Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here My name is Jen, and I am a certified weight loss and nutrition coach And I am on the WW or weight watchers blue plan. I have a super fun video today I have been doing quite a few taste tests I've done a couple of Trader Joe's Pumpkin hauls where I've taste tested the products and I recently did a taste test a video of all the Healthy snacks from GNC and you guys seem to really really like these So I'm going to make it kind of a series here on my channel where I'm taste testing some of your recommendations and Some products that I think are important to see what's good and what's not good Especially when it comes to clean healthy foods So today is the next video in that series today I'm going to be taste testing clean Meaning clean ingredients healthy ingredients nothing artificial protein bars So I spent about an hour at my local health food store combing the aisles trying to find every single clean protein bar Available and I ended up with quite a lot So I have piles of protein bars and this isn't even all of them and what we are going to do today Is we're going to go over ingredients. I'm going to share calories fiber and protein Which are very very important to get in every single day especially hitting a protein goal So I'm going to share with you protein grams fiber grams calories and smart points on all plans now The points should be the same on all plans because the only thing that really fluctuates are zero point foods So none of these bars have zero point foods in them. So the points will be the same on all plans So I'm going to share all of that with you. We are going to taste test every single bar We're going to give it a thumbs up or a thumbs down and I'm going to be honest with you I have not tried any of these bars. So this is a first impression taste test So I'm super excited. I may just find a new favorite protein bar So before we jump into the video if you're new to my channel, make sure that you stick around and subscribe I'd love to have you come over and join me I am going to be doing like I said taste testing videos in the future and I do upload most days of the week So head on over and join us. We'd love to have you join our YouTube community Of course, if you love taste test videos, give this one a big thumbs up It really helps out my channel and lets me know that you're enjoying these videos So thank you for that and check out that description box down below where you're going to find my nutrition coaching website I have a little bit of everything for everyone when it comes to nutrition coaching. It is important to have knowledge So make sure you're electing to take part in the macro calorie calculation. That is really important I have one-on-one coaching and group coaching so head on over and join us as part of the nutrition coaching Also, you'll find links and discount codes to my favorite things and if I can find any of these bars online I will link them down below for you as well I'm probably just going to head to Amazon and see what they have and lastly you'll see the link to come over and join My Facebook group again. We'd love to have you over there as well So we have a lot of bars to taste a lot. So let's get started lucky for me today I've only eaten breakfast so I'm a little bit hungry Which is going to be important because like I said, we have a ton of protein bars to taste test 13 bars to be exact. That's a lot of protein bars Just a reminder, these are all clean ingredient protein bars Which means that they don't have any questionable oils or ingredients I don't know if they are all WW friendly, but we're about to find out They all have 250 calories or less Which is important for those of us that count calories in addition to points or maybe just counting calories Snacks should be between 200 and 300 calories. So 250 and below is perfect as far as calories goes So let's taste test the first bar in today's video So the first bar is the garden of life high protein weight loss bar and see salt caramel So I do have my notes here where I have written down the important information for today's video So this bar is 200 calories. It has 15 grams of protein, which is great 13 grams of fiber. This is actually one of the highest fiber bars. So that's amazing and it's only five Smart points. Oh, and I'm gonna share with you guys the price So I paid $2 and 50 cents for this bar at my local health food store. So see salt and caramel Let's give it a taste. So here's what the bar looks like. It is kind of a chewy It looks like there's big chunks of peanuts in there. I will tell you it smells really really good So here we go. Cheers Really good. It is a little bit sandy and those chunks that you saw those are like Serial chunks or cracker chunks. It's kind of hard to explain but they have the consistency of a cracker This is really good. And this is organic non-gmo again 13 grams of fiber only one gram of sugar It is a vegan and gluten-free and it's made without dairy or soy Great option on WW because it's only five smart points and it has a really good flavor. It's sweet The only downfall I would say is it's a bit sandy, but it's not unbearable. It's really good I would definitely definitely buy these bars again. I have my water for in between each bar Kind of cleans my palate the next bar is Kate's real Food bars in peanut butter and milk chocolate. I'm pretty darn excited about this one This one has absolutely stellar ingredients. They all have really good ingredients, but this one is literally real food 260 calories six grams of protein so a little less protein, but still pretty good four grams of fiber It is 10 smart points on WW and it costs me $2 and 49 cents to pick up at the health food store so this is non-gmo has all-natural honey gluten-free and USDA Organic and literally the ingredients like I said are amazing. So here's what the bar looks like that looks incredible It's a very granola bar. Oh my gosh. It looks so good. The raisins the chocolate. Let's try it. Cheers So delicious so delicious one of the favorite bars. I've ever tried when it comes to kind of a granola protein bar Absolutely amazing. It says real food for real life and real activity and real energy These are delicious. They are high in points, but they are incredible. So if you count calories 260 is not bad, and it is truly truly delicious. The next bar is the greens brand This is the plus bar protein. So this says it made with peanut butter way protein isolate and greens super foods So this is a great way to get in your greens as well 250 calories 18 grams of protein. So absolutely amazing on the protein three grams of fiber Nine smart points for this bar, which this is a pretty hefty heavy bar and it is $2 and 79 cents So I can't wait to try this. Let's see if it gives us any more information. It says Soy free and non-gmo and all-natural. So let's try it. So here's what the bar looks like. It's green I'm not mad about it, but it definitely is green and it has kind of that chewy bar look to it It smells really good. Smells very peanut buttery. Cheers Ugh, I don't like it at all. Oh I'm not at all. So when you first take a bite of it the peanut butter front and center So you're like, okay, this isn't that bad. It's sweet, but then But then the greens hit you Smack in the face and it tastes like spirulina or greens powder. What's disgusting? I don't like it at all I would never buy this again. I actually won't be finishing this bar No for the points the calories everything about it The only thing it has going for it is all of the protein, but no No, sis. Next up is the live bar in blueberry vanilla and kale. So this actually sounds really delicious I know there's kale in it, but it just sounds so good the blueberry in the vanilla So this is an organic superfood a bar with a compostable wrapper And it says gluten-free soy-free dairy-free corn-free GMO free and this bar is 220 calories This is a good size bar eight grams of protein. So not bad four grams of fiber It's nine smart points on WW and it was $2 and 75 cents It has clean ingredients like literally the ingredient list is absolutely perfection There is nothing artificial in here at all and these are all handmade bars says eat real food So let's eat real food. So here is what the bar looks like. So again, we've got granola. It smells amazing I can smell the blueberries all the way back here.  It smells like blueberries and honey. It does have a little green look to it from the kale So hopefully that isn't the shining flavor. Oh, I can't wait to try this. Cheers This is delicious. I don't taste kale at all. It has very nutty flavor There's lots of real nuts in here pumpkin seeds sunflower seeds I definitely taste the sweetness of the blueberry and that creaminess of the vanilla. This is amazing I would totally buy this again. I would eat this again. There were several other flavors I'm actually going to try some of the other ones 10 out of 10 this bar ingredient wise calorie wise is great It is a little bit high in smart points. This is absolutely delicious. This would be great for breakfast It gives me breakfast all the way. Next is the epic foods bar. So they make them meat bars as well This is a lemon and it says here dates almonds cage-free egg whites sea salt and lemon oil That is it. So this bar is 210 calories It has 12 grams of protein way to go epic 4 grams of fiber It is 8 smart points on ww and it was $2 and 55 cents and I can smell the lemon through the package Well, here is what the bar looks like it looks really good and again Lemon lemon overload in the smell. Oh, it literally smells like fresh lemons. I'm excited for this I love lemon anything tears Super delicious super super delicious now the texture of the bar the minute I bit into it was taffy Caramel that kind of really chewy texture, but it is so Delicious it has great flavor. I taste the lemon, but it's not overpowering It is so good you guys and they have other flavors of these bars as well. This is another one I would definitely definitely buy again I'm actually surprised so far on how many of these taste as good as they do being healthy clean good ingredient bars Way to go epic next up is organe protein snack bar We all know that organe is known for plant-based proteins that have excellent ingredients. This is chocolate chip cookie dough So this bar is plant-based. It has 10 grams of protein and it is organic It also says gluten-free soy-free and vegan so this bar has a hundred and forty calories Already it's going to be WW friendly it has 10 grams of protein which is killer with only a hundred and forty calories Three grams of fiber. It is for smart points. That's amazing, and it was a dollar eighty nine So super affordable great smart points great calories with a huge punch of protein. It's already a win in my book I'm hoping it tastes good because if so this will be a go-to. So here is what the bar looks like It's kind of carmely looking in texture. You can see chunks of cookie dough and chocolate chip I'm excited once again. I love organe organe is a nice clean brand of protein powders bars So here's to hoping this tastes good cheers Holy Smokes is this delicious. It has chocolate chips It has cookie dough bites. It is sweet. It is salty It has a really really good texture kind of a mix between The carmely but kind of sandy at the same time but in a good way Holy smokes. I buy these these will be in my pantry 140 calories 10 grams of protein and four points. Oh my god get these bars Wow So next up is the scalp organic bar in cherry chocolate and cherry So this bar literally has like eight ingredients dates sunflower seeds sunflower seed powder Pumpkin seeds cocoa cherries and organic cherry flavor That's a little questionable and I saw that in the store because generally when it's flavored It is natural flavors or artificial flavors, but this is organic cherry flavor So I'm wondering if that is like an extract. So that's what I'm hoping for that would definitely make this a nice clean bar So this is 220 calories 10 grams of protein. So not bad Six fiber. That's great. It is eight smart points and two dollars and 29 cents Smells good. So here's what the bar looks like. This is the first bar we've had today that has a chocolate base You can see all the nuts and the cherries smells really good. I smell the dates I heavily smell the date. So I'm hoping that the other flavors come forward. You know the cherry So let's try it. Cheers Good Really really good. So I taste the chocolate but the chocolate to me comes off coffee More of a coffee flavor, which I really like it It pairs really well with the cherry and the nuts and the cherry definitely is of a real cherry flavor So I'm not getting an artificial cherry flavor. It's really good. It tastes like a chocolate covered cherry and a cup of coffee It's kind of a mix between those two. It's really really delicious It says it is organic plant-based and grain free. So this is another win Next up are the thunderbird bars real food hazelnut coffee in maca So this bar i'm pretty excited about it is a nut and seed real food bar. It is non-gmo It is gluten-free paleo and vegan. It is grain free and there is no added sugar literally ingredients literal ingredients are Dates hazelnuts almonds cacao butter cacao powder vanilla extract chia seeds coffee beans maca powder and himalayan pink sea salt That's it. So i'm really hoping that the hazelnut coffee is the prominent flavor maca is Incredibly good for you. I'm pretty excited about this. So this bar is 220 calories four grams of protein So probably not a protein bar per say more of like a food bar or a snack bar or a meal replacement bar Five grams of fiber, which is great. It is eight smart points two dollars 25 cents So this looks delicious. Look at all the nuts and seeds. Oh my goodness smells really good again I smell the dates which is a great way to add sweetness to something naturally So i'm i'm not mad about that, but i really hope i get the hazelnut in the coffee cheers Holy smokes this bar stellar 10 out of 10 out of 10 So good. It is sweet. It has whole chunks of nuts. I got the big chunk of hazelnut with some coffee This is absolutely incredibly delicious. They did have other flavors of this one as well This is so good. This is real food. It tastes like real hearty food Nothing artificial like some of those other protein bars out there And then none of those horrible ingredients like malatol and maltodextrin and sucralose This is absolutely delicious So this next bar i'm pretty darn excited about this is the primal kitchen coconut cashew Collagen bar you guys know I put collagen in my coffee every single day I'm a huge proponent of collagen. So this is primal kitchens bar now primal kitchen makes absolutely clean delicious products Everything primal kitchen is a 10 out of 10. This is a collagen fuel bar. So it is keto friendly It is paleo. It has 14 grams of protein Heck yeah Three grams of sugar. It is gluten and grain free and it has seven and a half grams of collagen. So that's awesome So this bar is 200 calories 14 grams of protein Great nine grams of fiber amazing seven smart points on w w and this bar was only a dollar 29 So this was the cheapest bar of all the bars that I picked up So here is what the bar looks like this looks delicious with all of the nuts and seeds So when I smell this bar It completely brings me back to my childhood. Do you remember those neopolitan coconut candies those ones?  Oh my gosh. I'm so excited. Cheers It's stuck to my key literally I can't even get off my teeth you guys Holy moly. Mm-hmm. Well, it's still stuck in my teeth. It's very chewy. It's not sweet at all It has a weird aftertaste to me It tastes Chucky kind of pasty very earthy I don't like it at all And that's a bummer because I love primal kitchen products, but this is a no-go for me It was affordable. It is a decent amount of points. I don't care for it at all It is so chewy. It sticks to your teeth. I could barely bite through the bar. Mm-hmm No Next up is the vital proteins collagen bar and peanut butter cookie Here's to hoping this is better than a primal kitchen collagen bar I wanted to make sure I picked up a couple different options for collagen bars You guys know this is the collagen I use in my coffee everyday vital proteins Again, they make really clean whole real food products. So this is peanut butter and cookie It has eight grams of collagen 17 grams of protein only one sugar and 11 grams of fiber It also has mct oil and of course is made with a boy bovine collagen So I pretty much gave you all the info, but it is 200 calories. It's only five Smart point. So that's amazing two dollars and 15 cents. So super affordable super low point lots of protein Let's let's let's take a look. So here is what the bar looks like It looks like a peanut butter cookie literally with the cookie bits in it Mmm. This definitely is peanut butter vibes. I can definitely smell the peanut butter smells delicious cheers I see you vital proteins. I see you. This is really good. Now. It's not overly sweet But it's very peanut buttery. It has bits of cookie in it. It's really really delicious They also have other flavors. I would totally buy this again And it's a win on so many levels. It's a win on points Protein calories. It even has collagen Definitely definitely give the vital proteins when it's dry Skip the primal kitchen and pick up the vital proteins Next up is the kais bar in cookie dough with eight ingredients So this says kais the life changing bar eight ingredients 10 grams of protein dairy free and gluten free And every bar helps those in need So what kais does is donates a portion of their profits to children in need Try to give them food in the united state So the last one they did is they fed over a thousand children in the oklahoma city area With proceeds from these bars. So that alone is amazing 200 calories 10 grams of protein, which is fantastic two grams of fiber seven smart points two dollars and 39 cents And this is cookie dough flavor because who doesn't love cookie dough So here is your bar. You can see the big chunks of chocolate in there And it kind of has that chewy texture looking to the bar Smells good. Let's try it. Cheers. I mean, it's pretty good. The texture is good when I eat it I really taste the chocolate from the cookie dough coming through. It's like chocolate chips. That's really good and sweet But the bar itself to me doesn't have a ton of flavor. I get peanut butter From more than cookie dough. I do love the chocolate in there. I love the cause I like this bar. I would probably buy this bar again But I don't know if this would be something that I would eat regularly I'd like to try some of the other flavors but for the cause the ingredients it has a lot of protein It's it's a win. It's just not my favorite of the day. All right, my friends two more bars Next up is primal kitchen almond spice protein bar So these are little baby square little baby square bars. So this is the almond spice It says no gluten or grains eight grams of protein two grams of sugar use cage-free eggs Which doesn't mean anything and it is keto friendly So here's to hoping this is better than the collagen primal kitchen bar 200 calories, which is a lot Literally, this is the size of the bar That's the size of the bar for 200 calories But it packs eight grams of protein in this little bar six grams of fiber. So that's amazing This bar you guys is eight points. So for those of you on ww Some of these other bars are a lot bigger bar for your point So I don't know unless this is stellar and delicious and amazing I'd probably go for a larger bar, but this was only a dollar 29. So super super affordable Here's what the bar looks like It's a little lackluster in its appearance. It's nice and thick though. I'll give them that Smells really good like super cinnamon-y and spicy, which it's fall. So I'm definitely here for that. Cheers This is the grossest thing.    I don't even know Zero out of 10 negative 10 out of 10. I do not recommend No, this is seriously no offense primal kitchen. I love you in so many of your other products, but your bars No Next up is the good to go bar. This is actually a keto bar and this is in vanilla and almond Who I'm I'm ready. So this is a keto bar Like I said, it has two grams of sugar four net carbs and seven grams of fiber The only ingredient in here that isn't necessarily clean is urethra tall Now there's five grams of urethra tall, which isn't too bad But all of the other ingredients are really good So if you're on keto or you watch your carbs, this is a good choice for a bar Providing it tastes good. So here's what your bar looks like. It's quite interesting. It comes in these little like Square pieces. So you could save a little bit for later. I guess it smells kind of cookie. I can definitely smell the vanilla I'm just hoping that the urethra tall that's in here doesn't come through because it has a very cooling effect, which I don't care for at all. So Cheers This is actually really good. So look at the texture of this bar. It is definitely like a cookie. It's good I don't really taste the urethra tall. It doesn't come through as cooling. It's very Cookie-y. It tastes like a cookie. I do taste the vanilla. It also kind of has a little bit of coconut taste to me I wonder if there's coconut in here No, but I know what it is. It's the almond flour So all that's in here is almond flour urethra tall vegetable glycerin apple cider vinegar It does have natural flavors aka artificial flavors, which most keto products do Ground chia seeds sea salt baking soda and rosemary extract. So not bad. So this is 170 calories so really really good calorically it has six grams of protein seven fiber And again, it has five grams of urethra tall It is five smart points and two dollars and 25 cents So if you watch your carbs or you're on keto, this is a good choice It tastes good and it has pretty clean ingredients The only thing again, I don't love is the natural flavors, but this is a win a win for the low carb and keto community for sure So that is everything my friends. I hope you enjoyed this taste test We had a lot of fantastic bars honestly more We're good than I anticipated and some of them are incredibly delicious We had ww friendly bars. We had low carb bars and we also had absolutely horrible bars in my opinion Now I always say all of our taste buds are different So I do recommend that you try all of these bars Even the primal kitchen ones that I didn't absolutely love or even that greens bar You may love those so I highly recommend that you give them a try If it's something that you want to work into your day because they're great ingredients Nice and clean real food satisfying and filling So I'm really excited that I did this video. That was a lot of bars I'm full that was definitely my snack and maybe a portion of my lunch But I'm really happy that I found so many delicious bars and some new staples for my diet I am so excited. So if you enjoyed today's video, give it a big thumbs up It means a lot to me and it tells me to keep doing these taste tests and also down in the comments Let me know what other products you would like to see in a taste test video I have a few other ones up my sleeve, but I would love to hear from you guys Make sure you are subscribed and that your bell notification is turned on So when I do another taste test, you don't miss it and of course check out that description box down below for my coaching website I'd love to help you reach your healthy lifestyle goals Whatever those may be the link to head over and join my facebook group and links and discount codes to my favorite things And again, I will link all of the bars that I shared with you today that I can find Online and I will also share points and calories down in the description box as well So that way you can kind of make a good decision on what you may want to purchase But lots of wins today my friends lots of wins. Thank you again So much for hanging out with me and enjoy the rest of your day. Bye


will focus on leveling and overlaying with a motor grader to repair depressions, rutting, and corrugations. These defects must be repaired promptly to prevent further deterioration to the road and to improve skid resistance for vehicles. We will now look at depressions. They form low spots in the pavement, creating a driving hazard. Frequently, depressions extend across roadways over drainage culverts that have settled because of improper backfilling during construction. Another surface defect we are concerned with is rutting. It is a narrow depression in the vehicle's tire path, which can cause serious steering problems. Rutting is usually caused by the weight of heavy truck tires, while in the same area, depressions are also the source for concern. They are small depressions, ridges, and ripples found across a roadway. Corrigations occur where brakes must be used frequently, such as curbs, downgrades, and areas where the upper layer of pavement is weaker. These defects can cause serious driving problems, as well as damage to the vehicle and its cargo. If these defects are not repaired promptly, or extensively repair these defects, you will need the proper equipment. You will need a mechanical sweeper to clean the work site. An asphalt distributor to apply the TAC coat. A motor grater to spread the asphalt mix. A sufficient number of dump trucks to haul materials to the work site. A rubber-tired roller to compact the leveling course and the overlaying course. This roller is preferred, but if not available, you can use a tandem steel-wheeled roller. You will need the appropriate hand tools to work the asphalt mix. These tools include shovels, a hand tamper, rakes, a straight-edge or sand block, and brooms. You will also need the proper materials to make a good repair. Use hot mix to level the low places and to overlay the entire area to be repaired. You can use cold mix if hot mix is not available. You will also need rapid-setting asphalt cutback or asphalt emulsion for the TAC coat. The basic steps for repair of depressions, rutting, and corrugations. Step 1. Place the traffic control devices. Step 2. Clean the surface area. Step 3. Mark the limits for leveling and overlaying. Step 4. Apply the TAC coat. Step 5. Spread the leveling layers and compact. Step 6. Place the overlay and compact. Step 7. Clean the work site. Step 8. Remove the traffic control devices. We will now look at each step more closely. Step 9. Place the traffic control devices. Safety for the drivers, workers, and equipment must be planned carefully. If the area to be repaired extends across the road, repair one side or lane at a time to allow room for traffic to get by. Extra fragment may be needed if the repair area is large or extends around a curve. For further instruction, refer to the IRF videotape, traffic control, during maintenance. Step 2. Clean the surface area. Sweep any debris away from the work site. You will use either a mechanical sweeper or a stiff broom. Step 3. Mark the limits for leveling and overlaying. For leveling the low places, you mark their contour with chalk. For identifying the area to be overlaid, place side markers along the limits. Step 4. Apply the TAC coat. Spray a light coat of asphalt emulsion or asphalt cutback over the marked area for the first leveling course. The application rate should be light. The proper TAC forms a bond between the pavement and the leveling course. Allow the TAC to cure until it is sticky to touch. Step 5. Spread the leveling layers and compact. The volume of the depressions determines the amount of mix to be used and where it should be placed. To spread the asphalt mix, use a rake for small areas or a motor grater for large areas. If the area being repaired is less than 8 centimeters deep, only a single leveling layer of asphalt mix is required. Be sure to feather the asphalt mix at the edges. Check the new surface to make sure it is smooth and slightly higher than the surrounding pavement. If the depression being repaired is deeper than 8 centimeters, more than one layer will be needed. Mark the limits for each needed layer. TAC for each additional layer is not required if each one is placed and compacted before the asphalt mix cures. The layers should be flat and the same thickness. Do not allow the layers to conform to the defect. Compact each layer thoroughly. Use a rubber-tired roller, a vibratory roller or a tandem steel wheel roller. Rolling must be done immediately after the mix is spread. Several passes across each layer are necessary for proper compaction and rolling should be in the same direction as the defect for good compaction where roughing and depressions were located. If the area being repaired has corrugations, the top layer must be even with the tops of the ridges after it is compacted. Step 6 Place the overlay and compact. Before starting this operation, determine the limits of the overlay. It must cover the repair, overlap the surrounding pavement, be of uniform thickness and be the width of one lane. You calculate the volume of the overlay by multiplying the overlay length, width and thickness. The volume of overlay will determine the number of dump trucks needed to bring the hot mix to the work site. Place the asphalt mix over the area, set the motor greater blade to spread the asphalt mix evenly across the lane. Spread the mix in a single pass. Taper the ends to make the surface as smooth as possible. Depind the motor greater to compact the overlay. This thin layer of asphalt concrete will cool very quickly. Start at the outside edge for the first pass. Then overlap each additional pass one-third the width of the roller, and the entire surface several times to assure full compaction. Remember to roll the overlay in the direction of traffic flow. When the surface is fully compacted, repeated applications of the roller will not leave any impressions in the overlay. Step 7 Clean the work site. Keep the area clean of any loose material. If there was striping, make a record of where it must be replaced so your maintenance supervisor can schedule it. Step 8 Remove the traffic control devices. If this repair is to be continued on the other side, remove the traffic control devices in the reverse order of their placement. Then put them in the correct order on the other side. Remember there are eight steps for repair of depressions, rutting, and corrugations. Step 1 Place the traffic control devices. Be sure the signs, cones, and barricades are placed correctly. Step 2 Clean the surface area. Sweep debris away from the area to be repaired. Step 3 Mark the limits for leveling and overlaying. Follow the contour of the depression and the limits of the overlay. Step 4 Apply the tack coat. Make a light application over the marked area. Step 5 Spread the leveling layers and compact. Make sure the layers are flat and are fully compacted. Step 6 Place the overlay and compact. Use the motor grater blade to evenly spread hot mix over the repair. Then compact it thoroughly. Step 7 Clean the work site. A clean road is a safer road for everyone. Step 8 Remove the traffic control devices. Pick them up in the reverse order of their placement. The procedure for repair of depressions, rutting, and corrugations improves the quality of the road surface and helps prevent serious accidents.


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maybe if i open no this is so stupid you are a app you are an app so so right click no no you are not an app i hate you this is a zip videos is an app but in some sense picture can i add the picture to my word an app an app where are yours up this is the question document not documents goals please yes scout i need ubuntu one time in my life i add ubuntu to the doc so i need ubuntu less and you program so so much so ubuntu ubuntu is the base in my house that's your face everywhere yeah you're so plant of yourself you're completely out of in the wrong direction ingenious that's i have an idea i have an idea right click please forgive me if i don't believe in you but oh oh it doesn't open well life is not so easy wait try again try again i believe in this more and no it doesn't make sense it's not more english i hate english i close you and you remain here yes now now i start with that i do i do i do i can make this one yes you need to switch to the dark theme it's so cool to say but it's so easy to say that's a good question enter edit mode i don't know dark theme maybe i distracted you i don't know now animation speed dark maybe i need to save some not reset apply doesn't apply oh yeah i yes i think you can switch back to the light team if you prefer and you do no i do i do i i know what maybe you don't know how to switch but i now next one you need to add an icon to the desktop that's i'm so there's too much zilla i don't know what i'm excited what i do next stop what what what there is a next up to help me do a yo yo are you to what is this add that wall next you're oh all desktop that's a desktop in my life to current desktop what do you what's like it was easier than i thought i do i do you're done yes unlimited firefox in your desktop okay okay last one change the wallpaper configure desktop and wallpaper too easy for me something cool this inspire me apply or okay right okay well done well done not enough not zilla here


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All right, if you have a question, post the word question. All right, Sadie has a question. Jonathan, is it possible to have a great friendship with your partner and still maintain great chemistry? Is it possible to have a great friendship and chemistry? Absolutely it's possible. Now it's rare because oftentimes when the relationship gets too focused on friendship that they forget to have the sex piece, right? And having a sexual relationship is highly important and many couples start to take it for granted. And oftentimes, once they haven't done it for a week, one week turns into two weeks, two weeks turns into four weeks, four weeks turns into four months. And next thing you know, you could be in a relationship where you haven't had sex together for over four years. And believe me, I know a lot of couples who are in that experience.  So I think from the sexual perspective, it requires to be intentional, to basically listen, we've got to at some, I suspect at some, and I say suspect because I've been in relationships where we went a long time without being intimate together. All right, well, let's call that a marriage. It requires being intentional. And I happen to know a couple who's been married 55 years. They're in their 80s. And to this day, they still plan one day a week of their love day. They have a one day a week, I think it's most every Saturdays. That's their time, whether it's eight a.m. to noon or noon to four, is that's their love day where they physically are intimate with one another and they actually schedule it.  And some people think, well, that's not spontaneous. And you know, we prefer that spontaneity type of sex.  So let's maybe it might shift out of the narrative that it has to be unique or special and just say, let's do the act because it feels good. In addition, Esther Perel who wrote the book, Mating Incaptivity, Mating Captivity talks about the importance of erotic desire, the importance of erotic desire. And while that's not my area of expertise to flush out what that is for each person, I think it's hugely important that it's you're conscious and aware. Think about this, 50% of divorces in the United States cite money as the primary reason for divorce and the one or two reasons, one or two, I mean, these are the top two, is money and sex.  Folks, I'm here to say magic fairy dust doesn't make relationships work. It requires being intentional. This is one of the reasons why I highly recommend everybody reading the book, Eight Dates by Doctors John and Julie Gottman. Eight Dates by Doctors John and Julie Gottman, why? Because this talks about the mechanics to a healthy, happy relationship. And ladies, if you follow my work, you know.  If you want my vagina, this is my requirement. Ladies, you have every right to be asked for more intentionality because look, I'm your big brother. If I could be there on a first date, when you're on a first date with a guy, I wish I could be there with the shotgun, pointing his face and say, what's your intentions with my little sister? I wish I could be there for you. I can't, you've gotta do it yourself. You have to establish the intentionality. Now I know that goes against every dating rule.   Yes, it works temporarily. It works temporarily. Manipulations and games work temporarily. But do you wanna be in a relationship that's gonna implode later? Just because you might have hooked a person right off the bat with some games or manipulation, how is that gonna help you from a long-term perspective? This is why I'm a big proponent of asking better questions in the early stage of dating. And I'm talking about asking deeper questions. That's interesting. I've been giving thought to something lately. And I wanna share this with you because if you follow my channel, you might have noticed I've done a couple posts centered around, when would you like to know that the person you're dating is the wrong person for you? Would you like to know before the first date, after the first date, before having sex, or after getting married? When do you wanna know this is the wrong person? I think most everybody would say they'd wanna know. They'd wanna know before you ever go out on a first date, okay? Wouldn't you rather know someone is not compatible with you before you ever meet them? So why is there such fear on asking some really tough questions on the telephone before you ever meet someone? I'm here to say the best time to determine compatibility, I mean, well, not the best time. Certainly, we have an opportunity where we could ferret out people who are not right for us very early on. And I said in my post, I think nothing helps us determine compatibility better than asking questions about the following. Here, at least in the United States, politics, religion, current events, asking about how their mind works in these three areas, I think plays a huge role in understanding if you're with somebody who has an open mind or a closed mind. I'm gonna repeat that, I think it gives you a better understanding if you could be with someone with an open mind or closed mind. This is why I'm a big proponent of asking some really tough questions before you ever meet them in person because I want you to think of it this way. You go out on the first date and you have a good time because that's what you're told to do is have a good time, just sit back in your feminine energy and have a good time.  Okay, great.    Let me repeat that. This person is a nightmare. Their ideology is different than yours. Their emotional maturity is rather weak.  Because folks, let me just say this. If we're not getting radically honest early, it's much harder to get radically honest later. And here's the thing. You've gone out that first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, ninth, 10th date, you've had sex together and all of a sudden you're attached to this human being. And then you're thinking, well, if we love each other, we can naturally magically make it work out.  Folks, I'm here to say that magic fairy dust doesn't fix things. If you're not familiar with my relationship iceberg, by the way that on Instagram, I want you to see that. But for those watching right here, my relationship iceberg up above is the tip of the iceberg is chemistry. But below the iceberg is shared values, blendable lifestyles and emotional maturity. Above the waterline is attraction, below the waterline is compatibility. If you don't check the boxes of shared values, blendable lifestyles and emotional maturity, you're never, this waterline is never gonna drop below enough to feel deep attraction for that person. In fact, at some point, the relationship will implode. So I'm here to suggest a more radical way of dating, a more radically honest way of dating. And that's by starting with some really tough questions before you ever meet on a first date. Now a lot of, again, I know the narrative says, just have fun, but guess what? Have fun when you realize your ideologies are the same. Have fun when physically, philosophically, you're on the same page because the farther two people are part, the harder it is to come closer together.  Yes, there's always exceptions to the rule. There's always that broken clock that's right twice a day. But what about those other 22 hours a day? That's the reality of this. So I went off on a tangent here based on this question. And I hope you recognize that I think the true value is when we go deeper early on, we actually are building the roots of intimacy from the very first date. And if you have physical chemistry, kaboom, way to go. All right, that's just my thoughts there. So thank you so much. All right, so Sadie, thank you so much for your question. Great question. All right.


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That is, they have negative net worth.  And if those gambles don't pay off, it'll be on us the taxpayers to pay for it. So that has to be regulated. They're going to be put in a straight jacket. So we are going to have, you know, we don't see it immediately, but we're going to have over the next few months, the next several years, a much more regulated banking system. Could you explain a little bit more what you mean by the phrase zombie banks?  If you tried to liquidate the bank, you would not end up with any equity, anything left for the shareholders and executives.  It's not really my term. It goes back to the savings and loan crisis. When the savings and loans were given the opportunity to keep going, even though that they were insolvent, they went nuts. They bought junk bonds. They bought commercial real estate. And as one economist pointed out, what the zombie banks would, savings and loans would do is they would pay higher interest rates because they were so desperate to kind of keep gambling and they would invest in weaker loans. And what does that do to a healthy bank or savings and loan? Well, now their ability to compete has gone away. So these zombies are really dangerous and that's why there will be justifiably very tight regulations. As we speak, the Fed is the most bankrupt bank in the country.  They can always take more money from the Treasury, but that's just the reality. They're in the position of SVB in terms of the market value of their portfolio. So I think when you go, so I think the process by which SVB went down is as I described it. When you talk about blame, then you have to talk about who could have done differently. And a lot of people would say, I think this is really strange, but a lot of people would say that the venture backed firms should have behaved differently. They'll say, well, they shouldn't have put, you know, $5 million in deposit at this one bank. They should have spread their deposits around. They shouldn't have put the money in. And I've also heard sort of the opposite, which is they shouldn't have all taken their money out a couple of weeks ago. They should have left it in. So they shouldn't have put as much in when they thought the bank was solvent and they shouldn't have taken as much out when they thought the bank was in trouble. So that's, okay, it's probably true that if they hadn't done those things, we wouldn't have had this bank run, but that kind of blame, I don't fit. The blame that I think I'm inclined to is to go all the way back to that deficit spending and the quantitative easing. There you're really putting the whole country at risk. There's no, you know, it does not end well. It leads to the inflation. The inflation leads to the high interest rates. The high interest rates bankrupt a bunch of companies, including a huge portion of the banking system. I think there's something like still $600 billion of embedded losses in all the banks and only about 2 trillion in equity. So they've lost about a third of their equity. So all that I trace back to the loose deficit spending and the quantitative easing. All of this raises questions about what we call moral hazard. And that's a question that Larry Summers, the former Treasury Secretary, former President of Harvard said is not something to worry about at this, he said in the lead up to the bailout of the depositors that it's not really a question that can be front of mind for regulators. I don't think this is a time for moral hazard lectures or for talk about teaching people lessons. We have enough strains and challenges in the economy without adding the collateral consequences of a breakdown in an important sector. Larry's my age. He remembers the savings and loan crisis and he knows what moral hazard is. But he also knows that this is an emergency that if you let the... If you stick with the $250,000 ceiling, obviously a lot of tech firms get wiped out and I don't feel like they deserved it. And I don't think... I think it would have been horrible for all of the people who worked for them cause all sorts of chaos. And on top of that, you have all these other banks where everyone can look at their financial statements and see that a certain percentage of them are underwater, not as badly as SVB, but they are underwater. And so you'll have bank runs all over the place, total chaos in the financial system. So yeah, you worry about moral hazard tomorrow, not today. I don't think Larry would say you never worry about moral hazard. And I think he knows you're creating a ton of moral hazard. And my point about zombie banks is that they are the owners there are the ones who have lots of moral hazard, especially now that all their deposits are guaranteed. If they're underwater, they have nothing to lose by taking money to Las Vegas and betting and they have everything to gain. And the only thing that stops them from doing that is regulation. And that means that the regulation is gonna be tighter. And I think that that is going to last forever. There's this basic trend that government financial policy, whether it's monetary policy, whether it's regulatory policy, the policies that survive are the policies that allow government to allocate credit to its preferred uses, especially to its own spending. As far as more hazard goes, I mean, at least the shareholders were not billed out. So there was no, there's still risk from investing in a poorly managed bank. As far as depositors go, most indicators show that they would have gotten like 80 cents back on their dollar if that were allowed to play out. So it's not, I don't think it's a moral case that those depositors had to be billed out. But from their perspective of preventing future bank runs in an emergency, I can see why they wanted to do it. But like, most moral hazard decisions are kind of that trend of fix the problem now and then adjust the moral hazard later and then never really adjust the moral hazard either because they just don't or because they've kind of created a situation that we can't really address it. And so I think that's just a general trend that just keeps happening. There's a lot of talk about abandoning any effort to fight inflation. I think, and I think John Cochran would think that any effort to fight inflation has to include a serious effort at reigning in the deficit. And not just any one year, but all the out years. And that includes social security and Medicare. Are we gonna see that? Probably not. So does that mean we're gonna relive the 1970s with a lot of floundering and random policy changes that don't do anything and you get a lot more inflation? So anyway, it's not an easy thing to answer. I just say that the one precedent that comes to my mind says, watch out for lots more inflation and more troubles. And just to be very clear about that, why is it that bringing the deficit and eventually the debt under control is the essential component there from your viewpoint? Because ultimately that's how the government injects money or wealth into the economy is by just running these deficits. And how do you get rid of government debt? You can formally default. You just say, wake up tomorrow and say, sorry, bondholders, you're not getting anything. Or you can actually cut spending, raise taxes, or you can inflate it away. There's no sentiment to formally default. There's no sentiment to bring the deficit under control, so what you're left with, it seems to me is inflation. Hey, thanks for watching that excerpt from my conversation with Lynn Alden and Arnold Kling about the Silicon Valley Bank meltdown. And what caused it? Who's to blame? What to expect next for the US banking sector? You can watch the full conversation by clicking here or on the link in the description below and subscribe to Reason TV and watch these conversations live every Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern.


Hey, how's it going everybody? It's me Rarar Diego that one kid that you know You're probably not seeing me as much these days as you would if we were in the physical thing And I'm running around the village and stuff But that also means you get to experience all these other things that people do how's Def Con been for you guys, huh? Digital is there something you'd like to repeat is this something you'd like to do another time? I don't know Hopefully if we do decide to do it. It's not gonna be under the virus situation, but whatever Daniel Kim's got some good stuff. I've been Chilling in the discord We have some people hanging out in the voice over there if you have questions about Monero or you want to talk about Pretty much anything dropped by our discord the Monero village area We've got a voice chat where at least somebody's usually hanging out from the community to answer questions okay, I Am said to speak now I'm set to speak today I got a little bit of a half hour slot to fill But this time I don't have to fill it with a bunch of filler because it's an actual talk that I'm gonna be giving We're gonna talk about Decentralization in a centralized world apologies to all the people tuning in from Europe I'm spelling it with the Z which is the American spelling of decentralization and centralized Instead of an S and when I see it with an S it makes me cringe inside so without further ado Let's go ahead and get started on this Decentralization when people hear about blockchain right or when a blockchain is kind of when a blockchain project is talking about their project They're like yeah, you know, we have these goals of decentralization You know, we we really feel that decentralization is gonna is gonna make all the difference and like where that's one of our the things we're working towards on a technological level and it Nobody ever stops to ask and think Why what what what what is the purpose of decentralization at this point? It's really just kind of this buzzword right that they say decentralization you go. That's good, right? Okay, so if they make that a goal and it's good then that means that everything's good, but it's not quite that simple It's not quite that way If we don't know what decentralization is for if we don't know why Decentralization is a thing why it's important and if we don't know like the ways to achieve it Then really we're just throwing words on things and nothing gets better In fact, many things would benefit from not being decentralized and we're not going to be able to think about this critically and See what things should be decentralized and what things shouldn't be decentralized Unless we know really what it's for so this is kind of a rundown of what I'm going to be talking about right now We're going to give some definitions about decentralization And we're going to talk about the different forms that it can take place in Because there is more than just one form really when people say the word decentralization They mean many many many different things Because it applies to many areas of a cryptocurrency project Then we're going to explore some trade-offs. So when you when you choose decentralization, it's not all positives There are negatives that go along with it and then we're going to look at a practical application And see how that can kind of help us as we look at Cryptocurrency projects in general and evaluate them and try to think about them critically to see if they're doing something good or if they're just kind of wasting resources And yeah, that's where we're going to go and then from here depending on time. I may give some light touching on Kind of the world as we know it and how how we're moving into a more decentralized place because we pretty much our world is very centralized as is the Name of the talk So who am I? I'm Diego Salazar. I contribute to Monero and that's pretty much everything you need to know about me There's my Twitter. You can go to my Twitter. I don't do anything on my Twitter I don't tweet hardly ever So you yeah, I have long curly hair and some people like that. So if that's your thing then Then give me a thumbs up in in chat okay Decentralized decentralization as stated before this is basically just a new buzzword, right? We have all of these things that have become buzzwords in the world blockchain Is the name of the game, but it is also a buzzword because as Daniel Kim was alluding to in his talk when people are like, oh, yeah We're adding blockchain to the automobile industry and you know, their socks just shoot way up at this point Blockchain is a buzzword privacy is also a buzzword, right? You have Bitcoin and all these transparency point coins. They're like, oh, yeah, you know, we're not a privacy coin We're not privacy first, but we're adding privacy Decentralization is another big buzzword and it's probably one of the top ones if you look at almost any cryptocurrency project I can guarantee you that the word decentralization is going to be somewhere in there These people this is they just know that this is desirable, but they don't know why So let's go ahead and do the definitions and like all boring people when I do definitions We start with a dictionary So decentralization is defined by Merriam-Webster dictionary as the dispersion or distribution of functions and powers Right, so then also we're gonna define decentralize to move the control of an organization or government from a single place To several smaller ones and this is defined by the Cambridge dictionary and I would also expand that definition somewhat so it's not just a single place to several smaller ones. It can really be You know from three to five from 10 to 20 from any smaller number of Places to Larger number of smaller ones and so the word centralize is Just the opposite of that right we're moving from many places of power or functions and putting them From many different places to less places in the most extreme case into one place, right? One person can do it So we're gonna give an example. We're gonna talk about We're gonna move into why would we want to decentralize? What is the point of decentralizing? So In this example, we all start a club, right? We start a really cool club. We all love Twilight series. We all love the Twilight series I can't think of a single person on this entire planet that has not read the books watched the movies wrote fanfiction All these things right everybody's crazy about the Twilight series. So we start our Twilight series club and You know everyone is either on team Jacob or team Edward and we need to vote We need to vote who is going to be the leaders, you know We need to vote on who's going to be the leader of our club who's going to be leading this thing But everybody is in these two very political parties of team Edward or team Jacob And I am a team Edward fan maybe and you're a team Jacob fan maybe so I don't want the team Jacob people to be in charge because they're gonna cover our Twilight clubhouse in Team Jacob stuff and that would be awful. I want Edward posters on the wall So I want to make sure that whoever I'm voting for is part of team Edward So everybody's gonna vote right? We let's say we have 20 ish people. Everybody writes their thing on the ballot and we all put it in the box But here there a problem begins to arise The jumps a little bit ahead we have to count these votes We have to count these votes and who are we gonna put in charge of these votes in? In theory this voting is anonymous. We don't know who voted what but does it really matter what anybody voted like And let me let me tell you why if we put one person in charge of Counting all of the votes and this person is a team Jacob person as signified by the J here Then they could just like either not really count the votes or count them But not really care and say oh Jacob Juan this guy from Team Jacob Juan and We would all have to trust this person because we didn't count the votes Right and this is just not something that we want to do So this is on one end of the extreme where we get one person to do it on the other end of the extreme We get everybody to stay Everybody is staying here to count the votes, but you know the kids are getting tired and you know It's been a long day for me. I want to get home I don't want to stay here and count all these votes the only way to be absolutely sure with zero trust of who won this is if everybody absolutely everybody stays and Everybody takes out each vote looks at it passes it around and makes and everybody's watching everybody else to make sure We're not doing some sneaky substitutions or anything like that, right? So everybody has to stay everybody has to look at each vote and keep their own tally Then we compare our tallies to each other and if we all come up with the same thing Then there is 100% assurance with zero trust that we have a correct vote That's the other end of the extreme But that requires everybody to take their Saturday to stay here and we don't want to stay here But as we just discussed in this first example if we have just this one person here Well, they can go ahead and report whatever they want and we would never be the wiser So what else can we do? Well, we can decentralize so from this one person. We've now moved to two people, right? And in this case, we're hoping We're hoping that one is team Edward one is team Jacob So that way we know for sure that you know, they're not going to collaborate because it what if they're both team Jacob then They're like, okay, so we both want team Jacob to win so we're going to agree together that That we're not going to really care about the actual vote count. This is just what we're going to be reporting So we have to kind of make sure that we get somebody who's on team Edward and somebody else who's on team Jacob So that way when they count the votes if one person tries to lie The other person is incentivized to say no, that's not true. No, that's not true But there are some attacks that can happen here as well. This is not a bulletproof foolproof kind of thing because what if One of two things happen. I've got a couple examples What if the guy that is known as team Edward is actually a secret closet team Jacob guy? Right, he doesn't tell anybody. He's actually changed teams recently Or he's been convinced by a family member or he's just lying for whatever reason and he is Converted to team Jacob now we have two team Jacob people and it's the same thing that I discussed They're just going to agree. Okay, it doesn't matter what the vote is. We're just going to say that the team Jacob guy wins alternatively another scenario is The first team Jacob person is quite wealthy or powerful or has a lot of resources and they're able to say hey I will give you money resources, whatever you want if you If you agree with me that it doesn't matter what the vote is we just agree team Jacob wins And maybe this person cares more about the resources Then about their allegiance to any particular team. So they are They are persuaded Well, let's try to decentralize even further because we don't want any of those attacks to happen We want to make sure that this is a fair election. So we decentralize even further and We say okay, we got four people now Hopefully two of them team Edward two of them team Jacob, but now we get to some really interesting kind of Game theory things that start happening here because what if we're able to get one person to our side Either through either of the ways that we were talking about before where we were able to convince them through resources Or they were a secret agent all along whatever the case may be now We're kind of this three against one scenario and these three people can threaten this person Hey, if you don't keep quiet about this or if you don't do what we say Then we're gonna tear we're gonna burn all your posters, you know in real life scenarios It can be things like they can threaten violence They can threaten family resources, whatever and now this person is gonna have to go along with them because they have the numbers advantage so We've decentralized into a place where in theory It's like okay four people is good but not everybody has to stay and waste their time counting all of the votes but We have enough people that we can trust that nobody's gonna do anything weird But in this scenario, it's not enough so we can do this again and again and again and again until we're All the way back to everybody having to stay To count the votes So I if you're seeing a pattern here I hope you're seeing a pattern here and this pattern is that the more we trust people The more convenient it is for everybody because if we only have one person counting those votes That's a lot of trust placed in that individual, but it's much. It's the only person inconvenienced is that one person It's much more convenient for everybody else. They get to go home and watch television, right and the less trust we have The more inconvenient it is for everybody and this is basically Decentralization in a nutshell This is going to apply Everywhere across the board when we look at blockchain. We are decentralizing a database, right? It's just a database that has a ledger Information that says this person has this much money and this person has this much money But we're decentralizing it so it's now not on just one server where we have to trust the system Administrator is not going to do anything bad with that or maybe they're not malicious But they're incompetent and so Hackers get in and they mess with the database. No, we give the blockchain We give this database to whoever wants it and now because Everybody has it. We don't have to trust anybody So if I'm like, oh, do I have an accurate? Copy of the blockchain I can compare it to many of my peers and see okay Yes, it agrees with all of them. So we're all good. We're all fine, but The it's much more inefficient It's much more inconvenient because if you want the most trustless option you have to download the whole blockchain onto your computer Now you have to take up your hard drive space your bandwidth your everything to be absolutely trustless And when we start thinking about the fact that this is always going to be the trade-off the more we decentralize The more inefficient it is the more inconvenient it is We need to start asking the question what things need to be trustless. This is the core question What things need to be trustless because those are the things that definitely we can start to decentralize Knowing that there is going to be a cost But not everything does need to be trustless when we start thinking okay To give a very stupid example and sorry to call people out here There was a coin back in the 2017 boom called campus coin and the idea was that campus coin was a cryptocurrency That students would be able to use to pay tuition or their meal plans or all these things right? So we're trying to make paying our tuition and paying for our meal plans for our students a trustless endeavor and I don't I just didn't see or hear the outcry of students that were like these these Universities are cheating me. I paid the money and they said they never received it. I don't trust them We need to we need to make sure that they're in check We need to make sure that this is the whole trustless kind of thing I didn't see this right this is something that does not need to be trustless same with denticoin Paying dentists right how many people have been defrauded by their dentist I mean, maybe there's some of you and you might raise your hand and say I see a need for denticoin But I think for the majority of us we're able to pay them and they're like, thank you for your money Here's your teeth clean and we're good So kind of in this whole blockchain area it makes sense in some Spaces for example distributed ledger technology There is strong motivation for people to Try to mess with money information Why because I can become a millionaire or a billionaire overnight if I have the capability to mess with the money situation Or I can be malicious against somebody else and they have a hundred dollars and now they have zero dollars There's strong incentive money is such a strong incentive. So kind of this ledger based information There is a lot of reason why we would want to trust people less So we may be able and willing to decentralize become more inefficient So that way we can trust people less But I mean if we just can't do that for it for everything But here's here's the big thing about decentralization in terms of blockchain It's as I alluded to earlier It's not just one thing when somebody says we are a Decentralized project which you hear pretty much everywhere. What does this mean? We're gonna we're gonna start kind of poking into a couple many of the ways that A project can be decentralized one way who writes the code, okay? There's so all of these wallets all of this protocol all this stuff needs to be written by some entity Usually like pretty much always by people right who is actually writing this code Is it one person is it ten people? Maybe they have 20 CEOs and one engineer that's actually writing the code is this decentralized They have 20 CEOs so 20 people looking over making sure the project is okay or 20 people in high CT position CEO CTO these kinds of things right, but they don't know the code well enough to be able to check on this guy or whatever So functionally there's one person who is writing this code and He has no oversight, which means that this person can put back doors inside They can you know, they can do whatever they want And nobody's gonna be around to stop them. Who's writing the code finances? Who has the money? Who's distributing the money if there's like one guy or just a very small team of people who is handling the money of a project Then they can choose like this it gets a little subtle here and it gets a little not quite so on the nose But they can hire engineers That maybe they're less than scrupulous or maybe they're hiring engineers that are incompetent Or maybe they're hiring engineers that adhere to a certain design Philosophy and not to another one so that they don't have to have as much in fighting to get the To get the project to go in the direction that they want it to go rather than another direction This kind of stuff is important because when we're talking about decentralization trusting less are we just like You know the development one is the one that's most well known who's writing the code How many eyes are on the code but the same thing with money? How many eyes are on the money? How many eyes are on the money who's paying to either hire somebody or fire somebody or to get this research done What if you know there's two? Papers to research papers that are done for two different totally different directions that we can take a coin in terms of Evolving the protocol well the person with the finances decides to fund an audit for one of those papers But not the other once that audit is complete They can say look this way has been audited and they said it was good this other one is Unaudited so I really don't think we should do that well just like that you have influenced a community Because of money decisions so it's also decentralization also needs to take place kind of on a financial level If there's only one group or a small group of people that has all of the money. That's something you also need to watch out for research Who's doing the research? Because you know just as I alluded to in the audit thing Perhaps a researcher comes across two or three different ways that things can go You know evolved from a cryptographic perspective and they decide to really pour They're all into one of them that they think is the best and not put as much effort into the other ones They're gonna have a lot more Do we want do we trust this researcher and many times? Many times. Yes, maybe many times. We think they're not malicious, right? But we can never be absolutely positively sure when we're talking about decentralization where when we're talking about making things Trustless, it's not just on the code. It's not just on the money. It's also on the science. Who's doing the science? and Practical stuff practical stuff. Who's running the day today? Who you know, who's running the the community management stuff all of these are ways all of these are ways That decentralization needs to be looked at so when a project says we are a decentralized project Maybe they mean in one way like we have several different engineers or we're open source Usually what they mean is we're open source, which means there are several eyeballs on the project But when you start digging deeper, you're like, oh, but we do have a small group of scientists. That's pretty impenetrable Like as in it's hard for you to do your own research and they're the ones that do majority the research Oh, who hands the money? Oh, well, I see we've got this little group. That's that's responsible for that What kind of oversight do they have? Oh, we just we make sure they do good stuff So they start hand waving a lot of the centralized areas They start hand waving away a lot of the centralized the ways that they are centralized And they're like and we want you to only focus on the fact that our development is Decentralized Here's what I'm not going to take a lot of time to get into you about mining Centralization decentralization. This is something that you know Monero tried to do with random X ASICs tend to lead to centralization of mining over a period of time to particular people That are able to create new ASICs and stuff and we don't have time to go over in that Daniel Kim has kind of discussed this in his talk So I would give that a look but basically the goal is to Explain to you guys that there are many ways that something is decentralized and particularly when a project is centralized in many areas I would even say in most areas they do their best to divert attention to The areas very few that do exist where they are Decentralized and that's usually the protocol level because blockchain by design is pretty much decentralized as long as there's miners and stuff Like it's just the way that it is and they'll point all eyeballs to that and say see we're decentralized when really everything else is Centralized so we've gone through the what? What is it? We gave some definitions. We've gone through the where right can be mining It could be development. We've gone through the why why would we want to decentralize because we want to Reduce trust now we need to talk about the how and so to discuss the how I'm going to say that I start a new project this new project save the marmots.com.  It's very decentralized and so you're like ooh decentralized that sounds good Okay, so that's a couple points in its favor. I may maybe put some money in there But we got to ask the big questions got to ask the big question First of all, does this need to be decentralized? This is always always always always the first big question that you should ask yourself when they say we are Revolutionizing the real estate industry the automobile industry the trash picking up industry the dentist industry We're decentralizing all of these industries. We need to start thinking critical thinking Does this need to be decentralized? Is this something that would benefit from a reduction of trust? Is this a something where all the parties don't trust each other? Is this something where we would be willing to tolerate the inefficiencies? What are the inefficiencies? They may not be as neat on the surface so like for blockchain The inefficiency is it requires proof of work which requires electrical consumption It requires power to secure the blockchain It requires the database to be on everybody's computer. That's a lot of space, right? What so for blockchain? We might know what those are But if we start looking at decentralizing other industries, we may not know it may not be readily apparent to us What are the inefficiencies that are going to come from decentralizing something? We need to start asking the big question. Does this need to be decentralized? But there are a few other smaller questions that we can ask because that's a big question And it's probably the most important and maybe they they're able to give you a good reason Why they think that this should be decentralized. They'll typically say there is a good use case for this Usually it's a bunch of bullshit, but that's what they'll say. There's there's there's a good use case for this But there's a bunch of smaller questions that we can use to tease out whether a this thing needs to be Decentralized and be whether the project itself is a decentralized for example. Who do I talk to to get information? Who do I need to approach? Who do I need to talk to to get any? Information about this about this product if it is largely contained within one Website one person one department, right? If it's only a small group of people that is able to give you accurate information about this Then that means that for the most part the information is going to be coming from a select group That's going to tell you what you want to hear Are there dissenting viewpoints are those dissenting viewpoints given a platform? Assuming they're not trying to spread misinformation, which I really Feel sorry for everyone in this day and age of social media where there's so much misinformation everywhere There's so much noise. It's really hard to distinguish between what a signal and what is noise But that is another talk in and of itself But are these dissenters who have different ideas that are in theory in a perfect world presented in a Respectful manner and they have good points and they address people's points and stuff Are these people given a platform or are they silenced? If they are silenced and that says that this is a pretty centralized thing because you need certain amount of power to silence these people You know and if we look at kind of Bitcoin and BTC from the subreddit perspective There was a group of people that didn't like the Bitcoin subreddit, so they made their own They made BTC and regardless of what you think about these two subreddits I don't really care what you think about these things But these voices were not silenced and they couldn't be silenced like in one area They were but they were very easily able to build a following build the community of people who disagreed with the first one Whereas many people those things get attacked those places get shut down It's really bad if you start getting like some cease and desist letters that shows okay These people really do own pretty much everything and it's not decentralized at all question to what is Centralized and why so this is a bit of a this is a bit of a funky thing that I'm gonna throw in here It's probably best No, let me let me take a step back. Maybe not probably best some projects may choose to centralize some things and If we need to understand why they do that because maybe that's the way to go for example payments Maybe it's just easier to get people paid on time in terms of researchers who decide they can devote their time and energy To this or engineers or people who are gonna code full-time You know what we have decided to centralize the way we do our finances so we can pay people on time So they don't leave us if they can give you a reason for their centralization now at that point You can kind of decide for yourself. Well, is this kind of worth the trust? Maybe maybe not but if they if they're like, oh, no, no, no, that's all decentralized and you're like, no No, it's clearly not right. They need to be able to point to parts of their project that are centralized And honest people which are hard to come by will tell you. Yeah, we're a decentralized protocol But this part is centralized this part is centralized and this part is semi centralized and here are the reasons why Okay, now at that point we are armed with information you can run it through your personal philosophies and worldviews to see if that's something that you're okay with but It's definitely something that is rarely talked about. It's kind of hand waved away. Well, no It's not really centralized it is and they need to be able to explain why so talk to your projects that anything that you're interested in and What can I learn from history? There is a huge amount of examples of not just blockchain projects But open-source projects business projects everything all over the world where they have failed Because of centralization and some have failed because of Decentralization there was too many people that you needed to get a Unapproval from to make a decision and so you missed out on an opportunity Right, you couldn't get all 10 CEOs to kind of give a check mark or all 10 powerful board members to give a check mark Either because you couldn't reach them or they couldn't reach a decision So you missed out on a big opportunity and they go under right so Decentralization is not always blanket good. Sometimes it can keep you from doing things in a quick fashion But it reduces trust so there's a ton of examples Please please please go look through failed businesses failed open-source projects failed blockchain projects tried to find out Why did they fail? Oftentimes one of the underlying issues is that it was either centralized in some way or decentralized in some way that it shouldn't Have been I'm running short on time so Conclusion summary in closing decentralization is this big buzzword. It doesn't We really have to understand what it is what its goal is what it's trying to do Because otherwise when somebody says oh, this is decentralized. We're just like, oh, yeah, that's great when really it may not necessarily be that way so Yeah That's my last slide. That's my last second. It's for 30 my time I'm an hour ahead of Las Vegas, so it's time for me to Back on out of here if you have any questions, I will be chilling around in the discord I'm more than happy to talk with you guys about decentralization What I think about various projects and what they claim about decentralization blah blah blah blah blah So that's it for me. 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