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5 reasons to switch from HTTP to HTTPS

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is the secure version of HTTP, the protocol over which data is sent between your browser and the website that you are connected to. The ‘S’ at the end of HTTPS stands for 'Secure'. It means all communications between your browser and the website are encrypted. HTTPS is often used to protect highly confidential online transactions like online banking and online shopping order forms.

Using HTTPS, the computers agree on a "code" between the client and the server, and then they scramble the messages using that “code” so that no one in between can read them. This keeps your information safe from hackers.

With HTTPS if anyone in between the sender and the recipient could open the message, they still could not understand it. Only the sender and the recipient, who know the “code,” can decipher the message.

Here are top 5 reasons why you should consider switching from HTTP to HTTPS

1. It will boost your SEO

Google is constantly trying to offer the best possible search results to its users and a secure experience is generally preferred over a non-secure experience.

2. It increases the security of your website

Considering the fact that every unprotected HTTP request can potentially reveal information about the behaviors and identities of your users, even websites working with non-sensitive data should use HTTPS.

3. It increases your user’s trust

HTTPS can build trust by enabling the green padlock in the visitor’s web browser address bar

4. AMP requires it

Google developed AMP to ensure that content loads faster on mobile devices. AMP content appears prominently in the search results and is designed for the users who go online on a mobile device. Most modern browsers and most progressive web apps require https to perform properly, so if you haven’t yet added https to your website, it could be only a matter of time before you have little choice in the matter.

5. Finally, you have no choice

Literally, you have no choice. Google has started abandoning websites who aren’t still using HTTPS in their search results.

HTTP is not encrypted and is vulnerable to man-in-the-middle and eavesdropping attacks, which can let attackers gain access to website accounts and sensitive information, and modify webpages to inject malware or advertisements. HTTPS is designed to withstand such attacks and is considered secure against them (with the exception of older, deprecated versions of SSL). So for the sake of your website, please implement HTTPS in your website.

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Lol! Sams publishing

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#UnitedStates "War On Terror" -

1.Set conditions that the victim is unlikely to accept.

2.If the victim accepts the conditions, set more stringent conditions so that they would become unacceptable.

3. Attack the victim anyway.

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When the soul lies down in that grass…

Have you ever had one on those moments when…

everything was just right…

not right as in free from wrong…

not right as in perfect, because perfection is… not right, or free, it’s stressful, at least the human version of it is… isn’t… because it requires too much thought of the intellectual kind which is always picking and chipping away at what would otherwise be perfectly fine… a different kind of perfect, natural, in between right and wrong, just accepting things as they are… whatever they are… which isn’t so stressful.

This is one of those quotes…

when you lack words…

someone else has given word to something you can’t…

you just can’t…

but something within needs those words…

.

What am I talking about…

talk talk…

sometimes I talk so much (in writing, not so much in person), words lose all meaning…

I reach semantic satiation…

the words may not mean anything anymore, but it was never about the words meaning anything… it was about what was within the words… behind them, around them…

Source - https://anupturnedsoul.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/when-the-soul-lies-down-in-that-grass/

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Daily Tweet: 7/18/18

Dear lord.

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So that's how dinosaurs became extinct

Internet has been trolling flat Earthers hard

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Aim for a higher quality of living not just for yourself but the people you love and cherish.

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To study narrative is to examine ourselves. We think in story, process our world through the lens of story, and use storytelling to communicate ideas. One prominent economist believes that stories are the heart of human behavior. He says to understand the power of narrative is to understand financial booms and busts — and to prevent crises from getting worse.

Robert Shiller is a Nobel prize-winning economist at Yale. He’s written books and papers warning of bubbles in the stock and housing markets before they happened. This week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Shiller banged the drum on a topic that’s near to my heart — the power of narrative to drive human behavior. Shiller didn’t mince words. “Most people think in narratives, but economists are terrible with narrative,” he said. In a follow-up interview on CNBC, Shiller said, “Last year I chastised the [economics] profession for neglecting what you media people know. Narratives drive human behavior.”

Shiller was referring to an address he delivered last year at the 129th annual meeting of the American Economic Association. In the speech, Shiller makes a surprising connection between the study of epidemiology and economics, an association he wrote about in his 2009 book Animal Spirits.

“The human brain has always been highly tuned towards narratives, whether factual or not, to justify ongoing actions, even such basic actions as spending and investing,” Shiller said in his speech. “Narratives ‘go viral’ and spread far, even worldwide, with economic impact.” Shiller says that the same epidemic models that trace how disease or viruses spread can be used to describe the word-of-mouth transmission of an idea. Stories spread ideas like a contagion—infecting one person and another, and another. Some ideas, of course, are great ones and should catch on. But some stories—once they go viral—can have a damaging impact on world economies.

The Narrative That Fed The Great Depression

For example, Shiller says viral narratives extended the depth of the Great Depression in the 1930s. On the first Sunday after the stock market crash of October, 1929, preachers used their sermons to attribute the market decline to the “moral and spiritual excesses” of the 1920s. The sermons were featured in the Monday newspapers. “The macro storyline in the Great Depression gradually morphed into a national revulsion against the excesses and pathological confidence of the Roaring Twenties.” As people dramatically reduced their spending, businesses failed and bread lines formed. Each individual story fed the fear. “Contagion rates for stories of business failures, rather than inspirational stories, were naturally high at a time when a large fraction of the population was unemployed. Stories abounded of business people committing suicide,” according to Shiller.

Stories continue to impact our economies today. Shiller says the financial crisis of 2007-2009 also followed “a narrative-based chronology.” Financial busts are “driven by a cadence of stories.” Stock market and housing bubbles are formed when people hear stories of easy money being made. Panics make declines worse as stories of losses go viral.

Another narrative that Shiller and several other economists brought up in their panel at Davos is today’s prevailing storyline that humans will be replaced by machines. Perhaps it’s caused you some anxiety lately as you read stories about people losing their jobs to automation. It might help to know that this narrative really kicked in with the Luddites in 1811 (an article in Smithsonian Magazine tells a good story about the 19th century rebellion against automation). According to Shiller, the narrative has replayed itself every 15 years or so. The problem with the narrative that machines will replace humans, of course, is that it always ends with more jobs being created than were eliminated.

Narratives Capture The Imagination

The study of narrative carries profound implications for leaders of countries and companies.

A big theme running throughout Davos this year was which narrative would win out—populism or globalization. Interestingly, this report in the Irish Times calls attention to the metaphors used in the rhetoric heard among leaders debating the issue. Leaders are using the building blocks of story to make their case. Shiller argues that economists failed to predict populist actions like Brexit precisely because they don’t take into account how narratives influence behavior. “We will never really understand important economic events unless we confront the fact that their causes are largely mental in nature,” Shiller wrote in Animal Spirits. While economists stick to quantitative facts and models, Shiller says “The confidence of a nation—or any large group—tends to revolve around stories.”

Successful narratives capture the imagination, says Shiller. As a leader you might not like the prevailing story that’s taking hold in your country, company or industry. If you understand the psychological forces that underlie people’s behavior, you’ll stand a much better chance of offering a successful counter-narrative.

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One recent study estimated that Americans are spending nearly six hours a day on their connected devices. Add television to that and the total rises to nearly 10 hours.

Some countries are treating Internet addiction as a public health crisis. In the U.S., tech companies are under pressure to respond, and many are developing code and apps to help limit screen use.

But Stone, a retired economist, favors an approach based on Buddhist principles such as mindfulness and intentionality. He told the members of his Zen sangha that when they’re online, they should be aware of their posture and take deep breaths.

Many Look To Buddhism For Sanctuary From An Over-Connected World

Illustration by Deborah Lee/NPR

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Back in MY day…

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Relationship between money supply and inflation

It’s 2018 and there are people (educated people) who still believe that people in poor countries are poor because they don’t have enough money and that the government/central banks should print more money and hand it out to the people. I wouldn’t blame such people because we as ordinary citizens have a very narrow view of the economy and how it works.

The will to acquire basic knowledge about the economy is rare. In this age of information where even an ordinary person has access to a vast repository of knowledge, this kind of stupidity should be rebuked (not publicly of course).

The relationship between money supply and inflation

Imagine a fictitious country ruled by a corrupt, foolish dictator. He decides to buy off his rivals thus increasing his spending to fulfill his own personal agenda. Where does he get all his money from?

When you rule an entire nation with an iron fist, you have absolute control over the Central Bank and the money printing machine. He decides to turn on the machine and print as much currency as he wants. Now we need to consider the fact that the total number of goods in his nation is constant and the only thing that has increased is the money supply. The real problem starts here.

If you print more money, the households will have more cash and more money to spend on goods. Firms will respond to the increased money supply by jacking up the prices resulting in inflation. The value of the currency will start decreasing as more money will be required to fetch the same amount of goods or services.

Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation explained

The proximate cause of Zimbabwe’s hyperinflation was the Government literally printing money to support its spending.

Upon achieving independence in 1980, Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia) was a fairly prosperous and productive sub-Saharan nation. However, due to disastrously implemented economic policies, including a land redistribution program that put land confiscated from white settlers into the hands of inexperienced black farmers, as well as a general decline into lawlessness and violence, the nation suffered dramatic declines in agricultural and industrial production. With less production, incomes and taxes declined precipitously.

Further adding to Zimbabwe’s economic malaise, its trade was crippled by the imposition of international sanctions in response to Human Rights violations by its Government; and members of the ruling party engaged in considerable self-dealing: literally paying themselves huge salaries out of the national treasury. Furthermore, Zimbabwe engaged in a protracted military intervention in the Second Congo War.

It should be noted that a Government can finance a large fiscal deficit, possibly indefinitely, by issuing Debt obligations. These debt obligations (bonds or treasury notes) are sold on the open market, and investors choose to purchase them at a price influenced, to a large degree, by the confidence buyers place in the capacity of the issuing agency to repay them — either through taxes or through the issuance of further debt. Due to widespread belief in the essential criminality of the Mugabe regime, this was simply not a viable option.

Because a large proportion of Government payments in Zimbabwe were made in the form of cash, it was possible for the Mugabe government to meet its obligations by the simple expedient of printing Zimbabwe dollars. But since these Zimbabwe dollars had no credible backing (ie. people did not believe they were backed by either assets or potential tax revenues) both consumers and businesses rapidly lost confidence in the currency.

This loss of confidence led to an inflationary spiral that literally became out of control, reaching a peak estimated at 76 billion percent per month in 2008.

The Zimbabwe government tried numerous measures to address inflation, including revaluing the currency, or simply “redenominating” existing notes. However, since these policies did nothing to address the underlying lack of faith in the Government’s means or willingness to honor its obligations, these policies met with little success.

At present, Zimbabwe literally has no national currency. A combination of foreign currencies, including the South African Rand, EU Euro, and US dollar are the main means of exchange.

Source :- https://www.subhamchhetri.com/blog/relationship-between-money-supply-and-inflation/

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Hope everyone had a good 4th of July.  Follow @thenocertainty for daily motivation!

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"In a world of lies and liars, an honest work of art is always an act of social responsibility"

Robert McKee

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