Just interesting news to me.
This is another example about too much relying on a single entity. I would prefer a peer to peer video platform like https://peer.tube/ and ask for money like patreon for support. I think people will donate happily to good content. There is no need for a middlemen to get a cut on creators revenue.
“…Stefan Molyneux, received more than $100,000 in cryptocurrency donations after he was banned from Youtube on June 29, 2020. ”
This is a good lesson for people who use cryptos to only transfer fiat money from one place to another. One can’t rely on something that is controlled by another (ie: fiat money). It is best to leave it in cryptos IMO.
“Governments in nearly 100 countries have been sharing offshore bank account information…”
news.bitcoin.com/11-trillion-offshore-assets-100-countries-84-million-bank-accounts/
COVID19 is real, everything around it is questionable like usual. This is a very good analysis of the surrounding of that phenomenon in Canada.
“…being the 153rd anniversary of Confederation, I would like to follow Laurier’s example, exercising my freedom to question and my duty to preserve our civil liberties. ”
and
“Why are we Including “Probable” Cases of COVID in the Official Figures?” ”
www.sott.net/article/437417-COVID-deaths-in-Canada-A-questionable-statistic
Interesting to me because I think I was born left handed and then “forced” to use my right hand when learning to write. I use my right hand to write but mostly my left hand to do everything else, specially in sports like golf or baseball or hockey. This next text is mostly debunking the myth that military leaders are best with the left hand.
“While there may (or may not) be some truth to the claim, it is a mistake to make a rule out of such anecdotal evidence and cherry-picked data. ”
Apparently left-handed people would get electrical stimulation on the wrong side of the brain when getting therapy about depression and recalcitrant anxiety. Their emotion brain hemispheres seems to be reversed.
“Treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent of the population, according to a radical new model…”
www.sott.net/article/388735-Why-being-left-handed-matters-for-treatment-of-mental-health-problems
I like Benjamin Franklin a lot. His experiment with a kite and electricity inspired me, when I was 16 to get a kite flying during an electrical storm and drive a lightning into a specific spot on the ground where I previously stocked some charcoal. The idea was to transform that form of carbon to diamonds under the great pressure and temperature attain with the lightning. It fails, but it was a great adventure and a lot of fun.
“Many Canadians (and Americans) find themselves shocked when confronted with the fact that Canada’s first postal service and first newspaper were both created by… Benjamin Franklin!”
http://canadianpatriot.org/why-canada-failed-the-ben-franklin-challenge-in-1776/
Interesting article about the birth of vim and “line” editors. I am a vim fan. Besides punch cards in my early programming, I used TECO which was very cryptic but I was able to adapt quickly to ed, ex, vi and finally vim. Some people prefer emacs but it did not pass my first test of a nice program so I remained with vi and vim.
I do not like to be hijacked by any software, so my first step is to check how easy it is to get out of the program. I should be able to get out in less that 2-3 keystrokes or 2-3 clicks. If so, it indicates a good design to me.
“What I am trying to say that vim is an effort of over half a century of good idea accumulation, putting lots of effort into being backward compatible.”
https://pragmaticpineapple.com/how-did-vim-become-so-popular/
I think their device is a LED flashlight with a dark red filter. The visual spectrum is normally around 380-740nm, so their technique stand at right about the edge of out spectrum. Maybe that is why it is ‘exercising’ the eyes.
“Researchers found the 670nm light had no impact in younger individuals, but in those around 40 years and over, significant improvements were obtained.”
https://www.sott.net/article/437352-Declining-eyesight-improved-by-looking-at-deep-red-light
It will be nice to follow up on this and see how they will resolve that. I always feel there is too much fuss and tyranny over Intellectual Property. I think it protects the middleman more that the creator. Even property in itself is hard to justify in the absence of extensive agriculture. Hunting territories are a different kind of ‘properties” than farms.
“The EFF has revealed it is teaming up with law firm Durie Tangri to defend the Internet Archive against a lawsuit targeting its Open Library. According to court filings,…”