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Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49: -- where ONE (deceased?) Pierce Inveraity(PI) owns most of San Narcisco, where everyone else, the passed-over Preterite, toss their composed loved letters in the waste can to communicate, and their lives become a miracle by Picard's Theorem in the Cauchy integral formula, eg, Exectrix Oedipa and the Paranoids being chased by a pathological Tony `The Jaguar' and his mafia soldier goons, till sufficiently close to the boundary shores of an artificial island in the middle of PI's artificial closed contoured lake, and withess' another miracle. Again.

“By two o'clock in the morning they had each drunk three brandies, and he knew, in truth, that he was not the man she was looking for, and he was glad to know it. "Bravo, lionlady," he said when he left. "We have killed the tiger.”

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”

“He is ugly and sad... but he is all love.”

“[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

Fermina Daza: "No. Forget it."

coinmarketcap.com charts over 190 altcoins.

30 day chart:

http://coinmarketcap.com/aur_30.html

7 day chart:

http://coinmarketcap.com/aur_7.html

"So following their academic study, Moore and Christin calculate a 1/3 failure rate for Bitcoin exchanges."

"Just one year ago, a study by Computer scientists Tyler Moore Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas) and Nicolas Christin (of Carnegie Mellon University) found 40 exchanges offering bitcoin services. Of those 40, 18 went out of business — 13 without warning, including five that collapsed instantly following cyber attacks. Almost all of the exchanges that collapsed took their investors funds with them. They estimated that: “Exchanges handling 275 Bitcoins’ worth of transactions each day have a 20 percent chance of being breached, exchanges handling 5570 Bitcoins have a 70 percent chance of failure” It was calculated that in 2013 the median lifespan of any Bitcoin exchange is 381 days, with a 29.9 percent chance that a new exchange will close within a year of opening. So following their academic study, Moore and Christin calculate a 1/3 failure rate for Bitcoin exchanges…"

http://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/2014/03/22/bitcoin-foundation...

Impressive beautiful page.

Looks like a remarkable interpretation, or btc/alt-currency net original creation.

Not sure what it does --that's Ok, I like the mystery.

Before someone gives you their email, shouldn't they know what is being downloaded, and that it is compatible with their OS or browsers, or what?

Whistleblower Threatens to Expose Corruption at Bitcoin Foundation

http://valleywag.gawker.com/whistleblower-threatens-to-expos...

Definite chip on his shoulder. View a persistent legacy of angry blog posts:

http://two-bit-idiot.tumblr.com/archive

Back story? Anyone know?

"... Exchange rates are skyrocketing, prices on import products (majority of them) rise accordingly, banks put limits on access to debit cards and extreme limits on credit cards. In our biggest bank you literally can't spend more than $20 per day from credit card (and this, combined with higher prices, put strain to people with low income)."

Evgenuiz;

Are you, or have you news, if bitcoin, or other e-currency, is being used, becoming popular as an alternative to your "...you literally can't spend more than $20 per day from credit card", etc?

A wide net, made in Canada, to capture all the fish. The number of hats(competitors?/opportunities?) we now can choose from just exploded ten fold:

"Ethereum can be used to codify, decentralize, secure and trade just about anything: voting, domain names, financial exchanges, crowdfunding, company governance, contracts and agreements of most kind, intellectual property, and even smart property thanks to hardware integration.

Ethereum borrows the concept of decentralized consensus that makes bitcoin so resilient, yet makes it trivial to build on its foundation." To find out more about how Ethereum works, consult the whitepaper:

https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/%5BEnglish%5D-White-Pa....

"... its various Ctrl-Meta key-chords will seem not merely satisfyingly ergonomic for the typical arthropod, but also direct evidence for the universe’s Intelligent Design by some six-legged, multi-jointed God.”

It just feels good. Do it today!

The game already exists, titled Hacker News:

https://news.ycombinator.com/newest

E.g., A play in today's game:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7328214

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puppetmaster3 1 hour ago | link

< Using Baysian type on data is very damaging on society, for those with strong maths:

We'll move from causality( we noticed you are stocking up on baking powder, lets chat) to inference (according to our data there is 85% chance you are not compliant - w/o a cause).

<One outcome: The populace will be demotivated to do anything, just to be safe.>

>

Stardust’s It Is Safe Law:

1> IIS1: To be unknown and invisible is to be safe.

2> IIS2: The Freedom Law:

     We enjoy the freedom of the press, 

the freedom of speech, and the FREEDOM to use neither in our Total Information Awareness digital surveillence state.

3> IIS3: "Oops! I did we again!%$%^$!" Law:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=puppetmaster3

Hacker Newsnew | threads | comments | ask | jobs | submit | puppetmaster3's submissions

A nice simple identity I obtained in high school learning trigonometry:

z^(1/2) = ((z+1)/2)*sin(acos((z-1)/z+1))) for all z

...similar identities may be obtained using atan, etc. This came to me from the euclidean geometry construction of sqrt(z). I would like to have its construction image here, but the ascii art is too much. Perhaps Google would find it. When I messed with it, I noticed for large z, acos()--> 1, it's argument describes an angle going to zero and `bends' the left edge of the circle's subtended arc into a vertical line, say, as a zooming magnification. A dynamic screen as yours would be fun to watch the vertex of enclosed right-angle(largest) of the sqrt(z) half-chord, as you mouse drag this vertex around.

Their has been at least one headline of Iceland's cheap electricity has been harnessed to mine bitcoin. Likely other ecoins as litecoin. That's a nice marriage of circumstances of a small island nation of talented tech (eg: EVE Online - CCP Games's evolving vast servers), botched economy, and few other natural resources to export.

Ask: Such synchronous clocks possible?

Special and general relativity steam-roll over synched digit accuracy, at introducing any object's mass, any object's displacement.

Not gain or lose over five billion years?

How many digits this time?

Tides, quakes, rain on the roof, defeat the possibility of unbounded synched accuracy.

WorldwarP.pl

s/Z/P/g; # P(p) = poverty, wealth disparity

" ...This goes way, way beyond a cheap bus ride - although the public transport scene in Brazil’s big cities would star in Dante’s ninth circle of hell. A manual worker, a student, a maid usually spend up to four hours a day back-and-forth in appalling conditions. And these are private transport rackets controlled by a small group of businessmen embedded with local politicians, who they obviously own."

http://rt.com/op-edge/brazil-protests-world-cup-014/

The AMS needs a `Society of Concerned Mathematicians'. Collectively, it could voice and lobby with authority in DC. Neal Koblitz, of Elliptic Curve Cryptography, has been doing humanitarian crypto outreach for political dissent in Central America for decades.

We need more cracked screen smartphone apps at Google play and itunes.

This cool postal logger generalizes to recycled smartphone hackaday DIY probes recording their adventure and uplink data of anything desired, intrepidly set adrift in the wild:

Telemetry

...is the highly automated communications process by which measurements are made and other data collected at remote or inaccessible points and transmitted to receiving equipment for monitoring. The word is derived from Greek roots: tele = remote, and metron = measure. Systems that need external instructions and data to operate require the counterpart of telemetry, telecommand.

Although the term commonly refers to wireless data transfer mechanisms (e.g., using radio, hypersonic, or infrared systems), it also encompasses data transferred over other media such as a telephone or computer network, optical link or other wired communications like phase line carriers. Many modern telemetry systems take advantage of the low cost and ubiquity of GSM networks by using SMS to receive and transmit telemetry data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry

Telemetry intelligence (TELINT)

...is a subdiscipline of FISINT which is concerned with missiles and other remotely-monitored devices sending back continuous streams of data about their location, speed, engine status and other metrics. This data can provide information on the performance of the missile and especially its throw-weight, i.e. the potential size of its warhead\s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telemetry_intelligence

Also, when your probe is far far away, HN's second page magically concurrent today, provides minimalist command line bash telecommands:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6223022

http://shadabahmed.com/blog/2013/08/16/bang-bang

"[The subpoena] is extremely broad and onerous....While the [Department of Financial Services] says they want to have a conversation with the industry, their actions speak the language of aggressive litigation."

Sets that expected tone of heavy handed future `presumed guilty' confrontation for any new process remaining beyond wetting their beak or their manipulation to directly corrupt or inflate.

"...Republican congressman Justin Amash, who led a revolt that narrowly failed in its effort to cut NSA funding, tweeted:

"Pres Obama believes man who lied to public in congressional hearing about NSA should lead NSA review process meant to build public trust".

Can anyone wrap their head around that the `Pres' is this oblivious to both DC and public opinion?

Coincidentally today:

Crypto-currency for NSA leaker: Snowden fund accepts Bitcoin

Published time: August 12, 2013 14:51

US fugitive Edward Snowden’s defense fund, launched recently by WikiLeaks to raise money for the legal protection of the NSA leaker, has announced it now accepts donations in virtual currency Bitcoin.

http://rt.com/news/bitcoin-snowden-fund-wikileaks-384/

Your sign is mislabeled. The correct spelling is

`Call your local NSA recruiter Today!'.

Proud to be poor?

Not paying taxes into NSA surveillance/military state or any whatever exploitive capitalism as other collared proles. Some people are far too busy than to concern themselves with financial vanity and the distractions that follow it.

Teeming masses of slum youth with linux netbooks must be high on the list of Fort Meade's threat matrix.

Down below, a deck prism illumination is astonishing. Drilling a round hole in the cabin sole is way easier, and a discarded plastic bottle is far less expensive than a vintage Criitenden & Willcox prism. Separate the bleach if you get real thirsty? Watch your head(pun?).

>1. ... > 4. We need to work out how to maintain our freedom and independence of thought when the objects of our attention, our knowledge and our feelings can be observed and (potentially) controlled in detail.

5. We need to become familiar with what are the functions of the new Fort Meade agencies, having to be recently created to supplement the NSA. The NARUS moniker goes "See Clearly, Act Quickly". NSA's `Unbounded Awareness' et al, gets repeated discussion day after day, this is brought about by Snowden's leaks. The `Intelligence Made Actionable' side of the scale has not even been `tin-foiled' yet.

It is believable McCain's poking Putin's eye is no idle threat, or even possibly Russia will be coerced into extraditing Snowden back to US by orchestrated `Action'. This new `Parallel Construction', Bruce's `NSA Creep' is all I've seen suggesting this `Act Quickly'. Who are these new unknown silent baddest alpha predators --without peer-- being fashioned to be released onto the unbounded wild, to take action, or manufacture outcomes whatever USG wants?

So McCain says today US needs to start poking digits(pun?) into Putin's eye, and this NZ fragment leads me to wonder what fist or carrot incentive makes every(?) country in the world pipe their domestic surveillance back to US? Now, how then, do you apply all the world's intel to acquire whatever you want? What new US intel agency with an eagle logo orchestrates the `parallel construction' to `git 'er done'?

Don't remailer services solve the metadata anonymity?

I understand forwarding after a variable waiting period also frustrates sender address detection. Finland still good hosts for these?

Wikipedia:

An anonymous remailer is a server that receives messages with embedded instructions on where to send them next, and that forwards them without revealing where they originally came from. There are Cypherpunk anonymous remailers, Mixmaster anonymous remailers, and nym servers, among others, which differ in how they work, in the policies they adopt, and in the type of attack on anonymity of e-mail they can (or are intended to) resist.

Colin, and it was here, we heard it first:

"...of Gaussian proportions!"

Here on HN we've seen some sort of quasicrystal fabric distributing the prime integers and providing a possible entry onto gaining headway proving the Riemann Hypothesis:

HN search:

http://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2013/06/quasicrystals_an...

http://fadereu.posterous.com/knk103-the-crystals-of-mt-zeta

So OP ca98am79's suggestion of a common consciousness we -as I vaguely understand it - be as transceivers(?) of/with(?) merits some similar consideration, for those still cycling among these perennial questions.

Rowing to City Dock everyday, a recurring observation of complex wave crest interference's semi-chaotic patterns with discrete natural nos sub-wave-train symmetric `beats', share the same medium of all semi-uniform distributed diversely scaled and chaotically asynchronous impulse sources afloat upon all of Eagle Harbor and beyond.

Thank you ca98am79 to boldly post here.

> use hosting in Iceland?

By the Snowden Exclusion Corollary(SEC) of client web services rejection:

Countries having rejected Snowden asylum are US/NSA compromised or will be.

Answer:

No.