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[MINISTRY] France holds a line against The Ministry
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Dec '17

18 Dec '17

Perhaps France has some liberté cojones left in them after all … the King of bling notwithstanding :) Today "terrorist" "fascism" and "alt-right" are the catch cries of those who would censor the world. http://theduran.com/french-constitutional-court-stands-up-for-free-speech/ French Constitutional Court stands up for free speech in striking down “anti-terrorist” law French judges have made it clear that watching disagreeable content does not constitute a conspiracy to commit a violent act.

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Re: [Cryptography] High volume thermal entropy from an iPhone
by grarpamp 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

Problem with talk in thread about hardware is that it's incredibly hard to impossible to build and run trusted systems on top of untrusted HW. Only fools keep trying to spin their way around fundamental problem... Essentially all HW in production today is in fact completely untrustable. One has not even a single proof about what truly is happening under the hood. Not even the apparent result of 2 to a simple query of 1 + 1 can be trusted because one cannot exhaust all conditions under which it may be asked. That approach is a mental failure. Time again the far better general solutions of OpenFabs , OpenHW , OpenSW are plainly presented by various people, in conference talks, etc. But who is doing the revolutionary work needed to actually fund / get such HW methodologies, production, and economies off the ground in a big way... <crickets>. All it takes is a few large donors to cold boot an OpenFab capable of printing thus OpenHW. Till then you get what you demanded and asked for by silent omission... untrustable garbage HW. Cryptocurrency is one step to fix that in monetary. Where is the steps to fix that in HW... the revolution is monetarily achievable, and long past due.

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How does major malware outbreaks affect antivirus share price?
by Georgi Guninski 17 Dec '17

17 Dec '17

How does major malware outbreaks affect antivirus share price? Define "major" as reported in popular media like national TV. My wild guess is major outbreaks systematically increase the share price by non-trivial amount no matter if the promised protection is real or not.

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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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