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Not seeing such a slippery slope. And again, isn't this specific to Utah only? May I ask if you live in Utah?

And yet, the intention is to deter usage of a product/vice that is a bane on America. Cut the supply is effective at reducing consumption.

Is this really 1A when we are talking about mental health of our children? It's fairly well established that no pornography consumption is a net positive.

This seems more about blocking. Internet activity is already tracked.

Why would this affect other states? Isn't this legislation specific to Utah?

Sounds fine; it's their culture and prerogative. Probably a benefit to deter such consumption for as many youth and young adults as possible, given the negative impact on mental health.

Yes, been following Bunnie. Very impressive.

Is anyone else making similar progress? I've followed along somewhat with the RISC-V movement, but not in sufficient detail.

Any add'l resources in this area are appreciated.

Had a number of 1066's back in the day. Pinnacle of Neve's design.

Stopped coding in 2018. Gave away my small fortune. Went homeless. My time has come. Aloha.

GCHQ used to challenge applicants to disassemble a motor vehicle, and reassemble it indoors. Perhaps this inspired Chris and Mitch's revenge prank on Kent (for Kent's phone spying / leaking stunt)?

Was the agent fired for writing something specifically, or simply for signing up for these networks?

Yes, your hypothesis is a better fit, and makes fewer assumptions. Perhaps the arrangements with Russia were made hurriedly while Snowden was hiding in HK, days prior to departing, as some reports suggest.

However, Snowden had been stealing classified intel premeditatively for a long period of time, and had contact with actors who had the knowledge and contacts to plan such a ruse in advance. Given his high intelligence and exacting personality, haphazardly leaking to the press from HK prior to obtaining asylum seems to be out of character.

I do believe strongly that Snowden would have told elaborate, pre-fabricated lies, if it were to his benefit.

Just pointing out that snowden's passport was cancelled on 20130622 and that he flew out of hk on 20130623. It's not an unreasonable speculation that he planned to wind up in Russia, putting on a convincing show in the process.

connected to A-list circles

many celebs have personal protection details. how such protection details behave likely varies widely..

as for your concerns, pay close attention to your cybersecurity posture before engaging with people who will draw attention to you simply by association.

I can only speculate, but it was during the course of a reference check for someone connected to this circle. So, likely this was done to look into me, demonstrate power over me, and let me know they are "watching".

I was once hacked, stalked and targeted by friends of a celebrity who I had just met. I tried pursuing help about it and was threatened with murder. Then, after promising to report the murder threat, I was told by another person in that social circle that if I talked about the previous incidents that my career reputation would be permanently ruined.

The last person told me in the same conversation that Peter Thiel would recognize him. As Mr. Thiel has many interests, there was no reason to believe this person was connected to Palantir. However, Palantir sure came to mind while I processed this last interaction like a deer in headlights.

With Larry Fink and hedgies involved, Bitcoin only needs, at most, a couple hundred billion to prop up prices well beyond $20k-$25k. Small market, which Fink noted.

$100k would not be an entirely unexpected milestone sooner rather than later.

What happens when you combine extensive knowledge of a user's most intimate secrets and most painful memories with the ability to algorithmically choose targeted content at will, with the intention to amorally experiment on said user? Can you cause long term psychological damage to a user? Would it be justified if this were deemed to be a form of "digital karmic revenge", also determined using social mining algorithms?

What would happen if such weapons were refined on a user across social media platforms over a multi-decade timeframe? Could you invoke self-destruction of a person intentionally?

Snarky tone of your response put aside:

Whether the comment was incorrect in this case related to the paper in question doesn't invalidate the strategy, generally. Might be easier to pass scientific misinfo/disinfo if it were more difficult to reproduce, of course.

The comment was likely done in haste, meant to convey general strat that warrants consideration when examining the paper -- but could be easily invalidated, as you pointed out.

Pretty sure it was just a general comment on the topic of art of war, and not specific to the linked paper.

Yes to all.

Mainly, American culture could use a strong dose of reality check. This appears to be the case in terms of publicly stating that we are retooling global intelligence missions from Cold War (t-40yrs) and War on Terror (t-20yrs), to the China threat.

Awareness of strategies, capabilities of the enemy, and what's at stake will help reduce Western complacency.

I speculated that they may seek to use eugenics, nootropics or other methods to enhance the performance of their (vast) pool of scientists and engineers. This would offer a strategic advantage in accelerating such development, but would assure nothing.

The phrasing of your response re-interpretating/rephrasing my statement is misleading/inaccurate.

If that's the case here, then it isn't indicative of any secret progress.

Art of War: Appear weak when you are strong.

IME, it's plausible that nation/state strat pertinent to QC advances is to hide the true extent of cutting edge breakthroughs. This makes sense considering what's at stake. China is suspected to engage in bioengineering for their soldiers and it's not a stretch to speculate they also seek such synthetic advantages with their vast armies of engineers and scientists. This would lay fertile ground for secret breakthroughs in, e.g., QC.

I assume that both China and USA/fyev seek to obtain secret radical advances in key areas such as QC. The urgency for adopting quantum resistant crypto suggests such concerns might be shared by powers that be. QC breakthroughs are unpredictable, so the smart move is to assume the enemy could make secret advances at any time.

Is it reasonable to assume that many wallets won't get migrated and could eventually be seized by whoever (eventually) possesses a sufficiently strong QC? If Larry Fink is right, then that could be untold billions, assuming for sake of argument BTCUSD goes to $1,000,000 by the time such a QC is feasible.

If Satoshi Nakamoto did lose his keys to those treasure trove wallets, those will be up for grabs, as will anyone who lost keys.

Perhaps hoarded encrypted PCAP's aren't the only motivator for quantum opportunists.

This includes seamlessly migrating wallet keys to a quantum resistant scheme without end user intervention? Seems that users would need to do a kind of transaction using existing keys to new wallet/key pair?

ECC can be theoretically broken with Shor's algorithm:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliptic-curve_cryptography#...

A QC to implement shor's algo at a practical level would need millions of non-ec'ed qubits. At least publicly, we are likely quite far from any such advance.

What's the risk for bitcoin pertinent to entrenched pre-quantum encryption? Are the wallet/private key pairs based on such cryptography?

What's the technical feasibility of migrating BTC's pow scheme to quantum-resistant hashing?

What is the technical feasibility of migrating wallet/private keys to quantum-resistant crypto?

Would any such migration of wallet/private keys be dependent on public/non-public interactions with the blockchain by wallet holders, and would those interactions introduce deanonymization or other risks?

Phoenix does offer a pleasant, streamlined full stack experience, and it does seem kludgey to bake together PHP and Phoenix without good reason.

If I didn't have a team to deal with a large Elixir codebase (a common issue), I'd glue PHP and BEAM together anyway, even going as far as to pass along the "meat and potatoes" backend work to PHP even for socket interactions (or in some asynchronous way, as needed). In that scenario, the Elixir sockets frontend could be fairly minimal, both in terms of codebase and DB interactions, and would possibly not need a lot of code changes over time.

PHP for web is great but you'll still want to use another technology for real time functionality, such as: Elixir/Phoenix, nodejs, Go, Java.