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Take a look at the discount for segregated witness transactions. You'll see that in a world with segwit there are more transactions per block than without.

I know of 2 Google van guys in MTV and the parent is not one of them. It's definitely a trend.

What do you think the purpose of the NSA is? I'm trying to understand if you're arguing that the NSA should not exist or if in this case it is acting outside its jurisdiction?

Yes, I agree, we must address all the problems brought to our attention immediately.

What the thinker thinks the prover proves. Instead of starting some metaconversation, it might be more productive to address how this information is new news or why the NSA should not be spying on foreign intelligence?

I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!

But seriously, is this not what the NSA is paid to do?

A good paper on this point "A Fistful of Bitcoins": https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~smeiklejohn/files/imc13.pdf

Are we ? The mass Internet surveillance by the u.s. gov was known well before snowden [1], albeit the specific actors were not. Post snowden I've seen public outcry lead to a destabilization of NSA meanwhile private corporations are collecting more data than ever--is this really freer?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A

Are you being sarcastic ?

http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-...

Along the lines of a Snowden conspiracy theory, Dave Emory has done a fair amount of research and constructs quite a complex theory (see the "For a The Record" series on spitfirelist). He presents some interesting arguments that serve as counter point to the pervasive (libertarian) rhetoric that hails Snowden as a champion of freedom.

I think you're right.

The mantra of the fundamental materialist is always "it is only a coincidence" and it is quite useful to recite to explain away topics that might make one uncomfortable. Another good one is "correlation is not equal to causation" (except when it agrees with my preconceived reality tunnel). If you repeat it enough times or with enough conviction it might even start to sound true!

I attended Gunn in 2006 and this was happening in waves before I got there and continues to happen in waves since. There are guards that sit by the tracks (sometimes 24/7) to look out for students who are looking to take their lives in this specific way (buy them a coffee or donut on a cold night, they'll appreciate it). This is occurring at one of the most educated, affluent areas in the world. Hell even Radiohead poked fun at how perfect the place is. My AP CS class covered topics that weren't even included in my undergraduate CS degree at top ranked UC, and my social network from this school is more influential than any networks I made in college or graduate school.

If the suicide rate did meet some statistical "norm" then that would be exceptional. Why are kids killing themselves in utopia? Why are some of the worlds most intelligent, rich, and power adults burying their children?

EDIT: "paid guards" -> "guards".

Thank you for sharing your experience.

General semantics helped me be aware of how easy it is to confuse the map for the territory, as well as adopt models based on their usefulness. As a great philosopher once said, reality is what you can get away with.

Methamphetamine is legal so long as you have a permission slip to buy it from an approved dealer (ask for your doctor for desoxyn).

They do have research labs, eg lab 126 and a9.

Neophilic interests often span areas that are taboos within (American) mainstream society. It seems to come with the territory of genius, but some are better at hiding it than others. Tesla's ether physics and Wilhelm Reich's orgone come to mind. From [1]:

(Eric S.) Raymond observes a high concentration of neophiles in or around what he calls "leading edge subcultures" such as science fiction fandom, neo-paganism, transhumanism, etc. as well as in or around nontraditional areas of thought such as fringe philosophy or the occult.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neophile

A world dominated by the dogma of the fundamental materialists is quite scary indeed. Geniuses such as Ramanujan would never see their gifts blossom.

``...and claimed to dream of blood drops that symbolised her male consort, Narasimha, after which he would receive visions of scrolls of complex mathematical content unfolding before his eyes. He often said, "An equation for me has no meaning, unless it represents a thought of God."

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

Yep, going to leave this here again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Inquisition

From the latest reports it seems that the advanced torture, cough ahem enhanced interrogation, techniques were designed and used partially to craft evidence to support an Iraq invasion [1], which seems even more sinister than what you had mentioned.

[1] http://www.democracynow.org/2014/12/23/ex_bush_official_us_t...

But surely the military industrial complex has the incentive to have the public's best interest at heart when it come to defining cyber warfare doctrine?

there is much more to a hire than just technical ability (eg., personality fit, overqualified, will they stick around, etc.)

they're using 200 bits. look at the generalized birthday problem section on your cited link--the number of samples for there to be greater than a 50% probability of a collision is > (3-2ln2)/6 + sqrt(2(2^200)ln2) = 1.4910^30. For a probability of 0.01 of a collision you expect at least sqrt((2^200)ln(1/(1-0.01))=1.27*10^29 samples.

I'm just going to leave this here:

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

Perhaps I misunderstand your comment, but you actually don't need to sort to compute a median (see O(n) median of medians algorithm [1]).

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_of_medians

Do you find judgement and shame to be constructive communication tools for positive change?

Someone already mentioned in a previous thread that this is an anti-dos method.

As an interesting aside, it appears GCHQ had public key encryption almost a decade earlier (although not published until recently, of course).

"...I am dubious about the actual epistemic value of the psychedelic experience; my interest, like William James, is in what I can learn from the experience about myself and religion."

If the mystical trip is what one is shooting for 10ug doses from blotter paper purchased from silk road in one's living room is just going to give you indigestion at best. If the author is serious about exploring this experience, I recommend to the author to step outside of his comfort zone and read as much as he can about what the psycohnauts (e.g. shulgin, mckenna, RAW, leary, watts, huxley, lilly) say (w.r.t. dosages, set, setting, _tools not toys!!!_, etc.) and then experiment with larger doses. Your life probably will change profoundly, for better or worse, but there is no going back. This discussion gives a glimpse into the material: < http://deoxy.org/t_weeke1.htm >.

"And this brings us to one of the issues around psychedelics. There are a lot of wannabe experts running around who didn't take enough, because you have to take a lot -- not a LOT -- but you have to take a frightening amount to get into what it's really about. People who have taken, you know, 50 gamma of LSD or 100 gamma of LSD or two grams of mushrooms or something like that, they are not qualified to hold forth on the nature of the psychedelic experience, because those doses don't deliver it to you. What they deliver is the periphery of the psychedelic experience: accelerated thought processes, a kind of depth and richness to cognition that is unfamiliar, an ability to analyze situations from unusual perspectives, or to reach unexpected conclusions."

If you don't want to go the drug route, I've had profound mystical experiences sober with flotation tanks and kundalini yoga.

EDIT: I should also mention that I've had out of body experiences with light and sound machines (i.e. < http://www.toolsforwellness.com/light-sound-machines.html >), but I'm hesitant to recommend these as they're newer and I suspect less researched (more fringe). Alternatively, ecstatic dance is a fun sober way to reach states of ecstasy, and there's lots of it in Silicon Valley!

I've been seeing this recently (past month) as well on 237, along with another coworker.