Why are you surprised?, Latin America is the same, my country is copying Zimbabwe in most things, especially the economy...

Maybe it has something to do that these lands were once colonies, maybe its the "too nice" weather of the tropics, i have no idea. The poorest countries unsurprisingly have the worst politicians and the most corruption.

And yes the politicians here do exactly as you describe, until they can mend things so they can remain in power regardless of elections...

If people protest they get killed. Who is going to defend the protesters, US? Russia? pff they are busy with their own matters. No one cares.

Sometimes there are internal disputes, mostly the military intervenes and a new gov is installed. Then things repeat all over again, never to improve. And you get people emigrating, which the "nice" countries complain about but do nothing of significance. People wouldn't be risking their lives emigrating if their country of origin conditions weren't so bad in the first place. But you know, sovereignty, allies, yadda, yadda, the UN is for decoration and endless speeches that amount to nothing. The Security council is a joke with the veto members, nothing ever gets done unless its some (no one cares) half island in the Caribbean no one bothers vetoing sending troops.

We all live in oppression by the State.

This cherry picking permissions sounds a lot of what you can do to all websites if you use the uMatrix browser add on.  This EU law may apply to EU sites, but what about non EU sites? You cannot enforce your EU laws there, they will track you to the ends of the Earth the same. In fact, the cookies thing i found most annoying, and there are specific browser add ons to REMOVE the question about cookies. I mean, I'm not an EU citizen, why would i have to be harassed to no end if i want to accept cookies? Most people should have already made this choice as most browsers still keep the allow cookies option in its config settings.

Besides, if you truly want to evade tracking, you have no choice but to use uMatrix or one of those "privacy modes" that discard everything when you end your session (same as clearing your data before quit). Unfortunately most track evasion goes its merry way once you log in. Especially the likes of Google, Microsoft, etc. Its not just Facebook, everyone seems to want IN the data mining business nowadays. They make you log in your browser, and often in your os.

These laws are on one side annoying, on another ineffective. Politicians simply cannot cope with technology, and they often make things worse. Let me guess, you are going to search these options in every single (EU) web site you visit? At least the uMatrix button is always in the same place, AND works across ALL world websites, not just EU. Yes it may be well intentioned, but dumb.

How about bicycles, do you need a license to ride those in public roads? I have seen them being popular in some EU countries. I wonder in what category does a bicycle assisted with a (small) electric motor falls into, motorbike? Are these insured too?

And, do those rules apply in private property? What if you own a large lot with a road?

Some people here wrote Christians won't do it, but you would be surprised. There are exceptions...


Thing is, Christianity comes from Judaism, and Judaism practiced it. It was especially common in rulers, not just because they were rich, but to forge pacts and alliances with other countries etc.

By the time Islam came into being, polygamy was still practiced among their contemporaries, even Christians. But some simply never got married, because of celibate etc.

Today some Christian denominations/sects practice it. Most secular laws in the west forbid it, and in that case they do it "in private", to avoid the (secular) legal troubles.

In more recent times you see for instance kings in Africa, convert to Christianity, but they happen to have like 15 wives or so, they make exceptions (not letting him marry more, etc).

No. When you create this book, you are becoming "another node", ie. decentralization. Even if your book is just a recompilation available elsewhere that you painstakingly did the job to put together.

In centralization, you would not be allowed to make this book in the first place, because you have no authority to do so.

Many people go to Wikipedia when starting research on subjects, but even this is voluntary, and they are not really the source of information. Its mostly compiled information. While lesser known, there are some alternatives to wikipedia, and the countless web sites where people had the urge to share just as you did.

With the media, it has gone into the hand of the masses. You no longer need go to a few networks or traditional media to find about something. In the past, if it didn't show in your local news paper, radio or television, its like it didn't exist. Today we are in the "information" age. True, there is too much of it, there is even garbage, often purposely made to increase the noise ratio so that people get manipulated or misinformed intentionally, so you can no longer "trust" anything beforehand.

Of course not everyone can be an expert on everything at the same time. Interestingly this is the same dilemma faced by "direct democracy", no representation but direct governance. Some have proposed "voluntary delegation" on certain matters you trust people more of the subject. Imagine a Stateless country, they want to make a law, the "pairlament" is actually every single citizen, they get to discuss the proposal and vote online, what will your position be? Some subjects might be easy for you but others are way out of your league.

There is however a bigger chance today than in the past, to get more informed on any subject, you can always go online and search, but of course that also means learning to steer away from the trolls and spam and get the facts from as many points of view as possible to have some informed decision.

There was no chance to do this in the past, you might get some limited and outdated information from a local library, if you were lucky to be near one. So it goes both ways i guess, those people "had to rely on the educated" to make decisions for them. But now you could say, no thanks, I'll choose on this or that subject, perhaps on a issue by issue basis.

Yes, i know this idea by itself is polemic. There is the group that think uneducated masses could never make educated choices, and need to be "ruled" by those with proper knowledge, but even experts are not experts at everything. Heads of state often have people to advise them, not necessarily the best, but the ones they "trust" more...

And some are even worse, they now nothing but think they know all, or that the others are liars when it contradicts their dogma, its so much worse when such people happen to be in power, and cannot be removed anymore...

They are not that unreliable, you are simply doing something wrong, but prefer to blame "the virus". But you are welcome to sell them for scraps, i know someone who loves buying those super cheap "damaged" S9 miners and "resurrect" them.

Or hire someone to fix them for you...

I seriously doubt you can't run bOS from the sdcard in all those "50" miners (as long as they are not the newer S9s).

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Yes i have seen the bad nand syndrome before, but you can still run bOS from sdcard just fine in those, it is one sure way to find out the nand is damaged, because when you attempt to flash it from bOS web ui, then move jumper and reboot, it doesn't work.

This OP could have both the nand and sdport damaged, which is why the official method doesn't work either. Virus can't damage the port, but they could damage the nand. Many miners are run in conditions that rust gets to them, so a damaged port isn't that strange.

It is a bit late, but when you install BraiinsOS, the first thing you should do is uncheck the voltage setting and start lowering until you find the optimal value. BraiinsOS is manual, there is no self tuning, and those presets are not optimal. But maybe it was too late and the board was already damaged...


BraiinsOS is one thing, using Slushpool is another. First I don't think that many bOS users use Slushpool, it is not even set as default, unlike Bitmain's that is set to Antpool nor there is a hidden dev fee like with other closed source firmware mods. There are large miners running bOS, with large bills, saying it doesn't find blocks is silly to say the least. But those miners like Chinese pools, what can i say?, Convince the kanopool users to use bOS when kano doesn't even like it, so he can tell you if they actually find blocks or not? You would need to ask Viabtc and the others to know if they really do find blocks or not.., or convince a large miner to temporarily switch pools and conduct the experiment, but they can't "risk" switching to a PPLNS pool for a month or so, catch 22... But, its actual cgminer in there, check the code...

Speaking of that, they are attempting to improve on stratum, once they finish replacing cgminer with theirs, you can then test if their idea is worth or not, either directly against their pool, or via (their) proxy against classic stratum pools. One thing they seem to be working with is the idea of a more compact, (proxyfied?) data stream, perhaps helping reduce the latency to large miners. These things will become more obvious next year when they release bosminer officially.

While some people keep whining, at least the Slush guys are coding and sharing. Less words and more action.

This sounds interesting enough that doing it slowly while taking a look at the infected controller should give the reason. Perhaps the malware is running a script and is waiting for a condition to occur. You could populate /etc/hosts with 127.0.0.1 sha256.jp.nicehash.com (and friends) and let it never find where nicehash is. I wonder if you could then catch and examine the running process?

Chances are whatever infected the miner could still be running in the LAN, you have to get rid of it. And the malware itself could still be propagating from infected controllers and windows pcs.

Does Nicehash support some way of reporting rogue accounts? This malware account should be suspended immediately...

The virus cannot do this. You probably have a damaged controller, or just a damaged sd port as suggested above. Once you move the jumper its like you don't have the nand, it reads the sd card at boot and executes whatever is in it.

It doesn't happen to anyone at all. Just get a new controller and be done with it.

I don't understand why you come with this "as fast as possible, try to do it in less than 10 seconds" instruction. The correct way to get rid of malware, is not letting it in in the first place. If you boot a linux computer, disconnected from internet, and plug the miner DIRECTLY to it, you can perform this safely without expecting to win a race against malware.

Hoping that your LAN is somehow slow enough to not infect you in time is not wise at all.

OP should disinfect all miners this way, and not allow any non linux computers in the LAN.

Then obviously 2018, Oct~Dec has asicboost. To "bring dying boards", then perhaps Braiins OS with options to disable failing sensors, or carefully adjust your speed and voltage to find the optimum values. bOS is currently S9 to S9i, nothing newer, no hydros, no T9s or R4s etc at least until after they finish replacing cgminer with bosminer next year when they will start adding units like the S17, etc.

The other firmwares have dev fees, and you don't want that anyway, no matter what bells and whistles they promise.

Also cleaning the boards often bring them back to life, don't ask why, but I have seen it. Wash them with water and soap and leave them to dry, (output from another miner works great as dryer) just like that some magically return to life...

You will get yourself deleted (again) and possibly banned, don't bother. Besides this is supposed to be discussed only in Meta.

If you get banned, you can only appeal by email (it shows when you try to log in), if you make another account to circumvent the ban and force your message across, you might not get much empathy.

You tell them. Humans need to be State police oppressed, or else they will do what is not good for them...

This freedom stuff is overrated, why won't there be a world omnipotent ruler and be done with it? Computer AI you say? Hmmm....

All this trouble to be able to pay Netflix and pay a VPN provider, and you wonder why people go back to torrents. On a second thought, those "blocked" countries usually don't bother prosecuting downloaders.

For example Cuba State television broadcasts movies and series downloaded online (you can sometimes spot the release group name), and they even have an specific "movies" channel. Same thing occurs in my country on a somewhat smaller scale (also State owned television). Of course you can go to the street (yeah its not prosecuted, they have formal shops and all) and buy optical media (BD or DVD) from material downloaded online, this is the most used path for the poor, without good internet or tv subscription. And even with "good" (not capped) internet, its often too slow for live streaming anyway, but you can wait a day or so for a movie to download here. Oh and i don't think a 6 USD monthly wage is good enough to pay Netflix 8 USD + VPN...

I think this mess is due to the lawyers and "IP rights" managing people. Sometimes, rarely they see reason and relax restrictions, such when dealing with the mighty Chinese market (where they can't prosecute people anyway).

I don't think anyone but some lawyers in Netflix want to block countries, but its probably stepping on someone Else's profits, the hypocrisy of it all is nauseating. Then again Netflix also does it to others with their own content, due to "commercial agreements".

When i find myself with good internet, i end playing online games rather than watching movies anyway. They have to compete with that market segment too, oh and the tons of free streaming, where even esports live streams are gaining worldwide popularity.

This is the music downloads thing all over again, how Napster (as trashy as that was) disrupted the labels model. Now its the movie studios model that has become obsolete. And people in the States are cutting subscription tv en mass, switching to streaming or going elsewhere (ie online games and back to on air "free tv").

Yes, and i live in the country with the extreme low. Think 6 USD a month, with 6 more in "food stamps" (the equivalent of). With full time jobs paying that, you are literally forced to try and make your living (honestly) online, or emigrate (which is why we have lost 20% of the population in the past 5 years or so). If you are a "professional", with university degree and all, you may earn... about twice that.

The beauty of it is that this is a self proclaimed "socialist" government... State exploitation makes private ownership of the means of production look ideal. Ah, those days you could eat some meat once a month, its what the poor (vast majority) think today.

Today is another day for rice and black beans, because proteins are an imperialist tool of domination, and with our "resistance" we are "winning" the "American economic war!"... Yeah right. Too bad they got the guns and you have to obey or else...

Mind you, those in power are fat pigs. Not unlike the soviet bloc in the past.

Electrics are still mechanical, for the most part. But rather than burning dinosaur juice to make it explode endlessly to push pistons which move wheels, electrics just pass current thru winded wire which generates magnetic movement. Incidentally the opposite generates electricity, that is, forcing movement to a magnet winded by copper... If you do this with the dinosaur juice guzzler, you just get some braking and a lot of farting like noise (just try 1st or 2nd gear downhill, no brakes) which is just inefficiently burnt fuel. At least the electric can recover some of the spent energy that it spent climbing that hill...

So it all amounts to the efficiency of the batteries. In the Li-ion era, the likes of Tesla were made possible. Several previous attempts involved very heavy liquid chemical based solutions, but its power/density ratio left a lot to be desired. Now even your typical cellphone/laptop battery is pushing the cars. These batteries are getting improved all the time, and Tesla invested big in manifacturing, bigger than everyone else. Consider the largest was Panasonic, and Tesla invited THEM to joint build the largest plants for manufacturing these. Better, longer lasting batteries helps not just the cars, but any application where storage of energy is needed, such as in renewable power generation where a buffer is needed to compensate natural fluctuations in generation (ie. wind/tidal speed change or daily hours).

Some other types of batteries have been theorized and proposed, but they have yet to achieve mass production and reliability. Examples could be chemical liquid based (including dinosaur juice), or Hydrogen. I somehow rather prefer solid state energy storage than liquid or gas that could leak... Of course dinosaur juice guzzlers have always carried flammable fuel onboard...

Also you assume diesel would always be found around the corner. I'd rather give you the advice of keeping a bicycle or horse instead... Do you still keep your film camera just in case? I hope you know how to develop your own film, all you need is a dark room, chemicals, sheets, patience... Of course you can make your own diesel, but it might take you a while...

Oh i see, i have a friend with that same thinking. So you mean, the Anarcho-transhumanists would replace the free market with computer AI? Does that even need the trans-humanist element at all? Wouldn't that be some sort of computer controlled society?

In theory you could even do this without AI, with clever code, and like Bitcoin, use a blockchain to execute it.

I have always thought this could be necessary for smaller space colonies or generational ships, were resources are far more limited than on Earth, perhaps not unlike the smaller anarchy attempts in towns of Spain etc.

Interestingly this could be simulated in MMO games today. The games spawn limited amount of resources and remove waste by code the players consume, and get rewarded in proportion to their effort (ie, a grinder has higher chance to find a rare item), and in many cases the price of goods is fixed or heavily influenced by game code.

Online computer games can be a great tool in trying and simulating the communities of tomorrow. Once AI gets good enough, you could even leave the bigger (in-game) decisions to it. Hmm now that i think about it this reminds me of the Alicization arc of Sword Art Online, which is the story of such a game (and its an actual research).

I wonder if gene modification/engineering is also part of trans-humanism? The likes of Star Trek (Gene Roddenberry?) saw this with great fear, not unlike some people see the evolution of AI with fear (Terminator's Skynet and whatnot).

Gene manipulation has a lot of potential and also a lot of controversy, not unlike clones. And of course, the "failures"...

I know that the likes of Elon Musk want humans to enhance with cyber-implants and such as a way to cope with AI.

Also, Anarchists are not necessarily opposed to (private/individual) capitalism, its the State.

Yes, they are useful, but not for survival of humanity. Humans can live without cars for that matter.


Electric cars are like digital vs analog cameras, or CRT vs LED screens, etc. There are so many analogies, but it seems the "common" people are far more close to cars. It took a while for photographers to recognize and eventually accept digital photography, same thing here.

They certainly take less resources, not too much less if the country generates electricity burning fossil fuel, but less none the less.

Start with the basics, take a look at a combustion engine vs electric motors. The complexity of the first vs the simplicity of the second. As a driver, you will immediately notice the amount of extra maintenance steps no longer needed. An electric car only uses some oil for the driving wheel, and even this nearly optional.

You see, direct mechanical direction is becoming a thing of the past, and that's when you actually drive the car yourself... Same as many other input methods are no longer direct, the gas and the brakes, these made their way into conventional cars. You push the gas pedal and you are no longer pulling some lever inside allowing more gasoline flow like it used to be. no. Modern cars today are pretty much "by wire", with the "inputs" being more or less glorified digital controls that tell a computer the intention of the driver (ie, accelerate), same with braking.

Take a simple toy electric car, and you are looking at a simplified version of what you will be driving. It has a battery, it has en electric motor, and wheels. Add direction and brakes, mostly for regulatory reasons. Tesla cars are known to brake plenty with regenerative braking, meaning, if you release the pedals, the car doesn't coast as much because the regenerating of energy happens to make the car slow down so much that people call it 1 pedal driving (ie: just push to accelerate, release to brake). Many people claim they can drive without ever touching the mechanical brakes, especially when regenerative braking is set at its highest regenerative level (it can be softened/disabled). If you know car mechanics, try to digest the magnitude of simplicity this entails. You do know Tesla doesn't even bother with gear changes? Of course they don't electric motors are very efficient which is how they found their way into Rail locomotion so early in the 20th century and ever since (No diesel locomotion engine remains that drive directly the wheels, all they do is put an electric motor and a diesel generator next to each other). This is because the electric engine is so powerful under varying loads already.

So you end with: Car body, wheels, battery bank, electric engine directly attached to wheel (no transmission), lights, chairs, windshield a single digital screen (optional) and you are pretty much done. Elon Musk had a chance when he started Tesla, to move humanity into electric cars. When he started, electric cars were still seen as toys with much disdain. It took him alone to prove them wrong, as the big manufacturers didn't care, and he delivered, and the big guys now how no choice but to follow, and this is why you see many brands jumping in.

To accelerate things, the efficient electric motor patented by Tesla has been given away for anyone to use. The patent is only used defensively, anyone is welcome to use it without paying royalties, not unlike Free Open Source software.

Did i mention that, going to a gas station to "fill" disappears from your life? The idea with the electric car, is that you plug it anywhere you park. So you will see more and more parking with electricity, and less and less gas stations. Think of, places where you used to go develop your photographs, in the past these shops were all over the place, now they are hard to find, if any remain. Or you could think of VHS rental shop, now that there is digital streaming, the likes of blockbuster, once staple of living, are no more.

In the following years you will see the combustion car quickly diminish at an accelerated rate. Business like restaurants to attract customers will make sure all their park space has electric plugs, kinda like you wouln't go to a shop without wifi anymore.

And yes, the lovers of "vroom" would claim how this is the end of the world, that cars are "not fun anymore", but such is progress. It has happened to so many things already, new generations will simply not know about it. Did you know the military doesn't teach morse code anymore? Yup, it remains in movies, just like the telegraph, the record player, vhs... Maybe the television will follow, who needs it when everything is streamed online? Aside from being a glorified big display with a tuner, that tuner is having less and less use, or the ones used by cable box, digital and all, are a thing of the past. Because there is no point in getting 500 channels when you are only going to watch only a few for few hours, and its what they want not what you want anyway.

I say we are no longer waiting for the future, the cars exist, we have entered in the phase of massive global-scale adoption. China is probably coming with cheaper, shorter ranged (and probably not as safe as Tesla) electric cars, but good enough for commuters. Of course it doesn't help that Beijing is smoke city...

It will simply become too cumbersome to keep running combustion engine cars anymore. Think of this, your VHS is broken, you need to take it for repairs, can you find a repair technician quickly? Not anymore right? Those that remain are the old people who used to do it in their glory days. Same with cars.

Love it or hate it, electric cars have arrived. Be thankful if you are still allowed to direct the wheels, because self driving is also making tremendous advance. Google (renamed Alphabet/Waymo) already envisioned a car that is essentially a chair with a tablet on wheels. No wheel, pedals, no nothing. You tell it where you want to go, and off it goes. You might say that was too early but i expect this to return once the things are considered safe enough...

Telegram is easy to configure to not accept messages from unknown people (too bad its not the default). And when you get a PM from someone in one of the groups you joined, you just do the same thing as in IRC: Ignore it by default.

Its hard for people to switch from "real life" "trust" model, to the online "trust no one" model. This is a social engineering exploit. Some exchanges have chats on Telegram, one day you join and report some problem, suddenly a PM comes impersonating "support", well guess what, its a phishing attempt. Usually support is given in public, for very good reason. Don't share login password credentials, etc. You can report the user and get it banned, but they have an army of fakes ready to pray on the next victim...