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Forgot to provide the link to the books: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Mudras&ref=nb_sb_noss

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mudra

It's a fairly comprehensive write-up. I'm mostly familiar with the Hatha Yoga context of mudras.

There's also a few dozen books on the topic. I'd stick to the older more original texts if you want a real understanding, and stay away from the more modern new age fluffy bunny "crystal mudras" nonsense.

adeptuson Signal adds a payments feature with a privacy-focused cryptocurrency

What are your (you guys) opinions on Session (https://getsession.org/), the Signal clone that uses Tor, and no phone numbers? Any significant downsides? Anybody know the team there and can speak on their trustworthiness, longer term intentions etc? What about the code they've added? Anybody review that? At a quick glance it looks like a decent but less user friendly alternative (no phone numbers - good for privacy, bad for grandma's to be able to adopt it easily). Thanks.

adeptuson The public has a right to know how companies that pay no taxes pull it off

I am still confused as to why companies have to pay tax at all? If every single employee including owners already pay income tax, and IVA/GST/purchase taxes, property taxes, xyz additional personal taxes levied by respective governments, why then on top of all that make companies pay tax, doesn't that just detract from people wanting to start companies and/or seek countries with the least taxes/best loopholes?

Disclaimer: I own no companies. I don't even own stocks at the moment.

adeptuson Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths

The mortality rate may seem very low, but the symptoms are far more severe. When you get the flu it's rare you get pneumonia, not so much with this virus. The biggest problem is that it spreads without symptoms. That is, you can be infected & contagious for days (some Dr's suspect up to 3 weeks) and not have a clue because you seem perfectly healthy. So this has the potential to spread like wild fire. Further, 2 days ago some numbers out of China stated that up to 14% of previously infected became infected again. Lastly, a recent report also mentioned that detections in hospital were only able to detect 45% of the cases on the first try. So many are given clean bill of health and go on to infect many more.

Watch Italy and South Korea carefully, this thing is about to spread like crazy, even if mortality rates are negligible for young and healthy.

Lastly, SARs supposedly left some people with lung and brain lesions, it is unknown what the long term effects of this one will be.

adeptuson Age, Sex, Existing Conditions of Covid-19 Cases and Deaths

We need real data, not theories. Hopefully we'll get it soon.

adeptuson Berlin court used Windows 95, hit by virus, now uses typewriters & fax

You spelt blockchain wrong :P

adeptuson Berlin court used Windows 95, hit by virus, now uses typewriters & fax

- Berlin court hit by another fire. All wood sticks burned. Switching to writing in stone with metal chisels.

Earth quake hit and broke all the tablets.

- Berlin court switching to the oral tradition replacing facts with mythological creatures & fantastic stories.

adeptuson Ray Dalio says the global economy is under threat

What you call "shuffling money around", other's call funding companies with potential so they can sustain or accelerate their business, hire more staff, develop new products, provide those products in new regions etc.

Investing is how you get rich in this world. Whether it's real estate, stocks, bonds or any other non-depreciating asset classes. Investing is not without risk. America would not be what it is today without investors risking their money since at least the 1920's. If you think continuously successful investors don't work for their money, then you are simply ignorant about the complexities and time consumption that continuously successful investing requires.

adeptuson Amazon Pulls Books That Promote Unscientific Autism ‘Cures’

This is censorship, and it's a slippery slope.

IMHO the right way to go about this, would be for amazon to attach a letter to the cover of the book saying something like: "We're sorry you bought this book, but we do believe in your right to choose what you do with your time and money, so we have not removed this book from our store. FYI, according to (insert number of) scientists and XYZ peered reviewed papers, the vast majority of the content of this book has been certified to be false and you should seriously question the author's recommendations before acting on them, as they may pose health risks. If you require further information, here's some websites & books that provide what is widely considered to be factual information on the matter".

adeptuson Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

>Amazon can claim it is both centralized and immutable, provided you trust Amazon.

No it can't. The second it is hacked and somebody alters the ledger, it is no longer immutable. Centralized security models eventually all get hacked. What you could however say is that the application you need to have immutable isn't super mission critical, and thus you can afford a very low probability - but not 0% of getting hacked.

>And this is what it comes down to: most of us live in a world where trust can, and does, have to root out somewhere. So much of our society is built around this.

And this is where you might be a bit out of touch. From China hacking US IP, from Banks world wide manipulating markets, gold, Libor, frequent global election fraud, government mis-spending of funds, corporate & government accounting fraud, Fukushima lies, Fakenews etc. The trust people have in institutions and governments world wide is in an accelerated decline. We are constantly asked to trust, and we are constantly let down. Properly decentralized blockchains are 'Trust machines'. They aren't alone going to solve all the issues I mentioned, but they do have the potential to increase trust in many processes related to these various issues. The key requirement is decentralization though. A blockchain managed by a single entity is nothing more than a dumbed down over-marketed database with limited use cases.

Google: Decline in trust: https://www.google.com/search?ei=WEv_W6DfIe2x0PEPxe6AmA4&q=D...

adeptuson Amazon Quantum Ledger Database

Actually, I'm pretty sure most people don't have a clue when it comes to blockchain. Amazon can't claim it is both centralized and immutable. That's complete nonsense. Also WTF is the point of a blockchain if you need to entrust your ledger data to a third party? Amazon puts out some spectacular products and innovation, but this one is laugh out loud material.

adeptuson iPhones are hard to use

Apple clearly needs to hire this guy. The only thing I disagree with is forcing people to learn many features during the setup process when you get your new phone. Pretty much nobody I know likes to sit there and read user manuals or be forced to watch videos or however that'd be represented.

adeptuson Theranos Inc.’s Partners in Blood

WARNING: clicking this link may try to redirect you through facebook and expose your identity. Also, it didn't work for me as far as bypassing wsj.com to get the full article. I was logged off of facebook, but due to cookies, facebook still knew whom I last logged in as.

If this worked for anyone, please just copy/paste the article text in here... assuming that's allowed.

adeptuson Ethereum price goes up nearly 50 percent in under a week

>ETH is Betamax to BTC's VHS.

More like the Netflix to BTC's VHS

I personally equate it to DOS vs Android. The potential for ETH is massive... granted security concerns, scalability, POS are equally massive hurdles to overcome.

adeptuson Bat chat: machine learning algorithms provide translations for bat squeaks

Ultimate goal: Decipher what women really mean when they speak.

adeptuson Bat chat: machine learning algorithms provide translations for bat squeaks

I was expecting the AI to reveal for the first time what the bats were saying, instead we learn that AI significantly under-performed what humans already understood about bat communications. Why is this even relevant? Also understanding 61% of the times what the animals were talking about is pretty close to a coin toss. Not impressed -!?

"The results revealed that, based only on the frequencies within the bats’ calls, the algorithm correctly identified the bat making the call around 71% of the time, and what the animals were squabbling about around 61% of the time."

adeptuson What’s Next for Artificial Intelligence

That didn't work for me. The top result is still the WSJ URL; however, a few links lower, we can find another URL which does show the same full article:

http://newspot.me/n/03LT3uuT

adeptuson Skype finalizes its move to the cloud, ignores the elephant in the room

I know Slack is trendy, but as a non programmer and old IRC user, I find it is slow, centralized and clunky.

adeptuson How I built an app with 500,000 users in 5 days on a $100 server

Pff that's nothing. I could build a fake app, in less than 1 hour, for $100 and get about 5 million downloads in 1 day.

Step 1. Find some opensource app code

Step 2. Call it Pokemon Go 2!

Step 3. Upload it to Appstore & link it to dropbox

Step 4. Spend $100 on African "talent" to give fake 5 star reviews & positive comments in app store.

Step 5. Hit F5 repeatedly at Appstore to watch the download counter increase to 5 million in 24 hours.

Step 6. Profit ?!?!

Step 7. Post story in /r/nosleep because too much guilt fooling 5 Million people.

adeptuson Ethereum Solidity Available in Microsoft Visual Studio [pdf]

"pre-mine" is a 2013 term. The correct term now, is "ICO" Initial Coin Offering. What you are suggesting is that the core devs were greedy in their setup of the coin. This is far from the truth and you can read online all about how the Ethereum crowd sale (ICO) took place. It was regarded at the time to be the #2 largest crowd sale in the world, raising some $18 Million dollars. The most impressive thing is that the Ethereum leaders have been extremely transparent from even before the crowd sale launch. Some investors ended up with even more coins than the founder of Ethereum as a result of the crowd sale, and there were upwards of an estimated 9,000 investors.

With that said, it is true that Ethereum doesn't advertise itself as a crypto currency, but I wouldn't be surprised if a few years down the road it will be worth more than bitcoin, or that Ethers (the coins) are used as crypto currency.

adeptuson 802.11ah Wi-Fi Standard Approved

networkworld.com (click on the 3 bars icon, to the left of the NETWORK WORLD text at the top, to view by category)

adeptuson Can the best financial tips fit on an index card?

Yes, all it needs to say is this:

Step 1. Take 5-10% of your liquid networth

Step 2. Buy Ethereum now

Step 3. Try to understand it (optional step)

Step 4. Wait 3 years

Step 5. Sell & retire

You can thank me in 2019.

adeptuson Should scientific papers be anonymous?

Better idea: Submit it anonymously with your public PKI hash. Then wait X years (5?) and optionally announce yourself by signing the hash to prove you are the author. That way, enough time is given to have the content unbiasedly considered, yet you still get to take credit a bit later.

adeptuson Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015

^^^ Now you're just showing your age! No but seriously, "Second Reality" by Future Crew in 1993 was voted one of the top 10 hacks of all time by Slashdot.org. I remember watching this thing on a very low end 386, with something like 4MB of RAM and maybe 512K of video memory and I was mesmerized. They might as well be showing you this demo in 3D holography today, you'd be just as impressed as I was, it was borderline magic back then. It gets hella good after about 1:50. SECOND REALITY - BY FUTURE CREW, '93

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFv7mHTf0nA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Reality

adeptuson Ethereum Network Status

GPU yes, ASIC no.

adeptuson Soloshot: Automatically film outdoor activities without a camera operator

If only websites trying to be trendy could stop using eye popping font size 70 text that cause me to roll my chair back 10 feet to read the web page.

adeptuson Apple iPad Gets Split-Screen Multitasking in iOS 9

Congratulations, Windows 3.0 level achieved!

adeptuson This is what happens after you die

Warning: Misleading title. It is talking about what happens to your physical body, something everybody already knows what happens after you die, though perhaps not to that level of detail. NOTHING TO SEE HERE, move along now.

adeptuson Amazon Dash Button

So people have to authorize the purchase via their smartphones anyway, so why not just have a simple amazon app with the list of your frequent consumable purchases and have a 1 click shop button for what you need? That way you can order it even from work if you remember you are about to go out of laundry soap. Less e-waste waste.