Hello everybody, welcome to the stream. I'm Tom Merritt and this is going to be your Daily Tech News show in just a few minutes. How about that? Is that like a newscaster, TV newscaster type of thing? Sure. Sure, could be that if you wanted to. Yeah, whatever works for you. That's what it is. Well, that's what I would like it to be. So thank you, Tom. I mean, I guess if you were a TV newscaster and there was nothing going on before the newscast, you might say that. But we don't really care. Yeah, it felt more like a stage announcement. Ladies and gentlemen, the show will be beginning. Please take your seat. Please turn off yours. And might we remind you, no photographs or cameras allowed during the show. Thank you very much. No flash photography. Do not attempt to take pictures of the flash. Glass bottles not permitted in auditorium. No throwing of vegetables. No cannoli. My favorite stadium announcement was when I had to make a women's volleyball at the University of Illinois about parents, please watch your children. Oh, because they were like run onto the court. Yeah, because there wasn't really a good separation in the gym. They weren't playing in assembly hall. They were playing in a smaller gym. And, you know, it was like, you don't want to run it out in the middle of the court in the middle of the game. No, you don't. At night court. Night court. That has that got bull. Shannon. They went through four female prosecutors on that show until they ended up with Markey Post. See, that's the only one I remember. There's three more before her. And John Laracat. John Laracat. Harry. He was the public defender, right? No, no, he was a prosecutor. The women were all the defenders. There was the defenders they went through. You're right. I don't really remember night court. I mean, I remember that it was a show. It was a comedy. But it was like a little adult for me. Like, you know, I don't know. I just remember Harry wanted to be a magician. Yeah, he was a magician. You mean the actor was a magician? Yeah, and he was also, he also did a bunch of cameos on Cheers, that character. I don't know if it was that character. The character or the actor? Well, the actor, but the, in the, in Cheers, he was also known as Harry. Oh, interesting. So I don't know if it was. Was it Cheers slash Vic? Well, night court was NBC, right? So maybe there was some crossover characters. Yeah, maybe. You know, like the love boat docking at Fantasy Island. Was night court after Cheers was a 930 show? Yes, it was definitely. Because I think at 10 was LA law. LA law. Wow. That was definitely too old for me, but, you know. That came much later, I feel like. That was near the end of the Cheers run, I guess. That and a lot of. Oh, wow. That's how I win this argument. That was impressive. All right, you guys ready? Sarah, can you say the, the opening? Well, sure. Aw, thanks. Anytime. Wait, let me get into the right. Okay, here we go. Three, two. Daily Tech News Show is powered by you to find out more. Head to dailytechnewshow.com slash support. This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, December 12, 2017 from DTNS headquarters in Los Angeles. I'm Tom Merritt. And from Studio Feline where two felines are sleeping soundly. As usual, I'm Sarah Lane. And from the Helsinki offices in Finland. I'm Patrick Beja. And of course, alongside our intrepid producer, Roger Chang. Hello. Good day. You are, you are if nothing if not intrepid, Roger. Yes, I think. This is a show where we try to put the news in context for you, the tech news in context. So we talk about some of the things we find to be important every day. We try to cover some opinions. And we're going to do that today. We're going to talk about the culture of outrage on the internet. And Patrick has a really interesting phrase for something that he and I have both been talking about going on. But let's start with a few tech things you should know. Bungie is sorry. The game developer says it made some mistakes by locking users out of some high level content in destiny to curse of Ososiris. I think it's Ososiris. Behind a purchase of the game's first expansion last week, but that was even if they previously had access to the content, obviously there was some outrage. Bungie plans to offer a patch tomorrow. I'm sure that'll fix everything. If only that was the only mistake and Bungie did with destiny to if only dating app Tinder has a new feature called feed. It's testing in Australia, New Zealand and Canada. So users can potentially stalk potential matches, Instagram posts and Spotify music more easily. Connecting these services to Tinder was already possible. It's just baked in more. The feature is limited to those you've swiped right on or liked, not old users. And you could shut it off from other people seeing it if you want. Facebook's AR studio is available to all developers now and in a few days Facebook is letting all developers build world effects similar to snapchat lenses. Right now users open the Facebook Messenger camera. You can scroll through the world effects and put them on your face and soon there'll be more to choose from. Now here are some more top stories, Patrick. Nintendo announced Tuesday it has sold 10 million Nintendo Switch units in less than nine months. Ars Technica points out that's more than the Wii U, PS3, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Nintendo DS sold in those products for the first 10.5 months. So it took them longer than the Switch to get to 10 million. Exactly. And it's also quite important to note that the Switch did it in that time without a holiday period. I mean, we're sort of into the holiday period already, but the big date hasn't passed yet. All of these other ones, if I'm not mistaken, had the Christmas period during those first 10-ish months. Patrick and I were kind of joking around before the show where I was like, eh, Nintendo story, there's not much to talk about and he was like, yeah, there is. And I guess just because I don't own a Switch, but I know how popular it is. Was there a particular game that we can kind of attribute to this sort of rocket ship of sales? Absolutely. It's definitely the Legend of Zelda, Breath of the Wild, which is basically, there are so many great games this year that many of them are considered for Game of the Year, but this one is definitely one of the front runners. And it's definitely a signal that actually what matters in this industry of gaming is the console is important and you always have people bickering about, you know, this one is more powerful than that one or this one has better features than that one, but ultimately what really matters is games. And the Switch has definitely proven that with excellent games that pushed the console entirely, even though it had some other potential drawbacks. The other console that is very popular at the moment is the PlayStation 4, which has known an incredible rate of sales and it sold about the same as the Switch is selling now, again, including that Christmas period in its first 10 months. That being said, I do want to mention before we move on, it's kind of very speculative to predict a meteoric success for the Switch beyond this. I think it's likely, but you have to keep in mind that a lot of people rushed to buy it in its first months and those are the core fans. It remains to be seen whether or not it will reach a much wider audience. It's possible, but again, I don't think we should take this success to mean that it's going to break the records of, let's say, the Wii, which reached a very, very casual audience, which might have been its downfall in the end. Yeah, I kind of think the future success of the Switch will continue to depend on games, as you might expect. They got Zelda, then they got Mario out, which was also highly praised, not quite as much as Breath of the Wild, but certainly highly praised. So they need to keep that happening. They need to keep a steady beat of that. I think they've got a few more months of grace period, don't you, before they have to come up with another one, but eventually they will. It's kind of interesting that a company like Nintendo that I think of from my big Nintendo days were a long time ago, but I played a lot of Super Mario and certainly Zelda. So it's funny to hear that, you know, I'm asking Patrick, what's the big game expecting maybe something I'd never heard of? You're like, ah, Legend of Zelda, then Mario. Yeah. I mean, it's definitely, they have more than just this, but these are the big ones. And what's really interesting with this generation is that they reinvented the games and what those games, it's still the same themes, but they've adapted the design of the games to be quite different. And that's what is kind of pushing the console and the love of gamers. But to address the other thing about games, Nintendo is a very peculiar company because their games keep selling for the entire lifetime of the console. You know, they never lose value or sell cheaply secondhand or very rarely. So even if they will come out with other games, but the Zelda and Mario will remain the 10 poles of the console. Well, speaking of holiday shopping, Apple updated its website to show that the iMac Pro will go on sale Thursday, December 14th, just in a couple of days from now, 2017. The iMac Pro uses Xeon processors, has a 5K display and includes a Radeon Vega GPU. Now Apple didn't post a price on the website, but the last indication was that configurations would start, that means base model at $4,999.99. Really cheap. Only the eight and the 10 core variants will be available at first, by the way, with a 14 and 18 core variant available for order next year. So if you want the most powerful iMac Pro, don't buy it yet. Don't buy it on Thursday. But if you just have to have a Xeon processor in your desktop PC, which granted some people do, then this is going to be tempting. It's really expensive though. It's really expensive. I like to think that I like Apple products. But this is way too rich for my blood as much as I'd like a new iMac Pro. And it's also a very interesting proposition because the iMac line is the only one that you can't upgrade. And usually the pro versions of devices or of computers, and especially at those prices are the ones that you can upgrade. So they're trying to merge the two. I'm not sure how well it's going to work out, but a lot of people seem to be very ready to shell out a few thousand bucks. They're going to upgrade with the Mac Pro trash can edition. Sure. They're sort of walking it back now saying, ah, that was a mistake. We're going to make a real one that you want to upgrade. Tweet storms, a.k.a. threads on Twitter are when someone replies to their own tweets to create a string of related messages. Used to not even be able to look at these all together. Then Twitter has been slowly accommodating itself to them so that the replies would show next to each other. Patrick used one as the basis for today's main topics. As a matter of fact, we'll talk about that in a little bit. Twitter is making such threads an official thing as the feature slowly rolls out to Android and iOS users. You'll begin to see a plus sign in your compose window that will let you compose a new tweet in the same window. And once you're done adding messages, you can tap tweet all and the thread will be published all at once. Nice and tidy. You don't have to keep going back in and pressing reply. If you're a viewer on Twitter, you will see the first message in the thread. Sometimes you may see, it's kind of confusing. Sometimes you may see more than the first, but you'll always see the first. And then you'll get a link that says show this thread if you want to see the whole series of posts. Patrick, you were excited by this. Yeah, I think, you know, there's a lot of people who are critics and a lot of people who are for this feature. I think whether or not you like it, the reality is people are using Twitter in that way. And if Twitter has been good at anything, it's including, you know, integrating users that people developed for the platform. I mean, hashtags, at replies, all of those didn't exist initially. Retweets, none of these existed within the platform. Again, I think they exist anyway. So rather than having to number them and say thread and all of those annoying things, I think it's absolutely a good thing that they're making this whole thing easier and less confusing. Yeah, every time Twitter rolls out a feature that's just better organization for the entire Twitter network, I kind of mumble, gumble, and go, I remember in 2007, and it was just the power users. But it's true that tweet storms or any tweet that's like 10 tweets long or whatever, it can be really hard to follow. Even if somebody is replying to themself correctly, there's also these features where if you quote someone's tweet and then you send that out, then you're not really quoting the whole tweet storm. It's just part of it. And so I've actually seen people quite a bit as of late be like, remember, don't quote my tweets because then you'll break the whole system that I've cleverly set up. So yeah, I think you're right, Patrick. If people are going to continue to use Twitter this way, yeah, we've got more characters per tweet now, but if you've really got something to say, you're going to have to do it in multiple tweets, I guess it's good for Twitter to have less people be lost. I miss the old days when they forced you to 140 characters. Me too. Instagram has added the ability to follow hashtags so you can see posts to particular topics on your home screen without having to switch to the explore tab. When you search for a hashtag or click on one, sorry, a follow button will appear, not all posts with the hashtag are included. Instagram uses an algorithm to select images to be included in the hashtag feed. Now, this one I like. This one is making sense to me, which is I actually want to follow topics in Instagram. I'm not saying I did, but I think it's cool that I can, and now they will just show up in my main feed. I don't have to go search them out separately, and I get cross Instagram exposure to people that I wouldn't follow anyway. I know that Patrick, you were just saying that the algorithm will never go wrong. I come at it from the other side of like, I don't care if it goes wrong a little bit, but I do want it to get rid of most of the spam. I don't want it to be useless. So if one or two weird things slip through from time to time, I'm going to be forgiving of that. What I would like is to say like, hey, I just want to follow posts about the St. Louis Blues or the Grove Christmas Tree or whatever, and just be able to turn that on and off and mostly get quality posts. I agree. I think it's a great feature, and maybe they could separate people you follow from topics you follow, but I think on Instagram it makes sense. I'm wondering if, you know, I've been thinking that that could make sense in some form on Twitter as well. And I was surprised they never integrated it to follow topics rather than people. But yeah, I was joking. I think it's a good feature. I really don't use hashtags on Instagram ever unless I'm trying to be funny, and I don't really follow them either, but event-based hashtags, for example, a wedding, because all weddings have hashtags now, that I can see, one more step if I wanted to see who else had, you know, posted from this event that I was either a part of or interested in. Yeah. We had a hashtag for our vacation once. Well, I've probably done that too. Yeah. Can't really remember, but, you know, hashtags there. Hashtag JKVK. Summer of puppies and what was it? Summer of puppies. Of cats. Autumn of cats, fall cats. Autumn of cats. We've got to move on to cheetahs or something at this point. All right, moving on. Go Go launched three new photo apps. This is actually yesterday. Storyboard for Android, chooses six frames from a video, converts them to comic book art and then lays them out in one of six styles. Selfissimo, I love the name of that one, for iOS and Android, takes automatic black and white selfies every time you pose and then lays them out in a contact sheet, kind of like old school photographers contact sheets. This is for iOS. Let's you swipe on a video to change the speed and direction to create looping videos. Sounds sort of familiar. Google calls these the first installments in a series of app experiments. Yeah, the difference between scrubbies from loop or any of the others is that you just touch to do it. It's way easier, which is kind of interesting. It's kind of cool. I was fine with these as like, oh, little experimental apps. Oh, contact sheets. Oh, an easier way to do loops. Then they called them app experiments. App experiment is something you would say. And the self-loathing in me said, I don't know if I'm comfortable with them being as bad as I am at this. It is kind of silly, but I don't know. Listen, the photo apps always seem to come in waves towards the end of the year and I think it's just because we're going to be with our families. They're going to be taking photos that maybe they wouldn't be doing the rest of the year. So I'm all for it, especially if they're free. Folks, if you want to get all the tech headlines each day in about five minutes, be sure to subscribe to DailyTechHeadlines.com. You can go it up to your Amazon Echo and just say, hey, add Daily Tech headlines to my flash briefing and she'll do it. She'll do it. She's crazy. Try it. Not take away from the day. Keep you light and efficient for the modern 80s person. DailyTechHeadlines.com. All right. Facebook's former head of user growth, Shamath Pallipatia told the Stanford Graduate School of Business that he feels tremendous guilt over Facebook's role in society. He said, quote, we have created tools that are ripping apart the social fabric of how society works. Now, Pallipatia says he doesn't use social networks anymore. That's his solution and he hasn't for years. Facebook said he also hasn't worked here for years, six years, to be exact. And we don't think he understands that the company is very different than it was when he left. So Facebook taking a little bit of umbridge at it. But I don't think his expression is unusual. We have a lot of people saying I think social media is ruining this the culture of outrage and the bottles and bubbles that we live in when we use social media. Yeah. I mean, the idea of culture of outrage is something that I've been discussing and developing on the Philius Club for a little while because it seems that we're always angry about everything in a way that we weren't before. And along with that article and a few others, it led me to think about actually the bubbles that we've all acknowledged exist to an extent for pretty much everyone that of course everyone knows confirm kind of the biases you have and trap you in a social environment on social networks where you constantly get confirmation of what you already think, right? And that's a pretty accepted idea and we've kind of learned to if not fight it, at least be aware of it. And I think that what we're starting to realize is that we have the bubbles for sure, but we also have what I call anti-bubbles and maybe there's a better name for it. It's kind of a developing idea, but anti-bubbles are also an effect of social media where we know that there are things that are going to upset us in the world and they have always been there. But what social media does is that they present it to you all the time if you go looking at it and you feel genuinely upset you and send you into an outrage loop. And it makes you feel like those things have more weight and more presence than they actually do. It's not that they don't exist or that they're not factual, but the importance you put on them is increased. And the fact is kind of in the same way that you can always find someone that has the same interest as you on the Internet because it's so vast. You're going to be presented with them all the time. It's not just like TV where you're presented with upsetting stuff sometimes or 24 hours news network where it's really annoying, but it's a little bit remote, the things that you see because it's bad news, but it's a bit remote from you and on top of that, you don't have the guy sitting next to you virtually on the social network saying something that is on Twitter is the person saying it to you, right? Exactly. And you can talk back to them. Whereas you kind of went through the stages. Oh, they said it in the newspaper. That's a thing over there. I'm not involved. They said it on TV. Oh, I can see them. It's like I'm in the room, but I can't actually, they can't hear me if I talk back. Social media, everybody, even our brief conversation about Tinder adding the feed earlier in the show, which isn't, it's not really introducing new features that you couldn't get through Tinder. Otherwise, it's just baking it more into the app. It's just, that's a really good example of something like Tinder saying, well, you know, if you're on a dating profile and you got like four photos up, they probably don't change all that much, but your Instagram feed is alive and that's really the you, right? That's how people get to know you better. But it's like, well, that may or may not be true. I, you know, I'm sure I have lots of ideas of what people's lives are like based on social media. They're just completely untrue. And yeah, there is that kind of immediacy of if I reply to something that one of you say, and then you reply back to me, there's this real time gratification that we've all become very used to. And Chamath is also like, you know, billionaire and owns the warriors and hangs out with lots of celebrities. So maybe he doesn't feel the need to spend so much time on social networks, looking at pictures of said celebrities. But I think it's, it's, it has shaped our behavior in a way that I wouldn't say it's a blanket. Oh, we've all become worse humans. But I think it's clearly problematic in a variety of ways. And I I'm not sure how different Facebook is from six years ago when, you know, he was kind of pointy fingers at the company. I think his answer is interesting, definitely saying, you know, my solution, you know, it's ripping apart society, which I think to an extent I would agree with. But his answer is, well, I'm not going to use it at all. And I think that's a little bit. That's not going to work because it's here to stay and people are using it. I think the important thing to remember here, whether it's with bubble or anti bubbles or whatever problem these social networks create, what they really mean is that they're changing society to an extent. I think that's what we're realizing to an extent that we didn't think was going to be that large. And so what we have to do as societies is understand how that's changing and adapt to that change. And that's happened many, many times before. And the frustrating thing is that it takes time in a context where things are more and more immediate and real time. But taking time, you know, I think within a few years, maybe a couple of decades, we're going to have to learn to adapt to it because it is changing the way we interact and the way we perceive things. Yeah. Well, first of all, I've talked about this a lot. There are things that you see now that existed before, but you just didn't see them. In fact, Patrick, you found a pretty hilarious example of that going back to the 1800s. We all know what everybody else is saying right now, even though we don't really, but we know a lot more, a lot higher percentage of what people are saying. But what was this thing from 1839 that you found? So I talked about this anti-bubble idea to my wife and she's a history buff, so she thought about pamphlets, which throughout the years and the centuries have been used for many things, including sewing, descent and even in revolution. I was talking about this and Brian on Twitter found a pamphlet that was basically used as a tweet. Maybe I can read a little bit of it. It's someone called William Treadwell posting in 1839 saying, to the public, the object of this placard is to inform the public that General Lee Reed has declined giving me an apology for the insult offered me at St. Mark on the 5th. That he has also refused to apologize to me that satisfaction, which as an honorable man refusing to apologize, he was bound to give. I therefore pronounce him a coward and a scoundrel. This is a tweet. It's an October 26, 1839 tweet. Yeah. I guess my reaction to this was first of all, thanks to Brian and second, if we think that technology changes I think we're very mistaken and this is a brilliant example. And keep in mind, I think Patrick's original point here about the anti-bubble is very worth considering. The representation bias is powerful. It's powerful in newspapers, it's powerful in television news, it's much more powerful on social media than all of those where you think the person talking to you represents a large number of people and there are certain organizations and movements taking advantage of that right now and trying to make their views feel like they're more popular than they are. Yeah. And so ultimately I think that this, just like we now are aware and we take a second to understand that something might just be a confirmation of our bias, I think it's also important to understand that something that is outrageous might be something that is, you know, out raging because it's just being presented in that way and not saying that we should never be outraged but outrage is useful in some cases and we should definitely be outraged sometimes, but being outraged all the time is definitely not useful or healthy so we should take a minute before you know to decide whether or not we should be outraged about this thing even though it is outrageous on the face of it. Well there is definitely something to the sort of annual social network cleanse that I know a lot of people in my circles do because they get so fed up with everything and how great everybody feels on the other side sure results may vary but that does tell you something about the pressure that all of this is putting on us. I think what we're all saying is before you demand a duel with General Reid step away from your placard for an hour or two you know maybe go down to the general store and have a seltzer water and think about it. That tweet is a draft. Just sit on it. They sit on the placard literally. Thanks to all those who participate in our subreddit you can submit stories of vote on them at dailytechnewshow.reddit.com and facebook.com slash groups slash Daily Tech News Show. Time for the Think of a Day. Chris Christensen has a way to help save money on lodging by speaking English. Chris tells more. This is Chris Christensen from Amateur Traveler with another tech in Travel Minute. One of the things I'm often asked is how can I travel for less money? A lot of us who like to travel would like to travel more but money is sometimes an obstacle. And there's a site that I've come across I have not had a chance to use yet but I like the idea and it's GoCambio G-O-C-A-M-B-I-O dot com and this is a site where if you were traveling and you were an English speaker preferably a native English speaker and you probably speak English if you're listening to this then you can sign up to potentially stay for free in someone's home. Right now they're featuring Italy, Japan, Spain, Germany and France in exchange for giving them English lessons. So you spend part of your time there helping them to learn English and they give you a room to stay. It's just an interesting idea. I like the idea and if you have tried it let me know how it worked for you. I'm Chris Christensen and I'm an amateur traveler. You can teach them things like the bathroom is out of order or I will not be able to pay you apologies. But in all seriousness I've sometimes fantasized with the idea of I could go to another country and teach English but that seems like I gotta move there and get a job and the whole thing. This is an easy way to just dabble in that. And free lodging. Let's check the mailbag Sarah. Hey Tom and crew, the Google app on Android will do song detection. This is in response to our Shazam story from yesterday. If you don't have a third party app installed just tap the mic like you're doing a voice search and after a moment you'll get what's playing button at the bottom of the screen. I've only tried this on Android but it works. And Christopher says one thing I hadn't heard you mention when talking about Apple buying Shazam is that Apple's built-in Shazam functionality is available in Siri starting back in iOS 8. What song is this? So maybe you've been thinking about this for a while just to possibly, or maybe they Apple have been thinking about it for a while. Just an interesting trivial little tidbit there. So that would make sense why Apple might want to buy Shazam that already been working with them and you can also do the same thing in Android although it's not Shazam, it's a different thing. Got another email from Randy the tech director in Tennessee and this is in response to wondering why Netflix had tweeted out something against anyone who was watching the Christmas Prince every day for 18 days in a row. Kind of a cheeky tweet that I thought was maybe a little not that nice. So Randy says did it without the context? Never a full picture. Unfortunately, I've been in a lot of waiting rooms over the past few months and no one is showing news programs like they used to most are showing cooking or home shows. Maybe a Christmas Prince is being played in a waiting room or it could just be one of the cast members' mothers. That is true as well. 53 moms out there. It's a big cast. No, I've definitely seen Netflix playing in waiting rooms recently and in fact when I went to the dentist, they had switched from Direct TV while they work on your teeth to HBO Go. Interesting. Do they have a license for this? Don't you need a license? It's public. I'm sure they've all paid their ASCAP BMI performance. Also, I'm not sure it's ever gone 18 days long but there have been long stretches where I really want to watch a movie and I keep falling asleep and I keep trying the next day. Yeah, that's a good question. We didn't see if it was 18 days of completely watching it. Maybe it just took some 18 days to get through it. It could happen. All right, I'm going to finish this movie today. I swear today 18. I've got to. Thank you to Patrick Beja as usual for joining us on Tuesdays. Patrick Beja, what do you have going on in your life? Well, a bunch of things but the thing that I think might be of interest to the listeners would be, for example, to show the Philias Club which I mentioned a little bit earlier. It's impossible to spell so just go to Frenchspin.com and find it. We actually did an episode with Tom this weekend where we talked about the good old days. It wasn't just Tom and me. It was also Paolo from South Africa and Turkey from Saudi Arabia and we talked about the 80s and 90s when we were young and sort of remembered how good we had it compared to all those youngins. Remember Stagflation and worrying if the Hell's Angels were going to run you off the road. Those were the good old days. Exactly. And it was episode 100 so it's never been a better time to show the Philias Club and it's at Frenchspin.com Come hear us talk about World War II and Cold War. 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So, whatever way you could support the show, we just ask you to keep doing so. DailyTechnewshow.com has all the different ways and we'll keep updating that if we add new ways along the ways. So, the best way we think to support the show is Patreon.com slash DTNS. Our email address is feedback at DailyTechnewshow.com Questions, comments, have a strong feeling about something we talked about, give us an email. We're live Monday through Friday at 4.30 p.m. Eastern, 2130 UTC at ElphakeekRadio.com and DiamondClub.tv and our full mother DailyTechnewshow.com Back tomorrow with Scott Johnson. Talk to you then. Sweet. Yes. Excellent. Nailed it. Nailed it. Good show. What should we call it? Let's call it Serena. All right. A tweet storm on the horizon. Or that. That would be good too. What's your experience with experiments? Antisocial media. The three stages of social media outrage. It's 1.30 p.m. Tender Love and Share. Nintendo Switch hit.  Culture of outrage. Switch's niche. iMac. How much? Facebook is social seam ripper. I mean, I'd say iMac, but like, that's not even a new number. 1800s Twitter. 1800s Twitter is pretty good. 1800s Twitter is good. 19th Century Twitter. We're like 18th Century Twitter. We're like 18th Century Twitter. We're like 1800s era tweet storms something. There's a tweet storm on the horizon. I love the last phrase of the thing. I therefore pronounce him a coward and it's coundrel. I don't think he talked like that though. Oh yeah. I'm pretty sure they did. I think that's exactly how they talked. What about tweet storm of the century? What about tweet storm of the century? No. Roger is intrepid. Intrepid. No. There's a tweet storm. There's a on the horizon. The outrage is always greater on the other side of the bubble. Anti-social media is pretty good too. Come on. Come on. What's got everybody excited? Come on. Talk to me. I like 1800s tweet storms. Oh, 1800s tweet storms. So combining them. Well, I just thought that gave it a little bit more context. No, I like it. I like it. So, Dark Redeemer and Nick with a C. You can both claim victory. You both. And battle for credit. In our arena of shame. No, it's not shame. What's the opposite of shame? Pride. Pride. Pride. Pride of hubris. Pride of lions also. Yeah. They're very arrogant cats from what I've been told. Prideful. Prideful animals. Proud to be the king of beasts. Chris pride. Which just furthers our big cat. Running joke. Used to be the king of beats. We know it's so weird. Tom was before the cheetah appeared in our spreadsheet and I understand no one's going to understand what that means. Yesterday I kind of had a weird thing where I was taking a bunch of screenshots of just various whatever's and one of them just was hovering over all of my application windows. Oh, I've had that happen where just something gets stuck on your screen. Yeah. And it's kind of like on iOS now. Oh yeah, I'm used to that. So I know how to swipe it away. But it's like it was not swipe away. I had to restart the computer so for a second I was like, oh no, this is getting really weird. I don't know what cheetah you're talking about Sarah. I never saw a cheetah in our dock. Patrick, did you see a cheetah in our dock? I don't know what you're talking about either. There was a small window of time today where there was a large photo of a cheetah in our spreadsheet for the show today. No, there can't have been. I've never even seen a photo in there before so I was like... It took me a lot of figure out how to paste a photo actually. Yeah, what were we...  Although I don't remember now the context of that. Well, it was basically because like you were sort of like, hey, can you clean up the quick hits and I was like, here's my suggestion for another one. And it was like, too late. Oh, yeah. And then I was like, and here's my... And it's like, nope, Patrick, that's not what we're doing. So I was like... You could have still... Sometimes I do that knowing that you'll say like, oh, I think this one should be moved out of the quick hits. Yeah, well, that's... I also actually was really glad that we talked about Nintendo. I thought that was a good conversation. If it were me, I would have been like, oh, it's just numbers. You know, that's a quick hit, but... Numbers, numbers, numbers, business, business, business. But there's more to it. So let me tell you about this movie I saw called The Greatest Showman. I thought I was going to say something else. Yeah. Now, okay, is this something we're talking about or not talking about? Well, all right. So I may or may not have... I totally did. I got a chance to see Star Wars The Last Jedi with my wife who works for Rotten Tomatoes. So she got a press preview screening. She was very nice and getting me in. I'm not going to say anything about it.  I did tweet a link to a very small amount of information about what I thought. It's not much. The only thing I saw from you was that it was over two hours long. Yeah. Well, yesterday I was still under... I was under NDA until 9 a.m. this morning. So yesterday I was like, I just saw a movie. It was this long because that was all I could say. Today I could say more. They still don't want you to spoil things and I wouldn't. But I know that people even just hearing like did you like it? Did you not like it? Or just hearing general impressions. I don't want to know that. I don't want to know nothing. So that's how I'm respecting that. Good. Well, I am excited to hear your thoughts when you're ready to share them. Yes. Well, I'm excited to share my thoughts when people are ready to hear them. Well, whenever that is, I'm excited. For sure on CourtKiller's spoiler in time Monday we'll be talking about it because that is a place where we spoil things avowedly. Valiantly? Yes, bravely. Spoiling where no one has spoiled before. Valiante. So, yeah, if you really want, that's kind of the official place where I'll be talking about what I thought. Brian Brushwood is one of the people who has said, I don't even know what people think of it. I just want to go in fresh. I don't want to be today. I was like, so what did you think? You don't want me to tell you that. You don't. You don't want me to say anything. But I kind of do. But I don't. I understand Star Wars is kind of a special case, but if I'm really excited about a movie and spoilers are most concerned, I want to avoid them. Yeah. I'm not going to be weirded out if someone's like, that movie was great. And if I was excited about a movie and someone I trust is like, that movie was terrible. And the other thing is, this movie has so much hype around it, that I think people are extra sensitive to the raised expectations or ruined it by trashing it effects. It all might be better to be like, I have no idea if anyone even likes this movie. I'm just going to go in blind. Yesterday, when we were waiting in line to come inside, there was a screening finishing up and people were coming out and Eileen and I and the two people in line ahead of us were all like, we don't even want to look. We don't even want to see their expressions. We don't want to know anything. The thing is, there's only one opportunity to get the fresh experience. So, I kind of get it. No, totally. I'm more than get it. I'm a spoiler Nazi. I don't You don't say that.  That's not a word we use. I don't think that's a word I want to throw around. A person of So, what about grammar and Nazi? Yeah, I'd give that one on pause for a while. I'm not saying you can't say it. I'm not trying to restrict speech. It brings up a whole lot of other conversations that it didn't use to. That's all. Yeah. Well, I get to see the movie on Friday, which is it's amazing because I'd love to be like, I was so on top of that. I got tickets. But that's not true. Everything was sold out by the time I got around to doing it, but a friend of mine who lived in L.A. until very recently and just for reasons that don't matter had to move was like I'm not going to be in L.A. No. Very cool. I'm actually going Thursday because originally I bought tickets for Thursday thinking that would be the first time I would get a chance to see it. Sure. Yeah, exactly. In fact, I got to think about that. Who's going with me? Anything else you want to say to the folks on the YouTube stream before I stop the broadcast? Only that we have nothing but undying admiration for all of you. Yeah, exactly what she said. Awesome. Patrick. I'm waiting goodbye. Goodbye. See you guys.


The question is, can you show us code snippets of where the happening takes place? All right, this is a great question. And in order to show you this code snippets, I'm going to briefly blank my video while I show you this code snippets. And here's one I prepared earlier. Now, this code snippet comes from the Bitcoin Core client and the Bitcoin Core client software is just one of several different implementations of the Bitcoin system, but it is a dominant one. So a very large percentage, I think probably more than 80% maybe even higher of all of the nodes that are running and participating in the Bitcoin system are running Bitcoin Core, some version of Bitcoin Core. And it is the direct evolution of the software written by Satoshi Nakamoto, of course, has been very heavily modified and improved in many, many ways since then. And but it's not the only one. And this is not the only way to implement this. Other bits of code, other projects that implement the Bitcoin system, such as the Bitcoin or Bitcoin or many others, BTCD, for example, all have their own little snippet of code that does something entirely equivalent to this, and it has to be entirely equivalent. Otherwise, it would break consensus. And that node would effectively be off the network. So every time a block is evaluated, every single block that is evaluated or every time a block is mined for the first time and a candidate block is being constructed by miners, the miner must decide what block subsidy to put in the block in the Coinbase transaction. And everybody validating that block after it is broadcast on the network must compare the block subsidy that they find in the Coinbase with the expected block subsidy. And the happening happens in this particular function called get block subsidy that is found in line 1238 of validation dot CPP, C++ code in the Bitcoin Core source code. Get block subsidy returns a amount, which is an amount in Satoshi that tells other parts of the code that ask what the block subsidy should be for a specific height and a specific set of consensus parameters. In the case of Bitcoin, the one from the known Genesis block that we are comparing here, the consensus parameters tell us what the interval for halving is. And the reason that's a parameter is because you might build a test net or other chain using the same code base, which may have a different set of parameters. So all of those are tunable. In the first line, what you see is that the number of halvings, which is an integer, is defined as the current block height divided by the subsidy halving interval, which in the case of Bitcoin is 210,000. So you basically take the current block height and you divide it by 210,000. Of course, at 629,999 blocks, that will be three halvings. And at or no, sorry, two halvings. And at 630,000 block, that will be three halvings. There is then a piece of code that actually fixes a bug in the early implementation by Satoshi Nakamoto because the code continued to try to do halvings through a process of right shifting after 64 halvings happen. 64 halvings is the total number of halvings at which point the block subsidy should go to zero. So if the number of halvings required is greater than or equal to 64, then the block subsidy is zero. And that's the end of block subsidy for Bitcoin. In the next line, 1245, you see that the subsidy is defined as 50 times coin. And coin is a constant that converts Bitcoin into Satoshi. So coin is 100 million. It's just a constant in the program because everything in Bitcoin is measured in Satoshi. So 50 times coin ends up being five billion Satoshis, which is the initial subsidy of the very first block. And then the real magic happens in line 1247. In line 1247, the amount of subsidy is right shifted. This is a bitwise operation, meaning that the binary bits of the number contained in subsidy, which starts off as five billion coins, is shifted to the right by the number of halvings. So if it's shifted to the right three times, that divides it by two three times. If you shift a binary number to the right, that is the same as dividing it by two. So it's an integer division by two. It's a very fast operation because it's a binary operation and a very precise operation. You don't need to deal with floating point arithmetic or anything like that. It's simply an integer being divided by two cleanly by shifting it to the right. And then once it shifted three times the right, the number is returned and that number will be 650 million Satoshi or some number like that. I'm not going to try and do arithmetic in my head, but it's going to 625. See, I already did it wrong 625 million Satoshi, which will be the new subsidy of the block. So I hope you enjoyed that. 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Dealing with Daniel Ramsey and Aaron Dowell, I'm sure it's tough enough. How much tougher is their defense going to be now if they've added one million? Yeah, I mean, they got playmakers all over the place. You just mentioned three of the top players in the NFL on defense. So a ton of respect for those guys and the rest of the defense as well. They're playing good ball all the way around. You look at how they're playing this whole year really. They've been playing good football. So we're going to have to be at our best, no doubt about it. Feels much better. Thanks for asking. What's the story this week that's been like for you, Ryan? You've lost Derek in front of yours, a big part of this offense, but you also got to kind of turn the page and try to get ready to play. What were the motions that's been like for you? Yeah, it's hard, obviously. Losing Derek, a guy who puts so much into this team and has done so much for this team, he worked so hard and has been so durable. So it was almost a really big shock, I think, for Derek and everyone else involved is kind of shocked by it. But yeah, I'm glad everything seems to be going well with him so far. But you mentioned we have to turn the page, not really turn the page, but keep moving. We have to keep moving forward as a team, as an offense, and find a way to continue playing our football and play good. Does that leadership void, Phil? Naturally, you have to do something consciously. How does that work, man? Is the web void? What's the leadership void with Derek on? I just continue to be myself, leading the way I lead. And we have other guys that will continue doing the same as well. So we'll definitely miss Derek. But as an offense, we just have to keep pressing forward. Brayville said no one in this building will serve. What do you like about what you guys have with Derek, how they can let you keep running the ball, keep throwing those play action downfield shots, and maybe even with some of the new backs that have been brought in? Yeah, no doubt. If you look at the run game in general, taking nothing away from Derek, it starts up front. And that will continue to stay the same as we have to have to be physical up front and create space for the backs that we have. So obviously, Derek's extremely talented and has a rare ability. But if we're able to create space up front and block physically on the outside with our wide receivers, then we're going to be in good shape, especially adding some of the pieces that we added. They say everybody needs to step up in Derek's absence and all. And while that may be true, how do you balance that with trying to stay within yourself and your abilities and, I guess, impart that to the team? Just go play. I don't think I don't have to overthink it a whole lot. Just continue to prepare. So it's one of the football game and make the plays that come up within the framework of what we're trying to accomplish offensively. I want you to appreciate the fact that you can't replace Derek, but management goes out and gets the only other active 2,000 yard rupture on the planet, right? I mean, that send a good message to the room, you think? No, no doubt. It's a huge addition being able to add Adrian. Obviously, the career he's had up to this point, unbelievable. I can remember watching him back at Oklahoma and then, obviously, his whole career in the league has been spectacular. So a guy who has a ton of experience, who likes to run physical, kind of a lot like Derek does, and he's definitely going to be helpful for us. And to play, how much does he style? I think five passes to the free tight ends and that driver. Haven't used them a ton. Do you feel like this is now an opportunity to kind of maybe get them more involved in the offense? Yeah, I feel like the past few weeks, those guys have been showing up. They're consistent for us. Sometimes the ball just doesn't end up going that way due to coverage and opportunities elsewhere, but they continue to be reliable. They're reliable in practice, and then they've shown up in the past few weeks in the games for us. So it's a group that maybe doesn't get a lot of attention or focus, but I have a lot of confidence in them, no doubt. And watching Adrian Peterson play, how much does his style, in your opinion, fit what you guys want to do offensively? It definitely fits. We look at what we like to do, get the ball down hill, and run physically. And that's exactly what you would say about how he runs the football. He's a strong physical runner, and he gets down hill quickly. So I think he fits in perfectly. What did he say to him? What did he say to you? What was kind of your initial conversation like when you walked in the door? Yeah, I talked to him yesterday a little bit. Just excited to have him on board. Obviously, I've been a fan of his since he was at Oklahoma watching him run, and excited for the opportunity to be able to play with him. Do you think Derek fundamentally changed the identity in the offense you guys have held in the last? I don't think so. I think our foundation is the same. I think what we believe in as a team, as an offense, is what we believe in. So I don't think that would change that. There's this challenge a little bit, Ryan, of not only the leadership void, but I'm sure the passing game will play a bigger deal, at least a little bit anyway. Is that sort of, do you see that? And do you kind of say, all right, I got to take that? Yeah, we'll see what shakes out. You kind of approach each week independently, and I want to do whatever it takes to win. So if that's throwing the ball more, then that's throwing the ball more. If it's running it more, then it's running it more. So I just love winning football games. So whatever it takes to win, and to give our team the best chance to win, that's what I want to do. Do you expect the way AJ is covered to change now, with boxes maybe not as loaded as often? I don't know. We'll see. AJ is a very talented player, and has been making plays for a few years now. So we'll see how teams try to defend us. What's your approach as a quarterback, when you're facing a guy like Ramsey, just one of those elite co-owners who's known for taking guys out of him? He does a great job.  He's long. He has a great sense for pattern reading, and getting his eyes and hands on the football. So definitely have to be aware for where he's at. And as receivers, we have to be clean in our depths, and precise on our details. And as a quarterback, have to be great with ball location. AJ has been saying a couple times that to lighten the mood, sometimes in a huddle, you'll occasionally begin to drive with a little joke. Anything you can share in that regard that you usually try? I don't know. Whatever comes in the moment, it's not something I have a little pocketbook of and pull one out. I just try to get a feel for the mood and the huddle and the mood of the game situation. And if it feels like a good time to bring levity to the situation, then I try to do that. He says he can't share them himself, though. Sometimes they're a little bit not family rated, is that it? I don't try to be. I'm not too out of the box, so. You're first in Miami. How have you seen yourself personally in terms of growth here, really in the past couple of years with this team? Yeah, I think I've grown over my whole career. And that didn't change when I got here. Constantly trying to improve physically, mentally, with leadership. I think all of those things grow through time and through experience. So I try to file away every experience, whether it's a good or bad experience, and try to learn from it. And I think you start adding those things up over year after year after year. And eventually, you see growth and better overall play and leadership. I know you, I know JB, asked you about Von Miller earlier. But you guys buddy from A&M days? And the part of you when you saw that news thing, in a while, it would have to be this week's timing. And that's great. Yeah, talk about the timing, man. But yeah, I love Von. We had some great times together at A&M. We actually came in the same recruiting class. I, Richard, he didn't. So he came out a year before me. But played in some really big football games, some fun football games together, and have a ton of respect for him. So it's been fun watching him as a friend over the past 10 years, 11 years of seeing him continue to be a great football player. Can't say I love facing him. But a ton of respect for him and know that he's a dangerous player. One of the things that happens, you have a lot of the offensive responsibility on your shoulders anyway. Do you feel any added responsibility now that Derrick's out of the lineup? My responsibility stays the same, as far as leading this offense, doing everything I can to put us in position to score points. So the responsibilities and the job, per se, doesn't change. There's a school of thought that you have to be running well for play-action to work. And there's a school of thought that you just have to be threatening to run for the play-action triggers to work. What do you think? Well, I think, obviously, the better you're running the football, then the more bite you're going to get out of the second level. So I've played in games in the past where we weren't running the ball, but had effective play-action. But I think, overall, it all works together, right? The more they respect the run and want to stop the run, then the better action you're going to get out of the second level. Ryan, did you get a chance to speak with Derrick at all after his surgery? Or have you spoken with him the last couple of days? And if so, what kind of was your message to him? Yeah, I spoke with Derrick a few times. Talked to him after the game on the plane ride home. And I was just really feeling for him. I've had that injury in the past before the combine or after my senior season before the combine had the same type of injury. So I kind of know what he's going through, slash, about to go through. But just feel for him. A guy, like I mentioned, who puts so much into it and cares so much and does so much for us to be having the season that he was having and to go out to play through it. For however long he played through it last week, this says a lot about him and his toughness and his will to win. So you hate to see a guy that puts that much into it be affected by something like this. But he's built different. He's shown that over the course of the past several years is his toughness. Obviously physically, he's built different. Mentally, he's tough. So I know coming back from this, he's going to be stronger than ever and been praying for him and thinking about him a lot the past few days.