I have not drank for more than a 1000 days. This was the second attempt to completely stop drinking. For the first attempt, I didn't get past 100 days.
I have someone who holds me accountable. That individual started messaging me daily the count: 1 day without drinking, 2 days without drinking, 3 days ...
Once we hit 100 days, it became 110 days without drink, 120 days without drink ...
What has helped keep the discipline:
1. Non-alcoholic beer. I second the recommendations of SkyPuncher.
2. I avoid situations where alcohol is present.
3. Friends and colleagues who don't pressure me to just have 'one drink'.
I perform stand-up comedy at clubs and bars. There's a culture of getting a free drink if you are not the head-liner and it isn't an open-mic. One way I maintain the discipline is to treat stand-up comedy like work - I need to have a clear mind to do the job and alcohol diminishes my capacity to perform.
> Since Filipinos are the largest growth market for Axie Infinity, they must also be a major source of money flowing into the system. Instead of being a net provider of jobs and capital, it appears to just be redistributing the same wealth between Filipinos, and collecting a 4.25% cut for the service.
It seems that the source of money flowing into the system are individuals with capital to buy the incoming producing PPE-type assets (i.e., Axies).
Guilds pool capital to buy P2E assets and rent it out to scholars for a % of all income earned by the player (known as scholars in the current P2E nomenclature).
I think there are currently two acceptable ways to earn income in our society:
1. Take relatively less risk, get paid a wage. Owner of incoming producing assets bear the risk of deploying capital in such a manner.
2. Take high risk. Deploy capital to acquire assets and pay wages to others who utilize those assets to produce (unguaranteed) income for you.
P2E introduces a third: deploy capital to acquire assets, loan the assets out, and take a cut of income generated.
P2E in its current form has similarities to serfdom. The owners of Axies (and the AXS tokens) are the lords.
How many layers would someone need to upload for each trait type? Wouldn't the number of unique NFTs that can be generated be constrained by the number of trait types and number of trait values per type?
Thanks, the number of combinations can be very large, it really depends on what you are expecting.
trait type is picked on random so there will be outputs which are similar and then there will be some which are extremely rare.
I generated quite a few and then picked some which I liked the most to showcase on opensea.
You can also use rarity flag 'r' or 'u' to give some traits much less of a chance to appear.
hello from Singapore! I've been performing standup comedy for about six years as a hobby. Anyway, last year I went to London and Berlin and I found sites like https://www.opencomedy.com/ and https://comedyinenglish.de/ super useful in finding open mic gigs to perform at. I know in the post venue owners and bookers were mentioned but wanted to highlight that for comics who travel, sites like yours are super useful to us too albeit we aren't the ones really making the money.
Thanks for reading and for sharing that! I didn't know about those resources, but they're helpful for ideas about directions to take the site.
OpenComedy has a funny bug where it seems to think I live in Northampton, UK because I like near Northampton, MA, USA: https://imgur.com/BVEZWbA
One of the recurring ideas that comes up a lot in my discussions with bookers and comedians is that bookers have a hard time finding good comedians to fill their shows and comedians have a hard time finding out which shows need comedians and what the details are. I've thought about some sort of matchmaking functionality, but as you said, it's hard to make money from something like that. I'd still like to tackle that, but I feel like I should get the money part figured out first.
This was an amazing resource for me. i travelled from Singapore to London by land this year using buses and trains and the info on this site really helped. What I came to appreciate from this trip is that it’s possible to travel across the world using public transport.
I took about three and a half months. The trip can be done much faster if the goal is to reach London ASAP - I estimate about 17 days. I spent about a month in China exploring it using her High Speed Trains. Also stayed in cities for varying durations depending on the feel of the city.
From my experience landing on sites that have Onswipe turned on, a fair number of these sites don't have content that look good with the Onswipe theme. The reason seems that when the owner of the site is preparing the content, they use the normal theme to see how everything looks, and it probably looks good. They can't ensure that everything looks nice with Onswipe on because most people are probably preparing content on a non touch screen browser and aren't taking the time to use an iPad to verify the content they just posted looks nice with Onswipe.
Is there a way for content owners to know how things will look on an iPad without one?
I love the idea. Just some thoughts.
1. What if the URL I want people to like is not Open Graph ready. Then what's shared looks ugly on the news feed. I know this is supposed to be my job to take care of, but when creating a campaign, there was no reminder about Open Graph and the possibility the story on the news feed will look ugly.
2. Folks could just email the link to their friends after they obtained it by liking the link. And, what's stopping them from quickly removing the like from their profile?
We aren't a police state. We enjoy different kinds of freedom. Sure, previously some of the 'freedom to' stuff was clammed down upon,but the recent elections showed that we might be moving forward in the right direction. I am casually optimistic that we will find the right balance to allow our citizens both 'freedom from' and 'freedom to' liberties.
"Different kinds of freedom". Whenever anyone says this, I get very nervous. It's pretty clear that these "different kinds" are not real freedom at all, and so don't include things like freedom of speech, the ability to truly determine who governs you, or even the freedom to water or not water the plants in front of your apartment (failing to do the latter in Singapore will result in a visit from the cops).
Here's a case of a man who was arrested for daring to write a book which criticised the use of the death penalty in Singapore: http://www.indexoncensorship.org/2010/07/singapore-alan-shad.... I doubt he thinks the trade-off you propose for these (putative) "different kinds of freedom" is a good one.
Also: what you refer to as "freedom from" liberties seemed to inevitably involve infringing another's "freedom to". As such, it seems improper to term them "freedom".
The fact that some prefer a happy face dictatorship to a system which affords a large measure of actual liberty seems to me a very sad commentary on the human condition.
Is an individual's freedom to do something more important than another individual's freedom from something? My country takes a rather paternalistic view on this but like I said, i am casually optimistic that things will change and we as a country are moving towards a more informed citizenry renegotiating the social compact between the govt and people and finding a balance in both positive and negative liberties.
Edited: I can't seen to reply the comment below, so adding the reply here. One of the things my country takes very seriously is both the perception and actual oppression of minorities. In this case, we want ethnic minorities to have the freedom from majority oppression. As an example, there are measures that are put in place that prevents some of our freedom to say certain stuff about the religion Islam in a certain way. To say the rules are like a cudgel instead of a scapel would be right but as a citizen I can see where my government is coming from.
Like the comment below said, generally yes to freedom to instead of freedom from. What is considered not a general case in Singapore differs; that does not make us wrong. Neither does it mean our system is right and perfect. What it does mean is my country is learning and hopefully maturing.
In other words, you're OK with the state forbidding forms of political speech it finds undesirable. Nice. Banning "freedom to say certain stuff about the religion Islam" is censorship, pure and simple.
Read "Brave New World" and see if any of the things depicted there ring a bell.
I have someone who holds me accountable. That individual started messaging me daily the count: 1 day without drinking, 2 days without drinking, 3 days ... Once we hit 100 days, it became 110 days without drink, 120 days without drink ...
What has helped keep the discipline:
1. Non-alcoholic beer. I second the recommendations of SkyPuncher. 2. I avoid situations where alcohol is present. 3. Friends and colleagues who don't pressure me to just have 'one drink'.
I perform stand-up comedy at clubs and bars. There's a culture of getting a free drink if you are not the head-liner and it isn't an open-mic. One way I maintain the discipline is to treat stand-up comedy like work - I need to have a clear mind to do the job and alcohol diminishes my capacity to perform.
All the best in your journey!