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Holy Sheet! AOC and the left has gone into total meltdown mode over the fact that AOC was not in the Capitol building at the time of the riots last month.
Absolutely amazing that people are getting posts deleted for the hashtag #AlexandriaOcasioSmollet.
The truth hurts, but banning that truth makes it burn hotter and brighter than if they let the embers burn out.
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@giacomozucco that’s about legalizing a total-surveillance state.
That would mean Americans might have to use Tor to access services hosted in Russia or North Korea to have basic freedoms online.
Of course the next step is making it illegal to use Tor or access non-whitelisted websites.
Peter Todd
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RT @OlUkolova
What the actual fuck? 🤨
>A new Senate bill would create for internet platforms the communications equivalent of the suspicious activity reports that financial institutions must file today.
"BREAKING: Judge rules that Emmy award-winning Governor Cuomo violated the law by lying about nursing home deaths caused by his failed policies." @amuse
Emmy award winning! 😂
"[Cuomo broke the law] by only releasing the numbers of those who died in nursing homes, not those who later died in hospitals."
https://nypost.com/2021/02/03/cuomos-doh-illegally-withheld-covid-nursing-home-death-toll-judge/
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"A 1938 Nazi Law Forced Jews to Register Their Wealth—Making It Easier to Steal"
Remember this, next time someone pushes AML/KYC. Or the literal mandatory wealth reporting laws that some lobby groups are pushing - literal Nazi policy, for everyone.
Peter Todd
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@Seccour Satoshi is mail.
Peter Todd
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blogTO: Dozens of Toronto businesses plan to reopen next week in defiance of lockdown orders.
https://www.blogto.com/city/2021/02/toronto-businesses-opening-defiance-lockdown-orders/
Good. And better to do it sooner rather than later, before the zero covid crowd use these new variants as their excuse to lock down even further.
http://blog.zorinaq.com/my-experience-with-the-great-firewall-of-china/
tl;dr: Someone tests ExpressVPN and other methods to get past the Great Firewall. Turns out ExpresVPN uses weak 1024bit RSA keys, which can probably be cracked by about $10 million worth of specialized hardware... and ExpressVPN actually fixes the problem.
CDC got caught lying about the vaccines, claiming they provided a benefit to those already infected. A message tons of people have been pushing - probably because of an attempt to discount natural immunity.
In fact, while the Pfizer trials excluded people with prior infections, 1,300 managed to get included anyway. Of that subset, the % infected was identical in both vaccine and placebo groups.
I've personally caught the CDC lying about masks. So I'm not surprised.
DES cracking as a service: https://crack.sh/
"Behind crack.sh is a system with 48 Xilinx Virtex-6 LX240T FPGAs. Each FPGA contains a design with 40 fully pipelined DES cores running at 400MHz for a total of 16,000,000,000 keys/sec per FPGA, or 768,000,000,000 keys/sec for the whole system. This means that it can exhaustively search the entire 56-bit DES keyspace in ~26 hours"
Amazing enough stuff still uses DES that this is a thing.
Peter Todd
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I wonder if you wanted to communicate to aliens in the most compact way possible, that you had computational power, would it be a good idea to send a hashcash preimage.
The problem is that all our hash functions are arbitrary constructs, so wouldn't be recognized of course. Possible solution: transmit the order of the finite field N, then use the discrete log over that finite field as your "hash function"; send preimage x of g^x = ultra low value.
Choice of g: just the smallest generator?
https://thepostmillennial.com/julie-payette-public-school-may-change-name-after-abuse-allegations
Fact is, @orionwl - AKA 74810b012346c9a6 - is right: all schools should be named after randomly chosen hexadecimal byte strings.
0xD1B0178B023E never abused nobody.
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Ok, so I'm suspicious that you didn't actually choose 0xDEADCAFEBABE randomly...
Sources re: diabetes risk: https://www.healio.com/news/endocrinology/20200407/diabetes-may-worsen-outcomes-in-covid19
https://www.statnews.com/2020/10/01/why-people-with-diabetes-are-being-hit-so-hard-by-covid-19/
Those estimates are an approximately 2x to 3x increase in hospitalization risk. Quite compatible with hospitalization leading to undetected diabetes accounting for the entire 14%
Press: "14% OF PEOPLE HOSPITALIZED WITH COVID-19 DEVELOPED DIABETES!!!"
Reality: the CDC estimates 27% of US adults 65 and over have diabetes. 5.4% are undiagnosed, and diabetes is a major risk factor for covid.
How many of those patients just had their undiagnosed diabetes, diagnosed?
"He was hospitalized with covid-19 in early July. During a follow-up visit with his doctor, he learned he had dangerously high blood glucose levels and was readmitted."
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https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55706855
"Israeli Ministry of Health (MoH) figures show 531 over-60s, out of almost 750,000 fully vaccinated, tested positive for coronavirus (0.07%)."
Good example of useless reporting: provides no real info on the time scales involved, making it impossible to figure out what % you'd expect to get infected without the vaccine.
Alex Berenson interprets it as "one week". But truth is we just don't know: https://twitter.com/AlexBerenson/status/1356382809955430400
"What Trump recognized was that there are millions of Americans who do not oppose or even care about abortion or same-sex marriage, much less stem-cell research or any of the other causes that had animated traditional social conservatives. Instead he correctly intuited that the new culture war would be fought over very different (and more nebulous) issues"
https://theweek.com/articles/964006/rise-barstool-conservatives
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