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Has Anyone Tried The Cat Shit Coffee?

Kopi Luwak is a rather unique coffee, which taste is achieved by the proteolytic enzymes in the digestive system of a civet cat. In other words, they feed the coffee to a wild animal, then brew what comes out the other end.

Jacob Jaber said he tried it in Bali and the coffee was delicious.


What Is The Current State Of The Free Press In Our Society ?

John believes it is currently under attack and that it is critical to our democracy to have a free press that is respected and able to operate on its own.


For Mike, What’s One Big Takeaway About Life That He’s Learned From His Parents?

His parents used to tell him that you have what you have. Every day is a gift, and having the gift of being alive is a limited privilege. The real questions are, what do you want to do with your time? How do you want to make the most of your time? Mike says to not fall into this trap of learned helplessness of saying the world isn’t fair.


What Was Lapd Doing About Adea's Case?

They had 200 people searching an area. There were cell phone pings that showed that Chris stopped at that location for 40 minutes— a potential location to dispose a body.


What Are The Practices In The Miracle Morning?

Elrod lists six practices that he refers to as his savers: meditation, affirmations, visualizations, reading, writing, and exercising. Storch incorporated these into his routine to make them become his habits to allow him to do a lot more to chase his dreams and goals.


How Does Training Junior Designers Benefit Their Senior Peers?

In order to explain how things are done to a junior designer, a senior designer has to think through what's become the norm, which is a great way to force yourself to level up.


What Are Katie’s Weekly Priorities?

Katie’s weekly priority is to make sure her design team — which is around 100 people — is happy and active to produce the best work of their lives.

The company’s ultimate goal is improve transportation in big cities, and to focus on the people, not cars. In doing some, it requires Lyft to make multiple ways of transportation enjoyable for people.


How Accurate Is The Data On This Coronavirus?

It is not representative. We are looking at different time series, where the number of people that died yesterday are, in fact the number of people that died yesterday. The number of people that tested positive yesterday though doesn't tell you as much because the test results take four days to get, they are delayed, and then maybe the patients did not show symptoms for 10 days before they even got test. So the testing data significantly lags the infected population, and may not represent much of anything.


What Does James Cridland Think Of The Future Of Podcasting?

James says podcasting is definitely a business that is going to grow. In US alone podcasts are at about 7% penetration, while radio is at 60%. There is a lot of room to grow.

There are a lot of heritage voices in podcasting who seem to have an issue with new developments, and although it is useful to know where the industry has come from, if we are to move forward, and to get podcasting to 90% listenership, we have to break some norms.


What Is The Difference Between Symmetric And Asymmetric Encryption?

Symmetric encryption uses the same key to encrypt and to decrypt data, whereas asymmetric uses a key pair, where one is public and another is private key; one is used for encryption as one is used for decryption.

Although asymmetric encryption tends to be quite a bit slower in terms of processor needs, it is often preferred for security.


Why Did Mosec Fail?

Bernard shares they were getting validation every day and clients were happy. So what led to Mosec's shut down?


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