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by px43 6y ago
Josiah's videos about demystifying the COVID vaccine all got taken down, then the entire channel got shut down. Super disappointing move by YouTube. It was definitely one of my favorite channels for science education.
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by px43 6y ago
Yes. The difference here is that in 2020, the counting did continue, and Trump was so far behind that there was no mathematical trickery that one could do to fix it, especially because he would have needed to overturn elections in several
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by px43 6y ago
Trump is still claiming he had way more votes and that the election was stolen from him. In the past, the losing candidates had already conceded and congratulated the winner months before. There is a huge difference between making a symbo
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by px43 6y ago
Reading that link.. and no they didn't, they filed objections. It only went to a vote once in 2004, and Barbra Boxer was the only one in the Senate that voted to reject Ohio's electoral vote count, and she's retired now.
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by px43 6y ago
Eh, we'll have software for detecting and correcting criminal intent before the government gets its act together enough to start arresting people preemptively.
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by px43 6y ago
Well observed. If you read carefully you'll see that the article is structured to first talk about progress happening around the world, then how European companies are falling behind in general, and then about which European companies
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by px43 6y ago
The really crazy thing about using ad networks to distribute malware, which I think is very much still unrecognized, is how targeted you can make it. You can, for example, target people over the age of 70 that live in high net worth areas,
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by px43 6y ago
Maybe there's a much more interesting colony of ants nearby and we're just boring?
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by px43 6y ago
So what are the odds of us being able to fire something off to catch up with this thing? I feel like I haven't seen this discussed, but presumably if it's no longer accelerating, it should be relatively easy to locate right? We sh
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by px43 6y ago
First off I recognize and appreciate your username :-) As such, you should know more than anyone how heated the OP_RETURN drama got, and how ANYONE using the BTC chain for anything other than moving money from point A to point B is a comp
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by px43 6y ago
That's just how markets work right? The important thing is that these power networks are getting utilized, and that money can be reinvested in building out more green energy projects. This is a net win for everyone involved.
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by px43 6y ago
Not at all. Also very much true in China. Miners are largely concentrated around the Sichuan area, which is also well known for their massive investments in hydroelectric power.
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by px43 6y ago
Notably, Vitalik was run out on a rail by small blockers (mostly LukeJr) when he was trying to work on smart contracts on BTC back in the day. This is the entire reason he launched Ethereum, and took with him everyone else interested in wor
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by px43 6y ago
It's only economical to mine in areas with significant excess power, mostly around dams, but also wind farms and regions powered by geothermal. If anything, mining subsidizes green energy projects, and drives interest in cheaper and mo
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by px43 6y ago
It'll be interesting to see if the cryptocurrency mining industry will help subsidize this work, since their primary edge is power/performance. During stable price periods, the power/performance of cryptocurrency miners runs
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by px43 6y ago
Is it encrypted? It's really annoying that modern chat apps without end to end encryption are even a thing. This is a solved problem now, several open source, drop in replacements exist to secure messaging. It'll be really sad if
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by px43 6y ago
Wire is pretty popular in my social circles, less so lately, unfortunately. The "always on" encryption is great, and it's always been more stable, and had a more complete feature set than Signal, even at launch. Most importan
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by px43 6y ago
Ah yeah, looks like things might have changed since I got that guidance. That's annoying. Would be nice if they didn't keep changing things around all the time.
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by px43 6y ago
I'm lucky to be doing financially better than most in this world, but I just love spending bitcoins too much, so not retired on a tropical island quite yet.
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by px43 6y ago
Use HTTP, there's absolutely no reason to be using SSH if you're just transferring files around.
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by px43 6y ago
I 100% endorse this method of securely moving files way way way above using things like agent forwarding and throwing keys on servers. It's shocking to me how people overlook HTTP as a tool for passing files around.
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by px43 6y ago
A microcode backdoor capable of reading the existing entropy pool state is going to be a hell of a lot more powerful than a RDRAND backdoor, to the point of making a RDRAND backdoor worthless.
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by px43 6y ago
HTTP is a thing. Yeah, when pushing up files from a client to a server, or pulling down files, SSH makes sense, but for server to server, there's no need to use something with a full control channel for a simple file transfer. As to yo
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by px43 6y ago
> A private key is just a very long password that is stored on disk Absolutely 100% not. You're missing the most important aspect of PKI based authentication, the asymmetry . With symmetric authentication technologies, like passw
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by px43 6y ago
Some omissions IMO: never let people SSH in with a password, and for the love of god, stop leaving private SSH keys on servers. Privat SSH keys should never leave your physical proximity. They should be on your laptop, or desktop, or your y
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by px43 6y ago
I'm not arguing anything, I'm recounting historical events. I don't need to beg for credibility, everything I'm saying is thoroughly documented on Wikipedia and various other sources. Daniel portrays himself as a hero in
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by px43 6y ago
I'm pretty sure I made the first website that sold bitcoins directly to users. It was called "btcnow" and it launched in maybe June or July of 2011. I pretty much glued a google checkout widget to a Bitcoin dispenser, but peo
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by px43 6y ago
It's pretty easy to tell people about a fire in the building without trying to make money in the process. That's what "mongering" means. Fearmongering means trying to make money by selling fear.
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by px43 6y ago
> How do we know this is true if the data was burned? Sadly we don't, and likely never will. Assange mentioned the laptop data and hinted at what it might contain in an interview. We do definitely know that a large cache of data got

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