“I don’t even know what to ask!” — Everyone So how does it all work? What is Bitcoin, even? Well, here’s my last summer’s talk on the tech first heralded by Nakamoto’s seminal 2008 whitepaper. The slides, transcript, and subtitles are free to use and chapter (plus FAQ) navigation is available right on YouTube. Subtitles …
In about five years of living in Vancouver I’ve gotten a pretty good feel for the lay of the land: its magnificent nature, hilarious improv, world-famous sushi, the futuristic yet completely down-to-earth crypto community, the great cultural treasure that is The Drive, and the wonderful location in general clearly substantiating Raincouver’s other moniker of Hollywood …
I learned so much in interviewing Hou. His integrity and grounding presence shines through his smile, as you’ll quickly see. I’m only sorry about the audio. Most is quite bearable, but some I had to fade out to quiet the wind and planes and text vibrations. The camera auto-refocused often but this is less annoying. …
Originally started on Steemit, summarizing the original BBC article and adding a much broader perspective from talking with Chinese-Canadians in Vancouver. Cross-posted on Medium. China is creating a new social credit system to rate citizens’ trustworthiness. “By 2020, everyone in China will be enrolled in a vast national database that compiles fiscal and government information, …
The interview is unfortunately only available in Polish but I’m sure someday soon AI will be able to quickly parse it into whichever language you need. If you can happily nod along to Polish then go on, see if you can pick out my accent. Video clip sources and topic timestamp navigation available through watching …
A fraction of our interview is presented below, but like with the Baltic interviews prior, it too was garbled up so only the clear, important bits made it through the editing process. You can navigate through topic timestamps by watching the below directly on YouTube. Fresh out of Vilnius, our cousin took us on a …
As with our Rigan friends, Lina’s interview was largely garbled up but I was able to salvage about 15m of it to put a voice to the beaming smile below. My sister makes a presence here as well, but Lina’s voice is immediately recognizable right from the outset. Video clip sources and topic timestamp navigation …
Here is a short outtake I was able to salvage from our interview (my phone was on its last legs), where we discuss some of the main points the writeup following dives deeper into. Irina is the first voice you hear, Dace the second, and the other lady with the Canadian accent is my sister. …
The past decade or so I’ve gotten into some real deep identity-, ethnicity-, and — more recently — genealogy-diving. I was extremely lucky in my search, the timing of it coinciding with the advent of the Internet as a true publicly accessible technology. I started with Poland but very quickly found myself in Germany, Israel, …
I am often asked why I’m so into family tree research, why I’m as deep into it as I am, why my research is so comprehensive and far-reaching as possible. Why not just plan for the future and let generations past stay buried where they are — what’s the point, anyway? Sometimes I’m asked rudely, …
I just received an invitation to watch a neat video from a friend I made while still active in our university Polish-Canadian cultural association during undergraduate years. I was initially wary of the lightsaber battle because that’s just been waaay overdone, but when I realized the metaphor behind it, it suddenly didn’t seem as bad. …
My Auberge Espagnole experience is rapidly coming to a close. This adventure has taken me through a big chunk of Europe and has taught me more than I ever thought possible. I’ve raved over this program before (as well as writing summary posts about many of our profs: Peter Schneider, Jean Côté, Anthony Watt, Martin …