I’m replying twice because of Steem’s 16 KB limitation for comment posts. My other reply contains the response on naming.
@quillfiller wrote:
I think the microtransaction aspect would hopefully soon be appreciated too when users realise their personal data isn't automatically being hoovered-up and sold-on. Your model of Wikipedia would be what most of us had wanted the original one to be.
The thesis about the economics of bundling and ChangeTip Must Die is incomplete and thus incorrect!
Political correctness and social justice warrior activism is not a negative and polarizing concept?
While polarizing from an objective standpoint, yes, but not necessarily so from the personal viewpoint of those who in turn champion PC and SJW pursuits and others who might interpret diversity in quite a different way, through, say, the evolutionary process and its resulting robustness.
Also I have further mitigated the potential issue by proposing to use Dverse as the blockchain name instead of the user-facing website name (which will instead be Realms) and shorten the spelling to Dvrse thus providing further ambiguity (distancing it from ‘diverse’) about whether the name is intended to mean diversity (in any of its meanings).
And I do get the point about Diverse not conveying "give me more things I want", but the user may not know what they want until […]
Thus the reason to use Realms for the user-facing website name and Dvrse for the blockchain. Realms at least has some relevant meaning to non-geeks such as the implication of virtual reality (VR), astral dominions and/or fantasy to explore.
[…] simpletons and Asians can remember Klik, but I am not sure if that is worth much when it can’t stand out as unique from mouse clicking.
True. And I wonder if it's too ambitious in expecting any one name to appeal to the whole IQ Bell Curve as well as the entire global (dare I say "diverse"!) cultural sweep.
Well the 1 syllable Realms is probably the closest we’re going to get while still abstractly incorporating the decentralization, trustproof, and Inverse Commons concepts.
Originally considered years ago only in it’s singular form when I thought about the term ‘dominion’ as a sovereign, ‘realm’ was just a kingdom or astral, fantasyland. Choosing the plural combined with becoming aware of the more general definition of a dominion where anything dominates (such as a shared interest or activity), it conceptual morphed a nonrival, infinite (boundless) resource of to for example personal, sovereign dominions.
I explained it to Michelle as follows:
Hive isn’t an apt name because it’s a central place (aka locus) of activity. The name should associate with decentralization in some way that users can identify with.
I will explain the importance of decentralization. It’s not the same as distributed— i.e. spread out or strewn all over.
Decentralization means absence of centralized control. No ruler. Rulers are deleterious because they can be incentivized to prioritize their selfish (or collusive) interests at the detriment of their subjects (i.e. those they rule over).
Even democracy has these selfish rulers aka politicians and government officials. Even Internet and technology behemoths such as Microsoft, Facebook, and Google and Samsung abuse us. Microsoft puts ad/spyware on our Windows 10 laptop which annoys us and forces auto-updates that we can’t entirely disable that can lockup our machines for hours (right when we urgently need to use it!). Samgsung auto-updates our mobile also (as for Windows 10) leading to bugs which forcing restoration of device to factory state losing all installed apps and data. Google puts annoying ads all over the Internet and interrupts our viewing on their Youtube. Facebook (and Apple’s iPhone) limits the apps and features we can use in their walled garden. Banning is common on some other sites such as Reddit discussions and Youtube vloggers.
Realms (plural) means non-scarcity of (i.e. unlimited) separate dominions or areas (groupings)of interest and activity. That is decentralization. No ruler of any dominion has the control to stop users from forking off into newly created or other extant realms.
Realms (plural) is the concept of many worlds. Imagine a fantasy game with many VR worlds. Realms inspires the imagination akin to dreams and a cornucopia to explore.
Some other feedback:
Realms? Wow, yes that is very good! …along with Dverse. Sounds awesome!
I’m stoked and relieved. Naming process was so arduous. Was the most challenging for any s/w project I have ever been involved in naming.
Yes, wow naming took a while haha. But it is very important!
Yeah like a 4 year process! But is only now that I really devoted a solid several days to it nonstop and where my conceptualization of the concepts was sufficiently developed to view it holistically and home-in on that name.
Now don't change your mind! ;) Realms is a way sexier name for that purpose.
Doubtful I will change my mind, at least not on Realms. Problems with the prior name ideas have been enumerated in that recent post. For example, there was something incompatible with Dvrse as the website name for a Wikipedia and Medium clone. Dvrse is appropriate for the blockchain. I wanted a brand name for the million-user website that can rival names such as Google, Medium, Wikipedia, Twitter, Instagram, etc.. Realms achieves that!
And in the plural form implies the decentralization of unlimited dominions, with experts leading dominions and decentralized curation.
Gut Health Discussion
I've had my own battles with "gut dysfunction" […] which I'm coming to believe have a psychological basis in my case.
I doubt that plausibility of a psychological basis (sorry but frankly sounds like hippie meditation nonsense to me), other than the psychological fortitude to make the necessary physical changes if they can possibly be made. In other post, you indicate to me you’re overworking and presumably not a healthy lifestyle and diet loaded with for example cruciferous vegetables and omega 3 rich fish varieties.
In my case, this means grueling 5 kms daily runs and other intensive gym exercise, along with radical changes in diet hoping that the physical problem in my gut can be rectified by such changes.
But it’s also plausible the physical changes in my gut (including the immune system and gut microbiota) are beyond repair, or at least for non-invasive homeopathic treatments which may only be palliative. So far, I detect some improvement on my current regimen, but it’s unknown whether this is just improvement in the health of my organs other than the gut thus masking a continued deterioration of the fundamental issue (whatever it is since it remains undiagnosed now that the TB is presumably cured).
Lately I am eating daily the black seeds of the papaya and digesting coconut milk mixed with tablespoons of concentrated turmeric extract (with Piperine). This in addition to a much more alkaline balance to my diet by eating legumes, baked potato, green leafy veggies, cucumbers, diced tomatos, onions, lime, avocado, cumin spice, eggs, canned mackerel, nuts, and sometimes a couple slices of brown bread.
In the future if my finances are more extensive, I will pursue expert medical assistance. I’m interested for example to have my gut flora tested, another gut ultrasound, redo all blood tests including liver enzymes, perhaps an upper endoscopy, and maybe for example a fecal transplant if applicable to any diagnosis attained. But given that I don’t want to follow a cookie-cutter healthcare system model, I will require considerable wealth to entice the experts to give their expertise in the way I want it. For now that is the model in my head for how I want to proceed, subject to change of course. Even improving my health can lead to more clarity of thinking and energy level, which may change my attitude and thinking. For the time being, I am focused on ameliorating the symptoms that clearly indicate my body is deteriorating, such as lethargy and pain in my lower (especially) left leg. Also monitoring carefully they way my body reacts to eating, and to daily 8+ hour fasting (shooting for 12 - 18 hour fasts but so far difficult to maintain consistently).
Someone is suggesting I also try oxidizers such as intravenous hydrogen peroxide. That is actually available here in the Philippines. May try that after my current regimen plateaus. I did try the intravenous vitamin C a year ago. However, oxidizers can destroy gut flora, so maybe oxidizers aren’t what I need, if my underlying issue is gut flora or ulcers/colitis (and not for example a tumor).
EDIT: found this:
When your immune system tries to fight off an invading virus or bacterium, an abnormal immune response causes the immune system to attack the cells in the digestive tract, too.
https://gut.bmj.com/content/48/1/132
In the last decade, the dogma that no bacteria could grow in the acid milieu of the stomach has been systematically destroyed by the evidence that […] , Helicobacter pylori, is responsible for gastric/duodenal disease. If only a few thousand bacteria can cause gastritis, can we be so sure that among the billions of bacteria living within the colon some strains are not responsible for the onset of intestinal inflammation or for its perpetuation?
Also I keep these in mind:
https://www.google.com/search?q=m1+m2+macrophage+polarization+Tuberculosis
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-04-soda-inexpensive-safe-combat-autoimmune.html
My struggle with Ulcerative Colitis and the start of a journey to cure myself
I have an autoimmune condition called Ulcerative Colitis […] UC is an intestinal disease that causes ulcers in the large intestine, which can cause pain/discomfort […]
I’ve had very little support from my doctors in treating my condition in the way that I want to be treated. Doctors are largely taught to practice evidence-based medicine […] they need a lot of data, studies, and clinical trials before they’ll recommend a treatment option. While that may work for well known and understood diseases and makes sense from an avoid-medical-malpractice-lawsuits perspective […] There’s a massive amount of information and new research available for a host of health issues, but these studies are often small and don’t have the funding required to run intensive clinical trials, so this new research very rarely makes it into the doctor’s office. The system is highly flawed.
When I first started doing my own research, bringing medical papers to my doctors, and presenting them with new information on alternative treatments I was learning about, I was flatly turned down and just offered new prescription drugs.
Step 3 is restoring a healthy microbiome. By sequencing my gut microbiome (through uBiome), I know that I have a severe dysbiosis of my gut bacteria compared to a healthy individual. I’ve learned that this is standard for UC patients (although no doctor has ever mentioned that to me). To restore my microbiome to a healthy place, I’ll be going to a world-leading clinic in Buenos Aires to get a month of daily Fecal Microbiota Transplants in February (yea, it’s just what it sounds like — I’m getting the poop from a healthy person squirted into my butt). I’ll be writing more about this soon :)
Antibiotic use is what has lead to my disease, so I didn’t want to throw more antibiotics at the problem if not necessary.
Bingo! In my case 24 days of the dreadful fluoroquinolones in 2012, and 6 months of very liver toxic antibiotics for treating the TB in 2017.
https://medium.com/health-begins-now/relapse-336a7f07e2e9
Relapse
For several months after I returned from the [4 weeks only] FMT treatment in Argentina, I felt on top of the world
I was wondering if you were doing any FMT top-offs. I know some people do regular (monthly, etc) top-offs indefinitely after they leave an FMT clinic to constantly reinforce the biome and prevent a relapse.
http://www.thedoctorsaidwhat.com/2017_10_22_archive.html
My journey continues since I published the book about how I cured myself of ulcerative colitis [with FMTs…] Before UC I was healthy and active. I have always had alot of energy and with the exception of heartburn had no digestive issues. I took Tums for this and eventually started taking Prevacid once a day. I was happy to not have any heartburn anymore after suffering from it from a very early age. I am suspicious of the Proton pump inhibitor drugs (Zantac, Prilosec) now and wonder if they too were somewhat responsible for my getting UC. These drugs inhibit the formation of stomach acid allowing undigested food to move through the system where bacteria can feed on it in the colon.
Note above the months duration that he continued the FMTs.
https://scdlifestyle.com/2017/12/overcoming-crohns-disease-naturally/
Crohn’s disease is the result of disturbed interaction between the immune system and gut bacteria[…] Antibiotics are known to alter the gut microbiome and can interfere with the body’s ability to handle diverse bacteria. One study of 587 Crohn’s sufferers showed that antibiotic use occurred in 71% of those cases 2-5 years before the diagnosis was confirmed.
Abscess – Chronic inflammation leads to scar tissue, making it difficult for food and waste to pass through the digestive tract. An inflamed mass of tissue is formed as the body attempts to keep any infections from spreading.
Fistulas – Abnormal connections formed between the intestines and other organs (i.e skin). Fistulas allow waste material to end up in places it shouldn’t be, leading to possible infections and more abscesses to contain the material.
EDIT#2: I should just start self-administered enema FMTs from donors too young to have had sex nor vices who eat a vegetable-based diet (i.e. the natives in the mountains of the Philippines) and aren’t sick. The evidence is mounting that it works even for Crohn’s which is seems to similar my health problem. On a low net carb, mostly raw vegetable diet (only cooked are legumes and potatos), only a day into ketosis my body temperature to drops to 35.7 C. I feel the inflammation in my lower gut (could be liver and/or any part of the digestive system including large intestine, which doesn’t entirely rule out painless duodenum/stomach ulcers). After eating potatoes to raise temp to 36.2 C, it dropped to 35.6 C when I jogged 3 kms.
Fecal microbiota transplantation for refractory Crohn's disease
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/11/gut-biology-health-bacteria-future-medicine