Another example (written tonight at midnight) of my computer science capabilities: https://github.com/keean/zenscript/issues/17#issuecomment-281376943I am slightly alert tonight after eating two beef hamburgers at 4pm and a beef soup at 8pm (hungry again now at midnight). So maybe shifting my dosage to evenings will have me more alert during the day. Seems my alertness is coming at late night, because I am dosing at early morning. The meds seems to be mostly active for about 8 - 12 hours before waning in blood concentration. |
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Smooth,
I tried logging into steemit on a different computer and realized I don't remember my password. I don't even remember making one, and I think I joined before the login system was changed. Luckily I'm always logged in on my laptop. Any tips before I get locked for good
If you are logged in on your laptop and your browser has stored the password, you can retrieve it and then make a note of it somewhere. (On Firefox, go to Options, then Security, and then click on saved logins) Afair, Steem has multiple private keys for different levels of access. I never store passwords in the browser, yet I am still logged in when I access the steemit.com site. So this indicates to me the (a proxy for the) private key (or access permission) is recorded server side and in a cookie on my computer which indicates to the server that I've logged in from this computer. Note I haven't studied that code, so this is just my reasoned conjecture (as a programmer of such things in the past). In any case, I expect if he tries to move funds, he will be asked to enter the higher-level access private key which he has apparently lost. So sounds like he will need to go through some identification process and be issued new keys? |
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Doing some research on the statistics, it appears that the Isoniazid is as likely a cause of the fatigue, and I must take that for another 19.5 weeks: http://factmed.com/study-ETHAMBUTOL-causing-FATIGUE.phphttp://factmed.com/study-ISONIAZID-causing-FATIGUE.phphttp://www.ehealthme.com/ds/isoniazid/exhaustion,%20fatigue,%20lethargy,%20tiredness,%20weariness/The recommendation is to take it before bedtime to try to sleep through the fatigue: Fatigue Usually due to INH. Take medicine about 2 hours before bedtime
so can sleep through the symptoms.
I hope my TB is not MDR because it requires up to 2 years of injections and very horrible antibiotics at very extreme doses: https://drtbnetwork.org/37-duration-mdr-tb-treatmentAnd diagnosing MDR and confirming negative culture in extra-pulmonary TB and my likely Peritoneal TB can be much more complicated: https://drtbnetwork.org/110-diagnosis-extrapulmonary-mdr-tbMy pulmonary TB was only in left lung and very minimal on my xray, yet my ongoing symptoms over the past years indicate it had disseminated into my gut. The research I did shows a 14.3% incidence of MDR to Isoniazid and Rifampicin in the Philippines in terms of hospital admitted active cases. And for Polyresistance to Ethambutol and Pyrazinamide is roughly 0.5% in the Philippines. The thing is that I was exposed to a lot of filipinos over the years, so it is possible I could have been infected more than once, so then I don't know to what extent the odds of my having a MDR strain that really requires I pursue a MDR treatment regimen. Also I am somewhat confused as I had originally thought that if resistance to Isoniazid and Rifampicin was found but not resistance to Ethambutol and Pyrazinamide, then the four drugs would be prescribed, but apparently I am reading now that instead must do the injections regimen! Ughh. Yuck. So really we have no assurances that I am near the end of this. I might be in for a horrible fight over a couple of years. So I really need to find some way to become productive while under treatment. I also really need to earn enough money to get proper Western quality diagnostics in terms of a CT scan and then samples taken and cultures done, to determine the progress of treatment and whether I have a MDR strain. None of this I can afford. I have no health insurance. A group of guys offered to fund my health care in a return trip to Singapore, but I was so sick in January so I decided to initiate treatment immediately. I thought that it was impossible to culture for drug susceptibility after initiating treatment, but apparently follow up cultures can also help determine treatment progress but I am not confident that culture negative from my lung is a negative for my gut and we have no baseline culture from the gut before initiating treatment. This is complicated now. I feel improved on current treatment regimen other than the fatigue which is preventing me from working, but that doesn't mean I don't have MDR strain and couldn't suffer relapse after finishing the next 19.5 weeks of treatment. I probably need to follow up in Singapore or other Western country. I wasn't totally comfortable with accepting funds from those guys, although I appreciate the offer. I am confused as to what I should do now. But I will probably try switching my dosage from the mornings to evenings and see if that improves my ability to work. |
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when on massive antibiotics taking probiotics can sometimes help with your guts functioning..
Ethambutol is not like a typical antibiotic you have taken. Read up on it. My digestion is functioning very well by now. The anti-TB drugs are very toxic and for example they deplete the body of b vitamins causing neuropathy. So they mess up the energy level and the brain. I take a b complex supplement, but this doesn't entirely counteract the toxic effects. My intellect is still there, but I can't keep it turned on for any length of time. I often lack the energy to get my memory turned on and lose memory of something specific that I can vaguely remember that I know but can't pull out its name from memory. Ditto technological facts I know I know. Even often when I am writing a sentence, I don't have the energy to keep my eyes focused on what I am writing and I lose consciousness of what I am writing (sort of like coming in and out of consciousness or focus sporadically every few seconds). The energy just isn't there to keep up normal function. I need to go lay down and go into dreamland most of the time. Right at this moment, I am charged with a burst of energy because I was just watching a boxing video. But I will energy crash after my adrenalin rush subsides. I should be okay after I stop the meds, hopefully in 24 days after stopping the two most toxic of the 4 drugs. |
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I am doing a little bit of technical work but frankly I have delirium while I am writing: https://github.com/keean/zenscript/issues/17#issuecomment-280900711Three consecutive posts were collectively very funny: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1703300.msg17906350#msg17906350The meds are still making me quite fatigued. 24 more days to go on the 4 antibiotics. I think it is the Ethambutol that is making me so tired, as it is listed on Wikipedia as one of of the common side effects. I feel so fatigued that I can't concentrate well enough to do any sustained mental activity, such as actually loading up a lot of concepts in my head and code around those concepts. I can barely still write a sentence without having typos. This is very frustrating because time is slipping away and my finances will be getting precarious soon. I haven't sold any of the BTC yet (from most recent angel investors who financed my medical trip to Singapore), but will need to this week because the bills have piled up. I am desperately trying to work, but I find I really should just sleep all the time (productivity is very low when trying to work). I've had some bursts of energy but not consistent. I did run 2X today for a total of 3.5 kms and 4 x 80m sprints (I haven't had much energy to run or do any exercise since I started treatment Jan. 21). I can say that my abdominal pain is very muted. I only felt something very, very slight on the sprints not during the 2.5 km run at all. So my body is definitely being cured, but these antibiotics are so exhausting. 24 more days, but I need to work now. After 24 days, I stop the Ethambutol and Pyrazinamide, and continue only the Isonazid and Rifampicin for 18 more weeks. I sure hope the change to the 2 antibiotics regimen in March will give me back my normal energy level. |
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Facts tree hits face of a leftist (dumbass was riding a bicycle in front of a protest march while not looking out for facts): http://blog.jim.com/global-warming/defunding-the-left/Leftist gets up thinks he only ran into a tree and carries on oblivious to the bark (gouges deficiencies) embedded in his face. |
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Spain's fall from a world empire to a third world country is exemplary.
Haha, Spain's fall from world empire to third world country? If Spain is a 3rd world country, what is America? An 8th world country? Spain in the 19th century (especially by the latter half) was not experiencing the Industrial revolution and was falling way behind England (UK). And much of the population worked in menial labor like a 3rd world country. It wasn't until the 1950s that Spain started to advance again (but one can argue they really never did recover, that their corrupt governance has persisted, and it has all been a EU hot capital debt bubble that will soon implode anew). Comparing the grandest cities of Spain (built when it was the world's greatest empire plundering the gold of the colonies) to the an inner city housing slum in the USA is not compares apples-to-apples. Find photos of rural life and squalor in Spain in the 19th century. http://www.localhistories.org/spain.htmlThe loss of Spain's vast colonial empire greatly deprived the country of much wealth and it was soon reduced to one of Europe's poorest and least-developed nations. Over three-quarters of the population were illiterate and there was little industry except textile production in Catalonia. Although Spain possessed the iron and coal needed for industrial development, most was in the north and northeast and difficult to transport across the vast arid plain of the central Iberian Peninsula. Worsening matters were the lack of navigable rivers and a very rudimentary road network. British industrialists taught Spaniards how to extract iron ore while others studied the possibility of constructing a railroad system. Railroad pioneer George Stephenson, after conducting a survey of Spain, commented that "I have not seen enough people of the sort to fill even a single train." By the time a railroad network eventually got built, it merely radiated from Madrid outward and bypassed the major centers of natural resources.
High tariffs also dogged Spanish development, especially grain, of which imports were almost completely barred. The eastern provinces had to pay high costs for domestic cereals transported with the greatest difficulty across the peninsula while cheap Italian grain could have been easily imported from ship. Although Spain had been a major textile exporter in earlier times, the country could no longer compete with British and other producers and by the 19th century, most of its exports consisted of agricultural products. Catalonia was the only part of the country with any significant industry, but Castile remained the political and cultural center, barring major change.
Spain had only Conquistadors, religion, and banana republic culture of aristocracy. So after losing its colonies, it had nothing of value. |
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For there to exist no power vacuum, then the value of mining (I didn't write just minting) must always be much lower than the value of interest even for someone who centralizes control over mining. Which obviously can't be true. Logic fail.
I found that the only way to solve this problem was to make it implausible (nearly impossible) to do the bad things that control over mining can do by incorporating Byzantine fault detection and combine this with unprofitable mining, so only those who have an incentive to maintain the Nash equilibrium actually mine (so that the risk cost of attempting attacks is far too high because it isn't cost-free to try over and over as it is in the nothing-at-stake of PoS[1] and the chance of succeeding is very low due to the Byzantine fault detection). So that in a nutshell is my design solution. The technological challenge is in the details of accomplishing it. Note PoW transfers the security cost to the environment as waste heat, electric utility companies (and to a smaller extent the ASIC hardware and infrastructure providers). My design transfers the security cost as a gain to the investors of the coin, i.e. a form of interest gain. If we assume that in both cases those gains ultimately percolate up to TPTB, then they are equivalent in that respect other than the losses to waste heat in PoW. [1] When PoS doesn't become PoW due to the stake grinding competition. |
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What kind of incentives are you talking about?
Understanding the abstract generative essence is more important than searching for specific failure modes. You'll find those specific failure modes eventually, because the generative essence says you will. Impossible to prevent selling accounts.
It's impossible to prevent that completely but you can make it very risky for the buyer. Every risk becomes a cost and lowers the ROI. You really need to understand economics. http://www.truthcoin.info/blog/pow-cheapest/#agendawhile the former owner will still know the private key (which is unchangeable) and could steal the coins back at will
So your coin becomes centralized via hacking and there is no resilience for the coin to recover from it. (The hackers drain the hacked accounts, so those accounts become permanently unfunded and inactive, so the remaining active minting accounts are centralized.) Also your mechanism does not prevent renting an account whereby the owner proxies the desired activity of the renter. It also doesn't prevent collusion. You can't defeat thermodynamics. There will always be a flaw when you attempt to tell nature that a fungible resource is not fungible. The low entropy of the resource is not obscured from nature. It certainly is possible to create an asset that no one wants to buy and thus there is not point in discussing a design that will have 0 investment and security.
The main idea of my concept is to create an asset (minting account) that people only buy for one specific reason, namely to get interest on their stakes in the underlying currency. For there to exist no power vacuum, then the value of mining (I didn't write just minting) must always be much lower than the value of interest even for someone who centralizes control over mining. Which obviously can't be true. Logic fail. Obviously, my design leverages the concept of fungibility to maximize decentralization (via interests for every minting account owner and the minimum account balance required for minting) and security (via the extensive time needed to buy the majority of accounts whose creation rate is limited).
Obviously I have shown that it does not. |
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Note the edits in red. Afaik, Armstrong has never written it this way. He always writes π x 1000 days = 8.6 years. My math above is more accurate and consistent. |
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Interests are paid on account balance every time a block is built (by anyone), so in that regard it doesn't matter how many accounts you own.
But there are other incentives to owning accounts, and specifically to centralize mining. A power vacuum will always be filled. It is an inviolable fact of thermodynamics. In my unpublished whitepaper, I have cited the research which has explained that economic control over fungible (i.e. low entropy) resources invariably become power-law or exponentially distributed. Try to find an exception in nature. Of course for non-fungible (i.e. high entropy) resources, such economic control over for example female vaginas is not centralized. (But to the extent control over humans is fungible, e.g. via debt, religion/ideology, and mass media, then control is centralized) Now I am giving you too many hints as to how I solved the dilemma in my design. note that existing accounts cannot be sold
Impossible to prevent selling accounts. With that said, would it be rational for a new investor to buy minting accounts with the (sole) aim of selling their child accounts for profit?
It certainly is possible to create an asset that no one wants to buy and thus there is no point in discussing a design that will have 0 investment and security. Sorry you can't defeat thermodynamics. You need top understand why some things remain decentralized and others don't. The key word is obviously fungibility (or more abstractly and generatively the key fundamental is entropy). |
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Real life example: https://youtu.be/9TcMP7n9bhw?t=54Generative Essence: Asia has the youth. The West has infanticide, feminism, multiculturalism, bankrupt pensions, Marxism, and $trillions in unfunded liabilities to its useless population of spoiled brats. The West will continue collapsing through at least 2032.95. Then it may get a deadcat bounce, then collapsing anew until it is third world economy. Spain's fall from a world empire to a third world country is exemplary. It remains to be seen if and how soon the productive cultures that remain in the West can effectively break away from the useless dead weight. Spain was mired for a century in the infighting as it collapsed from within.
In my unpublished whitepaper, I have cited the research which has explained that economic control over fungible resources invariably become power-law or exponentially distributed. Try to find an exception in nature.
Of course for non-fungible (i.e. high entropy) resources, such economic control over for example female vaginas is not centralized. (But to the extent control over humans is fungible, e.g. via debt, religion/ideology, and mass media, then control is centralized)
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Sorry you can't defeat thermodynamics. You need top understand why some things remain decentralized and others don't. The key word is obviously fungibility (or more abstractly and generatively the key fundamental is entropy).
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iamnotback,
if you are working to tie in Armstrongs work with your own - how / does China's lack of knowledge capital (due to export driven / cheap labor economy - from your essay) link up to the rise in Asia after MA's forecast of the Sovereign Debt Bubble bursting (Asia first, then the West). I'm assuming here that China's size will lead Asia? Would be an interesting read.
Please refer to the link to the upthread discussion of Michael Pettis' blogs in my recent comments. China is transitioning from an unbalanced export, fixed capital intensive Industrial Age economy to a service, consumer oriented Knowledge Age economy. The bottom in 2020 of China's downturn, will be the shift over point where China can start growing again. Asia has the youth. The West has infanticide, feminism, multiculturalism, bankrupt pensions, Marxism, and $trillions in unfunded liabilities to its useless population of spoiled brats. The West will continue collapsing through at least 2032.95. Then it may get a deadcat bounce, then collapsing anew until it is third world economy. Spain's fall from a world empire to a third world country is exemplary. It remains to be seen if and how soon the productive cultures that remain in the West can effectively break away from the useless dead weight. Spain was mired for a century in the infighting as it collapsed from within. |
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Actually the conceptual discovery was mentioned by myself in 2010.You will probably need a week or two of studying the thread slowly.
I will be the first to admit I needed a week or two to fully absorb the following works of AnonyMint. The Rise of KnowledgeUnderstand Everything Fundamentally Together these are quite simply the most insightful piece of economic theory I have ever read. If the author is right and I think he is we are all in the midst of a tragedy of epic proportions. It is sad unstoppable and will devastate the lives of much of humanity. The seeds of those essays were written in 2010. Also here. Elaboration continued into 2012. |
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