Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org
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Re user's being confused, here's an example.
Even with control of no hashing power at all, you can very occasionally do double spends of confirmed transactions. You just have to be lucky enough for a stale block to get mined at the right time.
Stale blocks are pretty rare these days. I don't have stats handy. But looks like the % is something like 1 in 1000 blocks or less. So that'd be a sub 0.1% chance of success per attempt.
Andreas is incorrect here. A double spend _did_ happen.
Bitcoin's double-spend protection is probabilistic: after one confirmation, if the sender is attempting to double spend, the probability of success is extremely low. But it's still non-zero.
California just passed Florida in cumulative reported cases per capita.
Florida has about twice as many elderly per-capita as California. Adjusting for demographics, CA passed FL in terms of cumulative deaths about a month ago.
After almost a year of hard lockdown all they've achieved is a ruined economy, and thousands of non-covid excess deaths among younger demographics.
The tyrants pushing unscientific lockdowns have young blood on their hands.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm
Neat tamper-evidence packaging concept: a random pattern of beads that's modified when you open the package, along with a smartphone app to automatically verify the pattern is correct.
Reusable glitter basically: to fake a seal, you need to make the significant effort of positioning each bead in the right place. Possible. But very time consuming.
I'd buy one!
"provide a photo that proves it really is your [Bitcoin] address"
I'm really curious what type of photo Bitstamp thinks constitutes proof that a given Bitcoin address belongs to you...
So Biden is going to have 200,000 flags instead of people at the inauguration.
Interesting question: how far in advance do you have to order 200,000 flags? Because I'm guessing they've been planning on no-one attending in person for months.
Typical journalism: "OMG OUT OF 32,000 PEOPLE VAXED, JUST ONE GOT SEVERE COVID!"
...leaving you to imagine hundreds of unvaxed getting terribly sick and dying.
Reality: only 10 people got severe covid in the Pfizer trial, _in total_. 9 with placebos, 1 with the vaccine. For Moderna, the numbers are 11 severe cases with placebos, 0 or 1 with vax (possible false positive).
...and severe didn't even mean hospitalization! Out of 21 "severe" cases, just 8 were hospitalized. No deaths.
There's also self-described anti-fascist John Sullivan, who was arrested for leading the charge during the insurrection at the Capitol.
Good thread: https://twitter.com/amuse/status/1349865669383356419
It's almost like the real world is more complex than the neat little boxes journalists and politicians want to put you in.
https://nypost.com/2021/01/18/tx-man-busted-in-threat-to-return-to-capitol-with-weaponsd/
“Prepare our weapons, and then go get’em. Lets hunt these cowards down like the Traitors that each of them are”
The face of the <checks notes> right-wing white supremacy movement.
Birdsite blue checks never let the facts get in the way of 102k endorphin hits.
Parler has a static status page up. Not the whole site. And the page resolves to an IP address in Belize. Last I checked, that's in South America.
"I WANT TO BELIEVE!"
Pretty lol how low-density "red" states with much harder distribution challenges like West Virginia, Alaska, and the Dakotas are the ones doing best at actually vaccinating people. While high-density "blue" states like New York and California are way behind, even though they have every advantage. California is in 5th last place!
It's almost like red states are actually trying to solve a problem rather than milk covid forever for political gains...
"LIVE in Toronto: Police attempt to block the path of anti-lockdown protestors, who simply walk around them" https://twitter.com/TPostMillennial/status/1350513187087638530
@verretor Looks like they weren't even trying. 😂
"AOC’s Comms Director Asks Twitter To Ban Users From Citing AOC’s Support For Violent Riots" https://thefederalist.com/2021/01/07/aocs-comms-director-asks-twitter-to-ban-users-from-citing-aocs-support-for-violent-riots/
The hilarious part is the staffer retweeted the thread in question herself: https://twitter.com/LaurenHitt/status/1346948829950705667
"uncomfortable" is a much more clear incitement to violence than the ridiculous official rational Twitter gave for banning Trump...
"Still going to the grocery store? With new virus variants spreading, it’s probably time to stop."
Don't worry Vox, I've switched to cannibalism.
Homemade split pea and ham soup for lunch...
...because the extra food I bought last February in case of apocalypse isn't going to eat itself. 😂
(though seriously, I'll have to buy some more; preparedness is good)
Signal's down.
We really need a federated/decentralized alternative to it. XMPP is alright. But doesn't do calls last I checked.
Canada Revenue Agency targets artists for possible repayment of emergency benefits - The Globe and Mail
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canada-revenue-agency-targets-artists-for-possible-repayment-of/
tl;dr: yet another group that Revenue Canada is targeting for supposedly not making enough money to qualify for emergency benefits meant to help people deal with being forced by their government to make no money at all...
In this case, a group of people that is having to pay taxes on income that somehow isn't income.
Dear Revenue Canada: 🖕
Is there anything saunas can't do?
...well, get you to run your own instance I guess. But this can help: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/
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