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Why Cryonics Makes Sense
by grarpamp 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

https://waitbutwhy.com/2016/03/cryonics.html (Great blogs BTW) https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/knfcx/i_am_signed_up_for_cryonics_at… http://www.alcor.org/blog/hal-finney-becomes-alcors-128th-patient/ Cypherpunks will be needed in the future, even if only to break out of the Matrix. Avoid info death... Imagine a patient arriving in an ambulance to Hospital A, a typical modern hospital. The patient's heart stopped 15 minutes before the EMTs arrived and he is immediately pronounced dead at the hospital. What if, though, the doctors at Hospital A learned that Hospital B across the street had developed a radical new technology that could revive a patient anytime within 60 minutes after cardiac arrest with no long-term damage? What would the people at Hospital A do? Of course, they would rush the patient across the street to Hospital B to save him. If Hospital B did save the patient, then by definition the patient wouldn't actually have been dead in Hospital A, just pronounced dead because Hospital A viewed him as entirely and without exception doomed. What cryonicists suggest is that in many cases where today a patient is pronounced dead, they’re not dead but rather doomed, and that there is a Hospital B that can save the day—but instead of being in a different place, it's in a different time. It's in the future.

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Bitcoin... Destroying the planet
by Did You Know 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

> Marina Brown catskillmarina at gmail.com > Wed Dec 13 20:09:38 PST 2017 > > nazi > By "nazi" she means Europeans who vote against their own interests. > block [them] > By "block" she means "add to the gas list". "There are two kinds of fascists: fascists and anti-fascists." - Ennio Flaiano

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Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet
by g2s 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

-------- Original message --------From: juan <juan.g71(a)gmail.com> Date: 12/7/17 5:08 PM (GMT-08:00) To: g2s <g2s(a)riseup.net> Subject: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 16:58:22 -0800 g2s <g2s(a)riseup.net> wrote: > > The scumbag said we are still waiting for you to show that you able to calculate Blah blah... From that ars technical link However, we can make some educated guesses. For starters, we know the industry's revenue: Bitcoin miners currently generate 75 bitcoins per hour, which, at the current price of around $12,500 per bitcoin, translates to $937,500 per hour, or more than $8 billion per year. Moreover, the industry is highly competitive, and electricity is one of its biggest costs. So when the price of bitcoins rises, we can expect miners to spend more and more on electricity until electricity costs are roughly on par with revenues. This is the methodology the Digiconomist (link... use it scumbag.) website uses to estimate the Bitcoin network's energy consumption. It assumes that the industry will spend 60 percent of its revenue on electricity and then extrapolates from the current bitcoin price and prevailing electricity prices. It finds that the network is consuming energy at an annual rate of 32TWh. It also assumes that the network takes time to adjust to big price increases like we've seen in recent days. This means that, if Bitcoin stays above $12,000, we can expect this figure to rise further in the coming weeks." Rr

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Bitcoin... Destroying the planet
by Ashley C. 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

On Sat, Dec 16, 2017 at 12:28:00PM, "Did You Know" wrote: > she means Europeans I think she means Ashkenazi. I second Marina's objection to irl vampires who cut and suck baby privates: > The Orthodox Jewish community will continue > the practice that has been practiced for over > 5,000 years," said Rabbi David Niederman of > the United Jewish Organization in > Williamsburg, Brooklyn, after the meeting with > the mayor. "We do not change. And we will not > change." > > David Zwiebel, executive vice president of > Agudath Israel, an umbrella organization of > Orthodox Jews, said that metzitzah b'peh is > probably performed more than 2,000 times a > year in New York City. > > The potential risks of oral suction, however, > are not confined to Orthodox communities. Dr. > Frieden said in March that the health > department had fielded several calls from > panicked non-Orthodox parents who had hired > Hasidic mohels unaware of what their services > entailed. > > In Rockland County, where Rabbi Fischer lives > in the Hasidic community of Monsey, he has > been barred from performing oral suction. But > the state health department retracted a > request it had made to Rabbi Fischer to stop > the practice. And in New Jersey, where Rabbi > Fischer has done some of his 12,000 > circumcisions, the health authorities have > been silent. https://archive.fo/lrG8M

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Fwd: Re: Bitcoin... Destroying the planet
by g2s 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

Common internet troll. To the junkfile with you bye Rr null

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How good random number generator is the human brain at conscious level?
by Georgi Guninski 16 Dec '17

16 Dec '17

How good random number generator is the human brain at conscious level? Searching the web returns forum speculations that it is bad PRNG and some paywalled medical articles claiming otherwise. "Hardware" stuff like neurons firing or muscles moving doesn't count.

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[WAR] "There is no [USA] Deep State. There’s a Dweeb State."
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

It's solid gold hits, ladies and gentlemen (alright, alright, gender queer Zio hipster avocado smashing trilennials OMFG there's a lot of acronyms). Seriously, the comedy does not get better - why? Because this is real life - this shit's actually going down. America is raising its prestige and global power, lifting the dignity of Israel and disuniting the Muslim world (<sarcasm alert>). >From a delicious Turkey Sandwich: ** Turkey Switches to Full Defiance of US, Continues Putin Courtship https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by M. K. Bhadrakumar on Fri, Dec 15, 2017 On Monday, US National Security Advisor HR McMaster added to tensions in the Middle East when he condemned Turkey and Qatar as prime sponsors of extremist Islamist ideology. He tore into the Turkish leadership, saying the country’s growing problems with the West are largely due to the rise of the Justice and Development Party in Ankara. A few days ago, McMaster had described China and Russia as “revisionist powers” encroaching on US allies and undermining the international order, and castigated Iran and North Korea as outlaw regimes that “support terror and are seeking weapons of mass destruction.” To “OMG, I keep saying OMG” "men's men" and "women's women" FBI agents doing a “non-partisan” infestigation: ** FBI Agents 'Talking Like 13 Yr-Old Girls' - Russia-Gate Exposes a Low-Testosterone Nation https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Chateau Heartiste on Fri, Dec 15, 2017 One of the lead investigators for both the credible Hillary Clinton email scandal and the manufactured Russia-Trump collusion Fake Story, Peter Strzok, is a 13 year old girl, judging by his texts with his mistress, Lisa Page. Strzok – Omg. You listening to npr? Apparently Melania’s speech had passages lifted from Michelle Obama’s…Unbelievable Page – NO WAY! Page – God, it’s just a two-bit organization. I do so hope his disorganization comes to bite him hard in November. Strzok – It HAS to, right? Right?!? Panicked Read more » (https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413…) https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… Back to table of content (#top) It's hard to conclude that american's really are anything other than “interesting” “special” people: ** Putin Re US Korea Policy: 'Honestly - Weird, Zero Common Sense - Americans Are 'Interesting' People' https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413… ------------------------------------------------------------ by Mark Boden on Fri, Dec 15, 2017 Another choice moment from yesterday's marathon press conference. Again good footage of the packed hall of journos waving signs hoping that Putin will answer their questions. Just as well big brother USA is gonna protect Israel from legless Palestinians: http://russia-insider.com/en/us-occupation-turned-afghanistan-paradisefor-c… The Taliban were cracking down hard on child sex abuse that flourishes under American tolerance … Yes, the Taliban ran a harsh and oppressive regime (it would be a wonder if a regime that emerged from 15 years of war was a liberal one). But the American regime that replaced it somehow managed to be so cowardly and disgusting that it can not claim the moral high ground even over the medieval Taliban. Otherwise Hitler might once again take over the world: ** Putin Tells a Great Joke to Explain Why He Won't Skimp on Russia's Military https://russia-insider.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=fa2faf7034c3c3c413…

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Bitcoin theft and the future of cryptocurrencies
by Georgi Guninski 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

If your bitcoin wallet is compromised, all your bitcoins are gone forever. With a credit card, you have some chance of only minor damage. If your computer is owned, your wallet is at risk. This appears major problem for the widespread adoption of bitcoin IMHO. Fixing it appears to contradict decentralization, which opens another can of "worms". Potential approach is to use "trusted wallet proxy", but this may not work in practice. Are these concerns taken seriously? Any technical attempts at mitigating cryptocurrency theft?

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Bitcoin's secretive creator could become the world's first trillionaire
by Georgi Guninski 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

Any robots amongst the top billionaires? ;) http://mashable.com/2017/12/12/bitcoin-satoshi-trillionaire/ | But if Nakamoto is a single person, they're currently the 52nd richest | person in the world when measured against Forbes' list of billionaires. | And judging by the way Bitcoin's price has exploded, they might soon sit | on top of that list, potentially as the world's first trillionaire.

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[RUS] [BREXIT] Facebook finds Russia spent 97 cents on ads to influence Brexit vote
by Zenaan Harkness 15 Dec '17

15 Dec '17

Totally straight face on this one - Facebooks official results as filed, into it's Russian Brexit-meddling advertisements investigation. This one is now an absolute fact - and the total advertising figure spent by "Russia" to influence Brexit may yet rise - from the $0.97 USD (73 British pence) that Facebook has determined come from Russian Internet influencer sources - since Google and Twitter have now been ordered to conduct a similar investigation. There's a very good chance that this 73p, will rise by a good 300 to 500 %, all the way to possibly 5 British pounds. At least a lot of human effort is being wisely spent to crack this Russian Spying and Election Meddling escapade - sooner or later, those dang Russkies are going to pay for all this meddling - you just wait for the Google and Twitter results ¡‼¡‼ ** Facebook finds Russia spent 97 cents on ads to influence Brexit vote http://russiafeed.com/facebook-finds-russia-spent-97-cents-ads-influence-br… ------------------------------------------------------------ Of course this could never be the true reason: ** Russia makes a convenient enemy to blame for the West’s failures http://russiafeed.com/russia-makes-convenient-enemy-blame-wests-failures/ ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Canadian govt approves selling machine guns to Ukraine, report blames Russia for war http://russiafeed.com/canadian-govt-approves-selling-machine-guns-ukraine-r… ------------------------------------------------------------ ** Russian physicists develop new theory on what happens inside black holes http://russiafeed.com/russian-physicists-develop-new-theory-on-what-happens… ------------------------------------------------------------

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