#i might as well add this t0 a tag

[araknoid-blog1]

what snakes do you have??

32 genera, 100 species. my c0llecti0n is as f0ll0ws, with 80th technical terms and c0mm0n names. in few cases the technical term and the c0mm0n name are 0ne and the same, in case y0u were c0nfused: 

elapids:acanth0phis laevis (sm00thscaled death adder)acanth0phis rug0sus (papuan death adder)8ungarus caeruleus (c0mm0n kr8)8ungarus candidus (kn0wn as the malayan krait 0r the 8lue krait)8ungarus fasciatus (8anded kr8)pseudechis c0lletti (c0lletts snake)pseud0naja textilis (eastern 8r0wn snake)0phi0phagus hannah (the King C08ra)naja naja (indian c08ra)naja haje (egyptian c08ra)naja pallida (red spitting c08ra)naja annulifera (sn0uted c08ra)naja annulata (8anded water c08ra)naja (un-named species)naja nigric0llis (8lack-necked spitting c08ra)naja nivea (cape c08ra)naja siamensis (ind0chinese spitting c08ra)naja sumatrana (equat0rial spitting c08ra)naja samarensis (samar c08ra)micr0pechis ikaheka (new guinea small-eyed snake)dendr0aspis p0lylepis (8lack mam8a)dendr0aspis james0ni kaim0sae (james0ns mam8a)dendr0aspis angusticeps (eastern green mam8a)dendr0aspis viridis (west african/western green mam8a)calli0phis 8ivirgatus (8lue malayan c0ral snake) 

viperids:deinakistr0d0n acutus (sharp-n0sed pit viper)macr0vipera l. turanica (turan 8luntn0sed viper)atheris squamigera (varia8le 8ush viper)atheris nitschei (gr8 lakes 8ush viper)atheris cerat0ph0ra (h0rned 8ush viper)atheris matildae (matildas h0rned viper)atheris hispida (r0ugh-scaled 8ush viper)8itis ga80nica (ga800n viper)8itis rhin0ceros (west african ga800n viper)8itis nasic0rnis (rhin0cer0s viper)8itis caudalis (h0rned adder/side winding adder)8itis c0rnuta (al8any adder)8itis schneideri (sp0tted dwarf adder)8itis s0malica (s0mali puff adder)8itis arietans (puff adder)8itis peringueyi (peringueys desert adder)8itis apr0p0s (m0untain adder)8itis parvi0cula (ethi0pian m0untain adder)echis s0chureki (eastern saw-scaled viper)echis pyramidum (n0rtheast african carpet viper)echis c0l0ratus (palestine sawscaled viper)echis multisquamatus (multiscale sawscaled viper)echis leakyi (kenyan carpet viper)echis 0cellatus (west african carpet viper)cerastes cerastes (desert h0rned viper)cerastes vipera (sahara sand viper)m0ntivipera xanthina (r0ck viper)vipera amm0dytes (l0ng-n0sed viper)da80ia palestinae (palestine viper)da80ia russelli (russells viper)da80ia siamensis (eastern russells viper)da80ia mauritanica (m00rish viper)pseud0cerastes fieldi (fields h0rned viper)azemi0ps feas (feas viper) causus rh0m8eatus (rh0m8ic night adder, dem0n night adder, etc)causus defilippii (sn0uted night adder) 

cr0talids:agkistr0d0n pisciv0rus (c0tt0nm0uth snake)agkistr0d0n c0nt0rtrix (c0pperhead snake)agkistr0d0n 8ilineatus (mexican cantil) agkistr0d0n tayl0ri (tayl0rs cantil) agkistr0d0n laticinctus (8r0ad-8anded c0pperhead) agkistr0d0n phae0gaster (0sage c0pperhead) agkistr0d0n pictigaster (trans-pec0s c0pperhead) cr0talus h0rridus (tim8er rattlesnake) cr0talus 8asilliscus (mexican west coast rattlesnake) cr0talus willardi (ridge-n0sed rattlesnake) cr0talus pifan0rum (s0uth american rattlesnake) cr0talus simus (middle american rattlesnake)cr0talus terrifficus (a su8species 0f the s0uth american rattlesnake) cryptelytr0ps purpureul0maculatus (mangr0ve pit viper) cryptelytr0ps insularis (white lipped island viper) trimeresurus 800rnensis (80rnean pit viper) trimeresurus hageni (hagens pit viper) trimersurus puniceus (flatn0sed pit viper) trimeresurus mangshanensis (mangshan viper) 80thr0ps asper80thr0ps atr0x (c0mm0n lancehead) 80thr0ps alternatus (cr0ssed pit viper) 80thr0ps dip0rus (neuwieds lancehead) 80thr0ps m00jeni (8razilian lancehead) 80threchis schlegelli (the eyelash viper) 80threchis laterallis (side-striped palm pit viper) 80threchis supercilliarius (8l0tched palm pit viper) tr0pid0laemus wagleri (waglers pit viper) pr0t080thr0ps c0rnutus (fan-si-pan h0rned pit viper) pr0t080thr0ps jerd0nii xanth0melas (red sp0tted viper) pr0t080thr0ps t0karensis (t0kara ha8u, (トカラハブ))pr0t080thr0ps elegans (sakishima ha8u (サキシマハブ))pr0t080thr0ps mucr0squamatus (8r0wn sp0tted pit viper) 0v0phis 0kinavensis (0kinawa pit viper) call0selasma rh0d0st0ma (malayan gr0und pit viper) gl0ydius ussuriensis (ussuri mamushi) sistrurus miliarius (pygmy rattlesnake)

i h0pe y0ure happy, this t00k me far, far t00 l0ng t0 list 

anyways, these are my critters. i tend t0 keep pe0ple far, far away fr0m them in case they d0 s0mething t0tally fucking stupid 

[jetandthebennies]

Into You (8/?)

Summary- Where Tom is kind enough to share his new ideas for you little game.

AN- Just gonna try and do one more chapter, who knows it may turn out good and then if it’s alright I might carry this series on, simply because it’s my favourite one I’ve written so far.

ALSO please don’t be scared to talk to me! I love getting random messages and stuff! And please inbox me if you wanna be in the tags for this series OR my permanent tag or I’ll forget to add you.

PART SEVEN  REQUESTS  PROMPTS

You hadn’t heard anything from Tom. Not a text, phone call or some indirect comment to the press. Nothing, and to be honest that’s what made you want his attention yet again. You didn’t like being throw away, whilst he was clearly enjoying his time with his new ‘chick’.

Yet at the same time you didn’t care he was with someone else, because he always came running back to you. Plus, it was brilliant watching him practically burning with jealousy whilst watching you leave with someone else. Of course, you’d much rather be leaving with him too, but for now Darren would do...

Speaking of Darren, you haven’t had a moment peace from him, he was constantly by your side and never seemed to get your message that you wanted to be alone for a bit. He had been glued to your side since the last time you’d seen Tom, and as nice as he was, everytime you saw him you couldn’t help but think how much you’d rather it was Tom instead.

That’s why you loved days like these. Days when you’d be locked away in your trailer until you were needed on set. Playing music a little too loudly, dancing around in some shorts and a vest top, making food and singing into the wooden spoon you’d been stirring the mac and cheese with.

You were finally alone, and it was bliss. You didn’t have to worry about looking over your back to see if the paps were following, which they usually were. You didn’t have to think about impressing people, the only person you had to see today was Sean so he could practice your hair for a scene tomorrow. The only thing you had to do was run lines, and that was completely fine.

“Okay ladies, now let’s get in-”

“Good moves.”

“Holy shit!”

To say the voice startled you would be an understatement, it scared the shit out of you. You didn’t know how long they had been there, how they got in (as you never heard footsteps) or who the hell it was. 

Placing a hand over you chest, you could practically feel your heart threatening to jump out, and you turned to face the intruder. You weren’t really surprised when you came face to face with Tom, his lips in a slight smirk and his eyes glistening. 

You could feel his eyes wandering your choice of outfit, the bralette showing your stomach. But with him temporarily distracted at some of our exposed skin, you took the opportunity to admire him, after all it had been so long since you’d seen him natural. Without the fancy suits, his hair all done and cameras constantly surrounding him. Sure, there were multiple pictures from his time in New York, but nothing could beat the real thing standing in front of you.

His hair was in small curls, obviously not gelled back like it usually was, and you couldn’t help but remember the days when you two used to sit in front of the television, watching FRIENDS and how you used to run your hands through them. 

He was wearing some sort of grey joggers, which you hated to say, but he looked pretty damn good in them, and the navy t-shirt he was wearing was far too tight. Not that you were really complaining though, it showed out the defined muscles you knew he had underneath.

“My eyes are up here.”

You looked up to see him smiling slightly, and if you had focused harder, you probably would’ve noticed the slight blush on his cheeks. But you instead turned your back to him, stirring your lunch which was still on the hob.

“But so is the rest of your face so I’d rather not look.”

You picked up the spoon which you’d placed on the counter just before Tom  had decided to give you a heart attack. As you decided the cheesy goodness was finally done, after waiting for what felt like forever, you poured it into a  bowl and reached for a fork. When you turned to go and sit on the couch, you saw Tom had taken your previous spot.

If it was anyone else, you wouldn’t of cared that much. But it was Tom and you knew that he sat there on purpose, because he could tell that’s where you were sitting as the cushions were all rumpled. Plus you always sat on the far right of the sofa, even without knowing, it’s just where you felt comfiest. So he figured that if he sat there, you’d have to sit next to him. You didn’t though, you plopped down in the middle, crossing your legs and focusing on the TV, trying to ignore Tom’s stare on your face.

It was a good twenty minutes before Tom finally decided to something, and you almost thanked him. As good of an actress you were, it was hard to look like you were interested in car adverts when you couldn’t even technically drive in this country.

He reached forward, towards the coffee table, and grabbed the TV remote, turning it off. Then sat back watching you as you tried to look angry.

“Hey, asshole, I was watching-”

“No you weren’t.”

You sighed, placing your now empty bowl where the remote was just a few moments ago, and rubbing your eyes finally turning to him.

“No I wasn’t,”

He wore a proud smile on his face, getting you to admit your lie, which used to take him hours to get out of you, but whatever that was then this is now.

“Why are you here anyway?”

Tom clapped his hands together loudly, making a sound that bounced throughout your trailer and scaring you a little. 

“I want rules.”

“Excuse me?”

He ran a hand through his hair, pulling at the ends slightly. You could tell by the way he was fiddling with the loose thread on cushion that was in his lap that he was pretty nervous. Which was unusual of him because he always came off as a quite confident person.

“Rules, for the game I suggested.”

A small blush didn’t go unnoticed by Tom when he brought up that night at the BAFTAS, and your eyes instantly going to your lap, trying to forget how good h looked that night.

“What ‘game’ is this?”

“A jealousy game let’s say.”

Clearing your throat, you got the courage to look up at him, and was surprised to see there was no ghost of a smirk or any hint he was taking the piss. He being deadly serious, and the look gave you a small butterflies.

“Okay, what rules.”

“First one to admit they’re jealous, or miss the other, lose. We have three months and if nothing happens we say goodbye to everything we used to be-”

That made your heart skip a beat. Say goodbye to everything we used to be, that meant forgetting everything. All the memories you treasure, all that time you spent with him. The late nights and early mornings, being cooped up together away from the rest of the world. All gone.

“And we tell no one-”

Just when you opened your mouth, Tom seemed to know exactly what you were going to say, and jumped in before you could.

“Including Sean, I know what you two are like, and what he’s like. The whole of LA would know in a matter of minutes.”

A small giggle escaped your lips, and a chuckle left his. And suddenly you wanted what you had so recklessly let go. 

Him.

You wanted him to be yours again, but he wasn’t, and that was your own fault you knew it. But this could be your chance to get him back.

“What does the winner get?”

“Anything.”

You didn’t need much more convincing, so you once again acted recklessly without thinking, only this time it could work in your favour.

“I think we have a deal.”

“Get ready to lose, Y/L/N.”

“Oh please, we both know you’re the biggest loser here.”

I just realised how alike this series is to a book I did on Wattpad about Sebastian Stan, oh well...

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[countcockulaaa]

@dreamfaerye tagged me to make a list of 10 good things that happened in 2016 so here goes:

1. Tyler came into my life and helped me become myself again, helped me relight my fire and discover my passion, reminded me how smart I really am (despite hiding it and meeting him smashed outta my mind), and showed me that the right people (person) won’t be afraid of my intensity.

2. My Dad got out of the hospital after almost a year, and we started getting close for the first time in my life.  

3. I started fixing what I fractured in my relationship with my mom during my Luke phase. And my family as well, to a lesser extent (I’m also far less inclined to fix things with them tbh). 

4. I quit drinking, aside from the occasional beer or few drinks when I go out. No binge drinking or getting blackout drunk in months. I smoke a lot of weed but I feel good when I do that, as opposed to what drinking does to me mentally (and physically, esp to my skin) these days. 

5. For the first time in over 7 years, I wrote. And I wasn’t ashamed of what I wrote. I found an incredible site to share my work on and for the first time, I’m not hiding my words.  

6. I voted. For the first time. My mom and I went together and it was a really cool experience, and I’m really glad that I got to share it with her. 

7. My mental health massively improved. I still struggle with anxiety and depression and at times it’s overwhelming but for the first time in many years, I feel in control and I feel hopeful. Without medication (aside from weed). 

8. I survived some serious and life threatening health issues and while doing so, lost 60lbs, figured out who my real friends are, found an amazingly supportive group of women who share many of the same struggles as me (health-wise). 

9. I learned how to forgive someone without an apology, how to move on and stop giving them any sort of power in my life. I also learned how to stop being so angry with people who didn’t show remorse for hurting me, and how to accept what people have to offer or their place in my life, even though it might not be what I want or deserve or would do for them. 

10. I became a real person again. I found myself, rediscovered so much that I hid away. I remembered how smart I am, how talented and creative and just all around incredible and unique I am. 

I’m gunna up the game and add 10 good things about 2017 so far too :)

1. I can add “social media manager” and “personal/music manager” to my resume, thanks to Tyler.

2. My dad says I can use his address for school to finish my degree, so I’m hopefully going to be getting back to school and getting my degree soon!

3. I got a GORGEOUS new truck that runs so well, thanks to my mom. Her name is Stella and she’s beautiful.

4. I’ve realized how good my support system really is (especially thanks to my TGC girls and my other Tumblr bbies)

5. Since I actively started hating myself less, I’ve noticed a huge difference in how I talk to/about myself- it’s a lot more positive and confident. 

6. Luke and I finally had a talk about everything that’s gone down over the past few years, and he apologized for everything he put me thru. Unnecessary but appreciated. 

7. I take risks. I say shit that scares me, I have conversations that make me uncomfortable, I put myself out there just a little more than I used to. 

8. It’s 40 in January and I got to play in the yard with Roxy for a little bit today. Scout even joined in running around.

9. My room and living environment are slowly getting cleaned and decluttered, and I should be able to redecorate and paint and do the whole bad juju cleansing thing that I so desperately need to do.  

10. I’m finally healing and moving forward and seeing the effects of (seven years of) therapy kicking in… like, all happening so fast

I tag: @desire-t0-be, @theenergyinlife, @quadvillain, @sonnii-bee, @thefatgirlspeaks, @fatmaninalittlesuit, @bangedbysatan, @pooooooooohhhh, @alaskancod, @acontemptress, @evolutionofacosfitter, @daisies-parasiempre, @cheynfit, and anyone else who feels like it to do this. You don’t have to do both 2016 and 2017 if you don’t want. I was just feeling this and wanted to keep the positivity going a little bit. 

[mikegchambers]

The cloud is on and the meter’s running — avoid the sticker shock of ‘pay as you go’

Getting a handle on the actual costs of cloud computing can be elusive and frustrating until your learn the basics of cost control

Cost is often the major driver for many cloud migrations but it’s usually poorly understood in the beginning. It’s fine for startups to demonstrate the value of cloud when they’re coming from nothing, but when you’re dragging 20 years of data centers and legacy software behind you, it’s not always clear what the price tag will be.

Fret not, let’s keep the line on the chart going up and to the right!

“Which is the cheapest cloud?”

This FAQ is similar to asking an attorney “do I have a case?”, or asking a doctor “is it serious?”. The answer depends on knowing which of the cloud services you will use and how you’ll use them — and even then, comparing the costs between cloud providers is difficult.

In their pricing tables, cloud providers are screaming to make you see pennies per hour, per IOP, by ingress, egress, region, zone … you name it. There are even JavaScript calculator that will make you feel really good about the cost.

Upon first glance it’s just so cheap, it feels like shopping a hundred years ago — your dollar is going really far. For cloud novices, some napkin math quickly reveals that their entire infrastructure can be run for just $20 a month with change left over for coffee. Wow, the CFO is going to love you.

Let’s burst this bubble quickly

For any serious cloud application, you have no idea what it’s going to cost until you start using it. No idea. First, different vendors have wildly different ways of measuring and charging that seem obvious at first — but you’ll quickly find the monthly bills are like deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics.

I’ve always found that Google Cloud is particularly painful in this regard. I’ve been using it for ages and I still don’t understand their charging model. Take a look at my recent statement for a personal test environment that isn’t even doing very much:

… see — bird, ankh, scarab, Batman symbol. It makes the additional charges on my cell phone bill look like common sense. And because Google’s environment features a ton of ‘managed services’, I can’t even begin to tell you where some of this usage is coming from.

The first thing to know is that the cloud doesn’t cost pennies.

So clearly this isn’t ideal — what can we do? First, don’t panic and don’t pay attention to the “we bill by the second” promises you’ll hear. Also realize that AWS didn’t become a $15 billion annual business by charging you pennies.

When you’re first starting out on your cloud journey, I would recommend this approach to billing:

Find a sales person at your favorite cloud vendor and ask for some credits for a test drive. Then ask for some more. You’d be surprised what you can negotiate here since it’s hyper-competitive right now.

Run small-scale projects for 1–3 months to get a sense of the actual bills you can expect. Pick simple projects where you have more control.

Employ third-party apps where appropriate to find waste, use monitoring tools to keep a watchful eye on usage, and start tracking costs in your own spreadsheets to get an understanding of how this all works.

Set up alarms in case it goes wildly wrong. If your daily budget averages $100, set an alarm for 25% overage. Don’t get a bill for $2000 and wonder why a week later.

Anytime you do get a surprise bill, go back to the friendly sales person and ask for a refund or credit — I’ve never known them to refuse, especially when you’re in the adoption phase.

When you have more permanent levels of resources in place, take advantage of committed use discounts available, which can save 50–90% depending on the resource type and vendor.

When you have non-critical workloads — such as overnight processing that’s not time critical — take advantage of spot instances (see below).

So the cheapest vendor is … ?

T0 answer the original question…. it depends. For machine learning applications (heavily GPU-biased) with petabytes of data, Google Cloud might be the way to go. For a more traditional Microsoft business application in the cloud, Azure could be the answer. In my line of work, I’ve tended to find AWS pricing the most consistently reasonable — but that’s just me.

Also, pricing in the cloud is dropping all the time — AWS has had 52 consecutive price cuts the last time I checked. Although, occasionally second-tier players spring head-scratchingly-odd increases on their users. The net effect is that your provider of choice now may not be the most competitive long-term. So you’ll need to constantly monitor pricing options to get the best deal, and decide if switching over is worth the effort.

“Why is this so expensive?!”

Part of the cloud migration rite of passage for many companies is suddenly realizing that something is wrong. Very, very wrong. Your friendly cloud salesmen promised you low cost, you promised your boss cost savings, he promised you a promotion and you promised your kids a trip to Disney World. Suddenly the invoices start arriving, promises are evaporating and getting a photo with Mickey Mouse is looking further away than ever. Sadness ensues.

Unfortunately, just because you understand on-premise doesn’t translate to an automatic grasp of the labyrinthine world of cloud billing. Here are some of the most common gotchas that ensnare cloud newbies:

You have too much infrastructure. The high-availability, infinitely-scalable promise of cloud is alluring but for every region you enable and every level of redundancy you add, the cloud faucet is turned on just a little bit more. And this is a metered service so the bill goes upwards. Always balance your actual needs and tolerance for outages (RTO and RPOs, remember those?) with the cost of building cathedrals of virtual infrastructure.

Cloud is like unlimited Christmas lights: it’s fun all month until you get the electric bill.

You did a lift and shift. When you shift a poorly written application from on-premise, you now have a poorly performing application in the cloud. There’s some appalling software out in the wild and you’ll need to fix it before you jam it into AWS. There’s no magic bullet for crap.

You have inefficient code that isn’t taking advantage of cloud alternatives. Some examples I’ve seen include scripts that fiddle with data somehow — ETL scripts in Perl, PHP, Python — that have been obviated by much, much better cloud replacements like Data Pipeline or third party options. Make sure you find and drown these, many of which can be identified by looking at the ‘last modified’ date on the filename. They worked well in their day but inefficiency is expensive in the cloud.

Your developers embraced DevOps too well. Servers are popping up like mushrooms, they’re building out the virtual data centers of their dreams, and they love — just love — the sorts of tools they never had before. They’re so happy. Unfortunately, ka-ching, that’s the sound of Jeff Bezos’ cash register again.

You use 95% of all your on-premise servers consistently all the time. The classic capacity usage chart below is a major selling point for cloud. But there are some use-cases where you are happily running at full capacity constantly and there’s no waste or overage. While there are still benefits to switching to the cloud in this case, saving money isn’t likely to be one of them.

“Up and to the right”.

You have a load of pirated software or unpaid licenses. Some IT departments are more like the Black Pearl than the QE2. I’ve seen this before so it’s worth mentioning that licensing is expensive when legal. *Crickets*

You don’t really fully understand cloud — and that’s okay. Nobody does at the beginning but you’re getting there so hold on! There is a learning curve that everyone goes through and we’ve all faked it until we made it, one way or another. AWS had over a 1000 product releases last year and I can talk knowledgeably about 10 of them. Welcome to the club.

AWS On-demand, Spot, and Reserved Instances — in 1 minute

Few companies use all three instance categories properly so here’s the world’s fastest primer on the differences:

On-demand is the cloud you were promised. You want a server, request it, and it’s there. This is the most expensive option.

Spot instances are available when Amazon has too much capacity and they auction off the excess. You can bid on these instances and if you win you get some cheap compute. These are short-lived instances (think hours not days) that are more suited to workloads needing bursts of extra CPU time. Spot is often the cheapest option but you can’t run a large percentage of your platform on it in most cases.

Reserved instances are guaranteed for your usage but require a 1 or 3-year commitment from you. These are much cheaper than on-demand but you are guaranteeing usage (you can trade out of these arrangements but it’s still a contractual cost).

Other providers have similar approaches. Basically, as you slide from immediacy and convenience towards guaranteed usage, it gets cheaper.

Spot instances for the win.

Effects on The Financials

If you’ve ever worked in enterprise IT, you’ll be familiar with the CapEx vs OpEx battle that accountants get so excited about. The short version is that capital expenditure — which is buying hardware in our space — is good since it creates a tax write-off for a depreciating asset, whereas operating expenses can only be written off in the tax year they were incurred. Although I’m no expert in this area (seriously), I’ve noticed a tendency to write off servers over, say, 3 years and then not replace them for, say, ever. Accountants love this stuff.

Back in the non-accounting reality, if you’re managing on-premise IT infrastructure, your cost accounting is really tricky to the point of being imaginary. For instance, let’s say you are responsible for an inventory management system and a logistics platform. What is the percentage of hardware cost you assign to each system? And if you have personnel supporting both, how do you work out their cost? What about the data center real estate, property taxes, air conditioning and security?

As you drill down the physical stack, it’s gets progressively harder to figure out the costs of your operation, especially when a third system is added. And a fourth. And there’s so much overlap at different levels. Ultimately you create a model that satisfies accounting but isn’t particularly accurate or helpful.

Traditional IT cost accounting: bad for margaritas.

In the cloud world, this is very different since it’s a metered service where you pay for what you use. In the same way you can calculate the amount of electricity used by a given store, piece of equipment or assembly line, you can attribute cloud costs by product, vertical, service or any other metric.

The method gives you a precise accounting for the cost of a development environment, cluster, region or tier. And since you can tag resources, you can apply internal categories — departments, silos or project codes — that make it very easy to compare apples to apples.

TL;DR Summary — Quick!

Here a five quick takeaways for getting a handle on the actual costs of cloud computing:

Cloud is not free or cheap. But it can be engineered to be much cheaper than on-premise once you have some practice.

There are accounting implications when switching over. Accountants will freak out, but our IT brethren will generally be happier.

There’s a process of fine-tuning the cost that takes time. Don’t be surprised if it’s more expensive at the beginning, but dramatically cheaper later on.

Cloud provides more transparency into the actual cost of running infrastructure. Don’t forget to include buildings and personnel cost when comparing like-for-like.

There is a steep learning curve generously peppered with road bumps. This is normal for any massively disruptive technology that turns our world upside down.

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