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zergtoshi

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  • U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

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  • Yes, like Signal!Which does not only use end-to-end encryption for communication, but protects meta data as well:

    Signal also uses our metadata encryption technology to protect intimate information about who is communicating with whom—we don’t know who is sending you messages, and we don’t have access to your address book or profile information. We believe that the inability to monetize encrypted data is one of the reasons that strong end-to-end encryption technology has not been widely deployed across the commercial tech industry.

    Source: https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

    I haven't verified that claim investigating the source code, but I'm positive others have.

  • U.S. officials urge Americans to use encrypted apps amid unprecedented cyberattack

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  • Signal doesn't harvest, use, sell meta data, Google may do that.E2E encryption doesn't protect from that.Signal is orders of magnitude more trustworthy than Google in that regard.

  • ‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war

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  • sampling bias

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  • At least 0.2% lied.

  • The Prisoner's Trolley Problemma

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  • Thank you for sharing the link. That webpage is amazing!

  • Walmart just leveled with Americans: China won’t be paying for Trump’s tariffs, in all likelihood you will

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  • Buying local is an option to evade paying tariffs on imported goods.But what do you do if buying local is no real option?I'm thinking of coffee, chocolate, computers, mobile phones, game consoles, cars, etc.

  • 'He is in serious jeopardy': Legal expert warns Trump his back is against the wall

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  • Is it really a threat to muse about what could happen as some random person on the internet?It's not like OP announced to do it or called for it to be done.I'd see it differently if a person with a lot of followers (especially crazy ones) would dare to think something like this aloud. Does this law cover former presidents as well?

    Anyway... Remember: it's a losing battle trying to be tolerant of the intolerant!

  • 'Deranged': Experts tear apart Trump's 'ludicrous' plan on grocery prices

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  • Does it count as a concept of a plan?

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    “They brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture”: IDF torture of Palestinian prisoners is turned into entertainment for Israeli viewers

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  • Thank you for the additional info.I think I just wanted to believe there's at least one religion that leads to good deeds and good deeds only. You may call me naive.

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    “They brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture”: IDF torture of Palestinian prisoners is turned into entertainment for Israeli viewers

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  • Someone doesn't like our comments. Have we kicked a hornet's nest? lol. I've only been able to see Buddhism practiced in the west. I couldn't have imagined how horrible it can be practiced elsewhere.In all fairness, what they do with animals is opposed to Buddhist doctrine.Then again a lot of what (fundamentalist) Christians do is opposed to Christian doctrine.The common denominator seems to be: horrible people doing horrible things in the name of $placeholder.

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    “They brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture”: IDF torture of Palestinian prisoners is turned into entertainment for Israeli viewers

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  • I'd love to get the long version, because from what I've gathered so far Buddhism doesn't appear to be built around aggregation and (ab)use of power.I may be completely off though and would like to have additional information!

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    “They brought Israeli civilians to watch our nude torture”: IDF torture of Palestinian prisoners is turned into entertainment for Israeli viewers

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  • Buddhism wants to have a word with you.

  • Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

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  • Solar panels can have more than 200 watts peak per square meter and provide around 200 kWh per year and square meter, although these values vary a lot depending on where the panels are installed.Given these numbers, generating 200 TWh annually (which is more than the current electric energy consumption of Bitcoin mining devices) would require 10^9 square meters; that's slightly more than 31 square kilometers.Don't misunderstand this as defending the electric energy consumption of Bitcoin mining! I'd rather see this electric energy being used elsewhere.I merely wanted to show how much electric energy can be harvested using solar panels.

  • Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

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  • Yes, there's a queue called mempool.Clogging up the network is possible, but costs money (BTC), because transaction fees need to be added to the transactions and those fees need to be higher than those of the highest not yet processed transactions if "regular" users' transactions shall be delayed.Miners prefer transactions with higher fees (to be precise: higher fees per occupied block space), because they earn them when creating the block successfully - together with the BTC that get issued when a block gets created.

  • Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

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  • Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

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  • Just because it's useless to you doesn't mean it's useless in general.

  • Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

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  • You can look how much space a transaction requires, how much size is available per block and how many blocks per time are being created (at average).The only way to exceed the figure is by creating transactions with 1 (or few) input(s) and a lot of outputs as they are more efficient in terms of space per tx. Individuals rarely have use for that, but exchanges tend to do that.If you want to do your own research, start with the fundamentals and investigate the numbers (size per tx depending on type of tx, size per block, blocks per time).

  • Just 137 crypto miners use 2.3% of total U.S. power — government now requiring commercial miners to report energy consumption

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  • Shall I add the mountain of electronic waste to the list?I mean, Bitcoin mining devices can literally do nothing else but calculate SHA256.Once they can no longer be operated economically, they're garbage.At least Ethereum's PoW ran on GPUs, which can be used for, let's say: gaming!And Ethereum showed that a transition from PoW to PoS is possible.I think that Bitcoin sparked a great idea, but way better implementations of that idea are available. Bitcoin has a massive network effect and first mover advantage. technology wise it's no longer on top of the list.

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  • Prime numbers are searched for doing the PoW. The blockchain essentially contains a data base with prime numbers. As far as I can tell Primecoin never was popular,.but I like the novel approach of doing things, when most cryptocurrencies of that time were lame copies.Btw. the Primecoin creator made Peercoin, which was afaik the first (and apparently still running) network being secured by Proof-of-Stake.