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At the beginning of February 2022, #Biden warned that "if #Russia invades #Ukraine with tanks and troops, then there will be no more #NordStream2"
#ItsDone #NordStream: Fourth leak found as Russia and West trade blame over alleged sabotage of gas pipeline | Sep 29
- #EU and #US have stopped to directly accusing Russia, a #Kremlin official was rebuked after hinting that #Washington was #responsible.
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In #colony #colang, bytes type is really not required as primitive type. str type should exist since it is unicode and mostly used by developers. However, bytes can be represented as Array<u8>.
Since #colony #colang is GC'ed using Reference Counting, refcount, or RC, we can introduce special kind of references called "immortal references" and an example is `bytes: type = Array<u8>`. This should be implementation detail and not exposed to developers.
Immortal objects are GC'ed. So, incref or decref is almost fast as NOP. It will need to check flag on object and determine if object is immortal. Immortal means it stays forever alive while programming is being executed.
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In C implementation of #colony #colang, every object has two fields, 64bit kind and 64bit value. Which means that we spend 2 64bit registers just present single value in case of primitive values such as bool, u8, u32, u64, i64, f64.
In case of GC'ed objects such as generic, array, dict, struct, union, and so on, we need indirection because these "structures" simply require more space. But in case of everything above, I think we can do better.
Perhaps, for abstract types we can move RC in "type" field, and limit mac RC count to 2 **56 which is quite large number, and currently good enough for our GC needs.
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1/2 "Here, we demonstrate an increased survival of infected #honey #bee #larvae after their #queen was #vaccinated, compared to offspring of #control #queens (#placebo vaccinated)."

frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
2/2 "These results indicate that #trans-#generational #immune #priming (#TGIP) in insects can be used to majorly enhance #colony #health, protect #commercial #pollinators from #deadly #diseases, and reduce high #financial and #material losses to #beekeepers"
1/2 "The idea came to be known as the “#butterfly #effect” after Lorenz suggested that the flap of a butterfly's wings might ultimately cause a tornado."

technologyreview.com/2011/02/22/196…
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#tdih Nov. 3 🧵starts with uplifting 1874 Reconstruction election of Robert Smalls to Congress (SC) ⬇️

Next: stories of violent 19th cent. voter suppression in Va. & Ala., Native American protest ('72), Greensboro Massacre ('79), Iran/Contra ('86), more.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/robe…
#tdih 1874, White League attacked Black voters at the polls in Barbour County, Ala.

7 African-Americans were killed & 70 others wounded.

More than 1,000 African-Americans were driven away from polls. Rewrite the marker. #terrorism #TeachReconstruction
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/1874…
#tdih 1883 Danville, Virginia: White supremacists used terrorism to remove the elected, biracial Readjuster Party.

Armed white supremacists killed five people and patrolled streets to prevent most African Americans from voting. #terrorism #TeachTruth
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/danv…
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Ok, here’s a story about #DAOs, their evolution, and their on-chain/off-chain nature.

Back in 2014, @VitalikButerin wrote what is essentially Ethereum’s original position paper on this subject, the famous DAO/DAC post on ethereum.org.

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DAOs were quite abstract concepts back then, there were no such things in production.

There was also a sense that DAOs were something new, a revolutionary species of digital organization. And that they didn’t exist before because it was *smart contracts* that enabled them.
It should be no surprise, then, that the first DAOs put a heavy emphasis on codifying their functionality on-chain, within smart contract logic.

github.com/TheDAO
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#tdih Nov. 3 🧵.

Start w/uplifting 1874 Reconstruction election of Robert Smalls to Congress (for SC) ⬇️

Next: stories of violent 19th cent. voter suppression in Virginia & Alabama, Native American protest (1972), Greensboro Massacre (1979), more.
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/robe…
#tdih 1874, White League attacked Black voters at the polls in Barbour County, Ala. Seven African-Americans were killed & 70 others wounded. More than 1,000 African-Americans were driven away from polls. Rewrite the marker. #terrorism #TeachReconstruction zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/1874…
#tdih 1883 Danville, Virginia: White supremacists used terrorism to remove the elected, biracial Readjuster Party.

Armed white supremacists killed five people and patrolled streets to prevent most African Americans from voting. #terrorism #TeachTruth
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/danv…
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#tdih Nov. 3 thread.
Starting with uplifting 1874 election of Robert Smalls to Congress (for SC) during Reconstruction, there are also stories of violent 19th cent. voter suppression, Native American protest (1972), Greenboro Massacre (1979), & more. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/robe…
#tdih 1874, White League attacked Black voters at the polls in Barbour County, Alabama. Seven African-Americans were killed and 70 others wounded. More than 1,000 African-Americans were driven away from the polls. #terrorism #TeachReconstruction zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/1874…
#tdih 1883 White supremacists used terrorism to remove the elected, biracial Readjuster Party in Danville, Virginia. Armed white supremacists killed 5 people and patrolled streets to prevent most African Americans from voting. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/danv…
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