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Governance vs Decentralised Systems, Gold, Cash, Bitcoin
by grarpamp 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtwaW79Fj7c Governance problems which have allowed skeptics in the media to latch on to the failures of decentralised systems. Decentralisation isn't a Boolean, it's a range. Is it much more decentralised than anything we've built before, including its governance? Yes. You will not notice that developers and miners really don't have control to effect change until something goes wrong, until there's a highly contentious issue. They may want to offer a straightforward, direct, and simple solution, but the system won't let them do that. Lead developers can make limited decisions about what they include in the code, but with blockchains you can either have opinions or continue to make money; if your opinions get too strong, you stop making money. Governance in these systems is tricky because by making those explicit trade-offs, we get liberty. If you want to have quick / simple / easy solutions, you will elect a dictator. The trains may run on time, but the destination might be a death camp, an efficient operation for killing people. Democracy is incredibly inefficient, but we practice it anyway because we appreciate the trade-offs that it gives us: self-expression; self-determination; freedom of association, of religion, of consciousness. Governance in network-centric systems are open to permissionless access and innovation, systems which exhibit a very high degree of autonomy and censorship resistance. The price we pay is that our debates are loud, messy, and sometimes don't end, because there's no centralised authority to filter everyone's opinions; that's how corporations and governments run. We've tried that, and if we want that kind of money, we have that kind of money. The bottom line is that this not an accident, it's an explicit trade-off: efficiency is the price we pay to buy liberty. I will pay that price because I can apply engineering optimisation to efficiency; Bitcoin and Ethereum were the first times I could apply engineering optimisation to liberty. Currency Wars, Bitcoin Neutrality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0o_Mg5hY4g Shorter Version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diw-5vWVW5o India https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J_RVI0ZdRE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLNZ_ydSqnM No Gold, No Wedding https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUr2E4dfs0Y https://financial-risk-solutions.thomsonreuters.info/GFMS https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/377d4e994bb540b286d7ccf30b81bece_2… https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/377d4e994bb540b286d7ccf30b81bece_2… https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/377d4e994bb540b286d7ccf30b81bece_2… https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/377d4e994bb540b286d7ccf30b81bece_2… https://trmcs-documents.s3.amazonaws.com/ec6fa1ac9669b3b012c8275107819088_2… Bitcoin https://data.bitcoinity.org/markets/volume/30d https://coinmarketcap.com/

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US Trump Budget: Kills Science, Plumps Military/DHS, Sinks US Prospects Further
by MAGA 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

> John Newman jnn at synfin.org > Fri Mar 17 04:41:17 PDT 2017 > > cohort of nazis. Das rite, the democrats dindunuffin ! > fantasies / fantasists Expand your vocabulary, fam. > "King Trump" It's 'God Emperor Trump', fucker. Pics related. > playing 4d chess He's on to 88D now; Just say no ! > Fuck the USA. Yes, it is well known that most living in Washington D.C. hate America and everyone in it. What is your point ?

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Facebook sends team to Pakistan to assist govt. with capital punishment for blasphemy
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

The almighty corporation Facebook, "doing no evil" just like Google, the NSA and the CIA. What a won-der-ful world! Oh that's right, Pakistan "will seek the extradition of any suspects living overseas." I'm sure Facebook can help with that, too... ‘What is the Right Punishment For Blasphemy?’ asks Muslim-focused BBC Radio Network http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/03/17/right-punishment-blasphemy-asks-mu…

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actual "Snowflake Test" for all potential employees: Kyle S. Reyes, CEO of The Silent Partner Marketing
by Zenaan Harkness 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

I can't speak for this CEO nor his company, but it sounds like a fine place to work. Self-selecting candidates self-excluding themselves on a tear for such a "shameful" test - now --that's-- an effective filter :) Reyes has previously published “An open letter to college crybabies from a CEO,” +1 CEO Makes Potential Employees Take a ‘Snowflake Test’ Before Hiring http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2017/03/17/ceo-makes-potential-employees-take…

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US Trump Budget: Kills Science, Plumps Military/DHS, Sinks US Prospects Further
by grarpamp 18 Mar '17

18 Mar '17

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/politics/trump-presidential-budget-… The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has released a budget "blueprint" which outlines substantial cuts in both basic research and applied technology funding. The proposal includes a whopping 18% reduction in National Institutes of Health medical research. NIH does get a new $500 million fund to track emerging infectious agents like Zika in the U.S., but loses its funding to monitor those agents overseas. The Department of Energy's research programs also get an 18% cut in research, potentially affecting basic physics research, high energy physics, fusion research, and supercomputing. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA-E) gets the ax, as does the Advanced Technology Vehicle Manufacturing Program, which enabled Tesla to manufacture its Model S sedan. EPA loses all climate research funding, and about half the research funding targeted at human health impacts of pollution. The Energy Star program is eliminated; Superfund funding is drastically reduced. The Chesapeake Bay and Great Lakes cleanup programs are also eliminated, as is all screening of pesticides for endocrine disruption. In the Department of Commerce, Sea Grant is eliminated, along with all coastal zone research funding. Existing weather satellites GOES and JPSS continue funding, but JPSS-3 and -4 appear to be getting the ax. Support for transfer of federally funded research and technology to small and mid-sized manufacturers is eliminated. NASA gets a slight trim, and a new focus on deep space exploration paid for by an elimination of Earth Science programs. You can read more about this "blueprint" in Nature, Science, and the Washington Post, which broke the story. The Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and Agriculture Department took the hardest hits, while the Defense Department, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Veterans Affairs have seen their budgets grow.

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Rojava - Kurdistan - Assyrians - Neo-colonial use of "alien forefathers" conspiracies
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> Zenaan Harkness zen at freedbms.net > Sat Mar 11 02:22:01 PST 2017 > > Relying on senders to break their links for you The archives are for the children. List MVP like you shuud know this. The Referer request header contains the address of the previous web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed."" -Modzilla

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Fwd: [Cryptography] NSA says China's supercomputing advances put US at risk
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James A. Donald <jamesd(a)echeque.com> Date: Fri, Mar 17, 2017 at 3:15 PM Subject: Re: [Cryptography] NSA says China's supercomputing advances put US at risk To: cryptography(a)metzdowd.com On 2017-03-17 21:28, Jerry Leichter wrote: > > But just outright dismissing the whole issue as > "more pandering for a bigger place at the government trough" > just doesn't cut it. 99% of politics is more pandering for a bigger place at the government trough. If you look at any government program up close, it is almost entirely waste and corruption. Sometimes, often, the waste and corruption is inextricably linked to vital government programs that really need to be done, like war, road building, and law enforcement, and it is easy to say that these programs should be done more efficiently (compare the cost of roads built by the private sector for internal use, with roads built by the government) but hard to do actually do them more efficiently. (Though I have long argued that logistics should be in the hands of contractors and subcontractors classified as camp followers and directly employed by the regimental commander and by soldiers, rather than hands of people classified as soldiers but who do no actual fighting, because if the regimental commander could fire and hire logistic support, logistics would be enormously cheaper and better) In other cases, many cases, the program serves no very obvious urgent need, in which case it should not be done by government. If people need supercomputers for floating point type problems, they will build them. Indeed, they already are building them. What is a GPU? Answer: A GPU is a supercomputer that solves a kind of problem very similar to those that government supercomputers are supposed to solve at about one ten millionth the cost. _______________________________________________ The cryptography mailing list cryptography(a)metzdowd.com http://www.metzdowd.com/mailman/listinfo/cryptography

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Ethereum: Now Owned by The Alliance
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

> Darrell Duane, DC Blockchain darrell at bitcoindc.com > Fri Mar 17 07:42:07 PDT 2017 > > what you want [Blockchains] to do? He want to honeypot people into prison or execution for conspiring to commit murder, using the public record as evidence; blockchain = kill list. The cypherpunks list, being mostly legal and letter heads, support your killer currency, of course.

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God Emperor
by MAGA 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

Pics related.

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Ethereum: Now Owned by The Alliance
by grarpamp 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

http://entethalliance.org/

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