Welcome to Digital Asset News. My name is Rob and today just like the thumbnail and title suggests we're going to take a look at a pretty massive story that involves Avalanche and we put all the pieces together. We can kind of see how Avalanche could be potentially a pretty big play down the road. Also, we'll take a look at some pretty big news that is happening with Polygon as they go through their hard fork upgrade. So let's just jump right in and just talk about it. So first things first, there was a tweet that was put out by Avalanche Foundation. They said, hey, just so you know, e-commerce generated over 5.4 billion in revenue of 2022 and Shopify was front and center of this growth and we just launched NFT capabilities powered by Avalanche on Shopify.  We don't know what Shopify is. Shopify is just a basic storefront for people to sell all types of items and to me it's it kind of well, it does compete with Amazon. It just that it doesn't get the foot traffic of Amazon because everything's built in. Now, you can sell anything you want to on Shopify. It allows you to do these things and it's pretty advanced types of features, but it's no slouch and in all honesty, the revenue for 2021 was 4.6 billion, which is an increase in 2020. Shopify's annual revenue for 2020 was 2.9 billion increase over 2019 and in 2019 we have 1.5. So you can see there has been consistent growth as far as how Shopify has been doing. So it's actually a pretty global dominator and this story was actually, it's about five or so days old. I didn't really think about it, didn't really put two and two together, but now that I have talked about this and we talked about the partnership with Amazon and of course Amazon is competing with Shopify and now I have lunch kind of overseeing both of those things. I can see how this has been pretty big, but the question I had was well, how easy is it and what are the fees because I mean the fees are high. What's the point? So this is the article from CoinDesk. It says using the Venly Shopify merchant app retailers can sell NFTs with minimal technical knowledge. That would also be me. Shopify owners can also earn royalties on secondary NFT transactions through the Venly market. So just real quick, if we're going to think about this, we have to understand is this feasible for Shopify participants, the sellers on Shopify because if it's going to be high cost of fees, it's going to be ridiculous. Why would I do that? Why would I put this on Ethereum per se? Well, you wouldn't because you take a look at the fees here. This is from dune.com and you can take a look. There's a link in the description. You can see that the fees for Avalanche, Ethereum, BNB and I put in optimism in Arbitrum. I don't know these two projects. I'm sure some of the comments will sound up and talk to us about how fantastic they are and whatever else. That's fine, but here's what we have. So Avalanche, the fees are eight cents. This is on December 12, 2022. You can see that in the red. Avalanche has been pretty consistent as far as low fees.  You can see at Ethereum, the transaction fees average about almost three bucks. So if you're selling NFC for 10 and you got a 30% goes to the fees, what's the point?  So far, so good. And then the actual platform it was talking about was this one called Venly. And you'll notice that it's got two, Polygon app and Avalanche app. And why I put in the thumbnail to pay attention, it's because of this. The projects that continue to build in this brutal bear market are the ones that are going to crush it in the bull market. So as you can see, you've got Avalanche over here having a partnership with Amazon and now through Shopify, you've also had major advancements with Polygon and they were chosen as an incubator for Disney. They've also been chosen for Shopify and a host of other things and a lot of different gaming is built on Polygon as well. So again, just pay attention. I'm not your dad. I can't tell you what to do. And this is not financial advice, but it's looking pretty good for this one. So this is how it works. You can start selling NFTs in matter minutes, design NFTs with ease through a user from the interface. You can sell NFTs like regular products. NFTs are shipped to the customer's email address where a blockchain wallet awaits them. I don't know how exactly that works. It's very interesting. Simple to use, fast to figure, no need for deep take on knowledge, takes away the complexities. The question then, the last question you might have is this, well, what's the point of having an NFT for a physical product? I don't understand. So here's the thing. There's a lot of advancements that are coming about. But let's just say for instance that you buy some kind of bling.  And you say, well, this is great. And I want to put that into the metaverse. And I want to put that on my avatar.  But you have that. And then of course, that will be the ultimate flex that you put that in the metaverse and you can prove that you actually have one. It doesn't matter where it's all going, but you can see how there are different use cases for it in the digital world moving forward. And I just find it very interesting that you've got Avalanche going on a Shopify and they allow NFTs. What do you think is going to happen now with Amazon and NFTs? And who do you think they're going to choose? Because Avalanche is the only official partner they've ever had for crypto. Sure, they've talked about other things and they've done different side things with different projects, but there's no official partnership like there has been with Avalanche so far. So I'm going to think about that in the comments section again, not telling you what to invest into. It just, this is very interesting. And then lastly, before we move on to the Polygon story, which I think is pretty big as well, is price action. Avalanche, just so you know, is up 5% in 24 hours. And if we take a look real just real quick on seven days, not bad, 14 days, 30 days, it's still doing quite good, 90 days. Okay, pretty much on the same level. So 6th November and over here, we got roughly the same thing, 18, 19 bucks. The last six months, okay, you got me on that one. And then of course, the max, look at this, the max it was was 134. Right now, it is 16 bucks, almost 17 with the partnerships. So what do you think this is going? And then I also want to show you real quick about this part here with tokenomics. This is a new feature here on CoinGecko. I thought it was pretty interesting about the allocation for where your tokens are going. Because again, it's not just about the partnerships and things that are being built. It's there's a lot of factors that go into will it be a success for this, you know, staking rewards up to 50%. That's where the tokens are going. So I'm like, okay, airdrop was 2.5, private sale 3.5, strategic partnerships 5, community and developers, okay, foundation 9.3%, pretty high, but depends on what they do with it. Public sales, roughly 10%. And the team get also 10%. So tokenomics, not stellar or fantastic, max supply 720 million total supply right now, which is what's actually put out is four and 16. And just so you know, as far as cliffs and how they are going to be distributing these tokens, you can see right here that in February 2023, this little section right here, it's just about to start ramping up. And you can just see how much tokens are being dropped over time. It's a pretty steep incline. So just be aware of that as you make your financial decisions. Okay, something interesting about that in the comment section, let's finish this up with Polygon hard fork to reduce gas fees. I didn't know there was actually an issue, but apparently this just happened about an hour ago. Hard fork was completed. The first proposal, there was to adjust a mechanism that sets gas fees, the new mechanism aims to keep gas prices low, when there's a lot of activity. Second proposal aims to reduce the amount of time it takes to finalize a data block effort to prevent frequent reorganization. So great. So just so you know, as far as the average gas price chart, this is the gas prices, this is in Guigui, I always say this wrong, please correct me in the comment section, Guigui, Wei, Wei, whatever. You can see the average as we go across, let's just look at the recent one here. So let's see, we're coming here, average gas price 79, 80, 83, 86, 92, 80, 119, 77, 110. Let's just say for 100. So if we say Gui, Wei, Wei, Wei, whatever, let's just say 100. To USD, that's how much it costs per transactions point. It's a fraction of a fraction of a penny. So again, I can totally understand why Shopify chose Polygon while on top of Avalanche, because the fees are so incredibly ridiculously low. It makes sense. And then lastly, just so we can see here, network transaction fee chart, yeah, it looks good, but the price action. So again, pay attention to what's happening, not that this is going to pop off, but twice 24 hours, it's up just a little bit, what about 1.2%, but in seven days, just like everything else been doing pretty good, 14 days, 30 days, 90. And yeah, you got me on this one, about a dollar, same thing we saw with Avalanche. But what's interesting here is the max price. So the max price is 288. That's its all time high. And right now, it's only a dollar. So as opposed to a 6x to hitting the all time high with Avalanche, you might look like a two, two and a half x here, maybe a three roughly. So just keep that in mind. And then also, if we take a look at tokenomics, well, this looks a little better. Staking rewards 12%, the ecosystem 23, the foundation 21, and it depends on what they do with it. Advisors team 16 and 20, again, depends on what they do. Pride Investors 3, and the Binance Launchpad to actually get it out there 19%. So I got to tell you, as far as tokenomics, I like this one a little bit more than what we just saw with Avalanche. And oh yeah, as far as the unlocks and the releases, because you've got a max supply of $10 billion, it's already pretty much out there, total supply. That's why the unlocks, you can just see right here, 2021, there's not much to really go. Actually, that's it. Yeah, 1% in 2022. That's all. So everything that's in there in circulation is what they have for max supply. And that's it. So I like that a heck of a lot more. So again, there's a lot of things to consider when you're talking about investments and things to get into. I can't give you financial advice. I am not your dad, obviously. So I just want you to be careful out there. And that's why I'm preaching the word of diversification. Like this is my pinwheel. This is what I diversify in. I got a lot in stocks. I mean, excuse me, I got a lot in cash right now. I got some in stocks, some in some stables, not tether. I've got some on my DGEM plays because I'm a risk taker sometimes. 4%, roughly, is in masterworks, which is fractionalized shares of art, 5%, 35%. We got land and real estate, Amazon, my business, 5%, 15% in staking and crypto, 1% in IRA. So just remember, it's not just about how much you make, it's how much you keep. And you can concentrate your will, but I don't know where things are going. And I don't know if anybody actually knows themselves. So that's it. So look, that is it for today's video. If you like today's video, give it a thumbs up, consider subscribing. A lot of things to talk about are time-sensitive, as you can clearly see. But that is it for today. So thanks so much for stopping by. I do appreciate you. And I'll see you on the next one.


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Martin created his mythology during, as a response, I guess, to what Nietzsche called the death of God, which was the God of the Torah.  Well, in terms of, there's a lot to be said about this, the first thing I'd say is that in terms of the sublimity of the God concept, I mean I'm one of those people who believes that whatever the word God means, it has to mean something sublime and we can discuss what that means too, but compared to the Eda, well I mean compared to the to the highest expression of the concept of God in the monotheistic traditions, the Eda are fairy tales and they are, they may be of narrative interest, literary interest, human interest, psychological interest, but they are of no metaphysical or philosophical interest, at least to me. I think that there are two ways to think about the death of God, the death of God, when people speak that way they're either speaking about culture or about philosophy. It's true, you know, that there came a point in Western culture when faith began to wane and if you want to call the decline of faith the death of God, it's kind of a melodramatic and somewhat narcissistic way to put it, but fine. You know, when I first read that famous sentence in the gay science of Nietzsche's about the death of God, I thought to myself, well you lost your faith so God dies. I mean that seems awfully narcissistic to me, but culturally there's no question that secularization was one of the fundamental forces that created the modern world and that people began to lose faith not just in God but in the metaphysical dimension more generally, more generally and that's still, to my mind, a huge problem. Then there is the question of the death of God philosophically and that really is a question of what is true or false about the universe. You know, the difference between the ancient and medieval view on the one hand and the modern view of religion on the other hand was that in the old view, religion was before it was anything else a series of propositions about the universe that were either true or false. There is a God, there is no God, there is providence, there is chance, the world was created, matter is eternal, they can't all be right and that's why science was very involved in this kind of religion. The modern view of religion is that religion is not about objective truth so much as about what we call subjective truth and it's about interstates, ecstasy and fear and trembling and dread and sickness unto death and bliss and etc etc. But one of the things, if one takes religion seriously, one of the first things one realizes is that the intensity of a belief and the popularity of a belief have nothing whatsoever to do with the truth of a belief. Nothing, nothing. So for example, I recognize that people have martyred themselves to causes and given down their life that they believed in it so intensely that they gave their life but I happen to think that what they gave their life for is nonsense. That doesn't mean I don't respect them because they may, there's a great spiritual achievement in that. But philosophically speaking, the idea that God dies is completely incoherent. You know, when we were in high school we were given Elie Wiesel's night to read and in night there is the famous sentence in which he says, I forget the words, that God died at Auschwitz and I remember thinking even then, wait a second, if there is a God then God didn't die at Auschwitz, he wasn't born, he doesn't die. And the only way for me to read that sentence and maybe the only way for me to read Nietzsche's sentence is not as an expression of philosophy but as an expression of feeling, which is to say that they experienced such loneliness and desolation in the universe that the world became so cold and so unbearable that the only way they could formulate this feeling was to say that God is dead. So I think, I'll stop here, but I think that generally you have to distinguish between the cultural phenomenon of the loss of faith and the actual question of what we have justified grounds in believing. They're not the same question, even if you can prove to anyone's satisfaction that God does exist that still may have no impact whatsoever on the progress of secularization in culture and the loss of interest in metaphysics and so on. So I think that's the distinction you have to make.


I'm Cal Panicherry Wolff. I'm an infectious disease physician, a clinical assistant professor in the School of Medicine at the University of Maryland. I'm also the director of the integrated Lyme program. I take care of a number of different patients both in the inpatient setting and the outpatient setting. So in the outpatient setting I see primarily Lyme patients and in the inpatient setting I see patients who are critically ill in the ICU as well as patients with surgically related infections. I think what I loved about infectious diseases is that you couldn't really make people feel better and and and cure a lot of people right with antibiotics who have infections. The other part of infectious diseases that I really enjoyed was the detective work. So you know infectious diseases we don't do procedures we don't you know operate however you know we collect data and we analyze data and we try to figure things out and for me that's just highly enjoyable and I also really love working with patients in terms of kind of seeing them get better and with infectious diseases I feel that we can do that. I have an interest in integrative medicine and a lot of integrative modalities can be used for patients who have either acute Lyme disease or have post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome. I went to medical school at SUNY Stony Brook which is located in Long Island in New York and after I finished my medical training I went to do an internal medicine residency at St. Luke's Hospital in Manhattan and after that I did a three-year fellowship in infectious diseases at Einstein which is located in the Bronx in New York and after that I did a critical care fellowship for a year at Mount Sinai and then I practiced for a period of time and then my interests really grew towards integrative medicine and so I did a two-year fellowship with Andrew Weil at the University of Arizona.


trying to learn some American accent. It didn't really work out. It was too hard. Don't know how you guys learned it, but anyway, you have to deal with my Indian accent. I am Bhaskar. I work for Apple. I'm working on foundation DB layers for the last 100 years. Before that, I worked on Cassandra. I did an internal Cassandra storage engine. It was a bad idea. Before that, I worked on also some bulk load improvements. Well, before going into document layer, I want to spend a little bit of time on foundation DB layers concept. Well, Ben already explained it. I just want to, I'll speed it up. So if you look at a typical database stack, it looks something like this. It has three components, core engine, a transaction module, and storage engine. This is a very theoretical conceptual view. Usually, the lines are blurry. They've overlapped quite a bit. The core engine is the one that decides the data model for any database. Whether it is a document data model, document or SQL database, core engine is the one. A transaction submodule and the storage engine, these are usually independent of the data model. Well, I guess I skipped it, but core engine is the one which implements query planning and all, and transaction module guarantees the asset properties and storage engine is the one, which guarantees replication and durability guarantees. So the problems that we usually solve in bottom two layers are independent of the data model. They're usually same with your database you deal with. It usually depends on what kind of transactional guarantees the database is providing, not much on what kind of data model it supports. So FoundationDB tries to solve the bottom two-thirds of the stack at scale. FoundationDB has serializable transactions, and it has very strong isolation guarantees. It supports, well, it has all the usual database stuff. It has like synchronous backups, multi-layers and support. We talked about what FoundationDB is good at so far. Let's look at the API. The API for FoundationDB is very minimalistic. It has a raw key value store API. Unlike the sequential or document databases, it doesn't have joins or aggregations or secondary indices. But the API is strong and minimalistic enough. The idea is you can use this as a basic building block and you can build interesting and complex data models on top. This is where the promise of layers comes into picture. Layer stays on top of FoundationDB, and it builds the data models on top of the FoundationDB API. Because FoundationDB solves all the most of the database problems, layers can just worry about data model, and only that particular problem, not much of everything else solved by FoundationDB. As the persistent state is stored on the FoundationDB, layers are usually stateless, and layers can be either built as libraries, or you can build them as stateless microservices. As long as the layers use transactions properly, concurrency is taken care of, taken care by FoundationDB. So because of that, if you want to have a more throughput, you can just run more instances without worrying about concurrency or scale. So it's quite easy to scale as well. Well, this goes without saying, obviously, layers inherit all the FoundationDB features. If you get the multi-layer support, you have the replication, everything just happens seamlessly. Well, we already know there are some utility layers, they are so critical, they are actually shipped with FoundationDB language bindings. The directory layer which provides us key space abstraction on top of FoundationDB API, and tuple layer gives us a shorter-order data type encoding. Of course, there are a couple of layers from community. There is a Linux NBD block layer, and a Janus graph layer, I think we have talked after this. In the sales spirit, we have document layer. Document layer, we think this is the first step from us towards the promise of FoundationDB. In future, we'll see more layers from community and hopefully from us as well. Well, good. Well, document layer, it implements document database API on top of FoundationDB. It's not just any document database API, it is MongoDB wide compatible. Because it is wide compatible, you can just use any standard MongoDB drivers or framework to connect to document layer. There is no, you don't have to, for all that matters, for the application, it looks like a MongoDB server. It does a lot of things better, that's a different point, but it looks like a MongoDB server. Well, whatever you can say about MongoDB, if people really love the MongoDB API, it is very easy to use, it is very quick to onboard the query language is very rich, there are lots of different features on top, then and also lots of frameworks out there. So combining that with the strengths of FoundationDB, we really think this is a very good way to very good and easy way to get onto FoundationDB. Well, the API, there are no surprise here. You all know MongoDB, it is MongoDB API. It stores JSON documents and it is KMLS. I'm not going to spend any time on API because there is huge documentation out there, there are lots of tutorials and videos on MongoDB API. Let's look at the feature set. Document layer, it is not a drop-in replacement for MongoDB for every application out there. We started as the core set of document layer features. It did document layer supports credit operations, large set of query or update operators, it supports secondary indices and transactions. These transactions are FoundationDB transactions exposed through document layer API. You see that here you might not find the popular features like chain streams or aggregations of MongoDB aggregations. I guess these are two big ones. Also we might not have all the second all like for a test index and stuff like that. This is the project, this is just starting up. We are working on it. It's going to happen very soon. What makes document layer very special? Well, we keep hearing since morning, anything to do with FoundationDB starts with strong consistency guarantees. Document layer just inherits that. The consistency, it has very strong consistency guarantees and it happens seamlessly. Your application doesn't have to specify what kind of read concern, what kind of read preference, what kind of write concern, what kind of consistency level they have to access, they don't have to carefully manufacture all that. It is always consistent, it is given out of the box. There are no logs, it is optimistic concurrency control and also there are no database lock and all, it is completely lock-free. The scaling, FoundationDB, well it is a distributed database, it is distributed at the same time, it does the shorting and everything is dynamic. There are no static short keys. It's again, it is better at the same time simpler for application. Anybody using static shorting, database like Mongo or Cassandra, applications usually, it's quite often that you use a short key and after six months or one year, once your data grows quite a lot, you realize, hey, my short key is wrong, now I have to change my short key and guess what? I have to re-migrate all my data again. There is no short key, so you don't have to worry about how to distribute your data. Database, FoundationDB takes care of it. Well, I said so much about document layer is this good and that good. I had to back up all those claims. I think the best way to back up these claims is going a little bit into the design. I want to talk a little bit about how the core execution model works and also how the storage model works. These two things at high level explain all the claims. So with the single node SQL database like MySQL or Postgres, we are used to the norm that everything is a transaction. Transactions are not some slow features which you have to use very carefully only when there is no other way around. Everything is a transaction with something like Postgres or MySQL. Even when you run a statement in Postgres, without starting a transaction, Postgres automatically starts a transaction, runs the statement, commits immediately after. So that's the statement, runs a separate transaction. So document layer works in the same spirit. Everything is a transaction because FoundationDB everything is a transaction. So either application can explicitly go and say, I want to start a transaction, I want to run all these statements, and commit this, which grows all the statement. Or just like old MongoDB applications, you can just keep issuing the request separately and each request starts a separate FoundationDB transaction and we call them implicit transactions. So let's see how they actually look like. Well, the green dot represents the MongoDB request. Let's say document layer receives one single request. This is out of transaction context, a single request and document layer sees this request. It has to do some operations on FoundationDB. If you take an example of let's say, a simple MongoDB insert that might need to read the metadata from FoundationDB, and it might have to find out if there is a duplicate document, it might have to insert the document and also update the secondary indices for that particular collection. All these operations will go a separate FoundationDB operations, but all of them happen under a single transaction. That gives serializeable that gives serialize the consistency for the whole, for the request and well yeah. Obviously, if there are any conflicts, document layer takes care of retrying and all. So this is how the transactions work. But there is a catch. FoundationDB transactions are short or they have a limit of five seconds, they have a five-second limitation. Obviously, we can't really fit everything. You can imagine a MongoDB request which touches all documents in a collection. I could be running a request to give 10 percent bonus to all my employees. That has to touch each and every document, and that may not, depending on how big my company is, it might not fit in a single transaction. It might not finish in five seconds, so it might not fit in one transaction. So obviously, document layer does the obvious thing which is, it slips into multiple transactions. So the guarantees here are not as strong as short-lived transactions, but short-lived request. But it still guarantees a consistency at individual document level. This is, I think, even for the consistency for long-running request may not be as good as for the short-running ones. I think it is still better than the competition than explicit transactions. Application can go out and say, hey, I want to start a transaction, do this request. This is actually best way to get even better performance than implicit transactions. Because whether you want it or not, document layer starts the transaction anyway. So if that's going to happen anyway, then why don't you like amortize the cost by running multiple requests under one transaction. So this is, even though the data model is document data model, lots of the design principles here really remind whole SQL days. Well, not whole, but the SQL days, the SQL times. But when you're running explicit transactions, the same principles apply when you write application on top of FoundationDB. It is optimistic concurrency control. So you have to worry about conflicts, and you have to worry about retries. The transaction, the explicit transaction, the transactions we have right now are not yet compatible with V4 MongoDB transactions. This is something we are actually working on. This is going to change very soon. The implementation we have right now is tight to client connection. This is again, to do with not being compatible with MongoDB transaction. This is probably the only feature which is not compatible with the existing MongoDB features. Then storage model. Well, FoundationDB is storing. So we don't have to worry about persistence or replication or something like that, but we have to worry about how do we map document onto the FDB keys. That is quite important. Actually, well, that is quite important. Let's see. If you take a sample JSON document, in MongoDB, underscore ID is the primary key. We have a sample employee document. Let's see how we store this. We document layer stores a single document across multiple FDB keys. This allows the document layer to support larger documents because each FDB key can't hold more than other value, can't hold more than 100K bytes of data. By spreading across multiple keys, we can support larger documents in one. Number two, if you want to update just one field in the document, you don't have to reread the entire document and write again. Where is the gun? I think I didn't cover everything here. The way keys form it, it is quite important. So key has a prefix of the collection name. Well, usually it's the directory prefix, but that's not important. It has the collection name so that you can group all of your collection data under one key space, and then key includes the primary key so that you can group all of your keys for the document together at the same time, all the documents are ordered by the primary key. So you can see here we have multiple employee documents here. All of them are ordered by the primary key, primary key here like ID is the primary key. If I want to read, you can think that's a MongoDB command. If I want to read all employees in the collection that boils down to doing a get range on employee prefix. This is like, well, get range is foundation to become all right. Yeah. So the same way, if I want to read, if I want to access a employee document based on the ID, because ID is the primary key that is part of the FDB key, I can just prepare the prefix using the primary key and prefix, which becomes employee two. It access the employee record of Bob. This is good as long as you only care about predicates that include primary key, but we have predicates that include something like, I want to access all employees with name Eric. We have to have secondary indices and we will have secondary indices. Secondary indices have to maintain mapping from index key to primary key. Index key here is name, primary key is ID. So this is how it looks like. Well, it has the index prefix and after that, the index key which stores the name and then primary key. The primary key can be stored in the value, but if you don't want to because unlike primary index, secondary key, secondary keys are not unique. You can have multiple value. Here we have multiple erics. If you don't keep the primary key part of the key, then manager Eric, I guess he's going to overwrite the developer, which is not great. Then the value we don't really have to, we don't restore anything. If there is a query something like, give me all documents with name Eric, it first goes to the index space, does a get range on Eric, it gets all the primary documents, goes back to the primary space, and reads all the documents. We could avoid doing this two sets of Gats if we could store the document or the fields of the document we care about as value. Well, they are covered in indexes. We don't support them yet, but that's something that we can do. So what is this kind of source model giving us? In spite of what we call primary key secondary key and all, when it goes down to foundation DB, they're all just normal keys, they're all treated the same way, the primary indexes and secondary indexes. They are shorted the same way. This is a big difference from lots of other nosical databases, where secondary indexes shorting is very closely tied with the primary index. So if you have to do a query on secondary index, it usually has to go to each and every short. You'll be familiar, if you see Cassandra or MongoD with this, how they usually do. The any query on secondary index usually has to touch each and every short. That's not the case here because secondary shorting is same as the primary index shorting. Also, we are getting all these features without setting up any short case. Then the indices. As explained before, index updates always happen together with the actual document update. So indices always stay constant with the primary index or the document period. There are no exceptions. Indices are distributed as well, that's good. Index revealed. This is some place where we are focusing on at the moment. We MongoDB customers know how painful index rebuilds can be. I didn't believe until I didn't even think that's possible to do. A index rebuild, if you application a MongoDB index rebuild, they actually has to go to the operations team and ask them carefully bounds replicas one by one, so that they can actually rebuild indexes on each individual replicas separately. Well, that's not the case here. There are lots of other improvements we are doing, but I guess I'm running out of time. Well, building layers on foundation DB can be quite easy because of all the guarantees foundation DB is giving, but the same 10 there are lots of challenges. It is optimistic and currency control, so you have to worry about avoiding contention. A like from our team is giving talk this afternoon, I strongly suggest going for that this is very interesting one. Caching because we want to run multiple instances of a document layer, any data we are caching is going to work against us because you have to now worry about concurrency, because it's not part of the foundation DB transactional guarantees, and any code you're writing on top of foundation DB has to be added a button because of unknown commit failures. The last one, this is very deceiving. I put it in like one line, query planning optimization. People spend decades making these things better. Well, we have a basic model that works, that kind of works. We are working on making better and better. Future improvements. These are the things coming very soon. We want to make our transactions compatible, so that they actually work in all kinds of deployments and which will be a less seen from our team is working on it.  Index rebuild improvements, quite a few of them are coming, our metadata design could be improved quite a bit. Features, aggregations, change streams, a lot of people ask me about change streams. I understand that is a very desired feature, that is something we want to work on like beginning of next year, and spatial index has test indexes. Spatial index is probably very soon. Community. Now, document layer is open source. I should have put some link here, but you have Google, you can Google it. It is open source, Apache V2 license, it's not any data no restrictions, it's not, you can run a service if you want to. I'm not pointing fingers, but you can run a service if you want to. Give it a shot. Please give feedback on forums. If you like it, let us know. If you don't like it, definitely let us know because we can improve on it. Rise issues, if you have some features that you really want to see soon, and welcome to yours. We are really excited about this project. We think we can really build community around this. This is a best project, and also this one is written in Flow C++. Flow is a very fun language to work on. Trust me, I did Java until two years back, and whereas a flow is good, it's good. That's all from me.


Okay, now I want to do a more complicated question. I want to say, suppose that there's unusually good weather in Florida and that increases the harvest of oranges, and what effect is that going to have on the price of apples? And let's assume that the good weather in Florida has nothing to do with the yields for apples. Okay, so that those are independent events and that the people who produce apples for a living, they don't notice any unusual harvest or yield this year. Okay, so in the book, I broke this up into two separate examples. First, I said, what would be the impact in the orange market? And then we're going to use that to see what's going to be the impact in the apple market. Thinking of the orange market, again, there's really unusually good weather. How would we analyze that using a standard supply and demand framework? So as always with these things, just draw your original generic supply and demand curves and have them intersect. So you've got your original price and original quantity. Now you say, okay, really good weather in Florida that allows farmers to grow more oranges, is that going to affect supply? And this is just the epitome of a supply increase, right? Because now the orange growers just have more oranges on their hands. So at various hypothetical prices, they're going to bring more to market. Other things equal, okay? So that's the way you would depict that is a rightward shift in the supply curve. Incidentally, in case you're confused, you might say, well, how come we're shifting left or right? Why don't we shift up and down? Well, just convince yourself of this, a leftward shift to the supply curve is clearly a reduction in supply. But that actually looks like you would be shifting the supply curve upward. Just graphically, taking a supply curve and moving it vertically upward is the same thing graphically as if you shifted it to the left, okay? So in that context, talking about where is it flips for demand, okay? So talking about moving curves up or down actually doesn't always give you the right answer, and so that's why it's safer to say a reduction is always a leftward shift, and an increase is always a rightward shift when you're talking about supply and demand curves. Okay, but back to our example, so there's really good weather in Florida. Clearly, that's going to increase the supply of oranges. So you have your S1, and then to the right of that you draw a new supply curve S2, is the good weather going to affect the demand for oranges? I mean, you could tell a story and say, oh, because it's a lot warmer, people are outside more and they're getting more exercise and so they get thirstier and so they want to drink more orange juice. And so ultimately, the demand for oranges is higher or people go on picnics more and they sometimes bring oranges on picnics. And so the demand for oranges is higher because of the nice weather. You could tell a story like that, but in these kind of examples, if one effect is humongous and the other is kind of small, we usually just say, move the curve that's really going to move a lot and don't move the other one. Okay, so that's what's going on here. So I'm just trying to give you an example of if you did want to say good weather in Florida affects demand, what kind of story would you tell? And I just gave you some examples. But I'm saying in this kind of thing, when you're taking an introductory economics class, if they say there's really good weather in Florida that affects the orange crop, you're supplying demand curves to figure out what's going to happen. What they want you to do is to move the supply curve to the right. So that's this little tip from Uncle Bob there. That's what the professor wants you to do, okay? So you move that supply curve to the right, you hold the demand curve constant, so what happens? Well, the new equilibrium price is lower and the new equilibrium quantity is higher. So what happened is supply increased and then we moved along the demand curve. So the quantity demanded increased, but the demand stayed the same. And I'm just again stressing that distinction. So yes, consumers ended up buying and eating more oranges. But it wasn't the good weather that made them want to eat more oranges. It was the lower price of oranges that induced them to buy more at the store. Make sure you understand that distinction. If you don't get it, look at your diagrams or even rewind this and watch me say that again. Or in fact, I'll say it again right now so you don't have to rewind it. Think of it this way, if farmers or orange growers are bringing more oranges to market and the grocery stores are selling them, it has to be true that the consumers, the people who walk around the grocery store with carts and put oranges in their carts, they have to end up buying more oranges also. Right, those two things have to match up. If the sellers are selling more, well, then the buyers have to be buying more. But what I'm saying in this particular example, what's driving those changes, that increase on the selling side, which driving it is the good weather, so that it causes more oranges to physically be produced. And so now the farmers or the orange growers just have more oranges on their hands. And so they're willing to sell even though the prices are lower. So that's what it means to say the supply curve shifted right. That even at the lower price, the quantity of oranges they're bringing to market and selling is higher than it would have been had the weather not been so great. Okay, now the consumers are also buying more oranges. But why are they doing it? It's not because of the weather directly. The reason they're buying more oranges is that the price of oranges has fallen in this new equilibrium. And so they're buying more oranges because they're cheaper. Because that's what the demand curve shows you. That's what the downward sloping demand curve shows is holding everything else equal. If oranges get cheaper, people want to buy more oranges. And so that's all we're doing. So that's why we're moving along the demand curve. Okay, so you see how the supply and demand curve framework, it just helps us organize our thoughts. So where the theory comes in, where we might be wrong, is if I say the weather in Florida all of a sudden is really nice, what is that gonna do? Well, if I'm just totally wrong about how the weather in agriculture works, I mean, if that means zero oranges all of a sudden get produced, well, then my analysis is totally screwed up, okay? But you see how that works, it's there, it's not the supply and demand so much as the way we move it around. Okay, so just to round out that example, we've argued the price of oranges is gonna fall. So now what can we say about the apple market? Well, we have to introduce a new term. Apples, I'm gonna argue, are substitutes for oranges. And what that means is that if the price of oranges goes down, the demand for apples shifts to the left, it goes down. So substitutes, as the name suggests, are things that can often be substituted for each other. And so that's kind of intuitive where if the price of oranges goes down, people who just wanna have fruit are gonna buy more oranges and fewer apples. And so if you're thinking about the demand curve for apples, we're saying, hold the price of apples constant. People are gonna buy less, okay? So that's why the demand curve for apples shifts left. We're not moving along the apple's demand curve. The whole curve itself is shifting because we're saying, what happened is the price of oranges went down. And that's gonna cause people to buy fewer apples. So think of it this way, for every hypothetical price of apples, the quantity people wanna buy is now lower than it was before the hypothetical good weather that caused oranges to get cheaper. Okay, so just make sure you think through that and understand logically what's going on. Why, if you believe me that apples and oranges are substitutes, that the price fall of oranges makes the demand curve itself of apples shift left. But it wouldn't change the supply of apples. And then we said that by construction in this example, assume the good weather in Florida doesn't affect the growing conditions for apples elsewhere in the country. So if you buy that, then the demand for apples shifts left. The supply stays the same. And so in the new equilibrium, the price of apples is lower. And the quantity demanded is lower. And that's true in general with these things that, if supply stays the same, demand shifts left.  And some of the other combinations that I've walked you through. So that wraps up our discussion. Again, I wanna point people to my textbook, Lessons for the Young Economist. You can get the physical book from the Mises Institute, M-I-S-E-S dot org. Or if you just wanna browse it before you purchase, just Google Robert Murphy, Lessons for the Young Economist, PDF. In that lesson, I walked through some further examples, more complicated ones of using supply and demand analysis. And I think though that we've done enough for this online lecture. And also the whole point of this, once you learn the ropes, learn the foundation, then later on in the book, we're gonna go through things like minimum wage laws, rent control, even drug prohibition. And we're gonna use the supply and demand framework just to illustrate the logic of what I'm claiming in the text. So again, supply and demand by itself is not a theory. It takes no position in terms of government policy or what the effects will be. But it does allow you to very easily illustrate what you're trying to say in words. And so it's important for the economic student to learn how to use supply and demand curves. Thanks everybody.


Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know, let's let's do 90. Oh, oh, you guys are here. Well, let's talk the Galaxy Z Flip and do some gaming. So the brand new Galaxy Z Flip is Samsung's second foldable device. This is a clamshell foldable. It reminds you of your old school smartphones, flip phones, if you will.  And it opens up into a much larger device. So you've got a screen size that's about 6.7 inches, kind of almost slightly bigger than the Galaxy S 10 plus. But this thing packs in the low performance. And we're going to check that out today, playing a few games. So we're playing Call of Duty mobile, of course, PUBG mobile, Fortnite and shadow run shadow gun war games. Just to give you an idea of what this can do, we'll check out temperatures as well. And we'll be doing our speaker test. Plus, we'll play some emulators as well. So go ahead and see that. Now, this is all powered by the Snapdragon 855 plus processor, actually able to run all these quite well. And we've got eight gigs of RAM. Now, in terms of battery, looking at 3500 milliamps. And of course, this uses a standard 25 watts of charger, I believe 25 might be 15. But anyway, we're going to see how this all plays in together with this device. So without wasting any more time, let's do some gaming. There is a lot to talk about the Galaxy Z Flip. So let's start off with just gaming performance overall. 8525 plus processor is a beast. Remember the ROG phone to had it last year. And this thing runs the games really well. You saw of course, the FPS counter for all of them are roughly around 60 frames per second. And we've got about 30 frames for Fortnite, which is kind of locked at that at this point in time. And it ran well. Fortnite was in one way I got some weird glitches. I don't know why, but it shouldn't be the case. But I say overall, it ran really well and performance is good. Now, in terms of temperatures, so we clocked in at 99 degrees in the register 98 there. It's something that runs really hard and around the camera module. That's where you're going to see the most amount of heat. So that's just something to take note. Now, in terms of the speakers though, we saw the speaker test or you heard the speaker test as well. 101.6 decibels that's coming from a single mono speaker. And we got some good sound dissipation. Just be very careful if you're gaming so you don't cover that up. Now this device still performs really well. And I wish Samsung would add more gaming features so that you can do more in just in terms of what you want to do. The Game Center is a bit limited I would say but you still have that there. I think overall if you're going to be playing games or you're going to be playing emulators as well like the Gimbal emulator that I have, which also ran really well with no issues, this thing does a fantastic job. And I like it for gaming because it's a nice clamshell. You can close it and boom, you're good to go. It fits into your pocket quite easily and nicely. And you can take it out and you know you can go like this, boom, and then start gaming and do whatever you want to. So that is really nice. Now you've got of course all the pecs and features you find with a Galaxy device. This house have reverse wireless charging. So that's also a good plus right there. You do have also a nice camera system. Samsung does add a case with this. So you have some protection for this device. It isn't water resistant, but should protects much better with your dust. I think overall people will like this device. It is priced at $1380. There's a trading offer that will bring it down to $140. I don't know if that fits you, but if you're looking to pick this up and you're thinking, can I game on the Galaxy Z Flip? Yes, you can and you can do that quite well. So if you have any questions or any comments, let me know guys. Otherwise, don't forget to like, share, subscribe to the channel and always enjoy your entertainment. Now let me fire up that Game Boy emulator.


The length of a chord or a half chord depends on both the angle and the radius of the circle. Ptolemy used a radius of 60 and worked base 60. Islamic geometries continued this practice and produced tables giving what we would call the values of 60 trigonometric function theta for the different trigonometric functions. We'll use the notation r sine theta equals 60 sine theta.  The half angle and angle difference formulas can be used to find r sine for other angles, but not r sine of one degree. Since we'd like a table of chords in one degree increments, this is inconvenient. In the 15th century, Jamshid Al-Khashi used an approximation technique to find r sine one degree. Although Al-Khashi worked in base 60, and we should as well, we'll present his work using more familiar base 10. Though for the sufficiently adventurous, I'll post something that shows Al-Khashi's work in base 60. So the angle summation formulas and a little algebra gives us the relationship between the sine of 3 theta and the sine of theta.  And while this is true generally, if theta is equal to one degree, we have the relationship. And this is useful because we know the exact value of r sine of three degrees. So if x is r sine of one degree, then we have r sine of three degrees equals 3x minus 1900th x cubed. Now again, we know the exact value of r sine three degrees, and so to illustrate Al-Khashi's approach, we'll use r sine three degrees, which is approximately 3.14016. Al-Khashi actually used a much more accurate value, and if we substitute this in, we can rewrite our equation as... Now as a side note, this is the type of equation that could be solved using the Chinese method of approximating roots of polynomials. But Al-Khashi used a very different method to approximate a solution. And this is circumstantial evidence that Al-Khashi's method of finding fifth root was original within the Islamic world. To solve this equation, Al-Khashi did what a bad algebra student would do and solve for x this way. The important difference here is Al-Khashi didn't stop and say that this was a solution. He then used a method of successive approximations, and that works as follows. First, we see that x is approximately equal to 1, and so we can write x in expanded form as 1 plus a tenths plus b one hundredths plus c one thousandths and so on, where a, b, and c and so on are the digits in the successive decimal places of x. Now our expansion has an x cubed term, and notice that if we expand, we get 1 plus 3 a tenths plus a whole bunch of other terms where all the remaining terms have a factor of one one hundredths or smaller. And this suggests they won't affect the value in the first decimal place. Consequently, if we let x equal one plus a tenths and substitute into our equation, we get, where on the left hand side we'll use the full value one plus a tenths, and on the right hand side we'll use the approximation x is approximately one. You can think about that as our previous approximation on the right and our new approximation on the left. So we can simplify and solve for a, which gives us, and remember a is supposed to be the next digit of the root, and so that next digit is going to be a equal to zero. Now we know x is approximately one point zero, so adding that next decimal place, we let x equal one point zero plus b hundreds, which gives us, and again on the left we have that new approximation, on the right we have the current approximation. And we solve, and this is going to give us b equal to four where we round down since this is supposed to be the next digit in the expansion. And repeating, we know that x is one point zero four something, so we'll let x equal one point zero four plus c thousandth, which gives us, again new value on the left, old value on the right, and solve. So we know that x is one point zero four seven plus d ten thousandths, and so we get, and so we approximate x to be one point zero four seven one, and we could continue to find more digits, but our accuracy is going to be limited by this approximation that we used for r sine three degrees. Now a few other useful things we found here, we found that r sine one degree is about one point zero four seven one, and keep in mind this is half of one side of a one hundred eighty gone inscribed in a circle of radius sixty, and so the perimeter of this one hundred eighty gone will be one hundred eighty times two times our approximation, and we use this as an approximation to the circumference of the circle with radius sixty, we get an approximation for pi, and Alcache actually used a more accurate approximation for r sine three degrees, and found the first nine six decimal places of r sine one degree, and this could be used to approximate pi to sixteen decimal places, a world record at the time.


real Christians that really study the Bible ought to be incensed. I've been a preacher since I was a little boy. I am incensed and insulted that they have hijacked the Bible and Jesus to distort and misquote, well, it's not even misquote, create quotes that are not there to justify a right wing kind of ideology that would take away the rights of women and then scheduled to take other people's rights. Al Sharpton is the worst kind of Christian, meaning he's not even really a Christian. Al Sharpton is a person who doesn't care what the Bible say. He is someone who's really after his own gain. I don't even think that it really matters to him. The political side that he's on, I think he's chosen a side obviously, but I don't really think it matters, but because he is for himself and he's chosen his side, he's gonna do anything and everything that he can to promote whatever is in his best interest. And you see that often when it comes to, name of the two key issues, abortion and LGBTQ rights. We have got to stand up for women's rights because it's our rights and we cannot back up off of that. The Bible teaches you, these will be the consequences of your act. Now, I'm not even getting into the fact that there are varying degrees of why people get abortions from incest, to rape, to medical reasons, all that. I'm getting with the core thing of choice. Do not use your or my personal religious views to impose on other people. Pro birth means they're gonna force you to be born, no matter what the circumstance. But after you're born, they have nothing they agree with to help enhance your life. Being pro birth is not really a put down, Al. I don't have a problem with being pro birth. I am pro birth, I'm pro giving a baby a chance at life. And then after that, am I pro funding everything about that child's life? No, I'm not, but that's a whole another story. But the fact that you would use the Bible or not use the Bible to back up a point, but just to invoke it, yep, that's a huge issue with a lot of people and it's not just with abortion. Obviously, Al is gonna find himself even in league with the LGBTQ community. Hi, I'm Reverend Al Sharpton, an American for marriage equality. As a Baptist minister, I don't have the right to impose my beliefs on anyone else.  None of us should stand in their way. All of us must fight for what's fair and for what's right. Join me and the majority of Americans who support marriage equality. As committed Christians, we should stand up and say what the Bible says. We have a right to want to have what we feel be promoted. Others who are not godly, that's fine. And they're doing a wonderful job of promoting any and everything that's ungodly. But we as Christians, especially if we name that name unlike Reverend Al does, we ought to stand up and be bold.  And so I'm thankful that at least we've got some people, some pastors, some preachers who will stand up and be strong and bold for the word of God. Pastors like Terry Anderson. Great wickedness, homosexual men prowling the streets, looking for other men. And that sin is so base, so abhorrent, so pervasive that God calls it in his word an abomination. And the word abomination means a fierce, hot hatred. Well, that's what you wanna see. You wanna see a man of God stand up and proclaim not his opinion and follow the whims and the wishes and the winds of the world, but follow the dictates of the Bible. He does that when it comes to homosexuality, LGBTQ community, and he also does that a staunch supporter of babies being born, of abortion rights. Matter of fact, not of abortion rights, but really against abortion rights, because he believes that babies are human beings at conception. I'm not on either side, right or left, when it comes to the abortion issue. I'm on God's side because I believe what the Bible says and as a preacher of the gospel, I have to stand not conservatively or liberally on the subject. I've got to stand biblically on the subject because the Bible is not conservative or liberal, Republican, or Democrat. The Bible is the word of God. And as the word of God, it must be fully understand by the people of God and boldly preached by the man of God if there will be faith in the power of God. I don't have a political agenda this morning. I have a biblical conviction that a baby is always in God's eyes made at conception. Amen, I mean, could you imagine? I mean, the difference is striking. Here's a man who is clearly and boldly proclaiming the word of God, unlike Al Sharpton. These two people are just two diametrically opposed individuals. I mean, think about it. They are so different.  Could you even imagine somebody like Al Sharpton preaching at Terry Anderson's church? He's the lily of the valley, the bright and morning star. He woke me up this morning, started me on my way. Yes! Yes! Yes! To my shock, here I am thinking that Terry Anderson is a man of God who has some convictions and he'll stick by those convictions. We don't really have to speak a whole lot about Al Sharpton. Al Sharpton is who he is. He's been known about for the longest. Here's a person who was caught in a drug deal by federal agents who, to avoid any sort of conviction or jail time, became informant. That part is clear. Here's a person with a shady past who has done all sorts of shady things, been involved in shady things, and has found a place at home with a particular party and a particular newscast. So we don't really have to go into great detail about what sort of person, what sort of really truth be told, and you don't really like to use this word, but someone who was kind of pimping, who was kind of using the church for his own means, Reverend Al Sharpton. He's not a reverend. He's not a man of God. He's not a preacher. Though the sad part is that churches would even invite this man in from time to time to preach, to teach, to speak. And when he was there at Lily Grove, he's not even really preaching. He's not speaking. He's just simply just, he's giving a political rally more than anything else. And it is sad to see this man being embraced by somebody who we thought was a defender of the gospel in the black community. Now you wanna see that in all communities, but certainly in the black community, but particularly in the black community because we see the rate of abortion affecting disproportionately the black community. And so if there's a voice that needs to be heard to call this out, it should be black preachers who do not fear, who do not count out, who do not bow down and bend over for a particular party for whatever reason they're gonna serve God. That's what we thought we had in Terry Anderson. That's not actually what we actually had. He is not what we had. He's not who we thought we had. He is someone who decided that he will be friend. And apparently he's been having this thing with Al Sharpton coming in for some time. And there's no secret who Al Sharpton is. Al Sharpton is about himself. How do I know so? Well, just look at his past, but even if you just listened to the sermon that he preached when he was at Lily Grove Baptist Church, listen to this clip. He says, he compares when asked, what book would you listen to when you've kind of got yourself in trouble? He finds something greater than the scriptures to lift himself up. One of the ministers said, you know when I go through a situation, I take my Bible and I read what God did for Job. And it gives me the strength to go on. Another one said, well, I don't read Job, I read Jeremiah.  They went around the room, they finally got to me. They said Al, what do you do when you're facing? I said, well, let me tell you the truth. When I face a situation, I don't read Job's story cause the whole story may not be there. I don't read Jeremiah's story. I get off somewhere quiet and I hit the rewind button in my own mind. And I think about what God done for me. So you really have to go back and listen more to it cause he kind of goes on. But one, it began as a political speech and then ended up about him. How, no, I don't really need to read how God has done something in someone else's life in the Bible and so forth, but about me. And I kind of get what he's saying. But again, it's still my life, my struggles are greater than what has happened in the Bible. So rather than focus on the Bible, I'll focus on me. I'll get my encouragement from myself enough for me, which kind of makes sense. That it really has been him. Now, is baffling that someone like a Terry Anderson who we thought of a certain way would have him there? Now, I don't know if you've seen it. If you haven't, you're gonna hear it now where Seiko Woods calls up Terry Anderson. They're in the same city. So he calls him up and asks him, hey, I guess they have a mutual friend and asks him, why would you allow this man just trying to get some sort of clarification because surely there's something that we're missing. Well, interestingly enough, is the way this whole conversation went. It's gonna cause you to have even less of an appreciation. As a matter of fact, almost every, not almost, every ounce of respect that I have for him pretty much left after hearing this exchange on this phone call. That's the Anderson. Yes. Good, so are you, sir? So how are you? Doing fine. Thank you for taking my call and I appreciate you taking time out of your schedule to speak with me. I, we have a mutual pastor and friend, pastor. And he gave me your contact number and I wanted to speak with you personally to share my concerns with you regarding a video that was released on the 11th of this month. You had invited Al Sharpton to speak at your church. And my concerns, and I'm pretty sure, well, I'll just speak for myself.  And I've always enjoyed your preaching. I've always enjoyed the way you delivered the truth and the principles, the biblical principles about what you stood and stand on. But I must be honest with you, Pastor Anderson. As a fellow pastor as well, I was concerned and disappointed of you allowing Al Sharpton to speak at your church two weeks ago. And I just wanted to speak with you regarding that and to find out what was the biblical reasons for allowing this man. Well, first of all, hold on, Reverend. Sure.  I never said that. You way out of line. I never said that. I said, I don't have to answer you or anybody else who allow to preach at Little Grove Church. That's offensive to me. Well, if you allow me the opportunity to share my concern to me. No, no, I don't want to hear your concern because you offended me already by saying that. Well, how did I offend you if I'm saying biblically that that is a concern? But you don't tell me what to do at Little Grove Missionary Baptist Church. You passed to your church. Well, but that's not the word of God. But does not the word of God, Pastor Anderson, tell us all on who we should allow and who we should permit to speak in God's church? Because it's not your church. It's God's church. You don't have anything to do with who preach at Little Grove Church. You worry about your church and I'll take care of mine. Well, that's not the point I'll make it, Pastor Anderson. But I don't want to hear your point, not Reverend, because you offended me. How have I offended you? I don't tell you what to do at your place and you don't tell me what to do at mine. So I get off my phone. Wait a minute. Are you saying that it's okay to have people like? I'm sorry, Segly hung up on you and that's about the best response that he could give. But really he made a bad situation worse. You would hope to have heard some sort of defense as to bring this man in. Come and find out that he does this, I guess, at least once a year annually. But then to have the tact that who are you to ask me to question me anything about my church? Well, we have a term in the community. This term is used really as a mean put down as though you're selling out, as for black folks, you're selling out other black people. But the term also applies to you, sir.  You have sold out the gospel, you've sold out the church for, I don't know if it's a friendship, for whatever it is. There's a passage that it comes to mind. This is in Joshua chapter five. Joshua is obviously a man of God and he comes across the man, the commander of the Lord's army says, matter of fact, let's back up. When Joshua was by Jericho in verse 13, he lifted up his eyes and looked, and behold, a man was standing before him with his drawn sword in hand. And Joshua went to him and said to him, are you for us or are you for our adversaries? Joshua wants to know who's side you are. My side or their side? Look at what he says. He says no, which is really not the way you'd answer questions because Joshua didn't ask a yes or no question. He asked it, opening the question that required more. And so he gives him more. He says, no, but I am the commander of the army of the Lord. Now I have come and Joshua fell on his face to the earth and worship and said, what does my Lord say to his servant? Here's the whole point. It's not for Joshua to ask, whose side are you on? Lord, whose side are you on? Ours or theirs? Now he didn't know whose presence he was in at first, but then it gets flipped. No, the question is Joshua. The question is Terry Anderson, whose side are you on? Are you on my side or you on God's side? Are you for the world? That's the issue.  The question is this though. And this is what the Bible says for us. He says this in 2 Corinthians 6, 14 says, do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers for what partnership with lawlessness or what fellowship has light with darkness. That's the real question. What's this fellowship about? Why would you seemingly on the light side, the good side, the godly side have this fellowship with this person who clearly is not. This person who's clearly using the title, pimping the religion and other believers, other naive believers, particularly other naive black believers if they are believers. What fellowship do you have? Oh, maybe this is it. When the Bible tells us in Amos 3, 3, he says, do two walk together unless they have agreed to meet. How so to walk unless they've agreed? So maybe there is some agreement. Maybe what we see on stage or on Sunday is different than what we see behind the scenes. You have a different persona. Who you really are is not what we see. That's an issue because that seemed to be the issue when Seiko asked you the question. You were offended because someone asked you who they thought was a respected godly man. You were offended because you brought a wolf into the sheepfold. You brought someone who we know has no biblical characteristics, no biblical traits. You were offended that someone would have the audacity to ask you and what you say about your church. It's not your church. It's not your church, sir. And but what you are is exactly what Paul says you are. He says in Romans 2, 8, he says, but for those who are self-seeking and do not obey the truth, but obey unrighteousness, there will be wrath and fury. I hope that's not you. I hope this is just a blip, something that we shouldn't hold against you. I hope what we really are is that where maybe it's the issue where you're not getting enough understanding. Maybe you're wrong. We know you're wrong, but maybe we should just kind of give you a little more grace when it comes to dealing with this. Maybe this is an error, a lapse in judgment, but apparently this is a yearly and annual lapse in judgment. And so I don't know how much to give you. I'm not condemning you, but again, you need to figure out, and especially anyone who's following this person needs to figure out whose side they are on. If we're gonna say one thing, we're not gonna go and entertain people who's promoting the very thing that we say is sin, that you said was wicked, that you agree that the Bible calls an abomination, that you agree that where the Bible calls this murder, you agree with this, but this person who is actively engaged in tearing down what the word of God is about, you cozy up in fellowship with this person and you guys have a pretty good relationship. Again, how do two walk unless they agree? Unfortunately for us, unfortunately for your own local church, unfortunately for the body, it seems as though you do agree with him, at least for some sort of political expediency, who knows what it is, but that's something that you really do need to give an account for pastor. You really do.


Twitter's billionaire owner Elon Musk is now publicly feuding with Apple although the feud seems to only be going one way He is very public about the ways in which he disagrees with Apple and is butthurt by them But Apple even though they're not necessarily saying anything publicly They are privately making moves that could indeed hurt Twitter's bottom line more importantly for Elon Musk his bottom line So where did this all stem? It started with Elon Musk calling out Apple because he was butthurt that they decided to postpone Advertisements on Twitter. He tweets Apple has mostly stopped advertising on Twitter Do they hate free speech in America and then he adds what's going on here Tim Cook? Now I've got to say I'm not necessarily the most business-minded person But publicly tweeting at brands and asking them why they suspended their advertising is isn't necessarily going to be a Accomplishing what you want to accomplish, which I guess the goal here is to bring them back Maybe it's just to publicly shame them into caving I just I feel like maybe if you are a billionaire and you're a business genius You would see that this isn't necessarily going to help But because he was angry that they dared to postpone advertisements on Twitter and we'll get to why brands are doing that in a moment He then decided to go on a tweet storm where he called out Apple for a plethora of other reasons And I don't actually disagree with some of the things that he calls them out for here He responded to library calm asking who else has Apple censored after they wrote during COVID Apple demanded our apps filter some search terms from being returned if we did not filter the terms our apps would not be allowed in the store Apple may make good products, but they have been opposed to free speech for some time Now he also highlighted the time when fortnight compared apples monopolistic practices to George Orwell's 1984 He then published a poll asking if Apple should publish all censorship actions It has taken that affected customers and he added Apple has also threatened to withhold Twitter from its app store But won't tell us why and ads did you know Apple puts a secret 30% tax on everything you buy through their app store and Finally, he tweeted out this meme indicating that he'd rather go to war with Apple than pay their 30% fee So what started as Elon Musk condemning Apple for not advertising on Twitter has led to him calling them out for a plethora of other reasons And now he's basically saying I don't want to pay the 30% fee that you're charging So this is him essentially saying okay, well if you want to suspend advertisements, maybe I don't want to pay that 30% fee Now as I alluded to earlier Apple is privately making some moves We'll get to that but let me just for a moment explain why this is good I like to see the world's richest man go to war with the trillion dollar company I think that this is good for me because this could potentially harm both companies both of their bottom lines And I think that that is a good thing So the more that Elon Musk instigates these wars with other brands by publicly condemning them It may be an unintended good thing that has come of Elon Musk buying Twitter I both like that brands are suspending advertising on Twitter and also like that He's calling them out for suspending advertisements on Twitter Whatever gets these giant monopolistic companies to beef with each other is a okay with me Now let me just for a moment explain why a lot of brands aren't advertising on Twitter It's because of Elon Musk He interacts almost exclusively with far-right accounts on Twitter And he also posts pictures promoting irresponsible gun ownership and probably worse Caffe and free Diet Coke which in my opinion makes him a psychopath But in addition to that he's also made a lot of anti-semitic and Nazi dog whistles Yes, you heard that right Nazi dog whistles as Eric Schmelzer writes Elon Musk has tweeted 88 the white supremacist code for Heil Hitler To which they replied 14 code for their 14 words trotted out the Jewish puppet master trope And then posted a wink to anti-semites with a cartoon similar to the one they use in reference to Vinman As you can see these are the tweets in question And basically Nazis thought that that was a dog whistle to them That was a wink and a nod to them Now that doesn't definitively prove that Elon Musk is a Nazi He does have plausible deniability But when you take into consideration the fact that he exclusively interacts with far-right accounts And has vocalized very conservative views It's not necessarily out of the question to think that maybe he's sympathetic to these far-right individuals And there's enough there to where brands just don't want that stink associated with them Hence why they're choosing to pause advertisements on Twitter in droves Now the thing about Apple is that they're concerned with the platform due to the proliferation of hate Since Elon Musk took over As CNBC explains, representatives for unnamed app stores which include Apple's App Store As well as Google's Play for Android devices Reached out to Twitter earlier this month after Musk took over And the site saw a wave of hate speech According to a New York Times op-ed by Yol Roth Twitter's former head of trust and safety Phil Schiller, Apple's former chief marketer who oversees AppReview Apparently deleted his Twitter account earlier this month after Musk took over Philip Shoemaker, the former head of Apple's AppReview And current CEO of Identity.com Said Schiller's move to delete his account reminded him of a company making moves to prepare for war He believes that Apple's AppReview department is keeping a close eye on Twitter's content moderation under Musk To see if more questionable content, such as porn, slips through Apple's recent moves are like when you remove troops from a country before you attack Shoemaker said You're thinking you're going to have to pull these apps from the store Now pornographic material to my understanding was always allowed on Twitter So it is a little bit bizarre that Apple is seemingly all of a sudden saying Hey Elon Musk, why are you allowing porn on the website? I get the hate because that is a new phenomenon I mean, it's not new to Twitter. Twitter has always been a hateful steaming pile of shit But the increase of hate after Elon Musk took over is what these brands are most worried about But the porn thing doesn't really make a lot of sense to me, but either way Apple has already a lot of ammunition in order to get rid of Elon Musk Just because of the surge of hate and given previous history As CNBC continues, Apple requires apps with user-generated content such as Twitter To have strong content moderation systems in place, insufficient content moderation was the reason why Apple booted Parler A smaller Twitter competitor in 2020, Musk has reportedly vastly downsized Twitter's content moderation workforce So when you combine the surge of hate speech on Twitter following Elon Musk's takeover Along with the content moderation team essentially being Thanos snapped by Elon Musk You can see how Apple already has a lot of ammunition against Twitter And if they did it to Parler, odds are they would do it to Twitter as well And if he's going to, in addition to that, pull in epic games and say, I'm not gonna pay the 30% fee Well, then that's another reason that they might boot Twitter from the store Now, I don't necessarily know how this is all going to play out either way I for one support Elon Musk going after Apple because these are both terrible companies run by terrible people And if they somehow bring each other down and tank each other's stocks in the process of this public spat I think that is good for the country


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