Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-06 Thread Marcus Daniels
17 6:40 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain Yes, exactly! One person's dystopia is another's utopia. On June 5, 2017 9:24:38 PM PDT, Steven A Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote: >Glen - > >And n

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-06 Thread gepr ⛧
Yes, exactly! One person's dystopia is another's utopia. On June 5, 2017 9:24:38 PM PDT, Steven A Smith wrote: >Glen - > >And now you sound a little like Kurt Vonnegut's satire: Harrison >Bergeron > >/In the year 2081,

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-05 Thread Steven A Smith
Glen - And now you sound a little like Kurt Vonnegut's satire: Harrison Bergeron /In the year 2081, amendments to the Constitution dictate that all Americans are fully equal and not allowed to be smarter, better-looking, or more

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-05 Thread glen ☣
There's no maybe about that. While my friends were counterprotesting on Sunday, I was mowing the lawn and quaffing lager like a good provincial. Just don't go tracing contributions to sci-hub ... That would worry me. On 06/05/2017 04:17 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Maybe I traced out some of

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-05 Thread Marcus Daniels
xity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain Or, better yet, donate with a traceable transaction chain. We're not anonymous because we're literally anonymous. We're anonymous because we are legion. Or, as my biker buddies say: safety in numbers. On

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-05 Thread glen ☣
Or, better yet, donate with a traceable transaction chain. We're not anonymous because we're literally anonymous. We're anonymous because we are legion. Or, as my biker buddies say: safety in numbers. On 06/05/2017 03:51 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > I noticed some but not all of those

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-05 Thread Marcus Daniels
. -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 4:27 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain Heh, yeah, I agree. I'm just

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-05 Thread glen ☣
t: Monday, June 05, 2017 3:58 PM > To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain > > > Ugh. So, now that only pretty people can make music, you're arguing that > only pretty people can run the governmen

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-05 Thread Marcus Daniels
something for others must be treated with suspicion. -Original Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Monday, June 05, 2017 3:58 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Get

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-05 Thread glen ☣
Ugh. So, now that only pretty people can make music, you're arguing that only pretty people can run the government? I like the idea of the masks many of the antifa people wear. Along with the bias that we think pretty people are more intelligent, competent, whatever, we have: The Code for

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-06-05 Thread Marcus Daniels
Glen writes: I've been teasing the young ones today, but this one raised £2.7m for the British red cross with a week of preparation. She should run for office! Meanwhile, I’m looking

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-25 Thread Russell Standish
Another little tip for those who type their emails in emacs (like I do). Under Option>Multilingual Environment>Toggle Input Method When it asks for "Input method" type tex. Now you can enter Unicode characters by typing their TeX equivalent eg ∀∀∃∃. Enjoy! ⌣ --

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
Thanks! Frank Wimberly Phone (505) 670-9918 On May 24, 2017 12:04 PM, "glen ☣" wrote: > Oh, and > > Special characters across all X apps > http://blog.agent-based-modeling.com/index.php/gepr/scaaxa > > The tricky ones are the "Combining" characters like the

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-24 Thread glen ☣
Oh, and Special characters across all X apps http://blog.agent-based-modeling.com/index.php/gepr/scaaxa The tricky ones are the "Combining" characters like the ̶s̶t̶r̶i̶k̶e̶o̶u̶t. On 05/24/2017 10:47 AM, glen ☣ wrote: > UTF-8 /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose > > On 05/24/2017

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-24 Thread glen ☣
UTF-8 /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose On 05/24/2017 10:50 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > But V doesn't occur within the scope of the universal quantifier. Where do > you find the logic symbols? -- ☣ glen FRIAM Applied

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-24 Thread Frank Wimberly
: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2017 10:59 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain Ha! The obligatory pointing out of the least resistive path. Or perhaps as Gillian might point

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-24 Thread glen ☣
Ha! The obligatory pointing out of the least resistive path. Or perhaps as Gillian might point out, those who state the obvious exhibit more power (∀V≠0|R→0,P→±∞). On 05/24/2017 09:30 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > Back in the Usenet days, people would prefix remarks like that as "Ob >

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-24 Thread glen ☣
Well sure, TANSTAAFL. But, especially given Owen's (and apparently Stephen's) loaded question "What is complexity?", to write it all off as "tools don't imply political motives" is, itself, a loaded answer. We have overwhelming evidence that complexity is bound up with robustness through

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-23 Thread Marcus Daniels
Message- From: Friam [mailto:friam-boun...@redfish.com] On Behalf Of glen ? Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2017 2:33 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain Ah, yes, here it is. I should have bookmarked it.

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-23 Thread Marcus Daniels
Glen writes: Perhaps market forces can help here. If in order for entertainers to entertain, it may become necessary to hire sophisticated private security. Ariana's people could take additional measures that ordinary law enforcement could not. It seems there could be an opportunity for

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-23 Thread glen ☣
On 05/23/2017 12:05 PM, Marcus Daniels wrote: > CPU based mining is incredibly inefficient. Right. But the point is about the unintended social side effects of any given tech. E.g. script kiddies trying to hijack your computer for mining because they don't understand as much about mining as

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-23 Thread glen ☣
And "get ready" has more than one dimension: It Isn’t Ransomware, But It Will Take Over Your Server Anyway http://www.pandasecurity.com/mediacenter/pandalabs/ransomware-remote-desktop-protocol/ On 05/17/2017 12:36 PM, Tom Johnson wrote: > Techno evolution? > >

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-18 Thread glen ☣
Very cool. Thanks for the idea! I've never profiled either GPG or any blockchain transactions. Ever since the 2nd round of StorJ testing, I began using my Coinbase wallet exclusively ... My penchant for wiping and reinstalling the OS kept interfering with my (lack of) wallet management. On

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-18 Thread Barry MacKichan
There’s an article in Quanta Magazine (https://www.quantamagazine.org) that claims RSA encryption will still be viable after the quantum computing revolution. I only skimmed it, but what struck me was the mention of terabyte encryption keys. --Barry On 18 May 2017, at 10:37, glen ☣ wrote:

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-18 Thread Gillian Densmore
As an example where it's used for games: https://thenextweb.com/gaming/2017/03/07/blockchain-deals-gaming-industrys-troubles/ https://www.google.com/#q=how+blockchain+works >From what I gather, someone who works with it by all meen step in: A bunch someone asks a lot of dwarfs that work reely

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-18 Thread glen ☣
There's still time for early registration here: https://2017.pqcrypto.org/conference/ If I had even the slightest professional duties in the space, I'd take advantage of the opportunity to visit Utrecht! On 05/18/2017 09:13 AM, Gillian Densmore wrote: > Josh or someone else can explain it

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-18 Thread Gillian Densmore
Josh or someone else can explain it better than i. It's been a thing for as you know for Peering and P2P since IIRC the 80s. It's basically how banks works. It got popular with 'fake' (*.Coin) money to sensably ask: well if (insert economy) simply isn't working. Then these might be a better

Re: [FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-18 Thread Owen Densmore
I blush to say that I'm not current with blockchain technology. Or why it works. Or why I'd want to use it. If it is as robust as it appears, I'm wondering if it will have the same revolutionary impact on the internet (tcp/ip and protocols built on top of it), as the Brave browser is having on

[FRIAM] Get ready for Blockchain

2017-05-17 Thread Tom Johnson
Techno evolution? https://blockgeeks.com/guides/what-is-blockchain-technology/ tj Tom Johnson Institute for Analytic Journalism -- Santa Fe, NM USA 505.577.6482(c)505.473.9646(h) Society of Professional