R3 (R3 LLC) is an enterprise blockchain technology company. It leads an ecosystem of more than 300 firms working together to build distributed applications on top of #Corda (known as #CorDapps) for usage across industries such as financial services, insurance, healthcare, trade finance, and digital assets.
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>Henry Ford would replace gold with energy currency and stop wars. December 3, 1921 — 98 years ago
🐦 @.FloridaHodl
>Valuable information is increasingly free. The focus to learn and apply it is increasingly rare.
@.TheStoicEmperor
Power button on servers, needs to be replaced with some kind of pat gesture input.
WA.
>Family first
>Be honest
>Do not respond to negativity
>Be kind
>Fight against entitlement
>Be humble
>You are not your job
>Forgive first
>Keep in touch with friends
>Know when to leave
>Sleep more
>Do not brag
>Learn to learn
>Be on time
>Write more
>Drink water
>Eat less sugar
>Exercise daily
@.ValaAfshar
>A good idea is a bad idea + a day of rethinking it.
>Good writing is bad writing + a day of revision.
>Quality is a process
@.TheStoicEmperor
Atom, size comparison;
Say, diameter of electron is 1mm (0.1 cm)
Then, diameter of,
proton 1m (1000x electron)
nucleus 10m (10x proton)
electron orbit 100km (10000x nucleus)
>"You don't smoke because you need something to do with your hands, or because you love the ritual of it, or any of the other excuses people make. You smoke because you're addicted to a powerful drug called #Nicotine.
Get it clear in your mind.
#Cigarettes don't fill a void. They create one."
- Allen Carr, "The Easy Way to Stop Smoking" (1985)
Allen Carr also says that the best, and easy way to #stopsmoking is to quit cold turkey.
>Though it feels unpleasant, and people will sometimes ridicule you for it, the more you feel like a noob, the better.
Being a Noob
http://paulgraham.com/noob.html
>“I think the next four to five weeks are going to be critical. It’s either going to start peaking and go into a downturn, or it’s going to explode into a global outbreak.” - Fauci NIAID #coronavirus #2019nCoV
@.V2019N
>This is me using @.ln_strike in our Boulder store: buying a 10-cent product with the app over the Lightning Network; bitcoin instantly received in our store's Zap wallet.
>No bitcoin required on my end, just my debit card. No fees! And no cap-gains tax on the purchase. Brilliant! https://t.co/zoCIPr9bxL https://twitter.com/bitcoinmom/status/1222969746452180992
@.bitcoinmom
#Bitcoin L2 in action.. $0.1 payment demo, no custodial wallets, buyer has no btc, spend $ directly from bank account to ₿.. via, #Strike
Rolls-Royce electric plane.. specs; 322km on single charge (London to Paris), 3 x 72 kWh batteries-450 kg each, 485 km/h, <40 mins flight time.
Mine #bitcoin.
🎶அப்ப னென்றும் அம்மை யென்றும்
ஆணும் பெண்ணும் கொட்டிவைச்ச
குப்பையாக வந்த உடம்பு - ஞானப்பெண்ணே
குப்பையாக வந்த உடம்பு!
🎶அது புத்தனென்றும் சித்தனென்றும்
பித்தனென்றும் ஆவதென்ன
சக்கையாகப் போகும் கரும்பு! - ஞானப்பெண்ணே
சக்கையாகப் போகும் கரும்பு
🎶பந்த பாசச் சேற்றில்
வந்து விழுந்த தேகம்!
எந்த கங்கை யாற்றில்
இந்த அழுக்குப் போகும்?
>"U.S. national debt has topped $23 trillion and is racing higher, despite the ongoing economic boom" @.reason
US can't sustain this, but US defaulting on its debt.. is unthinkable. 🤔
>Total Returns, last 20 years...
S&P 500: +234%
Long-Term Bonds: +373%
@.charliebilello
The song not about squirrels.
F*ck it all.. funny version of "let it go" song
You aren't at the mercy of your emotions -- your brain creates them.
>This is the crankshaft for a Wärtsilä-Sulzer RTA96-C engine, the largest reciprocating engine in the world, used in large container ships.
>It's a 1810-liter engine that generates 108,920 horsepower at 102 RPM. This crankshaft weighs 300 tons.
@.Rainmaker1973
Wait.. we're now in Ice age?? 🤔
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File%3AGlaciationsinEarthExistancelicenced_annotated.jpg
Wuhan, Huoshenshan hospital built within 10 days, to handle #coronavirus cases.. construction time lapse video.
>saraswati sindhu civilization
ovop
>Physics Needs Philosophy / Philosophy Needs Physics
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/physics-needs-philosophy-philosophy-needs-physics/
What about maths? 🤨
US upping pressure on Switzerland to drop Huawei technology - SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/politics/5g-espionage_us-upping-pressure-on-switzerland-to-drop-huawei-technology/45533552
How does US do this.. upping pressure on Switzerland.. thing? Sanctions? 🙄
$8 #Bitcoin #LightningNetwork PoS Terminal; #Quickening
>naqqal (नक़्क़ाल or نقّال, meaning mimic or copycat)
நக்கல்? 🤨
>Mastercard’s CEO, Ajay Banga, says that nationalism could influence consumer payment systems.
Nationalism, and regulations.. ban other forex, gold and #bitcoin holdings. 🤦♂️
>Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called 'hardware'; those that you can only curse at are called 'software'
WA
You can achieve happiness without financial wealth. Most of us recognize you’re not going to buy your way to happiness. But in modern times, you can buy your way out of common causes of unhappiness. Financial wealth can give you freedom and more time. It can give you peace. In olden times, one of the routes to finding peace was becoming a monk. More
>Sanders is on track to win the nomination.
Interesting, if this is 2024.
Franklin D. Roosevelt.. who's this guy? POTUS for 3 terms.. 🤔
1932-1952.. wow, 2 decades of Democrats.
US presidents and their party.. let's start with Donald Trump (2016), and go all the way back to George Washington (1788).. 58 terms, 4 years per term.
Term-party; 1R, 2D, 2R, 2D, 3R, 1D, 2R, 2D, 2R, 5D, 3R, 2D, 4R, 1D, 1R, 1D, 4R, 2NU, 2D, 1W, 1D, 1W, 3D, 7DR, 1F, 2U.
D - Democrats
R - Republicans
DR - Democratic Republicans
W - Whig
F - Federalist
NU - National Union
U - Unaffiliated
Vijay
ThreeD