track the the movement of cryptocurrencies used in illicit activity.

Bitcoin is a neutral technology. Blaming Bitcoin for the drug problem is as silly as blaming the internet, the postage service that sends a large portion of drugs, or cars that drive them from location to location. It will never be escape the fact that some people will use it for illegal activity, as people have and will continue to do with any form of money.

4. Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.

Many other cryptocurrencies which are actual Ponzi schemes have given people a negative impression of Bitcoin. I once had a family member, who knew about my great interest in Bitcoin gleefully exclaim “Hey did you hear!? Bitcoin is dead!” She was referring to the news about the downfall of OneCoin. This comment made me realise how important it is to help people understand the fundamental difference between a decentralised Bitcoin and a centralised crypto Ponzi.

In simple terms, Bitcoin being decentralised means there is no single entity in charge or profiting from the value of Bitcoin, nor are there profits derived from getting people into Bitcoin.

A follow-on comment I often get is that early adopters cause an imbalance in the distribution of wealth. This is currently true. It is estimated that 0.01% of addresses hold 58% of all Bitcoin. But we currently live in a world of rapidly rising inequality and a financial system that promotes the financial privileged. Over the past 40 years, the top 1% of income earners has seen their share increase from about 11% to almost 20% in the USA (see figure below).

Total share of income of the top 1% of earners (source: https://wid.world/)

You can research into the effects leading to inequality and you will read very contradictory arguments from both sides of the Bitcoin camp. So I’m not going to argue that Bitcoin solves the problem of wealth inequality; that is yet to be seen. But the growing digitisation of financial services is already creating a positive effect in reducing wealth inequality around the world. One of Bitcoins main benefits is that it promotes financial inclusion, which I believe can only result in a positive outcome for reducing inequality.

5. Bitcoin is an intangible asset

I once tried to explain to a family member the link between physical gold and Bitcoin. I used the analogy that energy is trapped in physical gold, and energy is required to extract it. This is similar to extracting and storing energy in Bitcoin. He laughed at me smugly.

Some people will have a really hard time comparing a physical asset to a digital one. They assume a digital asset can be copied, and it has no meaningful use in the real world. Bitcoin requires some tech literacy which you cannot teach in an evening!

Instead, you can highlight that a physical asset like gold is a great store of value; we have been using it to store value for millennia. But it is not a great medium of exchange. How can you break it up into smaller pieces? How do you send it across the world?

Bitcoin solves these problems. Like gold, Bitcoin cannot be copied or debased. But unlike gold, you can send fractions of a Bitcoin instantly anywhere across the globe.

6. Bitcoin is a speculative and immature technology.

Trace Mayer used to talk about the seven network effects of Bitcoin: Speculation, Merchant Adoption, Consumer Adoption, Security, Developer Mindshare, Financialization, and Adoption as a World Reserve Currency.

Speculation, being the first network effect, is an important part of Bitcoin’s maturation. Speculation drives early adoption and leads to the initial growth and innovation. Early adopters face larger risks as the price is more volatile, but also reap larger rewards. As more people adopt, merchants begin to accept it as forms of payment, leading to the second network effect and so on.

Yes, Bitcoin was a speculative asset but it is far beyond it speculative stage. We are currently closer to the “Developer mindshare” stage, where developers are working on new tools and new products that now integrate multiple technologies, like lightning and nostr.

Bitcoin is no longer speculative. I would also argue it is not even immature, even though it has only been around for a decade. But a misconception people often make is that the dollar (AUD or USD) is mature. The dollar as we know it is an experiment that has been running since around 1971, and politicians and economists still have no idea how to control it! Levers are pulled, money is debased and debt is increased time and time again.

Debt to GDP since 1970. Australia saw a moment of recovery duing the early 2000s but began increasing after the global financial crisis in 2008. Japan’s debt skyrocketed in the 1990’s and currently sits around 260%. On average across the G-20 nations, debt has increased from a low of 23% to around 95%. (source https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/CG_DEBT_GDP@GDD/SWE)

And thats it! I hope you found this useful for the next time you’re speaking to someone about Bitcoin in a developed nation.

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Draymond Green Shouts at the Dalai Lama for Calling Him a Beta Male

Marcus Aurelis cited that a man is genuinely powerful when he doesn't allow words to get to him. All in all, NBA Elite player Draymond Green is as yet a kid.

The close to home man-kid is notable for flying off the handle so rapidly that fans contemplated whether he was Above all else Joffrey in blackface. Other NBA groups, be that as it may, utilized this youthfulness for their potential benefit. Ex-Cleveland Cavaliers star Channing Frye conceded the group got Green so irritated up with their waste talk that he kicked LeBron James in the balls. Green was suspended for playing soccer rather than ball.

Green succumbed to the trap as effectively as Charlie Brown does when Lucy vows to keep the football still. The Cavaliers fished him out of the Brilliant States Fighters setup to come out on top for the title in 2016. This misfortune damaged Green such a lot of that he asked genius Kevin Durant to join the Champions one year from now. Durant joined the Fighters, feeling he could connect with Green more with their side interest of exploding Twitter/X with their relentless assaults to coordinated analysis.

Green's rebounds on Twitter/X are pitiable to the point that clients thought he was 13 years of age. Indeed, even Will Smith chose to launch his vocation rebound by featuring as Green in his biopic: 30 Going on 13.

In any case, we tracked down Green's tweets so entertainingly awful that we needed to share this recoil happy with our perusers.

Green advises Conor McGregor to quit wearing Green's Fighters #23 shirt, as Green was pulling for Floyd Mayweather against McGregor. McGregor counters that he was wearing CJ Watson's Fighters #23 pullover, as tWatsonr is dating Mayweather's ex. McGregor told Green he had no clue about what his identity is, yet he trusts Green remained in school. In view of Green's answer, he could have helped taking McGregor's recommendation. Green blindsided ex-colleague Jordan Many poole destroyed talked Green's presentation. Green then safeguarded himself with "I don't simply hit individuals." Green is correct. He as a rule kicks individuals in the nuts. Green pummeled ex-power forward Kevin Garnett for disregarding Green's garbage talk and danger to battle after Garnett hammered Green for harassing players that are more modest than Green. Stand by, that Garnett tweet was phony? Yet again green got a profound reaction subsequent to succumbing to a lure. Green's web-based reprisal makes Durant's virtual entertainment applaud backs appear as though jokes from Rodney Dangerfield. Very much like Dangerfield and Durant, Greene gets no regard around here.

Green took to his digital broadcast to shield his youthfulness.

"Each game group will set off touchy savage kid in the other group. Anything that they need to do to excel. I simply find it entertaining that they can beat us Heroes when I'm not there. This simply demonstrates that I am the best player in that group.

"They assumed they was bedeviling me? Please. I realized they were attempting to trap me. I'm the expert baiter! I jack off to their perspiration and tears consistently!

"All of you will say I'm getting protective. Obviously I'm! I won Cautious Player of the Year in 2017! I didn't win that grant by simply playing world class ball safeguard.

"At the point when you play this game at a first class level as I do, you see this game far in an unexpected way. I decide to succumb to the snares to distract the other group! I play the long con. I succumbed to the trap to lose the finals to Cleveland, yet I wound up kicking their butts in the following two finals appearances! Indeed, Durant might have accomplished practically everything, except I was the explanation he endorsed with us! My pleasure, Oakland.

"I don't simply affront individuals. Assuming you irritated me, Imma come at you. Focus front and center young men. Particularly you, Dalai Lama."

Green pulled up a screen capture from Twitter/X handle thedelillama.

"So the Dalai Lama tweets.

Draymond Green is a bitch ass n***a. Delicate beta male. Indeed, even mentor Steve Kerr concurs. Furthermore, Kerr got a ridiculous punch from Michael Jordan.

"Presently, I don't have the foggiest idea why a Buddhist priest would tweet this. They advance harmony, yet cuss out irregular fellows? Don't they invest all their energy reflecting? What in the world do they are familiar balls?

"The main thing the Dalai Lama realizes about balls are those from young men. Seriously. How would you get found out with your tongue down a kid's throat? Indeed, even degenerate sex dealer Dan Snyder had the option to conceal his pimping for a considerable length of time. Also, he was continually at the center of attention for demolishing the Washington Leaders."

Green then yelled on why the Dalai Lama was essentially as much as a "disappointment" in ball as Andrew Nicholson.

"Not to attempt to toss salt at anybody. With regards to winning, a portion of the fight is seeming to be a b-ball player. Furthermore, when you see folks on the opposite side of the floor that don't seem to be b-ball players, you consequently lose regard.

"At the point when you see folks that you have no regard for, you do things that you ordinarily wouldn't do. The Dalai Lama seems to be a b-ball player. Unusual body shape. Seems to be Yao Ming's skeleton. Has Kobe Bryant's hair. Dress like Superman's cape. What on God's green earth does he be aware of b-ball?

"I ain't no beta. I'm THE ALPHA! I observed the 10 Laws of The Alpha to everything about so I can be Twitter affirmed!

"This Buddhist beta figures he can bring down an alpha? I'm no Adonis. Yet, I can muscle my direction through this twig. Come at me, brother!"

We connected with the Dalai Lama on his tweet. The Dalai Lama chuckled.

"I am nevertheless a modest priest. I have no requirement for materialistic belongings. I have no need for tweets, not to mention a Twitter account.

"I don't have the foggiest idea who's mimicking me on the web. Moreover, I have never met Mr. Green face to face. Yet, he appears to be an irate, pained soul. I want to believe that I can assist him with accomplishing internal harmony."

We connected with Twitter/X client thedelillama. The client answered.

"Obviously we're not the Dalai Lama. Peruse our handle. We're The Store Llama!

"No, we don't sell sandwiches loaded with llama meat. We're a games image account! We make up jokes to the detriment of competitors.

"Did Draymond Green truly suppose the real Dalai Lama was offending him? He truly is the one genuine expert baiter."

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Environmental change is noticeable wherever you look.

Glacial masses are dissolving at an extraordinary rate, as those photos from the 1930s and the 2020s show.

Ranchers all around the world need to adapt to more regular and more extreme dry spell, even in moderate environments like Switzerland.

Indeed, even the U.S. Naval force is considering leaving a portion of its significant bases, as ocean levels rise quicker than at any other time.

On top, monetary difficulties begin showing up wherever you look.

Capital is becoming more difficult to find. For extravagant new companies, however for business overall. A piece of the explanation is that interest in business congruity is on the ascent. Part is on the grounds that states give out gigantic upgrade bundles directly following Coronavirus. Also, part is on the grounds that markets will quite often decrease because of the rising international pressures between the West, Russia, and China.

Also, remember the expenses of reestablishing our guard abilities, modernizing our federal retirement aide frameworks, and forestalling future pandemics.

Gracious, and we failed to remember the expenses of environmental change and the energy progress.

It's self-evident: We're in both monetary and natural difficulty, in a worldwide setting.

Will we be frightened, on the grounds that our home (or planet) is consuming?

Not in any way shape or form. Nothing comes close to a fire.

Be that as it may, to tidy up our home, we should change a portion of our twentieth century propensities for good. What's more, with propensities, I don't mean miniature propensities for people, however full scale propensities for whole social orders.

In this series of articles, I propose new speculation measurements adjusted to the real factors of environmental change.

Part 1: We really want to acknowledge that environmental change will cost us sincerely Section 2: Our top center is CO2 evasion and expulsion Section 3: A decent life needs water Section 4: Biodiversity makes everything simpler How about we make a plunge directly into our top concentration, which is CO2. As portrayed To a limited extent 1, doing combating environmental change comprises of two parts: Moderation, and variation. Concerning CO2, alleviation implies keeping away from CO2 emanations, and transformation implies eliminating currently discharged CO2 from the air.

Furthermore, similarly as depicted To a limited extent 1, CO2 evacuation (transformation) is more expensive than CO2 evasion (relief), yet we can't bear to zero in on moderation alone any longer.

Regardless in the event that we take a gander at CO2 evasion or CO2 expulsion, the center measurements for successful energy speculations are something similar.

Center Metric 1: Stayed away from lots of CO2 per dollar contributed We can't bear the cost of the advantage of philosophy. The hours of putting resources into 10% eco-friendliness improvement tasks or dispensable flatware made of bamboo are finished. We really want to quantify each venture against kept away from lots of CO2 per dollar contributed.

What's more, here, there is a reasonable essential objective: Coal. Coal is a relict from the industrialization of the nineteenth hundred years, one of the most contaminating energizes, regardless broadly utilized from one side of the planet to the other. For some odd reason, coal is one of the center fills to create power, despite the fact that jolt is much of the time proclaimed as the answer for environmental change. I concur that jolt will settle an enormous contributor to our concerns on the off chance that done well — yet not assuming we use coal to create power, we neglect to put resources into strong and current framework foundation to send all that sun based and wind power, or on the other hand in the event that we supplant our essential oil reliance by a basic mineral reliance for battery creation.

There aren't any silver projectiles in environmental change designing, so we should not elevate one single answer for battle environmental change; we will require a wide range of answers for every one of our concerns.

What's more, hence, here is the optional objective: Oil and gas. The fossil energy economy is a relict of the twentieth hundred years, and it needs to go rapidly to at any point arrive at zero discharges. Whether petroleum products are supplanted by environmentally friendly power sources or by keeping away from a portion of the utilization at all doesn't make any difference — recall that it's the stayed away from lots of CO2 per dollar contributed that is significant.

It's simply simple. Eliminating coal, oil, and gas from the worldwide economy will get the job done.

It is quite difficult, obviously, on the grounds that we really want to eliminate coal, oil, and gas worldwide. Consider every one individuals all over the planet making money from those ventures. In the event that they unexpectedly can't make a living any longer, it will be troublesome. In this regard, there are immense contrasts between various districts. With 3/4 of the world's coal being created and consumed in Asia and Australia, attempt to make sense of for that little coal mineshaft specialist in country India why his administration ought to boycott the ware that procures him his unassuming pay. Protection from change generally reflects personal stakes, frequently because of constrained conditions: Not having the option to propose to your darling since you can't manage the cost of the wedding after your coal mineshaft work is gone may be a justification for what reason you're not so strong of sunsetting the coal business for good.

In the event that we figure out how to dispose of coal, oil, and gas, and on top to relieve the social results of doing as such, we're now on a very decent way.

Center Metric 2: Time-to-execution We want to ensure that speculations with the best scores in regards to stayed away from or taken out lots of CO2 per dollar contributed are made first. Recollect from Section 1 that we are in a rush and short on reserves.

What's more, here is the spoiler for all new innovation nerds: This could imply that we start with demonstrated, exhausting innovations instead of with new, extravagant advancements. Since we are using up all available time to battle environmental change, having a decent arrangement scaling rapidly is obviously superior to having a wonderful arrangement that requires twenty years to create and an additional twenty years to scale.

We should outline this by checking out at a couple of innovation models.

Hydroelectric dams, photovoltaics, and enormous scope wind ranches function admirably and can be sent and scaled generally rapidly — in light of the fact that they are demonstrated advances. Notwithstanding, the world of politics and the subsequent guidelines frequently obstruct time-to-execution and adaptability: For instance, there are a few green activists in my nation of origin that actually battle against new enormous scope hydroelectric ventures on the grounds of safeguarding environments in regions that were covered by ice sheet ice under 10 years prior. I pass on it to you to pass judgment in the event that it's smarter to fabricate another hydroelectric dam high in the mountains, or import power created by petroleum derivatives.

I nearly wouldn't even come close to saying it boisterously, however atomic innovation is likewise a demonstrated low-discharges innovation — but with its own concerns obviously. While building new thermal energy plants could nor be speedy nor reasonable in the long haul, broadening the life expectancy of existing thermal energy plants could give us loads of without coal power essentially for years and years. Model estimations additionally propose that getting to net zero discharges is the least expensive while considering the modernization of existing thermal energy plants.

Contrast this and the 20+ long stretches of declarations that combination reactors will be accessible all of a sudden. In 1999, when I was in secondary school, I got the opportunity to visit the Joint European Torus (Fly) project in Culham, Britain. This undertaking will be closed down toward the finish of 2023, with three organizations settling in a similar area. They expect to fabricate showing plants, however it's as yet hazy in the event that combination power has the business potential its advocates trust.

To wrap things up, we should discuss manufactured flying fuel. Substituting oil for significant distance flights is one of the more difficult issues in fighting environmental change. Making manufactured lamp oil out of air and daylight is conceivable now, yet 4-6 times more costly than normal lamp oil.

Like for every new innovation, scaling and arriving at cost productivity for combination power and engineered lamp oil will take time — time we don't have any longer to actually control environmental change.

Simultaneously, on the grounds that we are using up all available time doesn't mean seeking after new technologies is not reasonable. We simply have to zero in on projects with a good chance to-execution score — which will get us time until the new advancements become compelling at scale and reasonable.

There is something else that can get us time: CO2 evacuation. Regardless assuming we utilize enormous scope reforestation, soil carbon sequestration, or direct air catch, eliminating CO2 from the environment will dial back environmental change and get us an opportunity to completely progress from coal, oil, and gas towards sustainable power.

Very much like with CO2 aversion, consistently remember the financial aspects while taking a gander at CO2 expulsion projects. Eliminating one ton of CO2 through soil carbon sequestration is as yet 5-10x less expensive than eliminating one ton of CO2 through direct air catch.

Center Metric 3: Energy input-to-yield New advancements are invigorating, merit the opportunity to be vindicated, and ought to be permitted to fall flat. That is the means by which offices like DARPA work to produce advancement developments like the web, self-recuperating texture, and others.

The distinction between military developments made by DARPA and energy advancements is that the military as a rule couldn't care less about energy utilization. Consequences for target and time on track choose triumph and rout, not energy effectiveness.

To accomplish net zero, we should be mindful so as not to make new energy advances that consume more energy than we receive in return. For instance, combination reactors actually need more energy contribution to ignite the combination than they produce energy yield. Hydrogen creation is still shockingly un-green since a large part of the consumed energy to deliver it comes from petroleum products. Direct air catch consumes considerably more energy than reforestation.

Energy input-to-yield is a variable measurement. Innovations will generally turn out to be more energy-proficient over the long run, so evaluating an innovation's energy effectiveness throughout the course of recent years could give useful experiences into its scaling status and potential.

End In this part, we checked out at the hard speculation measurements. Nonetheless, hard measurements are sufficiently not to survey environmental change speculations. You ought to gauge those center measurements to mirror your own venture inclinations.

Environmental change is too complicated an issue to be tackled by hard measurements and individual inclinations. There are numerous different variables to be considered to prevail with regards to battling environmental change, which I will address in parts 3 and 4:

Part 3: A decent life needs water Section 4: Biodiversity makes everything more straightforward Hold on, I'll be back in no time.

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Inside the brain of serious competitors — sports brain research

The things we don't have the foggiest idea

It's not difficult to pause for a moment or two and appreciate watching cutthroat games, discuss it and spotlight on the bosses of the game. Seldom, do we question every one of the psychological fights and obstructions gone over that prompted those triumphs. Each game is without a doubt a difficult one, however the one thing that is normal between all sports is the degree of commitment and readiness of penance expected by a competitor on the long excursion to progress.

The way to significance The way to significance isn't a one all the time. The individuals who conclude that they need to be perfect, are the people who will go through the murkiness behind everything.

Needing to arrive at the high level, end up in a good place, accomplish extraordinary things, is a choice that must be made by those recognized competitors. In pursuing that choice, comes extraordinary penance.

At the point when the game is all that there is for somebody, when their life relies upon it, when there's no expectation except for that, it costs a lot of penance and mental durability. Sports brain science is a field that spotlights on the psychological and close to home condition of a competitor's presentation, that of which incorporates managing pressure, disappointment, apprehension, stress, tension, absence of inspiration, cherishing it, and detesting it.

Adoring it and despising it The greatest aspect all through their athletic excursion is dependably the start, since those firsts are generally the most invigorating. What recognizes a genuine cutthroat competitor and hopeful expert from the regulars, is the basically in the eagerness and devotion for the game.

"How far would they say they will go?"

Arriving at a specific objective interestingly, is presumably the simplest phase of their profession. From that point onward, comes the genuine inquiry of whether they will remain at the high level. Furthermore, that basically recognizes the "greats" from the others.

Discipline Having said that, remaining at the high level requires predictable preparation, and that implies appearing consistently. In any case, that's what the hard truth is, there are days where competitors basically don't have any desire to appear, and don't feel like it.

This is where discipline comes to play. That is the troublesome truth of removing feeling and depending exclusively on discipline, in light of the fact that controlling the psyche is one of the most critical pieces of preparing.

Very much like doing anything, keeping up with that equivalent degree of energy and love for a specific enthusiasm is practically ridiculous, and never happens.

The terrible days, and the murkiness behind the psychological state persevering through them There are days, where one inquiries assuming it's even worth the effort; is investing this energy, every day of the week, forfeiting everything, even worth the effort? Is this aggravation worth the effort? It is those days where they will ask, will I even arrive eventually? What's more, in the event that not, why work this hard? Who is in any event, watching? Furthermore, those are the days, where they figure out how to hinder the commotions, shut them up, and work much harder. In any case, provided that they decide to.

Since, it doesn't make any difference what the voices inside their heads will say, what is important is the hard working attitude they put in-right now, and they believe that it will one day, some way or another, pay off. It is that confidence in themselves, and in what they do, that recognizes them from the regulars. It is that vision they have, major areas of strength for agonizingly, never disappears, that makes them so exceptional.

Tension and elevated requirements Individuals start to anticipate a ton from those competitors. Their next rivalry, they are unavoidably being watched. They are supposed to show improvement over the time previously. And, surprisingly, better the time after that. They are supposed to be continually improving, many years, in any case, they're not exactly perfect.

This prompts a sort of oblivious sensation of expecting to perform well, only for those assumptions for their true capacity being seriously mind-blowing.

The negative side of this is allowing it to influence the way to deal with the game for those competitors. For instance, they might lose that equivalent happiness they once had, and have it be supplanted with a poisonous methodology, since they want to perform dependent on that multitude of exclusive requirements. They will quite often do it for other people, as opposed to for themselves, losing that regular love they once had.

This in the long run prompts the subliminal conviction of one merits being completely dependent on their presentation. Not exclusively will this adversely influence their entire methodology towards the game, annihilate their adoration for the game, and their generally emotional well-being, it will enormously influence their presentation, particularly in the long haul.

Managing wounds (serious ones) Cutthroat competitors frequently drive themselves to their actual cutoff points, which can bring about wounds and actual strain. Wounds can be especially trying for competitors, as they might need to put a hold on from preparing and contending, which can influence their capacity to remain at the high level.

Wounds will feel particularly disappointing when competitors are informed they need to put a hold on from preparing. By then in their vocation, their game has taken up their lives, practically turning into their entire personality. One essentially fails to remember who they are without it. They fail to remember what their days used to be loaded up with, without it.

Persistence assumes a tremendous part with regards to serious wounds. The most over the top difficult aspect, intellectually, is knowing that every other person is improving at the game, while you've been told to rest for a specific timeframe. Whether it's 2 weeks, or 2 months, it will feel like until the end of time. They fail to remember how to feel commendable, without that feeling of achievement they got from day to day stages of preparation.

Just the people who really need to recuperate, who genuinely have confidence in their rebound, will do every one of the easily overlooked details they are informed to do by their PCPs or physiotherapists. Like extending, fortifying, profound tissue knead, icing, and so forth. Just the people who put stock in that vision, are the people who will get back more grounded than any time in recent memory. Any other way, one can lose trust in themselves, let the injury defeat them, and quit the game for good.

Remaining intellectually sure and confident in such a diffuse period is very under looked, for it is similarly pretty much as troublesome as the actual difficulty of preparing.

Enjoyment? Try not to want to go? — no one wants to think about it

Excessively drained? — no one wants to think about it

Short on rest? — no one wants to think about it

Need to go out with companions? — no one wants to think about it

These are the day to day situations competitors are intended to tolerate, for consistency and steady improvement. No one at any point guarantees your excursion ahead to be simple, or consistently charming. The hard aspects nearly offset the great parts, truth be told. The awful days happen more frequently than the great days. It feels awful 90% of the time, figuratively. All in all, what makes those recognized competitors continue onward, continue pushing, and continue to accept? It's that extra 10%, that is loaded up with rapture, a characteristic high, greatness, euphoria, unequaled sensation of achievement, and satisfaction. That's what nothing beats. It's their drive. Their motivation behind buckling down. Their motivation to continue to appear. It's that 10%, that they have such a lot of confidence in, that they experience just so once in a long while, that is unrivaled.

In knowing that, they know that the excursion ahead isn't continuously going to be pleasant, however they realize that there is something a lot greater that they are battling for. Also, just having encountered it once, causes them to trust that it merits the battle.

The various sorts of mental groundwork for rivalry day Rivalry day is nothing to joke about. Loads of eyes are watching, bunches of assumptions pausing, seeing something uniquely amazing. Nerves and uneasiness, start to ascend inside their bodies. Accidental shudders, heart beating quicker than expected, and contemplations going through their minds like the commotion of undeniable alarm.

Over the long haul nonetheless, and with experience, they figure out how to manage everything. They become acclimated to that sort of apprehension. Yet, in all actuality, regardless of how large or little, regardless of how long they've been doing it for, those nerves will continuously be available on rivalry day.

Some figure out how to close those clamors away, disregard them totally, some hug them, some let it get to them (tragically). In any case, that is its magnificence, each individual has an alternate approach to managing it. The manner in which they manage it, the manner in which they intellectually plan for contest day, thinks about their personality profoundly.

A like to imagine the entire contest work out, a like to watch recordings on that game, some will do both. A like to totally delete the prospect of that game from their heads, do things totally removing their brains from it. Some will pay attention to music, other would prefer to partake in the quietness.

At the point when things turn out badly — managing "disappointment" Achievement isn't ensured all of the time. Regardless of the amount they've arranged, regardless of how certain they were of winning, some of the time, things simply will generally turn out badly. There will constantly be a homeostasis between the great days and terrible days.

It particularly harms, when they had arranged for such a long time, contended energetically, put in so much, anticipating for this important day, just to allow everything to go to squander (or so they think).

Managing "disappointment" is an expertise. One can choose, they either let it get to them, beat themselves available, or, they can decide to continue on, and use it as inspiration to return more grounded. That extreme attitude requires such a lot of tolerance, and confidence inside self. Since, now and again, there will be nobody left trusting in them, and their actual self will show, their actual capacities will come, when they conclude that they will continue to have confidence in themselves and in that vision. Regardless of what amount of time it requires.

They've been crushed, over and over, yet they permit those misfortunes to train them to develop, push through the agony, and continue onward.

The brain of a cutthroat competitor just goes through to such an extent. This is just a touch of the significant things they go through. There are such countless things inconspicuous behind the existence of a hero.

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Ongoing uneasiness is dreadful.

What's more, it's habitually one of — if not the — essential drivers of issues like:

Persistent pressure and burnout Self-uncertainty and compulsiveness Sleep deprivation and rest issues Misery and low confidence Tragically, many ways to deal with managing uneasiness really exacerbate it over the long haul since they just location the side effects of nervousness and accidentally build up the basic causes.

For instance:

Good self-talk and assertions can encourage you at the time, yet can likewise deteriorate uneasiness long haul since they cultivate evaluative reasoning, which is at the foundation of most bad self-talk and self-analysis. Liquor, pot, and different medications (incorporate a few physician endorsed drugs) can give impermanent help, yet additionally deny you of the chance to confront your nervousness and construct genuine certainty. Consolation looking for with companions, relatives, or even emotional wellness experts gives a short rest from tension however at last prompts unfortunate reliance and low self-assuredness which exacerbates uneasiness eventually. The genuine mystery to bringing constant nervousness is down to quit attempting to deal with the side effects, and on second thought, address the underlying drivers keeping up with it in any case.

The following are 4 methods for halting constant nervousness for good.

1. Quit Passing judgment on Your Uneasiness Since uneasiness feels terrible it's not difficult to wind up imagining that it in a real sense is awful or hazardous. However, when you start judging or scrutinizing your nervousness, it just makes the tension more grounded and more continuous.

How about we take a gander at how this occurs…

To begin with, criticalness of uneasiness for the most part appears as regrettable self-talk:

Ugh… I disdain this tension that I generally get prior to voyaging. Good gracious, consider the possibility that I get excessively restless or alarm while I'm giving my discourse. My dumb nervousness simply will not disappear… I wish I could dispose of this for good. While this sort of inward discourse is absolutely justifiable and ordinary, it's pointless due to the message it ships off your own mind. In particular, when you start judging or evaluating your uneasiness, it signs to your mind that tension is perilous and a danger.

Furthermore, when your mind thinks something is a danger, two things occur:

Your brain becomes hypervigilant to that danger. For this situation, you become additional delicate to tension. You begin seeing it increasingly more when already it would have simply "moved off" you. To put it plainly, when you train your mind to see uneasiness as a danger, the recurrence of nervousness increments fundamentally. You begin going after or taking off from the danger. On account of uneasiness, the moment you begin feeling restless, your psyche promptly goes to how you might dispose of or stay away from the nervousness. In any case, the more you keep away from or attempt to dispose of tension, the more you reinforce the conviction that it's hazardous. The outcome is that the power of your tension goes up and up. At the end of the day, your uneasiness begins feeling increasingly more serious over the long run. Clearly, being basic and critical of your uneasiness just exacerbates it in the long haul. In any case, how would you stop in the event that you've previously developed areas of strength for an of being critical with your tension?

Rather than reprimanding your uneasiness, work on approving it all things being equal.

Approval implies advising yourself that since tension feels terrible doesn't mean it is awful (or you're terrible for feeling it). Also, that notwithstanding being pointless, it most likely seems OK in some capacity that you're feeling restless.

Eventually, to be less restless you need to change your relationship to uneasiness. Rather than dealing with it like a danger that is on a mission to get you, you want to begin dealing with it like a companion that is attempting to help. What's more, regardless of whether that companion is off track or offering you terrible guidance, that doesn't mean they're awful or that you really want to dispose of them.

"Anything you acknowledge completely will get you there, will bring you into harmony. This is the supernatural occurrence of give up."

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1. Bring an end to Your Concern Propensity Assuming that you have persistent tension, you've additionally got ongoing concern.

It's just plain obvious, while everything from youth injury to unfortunate rest can incline you toward feeling restless, there is just a single direct reason for uneasiness: stress

At the point when you stress, you feel restless. Furthermore, when you're in the propensity for continually stressing, you will feel continually restless.

Constant concern is the psychological propensity for thinking negative, pointless, and nervousness creating considerations about what's in store. The critical term in here is pointless. Pondering negative things isn't really something terrible — as a matter of fact, it tends to be very useful and is a critical piece of compelling preparation and critical thinking.

What recognizes persistent concern from more nonexclusive negative thinking about what's in store is that it's useless. In reality, it's more terrible than that… Not in the least concerns not address anything, it effectively expands your tension and feelings of anxiety.

For instance:

Perhaps you stress significantly over your friends and family being protected or getting injured in some way. You stressing over your child getting in an auto collision on an excursion with his companions never really guards him. However, it builds your nervousness. Perhaps you stress over individuals' thought process of you at work. You playing out situations in your mind about in what manner or capacity thus working believes you're imbecilic and don't merit being in your position doesn't change what they think or how stupid/brilliant you are. Be that as it may, it will make you significantly more restless at work. Or on the other hand perhaps you stress over getting restless, which is a typical element of frenzy particularly. Agonizing over nervousness never really keeps uneasiness from showing up; as a matter of fact, it does the inverse — it makes it bound to appear! Regardless of what kind of tension you battle with — from social and wellbeing nervousness to fits of anxiety and rest uneasiness — the best way to feel less restless long haul is to end the propensity for stressing.

Not exactly simple or easy, obviously. Like all considerations, stresses can be difficult to manage on the grounds that they frequently occur so rapidly and consequently.

One of the most incredible ways of getting better at being more mindful of your concerns and separating from them is to begin with care preparing. Care preparing is an organized activity intended to work on your attentional control, which is fundamental for bringing an end to any pointless mental propensity, including constant concern.

"Try not to utilize your energy to stress. Utilize your energy to accept, to make, to learn, to think and to develop."

— Richard Feynman

1. Ditch Your Adapting Abilities This will almost certainly be the most disputable point in this article, however listen to me…

An entire age of individuals have been helped that the method for managing profound torment of any assortment — however particularly tension — is to create a "tool compartment" of adapting abilities you can pull out and utilize any time you're disturbed or battling inwardly.

The absolute most normal adapting abilities include:

Profound relaxing Positive confirmations and self-talk Interruption Care contemplation Presently, honestly, I don't consider any these things are terrible or pointless all by themselves. The issue is the point at which we use them as methods for dealing with stress, that is to say, when the inspiration driving them is to change the way that you feel inwardly.

At the point when you will probably dispose of or keep away from an excruciating inclination like tension, it signs to your mind that the nervousness is perilous and a danger. So regardless of whether you get some quick alleviation from your adapting ability, you will have significantly more uneasiness next time tension shows up on the grounds that you're having nervousness about uneasiness!

Like all addictions, the reliance on adapting abilities gives momentary help to the detriment of long haul languishing.

So what are you expected to do when you feel awful on the off chance that you can't utilize adapting abilities?

Nothing.

You will just become sure and strong notwithstanding nervousness on the off chance that you work on tolerating having it and being willing.

Presently, as most things, it requires investment to develop your ability and certainty doing this. Which is the reason beginning little and practice with less serious feelings first is significant.

For instance, on the off chance that you discover yourself feeling somewhat apprehensive about an impending discussion, set a clock on your telephone for 30 seconds and be restless for those 30 seconds before you accomplish something different. Never really divert yourself or reduce the uneasiness. Simply have it and acknowledge it.

Ultimately, you will get endlessly better at enduring tension, and that implies you'll feel to a lesser extent a need to adapt to them in any case. What's more, that resilience is the sign of a really solid relationship with your feelings.

"Destiny directs the willing, however hauls the reluctant."

— Cleanthes

1. Put down Sound Stopping points One of the greatest gamble factors for persistent nervousness is ongoing pressure. Which appears to be legit, correct? In the event that you're continually worried, you're considerably more liable to wind up stressing — and you'll make some harder memories breaking liberated from stress — and that implies your nervousness will be continually raised.

Yet, this' amazing for some individuals…

One of the greatest reasons for persistent pressure is unfortunate limits.

A limit implies you're ready to express no to others and their solicitations of you, which looking at this logically, is a tremendous extent of your general pressure…

The supervisor you continually requests that you accomplish additional work over the course of the end of the week The general who's continuously asking (or manipulating) you to have gatherings and occasions The mate or accomplice who generally "neglects" to finish errands or undertakings, passing on you to get a move on These are stressors — things that trigger pressure, and ultimately, tension in your life. Yet, they just objective pressure since you're reluctant to express no to them and lay out firm limits…

No, I will not go through a portion of my end of the week accomplishing additional work. No, I won't have Thanksgiving supper again this year. No, I won't get your grimy garments that you leave lying around the room. Obviously, saying no and defining solid limits is extreme, to some degree since it makes us restless!

We're apprehensive about frustrating our supervisor and colleagues. We're anxious about appearing to be inconsiderate or uncaring toward our loved ones. We're anxious about the possibility that that our mate or accomplice will lash out assuming we say no and stand up for ourselves. Yet, you should endure that apprehension and tension to completely finish your well meaning goal to set — and authorize! — solid limits, which over the long haul are basic for your general pressure and nervousness going down.

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ビッグマック指数は、比較する2国間の購買力平価を示す指標です。購買力平価とは、2国間の通貨の購買力によって外国為替レートが決まるとする説です。例えば、日本でビッグマックが250円で販売され、アメリカで4ドルで販売されていた場合、1ドル=250円/4=62.5円という見方をします。これがビッグマック指数が示す外国為替レートです。

しかし、実際の外国為替レートは市場の需給や政治的要因などによって変動します。そのため、ビッグマック指数と実際の外国為替レートには乖離が生じることがあります。この乖離が大きい場合、通貨が過大評価または過小評価されていると判断できます。例えば、2021年度のビッグマック指数によると、アメリカが621円、日本が390円となっており、実際の外国為替レートは1ドル=112円だったとします。この場合、日本のビッグマック指数はアメリカに対して(390-621)/621=-37.2%となります。これは日本円がアメリカドルに対して37.2%過小評価されていることを意味します。

ビッグマック指数は、外国為替レートや物価水準を測るユニークな指標として注目されていますが、それだけではなく、各国の経済状況や政策課題についても示唆を与えてくれます。例えば、日本の物価水準は先進国や近隣の国と比べて低い傾向にあることから、低成長が続き、物価も賃金も大きく上がらない日本経済の危機的な状況を表しているとも考えられます。また、急速な円安進行は輸出企業に恩恵をもたらす可能性もありますが、株価に反映されない場合もあります。

以上が、ビッグマック指数についてのブログ記事です。この記事では、ビッグマック指数の概要や仕組みを分かりやすく解説しました。また、ビッグマック指数が示す各国の経済力や課題についても紹介しました。ビッグマック指数は、身近な商品を使って経済を理解するための有用なツールです。ぜひ参考にしてみてください。 読んでくれてありがとう ！

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I expound a great deal on maturing, and for the beyond 11 years, have been what they call a "wellbeing beat pioneer," a.k.a. contributing supervisor, on that point for the Relationship of Medical services Writers, (AHCJ) the chief expert association for wellbeing correspondents. While these AHCJ articles are essentially evolved to assist with illuminating different columnists about significant issues or points to put on their radar, they're likewise accessible to general society at large. What's more, some of them stay with me, long after I think of them. This is one of them. Since, benefits over weak individuals, correct?

Tracking down a specialist in 2023 is as of now a difficult task given the weights on the psychological wellness care framework, because of the pandemic. This is particularly valid for the 28 million more seasoned grown-ups on Federal medical care Benefit plans, as per another concentrate in Wellbeing Undertakings . Almost 66% of Federal medical care Benefit therapist networks contain less than 25% of all specialists in a given help region.

The new review is the most recent in a progression of discoveries featuring an absence of inclusion and admittance to emotional well-being care cross country, especially for more established grown-ups .

"It's logical a rosier picture than the real world," said lead concentrate on creator Jane Zhu, M.D., in an explanation . " We know the real number of specialists accessible to see patients is a lot of lower."

That is on the grounds that regardless of whether a specialist is in fact in-network, a general public lack of specialists implies that many are completely reserved as of now and can't oblige new patients, Zhu said. This might mean higher personal expenses, defers in care, or previous treatment totally. In certain areas, specialists found the image was significantly more horrid: not a solitary specialist who acknowledged Federal health insurance Benefit taking new patients.

Contrasted with Medicaid, the government state program for low-pay individuals or those getting inclusion through Reasonable Consideration Act protection plans, Federal health care Benefit plans have much smaller organizations of specialists accessible to patients.

"Actually admittance to psychological wellness inclusion doesn't compare to admittance to emotional well-being administrations," the specialists found.

Emotional wellness emergency In 2022, Joel Mill operator, seat of the Public Alliance on Emotional wellness and Maturing, said the lack of geriatric-prepared psychological well-being experts an emergency exacerbated by the Coronavirus pandemic. He additionally refered to the "compounding impacts of social confinement prompting injury, uneasiness, and wretchedness."

Psychological wellness issues like misery in more seasoned grown-ups are in many cases dismissed as "expected" maturing, as I write in this new tip sheet. Sorrow and other emotional well-being issues are treatable, however more established grown-ups are often hesitant to discuss their battles, as per the Ribs based Public Place for Emotional wellness. There is much of the time generational-related shame about straightforwardly examining their sentiments.

More established grown-ups likewise have novel physical and psychosocial contemplations with regards to psychological wellness care. Distress and mourning because of loss of a long-term accomplice or deep rooted companions, mental issues, battles with different ongoing circumstances, various medicine regimens, contrasts in how their bodies utilize prescription, and all the more all influence finding and treatment. Numerous more seasoned individuals experience issues getting to mind, which can likewise affect their capacity to finish treatment.

Guarantors need to boost more specialists and emotional well-being experts to acknowledge health care coverage, or to extend inclusion of administrations conveyed by other medical services experts, for example, clinicians, instructors or essential consideration doctors who give psychological well-being care, the review closed.

How the review was finished Scientists constructed a cross country dataset of wellbeing plan organizations, their administration regions and their partaking suppliers in 2019 to evaluate specialist network broadness contrasted and essential consideration and other specialty care doctor networks across Federal medical insurance Benefit, Medicaid oversaw care, and the Reasonable Consideration Act individual commercial centers. Thin organizations were characterized as organizations having less than 25% of the suppliers in the provinces the organization worked in, weighted by plan enlistment.

They distinguished 682 Government medical care Benefit organizations, 167 Medicaid oversaw care organizations, and 220 Reasonable Consideration Act plan networks across 37 states, covering around 11.5 million Federal medical insurance Benefit enrollees (51.4% of all Federal health insurance Benefit enrollees), 42 million enrollees in Medicaid oversaw care plans (77.8% of all Medicaid oversaw care enrollees), and 9 million enrollees in Reasonable Consideration Act plans (77% of all Reasonable Consideration Act plan enrollees).

Their information examination tracked down that almost 66% (64.6%) of therapist networks were viewed as thin, contrasted with around 40% in either Medicaid oversaw care or Reasonable Consideration Act plan markets. About portion of Federal health insurance Benefit plans had network broadness under 12.5%. They likewise found that therapist networks were much smaller than those for essential consideration and other expert doctors across every one of the three business sectors.

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In a prosperous nation like Australia, the issues that Bitcoin aim to solve are far less perceivable compared to other poorer or authoritarian nations. Bitcoin’s value proposition is less relatable because we have access to banks, our economies are generally tolerable, and everything to some degree just works.

Conversations about Bitcoin in the workplace or among friends and family can be difficult. You may often be dismissed, called names (mine is “future boy”), or perceived as someone belonging to a cult. And people will bring up the common arguments against Bitcoin purported by the media: 1) it uses to much energy, 2) it is volatile, 3) it encourages criminal activity like the silk road, 4) it is a Ponzi scheme, 5) its an intangible asset, and 6) its a speculative and immature technology.

Here I will offer some tips I have learnt when talking to people about Bitcoin. My frame of reference is as a Bitcoiner living in Australia, but I think my experience may translate to other developed nations.

Tip 1: Never try convince someone they should buy Bitcoin.

My first tip is to never try convince people to buy Bitcoin, but instead, teach them about Bitcoin and guide them towards sources where they can learn more themselves. The value proposition behind Bitcoin is difficult to understand and people shouldn’t necessarily hold any before they understand the risks and benefits behind the technology.

In my mind, the most important part of a person’s orange pilling is the will and interest to find out more themselves, and make their own decision to buy some.

So your primary aim should be just to find a way to make them interested enough to seek out more information. Here is my shortlist of books, podcasts, and other valuable sources I use when pointing people to find out more.

Tip 2: Bitcoin is an inclusive technology.

One major problem I see with the Bitcoin community is that Bitcoiners set up walls where you are either enlightened Bitcoiner, or you are a “normie”. For someone seeking to find out more about Bitcoin, the community can appear cultish, and being referred to as a “normie” or other names creates an exclusive environment that can dissuade people from finding out more. Everyone will have their own path of discovery as most of us did. Help others find Bitcoin by making the community inclusive.

Tip 3: Be prepared to combat common misconceptions or misunderstandings

1. Bitcoin uses more energy than some country in Europe (no one ever remembers which)

This is probably the most common argument I hear. But as you will see, the real question here is not about the absolute amount of energy use, but a person’s perception of the value per unit energy that it delivers.

The adoption of any new technology that advances society has required energy. This energy consumption is often intense at the beginning and becomes more efficient as the technology develops and drives further investment. Bitcoin miners are the primary consumers of energy in the technology. Most people don’t actually understand why Bitcoin consumes energy — Bitcoin consumes energy to cryptographically protect the value contained within the network. However, inherent to Bitcoin is an economic incentive to reduce energy costs and maximise profits. Miner’s therefore naturally seek out more efficient technologies and cheaper sources of energy.

Over a 5 year period from 2018 to 2023, the energy required per terrahash (energy per unit work) declined by 63%. It is also useful to highlight novel ways in which Bitcoin miners are consuming wasted energy or using renewable sources, such as Iris energy, or Gridless. These and other companies are investing into renewable energy sources. Current estimates of Bitcoin’s renewable energy usage is between 25% and 50%.

In 2016 the power consumption of data centres was estimated to be 200 TWh/y. By comparison, Bitcoin consumes between 75.4 TWh/y and 122 TWh/y. The traditional financial system is estimated to consume 5,000 TWh/y which pales to Bitcoin’s consumption. This is not to say we should be complacent about Bitcoin’s energy use; these are all staggering amounts of energy consumption! But in most people’s mind, the value of data centres and the legacy financial system seems so obvious that they wouldn’t question its energy usage. So the real question should not be about the absolute value of power consumption, but rather whether Bitcoin provides the same global value per unit energy consumed.

Framing the energy argument in terms of the value per unit energy should help to open a discussion on Bitcoin’s value proposition.

2. Bitcoin is volatile

Yes, Bitcoin is volatile! But why is this bad? Most people making this claim are comparing Bitcoin to holding shares in some big tech company. Bitcoin is not a company! Comparing it to a company means you haven’t understood the Bitcoin’s true value proposition of it becoming the hardest form of money. Furthermore, despite its current volatility, Bitcoin continues to outperform most stocks and gold.

Bitcoin is a truly free market asset, unlike other forms of investment influenced by capital controls which act to dampen volatility. Bitcoin’s adoption still sits below 5% globally. As adoption increases, its price will continue to stabilise as it has been over the past decade (see figure below).

Bitcoin price volatility index (source: https://buybitcoinworldwide.com/volatility-index/)

Volatility will continue to be a feature of Bitcoin in the near future. But this is not necessarily bad. Investment into Bitcoin, like any asset, should be taken with consideration of a person’s financial position and their ability to weather this volatility.

3. Bitcoin facilitates illicit activity and the anonymity of the criminals.

There is no escaping the fact that to some degree Bitcoin has facilitated the exchange of drugs and other illicit activity. However, Bitcoin offers a level of traceability that hasn’t existed previously with cash. Bitcoin is not anonymous, it is pseudonymous. It depends on a public ledger that facilitates the tracking funds, and KYC (Know-Your-Customer) on/off ramps that help link transactions back to individuals. This tracking has led to the downfall of the silk road and several associated criminals since. Law enforcement and journalists are constantly coming up with tools to track the the movement of cryptocurrencies used in illicit activity.

Bitcoin is a neutral technology. Blaming Bitcoin for the drug problem is as silly as blaming the internet, the postage service that sends a large portion of drugs, or cars that drive them from location to location. It will never be escape the fact that some people will use it for illegal activity, as people have and will continue to do with any form of money.

4. Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme.

Many other cryptocurrencies which are actual Ponzi schemes have given people a negative impression of Bitcoin. I once had a family member, who knew about my great interest in Bitcoin gleefully exclaim “Hey did you hear!? Bitcoin is dead!” She was referring to the news about the downfall of OneCoin. This comment made me realise how important it is to help people understand the fundamental difference between a decentralised Bitcoin and a centralised crypto Ponzi.

In simple terms, Bitcoin being decentralised means there is no single entity in charge or profiting from the value of Bitcoin, nor are there profits derived from getting people into Bitcoin.

A follow-on comment I often get is that early adopters cause an imbalance in the distribution of wealth. This is currently true. It is estimated that 0.01% of addresses hold 58% of all Bitcoin. But we currently live in a world of rapidly rising inequality and a financial system that promotes the financial privileged. Over the past 40 years, the top 1% of income earners has seen their share increase from about 11% to almost 20% in the USA (see figure below).

Total share of income of the top 1% of earners (source: https://wid.world/)

You can research into the effects leading to inequality and you will read very contradictory arguments from both sides of the Bitcoin camp. So I’m not going to argue that Bitcoin solves the problem of wealth inequality; that is yet to be seen. But the growing digitisation of financial services is already creating a positive effect in reducing wealth inequality around the world. One of Bitcoins main benefits is that it promotes financial inclusion, which I believe can only result in a positive outcome for reducing inequality.

5. Bitcoin is an intangible asset

I once tried to explain to a family member the link between physical gold and Bitcoin. I used the analogy that energy is trapped in physical gold, and energy is required to extract it. This is similar to extracting and storing energy in Bitcoin. He laughed at me smugly.

Some people will have a really hard time comparing a physical asset to a digital one. They assume a digital asset can be copied, and it has no meaningful use in the real world. Bitcoin requires some tech literacy which you cannot teach in an evening!

Instead, you can highlight that a physical asset like gold is a great store of value; we have been using it to store value for millennia. But it is not a great medium of exchange. How can you break it up into smaller pieces? How do you send it across the world?

Bitcoin solves these problems. Like gold, Bitcoin cannot be copied or debased. But unlike gold, you can send fractions of a Bitcoin instantly anywhere across the globe.

6. Bitcoin is a speculative and immature technology.

Trace Mayer used to talk about the seven network effects of Bitcoin: Speculation, Merchant Adoption, Consumer Adoption, Security, Developer Mindshare, Financialization, and Adoption as a World Reserve Currency.

Speculation, being the first network effect, is an important part of Bitcoin’s maturation. Speculation drives early adoption and leads to the initial growth and innovation. Early adopters face larger risks as the price is more volatile, but also reap larger rewards. As more people adopt, merchants begin to accept it as forms of payment, leading to the second network effect and so on.

Yes, Bitcoin was a speculative asset but it is far beyond it speculative stage. We are currently closer to the “Developer mindshare” stage, where developers are working on new tools and new products that now integrate multiple technologies, like lightning and nostr.

Bitcoin is no longer speculative. I would also argue it is not even immature, even though it has only been around for a decade. But a misconception people often make is that the dollar (AUD or USD) is mature. The dollar as we know it is an experiment that has been running since around 1971, and politicians and economists still have no idea how to control it! Levers are pulled, money is debased and debt is increased time and time again.

Debt to GDP since 1970. Australia saw a moment of recovery duing the early 2000s but began increasing after the global financial crisis in 2008. Japan’s debt skyrocketed in the 1990’s and currently sits around 260%. On average across the G-20 nations, debt has increased from a low of 23% to around 95%. (source https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/CG_DEBT_GDP@GDD/SWE)

And thats it! I hope you found this useful for the next time you’re speaking to someone about Bitcoin in a developed nation.

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Top 15 Most Compelling Numerical Books You Really want To Peruse

Science, frequently alluded to as the language of the universe, has an inconceivable ability to shape how we might interpret our general surroundings.

From old texts to current investigations of complicated ideas, numerical books play had a significant impact in propelling human information and moving ages of masterminds.

In this arranged rundown, we present the main 15 most significant numerical books that each inquisitive brain ought to dive into. These books exhibit the magnificence of math as well as uncover its significant impact on different parts of our lives.

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1. The Numerical Experience by Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh, and Elena Ann Marchisotto Plunge into the excursion of numerical revelation and investigate the embodiment of numerical reasoning with "The Numerical Experience." This book analyzes the philosophical and verifiable underpinnings of arithmetic, revealing insight into its imaginative and frequently confounding nature. The writers take perusers on a scholarly experience, welcoming them to consider the mind boggling transaction between numerical ideas, human cognizance, and the social setting where math thrives.

2. Instructions to Heat Pi: A Consumable Investigation of the Arithmetic of Math by Eugenia Cheng Reveal the scrumptiously imaginative associations among arithmetic and day to day existence in "How to Heat Pi." Eugenia Cheng utilizes the analogy of baking to demystify numerical ideas, making them open to perusers with fluctuating degrees of numerical foundation. As you leave on this consumable investigation, you'll find how key numerical thoughts can be both mentally fulfilling and basically relevant, very much like an impeccably heated pie.

3. The Sign and the Commotion: Why Such countless Forecasts Fall flat Yet Some Don't by Nate Silver In "The Sign and the Commotion," Nate Silver takes perusers on an enamoring venture through the universe of forecasts and probabilities. This book offers a convincing mix of science, measurements, and true guides to feature the difficulties of recognizing significant examples from simple clamor. By investigating subjects like weather conditions guaging, financial matters, and governmental issues, Silver gives significant bits of knowledge into the workmanship and study of forecast.

4. The Almagest by Claudius Ptolemy Venture back so as to the antiquated world and investigate the groundworks of stargazing and arithmetic in "The Almagest." Claudius Ptolemy's great work has significantly affected how we might interpret heavenly developments and planetary circles. By concentrating on Ptolemy's complicated mathematical models and shrewd estimations, perusers can see the value in the persevering through effect of his commitments on the historical backdrop of science and arithmetic.

5. The Music of the Primes: Looking to Settle the Best Secret in Arithmetic by Marcus du Sautoy Set out on a mission to unwind the puzzling universe of indivisible numbers with "The Music of the Primes." Marcus du Sautoy's account acquaints perusers with the charm of indivisible numbers, the structure blocks of number-crunching. Through verifiable tales, numerical riddles, and the entrancing story of the Riemann Speculation, this book offers a spellbinding investigation of the significant secrets that underlie the universe of numbers.

6. Secret Figures: The Pursuit of happiness and the Untold Story of the Individuals of color Mathematicians Who Assisted Win the Space With hustling by Margot Lee Shetterly "Secret Figures" focuses on the astounding commitments of people of color mathematicians to the American space program. Margot Lee Shetterly's carefully explored account features the difficulties these splendid personalities looked while breaking hindrances in an isolated society. By entwining history, arithmetic, and civil rights, this book highlights the significant job of science in molding urgent verifiable occasions.

7. Alan Turing: The Puzzler by Andrew Hodges Jump into the life and work of Alan Turing, a splendid mathematician whose spearheading commitments laid the foundation for present day processing, in "Alan Turing: The Puzzler." Andrew Hodges' life story lays out a thorough representation of Turing's scholarly splendor, his code-breaking accomplishments during The Second Great War, and his significant effect on the fields of rationale, cryptography, and man-made brainpower.

8. Ideas of Current Arithmetic by Ian Stewart Investigate an extensive outline of present day numerical ideas in "Ideas of Current Math." Ian Stewart guides perusers through the development of numerical idea, from old style ideas to contemporary points. By digging into regions like set hypothesis, unique variable based math, and geography, this book overcomes any barrier between rudimentary science and high level hypothetical systems.

9. Flatland: A Sentiment of Many Aspects by A. Square (Edwin A. Abbott) Drench yourself in a provocative moral story that challenges ordinary ideas of room and reality in "Flatland." Composed under the nom de plume. Square, Edwin A. Abbott's novella acquaints perusers with the occupants of a two-layered world and their experiences with higher aspects. Through this innovative account, Abbott energetically investigates the constraints of human insight and the idea of mathematical aspects.

10. A Wonderful Psyche: A History of John Nash Forbes, Jr. by Sylvia Nasar "A Delightful Psyche" offers a profoundly human investigation of the existence of John Nash, a splendid mathematician whose fight with psychological sickness added a human aspect to his remarkable commitments. Sylvia Nasar's life story depicts Nash's momentous work in game hypothesis and his getting through heritage in financial aspects, revealing insight into the transaction between numerical virtuoso and individual battles.

11. Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Guess by Apostolos Doxiadis Join Uncle Petros on a fascinating excursion to demonstrate Goldbach's Guess in "Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Guess." Apostolos Doxiadis winds around together fiction and numerical investigation as he dives into the psyche of a made up mathematician grappling with a perplexing numerical riddle. Through this enamoring story, perusers gain bits of knowledge into the enthusiasm, persistence, and intricacies of numerical request.

12. A Mathematician's Mourn: How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Entrancing and Creative Artistic expression by Paul Lockhart "A Mathematician's Regret" moves traditional ways to deal with math instruction, contending that the subject is in excess of a bunch of rules and recipes. Creator Paul Lockhart fights that arithmetic is a work of art that empowers inventiveness, instinct, and profound calculated understanding. By studying the weaknesses of conventional showing strategies, Lockhart advocates for a really captivating and innovative way to deal with learning math.

13. Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Substance of Brain and Example by Douglas R. Hofstadter "Metamagical Themas" welcomes perusers on an excursion through the domains of rationale, discernment, and innovativeness. Douglas R. Hofstadter investigates many subjects, from self-reference and recursion to man-made reasoning and awareness. Through provocative papers and riddles, this book provokes perusers to mull over the complex associations between science, reasoning, and the idea of thought itself.

14. The Quants: How Another Type of Math Stars Vanquished Money Road and Almost Obliterated It by Scott Patterson Dive into the universe of quantitative money and its effect on Money Road in "The Quants." Scott Patterson investigates how numerical models and calculations changed the monetary business, prompting phenomenal triumphs and adding to the 2008 monetary emergency. This book reveals insight into the perplexing connection between arithmetic, risk, and the worldwide economy.

15. The Numerical Hypothesis of Correspondence by Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver Understand the central ideas of data hypothesis and correspondence in "The Numerical Hypothesis of Correspondence." Claude E. Shannon and Warren Weaver's fundamental work presented the thought of entropy and altered how we might interpret encoding, communicating, and deciphering data. This book has significant ramifications for fields going from media communications to cryptography, stressing the job of math in molding current correspondence frameworks.

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Los residentes de un edificio en La Habana Vieja donde en octubre del año pasado murió una niña por un derrumbe, continúan viviendo entre los escombros.

Ante el temor de que ocurra otro desplome y quedar sepultados, los vecinos del inmueble situado en la calle Sol, entre Egido y Villegas, han enviado otra carta a CiberCuba en la que denuncian la inacción de los dirigentes y organismos responsables de solucionar su caso.

La carta recibida por la redacción de Cibercuba es la siguiente:

"Somos los vecinos de Sol 466, entre Villegas y Egido, La Habana Vieja, donde ocurrió el derrumbe el 17 de octubre 2022, en el que falleció una niña de cuatro años. Donde el presidente del Partido, Luis Antonio Torres Iríbar, dijo que no íbamos a quedar desamparados, donde Vivienda municipal y provincial dijeron que dentro de 15 a 30 días nos daban solución.

Nunca nos ayudaron ni dieron solución, seguimos viviendo en el inmueble cayéndose a pedazos lo poco que queda, y ni siquiera nuestras cosas y muebles hemos podido sacar de aquí para asegurarlas un lugar más seguro, ya que nuestras viviendas se mojan cuando llueve.

Hemos ido a Vivienda provincial tres veces, Vivienda municipal cuatro veces, gobierno provincial, gobierno municipal... donde ellos dicen que no tienen que ver con eso, que es Vivienda municipal, pero esta entidad nos dice que no tiene solución para nuestro problema.

Hay una anciana de 87 años con una radical de mama, sorda de un oído, diabética de los malos e hipertensa, y vive yendo al policlínico a cada rato por sus varias enfermedades; también esta señora ya no puede más con su estrés por su grave situación, ya ha tenido infarto. Y no se resuelve nada.

Y ya ahora en octubre 17 va hacer un año, en el que entre promesas y mucho bla bla no han dado respuesta a dicho problemón. ¿Qué están esperando, a que haya otro muerto? Un señor que tenía cáncer murió sin poder ver su casa, y la señora que menciono que está enferma vive con miedo, por el desastre de lo que que queda del edificio en ruina estática".

En una misiva anterior, los afectados relataban que iban cada dos o tres días a las diferentes instancias de Vivienda, el gobierno, la fiscalía y el partido.

"Ya nos conocen por dar las quejas y no nos resuelven nada. (...) Y cuando llegamos a los lugares nos dicen: 'ustedes de nuevo', cómo si fuéramos la enfermedad de la peste", dijeron.

"Para los militares y MININT se hacen edificios, y no pueden poner aunque sea uno o dos núcleos por edificio, ya que son cinco núcleos y desde hace años pudieran ya haber salido de esto, y no haber llegado a que hubiera muerto una menor de cinco años de edad, y que vuelva a haber otra muerte", cuestionaron.

El pasado 17 de octubre por la mañana, se derrumbó parte del edificio y varias personas quedaron atrapadas en los escombros. Según el periodista Mario J. Pentón, el derrumbe fue en la escalera del inmueble.

Como consecuencia murió una niña de cinco años nombrada Ismary Orozco Castellanos, quien falleció antes de que los bomberos pudieran rescatarla.

De acuerdo con la información del Portal del Ciudadano de La Habana, los rescatistas lograron sacar con vida a dos mujeres y un menor de edad. Las pacientes fueron enviadas al Hospital Calixto García y el menor al Hospital Juan Manuel Márquez.

El edificio lleva muchos años con problemas.

En 2015 sus residentes denunciaron que se veían obligados a acceder a sus casas por una ventana, tras un derrumbe parcial.

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MIAMI, Estados Unidos. — El quinto vuelo de deportación de cubanos desde EE. UU. arribó esta tarde a La Habana, según dio a conocer la Embajada de Estados Unidos en la Isla.

La sede diplomática indicó en redes sociales que los 29 cubanos repatriados habían intentado ingresar sin autorización a territorio estadounidense.

“Este jueves 17 de agosto llegó a La Habana el quinto vuelo de deportación proveniente de Estados Unidos del 2023. El vuelo devolvió a la Isla a 29 cubanos que intentaron entrar a Estados Unidos sin autorización”, señala la nota.

La Embajada llamó a los cubanos a no intentar ingresar a EE. UU. de manera ilegal.

“No ponga en riesgo su seguridad ni la de su familia. Viaje seguro y legal” , apuntó la sede diplomática.

El cuarto vuelo de deportación se había producido el pasado 20 de julio. En el mismo fueron devueltos a Cuba 33 migrantes.

Previo a la salida del cuarto vuelo, familiares de algunos de los migrantes con orden de deportación (tras perder sus casos de asilo político) intentaron detener el proceso y que los liberaran, pero no fue posible.

El tercer vuelo de deportación a la Isla ocurrió el 23 de junio e involucró a 36 cubanos. En ese momento, el Ministerio del Interior de Cuba (MININT) informó que todos los migrantes incluidos en la operación aérea eran hombres y que trece de ellos habían salido ilegalmente de la Isla por vía marítima, mientras que otros 23 viajaron al exterior de forma legal y luego se incorporaron a rutas irregulares para llegar a Estados Unidos.

Abogados de inmigración de Miami han advertido que los cubanos que tienen I-220B son los que corren mayor riesgo de ser deportados, ya que ese documento registra la entrada a EE. UU. con orden expresa de devolución al país de origen.

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El martillista cubano Yasmani Fernández abandonó la delegación de la Isla que intervendrá en el Campeonato Mundial de Atletismo de Budapest (Hungría), a celebrarse del 19 al 27 de septiembre próximos.

La noticia fue confirmada este miércoles por Play Off Magazine. El portal especializado indica que Fernández había sido incluido a última hora en la delegación, que ahora cuenta con solo 20 atletas.

La noticia había sido difundida previamente por el diario Jit. El medio oficialista indicó que Fernández “abandonó” la delegación durante su escala en París (Francia). Según el comisionado nacional de la especialidad, Rolando Charroo, el resto de los seleccionados está “enfocado” en obtener sus mejores resultados.

Fernández, de 28 años, había registrado su mejor marca personal (75,74 metros) en el pasado Memorial José Barrientos, que se celebró en el Estadio Panamericano de La Habana.

Su posición en el ranking mundial le valió su inclusión a última hora en el equipo cubano, aunque no tardó en escapar previo a la llegada a Hungría.

A su llegada a Budapest, el equipo cubano se concentró en el Hotel Danubio Arena. Allí se unieron dos grupos: uno proveniente de La Habana y otro desde la localidad española de Guadalajara, donde habían desarrollado “una base de preparación durante varias semanas”.

Cuba asiste al Campeonato Mundial de Atletismo de Budapest sin grandes figuras y con un pronóstico reservado. Las mayores aspiraciones de medallas recaen en los triplistas Lázaro Martínez y Cristian Nápoles, entre los hombres, así como Leyanis Pérez y Liadagmis Povea, entre las mujeres.

El atletismo ha sido uno de los deportes más golpeados por el abandono de figuras en los últimos años. Durante el Campeonato Mundial de 2022, celebrado en Oregón, Estados Unidos, abandonaron el equipo cubano tres miembros de la delegación: la jabalinista Yiselena Ballar, la discóbola Yaimé Pérez y el fisioterapeuta Carlos González Morales.

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100 Comical Instructor Quips That Merit an A+. Snicker Your Direction to the First Line:

1. I needed to be a number related educator, yet I was unable to depend on it.

2. For what reason did the educator wear shades? Since her understudies were so brilliant!

3. I told my understudies I'd show them time travel, however they didn't get it. I get it's just a little ways off of their time.
4. For what reason did the educator carry a stepping stool to class? To assist her understudies with arriving at new levels!
5. The educator struggled with controlling her class, yet she at last viewed as her "understudies' off" button.
6. The educator advised the class to quit drawing on their work areas. She said, "I need no more number related spray painting cs!"
7. I inquired as to whether I could get a pencil, however she said, "Sorry, I can't make plans for you at the present time!"
8. The instructor requested that the understudy characterize "unconcerned." The understudy answered, "I don't have the foggiest idea, and I couldn't care less!"
9. The instructor told the understudy, "Please accept my apologies, yet you can't carry your pet snake to school." The understudy answered, "However he's a boa constrictor! He'll assist me with my spelling!"
10. For what reason did the instructor carry a stepping stool to the verse perusing? To arrive at the high notes!
11. The educator said, "I'm going to the instructor's parlor. Do you need anything?" The understudy answered, "No doubt, get me A!"
12. The instructor told the class, "I'm giving you a test on Monday, so no good reasons!" The understudy answered, "Yet imagine a scenario where I'm missing."
13. For what reason did the educator go to the bread kitchen? To get some new doughnuts!
14. The educator asked the understudy, "Might you at any point involve 'concordance' in a sentence?" The understudy answered, "Sure, I live in a house with my 'harmommy' and 'harsister'!"
15. For what reason did the educator wear a crown in class? Since she managed the realm of information!
16. The educator told the understudy, "You're strolling a barely recognizable difference." The understudy answered, "Indeed, could you at any point show me how to adjust?"
17. The instructor said, "I will define a boundary down the center of the board." The understudy answered, "That sounds fair!"
18. For what reason did the educator go to the ocean side during the number related example? To discover a few tan-gentlemen!
19. The instructor asked the understudy, "What's the previous tense of 'think'?" The understudy answered, "I thought, yet I don't know."
20. The educator said, "You really want to go to bat for what you put stock in." The understudy answered, "However I'm plunking down!"
21. For what reason did the educator wear shades in class? Since her understudies were so brilliant, they were blinding!
22. The educator asked the understudy, "What's the briefest month?" The understudy answered, "May, on the grounds that it just has three letters!"
23. The instructor said, "I'll be holding up at the front of the line." The understudy answered, "Indeed, I'll be holding up at the rear of the line!"
24. For what reason did the educator carry a stepping stool to the science lab? To arrive at the most noteworthy synthetic substances!
25. The instructor asked the understudy, "What's something contrary to 'boisterous'?" The understudy answered, "I don't have any idea, yet it's certainly not 'you-sy'!"
26. For what reason did the educator carry a brush to class? To clear away the disarray!
27. The instructor said, "You're a sparkling star." The understudy answered, "All things considered, I suppose I'm sun oriented fueled!"
28. For what reason did the instructor go to the workmanship gallery? To perhaps find a way to improve on her abilities!
29. The educator asked the understudy, "What's the longest word in the English language?" The understudy answered, "Grins, since there's a mile between the two S's!"
30. The educator said, "I will peruse you a book about repulsive force." The understudies answered, "That is inconceivable!" The instructor said, "Indeed, putting down is unimaginable!"
31. For what reason did the instructor generally convey a whistle? To keep up with amazing pitch!
32. The educator asked the understudy, "What's the longest sentence you can imagine?" The understudy answered, "Life detainment!"
33. For what reason did the instructor carry a stepping stool to the geology illustration? To arrive at the most noteworthy focuses on the guide!
34. The educator said, "I will partition you into gatherings." The understudy answered, "Yet I can't be partitioned, I'm an entire individual!"
35. For what reason did the educator carry a word reference to the music class? To look into the meaning of a "rest"!
36. The instructor told the understudy, "You have potential." The understudy answered, "However I'd prefer have a pencil!"
37. For what reason did the instructor carry a sledge to class? To nail the illustration!
38. The instructor asked the understudy, "What's the square foundation of 16?" The understudy answered, "Four, on the grounds that a square has four sides!"
39. For what reason did the educator carry a brush to the number related class? To clear away the numbers!
40. The educator said, "I will draw a circle." The understudy answered, "All things considered, I trust it's balanced!"
41. For what reason did the instructor carry a stepping stool to the set of experiences class? To arrive at the most elevated focuses in the course of events!
42. The instructor asked the understudy, "What's something contrary to 'up'?" The understudy answered, "I don't have the foggiest idea, yet it's most certainly not 'down'!"
43. For what reason did the instructor carry a woodwind to class? To show the understudies how to be knowledgeable in music!
44. The educator said, "I'm going to the instructor's parlor. Do you need anything?" The understudy answered, "Definitely, get me an A+!"
45. For what reason did the educator carry a stepping stool to the English class? To arrive at the most elevated marks of writing!
46. The educator asked the understudy, "Could you at any point utilize 'upbeat' in a sentence?" The understudy answered, "Sure, I'm in every case overflowing with happiness when the ringer rings!"
47. For what reason did the educator carry a brush to the workmanship class? To paint a show-stopper!
48. The instructor told the class, "I'm giving you a test on Monday, so no horseplay!" The understudy answered, "However imagine a scenario where I'm a

gorilla?" 49. For what reason did the educator go to the pastry shop during the science class? To get some new heated "experi-mixtures"! 50. The instructor asked the understudy, "What's the previous tense of 'run'?" The understudy answered, "I ran out of thoughts, apologies!" 51. For what reason did the educator carry a stepping stool to the rec center class? To arrive at new levels of wellness! 52. The instructor said, "You really want to stand apart from the group." The understudy answered, "Indeed, I surmise I'll require braces!" 53. For what reason did the educator carry a speed to class? To get the understudies ready! 54. The instructor asked the understudy, "What's something contrary to 'clever'?" The understudy answered, "I don't have the foggiest idea, however it's certainly not 'me-delicate'!" 55. For what reason did the educator carry a stepping stool to the PC class? To arrive at the most elevated levels of coding! 56. The instructor said, "I'll be holding up at the front of the line." The understudy answered, "Indeed, I'll be holding up toward as far as it goes!" 57. For what reason did the educator carry a stepping stool to the writing class? To arrive at the most elevated purposes of narrating! 58. The educator asked the understudy, "What's something contrary to 'blissful'?" The understudy answered, "I don't have any idea, yet it's certainly not 'you-py'!" 59. For what reason did the instructor carry a plume to class? To stimulate the understudies' entertaining bones! 60. The educator said, "You're my favorite." The understudy answered, "All things considered, I suppose I'm plantation fueled!" 61. For what reason did the instructor carry a stepping stool to the science class? To arrive at the most noteworthy parts of the tree of life! 62. The educator told the understudy, "You're at the head of the class." The understudy answered, "Indeed, I trust it's anything but a fraudulent business model!" 63. For what reason did the instructor carry a guitar to class? To play up some energy! 64. The educator asked the understudy, "What's the longest word you know?" The understudy answered, "Grins, since there's a mile between the two S's!" 65. For what reason did the instructor carry a stepping stool to the material science class? To arrive at the most elevated purposes of understanding! 66. The educator said, "I will draw a square shape." The understudy answered, "All things considered, I trust it's all around calculated!" 67. For what reason did the instructor carry a stepping stool to the science class? To arrive at the most elevated components on the occasional table! 68. The educator told the understudy, "You're a sparkling star." The understudy answered, "Indeed, I suppose I'm cosmic explosion controlled!" 69. For what reason did the educator carry a brush to the physical science class? To illustrate the ideas! 70. The educator said, "You really want to lift your hand." The understudy answered, "However I previously caused a stir!" 71. For what reason did the instructor carry a stepping stool to the geology class? To arrive at the most noteworthy tops on the guide! 72. The educator asked the understudy, "What's something contrary to 'boisterous'?" The understudy answered, "I don't have the foggiest idea, yet at the same it's certainly not 'accommodating'!" 73. For what reason did the instructor carry a woodwind to the set of experiences class? To show the understudies the melo-show! 74. The educator said, "I'm going to the instructor's parlor. Do you need anything?" The understudy answered, "No doubt, get me an apple!" 75. For what reason did the instructor carry a stepping stool to the music class? To arrive at the most elevated notes! 76. The educator asked the understudy, "Could you at any point utilize 'diverting' in a sentence?" The understudy answered, "Sure, my educator's plays on words are so funny, I can't quit chuckling!" 77. For what reason did the instructor carry a brush to the numerical class? To settle the conditions with "energy"! 78. The instructor told the class, "I'm giving you a test on Monday, so no joking around!" The understudy answered, "However imagine a scenario where I'm the class jokester." 79. For what reason did the instructor go to the pastry kitchen during the set of experiences class? To get some new prepared "histori-mixtures"! 80. The educator asked the understudy, "What's the previous tense of 'study'?" The understudy answered, "I contemplated, however it slipped my mind!" 81. For what reason did the educator carry a stepping stool to the craftsmanship class? To arrive at the most elevated levels of innovativeness! 82. The educator said, "I will draw a triangle." The understudy answered, "Indeed, I trust it's very much pointed!" 83. For what reason did the instructor carry a brush to the science class? To illustrate the ideas! 84. The educator asked the understudy, "What's something contrary to 'overcome'?" The understudy answered, "I don't have the foggiest idea, yet at the same it's certainly not 'accommodating'!" 85. For what reason did the educator carry a saxophone to class? To spice up the growth opportunity!

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6 Global Travel Mix-ups to Keep away from

I didn't understand that I would burn through the greater part of 2022 voyaging Europe and Asia until I was at that point 7 nations profound into my year.

I'm normally a restless individual and an over organizer, so I thought I had set myself up lovely well without prior warning beginning the "computerized migrant way of life " (I flinched a piece in any event, composing that without holding back).

I booked every one of my flights and lodgings with adaptable, reasonable, and refundable administrations. I purchased a "very cool" rucksack and took different cameras and focal points with me to catch everything and anything. However, that appears to be way less significant looking back now, favoring that in a future article likely.

Point being. I did all of the coordinated operations arranging and pressing in a manner that dazzled the majority of my companions, and included safeguards upon safeguards.

However, i committed a few errors. Some could seem like easy decisions to you, however in my over arranging, I figured out how to disregard a portion of the fundamental subtleties. Perhaps you can gain from them as well, or possibly give careful consideration NOT to fail to remember them.

At any rate, here's the 6 travel botches I made and what I gained from them and about myself.

1. Not exploring the nearby food related traditions and customs

In certain nations it is viewed as beautiful discourteous to not complete everything on your plate. I've forever been a demanding eater and this has placed me in a few awkward circumstances throughout the past year. For instance, in Bosnia I warmed up to a nearby bar proprietor. We wound up eating and he demanded I attempt a neighborhood Sarajevo lager. I don't drink frequently, if at any point, and I let him know this forthright. In any case, when I just drank a portion of the lager, things got somewhat off-kilter. He expected something tasted terrible or I could have done without it. The following night when I attempted to compensate for it by requesting another lager suggestion, I was educated that I would have to drink TWO brews this opportunity to demonstrate that I delighted in it. This was a minuscule issue (and maybe a welcome issue to some of you) , however things can get a smidgen more precarious around food some of the time.

1. Expecting that YOUR Visas are a typical acknowledged installment

At the point when I previously left for Europe, I began in "simple mode". Going from America to Britain, then, at that point, making a beeline for France after that (where I likewise communicate in the language). Every nation was monetarily the same than America, with card installments and application installments (like Apple Pay) being standard. This provided me with a misguided feeling of general acknowledgment. Then, at that point, when we went to Croatia, unexpectedly my cards didn't work any longer. Oops. Some bank cards take care of business in Croatia, yet entirely not mine. However, card installments were as yet normal. Bosnia, nonetheless, was around 50/50 money versus card. Vietnam, where I'm composing from this moment, is very cash driven and regardless of whether the seller acknowledges card installments, the machines are many times broken or experiencing a web issue and you're stuck utilizing cash at any rate. This isn't an issue in the event that you plan, however as I'll rehash a little, at times you simply disregard or expect it'll be fine (when it's not).

1. Being oblivious to the tipping society

Americans are utilized to quite often tipping for food administrations and once in a while for taxi or conveyance benefits as well. While tipping in many nations is valued, it's not close to as "anticipated" as it is in America. For instance, in Vietnam tipping for a taxi or feast is really unprecedented and not expected, however lodging staff would think that it is discourteous in the event that you didn't tip them for taking your packs to your room. This could appear to be a conspicuous circumstance where you would tip, yet they are so damn Determined in attempting to convey your pack for you that you end up somewhat surrendering. Then when they stand there gracelessly at your room needing a tip for a help you hesitantly acknowledged, it was odd. On the other hand, in the event that you're going in a spending plan, you could wind up deliberately tipping without much forethought when you had no great explanation as well (particularly assuming the help staff are paid a fair compensation in their country).

1. Not considering Air terminal vehicle to/from your lodging (particularly early/late/busy time times)

Some of the time we plan such a great amount about how to get to the nation, between flights or trains, and afterward reserving the lodgings and all the tomfoolery you're hoping to have, we can disregard in the middle between stops. I showed up in Bosnia when the taxicabs were not really tolerating card, and my bank wouldn't give me any money from the ATMs at the air terminal. The following transport wasn't for an hour by the same token. So I chose to simply walk the 9km course to my lodging. This wasn't really fun however it was feasible. In different spots that probably won't be sensible in light of air terminal security rules, atmospheric condition, or wellbeing contemplations for strolling along specific streets. At the point when I as of late passed on my lodging in Saigon to go to the air terminal, I accepted the inn would charge me for the taxi they set up for myself and was essential for the checkout/room administration expenses I paid . Anyway I understood when I was nearly to the air terminal that this was not the situation. The driver expected installment and I just barely ended up having Precisely (and not a VNDong more) the sum required in real money when their card peruser misfired.

1. Expecting individual space and road decorum is equivalent to where you are from

My companion Askia and I ran into this issue while going in Asia. In particular, the "crosswalk" culture was somewhat of a culture shock. As an unmistakable difference to, maybe Germany (where I saw Germans calmly holding up at 2am, with void roads, for the cross walk sign to permit them to go across the road), numerous nations couldn't care less about what the streetlamp signal says or on the other hand on the off chance that vehicles are moving or then again assuming that individuals are strolling. Once in a while you simply need to go, and that can take a cycle of mental fortitude on the off chance that you're utilized to the more standards based road and driving societies. As a traveler you'll stand out a ton as well in the event that you're simply remaining there trusting that a light will change. It feels pretty cool however to simply breeze by the "new" vacationers who are as yet hanging tight for consent, and you swagger by like a "genuine nearby". All in all, you're as yet not a neighborhood either, yet take the flitting win when you can. Likewise, I've yet to find a country that focuses on private space anyplace however much America does. So expect that things will be more tight and closer than you're likely anticipating. Finally, fundamental politeness isn't really that essential it appears ( similarly as sound judgment ain't just normal). Individuals aren't being discourteous to you, they're simply not being extra pleasant like a ton of westerners are utilized to.

1. Accepting you can find "ordinary" food

This last one falls into somewhat similar can about knowing the food customs. As I said, I'm a demanding eater. I'm additionally not especially courageous in my food decisions by the same token. This implies that it wouldn't hurt me (or perhaps you as well) to keep an eye on google maps assuming there will be recognizable cafés close to your inn. I hate McDonald's , yet it is a "protected" nourishment for me to default to in the event that I need to. I haven't super partaken in the food in Vietnam, and my charge card records would propose that is on the grounds that I seriously love Starbucks and Mcdonald's. It's simply that they're "simple" places for me to find something I realize I'll like. This isn't a judgment against the food from different societies by the same token. For some of you, the fun of movement IS the odd food. For my purposes, it simply a wellspring of nervousness. So ensure you can discover some simple and typical (to you) eating choices. Bonus: Overlooking photography and reporting regulations.

This is an issue well defined for my kindred photographic artists. Simply help yourself out and run a speedy google search about the photograph/media regulations in the nation you're visiting. Obliviousness is not a remotely good reason for the law, and I can guarantee you that the nations that would dislike you taking photographs are Likewise the last nations you need to draw in the consideration of the police in. Less thus, yet significant and a piece harder to find on the web, attempt and sort out the overall population benevolence toward picture takers. I like to shoot a touch of road photography and I know large numbers of my perusers do as well. It could not against the law to take photographs of individuals in a nation, yet in the event that everybody gazes you down and gives you a dubious glare for snapping their picture, it's most likely about to be a terrible time for all interested parties. You'll appear to be a fruitcake, and your photographs will be loaded up with awkward individuals. So perhaps how about we make an effort not to be misfits with just terrible photographs to show for it yes?

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El embargo de Estados Unidos a Cuba no existe como tal gracias a las exenciones para la compra de alimentos y medicinas en territorio estadounidense por parte del régimen castrista. Lo anterior se refleja en las cifras oficiales del Departamento de Agricultura, que indican exportaciones hacia Cuba por 37.071.007 dólares solo en el mes de junio de 2023, lo cual significa un crecimiento del 60.8% con relación al mismo mes del año anterior.

Los números marcan un hito en la relación comercial entre EEUU y Cuba, con un crecimiento sostenido impulsado por las compras que realizan las micros, pequeñas y medianas empresas (Mipymes), a las que el régimen castrista les otorgó la capacidad de importar alimentos y commodities agrícolas a Cuba.

De acuerdo con el informe presentado en el portal Cubatrade, entre los productos que compró Cuba en EEUU durante junio de 2023 destacan bacon, mantequilla, aceite de oliva, aceite de girasol, aceite de colza, azúcar, café, pastas, comuniones, helados, galletas, leche en polvo, cerveza, papel higiénico y carne de ave, entre otros.

En el caso de la carne de pollo, EEUU es el principal suministrador de esa proteína a Cuba. Más del 90% del pollo que se consume en el país caribeño proviene de productores estadounidenses, marcando una gran dependencia del gobierno comunista de los sistemas productivos del “imperialismo”.

Los datos acumulados en el histórico del primer semestre del año implican importaciones por 160.259.463 dólares solo en alimentos. El salto es significativo teniendo en cuenta que igual período del año previo, es decir, de enero a junio, se alcanzó una cifra de poco más de 144 millones de dólares.

El marco legal bajo el cual se llevan a cabo estas exportaciones es el Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act (TSREEA) de 2000 y el Cuban Democracy Act (CDA) de 1992. El TSREEA autoriza la exportación directa comercial de alimentos y productos agrícolas desde EEUU hacia Cuba, sin importar su propósito.

En las cifras que recoge el Departamento de Agricultura de EEUU no se reflejan los costos de transporte, cargos bancarios u otros gastos asociados con las exportaciones. Aunque el gobierno cubano reporta datos no verificables que sí incluyen estos costos, el aumento en las exportaciones alimentarias y agrícolas es innegable.

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Un joven padre cubano llamado Wismayel Hernández Martínez fue víctima mortal de un crimen en la provincia Pinar del Río. Su pérdida ha sido lamentada en redes sociales por familiares y conocidos.

Según las diferentes publicaciones, el homicidio ocurrió durante la mañana del pasado martes y dejó sin padre a un niño. En los posts no se detalló cómo se desencadenó el hecho, ni quién sería el responsable.

La madre de Wismayel expresó su profundo dolor a través de Facebook: “Hoy me quitaron una parte de mi corazón, alguien a quien amo y amaré donde Dios me lo tenga en su manto. La vida es injusta, por Dios cuánto dolor tengo en mi corazón, ese era mi niño, el hermano mayor de mi hija. Mi amor por ti siempre será eterno, no podré verte más, ni abrazarte, ni besarte”.

El homicidio también fue confirmado por la internauta Lisney Roche Lorenzo.

“Mi negro, mi hermano, el amor de mi vida, mi otra mitad, dejaste un gran vacío en mi vida. No sé qué va a ser ahora de mí. No tengo palabras para expresarlo, solo que te amo mucho mi vida y sé que Dios te tendrá en el mejor de los lugares” , manifestó.

Incremento de robos y homicidios en Cuba

Según un reporte del Observatorio Cubano de Auditoría Ciudadana (OCAC), la Isla registra en el actual año una creciente inseguridad pública y la escalada de crímenes violentos.

El reporte de la ONG precisa que en el primer trimestre del año se han identificado un total de 98 crímenes comprobados, distribuidos en 16 casos en enero, 48 en febrero y 34 en marzo.

Estas cifras abarcan 42 casos de robo, 33 asesinatos, 17 asaltos y 6 delitos de otro tipo. Sin embargo, el panorama se tornó aún más sombrío en el segundo trimestre, ya que se registraron un total de 189 crímenes, principalmente en las provincias de La Habana, Villa Clara y Guantánamo.

En el caso específico de los robos, la ONG detectó un incremento del 83%; mientras que los homicidios registraron un alza del 43%. El OCAC dejó en claro que estas cifras no reflejan la realidad del país, debido a la falta de transparencia del gobierno cubano, además del bajo interés por denunciar incidentes de este tipo.

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Las autoridades sanitarias de Florida emitieron una advertencia sobre el incremento de casos de dengue en el sur del estado, algunos de ellos importados desde Cuba, informó América Tevé.

La epidemióloga Dadilia Garcés, en una entrevista con América Tevé, informó que existe un registro de 200 personas infectadas en todo el territorio del estado naranja. De ellas, 130 se contagiaron a causa de viajes a países donde la enfermedad es endémica. Respecto a Miami-Dade y Broward, ambos territorios registran nueve casos locales.

La experta en epidemiología exhortó a la población a mantenerse alerta respecto a las personas provenientes de regiones donde la enfermedad llega a alcanzar niveles de epidemia, ya que este factor puede desencadenar la propagación local del virus y, por consiguiente, aumentar el número de casos en el estado.

Hace unos meses, la Isla llegó a tener un incremento de contagios. La mayoría de los enfermos fueron detectados en municipios de las provincias orientales de Guantánamo y Santiago de Cuba.

De acuerdo con los Centros para el Control y la Prevención de Enfermedades (CDC), aproximadamente una de cada 20 personas afectadas por el dengue presenta una forma grave de la enfermedad, requiriendo hospitalización. Los grupos más vulnerables incluyen a los lactantes, mujeres embarazadas y aquellos que han padecido infecciones previas por el virus.

Ante esta alarmante situación, las autoridades de salud en Florida exhortan a la población a tomar medidas preventivas, como el uso de repelente y la eliminación de criaderos en hogares, que podrían ser macetas en desuso, cubetas, llantas o cualquier otro objeto que almacene agua. ¿Cuáles son los síntomas de dengue?

Los síntomas del dengue pueden variar en su intensidad, y en ocasiones llegan a ser confundidos con los de otras enfermedades transmitidas por mosquitos. Los signos más comunes son fiebre alta, dolor de cabeza y malestar intenso en articulaciones.

Asimismo, se encuentra el dolor detrás de los ojos, erupción cutánea, fatiga, náuseas, vómitos, pérdida de apetito y sangrado. Es importante tener en cuenta que el dengue puede presentarse en formas de clásico y hemorrágico; este último causa sangrado grave, shock y en algunos casos puede ser mortal.

En cualquier situación es fundamental buscar atención médica, ya que la detección temprana y el manejo adecuado pueden ser cruciales para un pronóstico favorable y evitar severas complicaciones.

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By an accident of history, I have been knee-deep for the last week or two in several NIPs related to encrypted DMs and group chat. The accident is my proposal for encrypted groups — which will help me turn Coracle into something approximating a replacement for Facebook, rather than Twitter.

In order to make that happen though, a few things need to happen first. I need a better way to encrypt messages without leaking metadata, and (un)fortunately I'm no cryptographer. It's well known that NIP 04 has a number of issues, and there have been several proposals to fix it since as early as October 2022. Building on that foundation would be a waste of time.

My purpose in this post is to outline the problems with NIP 04 as it stands, and sketch out for you some possible solutions applicable not only to DMs, but to other encrypted use cases.

NIP 04 Considered Harmful

It's pretty well-known that nostr DMs leak metadata. What this means is that when you send a DM to someone else, anyone can see:

• Who you are
• Who you sent a message to
• When you sent the message
• How big the message was

And, of course, vice versa. Now, I personally don't take the cyanide pill on this like some do. DMs in centralized social platforms are far less private even than this, since the platform can read them anytime they want, share them with law enforcement, and potentially leak them to the entire world. It's my opinion that if applications were designed with the above properties in mind, it would be possible to gamify DMs, making metadata leakage a feature rather than a bug. Of course, no one has designed such a thing, so maybe it's a moot point.

The much bigger problem, as I learned last week, has to do with the cryptography used in NIP 04 (and several other places, including private mute lists and app-specific data). Here's a quote from Paul Miller's very helpful explanation:

1. Unhashed ECDH exposes some curves to Cheon's attack 1, which allows an attacker to learn private key structure when doing continuous diffie-hellman operations. Hashing converts decisional oracle into a computational oracle, which is harder.
2. CBC IVs should not only be unrepeatable, they must be unpredictable. Predictable IV leads to Chosen Plaintext Attack. There are real exploits.
3. CBC with reused key has 96-bit nonces and loses 6 bits of security for every magnitude. 10**4 (10K) messages would bring archive security of the scheme to 72 bits. 72 bits is very low. For example, BTC has been doing 2^67 hashes/sec as per early 2023. Advanced adversaries have a lot of resources to break the scheme
4. CBC has continuously been exploited by Padding Oracle attack. We can't expect all implementations to have proper padding check
5. AES was modeled as ideal cipher. Ideal ciphers don't care about non-random keys. However, AES is not an ideal cipher. Having a non-IND key, as in NIP4, exposes it to all kinds of unknown attacks, and reducing security of overall scheme

There is a lot going on here, very little of which I (and likely you) understand. But the really horrifying takeaway for me is in items 1 and 3. If you read it carefully, you'll notice that the more times you use your private key to encrypt data using NIP 04's encryption scheme, the easier it is for an attacker to brute-force your key.

I want to be careful not to overstate this — I don't think this means that everyone's private key is compromised; it would require many thousands of signatures to meaningfully reduce the security of your key. But it does mean that NIP 04's days are numbered — and if we don't replace it, we have a real existential threat to the entire protocol on our hands.

So much for motivation to put NIP 04 to rest. Where do we go from here?

The lay of the land

There are a few different components to making private messages work (whether we're talking about DMs or encrypted groups).

• Encryption scheme
• Explicit metadata hiding
• Implicit metadata hiding
• Transport and deliverability
• Identity and key exchange

Each of these components needs to be solved in order to create a robust messaging system on nostr.

Encryption scheme

As mentioned above, NIP 04 is borked. Luckily, there are a few folks in the nostr dev community who know a thing or two about encryption, most notably Paul Miller. Way back in May, Paul proposed a new encryption scheme based on his implementation of XChaCha20, which is the same algorithm used by SMP (more on that below).

To move the proposal forward, I created a different PR with some edits and adjustments, which is very near to being merged. The implementation already exists in nostr-tools, and there are PRs out for nos2x and Alby as well.

Explicit metadata hiding

As mentioned above, normal nostr messages share lots of information publicly, even if the content is encrypted, including:

• Kind
• Created timestamp
• Tags (topics, mentions, recipients, etc)
• Message size
• Author

Private messages have to hide this information, at the very minimum.

Implicit metadata hiding

The above level of security should be enough for most use cases. But it definitely doesn't get us to total secrecy yet. Some additional metadata includes:

• Client fingerprinting
• Relay selection for publishing and queries
• IP address collection
• First seen timestamp
• Identification of users by AUTH
• Correlation of the event with other messages sent/received during a session

These issues are much harder to solve, because they are part of the process of delivering the message, rather than just constructing it. These issues can be mitigated to some extent by using TOR, proxying connections with relays, using short-lived connections, randomizing publish time, and careful selection of trusted relays. But all of these are only techniques to reduce exposure, and require a prescriptive protocol to wrap them all up into a cohesive whole.

Transport and deliverability

In my view, the key feature of nostr that makes it work is relays. Relays provide storage redundancy and heterogeneity of purpose with a common interface shared by all instances. This is great for censorship resistance, but everything comes with a tradeoff.

Publishing notes is sort of like hiding easter eggs. If you want a kid to be able to find an egg, you have to put it somewhere they'll look for it. Putting an egg on the roof does not constitute "hiding" it, at least in a way consistent with the spirit of the game.

Historically, notes have been broadcast to whatever relays the user or client selects, without regard with someone else's preferences, resulting in apparently missing notes when author and recipient don't share a relay.

This problem has been partly solved by NIP 65, which encourages clients to publish notes where the recipient will look for them. There is some guesswork involved in selecting good relays, but the process is fairly straightforward for direct messages and group chats.

The situation can be improved further by DM-specific signaling, like what @fiatjaf has suggested as an addition to NIP 65. A user could then run his own relay that accepts messages from anyone, but only serves messages to himself. This would be the only relay well-behaved clients would ever write encrypted messages to, improving both privacy and deliverability.

Variants of this could also work for encrypted groups. For small groups, the same relay hints could be used as with DMs, and for larger groups with key sharing the admin could set up a dedicated relay for the group which members would write to.

This also creates a potential affordance for querying of encrypted events. If a relay is highly trusted, it could be added as a member to an encrypted group, gaining the ability to decrypt events. It could then receive REQ messages for those events, filter based on the encrypted content, and serve the encrypted version. This could greatly improve performance for larger groups where downloading all events isn't feasible.

Identity and key exchange

One dimension of privacy that deserves its own section is identity and key exchange. In nostr, this is simpler than in other protocols because in nostr your pubkey is your username. Arguably, this is a flaw that will need to be solved at some point, but for now it means that we get to skip a lot of the complexity involved with binding a name to a key.

However, the problem is still relevant, because one effective way to improve privacy is through key exchange. In the case of DMs, it would be nice to be able to request an alias key from someone you want to communicate with in order to hide the only piece of metadata that has to remain on a message in order to deliver it, that is, the recipient.

There's a lot of good stuff about this problem in the Messaging Layer Security protocol. The author of 0xChat has also put together a draft spec for executing simple key exchange, albeit with less information hiding than in the MLS protocol.

Key exchange between individual users can be considered an optional privacy enhancement, but is required for group chat based on a shared key. In either case, exchanging keys is fairly straightforward — the real challenge is achieving forward secrecy.

By default, if at any point a user's private key is compromised, any messages that were retained by an attacker can then be decrypted. This is a major vulnerability, and solving it requires key exchange messages to be reliably discarded.

What's cooking

So that's an overview of the problems that need to be solved for private DMs and group chats. Not all of these problems will be solved right away, just because the bar for creating a decentralized encrypted chat system on par (or better than) Signal is the kind of thing you get venture capital for.

So the question becomes, should we build a sub-par messaging system that is tightly integrated with nostr, or refer users to a better option for encrypted communication?

Well, why did Twitter create its own DM solution rather than integrating email? Was it to harvest user data, or to provide additional utility to their users by allowing the social graph to inform messaging? Native features simply create a better UX.

On the other hand, in Paul Miller's words:

I would like to remind that nostr DMs, if nostr gets a traction, would be used by all kinds of people, including dissidents in dangerous places. Would you be willing to risk someone getting killed just because you want to keep backwards compatibility with bad encryption?

There is no easy answer, but it's clear that as we continue to work on this problem it is very important that applications communicate clearly the privacy implications of all "private" features built on nostr.

So, assuming we can pull off an appropriate balance between privacy and convenience, let me outline three new developments in this area that I'm excited about.

Gift wrap

Way back in April, Kieran proposed a dumb, but effective, way of hiding metadata on DMs. The technique involved simply encrypting a regular nostr event and putting that in another event's content field. The neat thing about this is that not only does this hide some of the most revealing event metadata, it's not tied to a particular event kind — anything can be wrapped.

What this means is that we can build entire "nostr within nostr" sub-networks based on encryption — some between two users, others based on a shared group key. This is much more powerful than a messaging-specific encryption schema. Now we can make private reactions, private calendars, private client recommendations, private reviews. I find this very exciting!

This proposal was further developed by Vitor — the current version can be found here. The latest version introduces double-wrapping, which can help prevent the wrapped event from being leaked by stripping its signature — that "draft" event is encrypted, wrapped, and signed to verify authorship without revealing contents, and then that wrapper is in turn wrapped and signed with a burner key to avoid revealing the author.

Wrapping also makes it possible to randomize the created timestamp to avoid timing analysis, as well as to add padding to a message, reducing the possibility of payload size analysis.

New DMs and small groups

The main subject of Vitor's proposal was a new way to do DMs and small groups using double-wrapping to hide metadata. This works basically the same way NIP 04 did — a shared key is derived and the message is encrypted for the recipient, whose pubkey is revealed publicly so that it can be delivered.

However, Vitor was able to extend this to multiple recipients simply by wrapping the message multiple times, with multiple shared secrets. With the addition of some metadata on the inner event, this makes it possible to define a group where the members know who each other member is, but no one else does.

Large groups

This proposal has one important limitation though — the number of events that need to be signed and broadcast is equal to number of messages * number of members. This is fine with 5, 10, or even 100 members, but becomes infeasible when you reach groups of 1000+ members.

For that, we have two similar proposals, one by @simulx, and one by myself. The differences between the two are not important for this discussion — both use gift wrap as a way to exchange and rotate shared group keys, and both support a weak form of forward secrecy.

As a side note, this is the proposal I'm most excited about, and why I got into nostr in the first place. Private community groups which can support shared calendars, marketplaces, notes, etc., are what I'm most excited to see on nostr.

Shortcomings

The above proposals are great, but of course leave much to be desired. If these are built, nostr will be hugely improved in both security and functionality, with the following weaknesses:

• Deliverability is still an open question — are relay selections enough to ensure recipients get their messages, and no one else does?
• There is no way to create a group whose members cannot dox each other. You must always be able to trust the people you share a group with, and of course, the larger the group, the more people there are that can betray you.
• Content can always be shared outside a group, although in Vitor's small group proposal, the only way to verifiably leak messages would be to reveal your private key.
• Key rotation is not supported by the small groups proposal, but it may be possible to solve it for the entire protocol by building out a name resolution system for nostr.
• Forward secrecy for large groups is weak at best. A key rotation can be triggered at any time, including when a member leaves the group, but unless all relays and all members destroy the key rotation events, it may be possible to decrypt messages after the fact.
• Credential sharing still has to be bootstrapped, meaning at least one encrypted message for each participant may be publicly seen. Of course, credential sharing could also be done out of band, which would largely solve this problem.

What about SimpleX?

Lots of people, including Semisol and Will, have expressed interest in integrating nostr with SimpleX and using their cryptography and transport instead of nostr's.

The first question to answer though, is which protocol should we use? SimpleX is split into a few different pieces: there's the SimpleX Messaging Protocol, which describes setting up unidirectional channels, the SMP Agent Protocol which describes how to convert two unidirectional channels into a bidirectional channel, and the SimpleX Chat Protocol which describes a standard way to send chat messages across a bidirectional channel.

SimpleX Chat Protocol

So far, most proposals to fix messaging have focused simply on DMs, and sometimes on group chat. This is SimpleX's wheelhouse, so it could definitely make sense to communicate that kind of information over SimpleX's top-level chat protocol, and leave nostr out of it entirely.

The downside of this is that it requires clients to support two different protocols, and connect users to two categories of servers. This isn't a deal breaker, but it does increase the complexity involved in writing a full-featured nostr client, especially since there are no implementations of the SimpleX protocol other than (17k lines of) Haskell.

Using SimpleX's chat protocol would also limit the message types we'd be able to encrypt. Anything outside SimpleX's protocol (like zaps for example) would have to be sent using a custom namespace like nostr.kind.1234, which wouldn't be recognized by normal SimpleX clients. There are also areas of overlap where both protocols describe how to do something, for example profile data, requiring clients to choose which kind to support, or send both.

Another wrinkle is that the SimpleX protocol is AGPL v3 licensed, meaning proprietary software would not be able to interoperate, and MIT licensed products would have to abide by their license's terms.

SMP and Agent Protocols

The lower-level SMP and Agent protocols are more promising however, since their scope is narrower, and doesn't overlap as much with nostr's own core competencies. Both are quite simple, and very prescriptive, which should make it easy to create an implementation.

SMP is actually quite similar to some of the proposals mentioned above. Some of the same primitives are used (including XChaCha20 for encryption), and SMP is transport agnostic meaning it could be implemented over websockets and supported by nostr relays. The network topology is basically the same as nostr, except SimpleX doesn't make any assumptions about which servers should be selected, so in that regard nostr actually has an advantage.

The main incompatibility is that SimpleX requires the use of ed25519 and ed448 EdDSA algorithms for signatures, which means nostr's native secp256k1 signature scheme wouldn't be compatible. But this could be ok, since keys shouldn't be re-used anyway, and there are other ways to share a nostr identity.

Forward secrecy?

Whenever a server is involved, several attack vectors inherently exist that would not in peer-to-peer systems. Servers can threaten user privacy by storing messages that should be deleted, analyzing user behavior to infer identity, and leaking messages that should otherwise be kept secret.

This has been used by some to suggest that nostr relays are not a good way to transport messages from one user to another. However, SMP has the same attack vector:

Simplex messaging server implementations MUST NOT create, store or send to any other servers: - Logs of the client commands and transport connections in the production environment. - History of deleted queues, retrieved or acknowledged messages (deleted queues MAY be stored temporarily as part of the queue persistence implementation). - Snapshots of the database they use to store queues and messages (instead simplex messaging clients must manage redundancy by using more than one simplex messaging server). In-memory persistence is recommended. - Any other information that may compromise privacy or forward secrecy of communication between clients using simplex messaging servers.

So whether SimpleX servers or nostr relays are used, privacy guarantees are severely weakened if the server is not trustworthy. To maintain complete privacy in either scheme, users have to deploy their own servers.

Relays to the rescue

Because nostr servers are currently more commonly self-hosted, and more configurable, this makes nostr the better candidate for channel hosting. Users can choose which relays they send messages to, and relay admins can tune relays to only accept messages from and serve messages to certain parties, delete messages after a certain time, and implement policies for what kinds of messages they decide to relay.

All that to say, SMP itself or a similar protocol could easily be built into nostr relays. Relays are not the wrong tool for the job, in fact they're exactly the right tool! This is great news for us, since it means SMP is applicable to our problem, and we can learn from it, even if we don't strictly implement the protocol.

Bootstrapping over nostr

One assumption SMP makes is that channels will be bootstrapped out of band, and provides no mechanism for an initial connection. This is to ensure that channels can't be correlated with user identities. Out of band coordination is definitely the gold standard here, but coordination could also be done over the public nostr network with minimal metadata leakage — only that "someone sent {pubkey} something".

Unidirectional channels

Unidirectional channels are a great primitive, which can be composed to solve various problems. Direct messages between two parties are an obvious use case, but the SimpleX Chat Protocol also includes an extension for groups, defined as a set of bi-directional SimpleX connections with other group members.

This is similar to Vitor's small-group model, and likewise isn't conducive to supporting very large groups, since a copy of every message has to be sent to each group member.

However, it's possible to build large groups on top of unidirectional channels by sharing receiver information within the group and having all participants read from and write to a single channel. In fact, this is very similar to how our large group proposals work.

Conclusion

So, the takeaway here is that SimpleX's lower level protocols are great, and we should learn from them. It may be worth creating a NIP that describes the implementation of their unidirectional channels on nostr, and re-using that primitive in DM/group implementations, or simply following the same general process adapted to nostr.

I'm personally encouraged by reading SimpleX to see that we are headed in the right direction — although many of the details of our proposals have not been fully hammered out in the way SimpleX's has.

As for what the future holds, that's up to the builders. If you want to see tighter SimpleX integration, write a NIP and a reference implementation! I'll continue learning and fold in everything I can into my work going forward.

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I can detect on the off chance that a local bar will succeed or fall flat from 20 speeds.

I'm seldom off-base.

You could consider it a spidey sense following 10 years in wine and friendliness yet it's not only that. Individuals feel that the achievement or disappointment of bars is arbitrary when nothing could be further from reality.

In all honesty, with regards to neighborhood bars at any rate, there is a recipe.

An equation that too scarcely any bar proprietors are ready to follow, despite the fact that it works.

I involved it in my bar. My bar-claiming companions use it in theirs. In any event, the ones that are flourishing do.

To know why your eating and drinking out sucks so a lot — and how to find puts that don't — you want to know The Equation. When you know it, you'll step up your eating and drinking encounters so a lot, you'll consider what in the world you were playing at previously.

Meet the ideal area bar There is a bar in my home of Porto, Portugal — the one in this article's title picture — that is close to consummate. It likewise is a three-minute stroll from my home.

The bar is the embodiment of The Equation:

Continuously have a decent worth brew for the millionth individual that strolls in each and every day requesting one (this is particularly obvious in mainland Europe where lager is tanked like water). Offer 5-10 wines by the glass that DON'T SUCK. Try not to cheat. On the off chance that you need to manage spirits, have a little yet quality-centered back bar. Offer a decent, imaginative menu that is not difficult to get ready. Cheddar, charcuterie, olives, hummous, and so forth. Or on the other hand reevaluate the food proposing to a popup kitchen. Joint effort is local area, you all. Keep it relaxed. Friendly. Local area centered. In this bar's case, they execute The Equation like this:

One tap of the neighborhood ale. Evaluated equivalent to each and every non-touristy bar in Porto. An alternating rundown of 10 or 12 wines by the glass, generously poured at a decent cost. A couple effectively made mixed drinks like Negronis and Aperol Spritz. Non-extravagant tidbits like olives and lupins (the most widely recognized bar nibble in Portugal) as well as a fancier yet at the same time open menu of snacks from the popup kitchen nearby accessible at ends of the week. Open until 1 am consistently, speedy and proficient counter help, and a screen showing different videographer's work like clockwork. The most fascinating thing about this bar is that I likewise realized it in its past emphasis as a shining wine bar. It didn't carry out The Recipe. It was costly, it wasn't relaxed, and its wines weren't great.

It was additionally dead every time I strolled past. In the long run, it passed on for good.

I've seen The Recipe work on many times. However, many bar proprietors are alarmed by it. They're anxious that assuming that they hoist their contribution even only a tad bit, they'll drive away cost cognizant clients. They believe there's no cash in quality. Excessively many bars work on a stack them high, sell them overrated model.

And that implies you all are left with fair encounters you would ever neglect on the off chance that they hadn't desolated your wallet for $100+.

What these proprietors don't comprehend is that the bars that adhere to The Equation are the fate of easygoing friendliness.

Furthermore, again individuals are familiar it, they can never again pull off scamming you.

Try not to allow your neighborhood bars to pull off scamming you On the off chance that you ask a bar proprietor for what valid reason they charge you such a great amount for beverages or tidbits, I would wager my base Euro that they would refer to the standard thing.

The cost of liquor is excessively high. Business rents are exploitative. They can't bear or track down staff. That is the reason they need to charge you such a huge amount for your fair glass of wine with messy help.

There are a few chunks of truth in that. In any case, it's not the entire tale about why spots fizzle.

They fizzle since they don't mind enough. They center around some unacceptable things. They don't adhere to The Equation.

Since I've seen sufficient quality-centered — Equation based — bars flourish, even in the most costly of urban communities.

A companion of mine possesses a bar in a bougie area of North London. It's a consoling spot (for a Brit at any rate) since it has all components of a nearby bar — a decent choice of brew, a bar menu, wine and a couple of spirits.

In any case, he adheres to The Equation. This implies yes you can get an ale, however you can likewise get a specialty lager or two. His wines — even the house pours — are fabulous. His bar menu is a step up from most.

Furthermore, he is not really any more costly, if by any means.

Here is a correlation between my companion's bar and a couple of lesser-quality foundations. To make it harder, I picked a couple of bars outside London where business rents are lower:

Picture kindness of creator The costs are comparative but my companion's wines and lagers are obviously better than the ones at their rivals'. We're talking seas separated.

As far as my Porto bar, these are their costs contrasted with the spot nearby:

Picture civility of creator Surmise which one is more occupied. Surmise which one has better alcohol and food. Surmise which one has a higher Google rating.

Surmise which one I go to three evenings per week.

At the core of The Recipe is a harmony between giving individuals what they need and giving them quality. It's an equilibrium that my number one bars on the planet — like my companion's bar or my nearby bar here in Porto — get precisely on. They're not gunning for extravagant but rather they give a sufficient poo about their clients to source extraordinary liquor, bites and climate.

They have a reason that goes past bringing in cash for the proprietor.

They know how to pick wines and lagers that are great quality and great worth (it's really not so hard assuming you get the right wholesaler, which is the reason I'm amazed scarcely any spots make it happen).

They center around what makes a difference. Great encounters. Quality. No tricks, no sham estimating.

From what I've seen during my ten years in the accommodation exchange, both at home in the UK and abroad, these are the spots that are making it work.

Simply ask my local bar. Goodness, you can't. The staff are too bustling serving crowds of individuals to address your inquiry.

Instructions to find The Recipe based foundations for yourself Unfortunately, this isn't something you can research. You really want to utilize your eyes. Assuming you stroll past some place you think "that looks cool", grab a look at the menu. Spy on what's on individuals' plates or in their glasses.

Who's utilizing the foundation? Raucous single man gatherings probably won't shout this is my place. Relaxed people are more the energy.

You likely definitely know a couple of spots as of now. They've likely blazed up in your brain while perusing this article. Go to them. Ask the staff where they eat and drink. Follow the chain of proposals.

Try not to take a gander at what a spot resembles, take a gander at what it does. If not, you could wind up in an Instagram-commendable however negative foundation. The sort that litter the cordiality scene more than I like to see.

Trust yourself. I would say, first senses are many times right.

The Recipe isn't exactly an equation. Only demonstrative of a joint considerations. That is engaged. That doesn't pay staff peanuts and markup food and wine 5x just so the proprietor can swan about in their Mercedes, apparently absent that we as a whole did essential math at school and can sort out where the cash comes from (and the amount they're cheating).

These are the joints that get by. Thrive. Furthermore, are enjoyable to visit.

Recent college grads and Gen Z are going to assume control over the world. Their unquenchable thirst (joke expected) for quality means foundations should up their game to get by.

It's not hard. Lift your contribution simply a bit over the base floor and you're as of now in front of 90% of the pack.

Concerning most of us, we can continue ahead with partaking in a night out, protected in the information we're not being ripped off while having a good time, simple, loosened up time.

Presently there's an idea.

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Es war einmal ein talentierter Developer namens Max, der leidenschaftlich gerne Code schrieb. Er war jedoch nicht nur ein begabter Programmierer, sondern auch ein überzeugter Bitcoiner und Nostr Nutzer. Für Max waren Dezentralisierung und Freiheit wichtige Prinzipien, die er in allen Bereichen seines Lebens verfolgte.

Eines Tages entschied Max, sein neuestes Projekt auf Github zu hosten, da dies für viele Entwickler die übliche Vorgehensweise war. Doch als er sich genauer mit den Bedingungen und Richtlinien von Github auseinandersetzte, wurde ihm klar, dass dies nicht mit seinen Prinzipien vereinbar war.

Github war ein zentralistischer Host, der von einem einzigen Unternehmen kontrolliert wurde. Max sah darin einen Widerspruch zu den Idealen der Dezentralisierung und Freiheit, die er als Bitcoiner und Nostr Nutzer hochhielt. Er wollte nicht Teil eines Systems sein, das Zensur und Kontrolle ermöglichte.

Entschlossen, prinzipientreu zu bleiben, beschloss Max, Github zu boykottieren. Er suchte nach alternativen Plattformen, die dezentralisiert und frei von Zensur waren. Er fand verschiedene Möglichkeiten, seinen Code zu hosten und seine Projekte mit anderen Entwicklern zu teilen, ohne dabei seine Prinzipien zu verletzen.

Er war begeistert von der Möglichkeit, seine Arbeit in einer Umgebung zu teilen, die von keiner einzelnen Entität kontrolliert wurde. Er fand Gleichgesinnte, die ebenfalls gegen die Zentralisierung kämpften und alternative Lösungen entwickelten.

Obwohl Max anfangs Bedenken hatte, dass er durch den Boykott von Github weniger Sichtbarkeit und Anerkennung erhalten könnte, stellte er schnell fest, dass seine Prinzipientreue ihm eine treue Gemeinschaft von Unterstützern einbrachte. Andere Entwickler, die ebenfalls gegen Zensur und Kontrolle waren, schlossen sich ihm an und unterstützten seine Projekte.

Mit der Zeit gewann die Bewegung gegen die Zentralisierung an Fahrt. Immer mehr Entwickler schlossen sich dem Boykott von Github an und suchten nach dezentralen Alternativen. Die Gemeinschaft wuchs und wurde zu einer starken Stimme gegen Zensur und Kontrolle.

Max war stolz auf das, was er und seine Mitstreiter erreicht hatten. Sie hatten bewiesen, dass es möglich war, prinzipientreu zu bleiben und dennoch erfolgreich zu sein. Sie hatten gezeigt, dass es Alternativen zu zentralisierten Plattformen wie Github gab und dass man seine Prinzipien nicht opfern musste, um seine Arbeit zu teilen.

Die Geschichte von Max und seinem Boykott von Github wurde zu einem Symbol für den Kampf gegen Zensur und Kontrolle in der Entwicklergemeinschaft. Sie erinnerte die Menschen daran, dass es wichtig war, prinzipientreu zu bleiben und für die eigenen Überzeugungen einzustehen, auch wenn es manchmal unbequem war.

Max und seine Mitstreiter hatten eine Lektion gelernt: Sie hatten bewiesen, dass man nicht auf zentralisierte Plattformen angewiesen war, um seine Arbeit zu teilen und mit anderen zu kollaborieren.

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After announcing our first wave of grants for bitcoin[^fn-btc] and nostr[^fn-nostr] projects, we are pleased to announce an additional wave of grants for open-source projects in the space:

[^fn-btc]: First Wave of Bitcoin Grants [^fn-nostr]: First Wave of Nostr Grants

• BDK
• LNbits
• Watchdescriptor
• Stratum V2 Testing \& Benchmarking Tool
• Fedimint Modules and Resources
• Amber: Nostr Event Signer
• Nostr UI/UX Development
• Nostr Use-Case Exploration \& Education

The first five grants are sourced from our General Fund, the last three—being nostr projects—from our Nostr Fund. This brings the total number of OpenSats grants to 41, adding to the grants we previously announced in July.

Once again, let's take a closer look at each of the projects to see how they align with the OpenSats mission.

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BDK

Bitcoin Development Kit (BDK) is a set of libraries and tools that allows you to seamlessly build cross-platform on-chain bitcoin wallets without having to re-implement standard bitcoin data structures, algorithms, and protocols. BDK is built on top of the powerful rust-bitcoin and rust-miniscript libraries and adds features for managing descriptor-based wallets, syncing wallets to the bitcoin blockchain, viewing transaction histories, managing and selecting UTXOs to create new transactions, signing, and more. The core BDK components are written in Rust, but the team also maintains Kotlin and Swift language bindings for use in mobile projects. There are also Python bindings, and React Native and Flutter support is being actively developed.

Repository: bitcoindevkit/bdk
License: Apache 2.0 / MIT

LNbits

LNbits is used by a multitude of projects in the bitcoin space, especially as part of their lightning payments stack. Being easy to build on through its extension framework, LNbits has been pioneering various cutting-edge solutions and experiments in the world of bitcoin, lightning, and nostr.

The project has a thriving maker community building various hardware devices such as Lightning ATMs, point-of-sale devices, DIY hardware wallets, and nostr signing devices. The modular design of LNbits makes it attractive to users and tinkerers alike, as its plugin architecture makes it easy to extend and understand.

Repository: lnbits/lnbits
License: MIT

Watchdescriptor

watchdescriptor is a CLN plugin written in Rust that connects a business's treasury wallet to its CLN node. It utilizes cln-plugin and the BDK library to track coin movements in registered wallets and report this information to the bookkeeper plugin.

The plugin enables businesses to design a complete treasury using Miniscript and import the resulting descriptor into CLN. Since bookkeeper already accounts for all coin movements internal to CLN, this plugin is the last piece businesses need in order to unify all their bitcoin accounting in one place. This enables businesses to account for all inflows and outflows from their operations, streamlining tax reporting and financial analysis.

The watchdescriptor project is part of a broader vision to transform the lightning node (particularly CLN) into a financial hub for businesses, enabling them to conduct operations without reliance on any third parties.

Repository: chrisguida/watchdescriptor
License: MIT

Stratum V2 Testing & Benchmarking Tool

The Stratum V2 Testing & Benchmarking Tool allows the bitcoin mining industry to test and benchmark Stratum V2 performance against Stratum V1. The tool supports different mining scenarios to help miners make informed decisions and evaluate their profitability. The goal of the project is to motivate miners to upgrade to Stratum V2, increasing their individual profits and making the Bitcoin network more resilient in the process.

Repository: stratum-mining/stratum @GitGab19
License: Apache 2.0 / MIT

Fedimint Modules and Resources

Fedimint is a federated Chaumian e-cash mint backed by sats with deposits and withdrawals that can occur on-chain or via lightning. It can be understood as a scaling and privacy layer as well as an adoption accelerator for Bitcoin.

The goal of this particular project is to improve the Fedimint UI and develop free and open resources for developers and "Guardians" to enable more people to run and develop on Fedimint.

Repository: fedimint/ui @EthnTuttle
License: MIT

Amber: Nostr Event Signer

Amber is a nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to keep their nsec segregated in a single, dedicated app. The goal of Amber is to have your smartphone act as a NIP-46 signing device without any need for servers or additional hardware. "Private keys should be exposed to as few systems as possible as each system adds to the attack surface," as the rationale of said NIP states. In addition to native apps, Amber aims to support all current nostr web applications without requiring any extensions or web servers.

Repository: greenart7c3/Amber
License: MIT

Nostr UI/UX Development

The goal of this project is to help improve the UI/UX of major nostr clients, starting with Gossip and Coracle, emphasizing the onboarding process as well as usability and accessibility. One part of onboarding is solving the discoverability problem that nostr has in the first place. Solving the problem of jumping in and out of the nostr world is what motivated the development of njump, which was redesigned as part of these efforts and is now live at nostr.com.

In addition to client-specific improvements, generic design modules and learnings will be incorporated into the Nostr Design project for others to use.

Activity: github.com/dtonon @dtonon
License: MIT

Nostr Use-Case Exploration & Education

As of today, most nostr clients implement social media applications on top of the nostr protocol. However, nostr allows for various use cases, many of which go beyond social media. Two examples are Listr and Ostrich, a list management tool and job board, respectively.

In addition to use-case exploration, this project will continue to educate users and developers alike, be it via Nostr How or various video series, e.g., explaining how to build upon NDK.

Activity: github.com/erskingardner @jeffg
License: MIT / GPL-3.0 / CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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We have more grants in the pipeline and will provide funding for many more projects in the future. Note that we can only fund those projects which reach out and apply. If you are an open-source developer who is aligned with our mission, don't hesitate to apply for funding.

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8 Strange photography regulations in America

In a politically charged time of history, and as a previous public strategy expert myself, I figured today would be a fine an open door to draw some hilarious photography regulations out into the open. Perhaps we can learn something more profound simultaneously!

Additionally, Europe, don't snicker excessively… you're straightaway!

1. Idaho: No Fishing Photographs: In Pocatello, Idaho, it's against the law against the law to snap a picture of a fish in the event that you're not wanting to eat it. This regulation was logical expected to keep individuals from squandering fish by getting them only for a photograph.

I love Idaho, despite the fact that I've invested a large portion of my energy in the PNW in Oregon, Idaho has enchanted me every single time I've visited. So don't misinterpret this, however you all have a few much stranger regulations on the books.

Like, did you be aware, that it's against the law against the law to NOT look favorably upon the road in Pocatello, Idaho?

Likewise, a typical web joke recommends that it's against the law to fish from the rear of a camel (and furthermore giraffes) in Idaho. More profound jumping observes that the law is more nonexclusive (and applies freely to fishing from any creatures back)… however it's as yet an entertaining pesudo-truth to bander about. The genuine regulation isn't that odd I presume.

1. Alabama: No Manikins in Photographs: In Versatile, Alabama, it's against the law to snap a picture that incorporates more than one individual assuming one of them is a manikin.

Okay, then.

1. Oregon: No Dueling Photographs: In Oregon, it's against the law to snap a picture of a duel. This regulation harkens back to while dueling was as yet drilled.

We should make a stride back and consider this regulation from the time it was likely written in. Verifiable and innovative setting matters.

Two things originally ring a bell. To start with, dueling, while dueling was a thing, was a serious and about standing. I'm nearly 100% sure this regulation was connected with protecting the public successors and nobility of the members. Nobody needs a photograph of them bloodied and harmed in the paper.

What's more regrettable than losing (however making due) a duel? Presumably seeing your practically dead-self on the first page one week from now.

The subsequent thought centers around the simple photography choices we had back in the dueling-times. I'm certain you can envision the old enormous box camera on wooden mounts with a drapery hung over the administrator. Then, envision the gigantic camera streak blast and silver residue going off, during your duel. Could be a piece diverting while you're attempting to point a solitary shot dark powder gun. We should downplay interruptions, is that right?

1. California: No Photographs of Chosen Authorities: In certain areas of California, it's against the law to take photos of chosen authorities inside 100 feet of a surveying put on Final voting day.

Not the weirdest or most questionable regulation in California, I'm certain. ( Simply kidding Californians, quiet down!) However elector security is clearly significant, it is interested to ponder why the public authority is untouchable in this present circumstance.

1. Kansas: No Photographs of Bunnies from January to April: In Kansas, it's against the law to snap a picture of a bunny from January to April without an authority grant. This regulation was probable ordered to forestall hunting unavailable.

I would be keen on checking whether this made any difference or what relationship they found among photography and hunting. What cross part of society could be out capturing natural life, and furthermore hunting it?

Is there a legitimate separation between proficient natural life photography, and relaxed documentation of your chase?

1. Florida and Wisconsin: No Taking Photographs of Ranches/Ranchers without Consent: In Wisconsin, it's against the law against the law to snap a picture of a rancher without their consent. This regulation was instituted to safeguard ranchers' security.

Remarkably, in Florida the law denies photographs of the ranches (property)) , where the Wisconsin regulation forbids photographs of the ranchers (individuals).

Promptly I'm helped to remember papers we wrote in school about protection regulations and contending assuming individual or property security was more significant.

1. Washington: No Bugging Bigfoot Photos: In Washington Express, it's against the law to hassle or upset Bigfoot to snap a picture. This regulation, obviously, accepts the presence of the legendary animal.

Some of the time states have a few pretty interesting regulations, either deliberately or not, some of the time the lawful register of a state can likewise show the humor of individuals who live there. This appears to be VERY Washington.

Anyway, recall, on the off chance that you're out hoping to photo Bigfoot, don't annoy the large person okay? Or, more than likely you could end up in prison… with the coolest lawbreaker accusation of all time.

1. Nebraska: No Whale Photographs in a Moving Vehicle: In Nebraska, it's against the law to snap a picture of a whale from a moving vehicle. While Nebraska is landlocked and a long way from the sea, this regulation could have been a hilarious gesture to idiocy.

How about we take one more second to Truly comprehend how landlocked Nebraska really is. Nebraska isn't only landlocked on every last bit of it's lines… however the states that encompass Nebraska are all Likewise landlocked.

As are the states around THOSE states as well.

That is a triple landlocking!

In any case, don't you even attempt to take photographs of whales from a moving vehicle in Nebraska.

Remove? I maintained that this post should be a piece senseless, and something else for my photography fans to peruse. However, there is a point.

There are a lot of regulations about what you can and can't photo when you're making the rounds with your camera. It is somewhat of an outlandish weight to know every single regulation, particularly when a portion of these regulations are so ludicrous once in a while.

There is, in any event, a typical subject to a considerable lot of these regulations. They are by and large intended to safeguard individuals' security or potentially to safeguard the climate by not empowering specific ways of behaving by means of mass-documentation of the way of behaving.

I'm not hear to remark on in the event that these regulations are consistently viable or sensible, yet I think there is a basic example here: We as a whole love photogrpahy, its an astonishing fine art and side interest that brings alot fo individuals togthere.

Not every person need's to be incorporated however, so regard that. Peruse individuals' forms of non-verbal communication dialects, perhaps you reserve the "privilege" to photo them, however perhaps that is simply not the moral decision at that time.

Perhaps that land doesn't have a place with you. Perhaps the thing is being recorded, ought not be rehashed or turned into a pattern on the grounds that your photograph circulated around the web.

There's a scarce difference between what you can, and what you ought to do, and yes it's dependably your decision to choose for yourself.

However, please, on the off chance that Bigfoot doesn't need an image, let him be. Cool? Cool.

Likewise, last year I composed an article about accepted procedures for photographic artists openly spaces. Strangely, it has vanished from my distributed articles, so return for that soon, I presume!

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We're frantic at Gwyneth Paltrow once more.

This time, it's for a set of three of stunning offenses: keeping magnificence items in her ice chest, paying attention to the as of late shamed Lizzo on her mid year strolls, and posting her visitor house on her California home on AirBnB.

It's this last offense about which individuals appear to have the most contemplations. ( Obviously they do).

Once more individuals jumped onto Instagram to blame her for being withdrawn, and bringing up that her fans could generally not really stand to remain there.

In light of the backfire, Paltrow had declared that she is enjoying some time off from web-based entertainment.

It's not really whenever we first have come after her. The pillorying of Paltrow is basically a public side interest. There are not many VIPs we love to can't stand more.

Yet, why?

Is it since she's a special nepo child, the offspring of Hollywood sovereignty who had a very much ripped advantage on the planet and presently makes a great many dollars selling overrated candles and excellence items?

Or on the other hand since she's a delightful, savvy, youthful (ish), and fruitful lady, and our desirous and misanthropic little hearts can't deal with it?

All things considered, I likewise have considerations. ( Obviously I do).

We should investigate.

From goop to apples to nuts: a consolidated history of Paltrow's intolerable violations Paltrow has been provoking our aggregate wrath for a really long time.

It appeared to start in 1998 when we were disturbed by her sorrowful Oscar acknowledgment discourse for Shakespeare In Adoration and, surprisingly, more by her evil fitting pink outfit.

This put her on our radar, and not positively. Paltrow said she was abraded by the English press for her profound showcase and says she felt an "energy shift" towards her from there on, and that individuals were at this point not on her side.

This is by all accounts when we started to scrutinize her ability, her decisions, and her honor and were by and large aggravated by her and all that she did.

In any case, the tipping point came in 2004 when we were abused nearly to the place of moral vexation when she presented her unfortunate infant girl with the in some way unpardonably hostile name "Apple." We were possibly somewhat less oppressed when she gave her child the name "Moses."

Then, at that point, we despised her severe yoga practice and her Simple macrobiotic eating routine. ( What was she eating, at any rate? A solitary teaspoon of coconut Greek yogurt and a modest bunch of crude almonds daily?)

We had worries about her subsequent cookbook, 2013's It's Completely fine, which was superfluously prohibitive, and had the boldness to incorporate a recipe for avocado toast. There were worries that she was hurting her youngsters by restricting their sugar admission. ( In case it wasn't already obvious, both Apple and Moses appear to have entered early adulthood totally unblemished).

We lost our brains when she utilized the expression "cognizant uncoupling" to depict her slow parted from her ex, Coldplay lead artist Chris Martin.

What's more, we focused on our hands joyful fun at others' expense when she neglected to finish the #FoodBankNYCChallenge gave by Mario Batali, surrendering after simply four days of endeavoring to take care of herself and her family utilizing just food stamps gave for the Supplemental Wholesome Help Program (SNAP).

And afterward there's her most inexcusable sin of all: her $250 million health and way of life organization goop, which sells overrated excellence items and housewares, including a bunch of $66 "yoni" eggs that, when embedded into one's woman parts, play out a wonder of some sort or another (what precisely, I don't know).

Hello, it's a long rap sheet: Crying, naming her kids, working out, eating, being alluring, and bringing in cash.

Oof.

No big surprise we can't stand her. Well, how could she be like that.

Paltrow is somewhat flawed, however — shock! — she isn't malevolent either (truth be told, she's even done some cool stuff) See, I get it.

In any event, I get some of it.

She has said some ridiculous stuff. That entirety "cognizant uncoupling" thing? It's a little recoil.

What's more, concerning those yoni eggs, they're just plain dumb. Kindly don't get them. They'll cause yoni issues you would rather not know about, alright?

However, for what reason do we actually tend to think about what she names her youngsters? Or on the other hand what she eats? For what reason do we resent her wonderful achievement and accept that she hasn't worked for it?

For what reason would we say we are so damn speedy to decide without examining past the heartless titles and the overall suspicions?

Prepare to have your mind blown. Paltrow isn't all terrible!

She's a functioning altruist, and has liberally given to causes, for example, disease examination and food banks. She likewise serves on the leading body of The Robin Hood Establishment, a drive meaning to reduce issues brought about by neediness in New York City.

She was quite possibly the earliest lady to help journalists Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey in their examination of Hollywood maker and sexual stalker Harvey Weinstein.

Why? Since she also had been a survivor of Weinstein when she tried out for her breakout job in 1996's Emma. ( Furthermore, indeed, she needed to try out, in spite of her "nepo child" status as the little girl of TV maker Bruce Paltrow and entertainer Blythe Danner).

With respect to that SNAP challenge? Certainly, she "fizzled," I surmise, contingent upon how you characterize disappointment. How might you do in the event that you just had $29 to spend on food in seven days? Perhaps you could, yet a many individuals proved unable.

Paltrow completely claimed her "disappointment," incidentally, and composed that the test "perpetually changed" her viewpoint and that the food framework should be modified so everybody approaches new, good food.

Also, what might be said about that posting on AirBnB? It's simply a money snatch, isn't that so? Or on the other hand an exposure stunt.

All things considered, as per her visit video on Instagram, it was as a matter of fact AirBnB who connected, inquiring "startling hosts to make shared encounters and associations" trying to mitigate our consistently developing scourge of dejection.

Seth Rogen did something comparative in February, and Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis are currently committing to also.

We didn't have a clue about that, however, did we?

Nah. It's significantly more enjoyable to detest Paltrow and expect to be the most horrendously awful about her.

Once more, be that as it may, why?

Truly, I've never fully figured out it. Is it since she's a lady? Is on the grounds that we're envious?

We disdain Jeff Bezos as well, however that person attempted to shoot himself to the moon. We're likewise not obsessed with Elon Musk, but rather he's dreadful to his workers, composes mean tweets, and is by all accounts a sexist.

Maybe we simply appreciate loathing fruitful individuals overall. Particularly in the event that they do terrible things like naming their children after an organic product.

Yet, here's an inquiry: Paltrow was hauled in the media for giving her children "strange" names. However, think about who named their little girl?

That's right, her significant other.

Hello, it's apples for thought.

Could do without Paltrow? Uplifting news! You can (wheeze!) simply overlook her! I was eating with a companion some time back when the subject of Paltrow came up.

"Goodness, her," my companion said. " Didn't she collide with some person on a ski slope and afterward sue him for a lot of cash?"

Um, no, she didn't, as a matter of fact. Terry Sanderson, an ophthalmologist who guarantees that Paltrow collided with him on a ski slope, sued her for $300 000, and she countersued for $1. The appointed authority managed in support of herself.

In any case, we won't allow an easily overlooked detail to like the realities impede our impression of Paltrow, right? That doesn't really seem fun at all.

We need to continue to can't stand her.

I don't know why. ( Perhaps it's sexism, or perhaps it's Maybelline). I'm likewise not certain why we burn through such a lot of effort on her, particularly on the off chance that we can't stand her?

For what reason might we at any point let her be?

We don't need to get her poo, watch her films or utilize her cookbooks. We don't need to follow her on Instagram, and we absolutely don't need to lease her AirBnB.

We can simply disregard her and allow her to do her thing and not trouble remarking on it.

Since regardless of whether she comes from Hollywood sovereignty and is lovely and somewhat distant (OK, regardless of whether she's a ton withdrawn), she has each option to make money.

She likewise has each privilege to name her kids what she needs and to eat however she sees fit. She has each privilege to open her home for one night to visitors who can manage the cost of it and might want to remain there.

She has each privilege to find success.

Perhaps we could look past our envy or sexism or whatever is happening here and simply appreciate her for her prosperity and her altruism and her glow and her humor. ( Newsflash: She's entertaining and swears like a mariner, coincidentally. Try not to trust me? Look at her on Rocker Master or Smartless for a tomfoolery tune in.)

Or on the other hand we don't need to. We don't need to like her or focus on her.

We don't need to get her $86 candles in the event that we would rather not.

Or then again we can assuming we need to. Furthermore, assuming that they make our homes smell pleasant and perhaps cause us to feel somewhat more lovely and fruitful and Paltrow-like for an hour out of our day, what's the damage in that?

None. Since Paltrow isn't harming anybody.

Yet, do avoid those yoni eggs.

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This week I joined Buildspace's "Nights & Weekends" - a free online school for people to work on an idea and develop it over 6 weeks, with feedback and mentorship along the way. The first days are dedicated to ideation and the tricky question of what to work on. This came at a timely moment for me - I'd recently read a great book that upended how I thought about ideas and goals.

In the months prior, I was forcing things; planning, mind-mapping, ideating, following all the usually prescribed "steps" to the epiphany. Nothing was working, previous projects had ran their course, while I was unsure what my next one would be. I'd attempted a few projects in spaces I thought would lead to success & business, but nothing was capturing my enthusiasm, and unsurprisingly, nothing worked. By late June, I'd had enough. In a chance encounter, I came across a book which clarified and expressed an intuition I felt I had on some level over the previous months.

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned by Stanley & Lehman breaks apart the mainstream paradigm of goal-setting and 'good' ideas, which they say has mired many creators, particularly in the tech space; where product-market-fit, the customer development model, and ultra-rational approaches are dogma. The book immediately draws in the reader, with the revelation that you cannot plan for great, ambitious projects and goals:

They ignore the value of following a path for its own uniqueness, rather than for where it may lead.... ...... great discoveries are lurking just beyond our fingertips, if only we can let go of the security blanket of the objective. Sometimes the best way to change the world is to stop trying to change it - perhaps you've noticed your best ideas are often those you were not seeking.

The Search-Space

The authors introduce us to the abstract "search-space" - think of it as a vast room where all ideas & possibilities exist. We explore this room when we ideate; I imagine it to be an infinite space, bright, but with a dense fog. All the unfound ideas of the world are in this room - if we traverse it well, we can discover them. The cure for cancer, fusion energy, new surgical procedures, your next favourite song - are all in this room. We navigate through it step by step, starting at one idea, and from there we can see our next. The authors warn us that the pathways to really ambitious goals are non-obvious and impossible to predict when we are in the search-space.

They use the example of the ambitious goal of building the first computer. In the early 19th century this was attempted by Babbage , however this idea was ahead of it time and what really led to the implementation of modern computers was something completely unrelated - vacuum tubes. Those who set out to build vacuum tubes had no intention of building computers (they needed them for something else), and anyone in the search-space trying to build a computer would not have started by building vacuum tubes. It could never have been planned and was non-obvious from the start! An interesting insight and a perfect example of the nuances of the search-space.

Navigating & False Compasses

So instead of a grand plan, it is better to just start on a stepping-stone (an idea), and let new stepping-stones (more ideas) come into view. Our goal then becomes collecting stepping-stones to traverse the search-space, rather than reaching for a stepping-stone miles away with no discernible path towards it. Even if we thought we had a path, the authors warn that this is often a false compass - for ambitious goals it’s never obvious.

A goal of starting a successful tech company is ambitious, and with my old beliefs, I would only have followed ideas I thought could get me there - niche markets, business solutions ; all that obvious boring, over-thought, and contrived nonsense (which I believe is particularly prevalent on social media today via tech and business influencers). Now, I realise that that will never work. Unwittingly, I had limited myself to a confined area of the search-space, putting up walls made of my false beliefs about success and goals. I could not see, or would not see, stepping stones close by which did actually have my curiosity - but didn't make sense in the "grand plan" - Why would I make a music lyrics web app or write essays no one will read when there's no clear market or business model ? So I didn't - instead I tried things which had neither my curiosity nor interest. I was barking up the wrong tree. Then, I looked back and realised that my most successful project (if a few 100 users and some national attention is success) came from something that I was interested in which had no obvious business potential - a public good website for listing vacant and derelict properties in Ireland - www.dog-house.ie . That project is still not a business, and has not led to one property renovation, but it did raise awareness - which was all the original stepping stone was.

Lost & Found

The penny had dropped, I was lost in the search-space, and needed to get back to basics. My resolution was simple: stop trying so hard - just follow my curiosity and genuine interest. Adopting this new mindset led me to Nostr, and the work being done in the space using Bitcoins Lightning Network. For those new to Nostr - it's a new technology for social media & communication in general, a place where you own your social experience. Users can keep followers, posts, likes, and replies across platforms & apps. Some people won’t care, but for creators - this is a key innovation. You can view Nostr messages through clients. Clients are websites/apps that connect to the Nostr network. Think of them like different doors to the same room – your content and followers stay the same, whichever door you choose.

Exploring the stepping stones nearby, I found one which suited my interests and was something I would use - making an Obsidian plugin to publish long-form content seamlessly to Nostr (this essay came from that!). From there, I saw the potential for writers on Nostr; keep your audience, monetise easily, no platform dependency or lock-in, content ownership - the perfect place to publish. Then, the next stepping stone came into view - I decided to start publicly sharing some work I had written. This was something I'd wanted to do for a while but had never found the courage to do so. As the audience and visibility on Nostr is low today it helped me click publish and get off the mark - another serendipity on this trail of stepping stones! Finally, I'd discovered some long-form Nostr clients and enjoyed reading articles and posts on them. On Nostr, you can publish short-form Twitter like messages or long-form material; essays, blogs posts, reviews, op-eds, etc. The next stepping stone came into view - maybe I could build a long-form Nostr client that curated and displayed content in a novel way.

So, off the back of learning about this new space, and publishing written content to it, I decided this would be a fun thing to try and build over the next 6 weeks of "Nights & Weekends". The idea is still forming, and who knows where the next stepping stone will lead, but it feels like a relief to adopt this new approach and traverse the search-space care-free, knowing now that great things cannot be planned, and that, with some luck, serendipity would find me along the way.

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References/Resources: Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned by Kenneth O. Stanley & Joel Lehman https://buildspace.so/nights-weekends

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Nostr, which stands for “Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relay”, is a decentralized, censorship-resistant social protocol. Nostr is a place where we all escape from darkness and achieve peacefulness.

Nostr has 3 main components; clients, relays, and users. Unlike Twitter where backend servers are controlled by a group of people, anyone and everyone can run relays to maintain Nostr protocol. Clients (web, mobile, desktop apps) fetch data from relayers and send new data from users to relayers. In other words, relays act like the backend server for Nostr. Relayers doesn’t communicate each other.

For example, if Bob use Relay-A and Ken use Relay-B, Bob can’t see Ken. But if Bob use Relay-A and Relay-B, Bob can interact with Ken. That’s why it is best to use multiple relays.

Each user has a pair of public and private keys; generally public keys start with ‘npub’ and private keys start with ‘nsec’. Public key act like username and private key act like password. But private key can’t change like normal password. So, it is best to store private key in safe place.

Since Nostr is the decentralized social protocol which no single people have control, it is not a good idea for each developer to solve common issues with different own solutions and implement it in their own app only. NIP, Nostr Implementation Possibilities, exist to coordinate the process. Currently there are 99 NIPs.

This is my first content about basic understanding of Nostr. Hope u enjoy it.

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Spiked Little Pill: A Paper

recollect getting the news that I was being dropped from MCA Records in Canada. There had been tremendously said about my advancing (catapulting?) out of what I had been known for… pop. Happy. Fictional. Unquestionably I had snuck a few self-portraying partakes in a portion of the verses, to a great extent. However, my developing craving to write in the no limits way that I presently stay in was being deterred… under the appearance that "nobody needs to hear this from you, not the least of whom is your supervisor." Oh. I didn't know that I was composing my melodies and communicating my thoughts to ensure my supervisor was blissful.

Maybe my blossoming sexuality and transitioning were being made clear through the symbolism in recordings I began to shoot — nothing stunningly needless, however a sign of such places I needed to additionally investigate in my specialty, in my music. This "pushing for more" — by needing to take part in the composing more, in the non-rhyming verses, in the full ongoing articulation of ME was not something anybody appeared to be keen on at that point. " Brand" changing (and this was before this raunchy yet successful word was even thrown around) was hazardous business. However, nothing about developing freely and communicating my FULL life appeared to be hazardous. NOT doing it seemed like unavoidable demise to me, as a matter of fact.

So when I was educated that I was a "free specialist," I hung tight for the depression. The "agony of being unloaded." The acknowledgment that my current "group" was not going on this development ride with me, and that in some way that implied I was useless, deserted, alone. ( I did — and do — like, definitely, so many individuals I had been working with and laughing with for a modest bunch of my delicate youngster years.) However, this expected gloom won't ever come. Perhaps 10 minutes of melancholy.

Having composed my most memorable tunes at 9 years of age, and created them at 10 and 11, and having framed my own record organization (for the way that nobody would sign a 10-year-old in 1985), I knew that this excursion of workmanship making would be a long one, for how RIGHT it felt. Also, for the power source that it made for me. Catharsis. I unobtrusively made a guarantee to myself. In my mouse-pervaded condo, I guaranteed myself that I Wouldn't STOP until I was in that frame of mind with somebody whose very connection with me made one wonder: " Who ARE you, Alanis?" I won't stop until I tuned in back to melodies I had composed and co-composed, and really felt that this whole record was the Ideal depiction of what was happening for me. All the happiness. The pursuing of the highs of life. The urgency. The annihilation. The fury. The maternal. The delicate. The sympathy… and so forth. Every last bit OF IT. All things considered, however much you can in one record.

I worked with endless partners in Canada and, at last, Los Angeles. Every one of them skilled in remarkable ways, every one of them convincing, and some of them amusing as eff. However, I knew in my stomach inside minutes (similar to when you are on a prearranged meet-up) that my craftsman had not viewed as her "home." That is, until Kurt Denny, who was addressing me at MCA distributing at that point, sat with me for supper one evening. I had not a penny in my possession, but rather I had sufficient sureness and energy in me to pulverize universes.

"There is somebody I believe you should meet," Kurt shares with me, his blue eyes shimmering like he understood what I was getting for my birthday, and somewhat adored that I couldn't really understand.

“Really?” I say while eating spaghetti (this is well before carbs were disregarded in L.A. :)) "Who?"

"He goes by Glen Ballard. I have NO clue assuming you will get along imaginatively, you probably won't actually keep in touch with one tune, however I Truly do know that the both of you will truly like one another."

"Sounds great to me," I say. More bread, please.

I had been composing with such countless kind peeps that it turned into an experience, these gatherings, with the pilot light of realizing I wouldn't stop until what my identity was being regarded, not who the individual sitting opposite me Maintained that me should be — as yet consuming splendidly and unfalteringly inside my chest. I had a nice sentiment.

Two or after three days, I stroll into Glen Ballard's studio in Encino, and his space is flawless and shining with a brilliant tint. Also, in particular to my profoundly erotic and delicate self and nose: everything SMELLED Wonderful.

In the wake of trading merriments and understanding the few areas of similarity we had, we chose to go into the studio and compose.

The music and verses streamed rapidly, and there was an aikido to our cooperating. Where I let up, Glen would make a plunge; where he would wait with a consonant thought, I would hop on it like I would a wave with my surfboard and suggest a short of breath "accompany me!" This went on for a long time, and when the residue and confetti of happiness cleared, we were left with a melody called "The Main concern." Well-suited for how I knew in my spirit what I needed. Glen's presence with me had no plan… This presence and this absence of projecting onto me "what I ought to be" was a definitive opportunity and backing I expected to air out. I called Kurt.

"Jeeeeez, Kurt! Wow. Pleasant intuit, old buddy," I said.

“Really!?” he half-snickered in his sort, Southern way. " This is the best information!"

Consequently began a couple of months of my flying this way and that from Canada to L.A., and each time I was with Glen in his studio, the bet was increased. Though to start with we composed verses together ("Amusing" was the main melody Glen and I composed the verses together for Barbed Little Pill), our jobs immediately sunk into their intended to-be place for our joint effort. Glen and I composing the music together, me composing the verses simultaneously, and Glen creating up a tempest. Our tunes took somewhere in the range of 20 to 40 minutes to compose. There was nothing valuable about our methodology. Be that as it may, it was consecrated to me.

This sensitive equilibrium of being responsive and open, joined with being applied, primed and ready, as eager and anxious as ever… and open to chronicling what was going on continuously. As Glen would agree, it was like we were attached to the IV without fail, and we would feel spent and thrilled, and think about the wizardry, all things considered, over more carbs and incredible wine. At first we would shake our heads in wonderment, be shrouded in chills, and the studio would take on a nearly spooky quality…

Inevitably we started depending on the cycle: Philosophical talk over cleaved salad, some espresso — which I needed to check when I arrived in the clinic, it was kicking the bucket to think I. The specialist held my hand after my X-beams showed that everything was well. He investigated my eyes.

"Might it be said that you are from Los Angeles?" he asked sympathetic.

"No, I moved here from Canada."

"Do you have any companions here?" he asked, a fatherly worry in his voice.

“No.”

I enjoy my work day evenings with Glen in his studio, and I go through the ends of the week rollerblading and people-watching from St Nick Monica Dock to Manhattan Ocean side and back. I endured a half year endeavoring to meet individuals, yet the social distinctions between Ottawa, Canada, and Los Angeles, California, were tremendous. No one posed me one inquiry for a very long time. Thus I immediately understood that when in Rome… I expected to begin sharing when my portion was spontaneous. Something remarkably difficult for me to do.

The specialist stopped. His hand was all the while holding mine. Human contact. It had been some time, save for the excursions I had while going to and fro from L.A. to Toronto.

"You will be fine," he said. " I prescribe connecting with certain companions for their help, Alanis."

“Ok.” I will connect so hard to these fanciful companions.

"What's more, removing the espresso."

“Ok.”

…and afterward Glen and I would jump into composing. Frequently with Glen sitting in a seat with a guitar, and me on the floor with diaries, pen, and the music traveling through me. The vocals were each of the a couple of takes, the way to deal with creating and blending was one of unadulterated instinct. Also, blemishes and instinctive reactions to sounds were our aide. There were endeavors to tidy everything up, "perfectify" everything… I was reproved time and again for the record sounding "excessively acidic" and "excessively flawed." I got a ton of menacing glares for that one.

I told them, "All things considered, on the off chance that you needed a record that seemed like Dan Steely, perhaps you ought to have marked somebody in their thirties, as opposed to me, a 19-year-old." This was met with quietness, in ordinary structure. My companion immediately hung over and said, "It's 'Steely Dan,' Alanis." Gracious, jeez. I said, "Indeed, in any case, this record addresses me, and something besides this isn't a record I'm keen on being a piece of."

There were a couple of tunes we re-recorded to check whether my force could be gotten rid of a little (weighty preclude a lady be extreme)… and they were dismissed by everybody. Amazingly, they could see something was lost in that cycle. Express gratitude toward God.

At the point when the tunes "You Oughta Know" and "Great" were composed, we proceeded to visit many record organizations, none of which were intrigued. Dismissal for me, over the 10 years I had been in the music business by then, hinted I had not viewed as my "home" yet… so I continued on.

At some point, while in my warm up pants, composing a melody called "All I Truly Need," there was a call to tell us that Person Oseary had found out about what Glen and I were doing.

"I can't go now, I seem to be a 18-wheeler just hit me," I said. My workout pants were not of the "adorable" assortment.

"You need to go now, Alanis."

“OK.”

I played "You Oughta Know," "Great" and "Hand In My Pocket," and Fellow Oseary, sitting in his office (the two of us playing grown-up at our young ages), was going ballistic.

Many undertakings later, the record was shared formally while I was leaving on the start of a little club visit. Individuals around me had practical to-low assumptions, and mine strength have been even lower. Yet, I was excited that I could remain by this record. A record that I had been deterred to compose for how "against the specialty grain" it was. I recollect a previous maker from Canada paid attention to "Head Over Feet" via telephone and his reaction was "Goodness, 'That is not empty talk,'" he expressed, highlighting a verse in the melody. " Astounding, bud. I had no clue you could compose." A large portion of the bulldozing colleagues with whom I'd been set up would probably have said something very similar.

Clearly, there were a great deal of things individuals had barely any insight into me. That I could compose. That I was furious. ( The angriest individuals I know are individuals whose presentational selves mean a progressing and unreasonable happiness.) That I had numerous sentiments. That I was perplexing, but some way or another very basic simultaneously. That I wasn't simply the young lady you could menace, exploit, exploit, use, control. That a human was being in there some place. An individual who thinks often profoundly about humankind. About usefulness. About connections. About recuperating. ( Strangely, composing melodies has never been recuperating, yet rather soothing. The genuine recuperating, as far as I might be concerned, has come from remedy in connections, not in my taking off to expound on these connections in a peaceful, dull room since I was too panicked to even consider supporting myself with a person opposite me.) I have consistently thought often about the ladylike and the manly, and the delicate and the wild. As a genuine Gemini, I was wanting Every last bit of it. Completeness was my fixation, and music permitted and keeps on permitting me to investigate Every last bit of it…

At the point when "You Oughta Know" was first taken to radio, the predictable reaction was "We are now playing two female specialists, we needn't bother with another." Female craftsmen "weren't worthwhile," evidently. However, I knew in my heart that the ladylike objective (found in male and female specialists similarly) was of the greatest significance. Ideally, the ministers and priestesses and artists and authors have forever been depended upon to connect with the planet on numerous levels. What's more, that we as craftsmen couldn't be diminished to how "rewarding" we were. There were 1,000,000 types of money that add to this entertaining, brilliant planet, and music-from-the-center of-yourself was quite possibly of the best commitment that craftsmen through days of yore have advertised.

There was a social wave expanding… a status, maybe, so that individuals might be able to catch wind of the underside, the genuine experience of being a youthful, delicate, and courageous individual in a male centric world. This wave was traveling through culture regardless of me, and I ended up getting my glittery surfboard and rode that wave like a spicy androgyne on the rear of a megalodon.

There will continuously be analysis expected to keep the bigger social and social, and social and otherworldly, close to home and mental discussion going. Furthermore, today, 2015, in the event that I can keep on being a piece of it by singing, composing, performing, talking freely, composing articles, making workmanship, being a mother, a spouse, a teacher, an unending understudy, and a companion… I will. Till I'm gone, and probable later. :)

Gratitude for thinking often about this. Trust I can meet you one day, or meet you once more.

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Un joven cubano pidió ayuda urgente a través de redes sociales para encontrar donante de sangre para una embarazada que necesita una transfusión sanguínea de O negativo.

"Lo pago al precio que sea, es para una embarazada a punto de parir o morir, 54508011, llámenme, que la decisión quede de parte de ustedes...Dios los bendiga", escribió en su perfil personal de Facebook Yudenys González Loyola.

En el apartado comentarios a la publicación -hecha este 14 de agosto- una comentarista sugirió que compartiera la petición en varios grupos de Facebook en aras de ganar visibilidad.

Yudenys no precisó en qué provincia reside la embarazada necesitada con urgencia de una transfusión de sangre. No obstante, según sus redes sociales, el joven reside en Camagüey.

La escasez de sangre en Cuba se ha convertido en uno de tantos problemas en la isla. Los hospitales tienen una absoluta carencia de reservas de sangre.

En los últimos años cada vez más los ciudadanos recurren a las redes sociales para encontrar quien pueda poner a salvo sus vidas o las de sus familiares con donaciones voluntarias.

A inicios de enero, una cubana necesitada de una transfusión de sangre murió en La Habana. En ese caso la sangre era para una mujer que tenía la hemoglobina muy baja y no podía esperar un minuto más para ser transfundida.

A finales de julio, una maestra residente en La Habana pidió ayuda en redes sociales para conseguir donantes de sangre para su hermana, paciente de leucemia.

También por esas fechas, una periodista del periódico oficialista Girón pidió ayuda para su abuela, quien necesitaba una transfusión de sangre en Matanzas.

Incluso los médicos recurren a Facebook para intentar conseguir donaciones para sus pacientes. Tal fue el caso del doctor Juan Pablo Gurri Fuentes, quien en septiembre del pasado año recurrió a su cuenta de Facebook para solicitar donantes de sangre para tres pacientes ingresados en su hospital, el Calixto García, en La Habana.

Datos de la Oficina Nacional de Estadísticas e Información (ONEI) muestran que entre 1990 y 2019 el número de donantes de sangre en Cuba disminuyó de forma significativa, pasando de aproximadamente 389 mil a 209 mil al año.

Angustiados por la urgencia, algunos cubanos necesitados de sangre para un allegado no dudan en proponer dinero a cambio de una donación.

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8 Tunes to Lift Your Certainty After Disappointment

"Music is the solution to the secret of life. The most significant of the multitude of expressions, It offers the most profound viewpoints of life ." — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860.

They said you're the most intrepid individual assuming you ended up deciding to have dreams, a subject of our reality, the explanation we proceed with each step of misery that attempt to oppose a definitive objective. Most likely, we as a whole need to cause the fantasy to become something we can contact or taste from here on out, yet what number of us will begin attempting? What number of you have attempted and have the guts to attempt once more? What number of you have been draining and lost a finger in the fight to take the quintessence of your reality?

To feel a little skeptical and attempt to stow away briefly in the wake of adventuring the ways of dream it's so others conscious. Maybe, you might require a point, an alternate point of view to restore your inspiration, body and soul, so you can stroll on the excursion in front of your fantasy, once more.

There are a lot of tales about disappointment, a fruitful story, and how you could understand its worked from the heap sculpture of disappointments. There are motion pictures to get motivated and music to stir the fantasy that occasionally dozes tight between a cushion of sluggishness and a feeling of dread toward disappointment.

Let your heart know that the anxiety toward enduring is more regrettable than the enduring itself. Furthermore, that no heart has at any point endured when it goes looking for its fantasies, on the grounds that the entire hunt is a second's experience with God and with time everlasting — Paulo Coelho: The Chemist.

As Schopenhauer said music communicates the deepest idea of all life in a language clear with outright straightforwardness, yet not fit for interpretation into that of our workforce of reason.

What about music is you don't need to comprehend the language to feel its substance pass into your spirit. Presto harmonization will help you about the enduring to remember having a fantasy and yet an update for you to get up and stand your voice stronger as the fantasy become strikingly clear.

Note: in the event that you appreciate ice skating, utilize this tune as a movement, for a competition or not yet everybody will begin to experience the wrath and bitterness as the music becomes muddled and speedy.

1. Fujii Kaze — Shinunoga E-Wa You will get a 1-minute piano song introduction about disappointment and an entryway for trust. We just have one life, biting the dust while we attempt to seek after our fantasy appears to be a lovely method for dieing.

I maintain that you should be my end. On the off chance that it implied expressing farewell to you. I'd prefer bite the dust. I'd prefer bite the dust.

Note: This is an ideal tune to be utilized as a morning caution, warriors! Fujii Kaze's profound voice would obviously divert you to keep your eyes close.

1. Ólafur Arnalds — Just The Breezes In some cases instrumental tunes convey a behemoth feeling to decipher the unexplained inclination inside ourselves. Once more I could envision myself drifting in the expanse of tears as a disappointment diverted the way of my fantasies. In any case, it's not for eternity.

I realize that I should let every one of the removes. It could function as a re-energize framework and when you let the absolute last drop of tears pass your cheeks you will recover your energy to zero in on your fantasy, once more.

Note: It's one of the pieces from the legend Ólafur Arnalds' "Up until this point + So Close".

1. Idina Menzel, AURORA — Into the Obscure (From "Frozen 2") On the off chance that my fantasy/objective sounds like AURORA's pitching voice and there is a strong motivation behind why I ought to startling of it. It's so spooky and the fantasy could be this magical animal being inserted alive inside my head.

There is a second when we attempt to disregard "the calling", maybe in light of the fact that we know about how hard the excursion will be. Be that as it may, we will go crazy to not the response to "the unexplored world". Envision you're so scared to begin the excursion of the fantasy until it's past the point of no return and you're kicking the bucket in light of disappointment.

Note: this melody is the explanation I have the goal to compose the article. Some way or another AURORA'S pitching voice unexpectedly show up over my head the entire day and there was nothing I could do except if I paint on my material, a clear paper and ink.

1. Apashe — Grandness (ft. Wasiu) This melody occurred assuming that Mozart magically transport himself from the Sentimentalism period to German's Techno Clubs in 2022.

I ensure this melody would make you so damn strong that you challenge to the point of going through the red light traffic.

Note: on the off chance that you feel so lively (which is at times few out of every odd day) attempt to pay attention to more snare tunes to acquire center and persevere through the occasion.

1. The Best Player Cast — 1,000,000 Dreams Attempting to arrive at your fantasy it's colossally hard but we can't quit mulling over everything. You could simply hide your fantasies where no one will think to look and imagine as though they never exist, however your fantasy is all that addresses what your identity is. The more you drive it away the more you lost a feeling of who you truly are.

A dream of the one I see. 1,000,000 dreams is all it will take.

Note: Hugh Jackman's voice will continuously give me goosebumps.

1. London Punctuation — Squandering My Young Years Fine people, a definitive of the best band that had at any point existed (in my POV), London Syntax. Hannah Reid's voice creeps me out and I get it's an expectation itself, definitely.

The main thing to squander our young years is to spend contemplating the apprehension about disappointment.

Note: I prescribe you to tune in "Wait a second" as the proceeding with story of this melody… .in addition to "Pulling For You".

1. Lorde — Yellow Glimmer Beat (Craving Games) The yellow glimmer bird specifically, known as the yellow-screwed gleam is represented best of luck and change. In a few Local American clans, especially in Northern California, the yellow glint represents one individual's capacity to turn into a healer.

The melody was a piece of the Yearning Games: Mockingjay-section 1 (2014) soundtrack and you can hear a weighty component of unadulterated verse that you could decipher uniquely in contrast to me.

I'm a princess cut from marble Smoother than a tempest

Furthermore, the scars that mark my body

They're silver and gold

Note: One thing is without a doubt, each disappointment you conveyed is shown the amount you attempt, as such, you have succeeded. Well, achievement needs security and consistency as much as trying, correct? At any rate, thank you and long life the warriors!

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El dólar implantó este miércoles un nuevo récord en el mercado informal cubano, al subir un peso en relación con el día anterior, y alcanzar los 250 pesos en el mercado informal por primera vez.

El hecho agudiza la grave crisis que aqueja a la moneda nacional, que viene hundiéndose desde hace meses en el abismo de la devaluación.

En lo que respecta al euro y la moneda libremente convertible (MLC), mantienen este 16 de agosto sus valores del martes, en 255 y 215 CUP, respectivamente.

Según la tasa publicada este 16 de agosto por el medio digital independiente elTOQUE, en el caso del dólar se llegaron a reportar en las últimas 24 horas ofrecimientos de compra por un mínimo de 245 pesos y un máximo de 250 en la venta.

En el caso del euro la mediana fue de 252 CUP en la adquisión y de 255 en la venta.

Para el MLC no hubo oscilación de precios, y se situó en 215 CUP tanto la compra como la venta de la moneda.

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El Ministerio de Salud Pública de Cuba (Minsap) emitió una alerta para la provincia de Guantánamo, en el extremo más oriental de la Isla, debido al aumento de los casos de cólera que se viene registrando en los últimos días.

Aimeé Blanco, líder del departamento de Enfermedades Trasmisibles en el Centro de Higiene, Epidemiología y Microbiología de Guantánamo, comentó que activaron un puesto de mando para chequear las medidas preventivas dirigidas a salvaguardar la salud de la población.

Una de las principales acciones es arreciar al control en las fronteras, pues los especialistas refieren que la enfermedad está siendo introducida al país desde naciones vecinas que reportan en la actualidad un aumento en la incidencia del cólera.

Los viajeros son sometidos a quimioprofilaxis, recibiendo una dosis de doxiciclina como parte de los controles sanitarios internacionales. Además, se les brinda vigilancia clínica a través del sistema básico de salud desde su llegada a Cuba y hasta dos semanas después.

La prioridad es la detección temprana de cualquier síntoma que se sospeche que haya sido provocado por el bacilo Vibrio cholerae. De acuerdo con Aimeé Blanco, en el territorio hay tests rápidos para confirmar el diagnóstico y tomar medidas de manera inmediata.

Los mismos exámenes se realizan a los pacientes que llegan a los cuerpos de guardia con signos de deshidratación, según el protocolo establecido para enfrentar enfermedades diarreicas agudas. Lo anterior sin importar que hayan salido de viaje recientemente.

La enfermedad del cólera ha sido históricamente asociada con brotes epidémicos y se caracteriza por la aparición repentina de diarrea acuosa y vómitos intensos. Se transmite principalmente a través de la ingestión de agua o alimentos contaminados con heces infectadas por la bacteria, lo que lo convierte en un problema de salud pública en áreas con condiciones de saneamiento deficientes.

Los síntomas del cólera suelen manifestarse en un período que varía entre unas pocas horas y cinco días después de la exposición a la bacteria. La diarrea acuosa profusa es uno de los síntomas más característicos, y puede ser tan intensa que lleva a la deshidratación y a la pérdida rápida de electrolitos esenciales. Además, los pacientes pueden experimentar vómitos, calambres abdominales y, en casos graves, shock y colapso circulatorio.

El tratamiento oportuno se basa en la rehidratación oral o intravenosa con el objetivo de restaurar el equilibrio de líquidos y electrolitos en el cuerpo. Se utilizan soluciones de rehidratación oral que contienen agua, sales y azúcares para tratar la deshidratación y reponer los nutrientes perdidos. En casos más graves, se pueden administrar fluidos intravenosos.

La prevención del cólera se centra en medidas de higiene y saneamiento adecuadas. Evitar el consumo de agua no tratada y alimentos crudos en áreas de riesgo, lavado frecuente de manos con agua y jabón, y tratamiento adecuado de aguas residuales son estrategias clave para prevenir la propagación de la enfermedad.

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"Power of a study represents the probability of finding a difference that exists in a population".

simply put, it tells how strong is the validity of the finding of your sudy. Power depends on 3 main factor: significance level, effect size and sample size.

significance level is pretty straightforward. We decide it anyway. Thus, it is a no brainer why clinical trials tend to use very low p-levels.

You cant really control effect size. It is an after effect that you only gain after data collection.

But sample size, this is one curious bit. Probability sampling, as its name implies, is a process of taking a sample at random to represent the said population. Once, I heard that at times, probability samplings are better than universal sampling. I wonder, how can a sample of "somethihg" is better than the actual thing? The answer lies in missingness. Missingness is a situation where a data or part of a data is not available. Think of a study about relationship between lifestyle and heart disease. Body Mass Index is important and if it is missing, it will be a problem. when many data is lost from a universal sampling, it reduces the universality of the study, decreasing its power. If the missingness is significant, e.g. more than 30%, it might be better to put them as an exclusion criteria and choose random sampling instead. sure, it will stiffen study generalizability later, but it improves the power.

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No one Realizes What has been going on with Hitler's Representative

Over the entire course of time, mysterious secrets proliferate, frequently inside its most obscure minutes. Among these, the destiny of Rudolf Hess remains as especially confounding. A focal figure in Nazi Germany's progressive system, his sudden and unexplained flight fills continuous conversations.

Was it franticness, a mysterious mission, or something totally different? Go along with us as we dive into this convincing puzzler.

Rudolf Hess — The Quiet Power In the background Understanding the strange destiny of Rudolf Hess expects us to dive into his experience and the critical job he played as Adolf Hitler's Representative Führer. Hess wasn't simply an ordinary government official; he was a significant figure in the Nazi system, with a biography that keeps on charming students of history and scheme lovers the same.

Hess' bind to the Nazi Party traces all the way back to its origin, featuring his relentless devotion to its standards. He was brought into the world in Alexandria, Egypt, in 1894. He then joined the party in 1920, preceding Hitler's ascent. This early connection cultivated areas of strength for a with Adolph Hitler, prompting his regarded position as Delegate Führer.

As Hitler's partner, Hess was very huge inside the Nazi pecking order. His impact reached out past his title; he effectively took part in molding the party's approaches and methodologies. In this manner, he contributed essentially to its ascent during the wild many years of the 1920s and 1930s.

Hess' association in key choices conceded him the ability to shape the center standards of Nazi Germany. This made him a powerful, but in the background, force inside the system.

His obligations inside the Nazi government spread over different spaces, including tact and inward organization. Delegate Fuhrer assumed a urgent part in shaping coalitions, quite the 1939 Nazi-Soviet Peace Settlement. This had expansive ramifications for European international relations. His commitments to homegrown undertakings were similarly significant; he was vital in making regulations and arrangements that repeated Nazi belief system.

In any case, in the midst of his powerful job, Hess' unexpected trip to Scotland in 1941 remaining parts a riddle that antiquarians have wrestled with for quite a long time.

Rudolf Hess' Journey: A Brassy Trip In the midst of War's Shadows The year 1941, settled in the bedlam of The Second Great War, spread out an unconventional section when Rudolf Hess took to the skies, making a beeline for Scotland on an independent mission.

He guaranteed the target of his flight was to start harmony talks between the Third Reich and the English Domain. However, rather than discretionary conversations, he wound up trapped by English powers. This surprising result prodded a fountain of requests. Did Hess truly expect to end threats, or would he say he was an unpredictable piece in a hidden round of war?

Hess' flight was out and out artistic. On May 10, 1941, he seized a Messerschmitt Bf 110, showing outstanding expertise to stay away from identification by perplexing radar frameworks and to evade the steady discharge of hostile to airplane weaponry.

The broad excursion, covering various districts loaded with risk, was interspersed by a bumping crash-arriving an on Scottish area. Very quickly, English military work force caught the high-positioning Nazi authority.

Behind his daring demonstration lie a heap of translations. A few antiquarians and examiners propound that Hess, in a bid to leave a mark on the world, planned to arrange harmony free of Hitler's forceful plan. In any case, this rendition faces dispute from different quarters, which proposes a more profound trick. To comprehend the secret of Delegate Fuhrer, one should analyze every one of the potential reasons that moved him to make this move.

Translating Hess' Odyssey — The Hypotheses Divulged

Rudolf Hess' trip to Scotland during The Second Great War stays a mystery. Among different hypotheses, the idea of English knowledge organizing the flight acquires noticeable quality. We'll analyze these speculations, accentuating the developing believability of English insight's job, eclipsing elective clarifications.

1. Oneself decided Harmony Supporter The romanticized story of Hess as a solitary harmony crusader is positively suggestive. They envision Representative Führer, baffled with the conflict, leaving on a hazardous mission for harmony. Yet, dig further, and breaks show up.

The Nazi hardware was a fastidious behemoth that checked its top initiative fanatically. It strains credulity to trust that Hess, situated so near Hitler, could embrace such a seismic undertaking without cautioning anybody in the more elite classes of the Nazi order.

Moreover, taking into account his immediate connection to Hitler, Hess might have sought after less uncommon means inside the Nazi order to advocate for harmony. He might have tried not to go in such a sensational direction.

1. The Shadowy Messenger of the Nazi System This hypothesis expects a component of true sponsorship, while perhaps not straightforwardly from Hitler, then, at that point, from a strong group inside the Nazi contraption. Nonetheless, quickly following Hess' arrival, Hitler reprimanded him as a 'crazy person.' A move that appears to be incongruent assuming Hess was on a supported mission.

Additionally, the misleading publicity hardware of the Nazis was top notch. Had Hess' process been state-authorized, couldn't the Nazis use this endeavor for harmony in their promulgation, painting Germany as the oppressed party looking for a finish to threats?

1. The English Knowledge Trick Ostensibly the most convincing of all speculations, it recommends a profound English contribution in tricking Hess. The complexities of this recommendation are bolting: MI6 evidently copied German channels. They beguiled Hess into accepting he was in secret discussions with favorable to harmony English blue-bloods.

The abilities of English knowledge during the conflict were impressive. This hypothesis is additionally floated by the quick catch and curiously muffled treatment of Hess post-landing. In the event that Hess were simply an informal harmony emissary, without a doubt the English could gain by this through publicity implies or other noticeable activities?

1. A Psyche in Disturbance: The Manikin of Nazi Controllers Hess' political impact in Nazi Germany was on the decay. This hypothesis places Hess as a pawn, poked into his course by inward Nazi groups to either freed Hitler of a once-close partner or for other dark reasons.

In any case, the sheer greatness of chance related with this flight — both for Hess and any alleged controllers — brings up issues. With stakes so high, it appears to be outlandish that inward Nazi groups would leave on such a high-risk ruse.

1. Undercover work and Twofold Specialists An undeniably exhilarating subplot includes twofold specialists, perplexing undercover work, and complex deception. While it's possible that twofold specialists worked inside this labyrinth, the more extensive shapes of Hess' main goal appear to be more trait of a state-level insight activity instead of a specialist's singular ploy.

The charm of individual and group driven speculations holds some weight; while sorting out the heap factors encompassing Hess' flight, the English knowledge hypothesis arises as the most convincing. The essential profundity, resulting treatment of Hess, and the milieu of the time mix most convincingly around the MI6 account. Thusly, making it the most conceivable clarification in the midst of a whirlpool of hypothesis.

Hess' Journey: The Waves Past the Flight The shockwaves created by Rudolf Hess' startling score in Scotland stretched out a long ways past that critical night in May 1941.

While the English knowledge ploy hypothesis seems to hold the most water, the genuine outcome of his arrival, ensuing occasions, and the enduring repercussions it had on both the conflict and post-war situations are fundamental in building a thorough comprehension of the Hess puzzle.

Outcome In the Nazi camp, Hitler rushed to remove himself. Hess was marked insane, and Goebbels' promulgation machine stayed at work past 40 hours. They portrayed him as a misdirected, unsound person who followed up on a trip of imagination. This played flawlessly into the English knowledge story, where the ideal result would without a doubt be this very disarray and separating by the Nazi system.

Following Rudolf Hess' perplexing trip to Scotland, the resonations were distinctly felt across both the English and Nazi halls of force. This filled in as a demonstration of the cloudy interests of The Second Great War. While surveying the prompt consequences, there's an unmistakable feeling of incognito strategy at play.

Regardless of the unavoidable climate of war, Hess' unforeseen appearance alluded to the flexibility of discretionary backchannels. It's convincing to feel that the English insight hardware, prestigious for its wartime moves, could have all the while been exploring the complex ways of stealthy strategy.

On the opposite side of the channel, Hess' abrupt nonappearance incidentally reshaped the Nazi authority ordered progression. Strong figures like SS Pioneer Heinrich Himmler and adversary Hitler agent Martin Bormann profited by this void, setting their grip on the Nazi device. However, the interest didn't end with the conflict.

At the Nuremberg Preliminaries, Hess' interested protection, where he guaranteed amnesia and the resulting life sentence dispensed to him at Spandau Jail have frequently been seen as signs of a more profound English technique — maybe a deliberate work to guarantee Hess' interminable quiet on incognito wartime dealings.

My Considerations The persevering through tradition of Hess' flight is unquestionable. His daring process and the subsequent connivances have since been deified in various narratives, articles, and conversations. It remains as an impactful impression of a period saturated with deception and reconnaissance, advising us that wars aren't just skirmishes of weaponry however perplexing moves of methodology, knowledge, and discernment.

Eminently, His Highness' Administration will keep many archives about the Hess flight mysterious until 2041, the 100th commemoration of Hess' appearance in Scotland. Those reports could incorporate mystery correspondence among Hess and Lord Charles' granddad, Ruler George VI. Consequently, we may at long last realize which job the Imperial Family and MI6 played in the Hess acting.

Dissecting the grouping of occasions following his arrival, there's a tangible movement clear. Both English and Nazi activities appear to turn towards painting Hess as a baffled solitary entertainer. This story appears to be less similar to unconstrained responses and more the coordinated result of a capable guide — maybe the concealed hands of MI6, coordinating the fabulous international execution of the time.

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What number of Individuals HAVE I Arrived at WITH MY STORY?

"His story has positively arrived at millions — every one a story-conveyor, possibly passing the fire of boldness and soul of flexibility to another, starting a chain response that waves across mankind."

As we leave on the journey to gauge the broad effects of Alberto Daniel Slope's brilliant story, we sail away from the solace of limited digits into an untamed ocean of quantum probabilities, where the influxes of impact reverberation not just through the scopes of the known universe, yet they additionally resonate across the inconspicuous universe of human hearts and psyches.

Strange Shapes of Reverberation: Assessing the Scope of Alberto Daniel Slope's Story

From the dull corners of a fastidiously ready Ekoparty Gathering in Argentina to the flowing screens of endless computerized gadgets immersed with David Bombal's bolting interviews, from ink-stained pages of 'The Wired World' magazine to the throbbing floods of high-recurrence radio stations containing unfiltered accounts of his life, Alberto Daniel Slope's story has contacted a countless expanse of spirits — across borders, across societies, across ranges of understanding and experience.

Each stage that streamed his story turned into a wave, a wave that changed into waves, waves that developed into a torrent of motivation and strength influencing lives all over. The tale of Alberto is as of now not simply his; it has a place with each and every individual who experienced it and tracked down an encouraging sign and strength inside its folds.

Setting out on an assessment, let us spread out the measurements:

Computerized Impressions: Webcasts and Online Meetings

Taking into account the fame of web recordings, for example, The Darknet Diaries and stages like David Bombal's YouTube channel, it tends to be gathered that millions have been moved by the reverberation of his strong story.

Heavenly Stages: Network safety Gatherings

Worldwide congresses and innovation gatherings like the Chaos Correspondence Congress in Germany and Ekoparty Security Conference in Argentina regularly welcome a huge number of members every year. Every spirit that resonated with Alberto's story turned into another vessel for spreading his message further.

Scholarly Scenes: Magazine and Media Elements

Highlights in well known print and advanced media like The CNN Chronicles, The Wired World, and TechCrunch Times have readership running into millions, chiseling a remarkable development of his story's compass.

The Radio Recurrence: Broadcast Meetings

Lastly, each radio recurrence that conveyed the rhythm of his voice, like BBC Cyber and The Unsafe Business, dramatically intensified the waves, contacting innumerable people across the globe.

Drawing from these horde stages, we can strongly appraise that Alberto's story of strength and trust, of persevering through soul settled inside the domain of online protection, has arrived at a request for no less than millions across the globe. However, the genuine effect of his borderless story, similar as the soul of Alberto himself, remains delightfully unquantifiable — crossing zones of impact a long ways past the requirements of simple numbers. A story resounds inside the hearts of audience members and perusers, rousing an inward excursion of solidarity, versatility, and whole virtuoso.

The Numerical Dance

How about we start our excursion with those we can promptly count. Thousands were moved by the books conceived out of his encounters, which incorporate 'El Círculo Virtuoso,' 'Hackeado,' and 'Login to Damnation.' Interesting stories wedded with impactful insight were opened up, book by book, arriving on account of charmed perusers who turned out to be essential for Alberto's story, meshing their singular quintessence into his story's excellent embroidery.

To their numbers, we add his broad following on the web. With supporters enclosing him like the planets circling the sun, Alberto's gravitational draw on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and his own site, is a demonstration of his attractive story.

His particular voice resounding through the digital broadcast 'Darknet Journals' and his meetings with eminent online protection figures like David Bombal, diagrammed neglected domains. Every episode, each word, further extended Alberto's universe, arriving at the ears of endless audience members who enthusiastically turned their dials to partake in his excursion.

The Reverberation in Shadows

As we further excursion, we jump into the ocean of endless participants at the huge network safety meetings, from Ekoparty Security Gathering to the Turmoil Correspondence Congress (CCC) in Germany, where Alberto's presence enthusiastically ignited the fire of strength and sustained the soul of self-awareness. His words moved through the corridors, leaving participants hypnotized and perpetually different.

To genuinely understand the profundity of Alberto's impact, nonetheless, we should perceive that his story isn't limited by the components of print, the domain of the advanced, or the restrictions of express human get-togethers, yet it additionally resounds in the implicit, resonating through undetectable organizations of shared encounters, father-to-child guidance, discussions among companions, and quiet reflections.

The Solid Reverberation

Assessing these different fields where Alberto's life has resounded, we're reached to a fascinating inference. His story has positively arrived at millions — every one a story-conveyor, possibly passing the fire of fortitude and soul of strength to another, starting a chain response that waves across humankind.

But, could we at any point genuinely exemplify the broad reach of a story like Alberto's in simple numbers? His story reverberations through the hallways of incalculable hearts and brains, lighting an expanding influence of motivation and strength that we can't solidly measure.

As his story proceeds to unfurl, and the waves keep on expanding outward, the message is clear: with regards to the genuine effect, the story of Alberto Daniel Slope is as yet being written in the hearts of individuals all over the planet, its actual arrive at endless and never-ending. Through his excursion, he stretches out an immortal greeting to every one of us — to vanquish our feelings of trepidation, to ascend from our fall, and to find the solid virtuoso inside.

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We're delighted to announce Josi Baker as our newest LTS grantee.

Josi will receive long-term support from OpenSats for his continued work on Bitcoin Core. His work will consist of pull-request reviews,[^fn-reviews] supporting major release cycles, and his own contributions.[^fn-prs]

[^fn-reviews]: PR reviews by @josibake [^fn-prs]: PRs by @josibake

In the next couple of months, Josi plans to work on the libbitcoinkernel project as a reviewer, tester, and contributor. The libbitcoinkernel project is an attempt at modularizing the Bitcoin codebase and extracting consensus logic into something other applications can reuse. This has a number of benefits, namely improved testing and code separation of consensus code within Bitcoin Core and enabling application-specific programs to be written outside of the Bitcoin Core project with increased confidence these applications will be in consensus.

In addition to his work on Bitcoin Core, he will continue to work on BIP-352: Silent Payments, focusing on adoption in wallets outside of Bitcoin Core and supporting mobile clients.

Silent Payments are a privacy and UX improvement for Bitcoin wallets that allows static, reusable payment codes without address reuse. The key improvements over existing reusable payment code solutions are improved privacy for the sender and receiver due to eliminating the need for a notification transaction and no additional cost for senders. The proposal also separates sending and receiving, which enables broader adoption. These improvements are particularly relevant for activists wishing to use Bitcoin as a means of raising funds in a private and censorship-resistant way.

The mission of OpenSats is to support and maintain a sustainable ecosystem of funding for free and open-source projects and contributors, especially Bitcoin-related projects and projects that help Bitcoin flourish. Regular contributors reviewing and maintaining Bitcoin Core are critical to the project's continued success. Sustainable funding allows contributors to build expertise over multiple years, which is why we introduced the OpenSats LTS program.

You can apply for the program here:

• opensats.org/apply/lts

Support for Josi's work is sourced from our General Fund and made possible by generous donors like you. If you would like to support work like Josi's, consider donating to the fund.

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By Volodymyr Pavlyshyn

Hello, folks! Today, we're diving deep into the world of wallets, specifically crypto wallets. I've previously discussed the differences between hot wallets, cold wallets, agents, hubs, and other components actively used in Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI). However, today, we're focusing solely on wallets.

What is a Wallet?

A common misconception is that your wallet holds your assets, NFTs, ABCs, and all things crypto. In reality, your wallet is your key management assistant, primarily responsible for managing your private keys and, in some cases, timing. Hence, the term 'wallet' is somewhat misleading. It would be more accurate to call it a signer, keychain, or key master.

The Problem with Wallets

The adoption of SSI and crypto comes with a significant responsibility: managing your private key. If you lose the key, you lose everything. This creates a huge usability problem as there's no way to recover or have a recovery system in place.

The most popular approach to wallets is based on the idea of using a 'seed' instead of keys. This seed is a form of entropy from which you can deterministically generate private keys. This concept was sold as a secure method, with the Bitcoin standard BIP 32 outlining how to convert the seed into multiple different keys of different types.

The Issue with Seeds

However, the question arises: how do you keep the seed secret? How do you recover it? The common solution is to convert your binary entropy into a mnemonic phrase, giving you 12 to 24 words that you need to memorize. But this method has failed spectacularly.

The hierarchical wallet, which is essentially a wallet at its core, has a significant flaw: if you lose the seed, you lose multiple private keys. This is one problem. Another issue is that it works well for one type of cryptography. If you want to combine one key from Bitcoin with another key from more modern chains like Solana, you lose the possibility because of the different cryptography involved.

The Limitations of Hierarchical Wallets

Hierarchical wallets were a cool concept that simplified a lot and allowed you to just memorize a phrase and manage multiple keys. However, it created a single point of failure, a lot of limitations, and the main problem of the hierarchical wallet is the process of recovery, or rather, the lack thereof.

The Quest for the Perfect Wallet

So, what's the best wallet in the world? It's one that the user doesn't even know exists. If we can create a seamless experience for the user, where they don't even realize they have some magic wallet, that would be a success. But what about recovery? What can we do there?

Multi-Part Computations (MPC)

The first idea was multi-part computations, where you split your private key into multiple sub-keys that need to come together to form a quorum. For example, you split it into ten parts, but to get the signature, you need six parts. This off-chain approach allows you to distribute cryptographic materials over the wire, and different people need to come together in some quorum to sign the transaction. However, the problem with MPC is that it's off-chain, and many threshold signature algorithms are not compatible with each other. Currently, we lack a standard that allows us to do this.

Multisig

Another approach, quite similar to the previous one, is multi-signatures or multisig. This is not a new concept. If you're a Bitcoin user, you knowthat you can build an unlocking script that requires the same scheme. For example, in the Lightning Network, you need two of two signatures to unlock the transaction. The idea is simple: you have multiple independent private keys, but you need several of them to unlock the wallet or sign the transaction.

Smart Contracts as Wallets

The majority of multisigs are smart contracts, so the cost of these operations can be high. It usually requires multiple operations. Some networks require you to have some kind of smart contracts, and we will talk about smart contracts as wallets in a moment. But the idea is simple: you have multiple keys, you can distribute them over the wire, and have social recovery.

Account Abstraction

The Ethereum folks came up with the concept of account abstraction. This means that your account and the signing of your transactions can be managed by a smart contract. This changes a lot, including how we validate signatures and operate with accounts. With account abstraction, you have a programmable way of managing your account, signing your transactions, and it could still be social recovery, multisig, or you could create your own programmable concept that will allow you to manage transactions, sign transactions, and manage keys.

Programmable Key Pairs (PKP)

If you don't have such things in your blockchain or maybe you're completely off-chain, you could look at the LIT protocol. The guys there have a quite cool idea of programmable key pairs (PKP) as some kind of NFT. This means that you could mint the key, manage the keys like NFTs, and it's more blockchain-independent, so you could port the programmable key pairs to different networks.

Seedless Wallets

All these things like multisig, MPC, PKP, and others revolve around the concept of seedless wallets. In seedless wallets, you don't have a seed, but you have a different programmable mechanism that allows you to recover your wallet easily.

Conclusion

The world of wallets is complex and ever-evolving. As we continue to innovate and explore new ways to improve security, usability, and recovery, it's crucial to stay informed and understand the mechanisms at play.

If you're doing something in the space of wallets, recovery, security, or usability of Web3 solutions, I'd love to hear from you. I'm always ready to share my knowledge, provide consultation, and collaborate on building something new.

Remember, the best wallet is one that provides a seamless user experience, robust security, and easy recovery. As we continue to innovate in this space, I'm confident that we'll get closer to this ideal.

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Financial Freedom Through Bitcoin Innovation, Choosing the Better Money System

The struggle for economic soverignity is intrinsically tied to one's ability to communicate and transact freely from a place of empowerment. When communities lack channels for secure self-determination, they find their voices muted in debates crafting tomorrow. Fortunately, emerging technologies unveil hope.

Bitcoin offers a monetary base disconnected from the capricious whims of central authorities, insulating citizens from predatory currency manipulation so detrimental to stability. Though nascent in my local community, its open framework invites perpetual progress.

Lightning wallets epitomize this iterative spirit, bringing satoshis within easier grasp of all. Their intuitive interfaces streamline micropayments at stellar throughput, permissionlessly weaving together farflung peers in reciprocal exchange.

No intermediary extracts tolls from cross-border flows; no border bars trade between kindred spirits. Instead, nodes form an emergent infrastructure beholden only to its users. With each adoption, autonomy spreads in an unstoppable contagion of empowerment.

For independence begins in mind and spirit, finding expression through tools that uplift. Bitcoin redraws the realm of possibilities, restoring people as protagonists of their own destinies. Though challenges remain, commitment to inclusive innovation ensures its promise touching all shores.

Let decentralized proof of work coordination supplant centralized control, guiding progress with compassion instead of coercion. When communities arm themselves with financial self-determination, exclusion loses power over imagination. A brighter future blossoms from the ground up.

Lightning is Amazing

The struggle for financial freedom is inherently linked and woven with the pursuit of independence. When marginalized communities lack access to secure and unfettered communication channels, they are denied a voice in the very discourse that shapes our collective future. So what are some tools, an individual can use to power themselves and their community to self sufficency?

Bitcoin Lightning wallets represent the next generation of Bitcoin storage and transaction management. These sleek and user-friendly apps allow users to send and receive bitcoins quickly and securely, all while benefiting from the speed and low fees of the Lightning Network. With the ability to seamlessly interact with the network and enjoy fast confirmation times, Lightning wallets are revolutionizing the way we think about cryptocurrency transactions. And with a wide range of options available, there's sure to be a Lightning wallet that suits your unique needs. Recommendations for top Lightning wallets include

Alby

Muun

BlueWallet

CoinOS

Phoenix

Zeus LN

Lightning Bots

LightningTipBot

These tools have been in my toolkit for over a year, providing operational abstraction of channels and hops directly into web/desktop/node interfaces.

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1. Financial independence: Accepting Bitcoin payments for products and services can provide a degree of financial independence from traditional banking systems and payment processors. 2. Decentralized ownership: Open source projects can have decentralized ownership structures, allowing contributors to have a say in the direction of the project. 3. Transparent funding: Bitcoin transactions are transparent and publicly visible, which can help build trust with customers and investors. 4. Security: Bitcoin's blockchain is a secure ledger that records transactions in a tamper-proof manner. 5. Global reach: Bitcoin can be sent and received anywhere in the world, without the need for intermediaries like banks or payment processors. 6. Potential for high growth: The Bitcoin market is still relatively small, but it has the potential for high growth as more people and businesses adopt digital currencies and signature schemes.

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Mi scuserà di certo Albert Einstein per aver completamente prima decontestualizzato e poi ricontestualizzato nel mondo Bitcoin una delle sue frasi più celebri. Quella a cui mi riferisco in questo post è proprio la difficulty di Bitcoin, visto che parliamo di mining, del suo funzionamento e appunto delle opportunità a esso legate.

Bitcoin Mining: Overview

Con il termine mining si intende il processo di verificare e aggiungere nuove transazioni, sotto forma di blocchi alla timechain di Bitcoin.

Coinvolge una rete decentralzzata di “computer” che competono per risolvere un problema matematico complesso tramite un meccanismo di consenso noto come Proof-of-Work (PoW). I miners usano il loro “potere computazionale” per trovare una soluzione, e chi tra loro la trova la aggiunge insieme alle transazioni verificate alla timechain. Il “vincitore” viene ricompensato con “nuovi bitcoin” e con le fees legate alle transazioni.

Questo processo assicura l’immutabilità della rete e previene il double spending.

Bitcoin Mining: Il processo

Il processo inizia con i miner che raccolgono le transazioni pendenti e le organizzano in blocchi. Queste transazioni rimangono in mempool finché non sono validate. Ogni blocco contiene un insieme di transazioni e un riferimento, hash, oltre alla sequenza temporale, al blocco precedente. Per aggiungere un nuovo blocco alla timechain i miner devono risolvere un problema computazionale.

I miner devono cioé trovare un valore specifico, nonce, che produce un hash con proprietà specifiche quando combinato con i dati del blocco. Trovare questo valore richiede una significativa spesa computazionale e una volta che un miner lo ha trovato lo diffonde alla rete così da poter permettere agli altri miner di verificarlo. A differenza della risoluzione del problema l’operazione di verifica è immediata e computazionalmente lineare.

La rete dei miner è sottoposta dal Protocollo a un meccanismo di consenso per maggioranza che in caso di “biforcazioni” alla timechain, quando due miner trovano la soluzione quasi in contemporanea e la diffondono, premia la catena più pesante cioé quella con più Proof-of-Work (e non la più lunga).

La partecipazione dei miner al processo è incentivata, attraverso la teoria matematica dei giochi, dalle block rewards e dalle fees legate alle transazioni. La prima transazione di ogni blocco, detta coinbase transaction, estrae nuovi bitcoin e li invia al miner che ha aggiunto il nuovo blocco.

Bitcoin Mining: Hardware

Nel primo periodo di vita di Bitcoin era possibile effettuare il mining usando le normali CPU dei computer: bastava scaricare il client Bitcoin e usare il potere di calcolo della CPU per risolvere il “puzzle computazionale”. D’altronde la difficoltà risultava piuttosta bassa e la rete non ancora molto estesa.

Fortunatamente, o sfortunamente a seconda dei punti di vista, al crescere della rete e di conseguenza della difficulty, il mining si è tramutato in un vero e proprio business che ha portato allo sviluppo di hardware dedicato al compito sempre più efficiente sia dal punto di vista energetico che da quello computazionale.

A partire infatti dal 2013 le CPU e le GPU, schede grafiche per intenderci, furono via via sostituite dagli ASICs (Application Specific Integrated Circuits) cioé delle macchine disegnate specificatamente per il Bitcoin Mining efficienti dal punto di vista energetico e con un alto hash rate (il numero di hash prodotti, soluzioni al problema, in genere misurati al secondo). Oggi siamo nell’ordine di più di un centinaio di Terahash, Th, al secondo.

Alternativa agli ASICs potrebbero essere le FPGAs (Field Programmable Gate Arrays) molto più efficienti di CPUs e GPUs ma sicuramente molto più complesse nell’impianto e nella customizzazione del codice.

Bitcoin Mining: Software

Così come per l’hardware, i miner spesso usano del software specifico per il mining che consente loro di connettersi alla rete Bitcoin. Questo software si occupa di tutto: si connette alla rete, riceve transazioni e blocchi, e naturlmente fa tutti i calcoli necessari alla prova di lavoro in base alla difficoltà richiesta.

L’alternativa per molti miner è entrare a fare delle mining pool, che sono appunto gruppi di miner che condividono il proprio potere di calcolo, hash, nella speranza di “trovare un blocco”. I rewards ottenuti sarebbero minori perché appunto eventuali fees e block rewards sarebbero divisi tra tutti i partecipanti della pool in rapporto alla quantità di lavoro fornita (in genere il termine “tecnico” usato è shares).

Bitcoin Mining: cos’altro?

Oltre a hardware e software, il mining richiede una connessione a internet stabile, dello spazio, le conoscenze necessarie per mantenere operativo il setup e molta corrente elettrica.

Senza una connessione internet stabile non si va da nessuna parte e l’uso di una consistente quantità di energia elettrica richiede un buon sistema di raffreddamento. Considerata la difficulty raggiunta di spazio per contenere gli ASICs ne servirà parecchio. Un’adeguata manutenzione risulta necessaria per mantenere “l’investimento” efficiente e profittevole.

Ultimo ma non ultimo un wallet Bitcoin a supporto. La scelta cadrà su un hardware wallet (cold) o un software (hot) wallet.
Ricordiamo che un wallet è detto cold se disconnesso e offline mentre è detto hot se connesso a intenet. I cold wallet sono in genere più complessi da usare ma più sicuri, discorso opposto per gli hot.

Bitcoin Mining: si guadagna davvero?

Domanda lecita quando si vuole intraprendere un nuovo business e rapportare l’investimento con il suo ritorno.
La risposta ovvia è: dipende. Da diversi fattori tra l’altro tra cui il valore attribuito ai bitcoin dal mercato, l’hash rate, il consumo di energia e il suo costo, i famigerati costi di gestione, dai rewards per blocco e dalle fees sulle transazioni (i miner ringraziano gli ordinals).

Tra tutti l’aspetto che qui più ci interessa è quello legato alle block rewards e all’emissione monteria pre-stabilita dal Protocollo.

Il miner, o la pool, che mina un blocco è ricompensato dalla block subsidy corrente, nuovi bitcoin emessi, e dalle fees legate alle transazioni contenute nel blocco. Queste due componenti insieme costituiscono la block reward.

Attualmente la block subsidy è fissata da Protocollo a 6.25 bitcoin per blocco e si riduce ogni 4 anni tramite il meccanismo by design di halving.
In pratica ogni 4 anni il Protocollo stabilisce il dimezzamento della subsidy dovuta ai miner per ogni nuovo blocco riducendo dunque l’emissione monetaria comunque fissata dal CAP di 21M di bitcoin.
Il prossimo halving avverrà nel 2024 -ogni 210k blocchi- e porterà la subsidy a 3.125 bitcoin per blocco.

Visto che la subsidy scende nel tempo i miner dovranno da una parte puntare alle fees sulle transazioni per mantenere il proprio business profittevole dall’altra alla scelta di fonti energetiche economiche e di hardware sempre più efficiente.

Nel mezzo delle difficoltà nascono le opportunità

Una delle innovazioni più importanti introdotte da Bitcoin è sicuramente l’aggiustamento automatico della difficoltà -nel ricercare il nonce- che serve al Protocollo per mantenere costante il tempo di generazione del blocco e assicurare la sicurezza e stabilità della rete. Avviene ogni 2016 blocchi, più o meno due settimane, e si basa sul potere computazionale della rete meglio noto come hash rate. Così facendo il tempo di blocco resta costante nell’intorno dei 10 minuti.

Per intenderci, la difficoltà aumenterà quando i blocchi sono minati più velocemente rispetto al target dei 10 minuti (hash rate più alto): così facendo sarà più difficile trovare la soluzione e i blocchi saranno aggiunti più lentamente. Viceversa, se i blocchi sono minati molto lentamente, la difficoltà diminuirà (hash rate più basso) così che la soluzioni, e i blocchi, potranno essere trovate più velocemente.

Potremmo dire che l’aggiustamento automatico della difficoltà democratizza la rete Bitcoin evitando che pochi miner possano prenderne il controllo oltre a renderla più sicura contro eventuali attacchi.

Bitcoin Mining: 2140

Neanche a dirlo i miner sono stati e continuano a essere parte integrante del processo di crescita del Protocollo. Attraverso il mining le persone partecipano direttamente all’ecosistema, paretcipazione attiva, e assicurano comunque futuri sviluppi del Protocollo.

Ovviamente ci sono tutta una serie di fattori che “gravano” sul futuro del mining primo di tutti l’halving ricorrente ogni 4 anni….

…Fino al 2140 quando gli ultimi sats saranno emessi e poi? Resteranno davvero solo le fees legate alle transazioni? Quasi certamente si.

Saranno sufficienti?

Ok la bassa preferenza temporale, ma tempo al tempo. Ne riparliamo nella seconda parte di questo post fra un centinaio di anni.

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Present day Otherworldliness is Significantly Off-base About Oneself

This paper is long, maybe fundamentally due to the point, so I have separated into three sections, I-The condition of current otherworldliness, II-The inquiries of the human condition, and III-Genuine otherworldliness.

I — The Territory of Present day Otherworldliness

It's stylish to envision oneself doesn't exist. Everybody in the realm of otherworldliness from Eckhart Tolle to Rupert Spira, even to the light carrier of the new agnostics and contemplation endorser Sam Harris, as a matter of fact anybody soaking up the Westernizing of Eastern strict thoughts has come to fancy that all they are is unadulterated cognizance ready to be understood.

However what can this mean? Spira, to name one, says: " the deception of partition emerges when we accept that the one endless cognizance is restricted to the body-mind. At the point when we recognize exclusively with the body-mind, we make the deceptive self image or separate self. Upon examination, in any case, this different self is rarely found. The truth lies in the one boundless, resolute, and unnameable entire that underlies all appearances."

The issue with this sort of language is that it really amounts to nothing. Eckhart Tolle utilizes comparable sorts of fumbled otherworldly language, he says in The Force of Now: " The aggravation body comprises of caught life-energy that has separated from your absolute energy field and has briefly become independent through the unnatural course of brain ID… "

The conspicuous issue here is that anyway you arrive, be it perusing these so called master's books, pondering, rehearsing care, the actual demonstration of 'edification' stays a demonstration of consideration, and a demonstration of consideration is a demonstration of cognizance that requires a psychological solidarity that must be portrayed as oneself.

All things considered, anything edification Spira could have isn't anything that couldn't be removed by, say, a stroke that caused huge cognitive decline. To awaken every day yet be illuminated expects you to recollect that you encountered edification as an acknowledgment with genuine paramount items. There is an unexpected and unavoidable duality to these masters cases of nonduality, made inescapable by their self-advancement, books, youtube channels and interminable wavering about how they have come to acknowledge they are "limitless, inseparable" yet additionally believe that you should pay two thousand for their multi day retreat.

It very well may be enticing to think I'm scrutinizing a suggestion that is undeniably more complex, however these figures truly have little of substance to offer with regards to unwinding on the off chance that they really can introduce anything past class blunders or profound language that cover a vacuous, pompous and self righteous way of thinking.

Spira, once more, says the quintessence of his way of thinking, which he takes from Vedanta is that: " Harmony and satisfaction are the idea of our being, and we share our being with everybody and everything."

It's an intriguing answer for the issue of malicious and enduring to simply say it doesn't exist since everything is harmony and satisfaction, however what appears to remain is the certain perception that such a way of thinking is one of the agreeable and the entitled. Who cares about suffering? Who cares about evil? What of the way of life? For what reason would one say one is individual edified and another not? For what reason does Spira's novel kind of illumination appear to be restricted to well-off Western individuals who like dull moderate stylistic theme and pot plants?

However Spira is so persuaded by his way of thinking he will take it to limits, contending we are cognizant during profound rest since we evidently have the experience of dozing or not resting soundly the following morning. He recommends profound rest, (thus probably likewise all oblivious states), is "the consciousness of nonattendance", a pleasant sounding little expression that says, indeed, not significantly other than that you get up the following morning.

In addition to the fact that this is absurd, being found in the Upanishads isn't. While schools of understandings fluctuate on how the Atman-Brahman distinguishing proof comprises non-duality, Spira's shortsighted senselessness isn't to be found. In an entry in the Chandogya Upanishad, Indra is looking for a comprehension of the Atman, our actual self, from Prajapati. Each time Prajapati sends him away with an idea of what oneself is, making him return each time subsequent to understanding the worthlessness, first of accepting oneself is your appearance wearing delicacy, then yourself while cheerfully dreaming. To every Prajapati brings up that time and passing and enduring can remove these things and they should be bogus. Prajapati then, at that point, recommends oneself in profound rest is the genuine self, and again Indra arrives at a comparative understanding: " On the off chance that a man is in profound rest without dreams he couldn't say "I am" and he can't know anything. He in truth falls into nothingness. I can't track down any delight in this tenet."

I would envision Spira's variant of Vedanta is one that doesn't expect you to really, you know, read the Hindu sacred texts. Assuming he did what you find is something undeniably more perfectly communicated and definitely more puzzling than what is botched into the conveniently bundled expressions of current otherworldliness. As opposed to the talkative excusal of the universe of reality Spira recommends, what you find is the premise of all strict enquiry, an acknowledgment of the way that everything is fleeting, that connection or recognizable proof with what you can't clutch can't be a wellspring of liberation from the human condition.

However nothingness isn't itself redemption by the same token. To be in a state where you couldn't say "I am" and can't know anything, isn't to be wanted. While Indra perceives that distinguishing proof with the self of your appearance that will progress in years and bite the dust can't give salvation, neither can whatever doesn't contain your extremely self knowing.

Curiously Spira's thoughts are not totally current. In his 'Assortments of Strict Experience', the distribution of his 1901-2 Gifford Talks, clinician and logician William James portrays a pattern he calls "the religion of solid mindedness", or all the more just "mind fix". He portrays thoughts drifting around making likewise obscure recommendations to Spira, about relating to the "limitless soul", one instructor saying "the principal fundamental reason for all affliction, shortcoming or despondency is the human feeling of separateness from that heavenly energy we call God".

William James mentions a comparable observable fact about "mind fix" as I have about Spira, which is that a way of thinking of confidence just disregards the issue of torment or wickedness. He says "Thinkers typically proclaim to give a semi coherent clarification of the presence of wickedness, though the overall reality of fiendish on the planet, the presence of the childish, enduring, meek limited cognizance, the brain curers, such a long ways as I'm familiar with them, claim to give not a great reason. Evil is observationally there for them for what it's worth for everyone… mind-fix has fostered a living arrangement of mental-cleanliness… This framework is entirely and only compacted of idealism. Cynicism prompts shortcoming. Good faith prompts power."

James proceeds to take note of how the specific person of this way of thinking loots much from protestant Christianity, especially its thoughts existing apart from everything else of discussion and the precept of liberation by a sort of acknowledgment that 'you are saved now, you have yet to acknowledge it'. As James puts it "the psyche fix with its good news of sound mindedness has come as a disclosure to numerous whose hearts the congregation Christianity had left solidified."

It's curious to take note of that Spira professes to show what he calls Vedanta, yet is as a matter of fact showing something undeniably more likened to the sensations of Christian change and Calvinist political decision, blended in with a sort of stubborn hopefulness. What befalls awareness when you're sleeping? It's there, you're consistently cheerful and settled constantly, simply acknowledge it. No analysis can attack the walls of this way of thinking on the grounds that Spira has concluded it will be valid and its terms are adequately dubious to be clutched.

Furthermore, obviously, as William James brings up, this should be classed as a sort of strict experience. He included records of individuals really brought to a superior perspective by "mind-fix" and presumably individuals have been by Spira or Tolle, at the end of the day past taking note of that specific components of strict experience can be ravaged for a sort of mental treatment, to those earnestly looking for truth, little else is to be found.

II-The Human Inquiries

However what these methods of reasoning present isn't nothing. As William James brings up, they give a way to an expansion in prosperity for certain individuals, and they have normal components with strict thoughts, but essentially they might purloin from them. In any case, the inquiries they leave unanswered and the blunders they make could require a lot more serious personalities to want for more.

For a certain something, on the off chance that edification is an acknowledgment of some well known fact, how does a singular mind look for it assuming said individual brain has no significant presence of it's own? Spira doesn't trust in through and through freedom, and how or why illumination comes to one and not another is hazy.

Yet, as I brought up, however much enduring is overlooked in such a way of thinking what should be disregarded in particular is the certified truth of the experience of self. Spira doesn't have any idea what it is to be non-epitomized cognizance since his whole shtick is subject to him styling himself as a self acknowledged illuminated individual.

For as Indra comes to acknowledge in the Chandogya Upanishad, information is a piece of cognizance, information on self, information on the real world, information on progression. If you somehow managed to awaken consistently having failed to remember what your identity is, you would seemingly be less not more illuminated.

So we come to the fundamental inquiry: what's the significance here to all the while have a self, traveling through time, developed, changing, and dependent upon every one of the necessities of being typified, and have a self-greatness that isn't a forswearing however an understanding with the substance of things?

III — Genuine Otherworldliness

It's critical to take note of the degree to which current otherworldliness is a sign of independence. We should take for a model 'Yoga with Adriene', one of the most open and famous Yoga instructors on youtube. Most likely her Yoga channel has helped presumably a large number of individuals, her local area is a positive one and it is really essentially valuable. She said in a meeting with Russell Brand, "this training is well established in otherworldliness", yet video titles incorporate yoga for stomach wellbeing, yoga for dizziness, yoga for educators, yoga for culinary specialists, yoga for your butt and thighs, yoga for intellectual prowess, yoga for when you're feeling terrible, yoga for headaches, etc.

You could see something here. These titles are about you. What yoga is about is you. This sort of otherworldliness poses inquiries not of amazing quality or ethical quality but rather of enhancement, how improve? How would I become more joyful? How would I get a superior butt?

However these very things are what Indra comes to notice are vaporous. Not just this, it's difficult to see what yoga then, at that point, turns into that is not quite the same as, say, cleaning up or going for a run. It will encourage you, so it can't be called terrible or wrong, yet how is it truly otherworldliness?

Set forth plainly, it isn't. It is independence. Yoga in the west has become coordinated into the world that William James again depicted as the "disclosure to numerous whose hearts the congregation Christianity had left solidified". So 'strict' sorts of opinion are stuck to as simple inclination or experience, however the substance, and crucially the ethical substance, has come to be disregarded, leaving us with an imperative disarray about oneself.

Allow us to consider for concentrate on a section from the scriptural book of Isaiah, one on the subject of an old strict practice: fasting.

Isn't this the sort of fasting I have picked: to free the chains of treachery and loosen the ropes of the burden, to set the abused free and break each burden? Is it not to impart your food to the hungry and to furnish the unfortunate vagabond with cover — when you see the stripped, to dress them, and not to get some distance from your direct family? Then your light will break forward like the sunrise, and your mending will rapidly show up; then, at that point, your nobility will go before you, and the greatness of the Master will be your back watch. Then you will call, and the Master will reply; you will weep for help, and he will say: Here am I. On the off chance that you get rid of the burden of persecution, with the pointing finger and vindictive talk, and assuming you spend yourselves for sake of the hungry and fulfill the requirements of the abused, then, at that point, your light will ascend in the dimness, and your night will become like the noontime. The Ruler will direct you generally; he will fulfill your requirements in a sun-burned land and will fortify your edge. You will resemble a very much watered garden, similar to a spring whose waters won't ever fizzle. Your kin will revamp the old destroys and will raise up the deep rooted establishments; you will be called Repairer of Broken Walls, Restorer of Roads with Abodes.

The message of this entry, as in a significant part of the prophetic works, is basic. On the off chance that you could do without the poor, the abused, the anguish, the "least of these" as Jesus would come to call them, then the thing you are doing is useless. In the New Confirmation Paul depicts the 'products of the soul' as affection, satisfaction, harmony, patience,kindness, goodness, unwaveringness, gentleness,self-control. These are moral qualities, organic products manifest in what your identity is, they reflect not change essentially in prosperity but rather in character, a person that mirrors the inhabiting of adoration. The Chandogya upanishad, once more, says this:

"The Soul who is in the body doesn't become old and doesn't kick the bucket, and nobody can at any point kill the Soul who is never-ending. This is the genuine palace of Brahman wherein stays all the adoration for the universe. It is Atman, unadulterated Soul, past distress, advanced age, and demise; past wickedness and yearning and thirst. It is Atman whose affection is Truth, whose considerations are Truth. Indeed, even as here on earth the orderlies of a lord submit to their ruler any place he goes, so all affection which is Truth and all considerations of Truth comply with the Atman, the Soul. And, surprisingly, as here on earth all work done in time finishes in time, so on the planets to come even the benevolent acts of the past pass away. Along these lines the people who leave this world and have not tracked down their spirit, and that adoration which isn't Truth, track down not their opportunity in different universes. However, the people who leave this world and have found their spirit and that affection which is Truth, for them there is the freedom of the Soul, in this world and on the planets to come."

Once more, love, truth and opportunity are related to otherworldly self information. Is this what current otherworldliness instructs? All things considered, onlyfans powerhouses and mogul superstars and silicon valley chiefs and Presidents and legislators all reflect and do yoga. Eckhart Tolle is a NYT smash hit with perusers like Paris Hilton and Katy Perry. Is it true or not that we are living then in an edified world? Perhaps the response is no not on the grounds that individuals can't arrive at an understanding of the way that self isn't restricted to your fleeting personhood, but since the acknowledgment of this means excessively. When a rich man comes to Jesus and requests 'How must I acquire the realm from God?' Jesus says 'sell all you have, give it to poor people and come and follow me'. Furthermore, the text says the rich man disappeared frustrated, for he had a lot.

To understand oneself is continually cruising us by, that all that we attempt to grip to is vaporous is to acknowledge we have two options. The first is to stick to things, cash, achievement, sentiments, streamlining, prosperity, and the second is to surrender it. To exchange what you can't save for that which you can never lose. For Christians the way to cherish is through the empowering demise and revival of Christ, a picture of that equivalent giving of self that guarantees a having of the self that relates to an affection that won't ever pass on, manifest in that frame of mind of character. The secrets of oneself are maybe replied by the most persevering of insights: love your neighbor as yourself.

Gratitude for perusing.

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"All things considered, it's rarely past the point of no return, or for my situation too soon, to be whoever you need to be."

At the point when I was a youngster, I needed to be a cabbie.

The wide range of various children needed to be a specialist or police officer. Not me — cabbie was my purpose in life. I don't have any idea what precisely pulled in me to it, nor did I have a specific interest in driving, yet I realized I needed to be one.

In grade school, that fantasy turned into a teacher — I was enlivened by my dad, who appeared to have a decent life as a speaker at our neighborhood college. Then in secondary school, I longed for starting my own business, a consequence of watching all in all too much Shark Tank and contemplating how cool it would be in the event that one day I got to say "Hi Sharks, I'm requesting $5 million for a 1% stake in my organization".

I proceeded to concentrate on financial aspects (which I thought might one day at any point lead me to go into business). Then I began perusing screenplays for entertainment only, and began to think how cool it would be if I would compose and coordinate my own film.

Furthermore, presently, I'm in my initial mid-20s.

Also, none of those fantasies have appeared.

It's get it's more straightforward to dream when you're a youngster.

At the point when you don't need to ponder cost, time required, the dreariness of the sluggish days, or the work it'll take to get to where you need to go.

Everything appears to be conceivable when you're 10 years of age. You watch somebody driving a racecar on television, and you figure one day you can be in that vehicle. You purchase a racecar bed, begin dreaming about putting on the cap and bouncing in the vehicle, and lifting the prize while popping champagne.

And afterward you grow up and you bomb your driver's permit test. In the long run, you retake it, and you begin driving all over the place, and driving turns into an ordinary piece of your life.

Then, at that point, at some point, following a lot of time work, you're staring at the television at your parent's home, and you end up watching a F1 race.

Also, you're helped to remember the fantasy you had a long time back. What's more, you wonder where that fantasy went to pass on.

The passing of dreams is inelegant.

As you become older, as you understand real factors, as time feels like it's expiring.

You want to run a long distance race until you get short of breath scaling the steps. You believe you will have a six-pack until you get cramps from two situps. You want to cause music until you to acknowledge you don't have a clue about the contrast between the major and minor scopes. You want to make films until somebody lets you know they wouldn't watch your film for nothing.

I think about us convey a heap of broken dreams, pushed some place far away from the radiance of day, to possibly come up during off-kilter discussions when companions inquire "Hello, didn't you maintain that should do this?" what's more, you laugh unfortunately as you take a profound taste from your beverage.

It's as a matter of fact agreeable to not pursue dreams. It's agreeable to subside into a daily practice, to do exactly the same thing consistently, to meet similar individuals, to find a spot that probably won't be what I envisioned about, yet essentially it brings in cash, or possibly there's not too many gamble s — basically it's protected.

I might want to trust that there's as yet that small child in there some place.

The person who was ready to dream, the person who thought everything was conceivable, the person who found everything and anything about existence fascinating.

I believe I'm at last arriving at the age where I feel a piece old, where I feel like it's all in all too late to seek after anything new. It used to be the situation when I recently began working where I felt like I was still so youthful and there was still such a lot of daily routine left to experience — yet presently I think back and acknowledge I've nearly been laboring for a long time as of now.

In any case, I would rather not incline toward the conviction that it's past the point of no return. Allow me to be innocent, and trust that there's still such a lot of chance to attempt new things, to learn something interestingly, to fabricate something without any preparation.

There's a bistro I regularly visited when I lived in Bali — on one of their shirts, there's a statement:

"You're rarely excessively youthful or excessively old, too early or past the point where it is possible to get the hang of surfing or how to heat or how to move in an assembly hall, or ceramics making, skydiving, cycling, sewing, rollerskating and skating, horseriding, cliffjumping, wandering off in fantasy land, or driving with a stick.

There's still such a lot of I need to do. I need to compose a clever one day. I need to have a go at composing a melody. I need to make a game, regardless of whether it's a little text-based pick your-own-experience game. I need to run a long distance race. I need to travel alone. I need to have a go at making my own organization. I need to have the option to have a six-pack, regardless of whether it's just for 60 minutes. I need to peruse every one of the books on my to-understand list. I need to figure out how to rock a V3. I need to deadlift more than 100 kilograms. I need to be engaged with making a film and composing a screenplay. I need to make a fruitful web recording. I need to understand what driving a Ferrari is like.

Thus on the off chance that the demise of dreams is matter-of-fact, I might want to never allow my fantasies to bite the dust.

I'll compose more. I'll give calculating a shot how to make words rhyme. I'll get familiar with a bit about programming. I'll run a piece farther like clockwork. I'll set aside to purchase boarding passes. I'll ponder what thoughts will alter the market — or what thoughts somebody would be sufficiently insane to put resources into. I'll eat less and do more situps. I'll peruse another page. I'll move until my fingers are rankled. I'll lift a touch more. I'll peruse more screenplays and take a stab at keeping in touch with some. I'll record myself chatting with my companions. I'll purchase a Ferrari small and push it around my room.

Regardless, I'll continue onward. Little by little, bit by bit, page by page. Dreams kick the bucket when you disregard them. So I might want to continue to recall mine.

Indeed, some of them are implausible. Indeed, some of them are shallow. Yet, assuming I work little by little towards them, I'll wager that some of them need to materialize.

So I'll continue onward. I won't allow the fantasies to pass on.

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what "lillahi ta'ala" signifies for me

the islamic expression lillahi ta'ala ("for Allah") never sounded good to me since it seemed like… i'm giving, introducing something to God.

what's more, why an all-powerful God at any point needs anything from His creation?

or on the other hand regardless of whether they implied it such that we get things done out of the affection for Allah (very much like the way in which we'd work on something for not a great explanation with the exception of it's for somebody we love), cherishing Him, particularly to me in those days, felt extremely, far away — maybe it'd take me periods of devout practices until I could arrive.

so it most likely works, however that one way didn't feel possible to me all things considered.

however, I assume I as of late tracked down one more approach to seeing it. an entirely open one, even.

the manner in which I decipher it at the present time,

we get things done "for Allah" when we get things done out of our deepest voice.

we get things done "for Allah", when we do it because of our paying attention to that inward voice.

in islam (and likely not islam, truly), we conceptualize a person as made out of three parts: the brain, the body, and the spirit.

every part requires sustenance, thus the brain is supported with information, the body with staples, and the spirit with otherworldliness (whatever that implies).

be that as it may, who planned it along these lines? we accept, Allah did.

furthermore, these parts, left on their own gadgets without adverse impact or useless interruption from the rest of the world, will normally look for (and answer as per) the right sustenance.

uninfluenced youngsters reflect it well:

their psyche looks to know it all around them with unrestrained interest and creative mind.

their body develops either strongly or horribly relying upon what supplements — solid, or unfortunate — you furnish them with.

thus their spirit does: it will look for its normal way to otherworldliness and edification — and I realize we as a whole have (or will have) felt that eventually in our lives.

at the point when we give our whole self with the right sustenance, we prosper and turn into the best version of ourselves.

what's more, once more, who planned it that way? we accept, Allah did.

however, when we feed both of them with some unacceptable sustenance — be it hurtful data, sickness prompting food sources, or deluding strict lessons — we do awful things, develop sick, and fall into despair.

could Allah, our fashioner, like us to be as such all things considered? I have to take a hard pass.

also, in our most real condition, we wouldn't need any of that by the same token. who might need to be informed hurtful data, took care of with illness actuating food sources, or showed misdirecting religions?

also, assuming we turn down every one of the impacts and interruptions — in any case, what else? — that give such terrible sustenance, and on second thought go to our internal identity, we'd hear a voice:

I need to learn beneficial things. I need to eat great food sources. I need to find that light that'd warm my spirit.

also, who might be the most appreciative for us satisfying our craving for goodness, other than ourselves?

obviously, Allah, who made us Himself, would be generally glad for us.

we could believe we're doing all that for ourselves; in any case, no, we're doing everything for Allah, as well.

the expression may be deceiving for it could seem as though it's "[only] for Allah", as though we're forfeiting ourselves consequently.

however, no, it's, as a matter of fact "for [both] Allah, [and ourselves]".

since getting things done "for Allah", as far as I might be concerned, is to get things done — to live — on top of the innate goodness inside ourselves as a person.

also, it's not quite so muddled as it sounds, nor is it just held for the most devout ones.

we are all — from the most evil delinquent to the most serene holy people and in the middle between — innately brought into the world with yearn for great information, great food varieties, and great otherworldliness.

also, no measure of contradicting common impact would remove any of it — with the exception of just put brief blinders over them, which we generally have the decision to take care of back in any case,

and we should simply tune in.

simply tune in, mindfully enough to our inward voice, and we'll have the option to feel all that decency in us in the long run.

what's more, everybody — us as well as He who makes us — will be glad for that.

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Flycat is a client-side software without introducing backends or database setup. the idea is to keep it effortless for users to self host. It mainly use React Nextjs framework in typescript lang.

Branch

• master branch is the one for production development. Every commit merged in master branch will push new release alive.
• develop branch is only used for feature involved with tons of works and needs to be tested before release to production.

How to run

Nodejs >= v18.12.1 yarn >= 1.22.19

```sh git clone https://github.com/digi-monkey/flycat-web.git cd flycat-web yarn

development

yarn dev

build for release

yarn build ```

For self-host, check out How to deploy to vercel

Code structure

• TODO

Release

Once a week, we release a regular update version. For hotfix, a instant minor version will be roll out once fixed.

We use project kanban to manage the development and release. every week, we gather the things we want to do in this kanban and release a new version at the end of that week.

Contributing

A good way to start contributing is to check the github issues labeling with good first issue.

Design Call

Every week, right before a regular release iteration start, we host a regular design call meeting, the meeting is fully open. anyone can join and discuss if they want.

The meeting is mainly focus on:

• things planning to ship in that week
• new contributors self-introduce, asking question about the project or development
• users feedback

The meeting is tentatively scheduled for 1:00 PM UTC+8 hosted on meet.jit.si. Check out flycat official account for meeting link.

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Pengenalan

Imej1: Logo Bitcoin Core bewarna jingga, logo Bitcoin Cash bewarna Hijau

Bitcoin Cash bukan Bitcoin! ni asas yang wajar difahami oleh pengguna baharu dalam dunia aset kripto.

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) adalah aset kripto baharu yang diwujudkan pada tahun 2017 kesan perbezaan pendapat miner-miner Bitcoin. Walaupun memiliki struktur asas yang hampir serupa dan sejarah transaksi awal yang sama, Bitcoin Cash mempunyai perbezaan ketara dari segi harga, kepenggunaan dan potensi. Kedua-dua Bitcoin (BTC) (selepas ini akan dipanggil Bitcoin Core) dan Bitcoin Cash (BCH) adalah aset kripto yang boleh dibeli dan dimiliki secara sah dari exchanger Malaysia seperti Luno dan Sinergi.

Sejarah

Masalah kos transaksi Bitcoin Core yang semakin mahal dan lambat sudah menjadi isu sejak tahun 2017. Menyedari hal ini , Roger Ver mencadangkan agar saiz blok Bitcoin Core diperbesar kepada 32MB. Cadangan ini ditolak oleh sebahagian miner lain, lalu akhirnya miner yang bersetuju dengan Roger Ver memilih untuk meneruskan dengan haluan sendiri. proses ini dipanggil forking. Adakah idea Roger Ver berjaya? secara telnikalnya, ya. lihat rajah di bawah. Solusi ini menyebabkan jaringan BCH tidak sesak lagi:

Imej2: Situasi semasa jaringan Bitcoin Core dalam bentuk visual

Imej3: Situasi semasa jaringan Bitcoin Cash dalam bentuk visual

Namun begitu, BCH gagal mengambil tempat BTC sebagai Bitcoin yang sebenar yang diilhamkan oleh Satoshi Nakamoto. lihat perbezaan harga BCH dan BTC pada masa kini:

Imej4: Perbezaan ketara harga BTC dan BCH

Sifat BCH

BCH mempunyai caj transaksi yang sangat rendah. Ini bermakna BCH tidak perlu bergantung kepada Layer 2 seperti BTC untuk transaksi mikro.

imej5: caj pengeluaran BCH dari Luno

Transaksi dapat disemak hampir serta merta di BCH memandangkan Blockchain tidak sesak walaupun sedang mengurus transaksi hampir dua kali ganda jumlahnya berbanding BTC. BCH juga tidak mempunyai isu replace-by-fee, dan ini membolehkan satu-satu transaksi lebih diyakini kesahihannya apabila butang "send" telah ditekan. Potensi ini menyebabkan BCH semakin mendapat tempat dalam kalangan pelabur.

imej6: Blockchain BCH baru digunakan 2% apabila menguruskan 2562 transaksi dalam tempoh 10 minit

imej7: Blockchain BTC sudah mencapai kapasiti 98% walaupun baru menguruskan 1196 transaksi dalam tempoh 10 minit

pun begitu, sama seperti BTC, BCH tertakluk kepada blocktime 10 minit (ini bermakna BCH yang baru masuk ke akaun pengguna tidak dapat digunakan / dibekukan dalam tempoh 10 minit sehingga 120 minit, begantung kepada polisi wallet masing-masing).

Address BCH bermula dengan awalan "q" atau "p" manakala Address BTC bermula dengan awalan "1" atau "3".

imej8: contoh awalan address BCH dengan huruf "q"

imej9: contoh awalan address BCH dengan huruf " p"

Wallet Bitcoin Cash

Saya menyarankan wallet Bitcoin.com memandangkan wallet ni bersifat self-custody (pemilikan penuh kendiri berbanding disimpan di exchanger) namun, ia menyokong login menggunakan email (tanpa mengabaikan penggunaan 12 word phrase). Ini menjadikannya ia sangat ideal untuk digunakan bagi tujuan pewarisan. Wallet ini juga menyokong simpanan aset Ethereum dan Bitcoin Core

Imej10: Wallet ini menyokong BCH, BTC dan ETH

Potensi BCH

Komuniti BCH lazimnya bersifat inovatif. Oleh kerana itu, BCH mempunyai pelbagai inovasi yang tiada / belum diwujudkan pada BTC seperti cashscript dan simple ledger protocol (SLP). BTC pula dilihat lebih konservatif dan lebih mementingkan kestabilan berbanding pembangunan. Potensi nilai BCH dan BTC agak sukar diterjemah, namun perbezaan ideologi ini menjadi penentu sama ada institusi dan individu akan lebih memilih BCH yang agresif atau BTC yang dipercayai.

Imej11: Pembangunan dalam ekosistem BCH

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Dreams guarantee development. We've been confessed to they're the mysterious entry to magnum opuses. The way to extravagant business thoughts. From the Hypothesis of Relativity to Sundown, dreams are the maker.

Mary Shelley composed Frankenstein after a bad dream about a mechanical man. Elias Howe longed for man-eaters waving pointed sticks. Toward the beginning of the day he developed the sewing machine. Indeed, even in the Holy book, Joseph (of the astonishing technicolor dream-coat) was honored by dreams that drove him to significance.

Google broadly burst into being the point at which a 22-year graduate imagined he had downloaded the entire web. Larry Page's evening vision shaped the premise of a calculation. The code proceeded to underlie the (once) most well known site on the planet.

"At the point when a great dream appears, snatch it!" — Larry Page

Take a gander at the gifts gave on the fortunate sleepers from the beginning of time.

Normally, a significant number of us are quick to give our own fantasies something to do.

Science has demonstrated a connection among dreaming and development. Furthermore, given us a method for controlling it. Over the most recent couple of many years neuroscience methods have progressed quickly. Presently we can dive unbiasedly into the dozing mind. The connection among dreaming and development has turned into a little more clear.

A decade prior, scientists saw something bizarre about project chiefs in cutting edge associations. Some of them had especially innovative and genuinely charged dreams.

Representatives who envisioned appeared to convey better business advancement.

Connections like this one generally request cautious unpicking. The analysts couldn't rest assured that it was simply the fantasies that were causing the advancement.

There was no proof that the task supervisors were getting evening heading on the most proficient method to construct programming.

The researchers rather offered a more wary clarification.

Individuals who are available to new encounters and less mandate in their way to deal with life, dream on a more regular basis. This sort of trough is likewise bound to permit their groups space to try. It was this adaptability that brought about the business development.

For sure, we've known for quite a while that the character quality of receptiveness is a basic determinant by they way somebody dreams.

In any case, it was a strong step advances to attach the personal existence of our fantasies to business KPIs.

Quick forward to 2023. Clinicians are currently even ready to establish imagination driving dreams in dozing cerebrums.

In May, Harvard Clinical School scientists found a method for poking sleepers into dreaming about a particular theme. They took advantage of the sluggish point just before rest beginning (known as N1).

Their new convention at last gave us command over our fantasies' conveyance of innovativeness.

The researchers played sleepers a voice expressing, "Make sure to consider a tree." This worked. By and large, 70.3% of the fantasy reports incorporated a tree. Basically, after waking, imagination in tree-related assignments moved along.

Assuming that our aspiration is to enroll our fantasies to get going on critical thinking while we rest, we're exceptionally near the end goal.

Assuming our objective was to reproduce the flash of enlightenment that revealed, in addition to other things, the design of DNA, we may be disheartened.

Now is the ideal time to stop and inspect our longing for control. I'm a fantasy devotee and clinician. These logical advances ought to please me. All things being equal, the interruption appears to be blasphemous.

Maybe I'm bored from the tireless walk of hustle culture. I'm becoming dubious of our unquestioning love of monetary worth creation.

Humankind has been discussing the idea of dreams for centuries. Also, won't stop any time soon. Amidst this discussion, there is one thing the neuroscientists, the religions, and the psychoanalysts settle on.

Dreams are mind boggling and wonderful happenings.

When did our fantasies change from marvel to asset?

Our way of life is fixated on efficiency. In the sixteenth 100 years, Britain became protestant. A large part of the Western world has stayed this way since. The US has been generally protestant starting from the main European pilgrims showed up. One of the focal convictions of this sort of Christianity is the Protestant Hard working attitude.

Really buckling down is an indication of moral person. Neglecting to do so is lethargy, and a transgression. It's not chic to discuss sin any longer. Be that as it may, we keep on putting useful achievement at the focal point of our reality.

Consistently, in September, towns across England observe Reap Celebration. The old parishioners of my young life church get going. I grew up watching their liberal assortment of tinned food. Giving it to the nearby less lucky.

Nobody remarked on the sound except for work less family who acknowledged our contributions. Essentially not openly. The sweet old women were excessively pleasant and English for that. However, we as a whole knew, and we detested their life of relaxation.

Today we're actually enamored by the presentation of efficiency.

It's not shocking we checked out disapprovingly at the inefficiency of rest. Then energized our endeavors to dig it for monetizable imagination.

We were stupid to figure our inner mind would comply.

Whether you attribute to the initiation union model or say thanks to Morpheus for your dreams. You realize that fantasies don't have a place the waking psyche. They won't live in that frame of mind of Monday morning daily agendas. They couldn't care less about you development program cutoff times.

Fortunately, a few pieces of our reality, a few pieces of ourselves, are past private enterprise.

Our precursors didn't set these expectations of dreams. Over 1500 years before I sat, a decade old and exhausted, in a congregation seat, Holy person Augustine showed up at the shores of Britain. Sent by the Pope to edify the savage Celts. Regardless of the best endeavors of the Christians, reverberations of agnosticism torment the island.

There's an odd English folktale I heard once, left over from the times previously. It wasn't recorded until 1553 however it's a lot more established than that. It's endured in my country, in some structure, starting from the main 100 years. It's known as The Ruler o' the Felines.

An elderly person is resting in a memorial park. He dreams he sees eight back felines strolling upstanding. They are seriously conveying a velvet hung final resting place.

Driving the parade is a 10th feline, the greatest of all. The 10th feline methodologies the elderly person and murmurs "Tell Tom Tildrum that Tim Toldrum's dead."

After waking, the elderly person, having no clue about who Tom or Tim are, gets back to his better half to look for guidance. He finds her sitting by the fire with their own murmuring house feline. He retells his story.

At the point when he arrives at the resolution, the house feline surprises. It shouts "What — old Tim is dead! then, at that point, I'm the Lord o' the Felines!" With that, the house feline surges up the chimney stack and was gone forever.

This is certainly not an especially fulfilling story. There is definitely not an ethical message or a scrap of shrewdness to take.

This isn't the sort of dream that dispatches the following Google.

Andrew Lloyd Webber composed a raving success West-End melodic about Joseph's scriptural dreams. Tickets for Lord o' the Felines wouldn't sell-out in a remarkable same manner.

Regardless of its refusal to be useful, The Lord o' the Felines has adamantly gripped on. Disregarded down flames, in bars, nurseries, and presently carefully to you. A vagrant in the restricted space of your hippocampus.

Ages of narrators have detected there is something of significant worth in these words. Regardless of whether they can't exactly be certain what it is. Maybe its motivation was basically in its sharing. Driving us to cluster among companions and quarrel about its importance.

A reason to excessively and egotistically sit around.

We've all in all consented to permit Ruler Tom the security of secret. Consequently, he's squirreled something, at this point unclear, as the centuries progressed.

Dreams offer something more significant than cash. That is reality with regards to dreams, truly. The self improvement masters and researchers probably won't be prepared to just let it out presently.

Dreams aren't faithful canines. They will not engage you with stunts on order. They're not your dearest companion. Or then again your solid work partner.

During a time of undertaking plans, and straight lines, and unending walking progress, dreams are resistance.

A truly necessary update that we needn't bother with to be helpful to be important.

Dreams are the casual cat murmuring by the fire. Dreams are the Cheshire Feline, bothering Alice with a knowing smile and gibberish.

Dreams could direct you, yet they won't serve you. You'll have to figure out how to be thankful for the foggy half looks at virtuoso.

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Dear more youthful me of quite a while back,

At the gamble (or rather sureness) of being platitude, I'm still going to say it — time truly passes quickly.

How was the GSB graduation two months prior coincidentally? Ambivalent, huh? I want to believe that you loved those minutes since it'll be the last time you see a large number of those companions for some time.

I know precisely very thing you're doing at present: you're setting yourself up, truly and inwardly, for your impending move to Indonesia. It's really overwhelming, I know. As somebody who never truly lived beyond the US (being brought into the world in Korea however at that point moving to the US at four years old doesn't actually count, can we just be real for a minute), you do not know what's in store. You don't have any idea what you don't have the foggiest idea. Yet, the real choice to move was easy, correct? I know, it amazed me as well — that once we at long last dedicated to the choice and we talked our fate into the universe, how unexpectedly the weight left our shoulders. It just felt right; furthermore, in that came a quiet certainty about what lay ahead. That certainty will remain your directing light, so in spite of the fact that it might falter every once in a while, make a point to safeguard it no matter what.

How about we see — you're right now additionally during the time spent purchasing the wedding band? You think she'll like it? Ensure it doesn't get harmed during your long outing to Jakarta — in a sock in a shoe in our portable baggage worked for me. In any case, jeez, who knew how complex choosing a jewel is… fail to remember ChatGPT, the world requirements DiamondGPT! Goodness right, you don't have any idea what ChatGPT is yet. I'll make sense of that in a future letter…

Talking about commitment, fun reality: it'll happen sooner than you suspect. I know right now you believe it's an exercise in futility to hurry, however after you experience her compassion and care from the second you land in Jakarta, you'll understand you were senseless to try and think about in any case.

However, in addition to that. In the US, when somebody is contemplating proposing, first they get the endowments of their soul mate's folks in a generally relaxed discussion, and afterward weeks (or months) after the fact is the genuine commitment proposition. That is the way in which it works all over the place, correct? Wrong! Turns out that in Indonesia, the 'getting the endowments from the guardians' discussion IS the commitment proposition basically.

So one day in December you'll have the 'favors' discussion with Maudy's folks, not anticipating a lot of show, and you'll have this one second where you contemplate internally "wow that was shockingly extreme… stand by, why are individuals crying??" Indeed, presently you know. This is on the grounds that you're locked in at this point! Fortunately you're thoroughly fine with that, yet it positively is a shock.

So that is the reason it'll happen sooner than you suspect.

Allow me to give you a report on my end. It's been very nearly two years in Jakarta and I'm changing great by and large, however it's not without its difficulties. There are a few things that I don't have here that we used to underestimate; for instance, clean air is tragically somewhat uncommon where I reside. Besides, my skin has truly not been content with the steady intensity and moistness. These things make it hard to partake in every one of the open air exercises that we used to adore back in California like swimming and playing ball and going for climbs.

Obviously, something different we used to underestimate is simply easily conversing with individuals. It's not just about being terrible at bahasa; the social subtleties, figures of speech, sentence structures, they're all unique and befuddling. No doubt, I assume I burn through 20% of my mental ability consistently ensuring I'm talking as obviously as could really be expected and tuning in as hard as could be expected. You realize the Duolingo you've been doing… I'd twofold down on that if I were in your shoes.

However, Jakarta is additionally truly invigorating. It sort of helps me to remember our time in San Francisco in the mid 2010's — the city felt youthful thus invigorated, very much like Jakarta is for me now. Everybody is contemplating their next huge thing and how to shape their predetermination; the principles are as yet unwritten. It's disorder positively. It seems like the sky is the limit around here! Furthermore, the dynamism of my profession here hitherto, while surely bewildering from the get go, fits this theme impeccably.

I've lived it up getting to know individuals here as well. I'm generally still an outsider so I don't serious areas of strength for have gatherings yet, however the thing is deficient top to bottom is compensated for in expansiveness. Individuals frequently say "everybody knows everybody in Jakarta" and for that I'm thankful; I love that people here are so familial and well disposed. It's really very unique in relation to the individualistic culture of the US, and I think that it is reviving. You will as well. You've generally adored that feeling when you interface all around well with somebody you didn't anticipate correcting? Here, it fundamentally happens constantly.

As I introspect, I understand that something really doesn't add up about us that I'm truly thankful for: our constancy and independence. We've become used to large moves, haven't we? We experienced childhood in LA, we might have remained in gorgeous agreeable California perpetually, however we moved to New York City for school without a notion of what's in store. Then from New York City to San Francisco: we again abandoned our companions and home, pursuing our next part throughout everyday life. Back in California — perhaps we'll show up for good? No; predetermination allured to us once more, this chance to Boston. Then business college. What's more, presently most of the way across the world to Indonesia, our greatest move yet. I love the delightful way boldly and gladly we've wandered into the obscure looking for our fullest potential, that marvelous next experience.

However, this time, that experience accompanies a side of culpability. Especially with regards to our folks. You'll turn out to be very much in the know that a large portion within recent memory together on this Planet is behind us, and as that valuable time turns out to be an ever increasing number of scant, that we settle on a cognizant choice consistently to be so far separated. Each time you see them on your screen, you'll be obnoxiously astounded at how rapidly they appear to progress in years. You'll stress over situations where being north of 24 hours away is excessively far and past the point of no return. Furthermore, you'll contemplate whether this is the way our folks envisioned their lives to end up: forfeiting such a huge amount for us to experience childhood in the US, just for us to leave them in their brilliant years.

At a more profound level, you'll try and grapple with a dubious responsibility that you're forsaking your own character. We had family, we had companions, we had side interests and schedules. We had a daily existence that we abandoned in quest for another. You'll become restless that the further you incline toward this new experience, the more you lose your old self. Indeed, even as I compose this letter to you, I feel like I'm an alternate individual from you. Also, once in a while, that feeling can be disrupting, similar to the floor whereupon I stood has out of nowhere dropped free from me.

In any case, I'm figuring out how to embrace that culpability and distress — it's the major human condition all things considered. How might one genuinely value their gifts without being helped to remember the expenses? Or on the other hand experience without leaving? Develop without risk? Isn't everyday routine better experienced embracing the ups and the downs, completely commending our victories and sitting in our losses, taking it step by step? Furthermore, these encounters, they improve me.

That tattoo we have on our arm, the one with waves and palm trees against the background of a rising sun, implies something else to me than it does to you. At the point when you take a gander at it, you see the image of determination which we drew a long while back. At the point when I take a gander at it however, I currently likewise see the shore of California, helping me to remember where we're from and of the excursion we've taken to arrive. What's more, very much like a wonderful picturesque drive down the Pacific Coast Roadway, it's the exciting bends in the road, the splendor of the sun diverging from the shadows it projects, that energizes the faculties and makes everyday routine worth experiencing.

So in several months you'll load onto that plane to Indonesia interestingly. I still distinctively recollect the expectation I felt in the vehicle to the air terminal, going through the agenda again and again in my mind (you better not have a lapsed visa this time!), the startling bitterness while saying farewell to our folks, and how I couldn't resist the opportunity to let out a major grin as I sunk into my seat on the plane. Gives me goosebumps simply mulling over everything! I trust you'll take everything in, this once in a blue moon second.

I've understood that there's really no need to focus on pursuing brief joys, yet rather about carrying on with a day to day existence that we'll think back and be glad for. Life is simply excessively short to do in any case. Indeed, prepare — you'll confront a portion of your most noteworthy fulfillments and most noteworthy dissatisfactions here, however en route you'll understand that this is the proudest part of your biography yet.

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The Tide of Mental fortitude

The morning shows up quickly. I longed for trumpets and the long blue ocean.

His face felt harsh. His kiss felt harsher. This was an exceptional day. We seldom stay the night together. At the point when we do, love has struck a lethal blow. The iron unquestionable necessity been hot last evening.

He had a gift to me. He gave it to me. He let me know it was an update that he recalls. A print of me at breakfast. Our most memorable breakfast. I was struck. I was helped to remember why I wind up in his arms so frequently. He sees me. Like the pigeon sees the racer. The pony sees the rider.

We drink tea and eat lemon jam on cuts of sweet bread. Mint tea. Tobacco smoke. Stirring paper. We're quiet at this point. I gaze. I gaze at individuals who will not talk when they ought to. I could talk. I could put a final offer on that table.

I could let him know that he needs to pick. The main result of going with the best decision is denying myself of the experience.

I believe this second should endure forever, even with the quiet. I can feel in the spaces later on with words I ought to have said and afterward leave it settled that way.

Mental fortitude is flowing. As far as I might be concerned, it comes in waves. The tide is getting back. To scrub the sands of the previous prints. That man leaves for work before I finish my morning meal. He kisses me and depends me. He leaves me. His holy messenger toward the beginning of the day. Words won't forsake me. Words won't ever bomb me.

I pen him the decision. I leave onto his primmed road possessing an aroma like the kisses of last evening. Enabled by my words. He will hear me. Regardless of whether he.

I carried on with a lie for a really long time. Reality no longer panics me. I have dealt with the barrel of the elephant weapon of truth, prepared to poach my wonderful ivory. I'm bold. The tide is home.

I walk shoeless on the wet grass. I'm blissful in the sunlight. I am so happy coming back. I have grown a spine. I feel ten feet taller. The world is beneath me and totally shipshape. Regardless, this existence of mine is brilliant.

Allow us to toast to me, for once. Three toasts: To boldness. To cherish. To Georgia. Gaumarjos! Victory! Hura!

Around evening time, my ploy has bombed. Love was quiet. I was filling in the spaces. What I would consider love is fanciful. I anticipate that he should run into my arms and let me know that it has forever been me. I'm smashed on sentimentalism.

I'm consumed by my own butterflies. They eat my stomach gradually. My heart races, and my psyche circles the domains of imagination like Gagarin. I never express uplifting statements. I compose encouraging statements. I compose what my tongue can't move. I'm incapacitated.

My oldest little girl, Eka, lays her head on her chest. She conveys a lesson. ' Mother. You have goddess composed on your throat. Try not to allow somebody to win your love. Be the hoodlum.'

Do she have any idea about how delicate her mom feels at the top of the priority list and soul in spite of the valiance she has shown? I sob tears of pity. The tide has come, and presently it will not meander in the future. I'm overwhelmed. My boldness has become blue. I have contracted ten feet.

My heart feels weighty like a blacksmith's iron. Eka folded her arms over me and held me close. I was wrapped by the affection for my girl. She is warm similar to a fire from an oven in the depressing midwinter. I feel so cool sweet youngster.

He comes. He remains at the edge. He holds me. This is love. In any event, for the present.

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I just discovered YakiHonne today, and thankfully so, since the deadline to test the round 4 updates, provide feedback, and stack sats is near.

There's not much I enjoy doing more than stacking sats.

And growing Nostr too of course. That's why I'm here.

Alright, let's get right into it and go over the 5 updates in this round.

1. Drafts - You can save your articles for later edit/publish.

Love this and I look forward to the day we can make drafts of short notes on the mobile clients (e.g. Damus and Primal). But this behaves as expected, when clicking "Save as draft", I'm asked what relays I'd like to save my draft too.

After saving the draft and viewing "My articles", it makes sense that the draft wouldn't appear when clicking on a relay where the draft wasn't initially saved.

2. Stats previews - You can see who zapped/upvote/downvote your or other creator's articles.

This worked as expected as the shaka I received on my first ever blog post on Nostr showed up as an upvote. Shoutout to SoberGrizzlyBTC for the love!

3. Add "my articles" to the curation creation tab - You can directly select your articles for your curation from your articles.

I mentioned this one in #1 and I think it means there's a place I can go to where I can see only articles that I've created.

4. Add confirmation deletion prompt for comments - Now you have the ability to cancel faulty comments.

I'll have to revisit this one since I don't have any comments at the moment.

5. Hints - Add stats icons hovering hints to clear things up.

Looks good. You can see that it says "Tip article" when hovering over the lightning icon. This is something you should definitely do btw ;)

We've now covered all the updates from this round and all I can say is wow. I'm super impressed with the user interface and just being able to do something as simple as saving a draft.

I mentioned in my first post Running blogstack that there would be nothing stopping me from creating with another client and here we are. All I had to do was connect my private key which we're now able to do more safely with extensions like nos2x.

I'm looking forward to using YakiHonne more in the coming days and testing future updates.

Onward.

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Blockstream Finance, our financial division, continues to pioneer forward-thinking financial products, laying the foundation for Bitcoin-based capital markets. Building on the success of the Blockstream Mining Note (BMN), which secured $50M over 2021 and 2022, we have partnered with Luxembourg's STOKR—a premier marketplace for digital securities—to unveil our next Bitcoin-focused investment vehicle: the Blockstream ASIC (BASIC) Note.

The BASIC Note is a bitcoin-denominated vehicle that provides qualified investors an opportunity to capitalize on the potential upside of historically-low ASIC (application specific integrated circuits; purpose-built machines used to mine bitcoin) prices.

The Thesis

In previous Bitcoin cycles, bitcoin and ASIC market prices have been closely correlated. During bear markets, ASIC prices (on a price per terahash basis) often fall below bitcoin's value, while in bull markets, they tend to surpass it, indicating a potential upside when denominated in BTC.

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/cdbd6fdbcafab703344d067edb39ade5fbb4965e3817a2fd0792ecbe1ffbea4b.png Note ASICs pricing 25-38 J/TH is less energy efficient vs ASICs under 25 J/TH.

As ASIC prices show promising signs of recovery, anchored by the impending Bitcoin halving in 2024 and favorable market supply-demand dynamics, the BASIC Note strategy will leverage Blockstream's unique positioning and track record in the Bitcoin mining sector. We aim to raise investor capital, acquire and store unused ASICs in North America, and then strategically offload them into the market upon price resurgence.

While bitcoin price has risen substantially in 2023, ASIC prices have remained depressed (on a price per terahash basis). This is attributed to an oversupply of less energy-efficient miners, a need for more hosting capacity in the market, and higher energy costs, among other factors.

We expect this ASIC price trend to reverse in the near-to-mid term. As energy and credit markets bounce back, and as both large public and private miners bring new capacity online and refresh their fleets in preparation for the 2024 halving, we anticipate this surplus of miners to decline.

The Structure

The BASIC Note is a bitcoin basis investment opportunity. We anticipate that most investors will invest using bitcoin, seeking a bitcoin-on-bitcoin return.

The note has a novel structure designed with the Bitcoin investor in mind. Unlike many crypto hedge funds that charge carried interest on the mere passive appreciation of bitcoin price, the BASIC Note's carry fee is discretionary and levied only when the fund outperforms bitcoin. In other words, the carry is only for the value added beyond the natural bitcoin price appreciation. By eliminating these unnecessary fees, we can encourage investors to HODL their bitcoin, benefiting from its passive growth.

We view the BASIC Note as a source of liquidity for miners operating in the market today. These miners can either sell their inventory outright, or they can sell their inventory and reinvest in the BASIC Note. By choosing the latter, they can transform their hard assets into a more dynamic investment with a tradeable note, allotting them more agility in adjusting their market position.

The Expertise

Blockstream has continuously been a leader in Bitcoin mining, from our historical connection to the proof-of-work algorithm to running one of North America's largest vertically-integrated mining operations.

This wealth of experience has given us unique insight into the market and fostered strong relationships throughout the Bitcoin mining value chain, including key ASIC producers and brokers.

Beyond mining, we are also pioneers in Bitcoin technology. We are the technical providers for the Liquid Network and the main contributors to Core Lightning, two of the most well-known Bitcoin layer-2 solutions. We also have a deep understanding of Bitcoin through our software and hardware wallet offerings and operate the Blockstream Satellite network, which provides continuous, free broadcasts of the Bitcoin blockchain worldwide.

The BASIC Note builds on this mining legacy and integrates many areas of Blockstream's expertise across the Bitcoin technology space.

https://cdn.nostr.build/i/aa05cd0d3a89204d463125afd028cd08c3809f366ee519271780c28823ead407.png The Blockstream value chain in mining and adjacent Bitcoin technology sectors.

The Offering

The first series of the BASIC Note (BSIC1) is confirmed to go on sale August 23, 2023 on STOKR with an adjustable 24-month tenor. The offering is open to qualified investors with a minimum investment of USD $115,000 or the equivalent in bitcoin (BTC), Liquid Bitcoin (L-BTC), or Tether (USDt). Although there is a minimum initial investment, notes can be transferred in OTC sales or traded on secondary markets, such as SideSwap, down to a denomination of 0.01 (USD $1,150).

Subsequent series are expected to be issued periodically over the coming months, subject to market pricing.

For further information, visit the official STOKR listing or reach out to us on the Blockstream Finance Telegram.

The information above has been prepared solely for informational purposes only. It is not an offer to buy or sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy or sell any securities. Full terms and conditions are available on STOKR.

We will never reach out directly to investors through social media or instant messaging. If you receive any messages from someone claiming to be from Blockstream and offering mining investments, report them to us through the Blockstream Scam DB.

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A large number of us fantasy about becoming journalists, yet a considerable lot of us … are lost in this journey that could only be described as epic.

In sharing my undertakings every week, I've met a ton of essayists, drained and baffled by their circumstance.

I've been in that unfortunate state of mind myself, moving starting with one specialty then onto the next and changing thoughts subsequent to attempting others that didn't work.

It required me a long investment to find my way and long periods of pointless work that might have been kept away from assuming that I'd had the information I have today.

I'm composing that I wish I'd peruse to that credulous me, of a couple of years prior, believing that all I needed to do was get a pen, a clear page and my inspiration to prevail with regards to making a crowd of people and being perused.

During those three years, I had twitter strings that surpassed 100k perspectives. I had message posts that were broadly handed-off in enormous channels. I've had a couple of viral tweets. What's more, a portion of my posts on medium begin with once again 100 remarks. I've composed fiction for me and for other people. I've likewise composed copywriting for a couple of brands, in spite of the fact that it's not my fundamental field.

I've had the option to learn, and presently it is the ideal time to share.

In this first post, we'll investigate the rudiments, all together, and in the following couple of, we'll get into the particular tips.

Before we begin, the following are four situations: - I need to compose on the grounds that I'm enthusiastic about it. I need to compose fiction or true to life. I need to help other people. I have an extraordinary perspective to share and I need to be heard. - Same as above with a plottwist, I believe should do all that yet bring in cash simultaneously. - I need to independent - I simply need to bring in cash through composition

Each of the four focuses are substantial. In any case, I can help the initial three. In the event that your essential objective is simply to bring in cash, I'm not the perfect individual to follow. You ought to withdraw from my pamphlet and quit following me, I will not have the option to help you. I'm not censuring this objective, composing can be extremely rewarding assuming you understand what you're doing and there are numerous different scholars having some expertise in this specialty that you can follow.

I can help the people who are enthusiastic about composition, who need to succeed on the grounds that composing is something that fulfills them.

Now that we have that far removed, how about we continue on toward the rude awakening.

Am I certain to succeed? No

Am I certain to bring in cash? No

Am I certain I can assemble a crowd of people? No

What is the level of accomplishment? In the event that I check out me and break down the various stages, it's actual low. Most medium essayists aren't paid. Most authors aren't paid and battle to adapt their substance.

Why hurl myself entirely into this when the chances are against me? Since you love to compose. Since you're a craftsman. Since sees are only a reward.

"Indeed, however don't we take care of off the perspectives?" Indeed, however you can't anticipate bringing in cash composing with next to no experience.

I don't have the foggiest idea what level you're at however : - contest is wild - certain individuals buckle down - some enjoy the benefit of being locals

My number one relationship is: I'm 20 years of age. I get up one morning and I need to be a genius in something? Is that conceivable? The quick response is no. Be that as it may, in the event that you train hard. By proceeding to learn. By being modest. By really buckling down.

In a couple of months/years. You could procure specific abilities that will permit you to get compensated.

Same with Composing. You can't anticipate getting compensated in light of the fact that you chose one morning to turn into an essayist. Taking work, penance, draining fingers at the keyboard is going. Time to fabricate a strong following. Then to assemble your pamphlet.

Now that we have that long disclaimer far removed, and all of us are mindful of the undertaking ahead, we really want an arrangement.

1) The Arrangement The way I welcome you to follow is that of an essayist who : - shares his works - constructs a group of people - gets it - keeps on developing consistently - thrives in his work

A way will get some margin to construct.

The initial step to begin is self-investigation.

What is it that I need to compose? What are my specialized topics? How long do I give myself to succeed? How long might I at any point allow myself every week to compose? How long could I at any point allow myself every week to learn? Which stages will be awesome to share my sort of happy? What content would it be advisable for me to make to assemble my crowd? What will my marking resemble? How might I make it successful?

That is a ton, however you would be wise to characterize a strong arrangement all along, on the grounds that even with an arrangement, it will get sidetracked.

In the event that you don't have any idea where to begin? Believe about who you need to be? Check their marking out? Check their substance out? That is a decent beginning stage for tracking down your point.

On the off chance that you don't have the foggiest idea where you're going, you'll get lost.

2) Picking a stage When these inquiries have been responded to, now is the right time to pick a stage, and … there are a large number.

I've utilized twitter, medium and substack to fabricate my crowd.

Twitter for little happy. Mechanism for longer happy and Substack for sending messages.

Assuming that you compose fiction, you likewise need to join spots where you can track down perusers.

There are sites where you can distribute your work or some specific subreddit locales.

Each site and stages have advantages and disadvantages.

On the off chance that I needed to begin again today, the matching of twitter and medium is an exceptionally strong beginning stage. What's more, when I have a minuscule footing, adding the pamphlet to get your crowd.

I don't suggest extending yourself excessively far on such a large number of stages. It's additional work and that has been one of my slip-ups.

3) Give From the start, you will not be perused. To begin getting criticism on your work, you must focus entirely on those in your specialty.

Pick a specialty of records that are your objective, the ones you need to become, and interface with them consistently.

To develop on medium, great remarks are vital (see this article)