Wish I had mod points.

Was having a good discussion with a few people recently and we were all lamenting how some significant segment of our population will surrender their freedoms for the belief that someone else will make them safe. We all had different perspectives and experiences of this phenomenon.
The sincere belief of something along the lines of 'we have the right to be/feel safe' completely disregards all of history and well reality.
The way I put it to a lawyer friend of mine (where we were talking about drugs), which made him laugh quite heartily was 'we ought to be free to make poor or bad personal decisions'.

And to the wingnut who responded to you first:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fivmmeta.com%2F

Instantly looked at other browsers when that was force enabled. Always preferred Netscape/Firefox because it tended to have good customization from plugins and whatnot. Now its going down the Chrome path of 'we know what the users want, here everyone do it the same way'.

Also didn't like the hypocritical removal of the Dissenter plugin from the extension library on the basis of how it could be used, which falls flat in the face of the fact that the browser itself is undoubtedly directly used for endless 'bad stuff' on a scale that would dwarf any hurt feels from the Dissenter platform.

The other complaints that the management have lost their way does resonate with my sense as well, maybe someone will fork it and drop all that unnecessary baggage, just concentrate on making a useful thing.

Many more studies, hand wave all of them away 'these are not the studies you are looking for':

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fivmmeta.com%2F

So 1 study is pulled and thats all the evidence anyone needs. So if someone found a study that was pulled about something else its off the table as well right?

Was 1 of 18 other studies in this meta analyses:
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.lww.com%2Fameri...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fjournals.lww.com%2Fameri...

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4 whole days! In a row?!?! Wow impressive, how amazing, truly the heroes we all needed to lead the way.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.crypto51.app%2F
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fchangelly.com%2Fblog%2F51-...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.coindesk.com%2Fcrypt...
No I dont care if it was etherium as compared to btc, we were told it would never happen.

Theoretically its possible to double spend BTC with a ~33% hash rate attack, but 51% puts it over the top.
The entire crypto system is currently running with a 'pinkie promise' from the biggest pools to not collude.

What incentive or world event will it take for them to decide that collusion is 'worth it'. Are some people deluded to believe that all the worlds hash pools actually exist to the altruistic benefit of the system, because they really care somehow that btc exists, or is it more wise to assume they have their own benefit first and everything else a distant second?

Or another take, what happens when Super Mo-Gooderer coin SMGC takes off and is the most popular coin and everyone knows its the bestest and only whiny coinheads still use old slowpoke btc. All the hashrate migrates over to SMGC and then the remaining btc network is worthless, easy pickings on the way down.

Many more possibilities but i'm out of time.

What happens when a critical mass of the hash rate moves over to something like Etherium because they can make more money doing that work?

All of the easy bitcoins have been mined already the last ~12% of bitcoin are predicted to take another ~100 years to mine, what/when is the threshold where most of the miners migrate to some other 'coin' that will pay off much sooner?

The best description of cryptocurrency is a greater fool bubble.
The most charitable view of cryptocurrency unregulated gambling.

Just shy of 10% of all exchanges have been hacked at least once.
80% of all icos are scams right out of the gate.
~76% of the hashing is controlled by a totalitarian state with no compunction against ruthless controls over their economy see Jack Ma IPO.
Doublespending has already happened a few times after innumerable claims of it being 'impossible'.
It is not based on anything real, there is no actual scarcity, there is in fact an infinite number of completely unregulated 'coins'.
Cost per transaction makes it useless in practice.
Time per transaction makes it useless in practice.
Having zero regulation or oversight, all of the above again relies on the goodwill of anyone in any position at any stage of the project having no uncontrolled/unrestricted self interest, malicious intent or just naked greed (checkout what happened in Turkey recently).

So much this.

Words have uses not inherent meanings. Children think words have magical powers.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnews.yahoo.com%2Ftexas-p...

Its even more complicated than that, at some point they 'upgraded' to electric pumps as well, so no electricity, no pump to the ng generators.

I read about 1 nuclear reactor going offline because of some frozen bits, diesel generators for pumps not starting.

Otherwise my wild guess is the wind generators that failed probably didn't have the right lubricants or deicing ability for the massive and prolonged temp drop.

Too much money chasing not enough goods, this should blow up huge, I wouldn't doubt this hybrid Greater Fool Bubble/Ponzi creation goes over 6 digits.

The best description of cryptocurrency is a greater fool bubble.
The most charitable view of cryptocurrency at this time is unregulated gambling.

Just shy of 10% of all exchanges have been hacked at least once.
80% of all icos are scams right out of the gate.
80% of the hashing is controlled by a totalitarian state with no compunction against ruthless controls over their economy see Jack Ma IPO. Where is Jack Ma?
Doublespending has already happened a few times after innumerable claims of it being 'impossible'.
It is not based on anything real, there is no actual scarcity, there is in fact an infinite number of completely unregulated 'coins'.
Cost per transaction makes it useless in practice.
Time per transaction makes it useless in practice.
Having zero regulation or oversight, all of the above again relies on the goodwill of anyone in any position at any stage of the project having no uncontrolled/unrestricted self interest, malicious intent or just naked greed.

Get on the Tulip train at your own risk.

PCR isn't very accurate at detecting infectiousness in practice:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fswprs.org%2Fthe-trouble-...

Basically many studies have concluded that PCR testing over 25 iterations gives far too many false positives when seroprevalence testing is done as a follow up.

Most countries are over 35 iterations in testing some 45, at 35 iterations the false positive (of being infectious) is near 97%, at 25 iterations its still near 20% false:

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fcid%2Fa...
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thelancet.com%2Fjour...

Lots of other studies with the same information.