Posting in the appropriate thread.

I don’t think they are using a text spinner. A text spinner would return text that uses strange word choices and strange grammar. A text spinner is used to help someone plagiarize and I don’t think this is what this person is doing.

The Chinese Ambassador to the UK recently was interviewed on the BBC where he was shown a drone video that purportedly shows Uighurs in Western China blindfolded, shaven and handcuffed being lead into trains. The Ambassador had no good explanation as to what was going on in the video, and the video was obviously taken without the permission of the Chinese government.

Separately, according to a New York Times report, it appears the Chinese government is supplying Uighur slave (forced) labor to Chinese manufacturers of PPE that is sold throughout the world, including the United States.

Both of the above looks very bad on the part of the Chinese government and the CCP. This along with what China is doing to the people of Hong Kong.

How should the world respond to the above reports? Should Western companies pull out of Chinese markets (production and selling their services/merchandise)?

That is nonsense. Being too cautious will put your entire population out of work. In April and May, there were protests against the lockdowns, even under the threat of arrest.

It is not possible to remove all risk from everything. I would note that in most of the country, the risk of death from the coronavirus is roughly in line with driving to work everyday.

Chris Wallace was on Special Report today and said that Trump took all the questions asked of him and that Biden has not had that same level of scrutiny.

Regarding the pandemic, Angela Merkel said in ~March that 70% of the population of Germany should expect to get the virus. IMO, this would have been much better messaging for Trump versus “it will eventually disappear”. The estimated overall death rate (not case rate, which has a selection bias) is estimated to be about 0.3%, but this is skewed towards the elderly and those in poor health. If those most vulnerable were to be protected, the death rate would be even lower.

When you generate a seed in electrum, you are technically generating every address that will ever be used in your wallet. The private keys are calculated from your seed. So if you have two computers that are not connected to the internet, and create wallets with the same seed on both computers, both will “generate” the exact same addresses in the exact same order.

When generating a seed, you need to be sure that the seed is in fact random. As long as you are certain your computer can generate random numbers that are truly random, an authentic version of electrum should generate a random seed.

You can compile electrum yourself so you personally know what it is doing when generating a seed. Or you can generate a seed yourself.

You can set the gap limit in electrum to higher than the default for your electrum client to display more addresses.

The sad thing is this is a real picture.

I looked at the last several threads he posted in, and he is posting tangents to the OP of each thread he is posting in.

I would say, at a minimum, he has not read the threads he is posting in.

The below post, in a thread about a user being new to the forum solidify's my belief this person is using some type of automation to post:

Looking at this posts, it looks like he might stop writing once his post reaches a set length, but not before the end of a sentence. After each first sentence, each subsequent sentence is somewhat related to the previous sentence.

The skillset required to click on faucets is much less than that of creating a machine learning model.

The forum may be a place in which models are tested. Scientists may use models to post to see how many people notice humans are not being the posting.

The computational cost to train a model is also very high for something like GPT-3. The final model will cost possibly thousands of dollars to train, and before you have a final model, you will likely have many models that you end up not using that you will need to pay to train.

This is not the excuse Twitter gave. This is a claim by someone the NYTimes has said was verified to be the hackers.

Take a look at this video from 2018.

Google trained a model to have a conversation with a human based on a specific request from a second human. This is far more advanced than the article in the OP. I believe the model used in the article linked in the OP will have difficulty responding to a specific post in a thread, while staying on topic.

It appears the model used to generate the text in question has 175 billion parameters. To put this into context, each parameter will need to have at least 1 gradient, or slope, and at least one bias, depending on the activation function used in each layer. The large number of parameters will make it expensive to even load this model onto a computer or server to generate text.

I think, most likely this is a generator model in a generative adversversial network. The best way to predict if output is from a generator model is to use the discriminator model the generator model trained with. If you don't have that model, you can train generator and discriminator models so you can eventually use the discriminator model.

When you are training generator/discriminator models, you can only feed it so much data, and I believe the vast number of dialects and writing styles will make it difficult to predict if a given text was generated by a generator model or not. Similar to how some people who grew up in a Hispanic country but live in the US speak "spanglish" at home, some who grew up in the US and live in the UK will likely speak in a mixture of the two dialects.

Most likely this spreadsheet is one of two things:

1) A collection of responses that bounty hunters provided in a google forms survey. The title of the document seems to imply this is the case.

2) Someone scraped various google docs sheets that did the above and complied them into a single google docs spreadsheet.

There is never any reason to need 10, 100, or whatever "large" amount of BTC. If you are developing a program that normally interacts with a wallet file with 100 BTC, you can receive 0.1 tBTC (for example), and add a line of code to multiply however much tBTC is in your testnet wallet by 1,000.

If you are unable to do the above for testing, it is probably not a good idea to be trusting your program with hundreds of thousands/millions of dollars worth of coin.

According to the New York Times:
Needless to say, this is a very bad security practice. This is the equivalent to writing down security credentials on a piece of paper that is posted on a board that everyone in the office walks past every day.

An onion mirror would be the same as no DDOS protection as to my knowledge, the source of all requests look the same. Unless you are referring to an onion mirror being given privately to someone, but I would not suggest doing this because the person receiving the mirror address would only be able to access the forum via tor, but a non-onion address could be accessed via tor, and via the clearnet.

My assumption is satoshi was using GPU(s) to mine in bitcoin's early days. Keep in mind that he has ~unlimited time to create code to create a GPU minder as he controlled the timing of when the first bitcoin client was released.

For a fee, theymos could give a private IP address/subdomain that is a server that connects to the forum server. The server could have limits as to how frequently it will connect to the forum server to avoid it being used to DDoS the forum server. If the server gets DDoS'ed by the user, nothing will happen.

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Cloudflare DNS went down earlier today, which affected much of the internet, including the forum.

CF is very cheap, but they do business inside China, which means they are friendly with the CCP, which implies they are willing to censor content at the request of the CCP. My suggestion is to find an alternate DDoS protection service.

There is no reason why a single person wouldn’t be able to use two (or more) computers to mine on. Similarly, there is no reason why someone wouldn’t have been able to spin up a bunch of AWS VPSs to mine on.

I would also not assume that GPUs were not used in bitcoin’s early days. The cost to execute a double spend attack in early 2009 would have been very low, and if someone who discovered bitcoin was screwing around successfully executed some variant of a 51% attack, bitcoin would have been quickly derailed. Figuring out how to mine via GPUs while suggesting others to use CPUs would be a cost efficient way to guard against this from happening. The above is why I believe satoshi was behind a lot of bitcoins early blocks and mining.

Most school districts have similar possible plans as you describe. The opening of schools has been politicized. It will be very difficult for many people to return to work if their children are not expected to be at school every other day (or not at all). If a parent has two+ children, they may have one child each day that is not expected to be at school that day.

Schools have opened 5 days a week throughout Europe without outbreaks in schools, and various studies have shown that children neither spread the virus amonst each other, nor to adults very much; infections among children are primarily from adults to children.

If the schools are closed, it will be less likely the economy will be strong, which is Trump strongest argument for re-election. Schools being closed is not about children's safety, it is about politics.

This is false. There is no such thing as a utopia.

For evidence, I would advise you to read books such as 'Animinal Farm' and '1984'

Socialiam (and its sister, Communism) will start out well, however, it will always turn bad after existing resources are used up, and people realize, and take advance of the incentives of either not working or working less, and being less productive.