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some info on purism
by Punk-Stasi 2.0 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

An Interview With Zlatan Todoric, Open-Source Developer & Former Purism CTO https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Zlatan-Todoric-Interview

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TheHill: DOJ says surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Page lacked evidence
by jim bell 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

TheHill: DOJ says surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Page lacked evidence. https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/479621-doj-says-surveillance-of… Jim Bell's comment:Hopefully, this will lead to the elimination of the "FISA court" completely.

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Mossad vs. the CIA
by Ryan Carboni 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

Who will win? https://www.adl.org/resources/backgrounders/proud-boys-0

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Re: Glenn Greenwald
by Ryan Carboni 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

John Schindler was right, Glenn Greenwald was a Russian asset and Brazil's prosecution of him is no doubt motivated by some kind of quid pro quo between Brazil and the CIA.

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NYT: Scale of China’s Wuhan Shutdown Is Believed to Be Without Precedent
by Ryan Carboni 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

Keeping in mind that half a decade ago the city of Boston was shut down to search for two bombers that mysterious slipped through numerous warning systems, the New York Times believes that a mass quarantine is totally ... indicative of the Chinese political system? Our press, pro-cartel, pro-Islam, pro-virus... on the topic of pro-Cartel: https://nitter.net/nataliejohnsonn/status/1192578784366649346 https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/nn4knz/the-mexican-mormon-war-full-length https://www.thedailybeast.com/mexican-drug-cartels-vs-a-mormon-sect-behind-… They all ought to be fired and replaced by people who can actually think for themselves.

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Theft
by other.arkitech 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

It makes a lot of sense to me that tax equals theft. However, my thoughts about tax goes on like when you buy a cup of coffee. It is a self-choice to decide to commit to enter a shop and order one. Once you committed the order on the counter you've entered into voluntary debt. Now you'll run into problems if you decide to run away without pay. Parallelism with public affairs are: replacing "cup of coffee" with roads, education, health or whatever is considered public services. Opting-in into Gov is like ordering the coffee, although Gov don't allow you to opt-out. Tax is theft since the moment they don't allow you to voluntarily opt in or out. If you opt-in the Tax is no longer tax but paying as a consumer. Problem is how do you opt-out without using public resources. The libertarian approach is good. You use public resources and you voluntarily pay whatever you consider, including not paying at all.. 2 extremes: 1.- Nobody pays Public services deprecate, vanish and nobody cares about. Soon people would start donating bits to increase the quality. 2. Everybody contributes to the pot Public services will adjust to the size of the pot. Individually you would 'vote' to make it better or worst by donating more or less to the pot. Reach an equilibrium which is self-adjusting continuously. In my Public System project I called it Tax, but my 'Tax' must not be confused with the notion of theft. It is more like 1.-commit, 2.-pay. Still finding out the right algorithm, all ideas are welcome. Thanks4reading Other Arkitech Sent with [ProtonMail](https://protonmail.com) Secure Email.

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Glenn Greenwald
by jim bell 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

In Defense of Glenn Greenwald https://news.yahoo.com/defense-glenn-greenwald-212617850.html

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Re: Chernobyl Mindset
by Ryan Carboni 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

I was wrong, we are spraying Chernobyl on our roads. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/oil-gas-fracking-ra…

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[Cryptography] Proper Entropy Source
by Ryan Carboni 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

>If A and B are independent then H(B|A) = H(B) and H(AB) = H(A) + H(B) Processors/circuit operate slightly differently under different types of load. Measuring ram latency vs MMU latency is slightly different. Measuring the latency of a single load is different than the latency of multiple loads from ram.

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Marxism rises: AOC: “billionaires are inherently, morally corrupt,” - [MINISTRY] [PEACE]
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Jan '20

23 Jan '20

>From the WARNING department of WARNINGs! Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “No one ever makes a billion dollars,” she said. “You take a billion dollars.” And the crowd went wild. ... “billionaires are inherently, morally corrupt,” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJtr8HXwsEs This envy-fuelled Marxism continues to rise for the moment. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez told the audience that wealthy people “sat on a couch” while “undocumented workers” earning “slave wages” created all the wealth and value. She went on, chuckling that “there is a case” that “billionaires are inherently, morally corrupt,” and that “if Jeff Bezos wants to be a good person he’d turn Amazon into a worker cooperative. . .” And this is the solution that AOC is posing; she wants to completely upend the system and turn the country into a Marxist collective. Notwithstanding the corrupt-ness or otherwise of Bezos, Gates or Zuckerberg, this scurge of Marxism and its consent to destroy civilization on the effective foundation of envy, is on all our heads, literally (according to history - Lenin and Trotsky, Pol Pot, Stalin and others). You see, first they come for to slaughter the billionaires, and most don't speak out against the evil of envy-fuelled Marxism, then they come to slaughter the millionaires, and most don't speak out against the evil of envy-fuelled Marxism, then they come to slaughter the intellectuals and most don't speak out against the evil of envy-fuelled Marxism, and then they come for you. 'When will I speak out?' Back to AOC: AOC is clearly an intelligent person, and some of what she says is true. One of her central themes, in fact, is that a lot of people are getting screwed by the system. And it’s hard to argue with that. The primary danger, as is the case with most politicians, is that AOC doesn’t seem to have a grasp of the problem. Why are people getting screwed by the system? Why is healthcare so expensive? Why is education so expensive? Why haven’t many workers’ wages kept up with inflation? She makes no attempt to understand the root cause of these issues, and that’s extremely counterproductive. No one can solve a problem which they haven’t properly defined. Instead, AOC simply blames wealthy people for all the ills of the world – the wealth gap, environmental issues, social injustice, etc. And her solution for everything is to confiscate their property. Not to be outdone, two separate sets of video recordings have recently been leaked by Project Veritas in which Bernie Sanders campaign staffers call for violent revolution and for wealthy people to be incarcerated in forced labor camps. One of them even said, “Guillotine the rich!” ... And all of this, of course, has taken place in a time when gangs of violent thugs (who call themselves ‘Antifa’) have started roaming the streets of major cities and physically assaulting their perceived political opponents. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WzMZxT-41k It almost makes me breathe a sigh of relief: it’s finally out there in the open. These Bolsheviks are finally saying what’s really on their minds– they’re not bothering to hide their true thoughts anymore. They want to punish and kill rich people. They want violence. They want to steal private property and redistribute it to workers. It almost seems like a weird twist on that hilarious scene in Monty Python where the peasant from the “anarcho-syndicalist commune” gets into an altercation with King Arthur and shouts, “Now we see the violence inherent in the system!” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axE83zcx6wY Except it’s not a comedy. This is real life. And all of it would have been unthinkable just a few years ago. Justify the lynching of billionaires, and you justify the lynching of yourself and your family - all your privilege, see... - You live and work in a literal pod? That's -privilege- and don't you forget it, or it's the gulag for you and your unborn children! - You have a degree, and $150,000 in debt? Moar privilege, WATCH YOUR STEP, you OWE YOUR LIFE (and all your priviledge) to the 6 billion poor people in the world! - Got good marks at college? What else but unearned privilege - your marks might be communalized soon, for EQUITY, MUFFAH! How DARE you even consider opposing equity, inclusivity, and infinity reparations! Right-think camps for you! Original article quoted extensively above: "Now We See The Violence Inherent In The System" https://www.zerohedge.com/political/now-we-see-violence-inherent-system

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