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By Tenderly
Tenderly's vegan newsletter delivers delicious plants, liberated animals, and the perspectives of vegans all over the world. Take a look | ['Humor', 'Food', 'Comic', 'Fun', 'Art'] |
07–01–2020 ~ 07–31–2020
Mixin Main Network
•The MainNet has been running for 519 days at the height of 29,832,483
•Three new nodes were successfully added to the MainNet this month, and now there are 34 nodes in stable operation
•Mixin’s top 100 assets, excluding BOX and XIN, are worth $97 million
•The Network has... | ['Monthly Report', 'Mixinnetwork'] |
4 Signs She’s Not Interested in You
When she’s not into you, you can tell.
Photo by christian ferreron Unsplash
So you have a crush on a girl.
You’re trying to figure out if you should just go for it, make a move, take your chance — but you’re afraid things won’t go your way.
You’re afraid you’re misreading the si... | ['Relationships', 'Love', 'Self', 'Self Improvement', 'Life Lessons'] |
The Extremely Racist History Behind Menthol Cigarettes
Its marketization towards Black Americans
Menthol crystals that Lloyd “Spud” Hughes infused his tobacco with in 1925 | Image source: Wikimedia
Tobacco cigarettes have been a part of the American culture for over ninety years, specifically branded menthols. Along... | ['Racism', 'History', 'Business', 'America', 'Culture'] |
It’s called Ampersand the first ultra-Orthodox coworking space in Israel, which is set to open soon in Bnei Brak, the ultra-Orthodox suburb of Tel Aviv.
Ampersand was established by KamaTech, a nonprofit organization with the goal to integrate Israel’s ultra-Orthodox population into its technology industry. This new c... | ['Ethics', 'Israel', 'Coworking', 'Orthodox Judaism', 'Jef'] |
An engaged media watching audience
Imagine creating an entire twenty-episode TV series but having dismal viewership. Furthermore, an even worse scenario is to face your hard work getting lost in today’s saturated content shuffle and never finding its way to an audience. With other streaming platforms set to release a ... | ['Entertainment', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Media'] |
Photo by Yann Lerjen on Unsplash
Soul
A major difference between Hinduism and Buddhism is the belief, or lack of belief, in a soul. Hinduism believes in the concept of a soul. Depending on the particular Hindu school investigated, this is either an individual soul or self called atman, or a universal soul or cosmic s... | ['Philosophy', 'Spirituality', 'Buddhism', 'Hinduism', 'Religion'] |
This story has been published in 2018 and updated in May 2019.
Why today?
We couldn’t think of a better day to introduce our project and what we have been up to. Thursday July 19th marks the day that an anonymous developer by the handle of “Tom Elvis Jedusor” first proposed the possibility of an elegant cryptographic... | ['Finance', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Ethereum', 'Bitcoin'] |
Photo by Aniket Bhattacharya on Unsplash
Nuxt.js is an app framework that’s based on Vue.js.
We can use it to create server-side rendered apps and static sites.
In this article, we’ll look at how to add error pages, get async data, and get request data with Nuxt.js.
Error Page
We can add an error page to our Nuxt ... | ['JavaScript', 'Web Development', 'Software Development', 'Technology', 'Programming'] |
Beginning and Ending
Chalkboard one line poem prompt for Dec. 9 2020: Advent
Image by the author
The advent of happiness, hope
The end of sadness, despair
Creeping upon me
Two sides of a coin
Or two halves of a whole?
Your Turn —
THEME: Advent
Share your own one-line poem (16 to 30 words) or a Chalkboard Espr... | ['Poetry', 'Beginning', 'Advent', 'One Line Poetry Prompt', 'Ending'] |
I adore Hebrew Bible scholar and Methodist preacher Margaret Barker’s temple theology. Despite criticisms of Barker as a historian, she is a powerful theologian and preacher. A Methodist drawing on the great insights and temple-rooted traditions of Eastern Orthodoxy, Barker outlines not only a vision of the universe, b... | ['Christianity', 'Jesus', 'Margaret Barker', 'Theology', 'Religion'] |
The magic of leadership: beyond the illusion
Lessons leaders can learn from magicians on how to make the impossible possible.
Lyndon Rego
Unsplash
Leadership is not a science. It is more of an art. It is also about magic, the magic of doing things that seem impossible. Magic is very much on my mind. I just attended... | ['Management And Leadership', 'Xcelerator', 'Leadership Development', 'Leadership', 'CEO'] |
The MetaCert Protocol White Paper: Token Mechanics
This section covers Token mechanics, validation fees, Token use, and an improved brand verification process.
Download a PDF version of the White Paper
Contents
Clicking on each heading will take you that section’s medium post.
1. Index
2. Introduction
3. The Met... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Security', 'Cybersecurity', 'Bitcoin'] |
I am done being diplomatic. It has not gotten us anywhere except more pain and suffering. This message is for Nancy Pelosi, Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, Chuck Schumer, Lindsey Graham, and all other current political leaders in the United States. Shame on you.
You sit in your ivory towers, benefiting from your taxpay... | ['Elections', 'Government', 'Election 2020', 'Politics', 'Leadership'] |
Epictetus vs Jesus on Figs
The Difference Between Philosophy and Religion
Jesus and Epictetus had different attitudes about figs
The relationship between philosophies of life and religion is a complex one. I have argued on another occasion that they are not the same, primarily because one relies (mostly) on reason a... | ['Philosophy', 'Stoicism', 'Jesus', 'Religion', 'Epictetus'] |
“I want you to be wet and throbbing in my mouth,” he texted. Yowzer. I was tingling. He’d made similar professions before, but this was the hottest.
I let the thought marinate, and boy did it ever! Right where I “live,” so to speak. And not for the first time, I pondered the mystery of “mental attraction.” One that is... | ['Relationships', 'Sex', 'Sexual Attraction', 'Truth', 'Sexting'] |
First thing in the morning: a glass of water and a cartoon by The Fluxus.
Follow | ['Humor', 'Friday', 'Cartoon', 'Comics', 'Illustration'] |
Trump’s defense team concludes opening arguments. What’s next?
This appeared in The Millennial Source
President Donald Trump’s defense team wrapped up their opening arguments in the Senate impeachment trial on Tuesday. Their argument, spooled out over three days, is that Trump was justified in his actions and that im... | ['World', 'Government', 'Impeachment', 'Trump', 'News'] |
Poet’s Note
I have written more haiku about time travel than any normal person would ever dream of. Of course, I passed that mark the moment I wrote my first-time travel haiku.
Time is an obsession of mine. It’s our true currency — and it’s the ultimate scarce resource. I believe that being on time for things is a wa... | ['Time Travel', 'Fiction', 'Haiku', 'Poetry', 'Weird'] |
‘Genius in a Bottle’ Prompted Writing Challenge
Something Fishy
GiaB writing prompt #9
Photo by solarseven on Shutterstock
“Thirsty for our blood”,
‘sadist’ sharks stalk the seas. Shame,
they’re misunderstood.
The blue world, which gave rise to the green one, is the origin of life itself. It birthed the land we ... | ['Haiku', 'Writing Challenge', 'Archived Prompts', 'Poetry', 'Giabprompt'] |
Prerequisites for the Blog
Having a basic understanding of the Workflow of making Flutter Apps & an inquisitive mind is more than enough to follow the blog 😃
Getting Started
Let us configure our system in order to create a flutter project with Web Support.
Requirements:
Flutter SDK. Check out this link for Flutte... | ['Website', 'Github Pages', 'Web App Development', 'Flutter'] |
Robinhood to the rescue
Issue: 021
News:
The battle for cryptocurrency exchanges heats up this week as Robinhood brings much needed competition to the on/off ramp market between fiat and cryptocurrencies. The company is adding a zero fee trading and tracking platform to customers as people look for alternatives. Whi... | ['Robinhood', 'Mining', 'Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'Newsletter'] |
Nothing defines a group of people more than its culture. More than anything else, culture shapes what it feels like to be a part of that group. “Culture” is an expansive concept, and can include everything from the most foundational beliefs and major ceremonies of a group, to the most mundane little details of daily li... | ['Company Culture', 'DevOps', 'QA', 'Guild Education', 'Security'] |
The First Woman to Run for President of the United States
Victoria Woodhull for President, Frederick Douglass for Vice-President
Victoria Woodhull (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2035974347/the-coming-woman-feature-documentary)
In 1872, the United States held the 22nd Presidential Election. The primary contend... | ['History', 'President', 'USA', 'Feminism', 'Blm'] |
Comics Do Matter, Bill Maher.
You just lack a framework for understanding why. Let me help.
With Uncle Stan interred, I begin the final phase of my life.
Comics were my first introduction into the idea of the fantastic. They were the first time I could see something that appeared in my imagination, regularly. Create... | ['Superheroes', 'Open Letter', 'Comics', 'Bill Maher', 'Stan Lee'] |
“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language.” ― Haruki Murakami
About a year ago, I was having a quick conversation with someone I had never met before, and this person saw my tattoos. I’m not covered in them, but I have a few which are visible if I’m wearing a shirt which has shorter sleeves.
... | ['This Happened To Me', 'Life Lessons', 'Life', 'Self Improvement', 'Inspiration'] |
From his viral anti-racist YouTube music video, “Ching Chong: Asians in the Library Song” staged as a reaction to an offensive vlog, to starring in Disney’s upcoming live-action version of “Mulan” with an all-Asian cast, Jimmy Wong has built a career on Asian representation — his work, as he describes, is the “antithes... | ['Mulan', 'The Chinese Virus', 'Jimmy Wong', 'Asian American', 'Interview'] |
The Jewish experience of Diaspora necessitated the creation of homes beyond the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael), locales often linked in multiplicity via communal migrations like those of the Bialystokers. The decimation of Jewish Białystok and the Synagogue’s communal shift represent the great fragility of community fo... | ['Judaism', 'History', 'Religion', 'Photography', 'Poland'] |
The EU games market is worth €21 billion, according to new data from the Interactive Software Federation of Europe (ISFE).
ISFE chairman Olaf Coenen said: “With a historic turnover of €21 billion in 2018, the video games sector is making a major contribution to Europe’s digital future.”
He added: “The industry’s trac... | ['Media', 'Gaming', 'Technology', 'Games', 'Entertainment'] |
We reap now our own desperate heritage as white people who have yet to come to terms with the darkness of our ancestors and our present self.
We need THE conversation to begin, which means white people talking to white people about their own racism. For, as with all remarkable change, once this conversation does begin... | ['Life', 'White Privilege', 'Equality', 'Politics', 'Racism'] |
Confessions of a People Pleaser
I want you to like me, but I probably won’t like you for long
Photo by Fillipe Gomes from Pexels
Trigger warning: This post talks about co-dependant relationships between narcissists and people pleasers.
I’ve known for a very long time that I’m a people pleaser. But it is only recent... | ['Personal Development', 'Personal Growth', 'Life Lessons', 'Codependency', 'Women'] |
This brings me to the biggest question that I’ve been considering since I began this project:
Why don’t more people know about Du Bois’s data visualizations?
The story of “The Exhibit of American Negroes” is both inspiring in its brilliance and originality, and tragic in its overlooked state — barely even a footnote ... | ['Data Visualization', 'History', 'African American', 'Dvhistory', 'BlackLivesMatter'] |
I’m going to be rich. Don’t laugh, this is a slam dunk. I don’t even need to publish a best seller or start a company. What’s more, I’ll let you in on a secret. You, too, can avail yourself of this potential windfall.
The beginning of my ride to riches occurred in the summer of 2013, on what started out as an ordinary... | ['Humor', 'Satire', 'Lawsuit', 'Humour', 'Food'] |
When the pandemic ends? Who will you be? What will your life be like? What will you bring with you? What will you leave behind? What will change and what will remain the same?
Will you still paint everyday to relieve the stress or because you have time but never realized it?
Will you be weary of urban centers or will... | ['Perspective', 'Wisdom', 'Learning', 'Who Are You', 'Covid 19'] |
Cheat Sheet: A Full-Stack Project in Docker
How to dockerize your PostgreSQL + ASP.Net server + Angular client
Introduction
Docker came to us from the Linux world, that’s why sometimes developers, that are used to work with Windows platforms (like me) have some difficulties configuring Docker with their code. I wish... | ['Postgresql', 'Angular', 'Containerization', 'Docker', 'Aspnet'] |
Over the weekend I have been thinking a lot about what happens next, as we come out of Level 5, and whether we might be able to live safely with the virus, rather than bounce in and out of further lockdowns. Let’s face it, we have not been doing so well to date, and the economic and social costs are mounting to say the... | ['Covid 19', 'Covid App', 'Cognitive Bias', 'Illusory Superiority'] |
ACT Distribution, a new Token and More
What next?
Dear Community,
Today our ACT-INR trading competition came to an end at 4:00 PM. It was our very first trading competition and we are overwhelmed with the love and support that our community has shown us.
You can check your rank on our website here.
ACT distributio... | ['Exchange', 'Dai', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Blockchain', 'Listings'] |
It is a brand new year and we are excited to present the first tennis data storytelling challenge! This was originally a competition due August 15th, and there were ~40 people signed up but no one submitted an article. Therefore, I will now open this up as a “prompt request.”
The Challenge
Click the image for the cha... | ['Write For Us', 'Patterns Of Play', 'Data Visualization', 'Call For Submissions', 'Tennis'] |
I was raised Catholic, and through the Church, I learned the foundations and importance of personal development. As a Catholic, I hold to the belief that God created us in His image and likeness. I reason that because God is The Creator, and we are in His image, we, therefore, must have the ability to ‘create’ within t... | ['Personal Development', 'Creators', 'Self Improvement', 'Lego', 'Character Development'] |
In this video, Peter Newell, impactChoice’s Director of Finance & Operations, demonstrates a practical use case of the CITEX (Climate Credit Issuing & Tracking Exchange). CITEX operates on a private permissioned blockchain and operates in much the same manner as the soon to be launched Natural Asset Exchange (NAE) whic... | ['Blockchain', 'Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'Cryptocurrency', 'Climate Change'] |
Running tests in a randomized order also means our system under test (SUT) should also be isolated from its dependencies, we can follow up the techniques described on the previous principle.
On the other hand, each time we create a Unit Test (highlighting Unit) we should follow the rule of the 3A’s, Arrange, Act and A... | ['iOS App Development', 'Swift Programming', 'Programming', 'Unit Testing', 'Software Development'] |
(In this series, we’re taking a look at the Christmas story through the lens of songs. If you missed any, you can catch up on Part I & Part II.)
I have some ambivalence about the next Christmas song on our list. I love the lyrics, but the song itself can be somewhat annoying in practice. (Is that bad to say???)
The s... | ['Christmas', 'Jesus', 'Religion', 'Christmas Music', 'Spirituality'] |
Today we are pleased to announce we are open sourcing a tool that we have found useful for simplifying Ethereum development. We hope you like it.
Meet poke
What is Poke?
poke dynamically generates a command-line interface at runtime for your smart contracts. We know that doesn’t sound sexy, but hold on a minute…
Yo... | ['Ethereum', 'Software Development', 'Cli', 'Updates', 'Stable Coin'] |
Mourning 2020
2020 is dead; Long live something better. Please?
I find myself quoting Shakespeare a lot lately, and I’m probably not the only one.
Whether it’s the Bard, the Bible, or your Bubbie, everyone needs wisdom these days.
What We Are Mourning
When the pandemic started, there was a spate of articles about ... | ['Authenticity', 'Grief', 'Covid 19', 'Self Improvement', 'New Year'] |
Planning a direction to go in the future demands imagination and wisdom. Whether it’s making a five-year plan for your career or deciding what to buy for dinner tonight, it becomes a decisive moment of honest evaluation. Where am I now? What path should I take in order to end up _______? Evaluation of the long-term goa... | ['Workshop Facilitation', 'Design Workshop', 'User Experience', 'Product Design', 'Design Collaboration'] |
Transitioning is weird. As I’ve come to understand it over the last several months, transitioning, means something different to every individual.
There are four different types of gender-related transitions that I can confidently name: social transitions that may involve a name or pronoun change, physical transitions ... | ['Self', 'Creative Non Fiction', 'LGBTQ', 'Culture', 'Transgender'] |
The story began in Spring 2019. One of our friends from CCF, who we both knew to be a very passionate individual, suddenly stopped coming to CCF that term. We noticed it throughout the four months, but it wasn’t until we were reaching the end of exams that we decided to reach out to them.
Two weeks later, we finally g... | ['Christianity', 'Intentionality'] |
Productively teaching black children about colorism
When I found out my cousin favored light-skinned women
“I only like light-skinned girls with long hair and light eyes,” my cousin told me while he munched on McDonald’s.
Photo credit: Marlon Schmeiski/Pexels
Up until that moment, I’d only been plotting three goals... | ['Black Women', 'Race', 'Motherhood', 'Colorism', 'Racism'] |
Mixed-Race Musings
Re-inspired by Mariah Carey’s and Lenny Kravitz’s healing and validating autobiographies — and why I love Barack Obama
I’m currently (and excitedly) working on a story to perform for The Moth. The story below was my initial direction, but we decided to try something different. Still, this piece mea... | ['Identity', 'Mixed Race'] |
One important skill for a Product Manager is the ability to sell your innovations within your organization. Yes, you did user research. Yes, you have data to back your hypothesis. But how do you build a coalition around your idea so it has the legs to launch? A lot of dynamics play into this; one of which is working wi... | ['Product Strategy', 'Product Management', 'Core Competency', 'Go To Market', 'Covid 19'] |
The Circle Of Light. Picture, @hborgespics
“After a Circle experience, nothing around you has really changed, but the person who walks out of that space is a different one altogether, and that my friends, makes all the difference.”
Going Down
Today is Saturday, and I woke up in a down mood. Some would say that I sho... | ['Insights'] |
In this post, I want to convince you that it’s incredibly easy to issue your own tokens on Ethereum. To this end, I will write a simple token contract in Solidity(one of the programming languages to write smart contracts on Ethereum).
I will briefly explain what a token contract is first, and then demonstrate how to i... | ['Erc20', 'Ethereum', 'ICO', 'Blockchain', 'Solidity'] |
KADAK is a collective of South Asian women who work with graphic storytelling of different kinds. 'Kadak' means strong, severe, sharp - like our tea.
Follow | ['Alonebutnotlonely', 'Single', 'India', 'Documentary', 'Women'] |
Understanding Distributions using R
Basics of distributions in R as a pre-requisite to data visualization
How do you communicate data-driven findings?
Data Visualizations!
There are various tools to achieve this and this article will be speaking of one such tool — R.
But even before we can start with visualizing d... | ['Normal Distribution', 'Data Science', 'R'] |
Joe Biden Did It! The Era of Divisive Politics is Over! TaraElla Follow Nov 7 · 3 min read
Welcome back to TaraElla TV. The news is in: Joe Biden has been declared the winner of the 2020 US Presidential election by basically all the major media outlets. Congratulations are streaming in from around the world, from lead... | ['2020 Presidential Race', 'Politics', 'Joe Biden'] |
Image originally appeared on EAWorldView
Attorney General William Barr’s letter to Congress summarizing the findings of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month long investigation into Russian interference during the 2016 election and whether the President’s subsequent actions constituted obstruction of justice made ... | ['Politics', 'Justice', 'Trump', 'Russia', 'Elections'] |
The Remnant of Ash
Poems From The Porch
photo by Niklas Tidbury on Unsplash.com
It is not the Autumn leaves that are gliding gently to the earth this morning,
but white wisps of ash floating upward to the heavens.
Eventually settling,
they land silently, like snow that later melts away.
The crackling of the fire... | ['Personal Growth', 'Mindfulness', 'Metaphysics', 'Spirituality', 'Poetry'] |
Half Drag
Photographing New York City’s drag queens at the intersection of their identities.
The premise of Half Drag is simple. Photographer Leland Bobbé’s striking, gender-bending photo series captures New York City drag queens with half of their faces done up in full regalia, the other half au naturel. The result,... | ['Representation', 'Nonbinary', 'LGBTQ', 'Drag', 'Queen'] |
Everything EOS Podcast #3: Major Announcements, Latest Partnerships, and Dawn 3.0
A recap of the April 6 EOS Live Stream from Hong Kong and Other Developments
Disclaimer: ICO Alert does not endorse or recommend participating in any initial coin offerings, including EOS. ICO Alert does not receive any compensation for... | ['Technology', 'Venture Capital', 'Podcast', 'Blockchain', 'Hackathons'] |
Although I initially thought we would have more than one month to select children for this year’s admission to the Carmel Convent School, our timeline has been shortened dramatically. Over the next few days, we will search for, gather, examine, select, register, enroll, and begin preparing fifteen 3.5 to 4.5-year-old g... | ['Education', 'Charity', 'Squalor To Scholar'] |
Learning Web Standards
In How to Write HTML, Part 2: Understanding Tags, we touched on the basic functionality of tags and how they serve to format on page content relationships along with the look and feel of that content.
As noted:
“A tag is the basic bedrock principle of HTML. It is the building block tool which ... | ['Coding', 'HTML', 'Web Design', 'CSS', 'Web Development'] |
When politicians are engaged in a fierce campaign competition against their political opposition in a fight to career death, they go ahead and reach for the stars. There is a very good reason for this.
Voters love that sort of thing, as any politician worth his salt knows.
Millions of people play the lottery, after a... | ['Politics', 'Republican Party', 'Election 2020', 'Trump', 'Democrats'] |
However, as this happens, the GOP won’t actually be able to hold onto the essence of the Trump base, the way Trump did. Trump lost the election he once won, for the same reason. He was Donald Trump- a message that never betrayed his voters. The next candidate will be a lot less vulnerable to ad-hom’s. They’ll have to c... | ['Data', 'Politics', '2024 Elections', 'Technology', 'Elections'] |
Day 1: Bee Resilient — Michael Cohen
#HiveSketch by Tisha
We know the Tech Rabbi, Michael Cohen, as a top influencer and ISTE keynote speaker. He kicked off the Hive Summit by saying that teachers are all designers of space, learning, lessons, and support. The idea that there is a real craft to teaching is exciting t... | ['Professional Development', 'Education', 'Sketchnote', 'Reflections', 'Teaching And Le'] |
The case for accessibility
by Laura Carvajal
At the Financial Times we’ve recently released a new version of our website, FT.com. “Next FT”, as we’ve come to know it, is now the default experience for our users, and so far it’s proving to be a great one: It’s faster, it’s nicer, it’s better; a success across the boar... | ['Project', 'Feedback', 'Accessibility', 'A11y', 'Build'] |
Syntropy
It is amazing that this has been up for years with but 1800 or so views. Syntropy is a natural intuition by anyone who reflects on things whether aware of consciousness as a term or not. Entropy has always been an offense to intellect, not because it is not real but because it is only part of reality. Yet it ... | ['Consciousness', 'Philosophy', 'Entropy', 'Life', 'Syntropy'] |
Merry Christmas and the Happiest of New Year’s to all my friends here on Medium and around the world.
Many of these decorations were my mother’s, I am so hopelessly proud to still feel her elegance around me when I display them. | ['Christmas', 'Holidays', 'Photos', 'Chance Encounters', 'Memories'] |
The challenge
One of my former employers once asked me to visualize psychometric test results of leaders who were going to attend one of our workshops. Proud of my statistical knowledge, I have created a Boxplot which he printed out and come to me wondering: “Hannah, thanks for creating this, but what is it? Is this a... | ['Data Science', 'Data Storytelling', 'Surveys', 'Likert Scale', 'Data Visualization'] |
Looking to add some funny to your feed? Follow this page for new cartoons every week.
Follow | ['Comics', 'Relationships', 'Dating', 'Humor', 'Funny'] |
Snowflake’s IPO and the Data Blizzard
👉 Find more of this analysis at The Generalist.
Snowflake in 1 minute
Since its founding in 2012, Snowflake has grown into a leader in the cloud data warehousing space. The company’s intuitive solution makes it easy to run analytical queries with a customer-aligned billing mode... | ['Investing', 'Stock Market', 'Data', 'Warren Buffett', 'Technology'] |
For the last few weeks, we have been working on bringing back a seamless trading experience to Indian cryptocurrencies environment. 5 days ago, we announced the listing of Zilliqa and 0x tokens. We have received a huge response from the community and we are very thankful for the trust that you have in us.
Today, we ar... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Android', 'Crypto', 'Bitcoin', 'Blockchain'] |
Stories coming from mainstream press about Black and White life in the Midwest often get distorted. Decades of industrial decline and the war on drugs helped shape these narratives. But drug addiction didn’t start when Donald Trump was elected; neither did White economic anxiety. The economic downturn in Northeast Ohio... | ['Black In The Midwest', 'Midwest', 'Rust Belt', 'Women', 'Racism'] |
Over the last couple of years the innovative tools that has emerged around big data technologies were immense. Each tool has its own merits and demerits. Each tool need fair amount of expertise and infrastructure management since it is going to deal with large amount of data. One architecture philosophy I always like i... | ['Cloudera', 'Apache Mahout', 'Avro', 'Enterprise Data', 'Apache Spark'] |
Learn about peacebuilding and other interfaith groups on December 16. The United Religions Initiative (URI), a worldwide consortium of more than a thousand peacebuilding and other interfaith groups, is celebrating its new Cooperation Circles (CCs) over Zoom on December 16. One is a group I maintain, Quora’s Israel-Pale... | ['Peace', 'Cooperation', 'Peacebuilding', 'Religion', 'International Relations'] |
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt argues in The Righteous Mind that liberals and conservatives form different tribes because their values are different. Haidt and some fellow psychologists identify five fundamental values a person can have, and it turns out, they say, that liberals have a narrow set of primary concern... | ['America', 'Politics', 'Philosophy', 'Donald Trump', 'Conservatives'] |
Photo by Ferenc Horvath on Unsplash
“Our company is Agile”. “We’re doing Scrum”. “We’re looking for an Agile Project Manager”. You can hear those more and more often. But what does it actually mean?
The rising popularity of Agile
A simple way to show the rising popularity of Agile is to look at google trends.
If we... | ['Scrum', 'Agile', 'Management', 'Product Management', 'Business'] |
Why Are So Many 43-Year-Old White Men Having Zero Sex?
— NYMag
How 43-Year-Old White Men Are Ruining The Workforce
— Philly Mag
Proof That Fancy Job Perks Can’t Keep 43-Year-Old White Men Happy
— Fortune
Why Are So Many 43-Year-Old White Men Having Children Out Of Wedlock?
— The Atlantic
The Hot New 43-Year-Old... | ['Humor', 'Tech', 'Millennials', 'News', 'Men'] |
Glimpses of a Latina Woman Working in Tech in NYC
Excerpts from my novel, Trust & Safety.
Free booze. Glass ceiling. Photo by Michael Discenza on Unsplash
Daria sucked her teeth and searched for the following keywords:
Dealbreaker
Deal breaker
Opposites
Five
Kim, a product manger, had a 23-year-old intern named... | ['Tech', 'Humor', 'Fiction', 'Short Story', 'Book Excerpts'] |
Sister Cordelia joined the order of the Poor Clares not so much to escape the world, as to find a quiet corner to reach a state of enlightenment, or what the Buddhists termed, Nirvana. She would be able to eliminate the day to day distractions of desire for the material world and all that it encompassed. She came from ... | ['Short Story', 'Christmas', 'Fiction', 'Mystery', 'Lit'] |
Is This How Life is Supposed to Work?
I couldn’t tell from the manual
I’m getting real tired of trying to get Life to work right, and I’ll bet you are too. So I complained to the Management.
Everybody assumes this Life thing is the best thing ever. It’s a powerhouse product; a gamechanger. It provides us with sunshi... | ['Humor', 'Philosophy', 'Satire', 'Life', 'Life Lessons'] |
3 things we learned from the “Biotech & Climate” Investor Panel SOSV Follow Sep 30 · 4 min read
Last week IndieBio was proud to host three top biotech and climate investors to a panel as part of our event series. This one has focused on the trends and opportunities that the pandemic has brought these past few months, ... | ['Venture Capital', 'Investors', 'Climate', 'Biotech'] |
KTI Trading is expanding professional collective & has agreed with different teams around the world to further improve the quality of information regarding fundamental sense, technical excellence, personal support & customer service!
KTI New customer service: t.me/kticustomerservice or kticustomerservice@gmail.com
Re... | ['Trading', 'Kti', 'Rebrand', 'Signals', 'Cryptocurrency'] |
NLP: Text Processing In Data Science Projects
Learn The Data Science Techniques To Process Text To Use For NLP Projects In Python
Once we have gathered the text, the next stage is about cleaning and consolidating the text. It is important to ensure the text is standardised, the noise is removed so that efficient anal... | ['NLP', 'Technology', 'Programming', 'Fintech', 'Data Science'] |
As a technologist, you’re unconsciously trained to segment people into personas and groups based on their behavior or demographics. Segmentation allows for personalization, and personalization is what the layman can and should expect. Technology should meet an individual where they are in their user journey: I co-sign ... | ['Programming', 'Tech Ethics', 'Diversity In Tech', 'Diversity', 'Ethics'] |
Sometimes I wish that I could get enough
of you, your laugh, your hands, your voice, your skin,
that I could feel the wind blow twice as rough
and not demand a stronger gust begin.
But as it stands, this fervor charges forth
toward unforeseen, inevitable ends.
My south has now disguised itself as north,
and ever... | ['Poetry', 'Love', 'Sonnet', 'Passion', 'Poem'] |
In October, I had the opportunity to attend a pretty sweet conference (bet you never heard the words ‘pretty sweet’ and ‘conference’ next to each other) — Women Leaders in Global Health. Stanford University hosted 390 women and 20 (very brave) men from 68 countries to celebrate women in global health leadership positio... | ['Data', 'Gender Equality', 'Technology', 'Global Health'] |
Articles That Touched a Nerve
Will they affect you?
Image per author
These are a few of my articles that seemed to touch a nerve.
I am just tired of pretending to be happy.
Just Fuck IT-itus.
Ready to call it a day and be real.
When a cookie is NOT better than sex.
I don’t care what food group, it’s a no braine... | ['Sexuality', 'Infidelity', 'Love And Sex', 'Cheating', 'Affairs'] |
The following is an example where he was physically abusive towards her in her own words!
“I’ve got one set of photos when he had hit me so much on the head -my lips were bleeding, my ears were bleeding, and he had twisted my wrist so badly. All of that greatly affected me, and now I’ve got memory loss. I can’t rememb... | ['Womens Rights', 'Crime', 'Feminism', 'Injustice', 'Women'] |
Atheism and Godlessness
When new atheism was a thing (a fad), Richard Dawkins liked to say that atheists merely go one step further than Christians, Muslims, or any other religious people, since the latter reject all gods and religions but theirs. The atheist rejects all of those too, plus the gods of the last religio... | ['America', 'Philosophy', 'Liberalism', 'Atheism', 'Religion'] |
Poet’s Note
I’ve never gotten too old for fairy tales. I hope my children never do either. I’ve been bugging my older children to read Michael Chabon’s Summerland. I know they’d love it. But, they’re at the age where all parental recommendations are considered suspect.
I started listening to the audiobook version wit... | ['Poetry', 'Flash Fiction', 'Haiku', 'Fiction', 'Fairy Tale'] |
Thee Quest loves to share moments with others. We are a publication that loves to highlight people’s lives during their Quest.
We all have a story and some of us need to tell others. Thee Quest is the place to share with others how we feel.
On coming To Terms With Being Trans is all about Abbie. It is her story as sh... | ['Theequest', 'LGBTQ', 'Autobiography', 'Love', 'Transgender'] |
Over the next four years, my brother and I visit my father in Berkeley on the weekends. The three of us often trip together.
Sometimes we’ll play ping-pong, my brother and I marveling at my dad’s capacity to consistently kick our asses. Sometimes we’ll watch his favorite Marlon Brando movies and Muhammad Ali fights, m... | ['Family', 'Lsd', 'Arab Spring', 'Acid', 'Egypt'] |
What you need:
Load Balancer that you want to have HTTPS enabled
Some workload, backend or website that should receive HTTPS traffic
A domain that you want to secure. The DNS entry for the domain must already be set up to point to the Load Balancer's external IP address.
Steps to a managed certificate:
Please read... | ['Https', 'Certificate', 'Google Cloud', 'Load Balancing', 'Gcp'] |
What I learned after making a game as a gift for one person
With that one stranger in mind, I set out on an adventure to create the perfect personalized game
During the holidays, I was inspired to create a game as a gift for a stranger, based on a design principle from a prominent game developer.
Hit mobile game “Cr... | ['User Experience', 'Gaming', 'Game Development', 'Game Design', 'Unity Game Development'] |
Why can’t we call length on an Object
You might be wondering why can’t we just simply call length directly on our object. Let’s see what happens when we do:
const object = {one: '1️⃣', two: '2️⃣'}; object.length; // undefined object.hasOwnProperty('length'); // false
You can’t do it because object doesn't have a len... | ['Programming', 'Javascript Tips', 'Front End Development', 'JavaScript', 'Web Development'] |
(First Published on the Rittman Analytics Blog, 8th May 2019)
As well as creating modern BI stack analytics solutions for clients such as Florence, Let’s Do This and Colourpop using technologies from our partners at Looker, Stitch, Segment, Fivetran and Snowflake, it’s probably no surprise that we’ve used those same t... | ['Looker', 'Analytics', 'Dbt', 'Snowflake', 'Bigquery'] |
Things you will need
A free pushover account: https://pushover.net/ . Setup your account and create a new application token to use for this Drive Space monitor. Its super easy and they walk you through the process. The free SSL library files: https://indy.fulgan.com/SSL/ Know how to use Delphi and create projects
Cre... | ['Push Notification', 'Delphi'] |
Welcome to the first issue of The Story of Data. This is where we help you level up your data communication skills with learning resources and inspiration.
Resources
How to make visual, data-driven essays
The Pudding is an award-winning data journalism publication and they created this guide about approaching the de... | ['Inspiration', 'Data Science', 'Data Visualization'] |
MySpace has Millions More Daily Active Users than Cryptokitties
While there is a record number of blockchain jobs out there (check out our upcoming and previous jobs Keys!) there is still a lag in the actual implementation of blockchain use cases. A lot of these hires may be subjected to a “wait and see” approach so c... | ['Cryptocurrency', 'Bitcoin', 'Ethereum', 'Tech', 'Blockchain'] |
Benchmark will aim to get our BMK tokens listed on as many exchanges as possible. However, one of the first sites where BMK tokens will be listed is Bancor.
A cryptocurrency exchange is a digital marketplace where you can exchange one cryptocurrency for another cryptocurrency or for fiat (currency that a government ha... | ['ICO', 'Ico Review', 'Ethereum', 'Bancor', 'Bitcoin'] |
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