Get it next week.  I just don't think that um, I Don't know. I don't know if it if the spec bump is worth it on this form factor. I really loved The seven plus I loved that larger form factor But I don't know if it's you know, $1400 worth me if you don't have an iPhone 10 Then it's tempting. Yeah, you have an iPhone 10 But you really miss that bigger screen then it's tempting, but otherwise I don't see they you know This is not for people who just need a new phone I would have gone for it if it were closer to the 11 or 12 or a thousand range Well, the 1400 is the 512 model If I'm not gonna get small I'm not getting that 64 But like but honestly like with iCloud. It's like hey, I don't know I need all my data local. Yeah. Okay. Okay. No, that's no, no, no. I've got full closets I'm with you in general Sarah, but the one thing that that Specifically with these newer iPhones man like that 4k video stacks up so quick and Now you're right. It's true. Well, yeah, 256 is what I have now and I I couldn't downgrade but but $1500 is That's too rich for my blood one minute warning. All right our video and Discord and see the little live thing up there. We're all good Live live live could you do the honors of the line three read today? Are you talking to me? Yes? I am. Sorry. I should have said your names. You knew that Just say hey you and I'll always know. Yes Yes, of course 30 seconds So the reason I'm doing the county the the time timing now is that way I don't have to try to get guess what time it is and write it down for the patreon now I'll know it's it's gonna be 18. It's gonna be 18 minutes in a good day internet That's when I can write it down if we just start when I say make sense to my 15 seconds Does mean that we spend a lot of time saying how many seconds five Three two one Thanks everybody who supports daily tech news show directly to find out more head to daily tech news show comm slash supports This is the daily tech news for Thursday, September 13th 2018 in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt and from studio fila and I'm Sarah Lane From Oakland, California. I'm Justin Robert young And on the fringes. I'm Roger Chang the fringes of respectability as well as Humanity sure that that is that is a great Hailing from hailing from the fringes. It's Roger Chang. Yeah, which ones all of them all of them one one of these days I'll start selling supplements Please please put that in the store daily tech news show comm slash store Justin brought us a good topic today. We're gonna talk about Breaking them all up not just the Yankees the Google the Facebook the Amazon, but let's start with a few tech things You should know The European Court of Human Rights or EC HR has ruled that the UK's government communications headquarters failed to provide Sufficient oversight and surveillance safeguards on bulk data collection violating article 8 of the European Convention on human rights However, the court also ruled that the agency's sharing of data with foreign governments was not illegal and bulk data Interception was okay so long as safeguards were in place the case was brought to the court by 14 human rights and privacy rights Organizations in an email sent to switch owners Nintendo stated the September 18th system updates gonna lock your profile to whatever Nintendo account it's on now used to be able to move them around not anymore So you should ensure that your switch profile is assigned to the account You'll want it to be assigned to because it'll be impossible to unlink it after the 18th The change will allow users to manage cloud game saves downloadable content And of course if they buy it the Nintendo switch online membership Privacy-focused browser brave filed complaints against Google and other companies in the UK and Ireland based on GDPR Brave and its co-plaintiffs say that these firms aren't complying Because when a user visits a website personal data that described them as being shared without their knowledge This is my my reenactment of what happened when this showed up at Google put it on the stack All right, let's talk a little bit more about Facebook What are they doing? Well Facebook announced a new tool to help reviewers analyze pictures for false content more quickly The system uses machine learning based on engagement signals like user feedback from Facebook to false flag false content that falls into three categories So manipulated or fabricated content or out of context content or something that has either a text or an audio claim Against it flagged content is sent to partner fact-checkers for review who use visual verification techniques and research data from experts and academics and government agencies to cross-check the content the tool is available to all of Facebook's 27 partners in 17 countries I'll be honest. This strikes me as a little look what look at me. Look at what I'm doing And I know Facebook kind of has to do that these days, but they are taking machine learning Which they know they can we know they can do they're taking computer vision, which we know they can do and they're Implementing it in their fact-checking system where machine learning identifies something and flags it for fact-checkers, which they we know they already do with posts Yeah, so this is just taking a few pieces that already existed and plugging them into each other and then putting a big press release out about it And they pass it off to their partner fact-checkers and as we have seen Over the last 48 hours between the weekly standard and think progress is its own hell portal portal to hell As they you know crossfire against each other This seems a little bit You know, I know that the horse has indeed left the barn, but you should see our new security measures For any future horse that might be eyeing the exits there might be another horse in this bar We're just saying it's not getting out. Yeah, look at what we did we had a lock and We had a piece of rope and so we added those together and now this barn I'm very often cynical about stuff like this But I do think that at the very least Facebook is publicly making an effort to say we want to try and have some kind of control over this content instead of just having it be engagement engagement engagement Well, yeah, I mean if this was a story about Facebook saying we're using machine learning to help identified false content in photos We'd all say what weren't you already doing that the whole idea of partner fact-checkers? Yeah, it sounds great It's you know people at universities government agencies But if that's actually identifying anything on a significant scale And that's something that facebook can put into a report six months from now That would that would be valuable Well, and they've been doing this with text with the partner fact-checkers Not like the partner fact-checkers thing is new, but you're right They can now have more cases to cite in a little while Snapchat announced 20 news partners including CNN CNN's coming back to snapchat Some people are very excited about that cosmopolitan daily mail Harper's Bazaar NBC news To curate stories from user-generated content on snapchats platform This is part of new content push in the media section discover Snapchat says that in the past month more than 75 million people have watched this type of content on discover Last year snapchat launched a stories everywhere initiative let users and news organizations embed snapchat content outside of the platform This is really smart snapchat knows that the one thing it still has going for it Is when stuff's happening people tend to snap it Not so much insta story it Although the insta story pretty much everything else about their lives But but when breaking news happens a lot of times news companies will look at snapchat because that seems to be Where people tend to capture things that are happening right at that moment more often still and so you know as as they slowly watch their I wouldn't say their users are eroding, but they're stagnating They want to play to their advantages and this is one of them Snapchat has always reminded me of a facebook before the news feed Like they have a core seed of a great idea that they were never able to really take to the next level And part of it is viral content and now they are trying to do it What this reads to me though is working with the news partners is All right, so we paid a lot of you guys to go hire other people to create stuff specifically for snapchat That money's run dry, but let's figure out a way that we can just pay one Person who still works on your staff to go and curate things that we can put your name on Well, you know in tom you sort of you said some people were excited about cnn coming back Let's say there's a natural disaster or some big news event right might go to twitter But i'm also kind of going to cnn.com half the time just to be like what's on the homepage But if cnn had a good curated snap discover story that I could hit really quickly that was that was um Based specifically on what I was looking for I might use snapchat more because you're right at least in my friend circle of the 30 to 40 people I followed at one point no one's using anymore But if it's a news tool then it's still a value to me Well, and I think what snapchat is hoping we'll see how likely this is You're still going to cnn Let's say if you're a fan of cnn and you're seeing embedded snaps there and you think oh, that's interesting I wonder what else is on snapchat you open snapchat to see What other things are in that discover section and cnn is one of the curators So you probably go into their channel first and see what's happening there Uh, my one last word on this is snapchat was built as a platform that issued virality And now this is them that they needed to make that turn I think maybe two or three years ago to embrace some element of this content breaking this Walmart acquired the crowd sourced on demand delivery marketplace corner shop at Sorry for 225 million dollars corner shop offers delivery from supermarkets pharmacies and specialty food retailers in Mexico and chile Which walmart says will continue after the deal closes last month walmart co-led a 500 million dollar investment in chinese online grocery service Dada jd doja Which is part owned by jd and back in january walmart partnered with ratukin to offer grocery delivery in japan As well as the sale of ratukin e-readers ebooks and audiobooks in the united states And they just announced three-hour grocery delivery in a few locations through jet.com Which which they're relaunching with a brand new look trying to be all localized. So walmart Pulling out all the stops Trying to compete with amazon here and say hey, we are still a powerhouse in retail And we're not going to be left behind by not being the folks who can deliver No matter the market Buying corner shop is super smart because you're getting into some some growth markets that maybe amazon isn't as strong at yet I totally agree and You know walmart's strategy has been interesting with this They they've really focused their marketing around the idea that you don't have to pay a membership fee That has been their attacking point in terms of Differentiating themselves from amazon. However, they do have a minimum order fee in a way that amazon does not for prime so This is this is curious to see where the the walmart shopper Wants to go what what do they feel more comfortable with paying something up front for a year's worth of stuff? years versus years worth of service or Is it well you got to order 50 bucks, but you never have to pay anything up front All right this next one I know a lot of you're going to just start throwing tomatoes as soon as you hear who's behind it But krebs on security reports on something called project verify From the mobile authentication task force Which is operated by the four major us mobile carriers for is an at&t to mobile and sprint so It's another take on authentication without passwords. It uses details from a person's phone as well as details from their mobile account And the idea here is yeah, you might be able to sim swap But that's not the only signal we're looking at so we could even stop sim swapping Because we know Where a customer is supposed to be and this isn't spying on them per se because they have to know where you are to Provide you cell phone super so they're saying we will will notice if you're not where you're supposed to be We'll look at the cryptographic signature tied to your sim card to say hold on is that the right sim card Task force is working on an app that would be pre-installed on their phones The app can also pre-populate data when you're signing up for a new account Put in your address your credit card all of that stuff The app is designed for mobile, but they say it could work on other devices. They're not necessarily going to limit it And they want it to be open for others to use They're not trying to lock it down to the particular characters carriers It's in private beta right now public beta testing is scheduled for some time next year So What do y'all think are you happy to let mobile carriers be the guardians of your authentication scheme? No No It's it's it's hard to hear this story and be like well, okay spine aside. How does this help me? I I can't I can't really think of Yes, there are scenarios where sure this might be helpful, right? But but in general I don't want any major Carrier to have this knowledge You know, I mean that that's the thing because they're using the stuff. They already know about you It's not like you're giving them any more information. You also will be in control of whether it's shared with another site They say So they're trying to do the right thing and say well, we're not just going to give it to them You decide whether they get it or not Fine, but but but creating a mobile authentication task force and and being like this is going to help you Not have to remember passwords anymore. It just sounds very messy to me It's very very interesting because These companies any kind of utility like something like like this tends to have a bit of a bad reputation We we oftentimes think more about the times that they fail or they frustrate us or they overcharge us or we have a hard time Dealing with them then we think about the miracle of cellular technology being in our lives at all times Uh, but I I do think that at the end of the day Uh, you're kind of Reputation wise priced out of me giving you more control over that's it. That's it. I think that's what sarah's saying too, right? Like it's not about what you're doing everything. They've lined out here is a great idea. Yeah, we can avoid Uh sim jacking, uh, we have the signals to make sure it's really you Uh, without having to rely on something But none of these companies have trust After the number of breaches the number of third party data sharing that's they've been caught doing They don't have your trust that they are going to implement it and operate it well Maybe they will and if they did it's actually a really good system It is but you have to trust the company also operate it the way they say they're going to operate it You're the same company that I had to keep my old plan on for eight years after it was uh depreciating because I got caught letting a third party sell my data to police departments Yes, uh, yeah, I mean those are all those are all real stories May I take a moment here before we move on to the next story though? Just a moment of Well, sure. I had two internet connections installed at my new place this morning AT&T and spectrum and they both went flawlessly Now of course me saying that means that both connections are going to go out tomorrow, but right. Yeah You no longer have internet. I had polite knowledgeable Installers from both places AT&T took less than 40 minutes spectrum took 20 minutes Had me up and running with exactly what I ordered working. Well, so I just you know We don't call attention to the good things when they happen often I mean again. These are miracles. They they all Miracle that has reshaped us in so many fundamental ways. We should praise them and they will be recorded in history as Just changing It does say something that tom was like may I take a moment? Yeah Or that I planned not to be here in the studio today because I knew it wouldn't go off on time Right, right. Yeah at the end of the day We will just remember the gifts they gave us and not remember that they tried to bundle it with a home camera and cable television for $60 more a month that we didn't want to pay. Oh the nostalgia sitting in the Comcast line On patrera avenue. Anyway, that's a story for a different time Elibaba affiliate and financial denies claims that it scoured equifax in order to gather code Confidential data and documents to help recruit staff for its own credit scoring service Now sources tell the wall street journal anonymous sources that and financial hired china-born canadian david zoo from equifax And that zoo looked up employee information at equifax to find potential hires for ant Zoo denies this and a statement ant financial says it quote did not use equifax intellectual property or trade secrets Including code algorithms or methodology in the development of our credit card rating product and financial has found a credit rating product Rather and ant financial has found absolutely no evidence of equifax software data or code having been transferred To our systems if anthony levandowski being accused of taking data from google to uber Is don't taste peak. This is volcano Like like this is like the same story, but with china I know it more And also i go out reputation if you're going to go from from uh alibama to equifax It's it's alien versus predator like, you know, whoever wins we lose Also, I like that equifax said we didn't want to involve federal prosecutors because we just didn't think they had anything that valuable Yeah, how are they going to help us? Yeah, um Decided already all got leaked out later. Anyway, so what are you gonna do? Hey, I got an idea. Why don't you enjoy the news in a fast efficient manner like my installers with daily tech headlines Each day in about five minutes you get all the headlines you need just subscribe to it at daily tech headlines dot com All right, so uh the verge a few days back had a great story about uh the monopoly busting cases Against google amazon uber and facebook. We may or may not get to uber. I think that one's more about price fixing and we've covered that a lot Uh apple also, we're going to give a short shrift and they they they kind of skip over it a little bit in their article as well Uh because apple being a hardware oriented company doesn't have quite The dominance that other companies do they also have a lower market share with them. It's more about the app store It's about hey, do they are they controlling their platform too closely? Uh and that's interesting, but let's let's dig into google amazon and facebook Uh google and facebook of course as we mentioned facing multiple gdpr lawsuits most recent being that one from brave We mentioned and google of course under antitrust investigation in european union But I found interesting in here justin that open markets matthew stohler told the verge If you're looking for a silver bullet probably the best thing to do would be to block google from being able to buy any companies going forward Suddenly you have to compete with google as a startup Not be nice to them hoping they'll buy you and in fact senator Amy klobuchar from minnesota has introduced a bill that would place an outright ban on acquisitions by any company with a market cap Higher than a hundred billion dollars So, uh real real quick I do want to touch on the the uber thing just very quickly and we can move on the the uber thing is fascinating in that What they want, uh, the the the the thing that they posit is that uber would have to become air b and b effectively for people that want to drive you around Where drivers would have to set their own pricing instead of uber setting it because that would be a price fixing thing Which I think is a fascinating kind of idea. I think it's unlikely. We move on uh the Uh the google thing. I actually think is kind of equally as unlikely although a fairly ingenious kind of solution uh the The roll-up A phenomenon of google is something that we had, you know from covering tech and uh understanding silicon valley There is not a pitch that happens in which the sentence or maybe google will buy you Uh, uh doesn't happen at at some point It is a part of this marketplace and specifically I would say a few years ago is probably when when the cotton was high Uh at its at its peak I don't know whether setting an arbitrary number of a hundred billion as gigantic as that might be would be something that politically Could get the traction that it needs to but it would certainly hamper google and you have to wonder if If if you know now government pressure comes down and and it is the choice Well, all right. You either never buy a company again or self break up or We will break you up into very different pieces What they would choose Like a one-in-one-out thing If you want to buy a new company you got to spin one out because it is a death sentence to a company to say you can no Longer acquire. Yeah, you acquire for many reasons you acquire because you want to acquire talent. You want to acquire patents You want to acquire technologies Or you just want to diversify one of the smartest things alphabet ever did was become alphabet and say We're gonna long term try to grow these other businesses To plan for that one day when google starts to flatten out which we're already seeing the early science of sure, uh You'd have to wonder though if you're google and now you can't buy that scrappy little startup Do you have any other option than to use every possible a manner to try and crush them? I mean, yeah, I you have to hire away people and then that becomes problematic all of a sudden you're encouraging poaching like I I don't think that this is something that It's it's interesting from people that for for us and everybody listening to because you know how pervasive it is in this startup culture But at the same time, I don't think it gets us closer to a better more level playing field Let's talk about amazon amazon Uh, it kind of skates by on antitrust stuff because the antitrust standard these days is consumer harm And amazon generally treats consumers. Well consumers get easy return policies. They get low prices Uh, so lawyers like lina con are arguing that amazon should be treated as a utility infrastructure company They're saying the platform of amazon should be separated from the retail manufacturing part of amazon amazon does Manufacture some of their own stuff or at least orders it to be manufactured. That's the amazon basics lines, right? By the way, lina con was hired by f tc commissioner rohe chopra in july so she is now part of The administration that enforces these rules stacey michael co-director at the institute for local self-reliance told the verge amazon needs to be broken up so that the platform is separated from its retail and manufacturing Operations and the platform needs to be treated like a common carrier So it's required to serve all comers equally which Almost is the way it happens right now, right? Anybody can open a shop on amazon, but it's definitely tilted in favor of amazon Yeah, sorry sarah. Were you gonna say some well? Yeah, I was going to say I I agree with stacey michael here My my gut instinct is there is something to be said about amazon being split up into two different companies There's the retail business But amazon obviously has so many more things that don't have a ton to do with the retail business And so it would be hard to categorize the entire company a certain way Not sure that in its current states. I agree that it should be treated as a utility infrastructure company But again, if it was a little bit more alphabet like I think that that would make more sense At least as far as this particular argument goes So the the argument here is that you have seen externally amazon being fairly ruthless when it comes to Outside competition. There's there's an example stated in the article about diapers dot com right that they Just went absolute cutthroat on matching literally every possible price and sale that they could Until diapers dot com had depreciated enough that amazon bought them that is as cold blooded as it gets Now the question is as it always is with these kinds of cases How much does the government want to weight in referees style into sharp elbowed business practices? When is somebody so big that them playing hardball with a mid-level competitor? Isn't just trying to be the best You know the best product that you can be but rather anti-competitive.  I will mention for the You know for full disclosure that my wife works for an amazon related company, but uh I think this is one of those you're you're probably going to see within the next five years some kind of Too many people buy things from amazon We need to look into where this fits legally amazon to me feels like on the retail side The most likely of these four to face A traditional style monopoly breaking Uh, kind of effort from thank goodness for walmart Well, imagine a world where amazon becomes a common carrier and walmart can use them Yes to deliver their retail. I mean, that's just that's a crazy mixed up upside down world Last one we should touch on before we finish this up is facebook Oh facebook It's privacy. It's social networking. It's election meddling. It's it's machine learning. It's fact checking It's a natural monopoly and there really isn't any competition for it out there No amount of portability requirements are ever going to produce a meaningful competitor to facebook So they are the most traditional monopoly in my opinion because there just isn't a direct natural competitor And this article compares them to at&t and says maybe you split facebook into baby bells Or there's talk about you just create a whole new law for facebook That restricts what they can do But even if you break them up into instagram and whatsapp you still have the problem of facebook I mean, that's the biggest issue here. You'd have to break facebook itself up And I don't know how you do that and and that's the problem is right now facebook dies if you separate any part of it facebook is an ad sales company the same way that google is an ad sales company They need as many platforms as possible so they can push their Add structure they're the ad sales into these different channels I don't think that facebook is going to face that kind of pressure even though it is very obviously among the most famous Uh to say all right. Well, you might have run afoul of how our culture works Simply because I think facebook is the most vulnerable of these companies It's a walled garden and if people stop scaling that wall Its power decreases exponentially in a way that amazon's doesn't google's doesn't and uber's doesn't And don't forget microsoft didn't get broken up and microsoft is still around It's having a resurgence, but it is not as dominant Or as relevant to this conversation as it was back when it was the one under the gun for for antitrust In the early or the late 90s early 2000s. So things change and also microsoft learned the lesson the hard way to have lobbyists in washington and maybe by the local newspaper Like amazon did Yeah Well, something that will never get broken up is our subreddit Tell you what submit stories and vote on them. See what I did there a daily tech news show at reddit.com Of course, we're also on facebook Until it gets broken. I'll just get facebook.com slash groups slash daily tech news show hang out with us Submit stories. We love you for it. Thanks in advance. The other thing. There's no monopoly on his email You can use any email provider you want to send us an email and sarah might pull it out of the mail bag That's correct. Just like this one from yaru in malaysia who wanted to clarify after yesterday's apple event something that I definitely did not realize at the time. So yaru. Thank you for keeping me honest He says tom mentioned that the iphone 10 is available at a lower price and sarah said Maybe she's interested in buying it. This is technically true in third party marketplaces but incorrect in the official lineup sense because The uh, the the new uh iphone 10 or sorry the old iphone 10 has been discontinued and the new 5.8 inch iphone 10 s is basically its replacement Yeah, so refurbished or used would be your only options there. Thank you yaru. Yes. Thank you very much that clarification And then uh, we got an email from dominique who said hi sarah Hi tom hi roger quick comment from a fellow tech reporter in brussels after listening to dts on my morning commute As I do every single day. Good morning Sausage making is a messy business and this is particularly a messy european legal sausage He's talking about of course the copyright directive. We mentioned yesterday However, I am reasonably confident say 85 confident that europe did not just approve upload filters in a link tax tom That's based on calling quite a lot of well-informed people who told me wildly differing versions of this and then trying to digest it all Here's the main point many people have been missing. This is not about the internet It's about google and to a lesser degree facebook article 11 is about making google pay a licensing fee to news publishers Article 13 is about making youtube pay more money to artists Why because google has a lot of money and you can argue they don't really pay their fair share So this is essentially a google tax camouflaged as copyright reform or at least that's what many of the authors of the original proposal Intended thank you for dts. It's a great way to start my day in my time zone And since sarah has joined and the old tnt team is almost back together. I try not to miss a single episode Thank you dominique. Uh, he writes for the day standard in brussels Uh, and we had a continuing conversation about this over email about this because I think he's exactly right The question is what does that final form take because remember there's one more vote And then each country implements it in a different way and I think a lot of the fears are about Okay, it may be aimed at google and everybody writing it may be say well, we just really mean companies like google But that doesn't guarantee it won't be applied in a way that has unintended consequences Look at youtube's own content id and I think that that's where the uncertainty comes in Well, thank you yaru and dominique and also thanks to jesson robert young for being with us this fine thursday Justin what is new? Well, tell you what uh, the free political newsletter. 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No, I wouldn't be I wouldn't be putting any more shoes on the floor at this point I don't know. I'm just used to life the way I lived it three weeks ago. I hear you Pardon me if I take off my jacket. It's warm. Yes. That's warm here, too. I'm so sorry It's okay. You're right. It's my fault, but I'm just like what is wrong with you dog Like I saw he came kind of popped his head in a couple times during the show everything's fine It's like what possessed you to do that. You know not to He's a dog. He's a dog But I but I need to reason with him No, you know that that's the one thing I try we try doing with our daughter Three not gonna work. You can't right. I know Well, I know I know But it's like I I hate That the fact is like I just have to be really mad And then that's the way that we communicate that that was you know, it's just bad mojo So now we we both have a bad afternoon type thing Yeah, w. scottis one wants you to get into chat roger Oh So he can give you the paste bin. Sorry w. scottis I Yeah, I've been For some reason when I see myself in discourse like oh, I'm logged in Not bad, not bad or there's other ways to get roger the paste bin. I suppose but you can just It's cool. It's cool. I should be in it. I should be it. I just Totally spaced on it spaced Space the final frontier These are the voyages of me packing my stuff into as little space as possible. So wait a minute. Hold on Uh, based on last week's email Is this The is this tie The the the pol right? Yeah, doesn't it Email I thought it had I thought it had already um Surpassed it or was that last week that it tied it went past it No, I think he was giving us heads up about this coming week, right? Oh, that makes sense or was it last week? Might have been last week. I don't know. I'm comes at me fast these days Well, and I was traveling so all of a sudden like last week just became a blur of You know outside of time um How about amazon prime for government regulation amazon primed for government regulation? That's pretty good Miracles are flawless home in the internet installations Uh See I don't hate amazon the common carrier. What do you think uh, jester?  I want to be the shoe The shoe in so mad at this dog Oh, I know that feeling Uh, I do I do like can you protect me now? Or amazon prime for government regulation that that one I think is and if we say primed I think that makes it perfect All right amazon primed for government intervention So On september 6th, which was last thursday We got an email from nth my actually nth mike said in slack That next thursday Uh Is when we tie that means that as of next friday's episode the dts era will be the longest of the three Eras of tom does tech news podcasting So we have reached the same number of dts episodes as there were number of buzz out loud episodes When I did my last buzz out loud Well, that's cause for celebration. Yeah Congratulations to all Congrats Best wishes And to 3 000 more Or And next year we'll be hitting five years and in like 17 days, it's gonna be a year of sarah lane on dt It's true. It's so many milestones. I was just thinking about that because I remember it was um Well, it was october 1st. Yeah So and that's the world around the corner weirdly That's crazy. I feel like you've been doing it for longer longer than that I I I mean maybe just because it just feels so natural. Yeah.  I don't know. I don't remember forever This is just what I've always done. Um, so yeah, I know it it's it's It's gone by quickly, but I'm like, what did I do? Before we did the show every day I know I know I was alive Remember what I was doing during lunch I suppose I ate lunch I probably yeah, maybe I Worked on things. I was still looking at tech meme. I mean that part doesn't change I was I was doing half the job without the second half of the Yeah, yeah Well, that's the sign you're in the right place and I'll say I will I I think the new place is going to look a little different on video It's going to should sound pretty much exactly the same as it does right now for audio, which is the main thing Uh, but I think it's going to work nice. Well, when you say look different on video You mean the it's just the shot. It's going to be a little different or lighting won't be the same Because it's got more natural light coming into that room and I don't want to put blackout curtains I want to take advantage of that. I may use different ways. I may even use a different camera Uh, I'll probably put these books behind me to start with just to ease the transition Uh, who knows maybe I'll trash that at some point too But it's going to be an audio studio with a camera in it Whereas this is both a video studio and an audio studio Uh, and and I like that because I don't come down here until it's time to do the show It's not very comfortable But I think the new studio is going to feel like Oh, this is just where I work and then when it's time to do the show I I do the show Yeah, I have the same problem Here in my studio even though it's I mean, it's perfectly comfortable. I have a whole couch and everything but it's Yeah, it's not real. I come in here to do this And then when we're all done, I sort of go back out into like my house And I keep trying to figure why is it that I don't hang out and hear more It's got it's nice You know air coming in the window like there's that that makes it different. I think Well, because I at least for me it's even when I've got my cables managed nicely It's still a lot of gear So you're kind of just sitting amongst lots of you know when I I have Focus rights that aren't plugged in, you know, just it's just it's gear Centric and so I often feel like it's it's sort of like a storage room Well, and this may this may change how I feel about it in even in the new setup, but There's something about oh, that's where the audience is right there, right? And when you're working, it's like, oh, I have to perform, right? Yeah, you go in there in a different room. It's like, oh, nobody can see me Well, yeah, I think there's something to do that. That's like a logical thing. I think Yeah, well, we'll see though But man, I've got faster internet At the new place. Oh, and you know, the me starting the show was we we we thought it was a good Opportunity for you to change up your shot in your studio, right? And that was just about a year ago. So it's It's a it's a it's a once annual spring cleaning of of studios Maybe I will change what's behind me then I think I'll still do the shelves, but maybe I'll put some more tech stuff back there Yeah, the shelves can can always have whatever you want in them. Yeah, they should always evolve anyway, right? Yeah They should evolve into vertical Blind I thought you're gonna say vertebrate vertebrates vertical blinds have Have never agreed with me really Well, because it's because when the windows open and my windows always are because I'm always warm They the flappy noise can't deal with it So I just can't every time I've ever had them over a sliding glass door or whatever in a house I just take them down and put up curtains Uh folks noisy it is it is that time of year death taxes and Rumors are that michael bloomberg is running for president Oh, it's autumn Uh, uh reporting Run in 20 Uh set to run in 2020 as a democrat Oh, he's a democrat now. Is he would be a democrat? Yes Hmm Does that mean three more years at three more weeks of summer? Uh, yeah, no that means it's groundhog day I think I always remember the thing I remember the most about michael bloomberg was that apparently in his waning days as as mayor He was one of the first people to do A fully renovated sprinter van as a mobile office Oh, yeah So he would he totally uh, uh renovated us one of those big old sprinter vans and made an office out of it So he could work while he was being transported from one part of the city to the other Wow, well, that's efficiency mr. bloomberg I'm surprised but yeah Nice to have a mobile rig mobile The president has been very active on twitter this well. We hear that I apologize Well, it's all right No, it was one of those news feed windows things that pop up Closed after the um the apple event. I had kept that whatever apples event URL just Open as a tab. Mm-hmm. And after we finished here. I was like Hmm. Yeah, I don't know my neighbors must have a their tv's on really loud or something No, and finally I was like, what is that? What's happening because it had no, it was just the whole thing restarted Oh, they just re re ran it, but they but they re ran it several hours later At least on my browser. I don't know. So yeah, I was like Where is that coming from? It's not my television Mystery solved Mystery I did not watch it a second time mystery solved gum shoes Speaking of shoes, I guess I just Well, where's you? Sorry to bring up shoes. That's okay. All right. That's what we have amazon for Oh You have to put the shoes in like a cage or something. Yeah, it's They could have just been in the closet. They were warm this morning. They were right by the door I don't know.  So It's not the end of the world, but it's still not okay Uh, do you does he have a chew toy like one of those?  So it's not attractive Yeah, maybe he needs another one We'll figure it out. We'll get through this together Sure will yeah Thanks guys um So i'm going to austin this weekend You are Oh, and you're coming but you'll be back monday Uh, I will do the show Monday whether or not I will be in I will likely be in austin, but I will still be doing the show. Okay Um, is austin, I mean we're Denver it's still probably pretty hot, right? Yeah. Yeah Pretty hot pretty hot Has it been kept weird? That's what I always want to know Like aren't there like a number of cities across the country that keep bortland weird keep austin words like keep it weird Well in austin or the two I know And I can't remember which one came first But one of them was imitating the other because they're portland and austin are always comparing themselves to each other feels Yeah, the place where people from san francisco move Well, seattle got saturated so and and apologies to all uh indigenous Austin folks It's just that you get a pretty funny joke though because it's totally yeah, it's not really a joke. I mean look there's three there are three uh, uh Rivulets of expats of the bay area and it's la portland Yeah, it's funny. I I know Well, I mean three of us here on the show right now are are From the bay area and we're lived in the bay area certainly and now live in la but you don't hear a lot of the reverse A lot of people live in la from the bay area, but I don't know anybody that I can think of that's gone back to sf I actually I I know I know a fair amount of people from la That are yeah, that's a little different. I guess Yeah, if you're doing it for the first time Yeah, yeah, but how many how many times do you do any like? trip back move out Move back kind of things if it's not for like college or something like that. Yeah, I guess that's true I guess that's true people generally go back to their hometown if they go back I suppose so that could Roger and zara could go back That would be not tom tom is not tom. You're not going back I lean came back to la she grew up true. Yeah born in la grew up in ontario california But then we we are living in a place that she didn't spend a lot of time in here So she feels like she's in a different place But she did grow up in the yeah, because if you're way on the east side of Oh, yeah, she wasn't greater la area is east side. She was out in the empire. So yeah, so you wouldn't it's not like you'd be Coming down to the marina all that often Yeah, should we uh say goodbye to our youtube? Ah, yes, thank you video folks for watching and Hope you have a lovely day. Uh, if you're listening to the audio from good day internet on patreon stick around There's more to come


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Hey, welcome back to my YouTube channel guys. Today I have two of my children, my younger ones, my 10-year-old Jude. Say hi Jude. Hi. And my 13-year-old Sydney. And we're going to try something a little bit different today. We're going to do a reaction video to one of our favorite TV shows that we watch as a family called America's Funniest Home Videos or AFB. And so we're going to react to a compilation of one of these. And so, and we're going to try not to laugh. No laughing. Okay, so you're not going to want to miss this one. It's going to be a little bit different and it's going to be a little bit fun. So definitely stay tuned, check it out, subscribe below, and don't forget to check out my new American recipe book. Here we go. Okay, are you guys ready? Okay, no laughing. I'm going to totally win this because I don't think a lot of these things are probably going to be funny. Like I don't think that like humor with pets or people falling and hurting themselves is super funny. You're saying that now, but it's way too late. You think you're going to win? Yeah. Okay, Sydney, I think she's going to win. What do you think? Do you think you're going to win, Jude?  I think he's just planning on laughing. Okay, here we go. Ready to record our reactions. Three, two, one, and play. That would be me. That would be me. You guys both laugh. When you laugh, it wasn't a full laugh. Okay, she just got the studio in her mouth. I've done that before. In New Zealand, they say, I'm lucky. You haven't laughed? Oh, no, I haven't. Oh, oh, oh. Flexible. Flexible. Oh, my gosh, you guys have done that. We have the same one in our house. Really? Oh, no. Oh, no, like a little, like a little. Best post ever. now some music what is that? it's a can oh that was a kangaroo oh i've seen them before is that another happened? there's such a singing teacher in public? yes how did that happen? what did that happen? that's not funny oh no no like what's she even doing? that's another example oh I do think have these kinds of things here in New Zealand they're all over broad and front oh oh look at the flick of the wrist oh no okay oh it just gets worse oh I mean it's a pretty good volleyball form no I'm still single he was meant to are those Oreos? okay he's a cat a cat oh okay oh a lepta turkeys after eating turkey oh that's nasty oh yeah what's that? it's a bat stop he's got the forex he's so shook he's shook push the button oh my god she knows what's gonna happen happens every time this is funny savage why though why? why would you do it? oh my gosh I would be dead that was kinda cool oh yeah oh my gosh she's freaking out it's like the camel thing there facing reality oh yeah weekend done right wow two feet oh no no no that was bad this fit oh no no no no no good don't get it oh my god oh she just went in coming too well again oh is this so good oh yeah this is like ketchup look at him look at him perfect oh this game is so stressful same same she keeps going I mean she stops oh how many times have cats ready oh okay what's happening we find a hitton oh wow no no no reminds me of this weekend oh yeah it almost fell in the head that was great oh my gosh the fish just jumped out of the water look at him look at him so it's not I'm not even finding out I did what you left oh this is this is creepy it's definitely going places skills excuse me she was somebody behind there he really was up there grab his tracks no no no punch it punch it punch it punch it oh yeah yeah watch us uh uh uh nah nah put the backpack on no stop what'd you guys think I guess we all left I think I left like four or five times how many times did you left how many times did you left you left a lot three times maybe well I hope you enjoyed the video today a little bit different if you're new to this channel we are a family of six that have moved to New Zealand from the US and we just kind of share our journey so today we did a reaction video but many videos talk about life in New Zealand what it's like and what are some of the differences so if you're interested in that kind of content subscribe below I'd love to have you on my channel I do a video every week and definitely check out my Instagram account as well and my TikTok as I talk about all kind of different aspects of life on those as well I have a new American recipe book it's an eight dollar e-book and it's really great with all the American recipes and just comment below let me know what you thought of this video do you like reaction videos was that fun or not so much let me know comment below and I'll see you next week


Hello, everyone. My name is Francesca Bonatt. I'm today's host for the Bite Size talk. And with me is Robert Petit. He is from the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory and is going to talk about a, about Bactopia, which is not part of NFCOR, but is using NFCOR components and NFCOR pipelines. So, off to you. Awesome. I'm so sorry. I did mute you by mistake. You can unmute yourself, I'm sure. There we go. Oh, I'm so sorry. No, don't worry about it.  Thank you for having me. I'm super excited to be here today. I'll just kind of be introducing you to Bactopia and how I am. I'll give you a few use cases of how I'm using NFCOR, some NFCOR components in Bactopia. But first, a little motivation on how Bactopia came up. In the last 10 years, we saw a quite nice growth in the bacterial, the public available bacterial genomes from ENA, SRA, DDBJ. We went from about 7500 in 2010 to about 1.5 million, while that pells in comparison to COVID, which I think is 12 million plus now for bacteria that is quite a lot. So over these last 10 years, we've also seen the rise of containers and packaged managers such as Docker, Singularity, and Bioconda, and then workflow managers and the curators behind those such as Nexvill and NFCOR. And so in 2010, maybe we couldn't use all the data, but it really starts in 2022. It really makes me wonder, can we make use of all these public available genomes? Again, in 2010, I remember passing tar balls with binaries and then email and sequence and instrument groups say, can I get a binary to your assembler and stuff like that. There's no real sort of it was just kind of make install and hope it installs, but now in 2022, I think we're kind of there where, you know, we have the tools and we have the talent to start gluing all this stuff together and start using these data and our own analysis and one, you know, why would we want to use this data. And for example, a good example is if you have a small outbreak at your local hospital or a foodborne illness that comes out of some carnival or something. And you want to compare your genomes to what's already been sequenced. That's a nice use case of making use of those 1.5 million genomes that are available. And so, to address this, Tim Reed, who's at Emory University and was I master's mentor and PhD mentor, Hem and I developed Bactopia, which is a next flow DSL2 pipeline for the complete analysis of bacterial genomes. So you can, because it's written in next flow, you can go from a single genome to 10s of thousands of genomes with a simple parameter change and we were able to as just kind of use the necessary proof of concept because we wanted to and we were able to use Bactopia to process 67,000 genomes and just five days using AWS and a lot of that was, you know, kind of being able to prototype one, a laptop or something and then switch to our AWS profile and boom we're off and going. And that's kind of kudos to the next flow for most of that. So, Bactopia, we try to include as many NFCOR practices as we can to ensure things like reproducibility and audit logs and all that. And again, because it's next flow, it's extremely portable, and you can go laptop, HPC at your university or something between all the cloud platforms within just a few parameter changes. So that's about Bactopia. It supports Illumina and Nanopore reads. These can be from your, your local machine or from publicly available databases such as SRA or ENA. It includes more than 145 automatic tools. There are 45 Bactopia tools which are completely separate workflows which I'll get into shortly. It's been extensively tested with more than 100 tests, tested in more than 10,000 output files. It's easily installed through Bioconda, Docker or Singularity. And it's been, I think it's, I've gone through great efforts to make sure it's well documented. Some design principles behind Bactopia. One, Bactopia requires all tools that are included in it to be available from Bioconda. One of the main reasons is because it's 2022, people shouldn't be, they shouldn't have to figure out how to install a tool now. They should be able to either use a container or some sort of a conda. It should be an easy simple process. And because Bioconda has the downstream containerization, so every recipe gets a Docker container to biocontainers and a Singularity image through Galaxy Project. So we kind of have all those tools necessary to kind of start using these immediately. I also require all modules in Bactopia tools also be available from NFCore modules. And if it's not there, we add it. And then, yeah, Bactopia should be easy to install and adaptable to the user's needs. And converting to DSL2 has made this much, much easier. There are three sides to Bactopia. And you kind of think of these as kind of like checkpoints between the three. There's Bactopia helpers, Bactopia and Bactopia tools. The Bactopia helpers kind of help you get started using Bactopia. These are kind of your pre-analysis steps. Or some commands to kind of post-analysis get information. But one is the Bactopia citations, which will print out citations for all the tools used by Bactopia. The Bactopia data sets command allows you to go and download publicly available data sets that can supplement your analysis. These include things like RefSeq and GenBank sketches, as well as PubLMST schemas and many more. The Bactopia download command will pre-build conda environments for you, pool docker containers, or download singularity images as a pre-step so that way you're not doing that while you're starting a process in next flow. The Bactopia prepare will create a file file name similar to the sample sheet that you see in many of the NFCore pipelines. This allows you to really process as many genomes as you want. And the Bactopia search, one of my favorite, it takes a query, queries ENA's API then returns a list of experiment accessions that you can then feed the Bactopia to download and start processing. The Bactopia, the main Bactopia pipeline includes all the standard steps in a bacterial genome analysis, gather samples, you see the reads, the simple genomes. You can sketch your genomes and then query it against RefSeq, GenBank, call snips, all the standard things that you would expect in a bacterial genomics pipeline. It allows Illumina Nanopore reads, SRA accessions, NCBI accessions for local assemblies if for some reason that's all you have.  Something that's going to likely cause downstream failure, Bactopia will do its best to catch those so that way it doesn't stop the whole pipeline. And then once everything's processed, you get it in this nice standard directory structure. And it's this directory structure that Bactopia tools take advantage of. And so Bactopia tools are essentially more workflows for more science. By looking at that standard directory structure, you can run a Bactopia tool, which can include a single tool like Cleverate or TV Profiler, and then it'll go and find the files that it needs and run everything for you. And then you can connect multiple modules together for something like a pan genome type analysis where you're running Pyrate and creating the core genome phylogeny. And the Bactopia tools because of the directory structure will find all those files that you need. And there are currently more than 45 different Bactopia tools. And because it again DSL to I've been able to kind of framework this and make it a kind of a streamlined process. So yeah, and just a few steps, you can go from raw data to investigate results. Genomes install Bactopia through condo docker singularity. If you want to include public data, you can use Bactopia search. If you want to include public available datasets which I always recommend just to supplement your analysis the Bactopia datasets command. And then you can create file file names to process thousands of genomes if you want to using back to prepare. And then you use the back to the command to process all your, your samples, want to independently, and then further analyze these with back to the tools and by the end of it. You just have a bunch of output files that you get to sift through and figure out, can we answer our question that we hopefully asked before sequencing these genomes. So most of this has been made easier and more achievable in Bactopia by adopting and of course components. And if you're kind of on the outside wondering, you know, what should should I make it in a core pipeline or should I just keep doing what I'm doing and, you know, start adopting some of their practices, or should I just go do my own thing I think you're going to advance here is like, over these next few slides you can kind of get an idea of how I am making use of numerous in of core components without actually being in a core pipeline. And honestly, I don't think it's so much about the inner core practices and components and more so about the people behind NFC or you jump on the slack group and got a question and there's, there's many many people that are willing to help out and just, they probably seen it, especially many of the error messages that you kind of come about arithmetic so I think it's a it's at minimum you should hop on the onto the slack group and you know just start participating and get an idea of all the things happening with next flow. But here are a few ways I'm using back to be a, as NFC or component or making use of NFC components in back to be a first the NFC library which is that live folder in the NFC pipelines. So back to be a has 45 different workflows that you can execute from a single entry point so there's a primer that says, you know I want to run the pan genome back to be a tool or I wouldn't run the back to be a main workflow. And those all come in through the same main file. And to achieve this I adopted the NFC or library because one handles all the argument parts and it has super nice outputs. It does audit and you can set it up send emails and all that. Also by using that you kind of set yourself up to be compatible with the next flow tower, which is quite nice but I wanted to be able to programatically import config and parent Jason files so and on the back to be a side I have a dynamic import that looks at a workflow config and determines based on that which files it needs to import. And then. Yeah, so that way I can basically run 45 plus different workflows from the same. Which is quite nice, because previously it would have been 45 different main workflows that that I was maintaining. When I converted DSO to I was suggested, it was suggested to me that hey you should consider making use of it of core modules and I had previously participated in some of the hackathons and was quite fond of it of core modules. And so yeah it was super easy to say okay if I'm going to include as a back to be a tool it should also be on and of core modules and on the back to be a side I do some slight modifications, and these slides will be available later but there's links, kind of compare the two there's many links and any slides. And so, some of those modifications are mostly just adapting to use pre built condo environments and just kind of the way I important export and files. I also adopted a similar pie test framework for back to be a that is implemented in core modules so this allows me to test every step and back to be a back to be a tools. And this is saved my butt quite a bit when it comes to submit a new release typically. It's the condo side that kind of something has changed with the, the packet solver and so. I use self hosted GitHub action runner, and those modules like gtdb which use large databases, those are actually being tested with a real database on my self hosted GitHub action runner so there's that side effect that gets we're kind of validating indirectly the NF core module. Finally, I use the metadata YAML template for documentation. When I first saw that better yet YAML was like oh that would be kind of nice to just kind of build documentation from. And so I add stuff like citation some work down tables and output trees, and then the YAMLs are been used to build the documentation use ginger to templates. And so this is really saved me a lot of time by allowing me to write documentation while building back to. So what's next for back to be a. I am always waiting to see what's next for NF core and kind of in the background saying hey, should I do this or not. I'm going into multi qc modules, because back to be a need some sort of report generation. There always be more NF core modules that I'm submitting because there's always more back to get tools I want to submit or implement. So my eyes on the, that issue on next to about the future of the config files because the way I use config files that that could have some, some downstream effects on back to good. I'm interested in making custom workflow for surveillance here back to be in the more I use rich click I just want to rich click everything so expect to enhance CLI here too. Yeah, don't hesitate to reach out if you think I can help you get started on your non NF core pipeline and using NF core modules. So thank you and I will take any questions folks have. Thank you very much. So I haven't able now for everyone to unmute themselves if they have questions. Otherwise we can start with the one question that is already in the chat, which is from light on. I'm just asking it seems like back to be as not in the APT repository. Could you work in on including it. I, I don't know much about including tools in the app repository. It is available from bio content so you can kind of install back to be a. There would be many components of back to be a that aren't in the app repository. So I don't know how that would work as if it would be something like you would have to add all the dependencies to the app repository and I think the, the time required for that and the learning. I don't have the bandwidth for at the moment. And I think definitely consider using the big bio content stall and then from there you can use conda Docker singularity. Okay. Thank you. Are there any more questions from the audience. If not. Yeah, thanks. I do have a follow up question. It's not really based on the app repository thing it's the. The workflow that in terms of the different steps that back to back to peer does I didn't get what Robert meant by the final step that talked about something about the analysis I was wondering what are the specific things like what's the actual, what are you measuring at the end of the day, you've got to be specifically in terms of, you know, the omics analysis now. So it's going to include pretty much all your standard back to genomics so you're going to QC the reads. How well did you sequence your sample. What's the average reading all that fun stuff that it's going to kind of characterize your, your sample. What mst schema doesn't have certain antibiotic resistance genes that you may be interested in. Does it have snips and indels against a reference genome that you selected. Does it compare to public available genomes does it, does it look like is it is it what you expected the sequence so if you thought you sequence that staff or is in it. You know it kind of came up as looking more like enter caucus like that's something that those are the type of analysis results and on the back to be a documentation. There's kind of an overview of the workflow at each step what's happening. And then output overview is on all the output files that you get for both back to be a and all the back to be a tools and those output give you a description what's in the each of the files. Okay, thanks. So my final question is, I saw you integrated these with the Lumina reads and I believe none of our reads so what happened to pack bio. Yeah, I just don't, I haven't been exposed to pack bio data much. And in my, yeah, so far in my analysis and my studies. Yeah, we just, I think if, if I start using pack bio, then pack bio data will come in otherwise, I think I would need support from the community to kind of add that type of. Just because I don't have the opportunity to use it on a daily basis like I do a Lumina now for so yeah we need someone else to kind of help out there. Cool, thanks, good job. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you very much. Are there any other questions. I don't see anything pop up so I would like to thank you again, Robert, everyone else. There's always the chance to ask more questions if they come later at the bite size channel on Slack, I guess you can also contact Robert directly. And this video will also be uploaded to YouTube. And I would like to thank, apart from Robert, of course, the John Zuckerberg initiative, who is funding these talks. And thank you everyone for joining in.


So for the first time in his 25 year of ownership career, he fires a head coach in the middle of the season. Shout out to Zach Kiefer for that particular nugget right there. So one week removed from the ring of honor, he's like, I need one of these guys back. Jeff, you've been coaching high school, get your back in here. Can't be that hard. Need to get more than negative two yards in the first quarter. You think he can do that? That's where the Colts are right now. I think Jeff can bring him back a little bit. But once again, this is a throw away for the year. Maybe Jeff earns a full time job though. Maybe. Maybe Jeff is supposed to be an NFL head coach and none of us knew it until this morning. Maybe Jeff didn't know he was gonna be an NFL head coach until all of us found out this morning. Jeff Saturday, I have faith in him. I like him as a human. I think he's a good leader. I think he knows football. I think he's passionate. I think he holds people accountable. I don't think that means the Colts are gonna have a great season this year, but I am appreciative that Jim Hersey said it.  Yeah, bring him in. Pretty much.


Hi, I'm Ashley. I'm a user experience designer, and I just heard about cryptocurrencies today. Wow. So I was just trying to decide whether this is worth looking into. And it seems like there is a real question of ethics going on. And I know you kind of spoke to the media and stuff. But I was in a very real job interview today with a for-profit company. And I just want to know what the role of user interface designers and user prosthetizers and stuff is for this kind of platform. Where is their room to be? I don't know. See, I told you it was a bad question. No, it's not at all actually. What I'm trying to figure out is what's important about it and where to find a spot inside it. I did a presentation which you can Google at the Ideolab in San Francisco. It was actually the Ideolab as the company from San Francisco. I did this at Harvard University as part of a workshop between Ideolab and Harvard. And they were doing a workshop on design fundamentals and a hackathon. And they had all these young designers to come and do design for Bitcoin. And I did a presentation which basically was an hour of me telling them everything that sucks about Bitcoin design. And the really interesting thing about Bitcoin is that if you look at it simply as a computer technology or missing the point, Bitcoin is probably the fifth change in a technology that is the most ancient technology we have as a human species. And that's the technology of money. So it's like barter, precious metals, fiat pieces of paper, credit cards, Bitcoin. So one of the elements of design is taking something that is new and creating metaphors, visual metaphors, linguistic metaphors, ways to make something that is completely new and different, accessible to people who have an existing paradigm in their head, and helping them understand it through metaphors by setting up expectations of behavior. So if we call it Bitcoin, what does that mean? What do you expect it to behave like? If you say this is a wallet, what do you expect it to behave like? So for a user interface designer, nothing is better than taking a really, really strange, disruptive technology that affects the most important technology we use in society, money, and changes it in a way that it hasn't changed more than five times in more than two million years. And taking that technology and trying to explain it to people through design. And the good news is, the attempts we've made to explain it through design are laughably bad. So let's take Bitcoin, the name, right? What do you call the most abstract form of money ever created? Well, let's call it a coin, which is the most physical money ever created. Well, that's not a good idea. How about we put the prefix bit in front, which in some languages means small, because that's what you want to associate with money, and in other languages means I'm a geek. That should alienate anybody over 40. Now let's take the main user interface that everyone will interact with. It's a collection of keys. Let's not call it a key chain, let's call it a wallet. Because the one thing you can do with a key chain is make a copy of it. If you have a key to your house, and you make a copy of the key to your house, another person can get into your house. That makes far too much sense. Let's call it a wallet. Let's call it the thing you have in a pocket that you can't make a copy of that actually holds all your money. Even though a Bitcoin wallet doesn't hold any of your money, and you can make a copy of it because all the coins are actually in the network. And it goes on and on and on and on. Bitcoin is a space plagued by design decisions made by engineers. I mean, what greater challenge could there be for a designer to come in and fix all this mess? As far as work is concerned, the interesting thing is that this space has been generating thousands of jobs. Well-paying jobs, there are over $2 billion of investment that have flowed into this space just over the last two years. In a time when outside of this space, the vast majority of jobs are a minimum wage unqualified, and in this space, the jobs are creative and sophisticated and highly paid. I mean, I know you said you had an interview for a real job that pays real money, and I understand that. This has been my real job, and I have been earning fake money, internet money, Bitcoin money, for just over three years now. And I live happily with an income paid in Bitcoin. In fact, interestingly enough, this seven-city tour involves six talks which are organized by Bitcoin meet-ups that are helping me support my expenses, and one conference that is organized by Swiss banks. Who do you think paid me faster? I sent the Swiss banks the invoice, then they asked me for the Swift code, but my bank was closed, so I had to wait until the next day. Then I called my bank, they gave me the Swift code, I sent them four pages of instruction, they made the payment, nothing happened for two weeks, then I followed up with my bank, and they told me that they can't find the payment, so they asked me to follow up with their bank, but my bank was open, but their bank was closed, so then they followed up with their bank the next day, and they couldn't find the payment, so they asked me to follow up with my bank, but my bank was closed, so the next day, I called my bank again to ask whether wire transfer is, and you say, no, you see what happened is, this is a US dollar account, and they sent Swiss francs. So you converted them, no, no, we can't convert them, if the wire is in Swiss francs, and the destination account is US dollars, it can't go in. Well, can you give me the details of the wire? No, we can't give you information about the wire, unless you are the verified recipient, so tell me, which company sent you the wire? I said, well, I receive a dozen wires every month, all of my work is international, I don't know, maybe this was the German wire, no, no, it wasn't the German wire, was it the Swiss wire, no, no, it wasn't the Swiss wire, was it the English wire? Oh, you're getting warm. It's like, this is some kind of bizarre, sadistic 20 questions game with my banker, in order to receive my money. Long story short, the wire didn't come through, it was bounced back. Bounced back means they didn't get it either. So I called them back and I say, the wire was rejected, they said, well, we didn't get it, I said, well, call your bank, because our bank is closed today, so they called the bank the next day, and then they found out that the bank wire has been lost. Of course, these are the kinds of things that happen when you try to do banking with Botswana. Oh, wait, no, it was Switzerland, it was Switzerland, it's the center of banking of the world, and they can't do a wire transfer. So they're still looking for the wire, it's been more than seven weeks, they haven't received the money back. I told them about a very important American expression, which is NMP, not my problem, and said, you have to pay me anyway. Like, you lost your money, sorry, you use the banking system, I use Bitcoin, that's why I told you to pay me in Bitcoin, so then they sent me another wire, which took only four days to arrive. And this happens to me with half my payment, so now my contract says, if you want to pay me in Bitcoin, this is the price, if you want to pay me in anything else, it's plus 20%, because that's the fee, and I know I'm not answering your question anymore, but I'll get back to it, that's the fee that is required for me to have to talk to a banker for an hour a week. Contrast this to this experience. On Saturday afternoon I sit down, I'm like, okay, six Bitcoin meet-ups have agreed to help me with expenses, I've showed out the cost with all of them, I'm going to send out six invoices to six Bitcoin meet-ups in six different countries, which use three different currencies, and I send out the emails, and I go make a sandwich, and I come back 15 minutes later, and it says, paid, paid, paid, paid, paid, paid. And the thing is, it was Saturday afternoon in the United States, and it was Saturday night in Europe, and I had just been paid Saturday night from six different countries and six different companies in 15 minutes, and 10 minutes later, that money was in my account irreversibly. So, to go back to your question, one of the advantages of working in this space is that when you get paid, you get paid, and you get paid no matter where you're working in the world, and there's no such thing as we sent you the wrong allowance, we can take it back out of your account, that can't happen anymore, and as a professional you can bill and work anywhere in the world and work with companies that work in any other currency and use Bitcoin as the international money of the internet. So, I know that's probably not very appealing to you right now, but there are opportunities for designers. The work is very high quality, and we desperately need good designers, and you won't be able to pay any of your bills in Bitcoin at first, so when you receive the Bitcoin, you're going to have to convert it to euros, but that's very easy to do. And... right, and how many people here convert it? These guys in the corner actually offer service where they pay your bills, and you pay them in Bitcoin. So, you can pay some of your bills directly in Bitcoin, but even if you can't, all of them, even if you couldn't, one of the things I do is I convert, when I receive Bitcoin, I immediately convert some of it into dollars, and then I use that to pay the bills for the people who can't be paid in dollars. I use an exchange, a Coinbase, yes. And as the rule goes, I do not leave my money on the exchange. I move it in, I convert it, I move it out, because if it's your keys, it's your Bitcoin. And if it's not your keys, it's not your Bitcoin! That's a lesson that we all learned during Gox. Let's try not to have to be taught that lesson again.


Being in sixth year, this is something that is special. It's been a part of the High Line. It's been a part of the community. We started out in 2011 with 35 students. Six year, we have over 500 students here now. We've grown with our number of workshops. We had like four to five our first year. Now we're having like the eight to 13. I recommend people go to the Black and Brown Summit. If you're looking for a changer, if you're looking for a little bit of directors, plenty of people here that'll help you, you're not really interested in focusing on seeing you doing better. If you're out there and you haven't attended, please attend, please play a part of this movement. It's moving, it's a good thing. We're basically coming together where we can have an open space where we can communicate through each other, what we're going through and help each other out in this crazy society. It's beautiful. Two, it's empowering. And three, it is definitely a life-changing. I never knew that people really cared this much. You know, I've never been to anything like this where people were, you know, coming together as one and trying to help the youth, you know, get to a better place in life. So it's a good thing to see. My grandson is 15 years old and really needs to have positive energy and positive enforcement and information in from the community happening. And to be around 500 other Brown and Black boys and have this kind of energy happening for him is just something that I'm so thankful and appreciative of.


BSU women's soccer playing their biggest game of the season against 22nd ranked Minnesota States. Tied at one in the second half, Rachel Norton sprints ahead for the goal, that gives the Beavers the 2-1 lead, but with just over three minutes left, BSU can't make the clear and Julia Zach turns and fires to tie things up and we're headed to overtime. In the second overtime, Megan Majewski steps up, takes the pass here, crosses it in, the freshman Sarah Wendt dives in for the header, just past the keeper and Panemonium ensues as the Beavers survive, they win 3-2 to move to 14 and nothing on the year.


If you have a dog that has fearful or confidence issues, that's the exercise you wanna do. Hello everybody and welcome back to the coolest dog training channel right here on YouTube. I'm Tom Davis, America's Canon Educator. If you're new here, hello, welcome to my channel. If you've been here for a while, thank you so much for joining me. Now today we have a very common case that we see all the time here at the facility. A dog with insecurity or fearful tendencies or behavior. And in this episode, I go over some really easy exercises for the dog and the owner to immediately gain confidence within each other. So as always, I hope this video is informative and it helps you with your dog at home. Don't forget we're gonna be playing Tom's Trivia somewhere in the middle of this video and all you have to do is leave your answers in the comments below and let's see if you guys know your dog facts.   That's where we'll start. But I mean, if he's good with that stuff, then I know I can gauge where we're at. So why don't you just do basic obedience with him? I just wanna see where your relationship is with him. I just cut off the phone with a lady from Australia. If you're having behavioral problems, but you can't communicate, you know, it's like having a relationship with somebody on any level, boss, significant other, brother, sister, whatever and you're mad at each other but you can't talk to each other. Like we speak two different languages and like it's so frustrating. So he's insecure because he doesn't know his job. He doesn't really know what to do. So let me see the leash and I'm gonna work him for a second. All right guys, time for Tom's trivia, very simple question. All you guys have to do is answer yes or no in the comments below. Do dogs sweat or do they not? Leave your answers in the comments below. Good. So what I'm gonna do is, like I'm gonna give him a break and let him sniff around, which is totally okay to do. I'm not gonna ask him to do anything, but I wanna show you how to develop the relationship that I think you'd be more successful with outside. I want there to be a little bit more engagement because when you're walking with him, he's very nose to the ground, he's very, and that's fine. And that's the thing too is like when I say that, like a dog, him, anybody's dog is doing these types of things that's fine, but I also want you to be able to like switch gears and say like pay attention to me. Because if he gets into an environment where he's like, oh crap, I'm really nervous, that's where he'll make a mistake. And you need to be able to say like, okay, this is what we're gonna do. And right now he's halfway or less with you, like when you tell him to heal, he's walking nicely, but at the same exact time, like if you were to walk this way and then this way and say heal, he probably wouldn't like turn and go with you without the pop of the collar. So the goal would be making sure that when you tell him to heal, he's like, okay, I know what that is.  Right. Do you know what I mean? So that's good. They're snapping so much better than that. Oh, I'm a professional dog handler. So I've been doing this for 11 years, seven days a week for 12 to 14 hour days.  Read body language, heal, et cetera. So we're gonna have you guys continue to use the prong for more of a safety thing. It's tough. There, good, good heal. There, now do it again. Just turn again. Good heal.  If you have a dog that has fearful or confidence issues, that's the exercise you wanna do. Hey, pay attention to me. Pay attention, pay attention, pay attention. Okay, yeah, now I'm focused on you and we're moving together and that's what you wanna do. Yeah. So I want you to do that again but let me see him for one second. When he gets to, when he gets to the point where there was a couple times where you went out and he like, I don't know if he's gonna do it for me but he bounced like, yeah, so when he was like there, that's where you pop him. You don't wanna be here and then pull because it doesn't correct him. The prong collar, it doesn't correct unless you pop it. And it's just, it's all of those pressure points coming up at once to say, hey, pay attention. So if he pulls on, like he could literally pull on it like this, he's pulling on it right now, doesn't do anything, doesn't affect him, doesn't consequence him, doesn't have any correction with him. He's pulling, pulling on it right now and it doesn't, it's the pop that matters.  And then over five minutes, he's like, oh, this is heal. So make sure that if he's there, you give him more of that like pop. Because he'll just keep pulling like he is now.  I put it here like this, okay? And then I'll just say, I'll just say the dog's name and then I'll say heal, arrow, heal. I'll move forward and I'll turn, heal. And then that quick pop. Now watch, heal, good. Now I'll do the same thing in the same location. Heal, good. See? Heal, good. And now it's over. So I've taught him that when I turn, he's gotta like really follow me. Heal. And that quick correction that you just saw, like again, the prong collar is just intended to get the dog's attention faster. It's like if we had a horse and we didn't have headholties and things like that to get the horse, be able to put pressure on the horse whether they want to escape it, it would be a nightmare.  Like if you can't put pressure on an animal to help dictate their behavior, it's gonna be extremely hard for you to teach them new things. Once they've already gone past the learning stages, right? And so that's what like when we use tools, so many people don't understand that they think that we're taking 10 week old puppies and whatever, putting tools on them and teaching things. No, no, no, no, no. We're using tools to help break down behaviors that are pre-existing, that are causing your life turmoil or causing him potentially to be put in a shelter or something because he's not listening. So the tools are there to decompress and reinforce what we're trying to teach him now. They're not there to help us teach behaviors, they're there to help us reinforce what we're trying to say. So that's why like if we had a harness and I did this, he's like, what the, dude, what are you doing? With the prong, those prongs come up, they go, hey, he goes whoop, and he comes with me. So that's the effective way to administrate that little thing. So that's what I want you to focus on. Take your leash, fold it halfway and do that exercise to get him engaged with you. Good man. Thank you guys so much for joining me here today. If you haven't yet, don't forget like, subscribe to my channel, leave a comment below and let me know what you guys thought of this video and I will talk to you next time. Peace.


unrhyw o'r ddechrau a unrhyw o'r ddechrau, ond this time I've come across something that's raised a bit of interest and asked a few questions. What is the club in question? Well, it's what's in my hand, the sit-down pen, and it's a wedge. It's a very old wedge, it's a very rusty wedge, and I need to work out exactly how old this thing is. It's an old, bulky wedge. It's had plenty of use. It's had plenty of use in terms of the grooves, and I'm going to put in a test up against a brand new wedge. Right, so two wedges looking very, very different and different in age and in theory should be doing things completely different in terms of control. So how often do you change your wedges? And I've got to say from a personal point of view, before I started doing YouTube or watching any type of content at all, my wedges stayed in a bag for years. But when I led to believe that I don't know what it is, 50, 60, 70 rounds is it, and you're starting to lose, the grooves are starting to deteriorate, and we're starting to lose control. But for me, like I said, and I've said this on many times over a lot of videos over the last few years, what happens in reality when an average golfer has got these in his hands and the variables are strike? I'm just wondering how much difference are we going to see with these two wedges? Right then, I think the other thing we'll do is we'll compare these two wedges in terms of feeling sort of maybe forgiveness and how they perform throughout this test as well. I'll hit some of these while we're on and just hit a few sort of half swings with the Vokey. It'd be interesting to see really. I mean, as you know, I'm sort of a game improvement wedge kind of player nowadays. I've gone away from these sort of blade style, both this Vokey and the Jaws wedge really. The Jaws has got a little bit more mass than the Vokey. This feels great. And when you hit three quarters shots, finding the middle of the club, I was in these blades style clubs are great. Would I be able to notice the difference between this and a brand new Vokey? I reckon you'd be hard pushed to tell the difference, but who knows? But let me just switch out and see how much difference there is to this brand new Jaws 52 wedge from Callaway came out this year. Or was it latter part of last year? Anyway, it's not very old. But the point being, it's got a little bit more bulk around it, the Jaws wedge. But it's just it's a couple of similar shots. Do I feel any difference? It's got a different feel. It's a less harsh feel. I always think that with the Vokey wedges, there's, you don't feel like you're getting a great deal of help out the middle of the club. But then again, that might be all in my mind. Difference between the two, very little at all. The big question is, and suppose the one that we all want answering really is, when I started in these shots, don't forget a little bit of a short chip shot, half a swing and then into a full swing. What difference will we see in terms of performance? The deterioration in those grooves, will it impact on spin? And do we really need to be changing our wedges as often as it's suggested? I'll say at this point before I switch out to the Callaway Jaws wedge that absolutely felt fine. Really happy with the performance of it and should be good in terms of the quality of strikes that we've got to collect the data. On to the Callaway. Last ball with the Callaway Jaws and I want to do a bit of a comparison, which one of these would I prefer in terms of feel? Do you know what? I think I prefer the old Vokey. Now I know what it is you're thinking right now. Itting from that mat is not what grooves are really designed to do. And if we're going to see if there's any deterioration in them, in terms of control, we need some rough and we need some more. This has been an interesting test and like I said, maybe not the most scientific. I don't know. This is about the best I can do in terms of trying to create a situation that is the same as what we might find out on the golf course. So yes, we've hit from a mat. We've hit from a rough, a type of rough area and we've introduced water to the test as well. And like I said, maybe not the most scientific, but for me it's perfectly adequate to give us some feedback and some data. This is a data led type of video and review. So this is going to get a little bit tedious and boring, but I'll go through it as quickly as I can. And we'll start off first of all with what were the full shots with boats wedges and data up in front of you now. The average is probably the easiest way to look at it. They are all sort of carrying it around that sort of 100 mark. That was my sort of goal to try and achieve. Clubhead speed remained constant or relatively constant again, as did ball speed relevant to club speed. Launch 27.4 with the jaws, which was the new club. 28 with the old club. 8-1 spin with the jaws. 8-9 spins. We actually spun more with the older club. And peak height again last figure was again pretty much as very, very similar indeed.  Spinning around averages again around that 70 yard pitch. Clubhead speed kept consistent between the two or relatively so. Ball speed again was relevant to club speed. 26 launch on the old club. 28 launch on the new. 6.5 spin on the old. 6.7 on the new. Again nothing to split some 35 peak height. It dropped down a little bit in terms of the height compared to that 39 on the jaws club. So at this stage again for me nothing to split these whatsoever. And the last set of numbers in terms of hitting from the mat was just a very sort of short chip. Carrying in and around well they were almost identical in terms of their averages but there's some variables in there if you want to like I said analyse each shot by all means do so. But once again that spin number from that little chip shot was actually slightly better with the older club at 2-8 spin. And again data for me which doesn't split them at all. And at this stage this is that was the part of the test that I completed first of all and I was looking at the data as I was going along and at this stage like I said there was nothing to split them at all. The only variables to be found would have been about my capability my strike pattern and my ability to achieve a consistency. I think it would have hit strike for strike. I think there would have been nothing to split these whatsoever. So I knew that we had to introduce one more thing because as we know as I didn't know if I'm being perfectly honest up until not so long ago I thought grooves produced spin. I am an average golfer and my knowledge is basic and yet I thought grooves produced spin but in fact I now know that's not the case it's very much about cutting through removing rough removing water dispersing water and so we had to introduce some rough and we introduced some water into the equation and that's what we did on every shot that I played. I sprayed the club, I sprayed the ball and I sprayed the the turf that we were using and this is what we found and this is probably the biggest shock in the whole review. So it was a three-quarter swing and the numbers it produced were very very similar to what it produced in the conditions when it was dry from a clean life from the mat with no nothing in the way whatsoever and it didn't affect launch either 28.3 in terms of launch the ball 43 in terms of its peak height six spin on average six six spin on average here's the numbers now for the old club so what we've got is slightly quicker ball speeds we've got a launch of 28.4 as opposed 28.3 spin number is 6870 which again is very very similar indeed and we've got that peak height of 44 as opposed to 43.6. What I like to do is try and get just one particular shot so one with we've got in fact we've got a ball speed of 68.1 the first shot that I hit with the old wedge and we've got 68.8 which is shot number three with the new wedge and let's just have a look at those details so 68.1 was the ball speed this is the new club 28 launch 66 spin and a 45 peak height take that shot now number three like I said 68.8 in terms of ball speed 25.9 launch 57 spin and a peak height of 39 there is absolutely nothing that I could find that would split these clubs I can analyse data and go through shot by shot and you can make little movements here there and everywhere in terms of a listed this because of this and listed that because of the other but the ultimate thing is and I keep saying it on videos that I've done now for the last two or three years the problem that we have as average golfers is we don't have the level of consistency to produce a strike that's consistent enough to worry about things like this to worry about losing well well potentially there's 100 to 200 reps of spin difference between each of these shots that's absolutely nothing in the real world out there on the golf course if we were talking about a couple of thousand reps of spin then yet maybe and even then I'd argue the case it's still something that we need to have a closer look at how much it actually affects our end results do we really need to bother still but for me this test proves that once again far too much attention is paid to numbers that perhaps paint a picture that is not always one that we should be led by I love data I love looking at it and I love analysing things and I love the fact that custom fit can produce situations that will make give you the most benefit from the clubs that you try and test but there are always situations that throw themselves up where we've also got to consider balancing that out between the level that we play at and this for me has been another test where a 10-year-old wedge has done pretty much exactly the same as what a brand new wedge has done and I don't know maybe my test was done in a way that was incorrect in some way I'm sure there's plenty of experts out there will tell me that something was incorrect but for me it was a fair old test I couldn't care which one one to be honest yet like I said I've never any biased in any of the tests I do so uh whichever one came on top was irrelevant and I was surprised as you are I would think anyway like I said go back through the data make of it what you will comments down below and oh enjoyed that one as much as I did filming because I found it a real interesting one as ever stay safe be careful do everything we should be doing and let's get back out in the real world away from data on the golf course as soon as we possibly can right I'll see you all soon