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September 2019

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Total Lack of Self-Awareness
by Ryan Carboni 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

I think one of the most intelligence tests is probably the mirror test, because everyone passes it so handily. I am fairly certain the body of US constitutional law focuses on balancing the harm to the individual to what must necessarily be done. Literal McCarthyism was fairly intrusive, public condemnations followed by employers refusing to hire. It would be more intrusive to elaborately ensure a person cannot achieve employment, while silently making sure the person cannot contest any accusation against him. It would be totally insane if the reigning platform monopolies (like say, Stackexchange) would silent brag about your current condition with say FBI Cybersecurity recruitment ads or (for other more social media platforms) to spoof communications. It would be completely stupid if these people work for the government, are trying to fight foreign influence campaigns to “attack legitimacy in our institutions”, by engaging in actions which would ruin not only the standing of these monopolies, but of the government itself, if made public. Sent from ProtonMail Mobile

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Re: [tor-talk] PaperDump: Mirai, Tor, Darknet, TLA, I2P Censorship, PETs in Sidechains, and more
by grarpamp 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

On 8/28/19, Florentin Rochet <florentin.rochet(a)uclouvain.be> LAZILY TOP POSTED AND BLOCK QUOTED: > This list is mixing good papers with several dubious ones. Failed to denote which, and why in detail such labels may or may not apply to them. > I find important to mention that it would be better looking here instead > for non-expert readers: https://www.freehaven.net/anonbib/ to find > quality peer-reviewed works, and keep the ones that intersect both lists > for now. Such intersection (logical AND) will of course yield only those papers approved and posted there by TPO / principals... any entity doing such self curation is prone to variety of selection biases. And peer review is somewhat often an ivory tower circle jerk among an exclusive peer group... equally often any supposed reviewers are not denoted anywhere. Novel papers are surely free as any to come from anywhere with zero association, consultation, editorial priviledge, consideration, etc given. If you really want to know what is good vs marginal vs rubbish, read and validate them yourselves, consult independants, study the knowledge areas, actually discuss them in detail in whatever communities you wish, including as desired in those that are their subject, try writing your own papers, etc.

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