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Re: 4 Billion years of climate change
by Zenaan Harkness 10 May '19

10 May '19

We're having some just lovely climate change this morning - a really warm mid-autumn day, the birds taking dives in the bird bath and dappled sun rays rocking too and fro through the oak tree. Damn I love climate change :D Zen On Fri, May 10, 2019 at 08:05:51AM +1000, Gil May wrote: > 4 Billion years of climate change > > Dear Politicians, as you appear to have missed many important lessons at > school, we would like to let you know the earth has had an eve- changing > climate for billions of years, it is not anything new and within the normal > range. Once north Africa and central Australia had forests, there were ice > ages and drought were in 1878 over 50 million people died of starvation — > more than double Australia’s population died. In 1991 Mnt Pinatubo erupted > for a year spewing out more greenhouse gasses than man has ever made. In > 1915 the Murray River dried up, never happened since: Explorer, Charles > Sturt’s Records show in 1828 it was a blistering 53.9 °C. The death toll > reached 437 people in the eastern states, in Bourke the heat approached > 120°F (48.9°C) on three days. The Mayan civilization collapsed due to many > decades of drought proven by tree growth rings. > > They were REAL climate changes long before modern induztrialisation and the > puppy-brains were born. How did you handle that bit of historical reality, > chuck-a-wobbly, weep and wail, go into denial: Or smile as you already knew > world history—that many have never learnt and don’t want to.

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No one is obligated to participate in the investigation against me
by Ryan Carboni 09 May '19

09 May '19

It is to my understanding that if I were to ask for technical advice on a web forum under a different username, people would be made aware of my identity by government investigators monitoring me. Which is not ordinarily a problem, but considering I was framed about a decade ago, it is. I ask everyone, politely, to not participate. If the investigation was valid, the government would be doing things that pass the smell test. It doesn’t make sense for the government to be doing this for so long, and the government is behaving as if they are hiding something. There is the question of what the government does when I go interact with an online community of people who wouldn’t know about me. The solution to that is simple, for Steam, the US government simply pretends to be the person on the other side of the screen. The government right now is trying parallel construct an entire investigation and is failing because I keep associating one investigation with the other. This is ludicrous, I don’t know how anyone can say the government is engaging in legal conduct with a straight face when the government’s behavior is absolutely unnecessary and seems to hinder whatever their self-stated objectives are.

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Cryptocurrency: Heists and Safu
by grarpamp 08 May '19

08 May '19

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cyber+heists https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DelF6zEHXpE When further decentralized and distributed out across billions of phones, friends and family M-out-of-N multisig custody, with true DEX for nonlocal capacity and needs... cryptocurrency has such no large central stash targets. See also https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cryptocurrency+vs+banks

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CIA website as hidden service
by coderman 07 May '19

07 May '19

http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion/index… CIA’s Latest Layer: An Onion Site 7 May 2019 --------------------------------------------------------------- [CIA Over Tor] Secure, anonymous, untraceable—traits ever-present in CIA’s intelligence collection mission—and the same is true for our onion site, which is now available at: ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion over the Tor network. “Our global mission demands that individuals can access us securely from anywhere. Creating an onion site is just one of many ways we’re going where people are,” said Brittany Bramell, CIA’s Director of Public Affairs. Everything on CIA.gov, from The World Factbook to reporting information to applying for a job, is available on our onion site. For instructions on downloading the Tor browser, check out this [link](http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion/news-information/featured-story-archive/2019-featured-story-archive/latest-layer-an-onion-site.html). Our onion site is one of several ways individuals can contact CIA. For more details, refer to the [Report Information](http://ciadotgov4sjwlzihbbgxnqg3xiyrg7so2r2o3lt5wz5ypk4sxyjstad.onion/contact-cia/report-information.html) tab on either our website or onion site.

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Industrial society and its government
by Punk 06 May '19

06 May '19

"...There will therefore be no longer any privileged class, but there will be a government, and, note this well, an extremely complex government, which will not content itself with governing and administering the masses politically, as all governments do to-day, but which will also administer them economically, concentrating in its own hands the production and the just division of wealth, the cultivation of land, the establishment and development of factories, the organisation and direction of commerce, finally the application of capital to production by the only banker, the State. All that will demand an immense knowledge and many "heads overflowing with brains" in this government. It will be the reign of scientific intelligence, the most aristocratic, despotic, arrogant and contemptuous of all regimes. There will be a new class, a new hierarchy of real and pretended scientists and scholars, and the world will be divided into a minority ruling in the name of knowledge and an immense ignorant majority. And then, woe betide the mass of ignorant ones!" https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/bakunin/works/mf-state/index.htm ---- OK, so that's good old Bakunin commenting on the piece of jew fascist shit known as karl marx. But the comment apply just as well to the American Free Democratic Oligarchy that rules the planet today.

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Express.co.uk: Yellowstone volcano: How USGS tracks ground DEFORMATION with millimetre precision
by jim bell 06 May '19

06 May '19

Express.co.uk: Yellowstone volcano: How USGS tracks ground DEFORMATION with millimetre precision. https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1123368/Yellowstone-volcano-USGS-gro…

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temporary fix for disabled Firefox extensions
by Mirimir 06 May '19

06 May '19

| All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973 See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19823928 for workarounds in MacOS and Linux. I posted to tor-talk, but my account may be blocked. So maybe someone could post if it doesn't show up soon.

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Cryptocurrency: The Blockchain and Us (Documentary)
by grarpamp 05 May '19

05 May '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iF73cybTBs Published on Apr 4, 2017 A film by Manuel Stagars http://www.blockchain-documentary.com For more interviews about the brave new world of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies, see Manuel's podcast: http://www.theblockchainandus.com. In 2008, Satoshi Nakamoto invented bitcoin and the blockchain. For the first time in history, his invention made it possible to send money around the globe without banks, governments or any other intermediaries. The concept of the blockchain isn’t very intuitive. But still, many people believe it is a game changer. Economist and filmmaker Manuel Stagars portrays this exciting technology in interviews with software developers, cryptologists, researchers, entrepreneurs, consultants, VCs, authors, politicians, and futurists from the United States, Canada, Switzerland, the UK, and Australia. The Blockchain and Us is no explainer video of the technology. It gives a view on the topic, makes it accessible and starts a conversation about its potential wider implications in a non-technical way. The film deliberately poses more questions than it answers. For a deep dive, see all full-length interviews from the film here: http://www.blockchain-documentary.com... Credits: Conversations with (in alphabetical order) David Birch Director of Innovation, Consult Hyperion Guildford, UK Perianne Boring Founder & President, Chamber of Digital Commerce Washington, USA Christian Decker Core Tech Engineer, Blockstream Zurich, Switzerland Taylor Gerring Co-Founder, Ethereum Zug, Switzerland Marco Carlo Grossi Director Audit & Risk Advisory, Deloitte Switzerland Zurich, Switzerland Caitlin Long Chairman of the Board & President at Symbiont.io New York, USA R. Jesse McWaters Financial Innovation Lead, World Economic Forum New York, USA Paul Meeusen Head Finance and Treasury Services, Swiss Re Zurich, Switzerland Dolfi Müller Mayor of the City of Zug Zug, Switzerland Matthew Roszak Co-Founder & Chairman, Bloq Chicago, USA Guido Rudolphi Founder, Cryptocash Uster, Switzerland Jan Seffinga Partner, Deloitte Switzerland Zurich, Switzerland Elizabeth Stark Co-Founder & CEO, Lightning San Francisco, USA Alex Tapscott Founder & CEO, Northwest Passage Ventures Co-Author "Blockchain Revolution" Toronto, Canada Lars Thomsen Chief Futurist & Founder, Future Matters Zurich, Switzerland Eric Van der Kleij Founder Adeptra, London Tech City, Level39. Adviser UK Govt, Kickstart Accelerator London, UK Roger Wattenhofer Professor, Distributed Computing Group, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich, Switzerland Rik Willard Founder & Managing Director, Agentic Group New York, USA Steve Wilson Digital Identity Innovator & Analyst Sydney, Australia Additional conversations and special thanks (in alphabetical order): Iris Belle, Ben Bledsoe, Thomas Bromehead, Richard Cheng, Dario Duran, Marie Farrar Knowles, Olga Feldmeier, Sony Fricker, Daniel Gasteiger, Daniel Grassinger, Johs. Hoehener, Richard Kastelein, Leanne Kemp, Thomas Kern, Francine Klopfenstein, Veronica Lange, Claire LaRocca, Adriano B. Lucatelli, Christian Mäder, Ruedi Maeder, Luzius Meisser, Michael Monceaux, Martin Müller, Mia Mutic, Ian Petchenik, Nathaniel Popper, Ramon Quesada, Kamesh Raghavendra, Brian Rogers, Jouko Salonen, Vadim Shamigulov, Raffaela Stelzer, Don Tapscott, Elizabeth Wesson Many thanks to all conversation partners and all others who made this film possible Additional thanks (in alphabetical order): Agentic Group, Blockchain News, Blockstream, Bloq, Chamber of Digital Commerce, Constellation Research, Consult Hyperion, Cryptocash, Deloitte Switzerland, Ethereum Foundation, Everledger, Flightradar24, Future Matters, ISO-20022.ch, Lightning, Lockstep Consulting, Municipality of Zug, nexussquared, Northwest Passage Ventures, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Swiss Re, Symbiont, World Economic Forum (WEF), Zurich Airport Recording of live air traffic courtesy of Flightradar24 Chinese subtitles: Richard Cheng Dutch subtitles: Rein Jonkman French translation: Thomas Bromehead Portuguese subtitles: Caio Rearte Russian subtitles: Vadim Shamigulov, Sergey Sevantsyan Spanish subtitles: Jose Felip Daras and Avalbit.org team Many thanks to all individuals and teams who contributed additional subtitles and translations. Cinematography, Editing, Music, Narration & Sound Design by Manuel Stagars © 2017 Manuel Stagars The goal of this film is to encourage the conversation about the economic and social impacts of blockchain technology. Participate in the comments and subscribe to the channel to stay in the loop. To enable more films like this one, feel free to support my projects at https://www.manuelstagars.com/support Listen to the song in the end credits: https://soundcloud.com/stagars/low-se...

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Cryptocurrency: Drop Gold
by grarpamp 05 May '19

05 May '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BIDcmh_6Es Wall $treet Bae ru innit

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Cryptocurrency: /r/bitcoin Censorship Story by ex-Mod, Changing the World
by grarpamp 05 May '19

05 May '19

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAL3y80PA5I Jason King was in on Bitcoin early on and became a mod of r/bitcoin. He speaks about how the subreddit went from being the best place to hang out for any bitcoin enthusiast to a censored place without any constructive debate. Ways cryptocurrency will change world https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrCcLwpT9Oo

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