Humans need roughly one hour of sleep for every two hours they are awake, and the body innately knows when this ratio becomes out of whack.
Coin looks like a promising idea: store all your credit cards into one.
But it is not free of shortcomings, mainly its dependency on a smartphone.
As Christopher Mims pointed out for Quartz:
It sounds like a great idea… until you realize that the price of replacing a handful of plastic credit cards with a single one is that your ability to pay for anything becomes entirely dependent on the battery life of your smartphone. That’s for security reasons: If it loses contact with your phone for a user-specified period of time, from one to 10 minutes, Coin deactivates itself.
They will probably come up with some kind of solution for this problem at some point. Something else would be how Coin will ever going to be able to circumvent the regulatory maze of mobile payments outside of the US.
Coin looks like a promising idea: store all your credit cards into one.
But it is not free of shortcomings, mainly its dependency on a smartphone.
As Christopher Mims pointed out for Quartz:
It sounds like a great idea… until you realize that the price of replacing a handful of plastic credit cards with a single one is that your ability to pay for anything becomes entirely dependent on the battery life of your smartphone. That’s for security reasons: If it loses contact with your phone for a user-specified period of time, from one to 10 minutes, Coin deactivates itself.
They will probably come up with some kind of solution for this problem at some point. Something else would be how Coin will ever going to be able to circumvent the regulatory maze of mobile payments outside of the US.
Was Snapchat right in refusing the $3 billion offer from Facebook?
Was Snapchat right in refusing the $3 billion offer from Facebook?
Michael Carney writing for PandoDaily:
The answer boils down to your belief about whether the company can defy the odds and stay hot within the notoriously fickly teen and young adult demographic. Because that’s what this valuation is all about: teens. Facebook is losing its grip on young social users; SnapChat has them in spades.
What will Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy come up with to make teens stick to the service? How will they monetise?
The real problem here is that if teens just change their mind about Snapchat, or suddenly find Facebook attractive again, the trend will fade away. There needs to be constant innovation in terms of stickiness (making people want to use the app and especially come back) and the Snapchat team should not be resting on the sight of exponential user growth.
Was Snapchat right in refusing the $3 billion offer from Facebook?
Michael Carney writing for PandoDaily:
The answer boils down to your belief about whether the company can defy the odds and stay hot within the notoriously fickly teen and young adult demographic. Because that’s what this valuation is all about: teens. Facebook is losing its grip on young social users; SnapChat has them in spades.
What will Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy come up with to make teens stick to the service? How will they monetise?
The real problem here is that if teens just change their mind about Snapchat, or suddenly find Facebook attractive again, the trend will fade away. There needs to be constant innovation in terms of stickiness (making people want to use the app and especially come back) and the Snapchat team should not be resting on the sight of exponential user growth.
Malta Passes Bill Giving Citizenship to Foreigners for Payment
Malta Passes Bill Giving Citizenship to Foreigners for Payment
Non-European Union citizens with €650,000 ($873,000) to spare can now buy Maltese citizenship thanks to a new plan approved by the Mediterranean island’s parliament on Tuesday.
According to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, the program’s goal is to raise revenue for the country and attract “high-value” people who will invest there.
Making citizenship a priced good makes it a commodity not different from chocolate or boats. Some things should not be for sale. (The link redirects to an excerpt of the book by Michael Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy. Very well written, concise and easy to understand.)
Malta Passes Bill Giving Citizenship to Foreigners for Payment
Non-European Union citizens with €650,000 ($873,000) to spare can now buy Maltese citizenship thanks to a new plan approved by the Mediterranean island’s parliament on Tuesday.
According to Prime Minister Joseph Muscat, the program’s goal is to raise revenue for the country and attract “high-value” people who will invest there.
Making citizenship a priced good makes it a commodity not different from chocolate or boats. Some things should not be for sale. (The link redirects to an excerpt of the book by Michael Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy. Very well written, concise and easy to understand.)
In this GIF, you quickly come to understand that cars are not very space efficient.
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In this GIF, you quickly come to understand that cars are not very space efficient.
Indeed, Clooney and DiCaprio once ran into each other in Cabo and struck up a conversation based on their common interest in basketball. They each have ongoing games, and their ongoing games have attained a celebrity of their own. Clooney suggested they might play someday. DiCaprio said sure, but felt compelled to add, “You know, we’re pretty serious.”
On George Clooney teaching Leonardo DiCaprio a lesson about basketball (and some other deep stuff).
Indeed, Clooney and DiCaprio once ran into each other in Cabo and struck up a conversation based on their common interest in basketball. They each have ongoing games, and their ongoing games have attained a celebrity of their own. Clooney suggested they might play someday. DiCaprio said sure, but felt compelled to add, “You know, we’re pretty serious.”
What Happens If You Go Without Water? This is indeed water week here on Warston.
What Happens If You Go Without Water? This is indeed water week here on Warston.
Why you should drink more water
Why you should drink more water
Water aids in digestion, makes your skin look healthier, helps you feel more full so you don’t overeat, keeps your kidneys healthy (so they can properly flush out toxins), and contributes to regular healthy bowel movements. You lose out on those benefits if you don’t stay hydrated.
Also, it helps keeping you alive.
Why you should drink more water
Water aids in digestion, makes your skin look healthier, helps you feel more full so you don’t overeat, keeps your kidneys healthy (so they can properly flush out toxins), and contributes to regular healthy bowel movements. You lose out on those benefits if you don’t stay hydrated.
Also, it helps keeping you alive.
How you move gives a lot away. Maybe too much, if the wrong person is watching. We think, for instance, that the way people walk can influence the likelihood of an attack by a stranger. But we also think that their walking style can be altered to reduce the chances of being targeted.
Some interesting ideas. Notably, if you consider that the brain only controls movement, then fear and apprehensiveness will definitely be “readable” from your walk.
How you move gives a lot away. Maybe too much, if the wrong person is watching. We think, for instance, that the way people walk can influence the likelihood of an attack by a stranger. But we also think that their walking style can be altered to reduce the chances of being targeted.
Animated Banksy GIFs.
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Animated Banksy GIFs.
Have you ever been sitting in a bar, an airport, a library, or browsing in a bookstore when a stranger tried to start a conversation with you? Did you feel awkward or on your guard? The conversation itself is not necessarily what caused the discomfort. The discomfort was induced because you didn’t know when or if it would end. For this reason, the first step in the process of developing great rapport and having great conversations is letting the other person know that there is an end in sight, and it is really close.
Establishing artificial time constraints is one of the 10 techniques for building quick rapport with anyone by Robin Dreeke, the head of the FBI’s Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program.
Interesting.