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2019-10-02 at 10:56 PM UTC in I just met a Polack in a hostel in Japan
Originally posted by OG_GREENPLASTIC_JOHNSON_III damn i wish i was in japan. where are you going/what are you doing there?
I got the JR pass thing so I can take the shinkansen and a lot of the local trains for free so I'm kind of all over the place. Started in Tokyo, then down to an island off shikoku, Kyoto, Osaka, I'm in Narra now. The main thing im doing is looking for pictures of this blue platapus and drinking sake and shochu
Originally posted by mmQ More pictures lanyard. Or some POV footage. Please and thanks.
Originally posted by Sudo Japan is a very interesting place. Is a hostel basically the only place to stay for under a billion yen?
In tokyo, pretty much yeah. Outside of that not so much. I stayed in a business hotel type place in Osaka for like $75. I'm staying in a hostel here because the location is walking distance to the temples and shrines I want to see in the area. Also these guys are just chilling outside:
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2019-09-25 at 10:47 AM UTC in Fuck Mars. Let's go to Venus and make cloud cities.I approve of this plan
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2015-06-27 at 8:32 AM UTC in Any wantreprenuers here?There's definitely a lot of people that fit that description in my neck of the woods. I think Paul Graham was devastatingly effective in rolling a certain flavor of entrepreneurialism into mainstream programmer culture which tbh I resent a little bit. I have no problem with people wanting to start their own businesses and bring a new product to market. I came close to doing the same with a hobby project I was working on with a friend. But I think it has, in some sense, marginalized the fact that programmers primarily... write programs. Most of us have zero special access to market information, the only thing that makes this programmers-as-entrepreneurs image feasible is that there's a class of products that require programmers to build and some of us luck out in picking a good idea to go implement. But it seems to draw people who aren't interested in the craft of programming first but rather the more motivated sort of "idea people" who are in the field to make their product and retire or whatever. IDK, maybe that's just me being a curmudgeon but sometimes I wish a few more of my coworkers were interested in automata theory and compilers and a few less in building the next big social network.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-13 at 9:18 AM UTC in Trump Vaping banI will not rest until 80+% of high school kids vapeThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-15 at 7:37 PM UTC in Super NIS Minecraft Server 2 TurboI know it's not what was said in OP but if you're just going to fuck with people and grief and not build anything then I'm happy with you being banned. I'm not going to keep my valuables in plain sight but I don't want to invest time building things if there's some psycho running around doing nothing but fucking my stuff up. I want to build public works projects, I want to connect the isolated islands of civilization of our great server. I want to tame the great untamed wilds of falcoserver
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2019-09-19 at 8:22 AM UTC in Super NIS Minecraft Server 2 TurboPut up some beacons from soy crimea over to lannysport, although I need to build a harbor. Not that far but can't quite see it from the respective shores, and you have to go through/around a swamp so if nothing else it will make getting to spawn faster for me. There's a significant river system I've been building canals to connect and I need to canal it out to the ocean too. Water transport really is pretty efficient.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-15 at 8:50 AM UTC in ATTN : Lanny, aldra, sophie, other coders.I'm not sure, you could try to create an identity system where you can verify "this video that John gave me is the same as the video that John published a checksum for" but I don't think it does anything to validate something like "this video of scarlett johansson taking the D is real", and if no checksum is published (and almost none will be when a proposed technology is trying to get adoption) then you can say absolutely nothing about the veracity of a video or its author.
But even this limited use case of verifying a given video is what a given author intended to distribute is already by normal cryptographic signing without any need for a distributed ledger, "just" key exchange. I'm not sure what ground you'd be gaining by doing blockchain stuff with it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-09-15 at 7:06 PM UTC in ATTN : Lanny, aldra, sophie, other coders.
Originally posted by vindicktive vinny what im looking for is a technology that can prove and verify the authencity of the footages taken by tying it to the very camera where the footages came from and has remain unaltered.
checksums can prove the integrity of files but not the source they came from.
Don't think you can do it. There's nothing I can do the make you trust that a video I say is authored by my camera really was. We could prove that it's my camera attesting to having captured a video, but you can't trust that I didn't just find a video and then have my camera attest in some way to having captured it, the reason being that you fundamentally can't trust my hardware to report that it did something, you have to assume I have control over the behavior of it.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-09-15 at 8:54 AM UTC in body modification implant
Originally posted by park police Electrodes and/or evoked potentials.
If there was something your ears heard that a microphone couldn't, you can still record it^
Something similar can be done with your vision, although it'll be more complex. https://patents.google.com/patent/US3951134A/en
There's a hint at the complexity, otherwise, you'd have to implant electrodes in the brain. Of course, the US government has classified technology similar to US3951134A that allows signals intelligence to use your eyes as a camera. How it works? Likely by using ELF waves associated with the visual cortex, rather than interferometry.
A lot of people have noticed signals intel doing this to them, and it's unlikely interferometry is always being used because that would be more complicated.
If you figure out a way to do this, it's probably going to fall under the invention secrecy act and be considered a national security secret, so they likely won't allow you to distribute it, and possibly may confiscate it.
US3951134A uses interferometry.
Some people propose that the US signals intelligence uses "smart dust" or neural dust, referred to by Julian Assange right before he was locked up, but in my opinion, it requires no implant. They have figured out a way to turn your eyes into a camera by simply using ELF waves.
And I don't think this involves HAARP. I think it may involve nano wires to transmit ELF waves. You either have to have a super massive antenna, or heterodyning like HAARP, in order to produce ELF waves. But DNA can produce ELF waves, and can act as a nano wire/transmitter….
So, good luck with that idea.
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2019-09-15 at 3:57 AM UTC in Super NIS Minecraft Server 2 TurboThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-11 at 3:10 AM UTC in Official NIS September 11th Party.New York Jets win the superbowl!The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-11 at 12:54 AM UTC in Official NIS September 11th Party.woo! Fuck america!
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2019-09-07 at 4:01 AM UTC in Minecraft on the Nintendo Switch is awesome>not playing on a PC
fucking n00bThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2019-09-06 at 6:03 PM UTC in The R'tarded thread: The Shitfucking Edidtion 💩🖕that wax just made me lazy, those square they make me looserThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-06 at 6:25 AM UTC in What would you do if your 13 year old son/daughter started smoking weed?"smoke spice pussy"The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-04 at 12:30 AM UTC in Members you'd murder without hesitationur mum's pussy - been murdering that for a while nowThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-04 at 1:01 AM UTC in Image i drew of CandyRein
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2019-09-03 at 4:18 AM UTC in Just got out of jail, worst weekend of my lifeI see you had to edit your post about 8 times to get it right. I bet you had to look up the lyricsThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-03 at 4:16 AM UTC in All of us have social needs that are not being satisfied in the physical world ..your mom has social needs that are being satisfied by my penisThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2019-09-02 at 10:42 PM UTC in atlas tugged
Originally posted by gadzooks If Rand's position in atlas tugged is anything like how I envision libertarianism, isn't the whole point that literally anyone can change? (Say, into some archetypal vision of perfection, for example; better themselves - rags to riches - etc).
Rand, and I'm not the first person to notice this, was extremely bipolar on this and it's one of a few points where she's basically incoherent under analysis. Rand definitely holds to this kind of idea that you "own your own destiny" or whatever, her writing is filled to the brim with the with rags to riches narrative, rugged independent characters scrapping their way into achievement. On the other hand, ironically, her fiction also absolutely reeks of essentialism. Fountainhead is a great example of this where very early on it becomes imminently clear that there are two classes of people in the book: the moral elect comprised of Rorak, Dominique, and Wynand who are mysterious psuedo-complex, and intrinsically more competent than everyone else. No character ever moves between the ruggedly independent and morally superior class and the herd-mentality untermensch plebeians. The best the under-class can hope for is to realize their folly in a contrived existential crisis and then exit stage left. The over-class are, and I believe these are actual adjectives used to describe them, "immovable" and "untouchable".
To Rand it seems that anyone can forge their own way and achieve greatness, but only if they're endowed with the magical and rare quality of being autisticly unaware that society is a thing and unexplained genius and talent at everything, including, and quite awkwardly depicted, sex.
The plot synopsis of Atlas Tugged is more or less "good sexy non-herd people build trains and live in utopia, everyone else suffers until they realize they can't live without the sexy moral elect, wealthy capitalists triumph over everyone else because god knows nothing can ever be accomplished without massive wealth inequality, the end".
So yeah, you can take Rand as slightly more modern Horatio Alger if, and only if, you view yourself as the magically talented and hardworking and sexy moral elite (which of course every fan of Rand does). Otherwise she's an essentialist autocrat who wraps herself in an imagined philosophy of meritocracy.
