Just interesting news to me.
Warming or cooling, that is the question.
” > The mainstream propaganda media has milked Siberia’s June heatwave to within an inch of its life. Tens of thousands of alarming, one-sided articles have been released onto the web like a plague of obfuscation.”
electroverse.net/siberias-record-heatwave-set-to-end-this-weekend-to-be-replaced-by-record-cold/
Another example of how Intellectual Property laws are actually slowing human progress.
“… we found that articles downloaded from Sci-hub were cited 1.72 times more than papers not downloaded from Sci-hub and…”
I am not a fan of drug dealers but I would never use an encryption scheme that is in the hand of a single entity. Open source systems and fully distributed peer to peer systems (a la tor or bitcoin) are best for me.
I use pgp whenever I can. It is not easy to use and I think it is not widely available because some entities are putting the brakes on a general acceptance. That alone is a good reason to trust it. The problem is always in the implementation and the underlying support structure. The more sensitive your needs are, the more investigation you need to put into these underlying support structure.
BTW, if I was an Encrochat associate, I would lay low for a while… hehe!
“Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.”
www.vice.com/en_us/article/3aza95/how-police-took-over-encrochat-hacked
At least, with bitcoin, there is less possibilities of fake bitcoins.
“One of China’s largest gold jewelry manufacturers, Kingold Jewelry Inc., has been using fake gold to secure loans…”
news.bitcoin.com/gold-industry-83-tons-fake-gold-bars-secure-2-billion-loans-china/
This is another example about too much relying on a single entity. I would prefer a peer to peer video platform like https://peer.tube/ and ask for money like patreon for support. I think people will donate happily to good content. There is no need for a middlemen to get a cut on creators revenue.
“…Stefan Molyneux, received more than $100,000 in cryptocurrency donations after he was banned from Youtube on June 29, 2020. ”
This is a good lesson for people who use cryptos to only transfer fiat money from one place to another. One can’t rely on something that is controlled by another (ie: fiat money). It is best to leave it in cryptos IMO.
“Governments in nearly 100 countries have been sharing offshore bank account information…”
news.bitcoin.com/11-trillion-offshore-assets-100-countries-84-million-bank-accounts/
COVID19 is real, everything around it is questionable like usual. This is a very good analysis of the surrounding of that phenomenon in Canada.
“…being the 153rd anniversary of Confederation, I would like to follow Laurier’s example, exercising my freedom to question and my duty to preserve our civil liberties. ”
and
“Why are we Including “Probable” Cases of COVID in the Official Figures?” ”
www.sott.net/article/437417-COVID-deaths-in-Canada-A-questionable-statistic
Interesting to me because I think I was born left handed and then “forced” to use my right hand when learning to write. I use my right hand to write but mostly my left hand to do everything else, specially in sports like golf or baseball or hockey. This next text is mostly debunking the myth that military leaders are best with the left hand.
“While there may (or may not) be some truth to the claim, it is a mistake to make a rule out of such anecdotal evidence and cherry-picked data. ”
Apparently left-handed people would get electrical stimulation on the wrong side of the brain when getting therapy about depression and recalcitrant anxiety. Their emotion brain hemispheres seems to be reversed.
“Treatment for the most common mental health problems could be ineffective or even detrimental to about 50 percent of the population, according to a radical new model…”
www.sott.net/article/388735-Why-being-left-handed-matters-for-treatment-of-mental-health-problems