Absolutely loathe stacked bar charts. For many reasons. Anyway, sometimes you don't really have a choice though in that your boss or your audience, they expect you to make stacked bar charts. Is there a way to make them better to overcome some of the limitations of the format? Definitely. And we'll do just that in today's episode of Code Club. Hey folks, I'm Patchloss, and yeah, I really don't like stacked bar charts, but you know what? Sometimes you don't have a choice. Maybe your boss, your PI, they expect you to make stacked bar chart because that's a format they like for whatever reason. Or perhaps your audience expects you to make stacked bar charts. In the microbiome field, everybody seems to love using stacked bar charts. Why? I don't know. I wish they would watch these videos so they could see why it's not such a great format. Well, there's a few reasons why stacked bar charts aren't a great format. And so looking at this figure that we made in the last episode of Code Club, two things that I really want to heighten in today's episode. First of all, there's like 13 different phyla being represented, and it's hard to keep track of what color corresponds to which phylum. Also, with 13 different colors arrayed across the rainbow, it's really difficult to have colors that are really discreet enough from each other so that you can distinguish them over here in the bar chart. Another big problem with stacked bar charts is that oftentimes you don't have a common basis for comparison. I call this an anchor on the y-axis. Yeah, at the bottom, we can see that that bottom group does have an anchor, but that might not be a group that we're all that interested in. Is there a way that we can limit the number of colors, limit the number of groups, and then provide more than one anchor to give our audience something to compare the size of those bars based on? Well, let's go over to our studio and we'll see what we can do about all this. And we see this chunk of code that you can get a copy of down below in the description. There's a link to a blog post that accompanies today's episode. You can get this chunk of code. I strongly, strongly, strongly encourage, maybe insist that you also get a copy of this code so that you can work alongside me in today's episode. There is no substitute for working with the code on your own to learning this material. You can watch all these videos that I'm producing and really not learn much at all, unless unless unless you work with the code. Anyway, get the code link down below. Also, up above, there's a link where you can get instructions on how to install our studio, get the tidyverse package, get the raw data that I'm working with here. It's really critical so that you can follow along and you can get the most out of these episodes. All right, so we have this chunk of code. We load in our libraries. We've got gg text here so that we can get that nice italization of our phylum names. We read in the data.  We joined them all together. In this chunk of code, we take our O2 relative abundance data and we filter by the phylum level taxonomy. We can aggregate those counts, those relative abundances, so that we know the average representation of each phylum in each disease status group. We've got three disease status groups if you haven't been following along. First is among people that are healthy. One is among people that have diarrhea. And then the third group is a group of people that have diarrhea and also then have an infection with Clostridioides difficile. Anyway, we then go through and we clean this all up. We then build a stacked bar chart where we then use some styling to fix the labels and to get our nice italization in our legend. Let's go ahead and run all this, make sure it works. The code runs, produces the figure that we're expecting. There's a couple of things that I would like to do in today's episode. First of all, what I'd like to do is further aggregate my phyla to create a threshold so that if a phylum is not over some threshold in any of the three disease statuses, I want to pull its relative abundances into a separate category that we'll call other. I think a lot of these phyla are really rare and so we can't even see them here on the figure. That will also solve another problem then of giving us more discrete separation between the colors in our color palette. The second thing that I'd like to do is think about which phyla do we put down on the bottom along the zero of the y-axis and which do we put along the top on the 100%. The first thing I'm going to do is go ahead and break up my pipeline. I'm going to take the ggplot off the end of this. We'll save it for later, but for right now I want to work with O2 relabund. Looking at this, we have our disease status, our formatted taxon and the mean relative abundance. Let's go ahead and save this as taxon relabund. That is good. And of course we can then take taxon relabund and feed it in the ggplot to get the same plot that we had earlier. That's not what we want to do though because we want to go ahead and pull together those phyla that are more rare. Let's go ahead and first see what the distribution looks like of our different phyla. So I'll go ahead and group this by and I will group by taxon. Let's look across the three disease status groups. So I'll do a summarize and what I want to see is the maximum relative abundance of each phylum across the three groups. So I'll do max equals max on mean relabund. And what we'll see, of course, is that we get that output. It's a little bit jumbled. I like to look at it with a range, DESC on max. That shows us now that we have our phyla ordered by their maximum relative abundance across the three disease status groups. Proteobacteria, Firmiculitis, Bacteria disease are the three most abundant phyla in our cohort. You know, I might, I'm tempted to go down to Rucomycrobia. I'm a little worried that that 3.3% might be too small of a wedge or of a rectangle to see. I'm pretty confident that the Fuso might be, is definitely too small. I'm going to go ahead and require that everything has an abundance over 3%. And we can adjust later if that rectangle is just too small to look at that. Then I'm going to go ahead and modify my summarize to make a pool column. And what this will then be is I will pool if the max relabund is less than three. And then I'll also do dot groups equals drop. And let's look at that output. So then we see that we've got, we're pooling things like a tinobacteria, a campylobacteria, chloroplasts and so forth. So we're in good shape. And I will then say this as taxon pool. Make sure I've got that saved away. Now what I can do is let's get some space here and put everything on one screen. We can do inner join. And we're going to join our taxon relabund and our taxon pool will then join by the taxon column. And we see now that we've got our disease status or taxon mean relative abundance and whether or not we want to pool it. I'm going to use this pool column to indicate whether or not the taxon column should be changed to other. Let's do that with a mutate function. We will go ahead and pipe this into mutate. And we will then say taxon equals if underscore else. So if else pool, then put other. Otherwise, let's leave it with taxon. So now what we see is that we have our disease status or taxon. Everything is before, but in the taxon column, if pool was true, we put other. Otherwise, if it's false, we then put the name that we had. And again, these are already stylized with our stars. So they should be italicized in our legend. We'll go ahead and group by taxon, right? So because this is where we're actually going to pool or aggregate our different filer together that we indicated we wanted to pool. So we will sorry, we'll group by disease stat and taxon because otherwise we're going to be pulling across all of the disease statuses. So we want to keep each disease that separate. And we will then do mean relabund equals some mean relabund. Here we now have our three disease status groups, the four filer plus the other category and their mean relative abundance. And we can see that that other column 1.7, 1.76, 2.11. So it's really small. And we're not really missing much by pooling all those other filer down into that other category. Now we can pipe this into ggplot. Excellent. We've gone from 13 filer to four filer plus an other category. One thing that I like about this is that by chance, bacteria deadies is anchored along the 100% line of our plotting window. This makes it very easy to compare the relative abundance of bacteria deadies across the three different disease status groups. You could imagine putting something along the zero position on the y-axis as well. So it'd be easier to compare say two different filer in the same figure. So perhaps we could put Bactroides here and Formicudes down here or vice versa or whatever. And that way then at least we'd be able to make easy comparisons for those two more abundant filer. Something to know about how ggplot is creating this figure is that for each column of bars, of the stacked bars, is that it is converting our taxon column to a factor using alphabetical order of those names to set the order of those bars. You're saying though that like, well, how does other come after Proteobacteria and Rucomicrobial? Remember that this isn't really Bactroid deadies or Formicudes. It's Star Bactroid deadies, Star Formicudes, Star Proteo, Star Vruco, and then Vanilla Other, right? And so Other comes after a Star, the O comes after the Star. We can reorder the factor back in our code. Again, I'm going to break up my pipeline here and I will then do a mutate on taxon. And I will then say factor taxon. That is going to apply alphabetical ordering. And so we now see that our taxon column is of type factor. I'm going to go ahead and drop that grouping because I don't want weird things to happen. And we can then set the order of that factor of taxon by some other variable. And so we could say taxon equals FCT reorder. And FCT reorder is a function that comes to us from the four cats package. Factors are notoriously painful to work with in R. Again, they're a way of turning categorical data into ordinal variable data, which is what we're trying to do here, right? We're trying to set an order to our categorical variables. So we give it taxon and then we give it some other column. Well, I don't have a column to hit to order that on. To get the order that I want for factor reorder, I'm going to revisit my summarize up here for taxon pool. I'll go ahead and then say mean equals mean, mean relabund. And that will then give me the mean across the average relative abundance for each file across the three disease status groups. So let's look at what this would appear to be. And so we see we've got our file, whether or not to pool it in the mean. And then we read that into interjoin. We're getting errors, of course, because I went too far. If we do the first join, we see that we have the mean. We then mutate when we pool. So now we've got the other we then group by. And so when we then come to the summarize, we're going to lose that column, I believe. Yeah, so we need to have another line here in our summarize as part of that interjoin line. So let's do mean, and I'll do men mean, because the men is going to be the same for those big four phyla. And for the other, it's going to be very low. Yeah. And so then we see that we have for Mickey D's, which was the most abundant across the four. And then back to our daddy's and then proteo and then Vruco, and that repeats for all of these. So we're in good shape. We can then give this the mean. And that should then reorder everything according to the mean. And we can check the order by piping this to pull on tax on and then looking at levels. And so this will give us the levels that are in our tax on column. And so we've got other Vruco, proteo, back to our daddy's for Mickey D's. It's actually the opposite of where we want to fix that order to FCT reorder. We can give it a DSC equals true. And so that will give it a descending sort of the factors. And so now we've got for Mickey D's back to our daddy's proteo, Vruco and other in good shape. And we can then pipe this into our GG plot. And we see that we've got for Mickey D's back to our daddy's proteo, Vruco and other. If we wanted for Mickey D's on the bottom, followed by back to our daddy's, then we could have turned off that DSC, right? We could have not use that. And then for Mickey D's would have been at the bottom. Let me show you what that would look like DSC. We could say false, which is the default. And now we get for Mickey D's on the bottom, back to our daddy's Vruco other and so forth. I'm going to go back and turn that DSC to true. I'm also going to use another function from four cats, which is FCT shift. And we will do tax on and we'll say n equals one. And so what that will do is again, we'll have for Mickey D's back to our days and so forth. But shift equals one with n equals one will shift the order so that for Mickey D's now will become the last. And what that should then do is put for Mickey D's on the bottom and back to our daddy's on the top. Voila, we now have for Mickey D's on the bottom, back to our daddy's on the top. Again, the nice thing about this is that we now have an anchor for our two most abundant phyla, right? So the for Mickey D's are on the bottom, like I said, back to our daddy's across the top. And we now have a very easy way to compare the relative abundance of these phyla with a common position on the y-axis. Yeah, well, you know, it's not so easy to compare the proteobacteria, right? So that's the next largest group. And yeah, it's easy to see that the proteobacteria are more abundant in people with diarrhea, regardless of C. diff status than they are in people that are healthy. But, you know, within between those C. diff positive and C. diff neg groups, it's difficult to see the difference in abundance for the proteobacteria. I'm okay with Avruca Microbia being in here. It's kind of lost, but it's okay. We'll come back and deal with the figure with the colors in a moment. So we've taken on two problems now, right? We've shrunken the number of phyla we're looking at. And then we also did our best to deal with anchoring on the y-axis. So we have a common basis for comparison for at least two of the phyla. There's a few other things that I'd like to do to clean this figure up and make it look a little bit nicer. First of all, I might like to put my legend in alphabetical order with other at the bottom. That way it'd be easier to interpret and see what's going on. I don't like having other in the middle. I don't like having fermicates at the bottom. This default order is the order of the factor as it's being represented, right? Because again, we shifted fermicates to the end. We can alter that by modifying our scale fill discreet to be scale manual discreet. We'll then do breaks. The vector for our breaks argument is going to be the order that we want them in the legend. So I'll do star bactrory deadies, fermicates. Let's go down here so we're not running off the side of the screen. And then proteobacteria, rucomicrobia. I need a star in there as well. And then here we'll do other. And then we need values.  So this isn't where we're going to end. But let's do red, green, blue, orange. And then the other, I know I want to be gray. So I have an error scale manual discreet. I wanted scale fill manual. So that doesn't look good. I think I forgot the fermicates. I misspelled fermicates because that's missing fermic. Oh, U-T-E-S, not T-U-S. Okay. And it appears I misspelled green. Beautiful. Look at those colors. Aren't they just hideous? Let's go ahead and fix these colors to make them look a little bit nicer. To do that, I'm going to load the library rcolorbrewer. Make sure that's loaded. And then I'm going to replace these four colors with a function call to the rcolorbrewer package. I'm going to leave that gray because I like the idea of other being kind of grayed out. There's not really any information in there, except that there's this couple percent that we don't know what to do with. So I will do bruer.pal and I'll say four. And then the name that I like is dark two. And so that looks pretty reasonable. Again, you could do all sorts of customization with colors. This is nice because I know that it is red, green, colorblind, safe. We have our phyla. We have other last. Again, we have back droidettis anchored at the top, fermicates anchored at the bottom. Life is good. I'm pretty happy about that. One other thing that frequently comes up when I show bar plots like this is that people get a little bit weirded out that there's a space down here below zero and the x axis. We can come back up to our scale area. So I'm going to go ahead and do scale y continuous and we'll use a function called expand. And that we give it two numbers. So I'm going to do zero comma zero. And what that'll do is not expand beyond the y axis and be sure we put a plus sign. And so now we see that the bars go all the way down to zero and above to 100. And that looks pretty cleaned up and pretty nice. So I think this looks about as good as we can make a stacked bar chart look. We've done a couple of things in this episode. So to remind you, we started with 13 different phyla and 13 different colors. And that was just way too much to try to keep track of in your brain. Also, those colors didn't have very good separation between them. And so sometimes you're left wondering, is this that phyla or that phyla? Who knows. So by going down to four phyla as well as another category, we now only have to keep track of four groups. And the colors have much better separation in them. You know, I could have done without perhaps the Vruco Microbia in this example. That being said, I don't think it's that hard and kind of this pinkish color makes it easier to kind of remember, oh, that's the Vruco Microbia. For some reason that color for me just kind of stands out kind of like the gray, you know, stands out for me that that's other. Who knows. But again, the other thing that we did was to orient the different bars in our stacked bar chart so that they have a common basis of comparison. Right. And so we can put the bacteriities at the top with 100% line as the basis of comparison. We can put the formicities on the bottom with a 0% line as the basis of comparison. Yeah, we can't do that with a proteobacteria. But, you know, we have our limitations in the in the medium. And if you stay tuned for future episodes of Code Club, I'll show you a better way of looking at relative abundance data so that we don't have that problem so that every phylum can have a common basis of comparison. Something I also want to point out is that we kind of get lucky here and that we have so few phyla and three different treatment groups. I have seen things where people perhaps have stacked bar charts over time, and perhaps they're not looking at phyla, perhaps they're looking at genera where there's dozens of different genera. And there it's just difficult right next to impossible to get things down to four or five different groups or to have a common basis of comparison. That's the same across all time points. So again, the data is working with us here a little bit to make it easier to depict this data. There's still a couple problems that we just can't quite solve. The first I guess we could probably could solve which would be to indicate the N. So we talked about this before that one of the problems with bar charts stacked or otherwise is that you don't get a sense of the number of observations that go into calculating that that value that's represented by the bar. Sure, down below each of these x axis labels we could put like in parentheses N equals something. I'll leave that for you to do as homework. The other problem that we can't get away from with stacked bar charts is how we've transformed the data statistically. So we are using a mean, right? Otherwise, if we use like the median this the bars would not add up to 100% and that would cause all sorts of problems and kind of visualizing the data and making fair comparisons across the columns. Related to that, the data are highly skewed right that there are more things that are rare and a few things that are abundant kind of bringing up the mean perhaps. And so we don't get any sense of the variation in the data. You know, and so I think whenever we report a mean or even a median without a sense of the variation the data, we tell people that there is one healthy microbiome there is one diarrhea C def negative microbiome and so forth right, which is just not the case. We will talk about those issues in future episodes of Code Club. If you want to be sure that you hear my thoughts on those other ways of visualizing the data so that you can have a common basis of comparison for all of your filer or Jenna or whatever. 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Good morning folks Steve Rhodes coming to you live from the shores of a very sunny and cool Delray Beach, Florida. This year 11 a.m. update. We've got a sea of green out there. All the sectors with inside the S&P 500 are trading the upside as are all the US indices that we tracked. I was up 185 points. It's about a half a percent four tenths for the S&P 20 points there. Almost four tenths for the Nasdaq 161 points. 31 points for the Russell. One and six tenths of a percent move there. The trainees are up 123 points. Some eyes up a quarter percent or 10 points out there. Gold's up $15 three quarters percent. Silver's up one and a quarter percent. 30 cents likes recruit up a buck 19. Natural gas is off nine cents. The 30 year treasury up 21 ticks. He's printed out at 123 29. So what's all that mean? Stevo. Let's go take a look at that nine panel. Market update chart. We begin with the ES mini upper left hand side. What we know about it is trading above the 1.2. So it's targeting the 1.2728 expansion of its last set of swing points. Don't worry, folks. I'll get this figured out here. That's at the 4894 level. Now you want to stay tuned for the Trader's Ed show because we'll take a deeper dive into the ES mini spot. Volitanix is down below its 50 day expense moving average, but we have a slightly rising closing price of the spot. Volitanix. That's something for us to keep an eye on. It's the NQ. That's at the 1.272 expansion of its last set of swing points. That's at 16 975. It's next upward target would be 17 699 US dollar index. Finally, resistance at the bottom of that profile, but it does have support at 101 60. That's what we're watching on any kind of move lower. The gold and silver both are consolidating with inside their profiles. Gold between 2017 90 and the resistance levels up at 20 62 90 for silver. It's down to 23 90 for support 24 79 for resistance lights. If we include should target the top of its daily profile. This is the February contract that we're taking again. That's up at 77 55. We take a look at natural gas. Natural gas should be at support or it has support between two. Well, the support areas between 224 and 229 price right now trading out at 2.32. So it's right in its support zone. We take a look at the 30 year treasure yesterday was a small bearish and golfing candle, but it was a bearish and golfing candle and that confirmed a sell the deep point pattern. That being said, we also have a new profile that's attempting to form support. Here's at 122 15 and resistance at 120 409. That says on any move lower with regard to that top. It's very likely to find support at the 122 15 level out there. Folks, they do for the Traders Ed show, if you would, but if you have to start your Tuesday, have a terrific one. Thanks for joining us. We'll look forward to speaking with you again soon. Take care and be safe


Okay All right guys. I'm quickly back. Sorry about that technical difficulties Google Hangouts acting a weird So I don't want to leave you guys hanging. I'm gonna do a quick Q&A for everybody over here So we will get this going right now Okay So you guys got a question for me new one. Yeah, it's a new one We're just gonna do a Q&A 15 minute Q&A quick before I get my haircut. What you think of Bitcoin gold? I Don't think much of it tell you the truth. I think it's sloppy code Think it's a brand steel, but whatever that's a whole point of block chains The whole idea of Right or wrong is idiotic when it comes to this is like saying religion, right? But what is the right religion?  Nothing? It's gonna fall apart What alts you personally hold and where do you see huge potential alts that I hold? Well, they consider a theorem in the alts. I hold this theorem. I like civic. They're pretty good I like Mineral like coins the cash Let's see what else there's so many. I don't know. Let me pull up coin market cap for a second Uh, what is your opinion on the tangle tech? Uh, a lot of issues with tangle Actually, I'm trying to get David on the show the CEO bit to talk about it So if anybody knows him quite well do a CC with me now like to talk with him One second.  Okay, so golem is interesting. Let me let me pause on a golem one for a second Excuse me. Have a cold. Everyone has a cold here Ginger tea or in Jamaica the college of make and gum. I love it so Golem, this is my thoughts on golem. I think the idea of crowd sourcing Resources is really important. You know file coins doing this made safe is trying to do this And Cyah coins trying to do this my issue with golem per se is this they are assuming that in the Future people will have hard drives and physical computers like for example. Let's say this right there's my Get up over there. I don't think so. I actually believe in the future We're gonna have small devices that's gonna be augmented reality where my hard drive and everything's on the cloud So I actually won't have physical resources to give into the new economy of sharing my resources Because I'll be using the cloud instead, but that's not to say that the actual idea of sharing resources is not good I think it is but I think the application that they're trying to go after it's not going to be a real problem in the future People won't have that problem and be people won't even actually have those hard drives to offer it as a resource So that's how I think but the actual idea around it. I think it'd be applicable for other things. Yes Omsi go they're pretty good They're trying to do the first project for plasma. So I'm actually excited for that to for the skill ability. So Sit back and relax and see how that goes J Okay So many questions one second How would you decide what business to start based on industry or problem to solve so that's an entrepreneur question Um, I usually solve problems that I have for myself For example block eeks I started because I had the problem of not finding an educational resource and a bunch of developers that I knew wanted to Learn this and then have a resource online and so I decided to build it and to scratch my own niche And plus I also been on the online space for seven years building e-commerce and SaaS products So you got to have some expertise on what you're doing How will segue it to x effective value of Bitcoin? Oh, well, you can look at history So if we saw the split right now with Bitcoin cash We saw a small dip and obviously Bitcoin has bounced back in Bitcoin cash. That was it today. I don't know Let me see one second. How do we do this? Your entire screen Shit application window.  I'll do it later on. Let me run in window one second One market cap Bitcoin cash is US 330 right Bitcoin is 5600 like I'm not too sure he's using Bitcoin cash I'm not gonna go down the rabbit hole for that, but I stick with Bitcoin What are your top five blockchain based solutions, that's a good question one number one We still got a cell finance. That's not solved yet number two Digital identity is really good one number three and remember at the end of day, what does a blockchain do? It solves a problem of relying your trust on a third party So anytime you have let's say a scenario where you have to rely your trust on a third party Whether that is an escrow situation or what that is a credit situation like equal facts for example What is that as a mortgage situation where you have to trust an individual at the bank name the bank But an individual to give you that mortgage That's the blockchain really comes in so top three for me be finance Digital identity and eliminating the trust factors of people creating a peer-to-peer network and the other like two three ones They can follow afterwards Peter has a question do you think that implementation of blockchain technology in banks and large companies will affect in the cryptocurrency's Communities. Yes or no. I think banks will do private blockchains There's no reason for them to open source blockchains. In fact, I'm betting that oops. I Am I lost the questions? I am betting that We will see a nationalized cryptocurrency like the Rimen B or the Russian ruble within the next five years I definitely see a nationalized crypto coming One second guys. I lost the link Hmm. All right, here we go Electronium, I don't know man.  So what is this are the investors will come back to the altcoins not the Bitcoin? Investors. Well, you got to define this is from George eight DJ George eight Well, you got to find what investor is for example with me. I don't trade. I'm a long-term investor value investing like Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger For traders that you're talking about whether that is daily traders weekly monthly traders.  They're gonna go there It's simple as that Okay, so many questions All right one second. Oh This is good one from Mohamed Usman. What is atomic swap exactly atomic swap is you have two different blockchains For example, they just did this with Billy with light coin and big coin Or just something else I forget but basically you can instantaneously swap from two different blockchains Your currencies without actually needing exchange the services like shape shift shape shift in the future won't actually be in Necessity well, that's not 100% true, but that's a gist of it. Hey, man. I like your videos a lot This is from Darius. I like your videos a lot.  Maybe I don't know. I'm busy. I'll tell you truth. I have no idea. I probably won't look into it right now No, I'm off to DEF CON for two weeks. Then I have to go business to Singapore so they won't have time and I'm gonna tell you guys something if something sounds too good to be true and sounds like a pyramid scheme and everyone's marketing everywhere And everyone's like promising returns.  Just run away Like come on use common sense people like for God's sakes What are your thoughts about Genesis mining cloud mining you mean by proof of stake mining you're talking about Like POS, yeah, sure POS is everyone's gonna be POS soon. Will I Yoda ever become the number one cryptocurrency?  So that's one thing So I wouldn't call it a cryptocurrency Well, like I said guys, if you know the CEO, let's do a CC and we can talk with him on the show Simple as that. Why do bitcoins fork and will it ever fork ever? Yeah, there's forks happening all the time You can do whatever you want pretty much Bert coin amazing week. What are your thoughts? I have no idea Bert coin, I don't know.  It's horrible. What is this? Okay, one second Martin Crivo Borski a lot of gear up towards regulations happening both sides on state and private companies initiatives Where do you think it's gonna go? Well number, I really believe in the future exchanges are going to be forced to work with ICOs doing KYC and AML or else they won't list your token and your token won't have liquidity So in the future regulations will have to abide by the how we test and Depending on the jurisdiction that you're in those local laws from the municipality there And so I think the days of these like wild wild west ICOs are over like look what's happening with Tesos right now Look what's happening butrex with the US and let's say US users right now. So, you know KYC and AML is a big deal Even though I don't fully agree with it a hundred percent Any suggestions about a solid multi-currency? Yes, we're working on one. I'll keep you posted Steven Everett EOS looks very promising, but very much like a scam. What do you think? I think they're ICO how they did it is ridiculous. It's one year long ICO Also their proof of stake the delegated proof of stake has a lot of holes in it with centralized nodes And you know and who those nodes are and you can actually bribe those nodes to do whatever you want it to do So it actually eliminates the whole idea of decentralization, but hopefully they can fix that From Dorian Sanders what skills do developers need to get a job in the blockchain space? Well at blockheeks if you want to learn let's say solidity or something from hyper ledger Bitcoin On average you have to you have to be a pretty good decent full-stack JavaScript developer So if you know JavaScript pretty well, you can learn solidity. Did I participate on air swap ICO? No Do you think the ICOs are over as we know them? No, they're not over as well The Wild Wild West of ICOs might go for another six months I already see saturation people getting overwhelmed by them and I think future ICOs are gonna be incredible Like I said, I'm very bullish on ICOs I just think currently how ICOs are done both from a business aspect and also from a sustainable aspect and from an investor Investor aspect. I think it's crazy. I think going in the future having more say diligent types of ICOs with crypto equity ICOs dividend ICOs Not crazy ICOs raising $200 million. I think that's the future Cam oh, oh gun. I forget Pardon me if I've I butch your name. I'm not good with names Cam. Oh Oh gun I'm here. I feel that the best cryptos in the future will be Incorporate the best tech of all one second too many fucking comments The best tech available today and that's some of the best projects around will merge Well, you can look at just tech in general like from the internet era, you know, the first companies are usually I get the analogy of the pioneers All right one second guys Yeah, I see tomorrow. Yeah, yeah So giving the analogy of pioneers, you know when you look at pioneers that go to Any country that they've say colonized or taken over they're the ones who put in the hard work at the beginning then afterwards Guess what happens? They don't reap the rewards It's like the fourth fifth sixth generation that was the words if you look at the tech section or a tech sector in the early 90s It wasn't Google's back then it wasn't Amazon's back then right so it's always like the second third Generations to learn from the first generation Peter teal has a saying from zero to one in his book It's never good to be number one True like why don't we regulate ourselves? We don't need countries on the space. Well, I'm with you on that one I think I'm from believer. I'm against taxes.  What how does he have the authority to blame somebody else for stupidity? Okay, Peter. How does a newbie become a Bitcoin core developer? What programming languages do you need C++? That's a good start C++ is a good start Are you in Toronto from Kent? Yes our office in Toronto For Martin Kruvo Barsky again, what do you think the time frame on crypto will be adopted as a mainstream a time frame by banks? I don't know ten years. Maybe less the tech guys listen We're still early for the tech we need a couple of years to scale the tech We're new hundred sixty billion dollar market cap total crypto wait till we get a trillion like we have security issues We have onboarding issues off-boarding issue taxation issue Usability issue like we have a long way to go before you see global adoption Okay, Kelvin Sayer how much work do you see on tech that improves and which do you believe is most proud cosmos is in our office? They're right beside us. I'm actually Ethan's right there. They're great. I'm very bullish on that Cosmos is there. You got polka dot to us or sidechains Caradino, I don't know. There's a bunch now. How often do I work out? I don't know once a day, but my workouts aren't crazy.  It's I some jiu-jitsu Hit the bags a little bit more fun play. I don't really care about building muscle.  There's issues already ants Charlie Sanchez answer that question already I think it's interesting what they're doing and then if they can utilize plasma properly That would be very good for the ecosystem Do you watch Joe Rogan Joey Diaz? Yes, Joey Diaz is one of the funniest motherfuckers I know like especially his video with him Talking with Alex Jones like 10 years ago with Joe Rogan.   So everything I use I don't have anything off online Everything I use is online. Sorry offline right here. Okay. What is this? Raphael oh guard hi Amir besides crypto Oh Recommended books message from meaning great books. I got a couple in front of me This book is really good. I Dalio principles. It's originally from his principal PDF He did a couple of years ago. I highly recommend it a fantastic book and for a marketing book This is one of my classic favorites a couple of years old every reader. Maybe every six months Fascinating Sally Hogs head fantastic book. So business mindset marketing from labs, right? It's what I think of library.io the Wikipedia that you pay Why would I pay for Wikipedia or have ads on Wikipedia the whole point of Wikipedia to be ad-free? That's where they do donations and crypto So I don't know why like I like Wikipedia as is with zero ads. I Don't know what Komodo is so no idea Do I know it from Damian? Do I know anything about vibe and why they haven't stuck to roadmap?  I get reference or introduce from like friends in the industry Civic. Yeah civics cool. I like civic. I like Vinnie solid entrepreneur Good head on the shoulder So for me guys I invest in human beings as opposed to investing technology technology technologies innate It's like a hammer, right? It's like a phone right here. It's like how how do I use this phone? I can use it as a simple phone to just call people or can use all the apps on it, right? So always invest in the human as opposed to investing in the technology like the technology sentient or something Ricardo, can you talk about arbitrage arbitrage is simple. It's just margins man It's like say you buy a crypto for a dollar then it goes to five. There's arbitrage right there Then you sell that's what traders do all the day. It's arbitrage You can do geo arbitrage where you go buy crypto here for say X dollars and sell it to South Korea for Y dollars Arbitrage from exchange exchange arbitrage for OTC over the counter. There's many different ways of arbitrage in the space Would cosmos from this is Khalid would cosmos be capable of connecting smart contracts and blockchain. I assume so I Will ask Ethan later on today Do I like Reggie Millington? I have no idea who he is. So I can't comment on that Bastion from campus Campos Campo any advice for a person trying to start a cryptocurrency block? You need to channel like yours Yeah, just add value and don't give up Like if you guys look at my previous videos, I wasn't always in crypto like my background is an entrepreneur I've been in the held space. I've been in the marketing space like for me I just talk about whatever I want to talk about and if people watch it they watch it Like I don't make a living off of YouTube.  So and for me in the future.  I have too many cards already.  What was it? What do you think about the crypto market for the next two years two years is like a decade in the crypto space I can't predict that yeah, we're gonna have corrections for sure if you're looking statistics probably yeah From Ribeiro, how do you think government and big corporations will try to stop cryptocurrency to break regulate the market?  This is from Sammy day Dahman hey, I'm here. I was wondering how can countries in Middle East or Africa get involved in new technologies? It did a basic internet and banking infrastructure Invite people create workshops I'm a firm believer in creating epicenters and Epi hubs in your community For example reason why Bitcoin and Ethereum took off as a meet-up groups You didn't need to eat and like bring people together educate people internet Yes, it's a necessity, but it's not a set that necessity for the beginning So create centers of of knowledge in your city that you are located in Where did I go to school? I never went to school I got kicked out in high school in grade nine and never went back and I hustled from the age of 15 to 21 Living a very fun interesting life. So I don't like traditional school in whatsoever Psycho and in fact side coin. I think side coins one of the one of my favorite projects dad VC funding Working working demo, or I would say working product name and demo Solid UX good support. So I have a funny suspicion for suspicion for SIA I bet Dropbox might buy them. So just I'm saying that right now guys I think Dropbox has a solid chance of buying SIA the whole company or Val Amir what fact one second what factors determined the initial listing price of ICO the exchange and The selling price that you've listed for both pre. Sorry pre and post ICO So it's it's a it's a variable of different attributes And also what people and I won't get into it, but there's a lot of different variables Well, you guys are crazy on Iota if you got like email Iota and ask them all these questions All right, so many questions one second what time is it? I'm gonna leave in five minutes Answer this please Some can that pan he has some Bitcoin gold should we sell it? I don't know man I can't make that judgment call for you thoughts on carrot. Oh, wait wait wait Thoughts on Cardano. I need to investigate that first. So I want to actually meet the team and talk to them So that is on my roadmap. So yes, so I can't make a opinionated answer in that yet What do I think a block hat?  I think we're always in a crypto correction There's corrections all the time Do you think the Bitcoin price will go down after a segway to 4x for a small time? I think so if we look at the past with Bitcoin cash, yes And also guys I'm a firm believer if you're investing in crypto Don't just wait for the dips my firm believer in the daily average or the the daily moving average a little bit bit By bit you purchase right so you get both the ups and downs How do I feel about chain link and smart contract? Oh chain link? I actually got a I have a meeting set up with the CEO. So I'll get back to you on that Yeah, thanks. Yeah, I need to yeah, I forgot about that. So I'll talk I'll talk to him I'll get back to you guys for that. I'm actually so this from Darius I'm actually looking to investing in Cardano. Now I'll wait for an update. Okay. Yeah How many startups have I been involved with me personally? I've I failed in many of my own successful ones. I've been in three of my own personal ones Started ones that have been part of as an advisor investor have been more than seven. So a lot What may what makes Israel a startup nation? I don't know the culture I guess Mmm. All right guys, that's it. I've got my haircut coming up down the street I need 10 minutes to walk if you guys enjoy this leave a comment below the video and If you want me to do more of these Q&A's random show like this leave a comment Just say yes, and maybe I'll do this more frequently and often. All right guys. I'm out. Peace


What's up everybody Jason from jazby's case breaks calm. We just sold out to we're actually we're giving away to seven hundred dollar R&B spots breaks In this one box hanger of 1920 Donner's basketball, which is random teams number one So the way this works guys is first we'll randomize the customer names and teams this should be the hits out of the hangar And then again at the end of the break. We'll randomize the customer names only customers in the top two Out of the 30 will win a seven hundred dollar random number block spot and remember guys This is a high-risk high reward type of break no veteran commons will ship out of the break itself And of course just two customers are winning spots in the seven hundred dollar mixer Which the next hangar is already up guys and that will potentially be our last one. So let's get it rolling Here's a dice roller. We got a six and a one for seven times. So good luck seven times one two three four five six seven Patrick down to Chen seven times seven times two three Oh speaking of middle of a meter five six seven Bulls down to the calves All right, so stick with what you got guys. Just a quick little hanger and really quickly Matt Arnold has the heats we have the rockets who are roberts pelicans jason and Yeah, lakers out here with anthony Stick with what you got guys All right, and let's print and rip really quick. All right. Good luck guys These all just base cars will skim through them Terror is here kundari witherspoon grand williams Ruihachi more rookie azalea roby rj barrett charsen adverse jalen mcdaniels tide Jerome goga bitatsi adamos goldfield tyler hero bull bull jackson hayes All right, there you go very nice Now let's switch scenes and see who's going to win spots in the break itself and we're only two customers getting in Good luck. Let's roll it and we got ourselves a one enough five for six times. Good luck top two get in one two three four five six one of five six times robert And robert wow there you go playing the odds game and it worked in your favorite rob There you go six times congratulations, man.  So again another hanger up on the website Let's get it running this potentially could be the last one and just have to sell two spots straight up In the break itself to sell out the immaculate five box picker team number five It's pretty sure you guys jasmiescasebricks.com


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Hey, welcome back everybody. Jeff Frick here with theCUBE. We're in Reno, Nevada at the Enter Bike Show. It's a big industry gathering, talking all about bikes. But today we're at a little side event that's put on by the Royal Dutch Gazelle Bike Company, 125 year old bike company that's all in on e-bikes. And we wanted to come check it out, really learn how the e-bike phenomenon is impacting smart cities in last mile and there's so much cool stuff going on with big batteries and small motors. But it's really a lot more than that and we're excited to be here with someone who's been riding about the industry for over 25 years. It's Patrick Brady, the publisher of the Red Kite Prayer. Great to see you. Thanks, nice to be here. Yeah, so you've been doing this for a long time. I just love to get your perspective on this e-bike phenomenon. Cause you know, it used to be it's cheating and you know, these are not real bikes and you know, we're tough and we climbed the mountain and these things are not acceptable. But they're getting a ton of adoption. We just heard from the team at Gazelle. They're gonna sell a third of the bikes they sell this year are e-bikes. That's amazing to me. Yay, I'm glad. I mean, this thing where, yeah, it's cheating. It's like, no, a good time is never cheating. Why this is a problem for people? I don't understand. The thing is the very first time I ever got on an e-bike I grinned so hard my cheeks hurt. It's a good time. And you know, the thing is it's so effective for transportation. I'm cyclophilic. Okay, I love road bikes. I love mountain bikes, but I just like bikes. And so if I can keep my car parked and use a bike to get around, I bought an e-cargo bike, different company. But I love these. They're stylish, you know, and it's such a great way to get around. It's easy to park, easy to lock. They've got an integrated lock on them. You know, why wouldn't you use that as a way to get around? You know, gas guzzling cars, this is not what our future will be. We've got to be intelligent about what the future is. Another problem that we face as cyclists is that we're getting run over. People are on their smartphones and every time somebody gets out of an SUV and starts riding a bike, what happens? It's in the brain, we recognize that which we are. And so a chance to cause someone to recognize us out on the road. Oh look, somebody on a bike like I have. Right, right. Maybe they're not going to run us over. Right. So it's a way to decrease congestion on our roads. It's a nice way to see the world.  If you're on a bike, it's a better way to see the world. Right. Like 15 miles an hour, that's going to be my blog or 14. Cause it is, it's nice to be outside. You know, you're in the fresh air. What's amazing to me though is I really came into this with a hypothesis around last mile. This is not last mile at all. These things are just substituting out for people's car. I just heard about a ride that people are doing that Googlers are doing from San Francisco to Mountain View every day. That's not an insignificant ride. So it's really a game changer. Oh yeah, I take my kids to school on my e-bike, pick them up in the afternoon, we'll go to the grocery store, pick up the pizza. No, it's so nice. And it's easier to get my boys out the door. Can we take the green bike? You know, they get excited about it. Right. So it's a big difference. So let's talk a little bit about regulation. So it's pretty interesting to see kind of, you know, regulation is usually always behind the technology. You know, how do we treat these things? Are they scooters? Are they like a motor vehicle as defined by DMV? Are they bikes? And obviously the danger comes when you have disparity of speed. So, you know, we're seeing on a lot of bike paths, no motor vehicles, which I think they mean scooters, and then no e-bikes. So how do you see kind of the regulation getting changed? Because to your point, it's always better to have somebody on a bike than a car, in general, in terms of space and congestion and all the reasons that you went through. So what is it going to take for the legislation and kind of the laws to kind of catch up to what these really represent in transforming really cities? Well, things have evolved a lot already. There's been a working group within the industry that helped define the three different classifications that are being used. Not being able to use them on a bike path, I don't think is a really big deal. You know, as infrastructure improves for cycling, out on roads, you know, bike lanes, that sort of thing, I think that's going to help. But, you know, one of the great things about an e-bike is you roll up to a red light and you pop it in turbo, you know, and the moment the light turns green, you're through the intersection instantly. So being out on the road where I live in Santa Rosa, I don't have any problems. And because the bike's big, I've got two other people with bright helmets on, people are cheering me, you know.  So it's become a very different way to present cycling to people who aren't on bikes. And they look at it and they get excited. But, you know, back to the legislation, I don't see that we're really having a big problem. There have been issues in some other places where, you know, they're just flat out not legal. And it's like, well, you know, they're going to see the light on that sooner or later. Right, right. We need to provide other options to get people around. And it's just too intelligent. And really all it takes for anybody to see the light, usually, is one rider. Give them a half a mile. They'll get it. Right. It's funny, because right at the end of the day we all like to be like that eight-year-old that got their first stingray and you get out on the road and there's really just nothing like that. But now we're a little older, a little heavier and don't quite have that agility that we had as that eight-year-old.  Yeah, it's crazy. So I'm just curious to your perspective, even within the e-bike industry, how it's evolved over the years. You know, there's so much stuff going on with batteries and motors. I think that because e-bikes are using a Bosch system, obviously Bosch is a huge car components company with giant, giant scale. So as you've seen that evolve, you know, kind of what are some of your takes in terms of the longer capacity, the longer batteries, the better systems?  The motors provide torque on a more even basis. So they don't just take off or do anything crazy. But the units themselves, the biggest single thing that I see, because a motor is a motor at a certain level, the reliability has gone through the roof. You know, Bosch, yeah, they understand what reliability is. All the companies doing this now are so much better. I remember being at a magazine in 1998 and a guy just begging me to cover his bike. And it's like, it looked like a piece of junk and I had to communicate to him, but well, our reader isn't who you're trying to sell to. Our reader, we actually like going on. We like the whole sweaty thing. And so that was an issue, but I remember what that bike was. And yeah, they're just so much more reliable. They're so much easier to use. The batteries last so much longer. Everything is, you know, it's ready for prime time. Right, right. It's funny, a lot of the conversations earlier today, we're talking about kind of those early days and it fascinates me all the Kickstarter projects around all these kind of alternative vehicles, whether they're scooters or skateboards or one-wheels and all these, you know, different variations of personal mobility. But this is an old company. These guys have been at it for a while and I cannot believe that a third of their sales this year are going to be e-bikes. So when the big traditional powerhouses come into the market, that changes everything. Yeah, well, when you look at the population of cyclists in the world and then you look at the population of the world, who do you want to sell to? If you want to grow your company, I don't know, let's sell to all the people who aren't currently riding bikes, you know, and think about what that's going to do for the world.  Right, right, right. All right, Pat, well, thanks for sharing your perspective. It's a really exciting time. We're happy to be here and I'm sure it's a whole breadth of fresh air in your coverage area to be able to get into this space. Yeah, I really welcome that. I love it. Yeah, I love it. I love that you said, I'm over the cheating thing. All right, well, he's Patrick. I'm Jeff. You're watching theCUBE. We're at Inner Bike and actually a little side event here with Royal Dutch Gazelle. Thanks for watching.


Hi everyone, welcome back to the channel, Drew here from Lone Fox, and I am beyond excited to be sitting down and filming this today. I have been waiting for the moment to inject color into my home. If you've been around for a while, you know my style. You guys would know that I do love earth tones, I love natural, I love mixing a lot of different textures together. I feel like this is a good representation of the color palette that I traditionally go for. I add pops of color here and there sometimes, but every time I'm purchasing this 1929 Spanish home, I have just been kind of working room by room. We just finished up the dining room, which is the one I'm sitting in, and we were supposed to go into my bedroom. But just to let you guys know, there was pretty much a massive flood in my bedroom, not an actual flood. It was like an internal wall flood. All the windows need to be removed and the entire wall has to be patched up. So I've been documenting that process as it's been happening, but it is a big mess and it has just been honestly, guys, like kind of a little bit of a nightmare at the same time. So I decided to shift gears. I actually asked a lot of you over on Instagram and my community tab, which space you guys wanted to see next, and a lot of you said the hallway, which I thought would be fun because this hallway here, it has so many doors. It's actually pretty wide for a hallway as well. There's a skylight, a few different areas for hanging lights. We have a sconce placement. We also have a big arch into my bathroom. So there's just a lot of fun details in this hallway. I'm also kind of thinking high gloss paint on the doors and the trim. I just have this vision in my head and I hope I can make it turn out because it really is kind of a daring color palette. I think this video is going to be going up around St. Patrick's Day as well. And if so, I'll keep this in. But we were having a St. Patrick's Day sale over on loanfox.com. I just recently added a few new vintage furniture pieces. I got back from re-upholstery. My first ever kind of upholstered pieces over on loanfox that are vintage. There's also still some pieces left from the last vintage drop plus just our traditional kind of classic assortment of really great items. So take advantage of the sale orders over 99 also shipped for free domestically. So you get that discount plus free shipping. Great, great time to shop. I'm going to get some molding at Anderson Molding that we could stack on top of the current baseboard to make the current baseboard look more chunky and like more interesting. So we don't have to rip anything out and then buy all new molding. Just made it to Anderson Molding to get some trim that we're going to stack on the baseboards in the hallway just to make them a little taller. So that way we don't have to do any demo, pull them out.  I love this like dental style molding. We also found this, which I'm really leaning towards. This is bamboo. I love the bamboo one. Like even just like an IKEA closet door. IKEA. That's just like completely flat and all there is is just that one little piece of wood. Yeah, this is the current baseboard and then paint it along with the baseboard. So it kind of looks like just an extension of what's there. Go ahead. This costs one hundred and fifty dollars for all the molding. And I think it's really going to transform the hallway. How does this look? So this first color here is new white. Both of these colors are creamy. I imagine it's just all my own same color as well. Has more of a pinky tone to it. This one's off-white. So next to that you can probably see how a little bit more green and kind of like a tiny bit more gray as well. And last but not least we have our accent color, which is this gorgeous red in which I'm considering painting all the doors and the trim. This color was the color that I tried to do in the breakfast nook ceiling. It's this is eating room red by Farrow and Ball. But we need to get this hallway cleared out so you can kind of see here that this is where I've been storing that architectural digest Ikea bookcase that I created a while back. I've had to keep that because it's just such a great memory, but I haven't found the perfect home for it yet. There's a dining room that Justin's in right here and this here is the hallway. And the hallway really is quite like grand. It's really wide entrance to Marie's bathroom or Marie's bedroom. Entrance to my bedroom, two storage closets, another storage closet, skylight, which is super cool. And then my bedroom doors here, guest bedroom doors there. And then there's also this built-in area as well. So as you can see this hallway is pretty wide and if 24 feet long we actually had to measure it to grab some trim. So it's a substantial hallway and I want this kind of transitional space that leads you to all the different areas in the home. Feel part of the rest of the house so as you can see dining room through here and then kitchens over there, all the brown cabinetry. So kind of need to make some decisions that match the space. Something that I wanted to do before painting this room was actually intensify the molding a little bit. So I got some additional molding strips from the molding shop and I added them to the top of the baseboard. Always keep this in mind and remember that you can add molding on top of molding even if it's just from really any hardware store. You could find molding and stack them together because once it's all painted it's always gonna look kind of like one piece. So you don't always have to remove your baseboards in order to make them thicker. Just add an additional piece to the top, paint over it and you're good to go. So it is prep day and there is quite a lot of prep because I am going to be spraying this hallway as opposed to painting it with a roller or a brush because I want a high gloss finish. And you have to achieve that with a paint spare so we have to tape off just about everything. The door's off! Nice! Put your hinges back in. We prepped the entire hallway and we thought it would be appropriate to paint spray because we have to get into all of these little details on the molding. There's a lot of doors. There's a lot of door trim baseboards. There are these built-ins over here. Also the finish I'm wanting to achieve is high gloss. So with that it's really recommended that you actually paint spray. I actually got a new paint sprayer because my previous one was just worn out. I used it many times on this kitchen, my parents kitchen, so I got a new one. And this one is really great because it's like an actual professional-ish style. But it was about $200 and it's one that I think I'm going to be able to really have for a long time. It looks like this. We're going to give it a try but the color that we're using is that Faro & Ball Eating Room Red and it requires a specific primer in order to give it the proper tint and like color in the end. So we have to spray on the primer first on all the doors absolutely. All the trim, baseboards, everything. Are you excited Justin? I'm different. A gorgeous paint tone. I love it. Pour her in. You like that? Yeah. We're getting ready to go. This is the paint sprayer here. Have the primer in there. We did all the proper steps. Let's see how this goes. Oh my gosh. That's called painting. So yes, if your paint sprayer makes that noise just know you're out of paint. And it's trying to shake itself up essentially to get the paint down into it. It's like literally bouncing and that's what it does. So I went around and I sprayed this base coat and I really want to know if you guys think this is actually needed before adding the Faro & Ball paint or if you think that this is just a ploy to get you to buy a primer. But I was scared so I bought the primer you know. So I got the primer, sprayed it on all the doors, all the trim, all the baseboards, absolutely everything. And I only did one coat of the primer because I was able to get a pretty decent coverage with the first spray. And I only got one gallon of it which covered the full hallway. Welcome to this Pepto Bismol slash terracotta primed hallway. But it is time to paint the actual color on the wall. And I'm getting an indicator that my camera battery is dying. I've got to say the most incredible thing about paint spraying is the actual spraying process takes like 20 minutes for an entire room. Even if you're painting the full room it is fast but the prep process always takes the longest for sure. Alright I'm doing a check in. It has been a few hours since we added the second coat. Look at the high gloss you guys. Do you see that reflection? It is so good. This high gloss from Faro & Ball. So worth the investment on the paint because it is kind of pricier. But I knew using their finish would be perfect and it looks so good especially on the built-in. Like look. Look at the built-in you guys. It's like almost, you can see me in the reflection there. It is insane. So this is what the high gloss red looks like in here. And I love it so, so much. And if you recall the swatches that we did were behind this door. So I actually want to swatch our wall colors probably just right here right to the left of this door. So we can get an idea of the wall color that's going to be everywhere else in this space. This one's new white. I forget which one we liked. I did swatch two more colors before I headed out to a weekend trip. The top one there is tallow and the bottom one is string which is the lighter version of cord. So I opted for cord in the end. Look at those little teeth. Say hello. Oh. Adding to the antique hardware shop in LA. It's called Liz's antique hardware. And I'm going to see if they have any handles for the hallway. Because I feel like if I wanted an area in the whole entire home to have matching handles it'd be that specific hallway. This is a store. Look how much hardware is in here. It is unreal. Look at all these door knobs. So essentially we're going to go through and see if there are seven that could work. Price points. These are all Spanish Revival knobs. And look how pretty this is. Oh my gosh. As you can see these are $1250 a knob. So that's absolutely not going to happen. I was thinking we could paint it black behind it. So it just looks like a wouldn't that be good if we just painted right behind the keyhole black. So it looked like an actual keyhole. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. So this could potentially be the seven that would be shown. That looks nice. Alright. So I'm starting to match up some of the handles that we're finding. We're picking out them from here. And these are back plates. So we just have to make sure that that looks perfect there. Yeah, this one has a what-off, but that looks, it's perfectly. Alrighty. I think we have all 14 door knobs picked out with back plates for all seven doors in the hallway. All of our door handles are secured and we have just made it to our second location, which is called Judson Studios. It's a stained glass studio in kind of like Pasadena area, but look how cool this building is and their little like stained glass out here. I think I'm getting new glass for that because the glass that was in there before looked like this. A gorgeous blue and green just marbled glass. And I don't love the look of that. So I'd like to get something more clear that lets it a little more light and also not as clear. Who let us loose in a glass shop? And these are second options. Good morning. 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So if you are in the market for a new bed or if you know anybody that is looking for a mattress or a new bed, definitely check out Helix and use my link for sure at the top of the description box below because it will actually get you 20% off of your purchase. Plus two of their free pillows as well, which are really nice. I have those on my bed too. Back to the hallway. I have to fix a few of the doors. I'm going to share them with you guys once I get the doors fixed and put back on. We have to fix those this morning, but I actually ended up hiring my painter to come and paint the rest of the hallway. He's going to be painting all the walls and he does everything like by hand and his just craftsmanship and painting is unreal and his price really isn't too bad. So I figured I would let myself just breathe a little bit, work on those red doors I messed up. I have a few doors and cabinets I need to pull off. We're going to respray them downstairs. So let's go. Winnie, are you excited for the hallway to be done? So you can go back in it because currently you're behind the key. Come say hi. Oh, we are outside at the moment because I had to bring some of the doors down because there is this high gloss like shine. Can you see that on the edge of the door there? However, over here, you can tell that I didn't hit with enough spray. Like I don't know if you can see right in this kind of area here and then this door over here. Yeah, we just painted the entire wrong side of it. We painted the inside. I'm going to pop up a photo of this inspiration that I found online, but they actually have holes drilled in them. And to me, they kind of feel very English. I also know that these are functional in kitchens to vent vegetables and different kinds of produce. I want to add these to the cabinet doors because I feel like it's going to add like a little detail and I created this simple little template. I don't know if you guys can see these little black dots. I literally folded an eight and a half by eleven and half, then in half the opposite way. Then once I had those lines, I folded in on either side and then down at the top and marked where I wanted these five dots. We're drilling a substantial hole on all of these dot spots on the front of the doors and then we're going to spray them and then add them back onto the built-in. Since printer paper is on the thinner side, I went ahead and just taped this on the front of the cabinet door and then just marked with my Sharpie and it transferred through the paper and onto the front of the door and I repeated the same thing with my second one. And somehow a lovely little filter got clicked on the camera here, so disregard the color, but I am using a three-quarter inch drill bit that I got at Lowe's and I'm using my electric drill to go ahead and drill right through. If you are doing large holes like this, just make sure to go on the slower side. I sped this up in just for sake of the video, but do go slower. Once you have all of your holes drilled through there nice and clean, I did go ahead and give a slight sanding to those edges prior to spraying them. After I gave those a good spray, I went back inside and started to figure out how to remove this Murano glass light in the hallway, which I am going to be keeping, but just not in the hallway here. And we started popping back on some of the doors, including the original sconce that came with the home. I think this sconce is really beautiful and I love the black paired with the wall color and the trim color as well, so I think it's perfect for this room. There's also a matching one downstairs. On the built-ins, I actually found these great little knobs on Amazon. Super affordable. I'll link them for you guys. And they really match the antique knobs I got for the door handles like perfectly. So honestly, really happy about that. Alrighty, I switched cameras because the other one was making this hallway look so ugly. Like I hope that you guys can see. The colors are beautiful. I don't know what was happening with the other camera. I wanted to share with you guys the rug that I got for the hallway. Now, I actually got this for this hallway when I purchased the home. So this is one of the first flea market halls that I did so long ago, so if you remember back to it. And I bought it because it fit pretty nicely in this hallway section. I think this actually looks really nice in here. And I love the bit of black around the border.  The doors are opening. So as you'd see, this area of the hallway is more narrow and then it gets wider here. So we actually have the space for this furniture piece, which I love. This right here gives you an idea of how it looks from back here. Of course, I want to get these other doors on. That one actually looks pretty nice. So these here are the little dot accents that we added. And as you can tell, like you can't really see through them.  But I'm going to add the handles here as well. I love the way that the built-in turned out, not built out turned it. I think it's finally time that we add the glass to our skylight. And then we can get an idea for what the actual light looks like. I have a few options. I have a Facebook marketplace lantern. And then we have a few different lights that have been around the house that were installed when I bought it that we could try up here. This is vintage hand blown glass. And you can actually see the little bubbles in it and the imperfections and kind of like the waviness to it as well. I got amber, red and blue to kind of do like a primary. It's like an amber and a turquoise. I think they're going to be really pretty. Um, what color do you want next? There's always a light that hangs from here. And the other kind of fun thing about this is there's actually a bulb in the top as well. And at nighttime, it creates like a shadow box effect, which is kind of cool. I found a lantern and I will say it's a little bit larger than I expected. Marie went and picked it up on my behalf. I found it on Facebook marketplace. I just thought the look of a lantern in here could be so pretty. 50 bucks for this lantern. The guy said he paid over 750 for them when he put them in his house. He had two. I got both of them because I figured I could put the other one somewhere else. It might be super large, but I kind of feel like the oversized nature could be cool. Look from this side as well. I think it's kind of cool. I do wish it was a hair smaller, but you know for now, I definitely keep it and then look for something on marketplace, swap it in the future if I want to. But I think it's cute for now. Let there be light. All right, Justin. What are you doing? This is the light that is going to go up right there at the side of Marie's door. And where did we find this light? At a flea market. I don't remember which one. I think it was Long Beach. Long Beach is a good one, but you guys look how cute this light is with the little scallopy edge, the ring on the bottom, the simple shape and how it kind of like frames the light bulb that it's going to be in there. I think it's so cute. We could even do a little shade if we wanted to on the light. Hello. It is time to start styling this haul, which I'm so excited about.  And that's why I have nails in the wall already. I don't know if you can see. So I do kind of have a general idea of what I want to do in here, but I haven't seen it in the natural light. It took everything down so that we could film today. And let's go ahead and start adding some artwork. I also remembered that I have a furniture piece, this 1845 desk that I got in a state sale a long time ago. It's actually currently for sale over on my website. So I'm probably going to be taking it off because I think it might fit really good right here. And then the PiSafe, I might just keep or put on the website. The blue desk that would be over here is quite a bit lower. And I don't really have that much need for storage in the hallway per se. So I thought having that like blue desk and just kind of having it more as an accent piece might be cute and a little bit more easy on the eye as opposed to how bulky that other one is.  So this one here is like a line drawing and it just had such an old mat around it. So we actually matted it on top of some striped fabric, which is quite cute. I've been waiting to hang this piece up, you guys. I actually bought this at a antique store in my parents' hometown and I bought it at full price. It was $695. I've had this for a long time because something, you know how they say art speaks to you? This particular piece, I love. It's like a French Cubist piece. It has this lady kind of laying here and then there's this horse on the side. The colors are unreal and it's from 1930 France. It signed Simon on the bottom. And I just love this art piece. It's such a cool one. I've been waiting for the perfect spot to hang it and I thought, go away. I was thinking this 1825 sapine cabinet was a little too old so I thought we'd modernize this space and add this 1845 desk for a modern touch. Look at the color of it in here. What if this held all of one of six teams? Oh, it's twice? Yeah. That could be a great spot for them. Gosh, that's a great idea. This piece actually came with a provenance letter that says it was made in 1845 for a school in Kansas, which is really kind of cool. And I'm going to leave that in there as well. I got this at an estate sale a long time ago but I think the color looks really nice. I actually haven't even taken a step back to look. The size of it feels way better. I love the kind of picket leg too right here. This stunning, I mean, a lot of people would just pass this up. I see antique mirrors with patina like this. So fun and interesting. Like I love even looking at myself in them. And this one just happens to match the wall perfectly. And it just feels understated over here. I got these little vintage cast iron like 1920s bathroom plaques and they have like a woman and then a man. I'm adding them to the top of either of these kind of skinnier doors that is on the side of this arch because I have two and I feel like it's cute. Plus one of these closets is mine and one's Marie's. So I'm putting the male one above the male closet and then this one above Marie's. I think it is time to reveal this hallway to you guys. Now I'm giving you a little sneak peek in the reflection of the door. Filming on my phone, the camera just died but I am so excited and I love this hallway. Now this is not going to be everyone's cup of tea hallway. I'm sure it's probably not. It's definitely bold. It's out there. It's different but that's what I wanted this hallway to be because it's definitely the area that's going to be spent least time in the home. So I wanted to make it more of a fun transitional space where you're just like, oh my gosh, like walking from room to room you get that pop of color, a little bit of enjoyment and I love it. That was weird. Okay, I think it's time to reveal this because this house better not be haunted. Okay, let's go ahead and reveal it in three, two, one, go.


Welcome to the knuckleheads of liberty. That is mr. Biden. So let's see where is the ah there it is So a pair Joe Biden Was was I mean he Joe Biden's gotten to the point where he's literally blaming the gas station owners and He said, you know for the high price of gas, which is just absurd, you know And and here's the tweet that he put out this last Saturday. He said My message to companies running gas stations and setting prices at the pump is simple This is a time of war and global peril bring down the prices You are charging at the pump to reflect the price or the cost you're paying for the product and do it now Yeah Just so ridiculous. Maybe we could keep the image just a second because that got called out by Jeff Azos Said ouch, you know those the owner of Amazon He said inflation is far too important a problem for the White House to keep making statements like this It's either head misdirection or a deep misunderstanding of basic market dynamics Yes, Joe Biden is functionally illerate with economics Tell us something we didn't know. What do you guys think about this? Obviously, obviously Joe Biden believe in Santa Claus, right?  He still give you a gift He think he could just these gas station owners could just be Santa Claus and it could just give us a gift That they just get up in the morning and they say well, we're gonna charge them $10 today So we can do that, you know There's no such thing as supply and demand concept in this minds in the head of Joe Biden Obviously it is Santa Claus setting the prices and Santa Claus could make them lower these prices and everything will be nice and wonderful In the utopia of Santa Claus. This man is insane. He literally insane. It's just he's illiterate and insane I don't know what else to say about Joe Biden. How we won the president I like that part. Yeah, well gas gas stations have razor thin margins There's no way to have room to play around with that kind of thing and you know, so once again It just shows how far out of touch somebody that's been Life liberty and the pursuit of happiness always and forever


Hi, my name is Mariana Mazzucato and I'm here to talk about the case for government-funded innovation. A really big question in Europe, not just since the crisis, but really since the last, I would say, 20 years, is where are the European Googles? You know, why are all these funky, creative, dynamic, innovative companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, Facebook, coming out of the US and not out of Europe? And the answer that you often hear is that, you know, there's too much state, there's not enough market, there's not enough venture capitalists, there's not enough of an entrepreneurial culture, we don't have enough garage tinkerers, these kind of genius guys who in their garages think up great things. My mission is to make this debate much less ideological and to really think about the relationship between the state and the market.  Well, it's revolutionary technologies that were actually funded by government. From the internet to GPS, touchscreen display, that as well was funded by government, as was Siri, the new voice-activated personal assistant on the iPhone 5. Now, of course, you need people like Steve Jobs to put together these existing technologies, but it is wrong to think that these people, these geniuses, came out of nowhere. Now, this is not sort of big bureaucratic government, you know, funding these things sort of top-down. This was result of a decentralized network state which had, you know, sort of 17 different agencies were involved often in funding these kinds of technologies. The problem is that companies have become increasingly short-termists, increasingly spending their profits on financialized practices which are just boosting their stock prices and not making these long-run committed investments in areas like research and development and human capital formation. And in fact, the whole venture capital model of funding these innovations, which we often hear we don't have enough of in Europe, is actually quite problematic because all of these innovations actually took about 15 to 20 years to come about. And the venture capital model is one where the returns are sought after more of a three to five-year cycle. What we really need is patient long-term committed finance and what we find around the world from Singapore, Korea, Brazil and Silicon Valley, it's often been public funding agencies that have provided this patient finance. Private finance is too risk-averse to fund precisely because innovation is so uncertain. You know, nine out of ten attempts will fail. Now, what this means is that when government attempts to engage in the process of innovation, it will fail. For every internet, you have nine concords. What venture capitalists can do is that, you know, they too, nine out of ten investments will fail. But that one winning investment will more than cover the losses often and they will provide the funds to fund the next round. That's what we don't have today with government, that it's almost a complete giveaway. There's so much talk today about building innovation ecosystems. And if you know anything about biology, you'll know that ecosystems can be either symbiotic or parasitic. We used to have in the 50s, 60s and even in the early 70s, companies like, say, you know, AT&T, which had Bell Labs or Xerox, which had Xerox PARC, big R&D labs that were co-investing with government in these big new opportunities. New opportunities which then created new technologies which people like Steve Jobs were able then to use, mixed together in different ways and create the iPhone. We've gone from having symbiotic public-private partnerships where the public and private sector were co-investing together into the big new opportunities of the future into increasingly parasitic relationships where we are socializing the risk in different types of, you know, open innovation systems, but privatizing the reward. The kind of ecosystems we want are not just public-private partnerships where the government is simply de-risking the private sector or getting out of the way, you know, taking out the red tape, getting rid of tax. It's actually building ecosystems, symbiotic ecosystems where the public and private sectors co-invest in a dynamic setting and also share the rewards. The state in the U.S. that funded the Internet had it been able to earn back even just 1% of the profits from the Internet. There would be so much more, so much more today that it could be spending on green instead of many of the same agencies which funded the whole Silicon Valley miracle like the National Science Foundation which funded Google's algorithm are today under extreme pressure to cut their budgets. Tomorrow might be the green revolution but what we might need and say 20 years time is some other color revolution and where is the money going to come from? Unless government departments and agencies can actually earn something back from these investments, the money in the next round is simply not there. We might have to think of direct mechanisms for the state to receive back a return. This could happen either the state retaining a golden share of the IPR, the patents, or retaining some equity and or income contingent loans. We have that for students, why not for companies? And what's very interesting in emerging economies like well the successful ones that actually are innovating like Brazil and China is that because their state investment banks are one of the leading players within the public infrastructure that are funding innovation actively alongside the private sector, they do retain equity. A real challenge today for economies around the world is really to build these symbiotic public-private partnerships and where they must begin is asking what do we want these sectors to do together. Both the internet and even the word nanotechnology came from civil service workers within these bureaucratic organizations. The state doesn't only fix markets, which is a traditional view of what the state does in the economy. It actively shapes and creates them.