switzerland is leading in crypto... you can pay your taxes in bitcoin in Zug and.... just found out there is a Hodlerstrasse in the Swiss capital Bern. google it.  the only pic I found is a bunch of junkies. There is at least another one in the city of St. Gallen. Though I have solid thrid hand information they didn't name it after GameKyuubi's post. There are however plans to rename the Hodlerstrasse in 2024 to "Rue de filthy rich". The swiss phonebook yields 146 people with last name Hodler, but I am sure there are much more hodlers around here. There are even two villages called Holderbank and a famous swiss artist is named Ferdinand Hodler. |
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It might have been nice to inform MRX/LINDA hodlers of the swap here. How hard can it be to post a short note and some links? * psycodad facepalms |
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My sister offered me and my father a DNA test kit, the kind that will tell me I'm 42% this, 23% that, etc. Which in itself is total BS and very "unFrench".
Offering it to me and my father, she didn't realize it sent the message "there are doubts about your parentality". Probably because there is in fact no doubt, we look very much alike, have the same shade of grey-blue eyes, the same slight eye defect to the same eye...
Knowing I'm a fan of Agatha Christie, police procedurals, CSI, the concept of a perfect crime, she didn't realize I would never give my DNA willingly !
And nowadays that's not enough, you must convince your extended family not to do it either, which in my case is a daunting task as my family is very large.
Ancestry.com which made roughly 1 bil annual revenue was just recently sold to Blackstone for 4.7 bil: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-ancestry-m-a-blackstone-group-idUSKCN2512ESThe key to this very high price (wrt annual revs) is probably this: Today Ancestry said it has 3 million paying subscribers, a collection of 24 billion records, and more than 18 million people in its AncestryDNA network.
That is about 20 cents per DNA record set. Resold to interested parties at $1 per record set a few times should result in a nice profit I guess. If you ever used ancestry, you are now their product on sale, even though you paid for the service. |
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^^^
Dude, I think you're too kind/honest to be a politician, so it's all good, no need to worry.
But... Don't forget that we all put our letters in envelopes (even innocent letters to mum), we don't send them open so that the text can be read by anyone. Privacy doesn't necessarily mean illegal activity. Some things must be kept private, and I hate it when this privacy is violated.
Actually that been said in very nice words.... I do understand... Like I have send some text to my now Ex, its better no one reads that sh*t of-course, weak looking fool me at the time... But I only do say, no one would be able to scratch one $ out of me with any content, if i'm violated then its pity, but I will sleep the same. While I totally sympathize with Duderino's "I don't care what they think of me" attitude, there is a deeper problem the Dude doesn't see yet. Imagine for a moment the General Attorney for Belgium or the USA (coz we all know they have powers everywhere) wants to get promoted by proving the Dude to be a kiddy fiddler, terrrst, money launderer, hacker etc. Ask yourself for a moment if you've never said, email, texted, chatted any sentence or words that could - if even completely taken out of context - support the GA's case? Or if any search on Google, any location Apple has recorded from you, any books and items you bought from Amazon could eventually be used against you. When I was a young cypherpunk we often quoted Cardinal Richelieu: Qu'on me donne six lignes écrites de la main du plus honnête homme, j'y trouverai de quoi le faire pendre.
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If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. Even though I am sure you mean something different it can be read as "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear" which is plain out wrong and reliably triggers my ranting and raving seen above  |
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There is even more: Gen. Keith Alexander is joining Amazon’s board of directors, the company revealed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing today. (Alexander has also been added to the company board’s official site.)
... I am not sure if Amazon or the TLAs scare me more nowadays and not sure which ones are more powerful either. |
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It's about the initial infection's virus load the immune system has to cope with. This is, by research, the main factor for severeness of Covid19.
Secondary, how effective the individual immune system is working against viruses.
Additionally, the virus floats, bound to aerosols. Influenza is falling to the ground pretty quickly, compared to SARS-CoV-2.
Make your own judgement based on these factors.
Based on my own observations the above is pretty much the best we know today. I even think most of us have meanwhile had contact with the virus in very small loads in one form or another. Even worse, it seems that positive individuals without symptoms don't develop antibodies. I leave it up to research and science if most of these were false positives, but it seems kinda obvious. Otherwise: good bye, herd immunity.
I have no medical background and I don't claim to know anything, but I do think this has a lot of implications to a possible vaccine too regarding how long it is effective and how much it is effective at all. With regard to this I recommend the below opinion piece that appeared a few days ago in NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/22/opinion/covid-vaccine-coronavirus.htmlIf you were to approve a coronavirus vaccine, would you approve one that you only knew protected people only from the most mild form of Covid-19, or one that would prevent its serious complications?
The answer is obvious. You would want to protect against the worst cases.
But that’s not how the companies testing three of the leading coronavirus vaccine candidates, Moderna, Pfizer and AstraZeneca, whose U.S. trial is on hold, are approaching the problem.
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Then again, a vaccine that has to be administered again every year sounds like a great business opportunity and might explain for some of the enthusiasm that companies previously not being interested in vaccine business for this field now show. I recognized that i started to get extremely fed up about "Corona" discussion in general. Not only the mask-defenders, also the weak conspiracy minded and selfish "we don't need the weak and old, so let em die"- type. Everything. It seems like constantly arguing is making everything social-related worse. And it sticks out of my ass already.
I couldn't eat as much as i'd like to vomit. I hope i can find my way out of this depressive episode soon, without being dependent on people becoming SANE again, if they ever were. But this time, with the flu season coming, it's likely going to boil up to the point where everybody hates everybody else. Or is it just me?
EDITed some minor things.
I see a lot of latent aggression, I witness this everywhere where people have to get along from groceries over bank counters to traffic. Never in my life I've seen so many unconcentrated and aggressive drivers on the streets (no matter on what kind of vehicles). I believe this is owed to the fact that we are not used so much to deal with unknown things and we actually still know literally nothing about that virus yet. Whenever some new fragment of knowledge appears, every side of the bespoken polarized parties tries to use it and make it fit for their agenda. It could well end up badly in things like wars and quickly escalating conflicts. Also the tendency of mankind to solve complex problems with simple solutions doesn't help here, speak about about black and white vs scales of gray. Since nobody asked, here is what I think could possibly happen: Vaccines that protect you from infection and/or severly getting ill and which will give you live long immunity will not arrive in the next years. I have more hopes that some drug will become available that helps in cases developing severe symptoms so that it won't end deadly. Meanwhile the virus could become less and less dangerous but even more contagious through the RedQueen effect caused by our increased hygiene, social distancing, masks, stay at home, etc. basically all we try to curfew it. My idea being that we catch and isolate the people with heavy symptoms quickly but those with no or very light symptoms will keep spreading it in office, family, pubs etc. So the less severe versions/mutation of Corona will prevail. This could result in the virus becoming more of a nuisance than the danger it is now as its ultimate goal is surviving and spreading. It will probably become what AIDS was in the 80s, it will change our ways of socially interacting permanently and in a non-reversible way (though AIDS only affected one specific genital social interaction, Corona affects most of them). Thinking positive and appreciating all the luxury (roof over your head, food on the table, being healthy, having somebody to love etc. and most importantly having some corn in your cold wallet) we - or most of us - have is more important than ever for not going totally bananas in these times. I firmly believe that we have been so massively conditioned by our current system relying on ever-growing consumption, that wealth, life situations, buying power and everything we perceive as positive in our lifes can be expected to be constantly improving and expanding that we have troubles accepting when things develop in the other direction and we have no simple answers for it to get quickly back on our track growing our wealth and expanding our fun. That said, I still think if we just needed to have a worldwide catastrophic "problem" in 2020, we actually got off lucky with this flu stuff. I bet a nuclear winter after China, Russia, USA lost their shit wouldn't be even half the fun of Corona. A small asteroid hitting earth (or even better breaking up in atmosphere and hitting multiple places) would make look Corona pale too. Even when thinking about a pandemic, it could be worse, think about Ebola, or even better some zombie virus (ok, I am getting of the rails here, but I for one still hope for a zombie apocalypse so that I can finally mount the gun turret on my cars roof). Not playing down what we have right now, but trying to inspire/incite some "it could be much worse" positive thinking and group hugging desires.. |
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Hi, can anyone give me a list of nodes please?.
Here are the listening nodes I see: addnode=178.62.202.79:12340
addnode=[2001:41d0:2:a8e::]:12340
addnode=66.151.242.154:12340
addnode=198.27.82.41:12340
addnode=80.248.22.20:12340
addnode=[2607:5300:60:2329::]:12340
addnode=78.129.239.179:12340
addnode=122.59.171.214:12340
HTH |
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"I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible."
— Lord Kelvin, 1895
No source? "Brute force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space".
-Bruce Schneier
"I can state flatly that heavier than air flying machines are impossible." — Lord Kelvin, 1895 Brute force, so checking every combination, makes some pretty easily verifiable claims. If you build a supercomputer that occupies a space of only 1 cubic centimetre, that can brute force 1 trillion keys a second, and cover the entire earths surface with these computers, the Sun will swallow the Earth, before you have time to search the whole 256 bit key space. I have also seen other calculations that information represented as its absolute minimum energy in the laws of physics, that there is not enough energy in the Sun to search a 256 bit key space either. These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. So these Laws of Thermodynamics will have to be broken first. I would very much like to see the proof regarding the necessity of the Laws of Thermodynamics to be broken in order to brute force a 256-bit key. Is there any link of such proof? I'm a bit concerned about the use of energy to do the calculations. <snip by Bruce Schneier page 157 (I am looking at my 2nd edition here): One of the consequences of the second law of thermodynamics is that a certain amount of energy is necessary to represent information. To record a single bit by changing the state of a system requires an amount of energy no less than kT, where T is the absolute temperature of the system and k is the Boltzman constant. (Stick with me; the physics lesson is almost over.)
Given that k = 1.38×10-16 erg/°Kelvin, and that the ambient temperature of the universe is 3.2°Kelvin, an ideal computer running at 3.2°K would consume 4.4×10-16 ergs every time it set or cleared a bit. To run a computer any colder than the cosmic background radiation would require extra energy to run a heat pump.
Now, the annual energy output of our sun is about 1.21×1041 ergs. This is enough to power about 2.7×1056 single bit changes on our ideal computer; enough state changes to put a 187-bit counter through all its values. If we built a Dyson sphere around the sun and captured all its energy for 32 years, without any loss, we could power a computer to count up to 2192. Of course, it wouldn't have the energy left over to perform any useful calculations with this counter.
But that's just one star, and a measly one at that. A typical supernova releases something like 1051 ergs. (About a hundred times as much energy would be released in the form of neutrinos, but let them go for now.) If all of this energy could be channeled into a single orgy of computation, a 219-bit counter could be cycled through all of its states.
These numbers have nothing to do with the technology of the devices; they are the maximums that thermodynamics will allow. And they strongly imply that brute-force attacks against 256-bit keys will be infeasible until computers are built from something other than matter and occupy something other than space.
He does quote this paragraph quite often, for example here: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_cr.html |
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Just watched an interview of Julia Chatterly with the Taiwanese Digital Minister on CNN (yep that on the right IS the minister!):  I noticed the following interesting things compared to my country: 1. We don't have a Digital Ministry 2. We don't have any longhaired, bright and seemingly quite competent hacker boffin in government at all 3. None of our government says goodbye this way with the words "Live long and prosper" Made my day. [Edited to add]: Happy 12k day, may it stick above this time! |
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<painful details removed>
All the best and a very quick recovery for the missus from here. |
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 when your shitcoin only buys you 845,594 sats * psycodad wonders if USD should be subject to the "do not mention shitcoins in WO" rule. |
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Next, Knives Out which was released on 2019. It has also a great plot twist that would enable you to really think who is responsible for the murder. It has also an unpredictable flow of the story.
+1, really has some good twists, never gets boring and I had some good laughs from the irony, also great cast and all marvelous in their roles. Didn't know Game Night and The Invisible Guest but will look for them, ty. Here are a few more movies I've seen recently: Hotel Artemis - dystopian thriller with a great cast Ready or Not - don't watch it if you're going to marry soon Seriously one of the better movies I've watched this year, love the role and play of Samara Weaving. The Hunt - some nice twists and turns, you're not going to know where it is heading until the end, think it was mentioned in the WO thread when it came out. 365days - every minute watching this softporn nonsense was a total waste. I actually only watched it because it has upset our local women rights activists/feminists so much and I wanted to know what the fuss is all about. It's a bit like 50 shades of grey for millennials and even bad at that. Thanks for your suggestions. Will try to see all of them. By the way, can't wait to know your reactions with game night and most especially to invisible guest. I loved Game Night, great movie and a lot of good laughs ("Honey - you just sewed my shirt to my arm.."). Invisible Guest is a great piece of cinematic art, I loved how the parents got justice after all. One of the best movies I watched recently. |
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For those that missed it, NLexch is closing down today: We believe in the power of cryptocurrency and its potential but small players like us, regardless of their philosophy, will have a really difficult time complying in Holland.
All controls and KYC administration that needs to be in place will come with serious costs.[Thus] we decided we were too small to go on that route in Holland.
Please cancel your orders and withdraw your coins till 31 July as we will shutdown everything by 1 August (00:00), we are not allowed to operate after that date. Make sure to withdraw your coins. |
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Just a quick heads-up, NLexch closes today: We believe in the power of cryptocurrency and its potential but small players like us, regardless of their philosophy, will have a really difficult time complying in Holland.
All controls and KYC administration that needs to be in place will come with serious costs.[Thus] we decided we were too small to go on that route in Holland.
Please cancel your orders and withdraw your coins till 31 July as we will shutdown everything by 1 August (00:00), we are not allowed to operate after that date. Make sure to withdraw your coins today. |
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Bought a used truck many many years ago for $5K in btc, it would now be worth > $150K.
I've got a $1500 Instant Pot. Cooks great! Also got a $700 PS3 game. Still playing! Fricking purse.io. Bought a used KNC Titan in 2016 that is long recycled now (I kept the fans and the power supply though) for 5.4 BTC. Not my best decision in hindsight, but also not my worst Admittedly it made me a few coins (coins that may not be named here but are good for paying hookers according to lightfoot). |
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Unbelievable, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Google combined are now bigger than Japan's entire stock market.  Tesla continues going up and up... And friggin Nasdaq scores one ATH after the other. Must have to do with the overly bright outlook and the fact that employers are hiring world and dog to cope with the workload of the upcoming economic upturn.. * psycodad wonders if the WO audience needs an <irony> tag to properly classify above statement as mockery over the quickest and largest wealth redistribution in history. |
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