Thread Pt 3 Who is Prometheus?

1. In Greek mythology, Prometheus, is a Titan of fire. Prometheus is a culture hero & trickster figure who is credited with the creation of humanity from clay, and who defies the gods by stealing fire and giving it to humanity as civilization.

Would anyone like to admit why he cc'd himself in an email Wei Dai would see at ibiblio's host address? I have a few ideas.

was the .ae ccTLD a nod to Tim Berners-Lee/registries that issue top level country code domains? Is that why Tel Aviv is a place I commonly find OTC/Bitcoin related companies and DAC/dev protocols and operations based? Why UAE/Israel have opened commerce bilaterally in 2020?

Bitcoin is worldwide P2P software and growing into a network of the same ilk, what it can send without interference we can't even grasp yet. Even if you don't like another person, or their religious beliefs, bitcoin doesn't care. I lived through 9/11, my friends died in war.

But even I don't want Bitcoin just for the people I am more likely to have similarities too. And in working with the @_Devcoin guys for a few years now, officially since 2020 - I realized people from all spots on this globe and I share much more in common than everyday Americans.

And I haven't turned my back or spurned Americans either. I'm just saying we need to change our mindset. We want things but we won't admit it takes a whole world to pull off what it is we seek. The media is to blame for this but I also think we're at the point for grownups to act

An Interrupted Dawn

A fresh sadness has cast its cold shadow over me. It caught me by surprise but not because I’m unaccustomed to flickering light. I’m too old to be unaccustomed to such common things. I’m not afraid. Just surprised. Surprised because I thought it was morning.

2020 was such a dark year. Like you, no doubt, the global darkness of the pandemic fell like a lead blanket over a personal season that would also throw a wool shawl over my man & me. Our 2 kids did just what they we’re supposed to do. They grew up. To our great fortune, we still

got to live a lot of family life. The halls of our house rang a constant ruckus. Grandchildren running, skating, cartwheeling, dancing, leaping, hiphopping, dog-ball-throwing, nerf gun launching. Adults eating, discussing, debating, arguing, discoursing and opining as Moores do.

Then the Lord moved one. Then the others. Moved them far away. I blame it entirely on the Lord because that’s how I can accept and embrace it as good. I know it was him because even I can look at it—at what he’s orchestrated for my people—& nod & say, Amen. So be it. It is well.

What he’d given Keith & me in having both our girls & their loves all these years was a gift, not a right. Amen. So be it. It is well. I hesitate to write this part because my girls will see it & I know they will hate it because they love their mother. So I’ll say it quickly like

For many years, I made a sincere effort to give everyone a fair shake. Just because someone associated with toxic people, I didn't automatically write them off. 1/10

But there comes a time, as we realise the impact that those toxic connections have on a much broader range of interactions, when we have to say, "Sorry... your association with toxic individuals is unacceptable and an indication of your tacit approval of their behaviour. 2/10

It's time for us to part company."
And I get it... There have been times when I tried to "tolerate" someone's behaviour, to maintain cordial business relationships myself.
But here's the thing... 3/10

🔥 Your on-going association with someone who is attacking members of our community without provocation, is endorsing their behaviour. 4/10

🔥 Endorsing someone who regularly takes advantage of others, for their personal financial benefit, and then stabs those who helped them in the back after their usefulness no longer remains viable is a tacit endorsement of that behaviour. 5/10

Rather than cheat on your spouse, the honourable thing to do is quit the marriage
I know many people would rather want to eat their cake and have it, in principle, people who do that are scums and cheats
Either you are the husband or the wife, you have a duty to yourself to stay

faithful to your spouse regardless of the circumstances or the situation you find yourself in
If the situation is such that you cannot cope with the relationship, the best thing to do is walk out and stay out.
A lady came to my office claiming her husband was a two minute man and

the lack of sexual satisfaction had almost driven her into the street in search of a lover
She hadn't done anything yet...
She was just considering it because of the frustration the quick ejaculation issue the husband has was causing her
She made sure she dragged her husband to

my office too
She had been talking to him about it and she really wanted him to take her serious on the issue so that they can address it
Her husband didn't form
He acknowledged that he had a challenge and had tried so much to address it to no avail
They have a daughter and the

husband was willing to do anything to keep his home
His openness and sincerity impressed me
Many men do not like to talk about their sexuality or deficiency in that area because they assume it belittles them
He was not like most men
I asked him a salient question that day
I said

Here is a tweetorial from our latest publication in @Annals_Oncology about longitudinal tracking of esophageal adenocarcinoma. #OesophagealCancer #EsophagealCancer https://t.co/QWvrzBXmK7 1/8

We sequenced 245 plasma samples from 97 patients with oesophageal adenocarcinoma using a 77 gene pan-cancer ctDNA panel. 2/8

Variants derived from previously characterised driver oesophageal adenocarcinoma genes had a significantly higher VAF than variants from other genes, indicating selection. 3/8

Peripheral blood cell samples were also sequenced for 78/97 patients. CHIP mutations were identified in 23% of cases, longitudinal tracking of CHIP variants suggested these variants were dynamic over time. 4/8

We found patients that were ctDNA positive post-surgery had a significantly poorer survival than ctDNA negative patients, and the elimination of CHIP variants improved the positive predictive value. 5/8

Jyothy Labs conducted their earnings con-call today at 3:00 PM

Here are the key highlights 😀👇

@drprashantmish6 @unseenvalue @proxy_investor @deepakshenoy

#concall

Sector Trend:
• Strong demand in Homecare and healthcare
• Institutional business has gradual comeback and now near to pre-covid level
• New launches: Exo All Surface Cleaner launched in South of India
• Media spent increased for more growth
• Market share has been improved

Business: Updates:
• A&P spend increased with growth in business segment.
• Segmental performance in image.
• Due to lower other expenses the EBIDA margins have seen growth insipte of increase in adv. cost.

Business segment:
• Mainwash segment has started doing better.
• Postwash segment is still constrain as school and office are closed. However there is gradual growth.
• Dishwash segment remain robust and company continuous to see good growth over diswash.

Sales Growth:
• Higher utlization has been helping in decreasing the cost.
• Sales force with higher utlization reduces per cost, hence increase in margin.
• Increase in price has very little part.
• Company has current guidance of same margins of around 14-15%.

...are the children actually cancelling Sesshomaru now? Seriously? You all don't have better things to worry about?

This kind of vicious attack on fan media is often so misplaced, misrepresents real issues to justify simply disliking something, and encourages a creepy gatekeeping culture that drowns out genuine problems.

Being a fandom anti is like being an Evangelical Christian, it really is.

And the reason is because being an anti is a culture that's based on negativity, not positivity. You have to be mean and aggressive about any perceived issue AND you have to be all-in about it. You can't express any feelings that oppose the mob or you're out.

This is not the same thing as simply not liking something. Sometimes people just don't like something and sometimes they can explain why, other times they can't. Sometimes they find other people that don't like something. But that's usually not the foundation of their group.

So #infosec #jobs thread.
In the last 12 months, I've been involved with 60+ interviews for various SOC, IR etc roles. This has come from about 120+ CV/Resume submissions.
To start, a caveat though - this is all IMHO. Hiring is an amazingly individual event.

First CV length. The common wisdom is that it has to be under 2 pages and very tailored to the role. I disagree. A CV should be concise but it also needs to provide enough information to make the hiring manager want to speak to you. If there is an HR screen, it needs to contain

a tonne of possibly random keywords. If a job advert asks for 10 different skills, and you can fit this in to 1-2 pages, chances are the person reading it will find it missing detail and think it is unconvincing. If it's your first job a 1 page CV is ok but the more you've done

the longer your CV gets. I don't have a perfect answer but I'd say don't fret about it. A large part of the hiring process is automated and even the people who read it will read it online scrolling through to get to the bits they are interested in. Long CVs rarely put people off.

Sidenote: if they do, they are likely to be difficult to work with so you might be OK with them rejecting you after all.

We’re Going On A Behr Hunt. A thread about hypocritical Corbynites, their stupidity and their antisemitism.

Yesterday, Guardian journalist Rafael Behr published an extraordinarily compelling piece about having a heart attack at the age of 45. In it he identified a number of

causes, including hereditary disposition, lifestyle and the nature of his job covering UK politics. On the last, he pointed out the age-old stressful nature of political journalism had been exacerbated in the last five years by the divisiveness rendered by Brexit and Corbynism.

Behr is Jewish and so also emphasised the way in which Labour’s top-to-bottom antisemitism festival since 2015 had added a particular distress in his, and many other, cases. He explained, with great erudition, how Jewish history leaves us with a reasonably gloomy view

of where institutionalised Jew-baiting in an electorally muscular political party might lead. And why the dark jokes (and yes in normal times they are only that) about keeping suitcases packed and friends with big attics close, sometimes come to not seem that funny.

For Corbynism’s most vicious antisemites, the article has been a thought-provoking and chastening moment which they have used to reassess their spite towards Jews hahahahaha no of course it hasn’t.

Continuity Corbynism has reacted in its traditional ways, raging that

Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 02/01/2021

THREAD: Maps, Legends and Keys

Double meanings exist:

Legend
Guide

2) More double meanings exist:

Key
Door

Could a reference to "door of all doors" mean an opening to knowledge instead of a physical door?

3) When does a map become a legend?

Perhaps when a 'legend' was created to conceal a map?

Perhaps when a 'legend' IS the guide?

4) Snow White had 7 Dwarfs

Snow White = 1
Dwarfs = 7

1+7=8

Since [they] have a penchant for islands, thought I'd go digging for clusters of 8 islands.

"York's 8 Islands" caught my

5) York's 8 Islands were named for William Clark's slave and "body servant", York.

Interestingly, York is claimed to have come from "Spirit Mound".. the land of the "Little People".

Hmmm... would these be dwarfs?

Hmmm. Everything has gone terribly wrong.

The beauty of the broadening of sense perception during the process of awakening is unique.

I still remember my ceremonies every galactic marker, every solstice and every equinox, I was delighted when beloved elementals entered my body and activated my sensations on crazy,absurd

and magical levels!

Taste makes me delight in every flavor that exploded in me with thousands of new sensations, so I enjoy enormously every bite, every inhalation, every kiss seems to be the last one always! lol

My sense of smell ... I could and I can see the colors associated with each smell, feeling its origin and the mixture of smells is confused as an infinite, powerful and unique amalgam that generates a deep pleasure and enervate my senses.

The sounds. Wow. I could hear miles away, and every step of the insects, the whispers of plants and elementals mocking my perceptions so limited that they were offered unique and isolated in which each sense was only a piece apart. not way... sound are magical an powerful

The amplified view is a monumental and unique phenomenon...not only being able to see at great distances, but seeing every detail until I enter the microscopic niel and see the heartbeat of every cell, the piezoelectric sensation of every movement, and when I close them and

The couple of times I’ve ever gotten just a TINY bit suspicious of my husband, I ended up feeling ridiculous. The latest example:

I was scrolling who he follows on TikTok and saw an account called High Impact Club. The profile photo was of a gorgeous woman, and the location was Phoenix, which is where we live. My hackles went up a tiny bit and I clicked into her profile.

...She’s a gentle parenting coach.
🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

I follow her too now, of course, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE her account.

Marcela Collier on

At some point I moved from just faving her videos, to keeping a note in my phone of all my favorite pieces of wisdom I’ve found there - easier to reference.

Seeing lots of explainers about the reddit/hedge fund drama right now, and as someone who worked as a quant for a big fund for 7 years, figured I'd chime in. This whole situation is pretty much why I quit. Big thread.

First, what's happening? At the simplest level, hedge funds "short" stocks. That is, they borrow stock, sell it, and have to buy it again later to return it to the borrower. If the price falls during that time, they make a profit.

It's an effective way to make money from falling prices. But it also has enormous risk. Normally, if you put $100 in a stock, all you can lose is that $100. But if you short a stock and it goes to the moon, your losses are unlimited.

Consider $GME, Gamestop. Let's say a fund shorted it when it was $40. When the price spiked to $470 today, they'd be facing a LOSS of $430 on that $40 investment. If they shorted it for, say, $10M, they'd be facing a loss of >$100M.

But it gets worse. Let's say an institution BORROWED money and then used that loan to short the stock. That's called leverage. Before the GFC, banks were running at ~33x leverage ratios. For every $1 they owned, they'd invested $33.

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