'This is grotesque, isn't it?': Anger after police arrests man who heckled Prince Andrew during Queen procession
A 22-year-old man has been charged for “breach of speech” after the Duke of York was heckled as he walked behind the Queen’s coffin. The man was pulled out of the queue by two bystanders and was later arrested and charged. It is reported that the man in the crowd called Prince Andrew a "nonce", which according to Cambridge Dictionary is British slang for "a person who commits a crime involving sex, especially sex with a child". The news of the arrest came after King Charles III announced Satu...
'This is grotesque, isn't it?': Anger after police arrests man who heckled Prince Andrew during Queen procession
A 22-year-old man has been charged for “breach of speech” after the Duke of York was heckled as he walked behind the Queen’s coffin. The man was pulled out of the queue by two bystanders and was later arrested and charged. It is reported that the man in the crowd called Prince Andrew a "nonce", which according to Cambridge Dictionary is British slang for "a person who commits a crime involving sex, especially sex with a child". The news of the arrest came after King Charles III announced Satu...
Investing in Flock
Being a landlord sounds like a terrific thing, and it has been a powerful path to wealth creation for so many people for centuries. But there are two problems:It’s very hard to just “retire” — owning stocks and bonds can provide you with passive income and asset appreciation, but being a landlord means you need to fix toilets, worry about vacancies, find tenants, and more. The grass is always greener on the other side, except when you are trying to enjoy retirement and literally need to water...
Investing in Flock
Being a landlord sounds like a terrific thing, and it has been a powerful path to wealth creation for so many people for centuries. But there are two problems:It’s very hard to just “retire” — owning stocks and bonds can provide you with passive income and asset appreciation, but being a landlord means you need to fix toilets, worry about vacancies, find tenants, and more. The grass is always greener on the other side, except when you are trying to enjoy retirement and literally need to water...
Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How
The promise of decentralization has been heavily discussed and debated, from why it matters to the bigger question of who will control the software that powers the internet. These questions are critical, because as we have seen, when control is held in the hands of a very few, encroachments on personal freedom, choice, and privacy are inherent. “Don’t be evil” is very different than “can’t be evil” when a CEO decides one course or another. But decentralizing the internet has been hard to do. ...
Decentralization for Web3 Builders: Principles, Models, How
The promise of decentralization has been heavily discussed and debated, from why it matters to the bigger question of who will control the software that powers the internet. These questions are critical, because as we have seen, when control is held in the hands of a very few, encroachments on personal freedom, choice, and privacy are inherent. “Don’t be evil” is very different than “can’t be evil” when a CEO decides one course or another. But decentralizing the internet has been hard to do. ...
Decentralized Speed: Advances in Zero Knowledge Proofs
One way to view technological advancement is through the lens of hardware: as new needs and use-cases emerge, chip manufacturers design special-purpose GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs optimized for specific functions and software. All major industries in tech — from cloud computing, to computer graphics, to artificial intelligence, and machine learning — have evolved to demand hardware that accelerates the speed and efficiency with which computations can run. Often, the chips for an initial function (...
Decentralized Speed: Advances in Zero Knowledge Proofs
One way to view technological advancement is through the lens of hardware: as new needs and use-cases emerge, chip manufacturers design special-purpose GPUs, FPGAs, and ASICs optimized for specific functions and software. All major industries in tech — from cloud computing, to computer graphics, to artificial intelligence, and machine learning — have evolved to demand hardware that accelerates the speed and efficiency with which computations can run. Often, the chips for an initial function (...
Investing in Lumos
It’s not an overstatement to say that identity has always been at the core of the Internet. Indeed, the first transmission to ever be sent across the Internet in 1969 was an attempt to log into a system. The authentication session was famously cut short as the system crashed before the full word “login” could be typed. Only the L and the O made the full journey. Next on was server authorization. First centralized systems were built to manage access to servers. These systems were fairly simple...
Investing in Lumos
It’s not an overstatement to say that identity has always been at the core of the Internet. Indeed, the first transmission to ever be sent across the Internet in 1969 was an attempt to log into a system. The authentication session was famously cut short as the system crashed before the full word “login” could be typed. Only the L and the O made the full journey. Next on was server authorization. First centralized systems were built to manage access to servers. These systems were fairly simple...
