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No magic. You just melt the rock, split it, polish it, write on it with fire and acid, put lightning inside it, teach it many things, and make it speak from afar. See? No magic at all. ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:There%27s_no_cabal.png No such thing.

"The third turtle lied" seems to be from a collection of logic puzzles called "Mathematical Circles". (although that was not in a 'turtles all the way down' context)

There was a security incident in 2002: Trooper Fears the Wurst, Stops Wienermobile in DC -- Hot doggers grilled near Pentagon

related: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=backup+guide

Byte Magazine had an April ad for a Noise Emitting Diode. The symbol was a diode wearing a pair of earmuffs.

There are egyptian paintings showing colossal statues being dragged on sledges by crews of men with ropes. -- https://www.science.org/content/article/scienceshot-ancient-...

The Freefall webcomic can sympathize. http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1500/fc01415.htm

[wasn’t aware of this] That's odd. Anyone familiar with the history of anonymous email services and remailers would know about the penet, cotse, and cypherpunk communities in the 1990s. It was a fertile field. Odd that you haven't bumped into anyone from that space.

https://codamail.com/aboutus.html -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixminion -- https://www.spamgourmet.com/index.pl?printpage=faq.html

Japan incinerates its plastic.

It supposedly has something to do with de-aligning water molecules via microwave RF and affecting surface tension and gas exchange. Sounds like fringe woo. They partnered with Themo Fisher at one point, but TF has taken that page down.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264640617_Influence...

Our neighbors put a tv in their little girl's room, but it was rigged to only show the local PBS station. Worked out well.

SSSS is not the official canonical file format for SSS. Shamir did not specify an official file format when he described his technique. Each implementation knows how to recombine its own shares. The web apps can be saved and used on any device.

In a group of 12 people, the expected high-low range is about 15×3.26 = 49 points. (75 to 125)

There's a related 2-man sudo login system here, not sure how finegrained it is.

https://github.com/Argonne-National-Laboratory/Pam-2man-Auth

There are several browser-based versions which can be used online or downloaded to use offline.

https://bs.parity.io/ -- http://passguardian.com/ -- https://iancoleman.io/shamir/

Plain vanilla Shamir is information-theoretic secure and is completely impervious to QC. I can take a 1-byte secret, make 'threshold of 10' Shamir shares from it, give you 9 of the 1-byte shares, and no computer in the universe can determine the secret. (In practice, Shamir systems need to add a MAC or checksum as an integrity check, so IRL they're a few bytes larger.)

"uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till"

Julian invented the tinfoil hat.

Khipu researchers don't have it easy. It's rough when your only Rosetta stone is a Gordian knot.

With the decline of cigarettes, there are homo sapiens children growing up today who have never seen fire. First time in two million years.

Ditto Dr. Eugen Weber's 'The Western Tradition' - https://duckduckgo.com/?q=eugen+weber&ia=videos&iax=videos

There's a gallery of variant versions of Cinderella from different countries, even China. In many of them she has an enchanted cow. http://www.365cinderellas.com/

You can make a wooden basin or waterproof pit. Fill it with water, drop in hot stones from a fire. This is common in preceramic cultures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_boiler -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_boiling

"ɢʀᴇᴇᴛɪɴɢs ғᴇʟʟᴏᴡ ғʙɪ ᴀɢᴇɴᴛ"

"If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination. Once begun upon this downward path, you never know where you are to stop. Many a man has dated his ruin from some murder or other that perhaps he thought little of at the time." -- Thomas De Quincey

There are ultra thin credit card size BT / GPS trackers designed for wallets. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=credit+card+size+gps+tracker&ia=we...

Area code 272 (CSC for 'Cancer Support Community') 1-272-867-5309

There's a star trek fan who has a primary dog and an emergency backup dog. There's also the british 'heir and a spare'.

There's a 'build the Japanese train system' board game "1889" -- https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/23540/shikoku-1889 -- https://www.amazon.com/Shikoku-1889-Railways-Players-Minute/...