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O Brave New World (The Library: Book Review) Recently I reviewed a few books to let my readers know what I think about them. Some books are more important to my eyes than others. *Siddhartha* is such a book. But some books offer us a dystopian perspective of the future that is so shocking and so imaginative that reading its conceptualisation by an author like Huxley, is a pleasure. Often, there is much to extract from those works of fiction. *Brave New World* is no…

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The School of Two Heavens in One (The Library: Book Review) *The School of Two Heavens as One* follows the philosophy of striking your opponent with two weapons at once! As if the heavens themselves struck your foe from two different directions. And directions, is what *Takezô*, our young hero, is missing. *The School of Two Heavens as One* is the name of the school he will establish much later in this series of books. When he does, he will be remembered as ***Miyamoto…

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Ten Little N-words (The Library: Book Review) Murder and mystery on a lonely island where ten murders may take place... or not! Who will die and who will stay alive in this amazing thriller by Agatha Christie is left to the reader to find out. Here she is, photographed in her youth: Pros The tension builds as your read. You want to finish and know who dunnit! Well written, it ushers the reader back to a time without cell phones Cons I was disappointed a tiny bit by the plot…

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Intergalactic Cryptocurrency (Beastie Boys RMX / Edit) (The Library: Media) https://read.cash/@Librarian When *Satoshi Nakamoto* published the Bitcoin whitepaper many years ago before disappearing, it left a certain mystery surrounding his identity. Well, through research, recording, editing, photo-shopping and more, I may have found the answer! This post is about the video / music video below. The text here is just for added info. **Go listen! It is 4 minutes of your…

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Intergalactic Cryptocurrency - Making of (The Library: How-to) https://read.cash/@Librarian Regarding my post yesterday, I wanted to go over the steps and techniques that I used to do that. It will be useful in the future to remember the time I spent on that project and to immerse myself once again in the creation process. I got the idea to do this in January 2021. Six months later, I am done and happy to be moving on to other projects. If you did read read my post yesterday…

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (The Library: Book Review) https://read.cash/@Librarian **C**osmic horror is hard to define. It seems to invade your universe and your soul from within. It exists and is present whether you admit it or not. There is no denying the ravaging effects and pure evil, it seems, lurks in the depths of spacetime. Or beneath the sea. H. P. Lovecraft is what I would call a master of sowing in the fabric of horror into the weave of reality without you…

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Software / Game Development Design (Intelli Gaming: Article) It is important, when designing software, to look at the model at hand from various angles. I did much research when it comes to *Warhammer* and the results that I got led to learn how to write pseudo-code and draw sketches to understand the inner workings of systems. https://read.cash/@Librarian Here are **some of my sketches**. The first one shows some design about spells data schema and about triggers and how…

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Interest rates vary inversely with... (The Archive: Article) ***Interest rates vary inversely with the price of bonds.*** You may have heard that in your life. Do you understand it? If you don't read this short post to get the relationship as I explain it. It took me a long time to understand that relationship. First I have never traded bonds but also I would add that the explanations that I was given were always incorrect. Or I just wasn't paying attention! Well, the way I…

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(The Archive: Article) "Interest rates vary inversely with the price of bonds." You may have heard that in your life. Do you understand it? If you don't read this short post to get the relationship as I explain it. It took me a long time to understand that relationship. First I have never traded bonds but also I would add that the explanations that I was given were always incorrect. Or I just wasn't paying attention! Well, the way I will explain it to you, dear reader, is by…

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1984 is Now (The Library: Book Review) The dangers posed by an oppressive society of thought control, speech control and permanent war are all too familiar today. What is frightening is that **we are getting closer to that society**. I am speaking for the entire world. If populations worldwide allow their freedoms to be removed in the name of security against imaginary foes, then we shall all have to endure the consequences. The novel *1984* explores a dystopia, which is the…

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Psychohistory's Foundations (The Library: Book Series Review) https://read.cash/@Librarian **W**e all learn that to build something solid, it is better to build on solid ground. We call the initial laying of cement on this solid ground, this bedrock, the *foundations* of an edifice. But when it comes to designing the **architecture of an empire**, cement is not enough. It is too thick to do the job. One needs a special mind that is agile enough to encompass the complexities…

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A new article I posted on Read.cash: https://read.cash/@Librarian/psychohistorys-foundations-fd1737d0 I am trying to post it here on the main page of Noise.cash because honestly, all my previous posts got 0 views, 0 likes. I spend a lot of time on those articles and maybe you don't like fiction or horror stories of old like Frankenstein or newer science-fiction like Brave New World but please show this one a bit of love!

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Fahrenheit 451 (The Library: Book Review) That temperature, in the title, is the temperature at which book paper catches fire. I was recently reminded of that temperature when building a crypto-miner. I put the motherboard straight on a piece of cardboard and wondered if it would combust! But most often, I am reminded of this book for the wrong reasons. This book is a dystopian story which examines the morality of destroying knowledge and censoring free speech. I do…

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LOTR (The Library: Book Series Review) **Lord Of The Rings - T**he Eternal conflict, raging from one era to another. Transcending the lives of men, dwarves and even the long lives of elves. That eternal conflict between the forces of good and evil is examined aplenty in the works of J.R.R. Tolkien. Here, in this article, I wanted to review those books, all of them and tell you my thoughts and recommendations about them. Pros Classic of Fantasy Literature The author invented…

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LOTF (The Library: Book Review) **Lord Of The Flies - W**ar it seems, is as much a part of humanity as imagination is. We have already observed this concept here on this blog. *Nineteen Eighty Four* reminded us of the dangers posed by a permanent war effort. Some in power want this. It is like a grand game to them. But war is fought with soldiers, no matter their rank. And humans are at their best when it comes to making war. More on that reflection in the deeper analysis…

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Crypto vs. Gold: How to argue? (The Archive: Article) https://read.cash/@Librarian **I** physically own crypto, gold, silver and platinum. I would have liked to also own some palladium and some rhodium but I never bought any of those two additional metals. I started by buying some gold back in 2013. In the following years, I would buy more gold and more silver. I have also traded gold miners, and even leveraged instruments on juniors gold miners. Leverage to the upside that…