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Re: California Penal Code 12355 - importance of reputation in fully decentralized networks
by coderman 23 Dec '19

23 Dec '19

‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Saturday, December 21, 2019 9:29 PM, Punk-Stasi 2.0 <punks(a)tfwno.gf> wrote: > ... If you lend $10 to guy and he doesn't pay back then you don't lend him anymore. Furthermore, it only cost you $10 to learn that the guy isn't trustable. way back when, i wrote a decentralized resource discovery protocol. key to this design was the concept of reputation among peers, and peer discovery weighted by reputation. providing communication was a lightweight UDP protocol that could support tens of thousands of concurrent connections with minimal memory overhead and a single UDP socket. by building peer reputation directly among a very large peer group, you developed a deep basis for ranking peers useful to you in the past, and likely to be useful in the future. likewise, the useful peers of my useful peers are likely to be useful to me, and thus the recommendation engine proceeds... rich reputation in decentralized networks is still a poorly explored space. this should change! :) best regards,

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Re: NYT: Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For
by Ryan Carboni 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

The pinnacle of Jeffersonian democracy is when every man aspires to commit treason. His Empire of Liberty idea was not so great. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

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NYT: Total Surveillance Is Not What America Signed Up For
by John Young 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/21/opinion/location-data-privac… Grim, omits NYT's and journalism's large benefits of smart devices spying by advertisers. And avoids spying corps generous support of NGOs and political office holders. Doesn't touch smart cities, kiosks, cryptographers, and fora like cypherpunks. Kinda down-dumbing blaming. So roll outs galore of improved privacy protection apps, gadgets, TED talks, carefully redacted/hobbled to appear trustworthy.

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John McAfee 2020 Presidential Campaign
by grarpamp 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

You can follow much of his ongoing dialogue at links below... https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=john+mcafee&sp=CAI%253D https://twitter.com/officialmcafee https://twitter.com/theemrsmcafee https://mcafee2020.com/ https://old.reddit.com/user/McAfee2020Official with Larry Sharpe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmMAE9nx-EY Get your soul back https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=966SHabMJg4 Go John! Stay healthy and in the game, the world needs you and many others! Related links... DEX Privacy CryptoIntroDocs VoluntaryPodcast https://blocknet.co/block-dx/ https://z.cash/ https://bitcoin.com/ search: cryptocurrency documentary https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8ewiXhsWfnBENJQLCIxRIQ among more...

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GovUK Approves Itself for MI5 to Murder Torture Kidnap... Intel Dump
by grarpamp 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

https://www.bloombergquint.com/onweb/licensed-to-kill-court-rules-mi5-can-m… https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/20/investigatory_powers_tribunal/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/12/20/mi5-spies-can-kill-without-fear… https://www.ipt-uk.com/docs/Judgment-IPT-17-86.zip https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/us/politics/cia-torture-drawings.html https://www.africanexponent.com/post/10487-france-has-always-carried-evil-i… https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/news/judge-dismisses-wikimedia-case-agai… https://reason.com/2019/09/20/court-rules-fresno-police-accused-of-stealing… https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/18/jeffrey-epsteins-first-suicide-attempt-vide… https://sputniknews.com/military/201912211077704888-us-corps-marines-psycho… https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/ice-and-cbp-are-secretly-track… https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/31/aclu-sues-fbi-doj-over… https://www.wraltechwire.com/2019/09/18/report-75-countries-use-artificial-… https://thegrayzone.com/2019/06/24/new-york-times-media-us-government-appro… https://metro.co.uk/2019/03/28/mysterious-undocumented-technology-hidden-in…

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The Georgia Guidestones is a statement that should not go unquestioned
by Ryan Carboni 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

The Georgia Guidestones is a statement that should not go unquestioned. Unless of course they meant it ironically. You know, a few billionaires hear about a conspiracy theory and decide to make the conspiracy real with a monument, carefully crafted and proportioned. The world population stands at over seven billion. A reduction to half a billion cannot be by the consent of the governed. Bold statements regarding the futures of others cannot go unquestioned within a free society.

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People who refuse accountability are pushovers
by Ryan Carboni 22 Dec '19

22 Dec '19

People who refuse accountability are pushovers. I'm waiting for them to politely ask for the problem to go away. Maybe 99% of their wealth? I'm in a very bad mood at the moment. But that's not necessary.

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New Atlas: New ultrasound tech can make virtually any surface touch-sensitive
by jim bell 21 Dec '19

21 Dec '19

New Atlas: New ultrasound tech can make virtually any surface touch-sensitive. https://newatlas.com/mobile-technology/ultrasound-touch-sensitive-surfaces/ Programmable touch sensitivity.

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Quantum-proof encryption?
by jim bell 21 Dec '19

21 Dec '19

Scientists develop security system that can never be hacked https://mol.im/a/7816429 via http://dailym.ai/android

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Cryptocurrency: War on Cash, Privacy Coins to be Deployed
by grarpamp 21 Dec '19

21 Dec '19

Cash War going down In Australia and your own shitholes... https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/edmf1y/cash_ban_hearings_politici… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEESomYYTdU Note the beastbadges and lapel pins. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/edgmgz/when_coinjoin_day/ https://twitter.com/bittlecat/status/1207621591820951552 https://www.usdebtclock.org/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjodLvD23kI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6Obc_cJba4 Not really a true privacy coin though.

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