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Leaked draft NASA/NOAA US climate change report
by grarpamp 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/894858959110254592 https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3914641/Draft-of-the-Climate-Sci…

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Cryptocurrency: Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says 20s Will See an Anoncoin Go Mainstream
by grarpamp 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

https://blog.coinbase.com/what-will-happen-to-cryptocurrency-in-the-2020s-d… It is well known from cypherpunk, and as fungibility needs natural defense to silly inspection censor theft and permission regimes, and from and for economic viability, and to developing faith needed for any money candidate to succeed... that coin privacy must be incorporated by default in the base layer. People say Gold and Cash are King for many reasons, privacy is one of them. It's unfortunate to have taken 10+ years for the non-OG crowd to begin to realize that they wasted their time shilling accepting and not speaking out against govcorp anti coin privacy themes and measures that in the end do nothing but destroy their own hodl and use case value. Some are now wising up and beginning to speak out, and a much larger group of voices for privacy they will be. > $200k Long term steady state adoption levels will be higher than that.

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Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says 20s Will See an Anoncoin Go Mainstream
by jim bell 06 Jan '20

06 Jan '20

https://cointelegraph.com/news/coinbase-ceo-brian-armstrong-says-20s-will-s…

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Music: Beyond Cops Parody
by grarpamp 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

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There is No Point to Beautiful Women
by Zigga da Bigga Trigga N.gga 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

Truth from Kek.. There is No Point to Beautiful Women http://dstormer6em3i4km.onion/there-is-no-point-to-beautiful-women/ Seriously, that headline is just -designed- to not trigger anyone - I'm sure others could do SO much better... But if you seek an energetic cleansing, and grounded reasons for sanity, well, you know you love it :D

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Assassination Politics AP
by grarpamp 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

> limited funds The first number of successful AP influences (proving runs) might be performed via AP boards that allow users to specify runoff of their donations, but that do not show that computation to potential predictors. Such that the influence funds shown as available to predictors might put every target of influence at the same rate, or at least raise the apparent reward for all targets across the board on average given the variety of runoff donations expected. This might give the initial handful of proving predictors equal incentive to prove the system. ie: Whereas a pool of willing predictors might not be in regional proximity to the hot targets, this could also serve to level that out, if again, helpful for the proving case. Similar to leveling soft and hard targets into easier proofs. On the other hand, such runoff and or levelling systems may be seen as artificial market regulations that should not be implemented.

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Wccftech: Intel Releases the Horse Ridge Chip for Quantum Computing!
by jim bell 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

Wccftech: Intel Releases the Horse Ridge Chip for Quantum Computing!. https://wccftech.com/intel-releases-the-horse-ridge-chip-for-quantum-comput… Jim Bell's comment:. Things look to be getting quite real, here.

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Sapiens Deux: More Guns Germs and Steel (Books)
by grarpamp 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

Sapiens and Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari infohash:60CBFD06E31E5F17F60F9BE593765A2690656786 Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond infohash:664BAFDF2B5358CCC993EB6DAB2F61E11090FEBE

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Re: [tor-relays] Exit Concentration vs Bulk filters?
by grarpamp 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

> So what can we do to achieve the ideal distributed network? > Throttle all (nodes) to the slowest... to get the best diversity? > We need all (nodes), whether high or small capacity. Don't we? Tor is a form of gravity well. If the cloud is not saturated, adding more nodes increases odds of traffic analysis. Among other things, tor's utilization falloff curve should probably not give many users and use cases much comfy feels. Tor's design doesn't provide a way to distributively utilize excess nodes safely, it cannot, so it tries to game and manage that as best it can. Such global throttle could help, but access to throughput will disappear, and it's still subject to same class of analysis. Tor's design can't really do much here while still being called tor. Look elsewhere for other designs.

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Feeling a draft yet?
by Razer 05 Jan '20

05 Jan '20

In the 60s we'd mail in change of address cards in massive amounts to fuck them. They had big stacks of them at the post office, pre-stamped, and you were reuired to report any change of address IMMEDIATELY. We changed addresses ... ALOT. Unfortunately that's no longer operational, like the selective service is, so this MIGHT be a good time to pass on your bestest hacking techniques to your antiwar activist friends. It appears there's already action on that front. "'Business as usual': Selective Service System clarifies draft process amid escalation in Iran tensions The Selective Service System, which maintains a list of potential recruits in the event of a military draft, clarified the process in a Friday Twitter post following increased tensions between the United States and Iran. The killing of top Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in a Thursday airstrike ordered by President Donald Trump sparked concerns about a broader military conflict with Iran and what appeared to be online fears about the return of the draft. "The Selective Service System is conducting business as usual. In the event that a national emergency necessitates a draft, Congress and the President would need to pass official legislation to authorize a draft," the Selective Service System wrote. The Service later wrote that its website was experiencing "high traffic volumes" that disrupted website functions because of "the spread of misinformation." The Service, however, did not specify what the misinformation was or what exactly caused the website crash. The Service's website was still down Saturday morning. The killing of Soleimani was the latest action in long-simmering tensions between the United States and Iran, including the United States' withdrawal from an accord limiting Iran's nuclear program and the reimposing of sanctions on the country. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Friday morning on CNN that the airstrike on Soleimani's convoy had come in response to an "imminent attack." Iran has vowed "harsh retaliation" for those responsible for Soleimani's killing, and the country's ambassador to the United Nations said Saturday, "the response for a military action is military action." The last draft ended after the Vietnam War as the U.S. military transitioned to become an all-volunteer service. Currently, all male U.S. residents between the ages of 18 and 25 must register with the Selective Service, though registration with the Selective Service does not necessarily mean all registrants will be drafted. Women cannot be drafted as current legislation governing the Selective Service only refers to "male persons," so the drafting of women would require new legislation, the Selective Service says. If troops are mobilized, "A lottery drawing would be conducted to determine the order in which men would be called, and induction orders would be issued, in lottery number order, by means of the U.S. Postal Service," a Selective Service history explains." https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/01/04/draft-agency-select…

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