Waching daily Aug 28 2018

This nudibranch is a little thief.

It's got no problem with helping itself to it's neighbor's stuff.

Also called sea slugs, they're basically snails but without the protective shells.

They're soft and squishy… and not exactly speedy.

You'd think they'd want to keep a low profile.

But they're out there - showing off.

Because their colors are actually a warning.

Some of these nudibranchs have found a devious way to defend themselves, by stealing weapons

from someone else.

See this?

It's a hydroid.

Friendly little seaweed, maybe?

Nope, it's actually an animal related to jellyfish.

And it has the sting to prove it.

Hydroids have tentacles they use to catch food floating by.

They're covered in stingers that pack an excruciating, paralyzing venom.

they're called nematocysts.

That's them right there.

They're the same type of potent weaponry that make jellyfish so dangerous.

Mess with them and they explode, shooting out tiny harpoons full of venom.

Which is why most creatures want nothing to do with them.

But nudibranchs are all about it.

They devour hydroids.

Lots of those nematocysts fire off in the nudibranch's mouth.

But it's unfazed.

They seem to have a taste for spicy food.

Here's the thing though, some of those nematocysts don't detonate right away.

They aren't mature enough yet.

And that's the key to the nudibranch's scheme.

It swallows the immature stingers whole.

And they travel through the nudibrach's crazy-looking digestive tract which extends

into the spikes on its back, called cerata.

See that that dark area inside?

It's part of the digestive system that connects to the gut.

The stingers are collected at the very tip, where they mature.

Until the nudibranch feels threatened.

That's when this colorful little kleptomaniac pulls out the big guns.

It points its bristling cerata at its attacker, squirts out the stolen nematocysts and they

explode, launching their venomous harpoons.

That's enough to repel just about anyone looking for a quick bite.

Just goes to show - if you're not born with certain assets, it doesn't hurt to borrow

them.

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China is the center of broken trading system: Larry Kudlow - Duration: 4:07.

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OnePlus 6T - How Hot Is It? 🔥🔥🔥 - Duration: 3:04.

it sure looks like the oneplus 6t was just confirmed it's only a matter of

time until Chinese smartphone maker oneplus launches its second flagship of

the year the device will likely be called one plus 6t given what we've

seen from one plus in the past and it will be a minor refresh over the 1 plus

6 that's been selling for a few months in various markets around the world

oneplus hasn't yet started its time machine to promote the new phone and it

also hasn't officially confirmed the name of the product but the device

itself was already spotted in a device database at a regulator found by phone

corridor or listed in the video was filed last week with the Eurasian

Economic Commission and mentions a 1 plus a 6013 that can only be the one

plus 6t Eurasian Economic Commission documentation revealed a few days ago

that the Hawaii may 20 will launch with Android Pi onboard before that someone

found six new versions of the Apple watch series for in regulatory filings

Apple filed with the Eurasian Economic Commission now for the bad news a leak

above those in to reveal any actual details about the oneplus 6t that said

it's likely the Chinese handset maker will stick to launching an iPhone X like

device later this year it might sport a smaller notch that's more like the

essential phone though considering that Oppo is also using with a similar for

its new phones Oppo and oneplus are owned by the same company and Oppo

phones are often a blueprint for what we can expect from oneplus when it comes to

specs the phone will likely pack the same snapdragon 845 chip as its

predecessor and most Android flagships out there and will feature up to 8 GB of

RAM and up to 256 gigabytes of storage if not more the 1 plus 5t

was released in late November last year following the mid-june launch of the one

plus five the one plus six arrive in mid-may this year so it won't be

surprising to see the one plus 6t in stores a few weeks earlier than last

year's to release an actual release date for oneplus next-gen high-end handset

has yet to leak for more updates and news about the oneplus 6t

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Plagiarism: what it is and how to avoid it - Duration: 4:35.

This video will discuss plagiarism.

Chances are, when you have been in class, your professors have talked about avoiding plagiarism.

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Why is everyone so concerned about plagiarism?

Plagiarism is a serious offense that can have consequences such as

an academic warning or a failing grade.

Plagiarism doesn't just exist in the academic world—we see stories in the news all the time.

In 2016,First Lady Melania Trump was accused of plagiarizing a speech by Michelle Obama—

and that's just one of many plagiarism examples out there!

Katie Couric, former VP Joe Biden, Jayson Frye from the NYT,

historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, author Alex Haley have been involved in high profile plagiarism cases.

Knowing the basics of what plagiarism is and how to avoid it,

will benefit you both in your time at Massasoit and in your career.

Plagiarism doesn't always happen on purpose and it can take many forms.

Plagiarism can entail:

• Submitting work written by someone else

• Using words or phrases from a source and patching them together in a new sentence

• Failing to acknowledge the sources of words or information

• Not putting quotation marks around a direct quotation

And that's not all folks!

Unintentional plagiarism includes forgetting to cite,

losing a citation, unintentionally omitting a needed citation...

and there is also self-plagiarism.

Say you're pressed for time and you completed

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The good news is that plagiarism is completely avoidable

Using citations in your work can help you to prevent it.

Why do citations matter?

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You need to cite any work that is not your own.

This includes:

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Works of art Music

Graphics....Anything that is not considered common knowledge.

Common knowledge is information that most people know.

Remember that common knowledge is basic information,

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Examples of common knowledge include that George Washington was President of the United States

and that Texas became a state in 1845.

When considering if something is common knowledge, ask yourself:

Can I find the information in numerous sources?

Is it likely that many people know the information?

Can I find the information in a general resource like the dictionary?

If it's not your own idea or common knowledge, include a citation.

To avoid plagiarism, be sure to cite anything that you quote, paraphrase, or summarize.

Make sure you base your writing on your own ideas.

Keep track of your sources as you research, and be sure to take good notes.

A general rule of thumb is, when in doubt, cite it!

At Massasoit, the two most common citation styles used are MLA and APA.

These will depend on the discipline you're writing in

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Is bitcoin still a good investment? - Duration: 13:03.

- Hey guys, Luna here, and welcome to another episode

of That Crypto Hustle.

Super excited, today I have Kurt Braget from White Rabbit.

- Hello.

- Hey, what's up Kurt?

- How are you?

- Good, good, good.

- Cool.

- White Rabbit is an ICO news and listing site.

Encourage you guys to check it out.

Kurt, I wanted to have you on the show today because

I wanted to talk about whether or not bitcoin is still

a good investment, and talk about the future of bitcoin.

Interestingly enough, I went to TechCrunch

blockchain sessions conference a few weeks ago.

Essentially, what's really interesting is that a lot

of these different payment gateways are still

considering bitcoin, especially transaction

with bigger merchandisers.

However, bitcoin is not the best technology out there.

I'd love to hear your take, as a developer, why do you

think it's still a prominent payment solution and what,

I mean, obviously, what your predictions are

for the future and what not.

I guess the question is is it still a good investment

and what's the future entails, essentially?

- I'll try to answer simply first.

I think yes, it is a good investment and this is not

investment advice, which kinda sounds ridiculous because

I just said it's a good investment, so I don't even know

if I should say that, but I think yes, and it is.

But that being said, my simple answer of yes,

it's a very complex question and the answers

are very complex, too.

Let's start looking at the scope of these answers.

It's not good tech, it's not the latest and greatest,

and that's true in a way, but let's figure out what

that really means because there's all these

new kids on the block and their technology

isn't really tried and true.

One of the things about bitcoin is it's been around

for almost 10 years.

It's sort of like the tortoise in The Tortoise and the Hare

and this whole proof of work scheme, even though people

hate on it and knock it for electricity and all that shit.

I don't really care about that, honestly.

I think that proof of work is pretty awesome actually.

I think that it's tried and true, it hasn't been hacked.

Yeah, people hack it off of exchanges and stuff,

but the bitcoin network and the bitcoin blockchain

have never been hacked.

Not once ever.

A lot of people are gonna say well maybe there's gonna be

a 51% hack, and so when you're a big business and we start

talking about people who are gonna integrate this stuff

into their apps, 10 years, longstanding, secure network.

That's one part of it, it's a tried and true technology

and yeah, it might not be the fastest or whatever,

but that doesn't matter.

Another little point I would say about bitcoin is that

we are thinking, we are kind of on the cutting edge

of crypto, so we know about all this new shit

that's out there, but it kind of reminds me of why do

people still like the Rolling Stones?

There are so many bands out there that are way cooler

but it's just sort of like the way the mainstream

and these larger institutions come on to the markets.

They're not seeing all these latest and greatest cryptos.

Bitcoin is still, contrary to our belief and our context

that we have, bitcoin is still coming on

the radar for some people.

They're just learning about it

and they're just thinking about it.

They're not seeing all these cool, new technologies.

EOS is risky and they might not have even heard of it.

- Also something that's interesting is that a lot

of these bigger companies, like Amazon for instance,

probably will come out with their own coin in some future.

How will that impact bitcoin overall, if all these different

companies start tokenizing, essentially, what do you

think that's gonna look like?

- I think that a theme that we can cover here is building

up all these different arguments of really what come down

to levers on the price of bitcoin.

There's all these different factors and so.

Amazon, I think that this is a tricky question because

I don't really know whether or not they're gonna

be releasing their own token.

I've heard some rumors--

- I mean obviously it's speculation

and rumors, yeah (laughs).

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, but let's just say they did.

What does it mean?

I think that it could actually mean that the bitcoin

price would go up because, depending on how this token

is minted and what chain it's on, it likely, unless they

allow people to buy direct through their site which I feel

like would be a really risky venture for Amazon, honestly.

That token would have to go into a secondary market

and exchange and bitcoin still to this day, this is a huge

lever, actually, here, is the on ramping currency.

It's like bitcoin is the gateway drug, so if you want to get

on to an exchange to buy Amazon coin, a lot of times

you have to jump into bitcoin, throw your bitcoin

onto that exchange, so if anything you'd have all these

buyers buying in to Amazon crypto, but still on secondary

markets would still need to on ramp through bitcoin.

I think that that would mean good things for the price

of bitcoin, and I feel like this is actually one of the

biggest reasons why the price of bitcoin is

gonna constantly go up.

Because as new tokens come on the market, bitcoin is so

tried and true and so well-established as a trading pair

so if you hop into any of these exchanges you're gonna see

everything is trading for bitcoin, right?

- That's the baseline, yeah.

- Yeah.

- Why do you think we've seen such volatile market,

especially from what we saw in December 2017, January 2018,

to what's currently happening where the price just keeps on

going down and it's just been all over the place?

What do you think's currently happening?

- Have you ever seen this graph?

It's called the start-up graph, and it shows

the drop of despair and everything, I'll show it to

you guys later, maybe we can link to it or something.

It's like when things start out, they kind of skyrocket,

and then it fizzles out, and then it kinda has

these different stages.

I think the overall ICO market

was experiencing some of that.

Not bitcoin itself, but bitcoin is definitely tied to that.

I think that what happened was we were actually having

a lot of irrational speculation and really what that would

mean is that this is a kind of correction.

What we really need to do is look at, I like to look at

bitcoin as the tortoise from The Tortoise and the Hare,

as I suggested earlier.

Right now, bitcoin is around $7000 or something, or maybe

a little bit lower, but that's a lot higher than $5

when I first bought it.

Whatever, these markets can correct themselves,

but somebody who's in the HODL gang,

they're OK with what's going on right now.

It's just a correction, it's just another blip.

Me personally, I don't get wrapped up in it.

It's like getting wrapped up in drama.

I don't care about trading or anything like that,

I just care about the overall trajectory of these markets

over five to 10 years and this doesn't mean shit

that it's going down a lot.

- What do you think will be the solution to solve

some of these transaction per second issues?

What do you foresee could potentially happen?

As we see more and more

transaction happening through bitcoin.

- There's a lot of solutions that they proposed,

and I think that one of the problems with bitcoin

is that, and somebody described this to me in a really great

analogy that I'll share with you.

These tokens are like ships that are in the ocean

and the small ship is kind of just tossing around a lot,

but bitcoin is more like a yacht,

it's just kind of cruising.

It means that it can't really move.

Bitcoin is almost now like a large corporation that is not

very nimble and there's a lot of internal battles with it.

The issue of TPS, I believe that they will solve this,

I mean they might if the guys don't lose their patience.

As more companies onboard onto it,

and it's an opensource project, anybody can come along

and start creating proposals for how to solve

this TPS issue.

I think that what they will.

There's a few, Lightning Networks, SegWit,

a lot of these different proposed solutions that have

already been kind of implemented.

They have fixed it somewhat, but you have to think about

bitcoin, well this is the way I understand it

and it helps me, is that bitcoin is more like a yacht.

If you want to change the course of a yacht,

now you're moving a massive structure and it might

take a little bit more time.

Trust me, if they did make this kind of change,

and the TPS was higher, this could be pretty worrisome

for the rest of the market, for the other tokens

that are claiming to have high TPS.

Now they don't have the infrastructure or anything

that bitcoin has, right?

- Yeah, most definitely.

What about all these different forks that are in the market?

Could they potentially, bitcoin forks,

could they potentially be another form of currency

that could be used by bigger corporation?

Like Bitcoin Cash--

- I'd say that the most significant one right now

is probably Bitcoin Cash.

Somebody did an analysis of legitimate transactions

on Bitcoin Cash recently, I don't remember the numbers,

but Bitcoin Cash was supposed to be a true fork

that was supposed to honor Satoshi's vision

of it being a digital currency.

The Bitcoin Core guys really need to answer for this

and they kinda haven't is that Bitcoin Core isn't

the digital currency dream that everybody imagined.

It's just simply not.

It's digital gold and that's boring as fuck.

I'm thinking Bitcoin Cash is supposed to be the fork

that does that and Roger Ver's team and stuff.

The issue with that right now as it stands, as I can see,

is that they haven't really done a good job achieving

that either, but I know that they're trying harder

to achieve that mission of transactions a lot more

strongly than I think Bitcoin Core is doing.

The other forks in bitcoin, I'm not that excited about them.

They just seem like--

- Why not?

- Ways of copy and pasting your money into other networks,

that's what it is to me.

But those guys that are running those projects

would obviously hate me and want to kill me because,

I guess maybe bitcoin diving is the next sweet thing.

I don't really know but I doubt it.

- OK, cool.

Conclusion, bitcoin is still a good investment.

We're not giving investment advice by no means,

but if you're looking to, whether or not you still wanna

essentially be part of the revolution, invest in bitcoin.

You definitely should consider it and mainly because

it's still sort of the gold standard of cryptocurrency.

- Yeah, I would say that's a good way of describing it.

- (laughs) Awesome, thank you Kurt.

Where can we find you on social media?

- On twitter, kurtybot, and you can find our site

whiterabbiticos.com.

- You also have a YouTube channel.

- I do, that's White Rabbit on YouTube.

ICO Discovery.

- Awesome, and I'll make sure to include all the links

in the description.

Alright, thank you guys for watching.

Thanks, Kurt.

- Bye bye.

- Bye, guys, and make sure to subscribe dot cryptohustle.

See ya.