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@ram
Rainbow table have to do with encryption. Bitcoin mining is not the same as encryption. It’s a completely different process. I suspect you don’t actually understand how bitcoin mining works.All the “crypto” currencies and their corresponding wallets were based on a false premise … that the product of large primes is “hard” to factor
This is true for the wallets but not for bitcoin mining itself. Bitcoin mining is based on finding a hash for a block of data that has a certain number of leading zeroes. This can only be done by lots of trial and error. In 2018 it took around 3 quadrillion hash attempt to find an acceptable hash for each block and it has gone up from there.
I sometimes read a prepper blog. People often ask what other preppers think about gold and the opinion is almost always that it has no intrinsic value (you can’t eat it) and that it should be avoided. Gold’s allure is that it is rare and pretty. An ounce of gold takes about 3 tons of ore plus a lot of energy to create and in some sense that’s what gold is, condensed environmental damage and energy.
Bitcoin is similar in that it has no intrinsic value (you can’t eat it) but some people find it pretty (or rather, elegant) and it too is more or less condensed environmental damage and energy.
The problem that bitcoin and the block chain purportedly solves is that it is tamper proof. You could theoretically change something in the blockchain ledger from a year ago and recalculate all the hashes since then but this is impossible in practice because of the number of calculations necessary.
A thought experiment: Try to devise a ledger that is tamper proof. For instance you could carve the ledger into the Rock of Gibraltar and have a camera on it at all time so that no once could modify it. One can of course think of several ways this could be hacked. If you could come up with a way to create an unhackable ledger the world would beat a path to your door and you’d be a billionaire. Bitcoin may fail but it is probably the closest thing we have seen to a tamper proof ledger.
Wallets on the other hand are hackable.It’s “toe the line” (or “toeing the line”). It means to obey authority, to follow the rules set forth by others. “Tow the line” would mean to pull something.
Toe the line may mean “obey authority” now (language changes), but it used to mean to get ready to compete. I heard it on the Daniel Boone show in the 1960’s. Two men disagreed (one was Boone I think) and a line was drawn in the dirt and the men were told to “toe the line” where they stood and fought until one could no longer stand at the line and fight which made the other the winner, kind of a trial by combat. Google says it originally meant to move to the starting line of a race which is similar, but I like the Daniel Boone metaphor better.
It’s true that I made your life hell
And locked you for years in a cell
I tortured your wife
And ruined your life
We both made mistakes, now we’re swell@oroboros
I’m not an Obama fan but the clip you showed is fake. Here is the original:
Obama in Michigan
It was one heckler and Obama was a little flustered but the FJB chant was not in the original.More planets than seconds? Somebody’s bad at math. So you’re telling me more than 1 planet was created every second since the universe began, and this doesn’t set off any alarm bells for your theory? Do you even know how large a planet is?
There are about 3X10^7 seconds in a year. If the big ban happened 14 billion years ago that meas about 4X10^17 seconds. If there are 10^11 galaxies each with 10^11 stars that equals 10^22 stars so thousands of planets got created for every second of the universe’s existence.
A 10 year old human has lived for about 3X10^8 seconds and has around 3X10^13 cells in his/her body. That’s thousands of cells created for every second of their life. Also sounds unbelievable but true. The exponential function strikes again.
@DBS
“When did the term “conspiracy theory” enter the lexicon as a common pejorative?”
I’d say around 1940 just as they were trying to convince Americans to get into World War 2.
And a related question:
What is the opposite of Conspiracy Theorist? Authority Credulitst
You can’t have one without the other.Regarding the question around, did we know about stopping immunization before it entered the market? No. These, um, you know, we had to really move at the speed of science to really understand what is taking place in the market.
This statement doesn’t say anything about whether they knew about the vaxx stopping transmission or not but it does contain a couple interesting slips:
1) “did we know about stopping immunization” – The vaccines “stop immunization”, that is, they stop one from getting immunity via natural means. Stunning that she admits this and claims they didn’t know. CYA.
2) “speed of science to understand what is taking place in the market” – Science for them isn’t about understanding what is happening with people’s health, it’s about understanding “the market”, it’s about making money. No surprise here.Science is not “logical;” science is factual.
Science progresses logically but is factually guided. Mathematics however is logic based and not fact based. It’s been “designed” to model “the real world” but there is plenty of math that was invented for it’s own sake and may or may not have real world application. Math doesn’t model the real world exactly but is good enough to get a man to the moon. All models are wrong but some are useful.
Speaking of model the US could have pursued a Nash equilibrium with Russia and China, a state where changing our strategy didn’t benefit us and the same for them. But our fearless leaders thought they could get all the marbles and now an equilibrium will have the US and EU in much poorer position.
Anyway, WWIII has now started.
Maybe WWIII will consist only of sabotage, a passive aggressive war where we destroy each other’s vulnerable infrastructure without admitting what we do.
I have a Russian co-worker who doesn’t like Putin and claims he is pure evil. He still has family in Moscow and claims they are grabbing young men off the street for the army. He is trying to get his nephews to leave the city and spend some time at the family dacha until things blow over.
He believes the referendum in Ukraine is not fair and sent me a link to this video. It says that so far the voting has been on the street and at people’s homes and that voting at a polling station will only be on the last day. It shows someone going door to door with an armed escort. The voting that is shown is anything but private. The video claims that people voting incorrectly are detained. If you watch the video you can get it to auto-translate with English subtitles, such as they are. I thought this might be of interest to people here.‘I still haven’t seen anyone explain how the US got so far behind on hypersonics. Spending 10x what Russia spends, and still be 10 years behind.’
Russian weapons are designed by the Russian military. Their goal is effective weapons.
US weapons are designed by US corporations. Their goal is excessive profits.
Both are good at what they do. You get what you measure.Yellen is by far the most scary
Only because her dear friend Madeleine Albright has already joined the choir invisible.
@Trivium
Point to one article where Ilargi explains the monetary system is a fraud, which it is.
QE Is A Fraud Perpetrated By Made Men
Includes this for example:
…what central banks have done so far, first in Japan, then in the US and EU, is to cordon off the debts residing in their banks (e.g. in the form of swaps and not-so-securities), and then flood these same banks with money/credit, in order to make them look healthy
and a lot more saying the money system is a fraud. I found this by searching “money fraud” on TAE.
The Food and Drug Administration is expected to approve new COVID-19 booster shots this week — before the vaccines are tested on humans, according to a new report by the Wall Street Journal.
There is a well known trope among software developers: “I only changed one line of code. It won’t have any unintended side effects.” Except it almost always does. Best practice is that if you change a single character you have to run the entire regression suite before merging in your code. Surely the complexity of mRNA should require even greater caution.
…ensure Trump is tied up for at least 2 years in a corrupt court so he can’t run in 2024.
The Democrats are unable to find a candidate for president or a platform that anyone wants to vote for. Their strategy for the last two election has been to repeat “Other side bad” over and over. With J6 and abortion it will be “Other side bad” 24/7 until the mid-terms.
@T-Bear
“May she out live her children, and theirs as well.”
The curse upon Cersi Lannister. Maybe a little walk of shame would be approrpiate too.
Excellent description by Dr. D.
I thought to post a link to Sting’s I hope the Russians love their children too..
The problem is regardless of Russian desires the rulers of the west don’t want peace. They may say they do but they never negotiate in good faith which is a prerequisite for peace. There is too little power and money in peace and too much of it to be got in war. The companion song should be “I wish the west loved their children more than power and money.” But they seemingly don’t and it may be the death of us all.Perfectly Lawful and Legal and Unfortunate
When the old Russian Federation broke up, and Russia released the Ukraine as an independent country it came with the proviso that if there was evidence of criminality, genocide, international threats to Russia on Ukrainian soil, etc. Russia could come back in and secure the situation.By “the old Russian Federation” does she mean the Soviet Union, the Commonwealth of Independent States or maybe the Russian Empire? I searched for documents on the dissolution of these and can’t find anything that sounds like what she asserts.
Reverse mRNA transcription sounds very dangerous. What is the actual result? Does it mean that the affected cells will continue to produce spike proteins forever?
@deflationista
What your linked data doesn’t show is the death rate for people who received early treatment. To show data that doesn’t include this is a straw man. It says “people who receive no treatment until they enter the hospital are more likely to die.” If there is no data for early treatment the question is why not? They’ve had two years to come up with early treatment and still none exists. Explain that if you can.The tide is turning. This is from the r/portland in reddit where the comments have been viciously pro-mask, pro-vaccine:
Multnomah County is very close to 80% vaccinated for the entire population, with the 65+ crowd a whopping 95%. I personally have three doses, and I am sure many on here do too in addition people will be getting another sickness to bolster antibodies.
I think we need to rethink our strategies here from containment and fighting it every step to adapting and yes living with it. I would even say as we crest this next peak at the end of the month that includes doing away with many mask mandates and to let private businesses and individuals handle their safety on their own terms. I would argue even the most stringent mask wearers feel the same sentiment after two years.
We have a lot of tools to deal with this and we know a lot more about it and we need to start thinking about the other implications of this health pandemic and the disruptions it has caused…and this isn’t conspiratorial but I think we’re closer to a civil war than we have ever been and this is just another wedge issue.
I know this will come off as controversial, but I know I am not alone “rational” people also feel this way at this juncture in time.
Only a month ago a comment like this would be downvoted to oblivion and called out as anti-vaxx misinformation but now it is acceptable and upvoted. The replies to this do say that it is still important to get vaccinated. No mention ever of other early treatment options.
Dmitri Orlov writes about the 5 stages of collapse:
1. Financial Collapse
2. Commercial Collapse
3. Political Collapse
4. Social Collapse
5. Cultural Collapse
Usually these happen sequentially but we seem to be on the cusp of all 5 happening at once and the whole thing looks engineered. A good example is the effort to destroy the concept of gender, contributing to cultural collapse. I usually stick to Hanlon’s Razor: Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity, but this sure smells like malice. The charges are all in place. They just need to push the button to bring the whole thing down into it’s own footprint.@deflationista
Four questions I would like answered
1) Why did the CDC not provide any early treatment guidance for Covid. Did they research this and just find that nothing worked?
2) Pfizer et. al. have made billions from vaccines. Is this not motivation to push vaccines at all costs? Are they just good guys getting the riches they deserve for having saved mankind?
3) Are vaccine side effects real and how often do they actually happen? If this can’t be answered, why don’t we know this basic, important info?
4) What are the long term consequences (say 5 years out) of the vaccines? Can they guarantee there won’t be any increases in health risks for vaccinees that are worse than Covid?
Answer these and you might change my mind.@deflationista
Four questions I would like answered
1) Why did the CDC not provide any early treatment guidance for Covid. Did they research this and just find that nothing worked?
2) Pfizer et. al. have made billions from vaccines. Is this not motivation to push vaccines at all costs? Are they just good guys getting the riches they deserve for having saved mankind?
3) Are vaccine side effects real and how often do they actually happen? If this can’t be answered, why don’t we know this basic, important info?
4) What are the long term consequences (say 5 years out) of the vaccines? Can they guarantee there won’t be any increases in health risks for vaccinees that are worse than Covid?
Answer these and you might change my mind.Covid Deaths and Vaccine Deaths
I appreciate Mr. Unz’s analysis but he doesn’t mention the twin elephants in the room
1) Unknown long term side effects
2) The complete failure by the medical complex to provide or even allow early treatment options.
Even so he gives this valuable warning:Meanwhile, critics of the orthodox position on Covid and vaxxing should recognize that their opponents possess overwhelming political and media power, and hence they should be extremely careful to fight their battles only on the most solid and defensible grounds. Making wild, unsubstantiated accusations will merely damage their credibility, destroying one of their very few assets.
McMaster could play the role of Buck Turgidson in a remake of Dr. Strangelove. He has the right shirt and has a talent for saying absurd things.
Federal Covid 19 Reporting Form for Hospitals and Labs
Fields now inactive
– Num hospital beds
– Ventilators available and usage
– ED overflow
– Covid 19 Deaths
– Remdesivir inventory and usage
– Critical staffing shortages
– PPE suppliesNew fields
– Pediatric beds and occupancy
– Pediatric ICU beds and occupancy
– Pediatric admissionsNewly required fields
– Influenza admissions and lab confirmationsSARS-COV-2 Vaccines and Neurodegenerative Disease by Stephanie Seneff, Senior AI Researcher at MIT
Summary
There are many reasons to be wary of the COVID-19 vaccines, which have been rushed to market with grossly inadequate evaluation and aggressively promoted to an uninformed public, with the potential for huge, irreversible, negative consequences. One potential consequence is to exhaust the finite supply of progenitor B cells in the bone marrow early in life, causing an inability to mount new antibodies to infectious agents. An even more worrisome possibility is that these vaccines, both the mRNA vaccines and the DNA vector vaccines, may be a pathway to crippling disease sometime in the future. Through the prion-like action of the spike protein, we will likely see an alarming increase in several major neurodegenerative diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, CKD, ALS and Alzheimer’s, and these diseases will show up with increasing prevalence among younger and younger populations, in years to come. Unfortunately, we won’t know whether the vaccines caused this increase, because there will usually be a long time separation between the vaccination event and the disease diagnosis. Very convenient for the vaccine manufacturers, who stand to make huge profits off of our misfortunes — both from the sale of the vaccines themselves and from the large medical cost of treating all these debilitating diseases.Debt Rattle referenced a paper of hers about the dangers of GMO wheat back in July 2106.
I listened to the Supreme Court hearing. It included this:
JUSTICE ALITO: …What the Secretary said was “employees who are unvaccinated are in grave danger from SARS COVID virus, but employees who are fully vaccinated are not.” So the — the purpose — if this is to be sustained, it has to be on the ground that it presents a grave danger to unvaccinated workers who have chosen to be unvaccinated. That’s my understanding of the issue, but maybe I haven’t understood it correctly. Is that your understanding?
MR. FLOWERS (from OSHA): That is my understanding. And I don’t see how there could be another understanding because the emergency provision specifically says that such emergency standard, meaning the precise one at issue, must be necessary to protect employees from the danger at issue.
So the official line now is that the the unvaxxed are being coerced into vaccination or fired for their own protection. They’ve given up on “protecting the vaxxed from the unvaxxed” at least in the Supreme Court. The unvaxxed are now being protected from both the unvaxxed and the vaxxed who might give them Covid. They are firing you because they care.
