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so brave

What an incredibly profound statement /s

coool

Yeah wave that magic wand joe. How about you have a plan first instead of acting like you give a shit.

ye

When will this sub get off Joe Biden’s Patriot Act-loving, corporate-owned dick Sorry but he goes directly against everything Yang and Humanity Forward embody

It's almost parody how low the bar is now.

I am sure the payroll taxes of Amazon employees more than makes up for the lack of corporate tax. I suppose the could stop hiring so many people and instead direct the money to corporate tax, but why would that better?

That’s what trump said.

Amazon pays the taxes it owes.

Anyone who has been in Congress and hasn’t made an effort to change the tax code has no right to complain about Amazon obeying the laws that only Congress has the power to change.

So he wants to get rid of the loss carry forward (net operating loss) provision of the tax code, originally created in 1917? Because that’s all Amazon doing.

He says popular things after other people make them popular, but he does not commit to an implementation because that might be unpopular. I welcome a man with no ideas over a man with bad ideas, but was this the best we could do?

Please stop spamming r/politics articles here. This isn't the place.

You ain’t black if you don’t vote for joe Biden. His words not mine

Wow thanks Joe Biden

"The person who's going to win is either going to be me, or someone who sounds exactly like me."

-Andrew Yang

Biden has been in government for 1,000 years, if he want Amazon to pay more tax he's had more than enough time to make it happen.

Better follow through on that Sleepy!

Joe will say anything to get elected at this point.

Trump will just say anything.

Why are we here?

Wow. How brave of him to take such a controversial stance.

I try to avoid amazon whenever possible. Sadly, that's been hard to do since I can't go many places during the pandemic.

Which one? There's 9.

Amazon has not met their financial commitments to the city of Seattle for a very long time. There have been small gestures relative to their size/impact over time, but the city will never recoup their losses and the outsized financial ratio of payment to benefit the city derives only serves the people who work at Amazon.

yes

lol as soon as that Bezos campaign contribution check clears, Joe will stop mentioning any of this. What a tool.

I wish they had also researched the mimblewimbe coins

Here are my takeaways, overall well worth the read but definitely take it with a grain of salt like Sarang said 🙂

https://twitter.com/sethisimmons/status/1264298054364119041?s=21

From PDF:

Abstract

Many alt-coins developed in recent years make strong privacy guarantees, claiming to be virtually untraceable. This paper explores the extent to which these claims are true after the first appraisals were made about these coins. In particular, we will investigate Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC), competitors in the private cryptocurrency space. We will test how traceable these currencies are after the most recent security updates, and how they hold up against their claims. We run some traceability experiments based on previously published papers for each coin. Results show that, introducing strict security and anonymity requirements into the cryptocurrency ecosystem makes the coin effectively untraceable, as shown by Monero. On the other hand, Zcash still hesitates to introduce changes that alter user behavior. Despite its strong cryptographic features, transactions are overall more traceable.

Disclaimer: Preprints have not undergone any formal peer review. Anyone can post a preprint.

Here is the list of acceptance criteria for the IACR preprint archive, where this preprint appears.

TLDR;

5.1 Monero The anonymity of Monero has evolved to a large extent in the recent few years. With the introduction of RingCT and the increase of mandatory mixins to 10, it is much harder to trace the transactions. We investigated the effectiveness of three successful heuristics from the pre-RingCT era (i.e. before January 2017). The percentage of deducible transactions through zero chain analysis decreased to nearly 0% after the implementation of RingCT. The accuracy of the time heuristic has also reduced considerably to less than 40% with 10 mixins with a more realistic time distribution of mixins. The merging outputs heuristic still has good performance, but it can only be applied to 21 a small portion of all transactions. We thus came to the conclusion that compared to the version three years ago, current Monero transactions can be conducted with superior anonymity with the introduction of new techniques like RingCT.

From PDF:

Abstract

Many alt-coins developed in recent years make strong privacy guarantees, claiming to be virtually untraceable. This paper explores the extent to which these claims are true after the first appraisals were made about these coins. In particular, we will investigate Monero (XMR) and Zcash (ZEC), competitors in the private cryptocurrency space. We will test how traceable these currencies are after the most recent security updates, and how they hold up against their claims. We run some traceability experiments based on previously published papers for each coin. Results show that, introducing strict security and anonymity requirements into the cryptocurrency ecosystem makes the coin effectively untraceable, as shown by Monero. On the other hand, Zcash still hesitates to introduce changes that alter user behavior. Despite its strong cryptographic features, transactions are overall more traceable.

The usual disclaimer: preprints have not undergone any formal peer review. Anyone can post a preprint.

Here is the list of acceptance criteria for the IACR preprint archive, where this preprint appears.

Also this report from 2 doctors was removed because someone at google decided they did not like what it concluded.

https://reclaimthenet.org/google-censors-google-doc-hydroxychloroquine/

I never thought this sub was full of conspiracy believers! I get the problem with Google, but if the information could harm people and violates terms and conditions, I can understand Google actions just like child pornography or revenge porn, etc.

I have not seen this video and do not use google drive because I knew this would happen eventually.

Just wait until they unleash their copyright ai on it. How many of you (that use it, hopefully nobody)will come out unscathed?

The key concept here is redundancy. As cliche as it sounds, never put all your eggs in one basket.

if you didnt have a reason to encrypt your data, well heres one for you now

This should be pinned to the top and you guys are downvoting it. Good luck with your data. Wait till Samsung decides to make their HDDs not save stuff China doesn't like. I mean if it saves lives why not?

Possibly the biggest threat to data backup on the cloud is happening and you guys downvote it. Oh well, I tried.

And next: my 40tb plex backup folder. 🤓

This is why 321 exists. I have local copies and an encrypted cloud copy of my important files. Can't take it down if you don't know what it is.

It was always gonna happen. Encrypt and abuse the fuck outta these asshats, but never have them be the sole backup.

And now the file storage and sharing service Google Drive has started to take down users’ files in response to media complaints about them containing coronavirus misinformation.

Fine with it. To hell with misinformation outlets, they're getting people killed.

The cloud is just someone elses computer and they might decide they don't like you. Keep it local.

That’s fucked up, it was also deleted from my email

Good, fuck her

Instead of proving information as false,it gets censored,anything proving the "truth" as faulty gets censored This is a dystopia An Orwellian work of art

If anyone’s got a copy I need one. I wanna translate into Japanese. HMU

Goolag.

If the WashingtonPost was able to find it to flag it, then it wasn't a private video.

If you don't want to get busted using a company's service in violation of their terms, then don't make your video's public.

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I disagree with the message but I made a torrent of it if anyone is interested

I very seriously doubt this. The type of person who watches 'Plandemic' would be making up this exact kind of thing.

this incentivizes me to only use gmail for ONE thing- my YouTube subscription. I will move my files to Yandex (not at all secure, but not politically motivated, either).

And, yes, I am slowly signing up for YT alternatives such as vimeo, BitChute, banned.video, and others.

Good.

Her entire argument can be dissected into fallacy in a matter of minutes. I don’t know what her goal is but finding the truth is def not it.

I hadn't even heard of Plandemic, now I want to watch it. Google, welcome to the Striesand effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

This site that claims to be about "reclaiming" the Internet is full of crap (even on the non-AMP version): https://i.imgur.com/vgnpcQR.png

Also, the comment from /u/grumpyGrampus

My bet is that this is a mechanism used by apple to determine where exploit code/flaws are being created.

Misinformation.

People like to go "grr aple bad, spyware!!!" but this is just the expanded xProtect in the update, you can go see the changes in the source code.

The first time a new unsigned application/process is run, it's checksum is sent to apple to check if it matches any known malware. It's not always sending data, just the first time.

The reason it happens to this guy over and over is because each command in the Terminal creates a process. You can turn XProtect off for anything on the system if you want.

That’s weird; it’s been great on both my Macs, even a 1.4ghz i5 Mini.

I'm going to need to be able to reproduce this on my machine before I can trust this. This is a massive allegation.

Disable it via

System preferences > privacy and security > privacy tab >developer tools > terminal

If you don’t see that- install Xcode

If you block the domain it contacts does it still open programs?

My Mac doesn't do anything of the sort. Maybe it does that if you enable telemetry, but that is your own choice.

BTW, this article is full of bad advice. I have no idea what's causing the delays he's seeing (I see no such thing either), but disabling System Integrity Protection is a very bad idea if you value your security.

MacOS has XProtect built in, its a signature based anti-malware engine,

Its not uncommon for tools like this to send hash data and in some case applications or code back.

If they see the same SHA sum being executed on multiple machines and can't identify it, they may investigate it further to determine if its malicious or benign.

Is nothing sacred anymore!? All these people harvesting our privacy shit cmon now

I'm surprised that people are surprised about this...

Can't believe people really think Apple values users privacy. HA

In theory, if you are offline, does it still wait for a timed out or does it just skip the ping EDIT: yes it works

This is beyond horrible. Not only is the Apple I once knew dead, now the MacOS I once knew is dying, slowly being turned into iOS.

Very sad news. I've already made the switch to Linux everywhere (the decision accelerated by the fact that MacOS stopped supporting my iMac), but I do miss it sometimes. When I see screenshots and videos from MacOS, i Pine for the slickness, the speed (not so much anymore), and the beautiful font rendering.

But there's really no going back now.

Mac boots so slow. Previous version booted so quick.

This is so fucked.

But, I can't reproduce any of this on my (work-issued) macbook.

Thank you, now whenever people recommend Apple products for privacy I'll show this.

MacOS 10.15/Catalina. Could have put that in the title instead of this clickbait version

So the hash of the file, what other data is sent? It doesn’t mention it in the article

Dumb move. It they contine to lockdown the OS there will be no reason to use over iOS.

No network packet capture?

...so essentially, every time I open an app for the first time, Apple intervenes and collects data without asking for my express permission? And for what, some fringe 'security' benefits?

So much for the 'champions of privacy', I guess. Windows does this shit too, apparently, but I expected better from Apple.

Yes, I have noticed that macOS the last few major updates has gotten slower at everyday tasks.

But, if you, say, just leave Chrome open, and sleep the Mac, it will not incur the delay.

How many programs are we constantly opening and closing on the regular?

System security comes at a cost. The problem with this article’s criticism of Apple’s approach is that it rather overstates the issue while it also fails to provide any sort of alternative. It makes this out to be some terrible, oppressive issue that it’s really not. A relatively small user base would ever even notice while all users greatly benefit from the vastly increased security. Additionally, as Apple’s history shows, they tend to add features in one iteration that they further optimize by the next release. Leopard -> Snow Leopard, Lion -> Mountain Lion are two notable tick-tock releases.

This entire article is written as if none of these protocols can never be improved, and macOS is doomed just because of some inefficiencies in its security framework the author keeps encountering as a developer and power user. I think he’s being over dramatic and fatalist, especially for issues which don’t really affect the vast majority of users.

Apple are tightening their grip on MacOS and third party applications, so this wouldn't be surprising. At the same time, I don't see any conclusive evidence that specifically matches the title.

Perhaps MacOS sometimes contacts an Apple server, maybe its contacting something else, perhaps first time, perhaps every time. There's hardly any context given so its impossible to know exactly what is happening and when. Where's the information about SHA sum data? The linked podcast is not talking about this problem at all. If people call a function that checks signatures, its slow because of internet access? But surely that's exactly what you would expect, and Apple acknowledges it does that.

I'm not trying to say that Apple are blameless over respecting their users freedom, obviously that's not true. At the same time, they should be criticized where they are clearly wrong, or clearly trying to deceive people. They make no pretense of hiding their signing requirements. There's certainly an argument that the signing requirements are bad, but I haven't seen anything that shows Apple lying to users about them.

Windows does this with SmartScreen, yet nobody cares.

r/fuckapple/

Why drama, the price is increasing thats more important for most people..

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An "aspirational" text to say that they will apply GDPR ?

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How are they going to do this? Peer 2 peer energy trading isn't legal on anything besides a micro grid that I'm aware of.

Its PowerLedger, the problem they are solving is centralized energy and the problems that come with that. Imagine powering your home with your neighbors solar array or getting paid by your neighbors for your windmill power while you are on vacation.

Just watched The Social Network last night. Only took me 10 years.

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Usually hate frat bros but I really liked watching Armie's performance of these guys.

How is this relevant?

Crap source and extremely questionable headline. Annual US suicide deaths are about half what we have seen in Covid-19 deaths in less than half a year. If more people were committing suicide than than dying from Covid-19, it would be national news in every newspaper and on every channel. The fact that you had to go to a right wing rag for this "exclusive" should have been a big tip off

I would say that it’s not quite 6 of this and a half dozen of the other. The odds that your community had literally zero connection to an outbreak hotspot then were pretty high and they’re quite low now. Ebola had never gotten out of central Africa before the mid 19th century. This would have never gotten out of China 150 years ago. The 1918 flu spread probably mostly because we were in a world war with soldiers shipping to and fro.

In any case. Your point about your province in Canada is well taken. You’re not wrong. It’s a difficult balance of principles and “which ones worse” math.

Most of my family is either in New York and LA, or scattered to the wind in the military, and I have a job I can work remotely, so that’s certainly going to influence my perception. I drove around LA this weekend and saw an uncomfortable number of people acting like things were normal - we might just be fucked here.

I gotta give you points for rational discourse in any case. You aren’t a troll or an idiot, and I wish you the best.

Show the numbers then. Prove it.

There's no numbers in this article, just some personal concerns. Really poor reporting and looking at the other articles, there's an obvious right wing Trump bias. Not a quality source.

Don't flatten the suicide curb now, we have more fear porn to push out.

All of the measured taken were to prevent it from killing people. Do you people just not understand the premise here?

Look at how the spread was ramping before we took action. it was duplicating every three days. The lock downs worked. For the love of God understand what happened here.

Suicides..? Oh, you mean suspected COVID-19 deaths.

Suicide is already up significantly in the last decade, this is just another nail in the coffin. It sped up some people's decisions to commit suicide...but I doubt it (SIP and bleak world currently) was a reason or cause. There were plenty of other nails in the coffin already.

When and how are we going to hold those responsible for the massive controlled economic demolition this fake plandemic is going to happen? Honestly surprised someone mentally unstable and out of work or something hasn't gone on a rampage or anything yet.

Some in our area committed suicide today. I see a lot of posts about people trying or have successfully killed themselves. Also seen a few that were husband murder family than self as well.

Pretty messed up

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Não é base né, mas no ps da minha cidade teve mais tentativa de suicídio nessa semana do que paciente confirmado com covid.

It’s weird that in the Washington Examiner article you posted they say:

“‘The numbers are unprecedented,’ Dr. Michael deBoisblanc of John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek, California, told ABC 7 News about the increase of deaths by suicide, adding that he’s seen a ‘year’s worth of suicides’ in the last four weeks alone.”

But when you click the link to take you to the ABC 7 article, their quote reads:

“‘We’ve never seen numbers like this, in such a short period of time,’ he said. ‘I mean we’ve seen a year’s worth of suicide attempts in the last four weeks.’”

Now I’m not saying it’s not bad that attempts are going up, it absolutely sucks. But I’m also less likely to believe the article that you posted seeing as how they changed a quote to say something else entirely.

What an obnoxious title.

The idiots who keep shouting for longer lock downs and accused people of trying to "kill grandma" for suggesting we reopen small businesses, never wanted to acknowledge or believe there were going to be huge consequences from long SIP orders.

Mental health/Suicides, poverty/bankruptcy/debt, domestic violence, drug abuse, lack of medical treatment or routine doctor check ups are just some of the things that were exacerbated by the lock downs, and they will continue to get worse the longer they go on.

I'm sure they say a lot of things that aren't factual. Your incompetent president should be supporting people's livelihoods and mental health during the lockdown, don't you see that other countries have been able to lock down without the effects you're all bitching about.

Standardizing is an important way of accounting for misrepresentative frequencies in data when you have different sample sizes.

I’m not crying. You keep saying I’m crying. Fake News! I made a comment about being downvoted, and I’ve been downvoted more than upvoted on this thread. But who gives a fuck. You’re crying a whole hell of a lot more about you saying that I’m crying that this is a meta-debate around a non-existent issue of your own creation.

I guess if you’d rather argue about this stuff than the BS nature of Ops post, go ahead.

Do you need some cranberry juice?

Way to go Gavin

How many died from suicide in CA? Please give a number and don't hide behind "Californian doctors".

“More deaths from suicide than coronavirus” would be expected in any part of the country with low rates of infection, because suicide kills nearly 45,000 Americans annually. The question is, how much has suicide changed and also how many lives are being invisibly saved by the lockdown. Normally suicide kills slightly more than 1:10,000 Americans each year. But the coronavirus in. Nee York City has already killed 0.2% of the total population (not of the infected, but of the whole population; of all the New Yorkers who were alive last December, 1 in 500 have since died of coronavirus).

So in just a couple of months of poorly controlled spread in a city, this coronavirus had 20x the impact on the population that suicide normally has in a whole year, and that’s after having time to infect only around 20% of the population, let alone the 80% who are projected to need to get infected before any form of herd immunity kicks in (assuming herd immunity is even possible with this virus, which we just don’t know for certain yet).

It is highly, highly unlikely that lockdowns are causing a net increase in deaths compared to no control measures.

I’m not sure humanity is pulling out of this one. We are too divided and too stupid to help ourselves. I’m fairly certain not even a literal God could save our species. We’d argue over the gender of it or something equally as fucking stupid.

Let's cut through all of the numbers and what ifs for a sec:

"I think people have found themselves disconnected from the normal supportive networks that they have, churches and schools and book clubs, you name it," Tamura said. "And that, coupled with the closure of some counseling services, people were maybe in a little bit of shock.They were trying to weather the storm a bit but as that isolation has grown people have come to realize this isn't a sprint it is marathon."

He says it's important for all of us to be reaching out to people and making connections.

Hansen says in-person meetings are even OK if it will help mental health.
"Six feet away, wear a mask, wash your hands going in, don't touch, you can see people socially distancing safely," she said.

Hansen says a focus on mental health is very important right
"They intend to die," Hansen said. "Sometimes, people will make what we call a 'gesture'. It's a cry for help. We're just seeing something a little different than that right now. It's upsetting."

This is what's important: it's on all of us to reach out to our friends and loved ones, especially those who might be at a higher risk, and see if there's any way we can give them support. Personally I need to get better at that. As an introverted personality, it's really easy for me right now to just not talk to anyone except my immediate family. I should spend a bit more time giving people I know a call just to talk and see how they're doing. Might do me some good as well as them.

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