Just interesting news to me.
The phrase “What doesn’t kill you, makes you stronger” comes to mind. When most scams will have been tried the crypto world will be more stable.
>> “On Wednesday afternoon, the Twitter accounts of many well-known people and companies in the crypto space started tweeting about a bitcoin giveaway. “
news.bitcoin.com/twitter-apple-joe-biden-elon-musk-bill-gates-jeff-bezos-uber-bitcoin-giveaway-scam/
We are still in cycle 24 and for how long? Nobody knows for sure. More and more people are studying this but it is still ignored by the mainstream media.
This site will explain more deeply about solar cycles and the possibility that the minimum of cycle 25 be really bad, similar to the Maunder minimum in 1645.
>>> “The cycle was noticed in 1843 by Samuel Heinrich Schwabe, though we have reliable sunspot observations running all the way back to 1610. Just recently, NOAA released an interactive tool cataloging sunspots from 1750. “
The sun is the big master. It would be wrong to dismiss its effect on anything on Earth. I suspect that an outburst of the sun would have many effects on our planet and not all of those would be observable.
>>> “The new explanation, however, flips this electromagnetic cause-and-effect on its head, suggesting electromagnetic anomalies aren’t the result of earthquakes, but instead cause them.”
I remember being asked how many words per minute I could type, in a programmer/analyst job interview. I was greatly surprised by the question. Are you hiring a programmer or an office assistant? It turns out that this ‘house’ never did really needed programmers. They were hiring people to go on customers’ sites and ‘type’ some updates into their software at high ‘programmer’ rates.
That job was pretty boring. The most fun I had was handling support for customers. I endured that situation because I needed something to do between contracts elsewhere.
On another contract a few years later, I produced about 30000 lines of C code (Informix esql/c) in about 2 months. I did not type faster, I just used some common sense to reuse the same code. The first ‘templates’ took longer to write because the end goal was to be able to reproduce the code.
>>> “It might seem a reasonable question, but it makes some terrible assumptions:
lines of code = effort
lines of code = value
all lines of code are equal “
www.mrlacey.com/2020/07/youve-only-added-two-lines-why-did-that.html
Articles intéressant sur certaines manifestations du monde physiques encore très méconnues. Son interprétation laisse beaucoup de place pour faire des expériences dans le futur.
Trop de choses restent inexpliquées, comme ces vaches qui s’arrêtent devant une clôture peinte même si elles n’ont jamais vues de vrais clôtures auparavant.
>>> “Comment, à partir de spores ou de graines, les plantes se développent-elles pour atteindre la forme caractéristique de leur espèce ? Comment les feuilles des fougères, des chênes et des bambous acquièrent-elles leur forme ? Ces questions sont liées à ce que les biologistes appellent la morphogenèse, la naissance de la forme (grec : morphe = forme ; genèse = naissance), l’un des grands problèmes de la biologie qui demeurent non résolus. “
fr.sott.net/article/35901-Resonance-morphique-La-memoire-de-la-Nature-a-travers-l-espace-et-le-temps
I was never a fan of SAP. I think that the SAP popular wave was based on false assumptions, like “One can never go wrong by choosing IBM”, yeah right…, tell that to the Canadian Phoenix payroll system… (more on that in a future article).
I was a reseller/consultant of SBT ERP systems for many years in the 80s. They were not “Open Source” but, they were giving the source code to customers as a guaranty for buyers to become independent of the provider.
I believe that open source ERP is a better alternative for many reasons. Less bugs is one of the reasons, no dependency on a provider is another reason.
I do hate the hidden mentality of providers that “They have thought about everything.”. That is impossible and leads to many problems. Being open about your weaknesses is a better way to get rapid improvement.
>>> “According to an alert from the Department of Homeland Security, successful exploitation of the bug opens the door for attackers to read and modify financial records; change banking details; read personal identifiable information (PII); administer purchasing processes; sabotage or disrupt operations; achieve operating system command execution; and delete or modify traces, logs and other files.”
threatpost.com/critical-sap-bug-enterprise-system-takeover/157392/
I find myself more and more in accordance with this Stoic philosophy. For me, right now, I would summarize as ‘If one does not control himself then something else will’.
>>> “There is only one thing that you are at least potentially in control of, and that is you: your will, your intentions, your self.”
I am not completely at this stage yet, but I want to be;
>>> “He doesn’t worry about what tomorrow will bring, since tomorrow is not under his control either. The Stoic philosopher is the man who has liberated himself from fear. He is not afraid of death, he is not afraid of pain, he is not afraid of other people’s dismissal of him as a fool.”
www.sott.net/article/437949-Stoicism-Materialism-and-the-Search-for-Divinity
A nice and short article that summarizes the birth of ‘modern medicine’ and how health care was hijacked by powerful peoples to suit their agenda.
>>> “Almost half the doctors and medical colleges in the U.S. were practicing holistic medicine, using knowledge from Europe and Native Americans.”
www.sott.net/article/437964-How-John-D-Rockefeller-founded-modern-medicine-and-killed-natural-cures
More and more people are attacked by wildlife. Is it really the case, or are we just more aware of it because of the high level of communication we have reached with the internet? It seems real but why would the wildlife be suddenly more aggressive?
>>> “It’s unusual for Australia to have five fatal shark attacks in the first six months of a year.”
Be careful with your bitcoins. You should cross-reference any sources with more than one source. If you rely on only one other source, you might get into trouble. Also, remember the old adage about “You can’t fool an honest man”. In other words, if it’s too good to be true it’s probably not true.
>>> “The giveaway scam uses the identities of celebrities like Elon Musk or a well known exchange to lure people into sending their bitcoin, with help from Youtube advertising.”
news.bitcoin.com/youtube-helps-scammers-steal-130000-in-bitcoin-from-investors-daily-report/
He is right, of course, and so id Mr. Feynman, but the real question here is more like; Why does our current society believe in authoritarian sciences and why aren’t we questioning more about everything. It is easier, I get that, so, sometimes we should really choose a harder path.
When I was 16, I was riding a ‘trail’ motorcycle. It is a hybrid between motocross and a regular road motorcycle. In other words, it is a motocross with all the lights to go on regular roads.
I was riding on a trail road one day and I decided to switch to this other one I was seeing across a patch of dense bush. Now, I knew I could easily go on the current path and come back to it using a detour of about 5 minutes but I got intrigued by the idea of cutting through right here across this path of a young forest with a high density of small trees.
These trees were about one to two inches of diameter and were spaced at about eight to nine inches apart. Some were bending under the weight of my machine but most were not bending. I had to steer my front wheel just to pass between two trees.
Needless to say, it took me a long time to cross over. I made it through in about three hours for about a hundred and fifty feet. That was an experiment for me. It might not be very ‘scientific’ but I learned a lot about my machine and myself by crossing this dense patch of bush. Among other things, I ‘learned’ that sometimes it is more enjoyable to choose the hard path. It is just a different kind of joy.
>> “It may even be that these institutions that pretend to be about science are unscientific. The fundamental defining characteristic of science, the one that Feynman explicitly identifies, is that we do not decide whether something is true or false based on authority but rather based on experience.”
lemire.me/blog/2020/07/12/science-is-the-belief-in-the-ignorance-of-experts/
I worked for a paint company for about 10 years back in the ’80s. I know that titanium oxide was the basic ingredient for producing white paint. It was also very expensive. This discovery will help to protect structures like yacht against UV radiation that destroys most varnish and epoxy-based protection.
BTW, at that time I developed one of the first AI applications for choosing the right coating protection in most situations. The AI application was a hardcoded ‘Expert System’ which was more popular in those days than current Neural Network. The application was programmed in C, M4, and Informix among other things, and was running under SCO Xenix. We had an interface developed on Tandy Model 100 that would allow users to connect to the Expert System via modem at 300 and 1200 bauds. One of the users was even able to connect to the apps from a boat in the Arctic via satellite. Pretty good for that time.
>>> “The key ingredient in current cooling white paints is titanium oxide, which is very effective at reflecting the majority of visible and near-infrared light. One shortcoming, however, is that it absorbs ultraviolet and violet light at the same time,…”
www.sott.net/article/437934-New-super-white-paint-reflects-up-to-98-of-the-Suns-heat
Different ways of observing will lead to new discoveries. This is a good example of that.
>>> “The resulting map shows a mind-boggling bubble of material more or less centered on the southernmost point of the sky, with a great sweeping wing extending north on one side in the direction of the constellation Cetus and another stubbier arm opposite it in the direction of the constellation Apus.”
This illustrates the point about unnecessary Intellectual Property laws. This person is getting paid by people who like his work and there is no middle man to collect in between them.
>>>A Parisian street artist is receiving hundreds of dollars every day in bitcoin donations from his painting that speaks about “fiat and money printing.”
news.bitcoin.com/fiat-and-money-printing-street-mural-earns-500-in-bitcoin-donations-in-five-days/
I certainly will not take a vaccine from Bill Gates, but maybe I would consider a vaccine from Russia. They seem to really have worked on the immunity side and not on “the control of the population” side.
>…perhaps some in Russia believe the hysteria, and perhaps some just don’t want to be dependent on a foreign created ‘vaccine’:..
The less we intervene the better. This is not perfect but is a step in the right direction.
>>> investments in agroforestry systems are growing along with the recognition that this model of farming is climate-friendly, environmentally sustainable, and profitable.
I like the idea of Universal Basic Income because it goes well with my view about the importance of jobs and automation in general. We already have a good chunk of the population that can’t be productive in the modern world because they do not have the proper skills. We need to support them anyway. We can’t stop automation as it is a natural tendency of mankind to create ways to simplify our lives. At one point, all the trivial tasks will be handled by automation. The labor forces will not be needed for basic work. At that point, one has a choice between learning and creating or just exist and enjoy the various access to the dopamine until you die. I do not think that this course of events is stoppable by anyone and I do not see any real problems in reaching that point.
>>> Economists welcome the chance to see whether giving people cash to spend however they choose improves livelihoods.
Something happened about 13000 years ago that reset or give birth to civilization as we know it. This seems to be another proof of that.
>>> This evidence of ancient cave exploration and mining spans a period of many generations over about 2,000 years and dates from 12,000 to 10,000 years ago, according to the study. That was 8,000 years before the establishment of the Maya culture for which the region is well known.
Everybody is talking about jobs and how important it is. I do not think so. I feel that we are being indoctrinated into thinking about the importance of jobs. We should be focusing more on creating something than ‘getting a job’. We are on the right track, more and more people are embarking on the “creator’s economy”. The internet helps a lot with that.
>>> Employers favour unemployment because unemployed workers have to accept poorly paid jobs to be able to feed their families.
A good thing he had training. I played a little football in college but I am sure that the child would have been worse in my hands.
>>> “I know how to catch,” he says. “I’ve learned how to catch a football. So I’ll give some credit to football.”
This illustrates the need for non-intervention. A way of life that ancient Native Americans and most nomads/hunter-gatherer cultures adhere to. Non-intervention is a philosophy deeper than mere libertarianism. It goes as far as do not disturb nature, in other words, do not farm. Farming is a great source of problems of all sorts. The minute we pout our grain of salts in nature, we disturb it and are doing something wrong.
>>> But instead of removing the carcasses, the park decided to leave them where they were, allowing nature to take its course – and scientists to study this island of decomposition and how it might change the arctic tundra ecosystem.
www.sott.net/article/437769-What-a-mass-of-rotting-reindeer-carcasses-taught-scientists
I like him. He is a little bit too adventurous for my taste, but I find him interesting. He has a few good stories on his blog site that are worth reading about security in Latin America. This new venture has good chances of succeeding.
>>> John McAfee announced Tuesday the launch of his new product called the “Ghost Cell Phone Data Service,” which he described as “the first 4G data service to make connections to the network untraceable.
news.bitcoin.com/john-mcafee-ghost-phone-service-cryptocurrency/
“Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony.” — The Prince
People hide money because they don’t want to lose it to thieves and then they forget about it.
How much gold and cash is hidden in walls and forgotten? This is about the same with the accompanying problems.
>>> There have already been several examples around the world of bitcoin investors who have died without leaving their keys for their relatives. In such cases, families must deal with a kind of “double funeral,” as they mourn the loss of their loved ones while coming to terms with the loss of an irretrievable fortune that might have been theirs.
news.bitcoin.com/90-bitcoin-investors-worried-fate-of-their-assets-after-death/
He is a good actor and most of the movies he plays in are good. He should stick to acting and not make a fool of himself with political comments. In the lying businesses, everyone seems to think that they have a shot at becoming president. I will let you decide what are the lying businesses but when you think about it, acting is not about the truth.
>>> Nobu, the posh, high-end restaurant and hotel chain — backed by left-wing actor and raging Trump-basher Robert De Niro — took more than a dozen loans from the Trump administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP).
I remember reading DeBrogli’s thesis when I was younger. In that time, he never thought that his wave function was a probabilistic one. He changed his mind and then back again to a real wave function later in his life. I do not buy the probability function either. It is explaining a few things but it is also putting a break on real advances. Maybe the ‘real’ wave function is also a bad approach but, at least, it is leading to new ways of observing because it is making us realize that we need to look at the world differently.
In a sea of interpretations of quantum weirdness, QBism swims alone. The traditional “Copenhagen interpretation” treats the observer as somehow standing outside of nature, imbued with mysterious wave-function-collapsing powers, governed by laws of physics that are different from those that govern what’s being observed.
www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-bayesianism-explained-by-its-founder-20150604/
To me, Mr. Trump is more like Mr. Lincoln than anybody else. They both have humanist values. They both want to create ties with other humanists. They say their mission is to bring down Mr. Trump. I think this ‘Project’ is destroying Mr Lincoln a lot more than Mr Trump.
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The Lincoln Project is an American political action committee formed in late 2019 by several prominent Republicans and former Republicans. The goal of the committee is to prevent the reelection of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election.[1] In April 2020, the committee announced their endorsement of Joe Biden, a Democrat, after Biden became the presumptive Democratic nominee.[2]
This is an interesting short article about the friendship between Abraham Lincoln and the Tsar Alexander II. Why is it not the same today? Why do we want war at all cost? Are we being manipulated to do so?
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Half a century earlier, thousands of Imperial Russian Navy sailors and their officers flooded the cities of San Francisco and New York. But the circumstances were very different. They were there to defend the United States from foreign invasion – not to threaten it and they brilliantly succeeded in their tasks.
Independently of the value of the bitcoin in US dollars cryptocurrencies are gaining popularity everywhere.
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More than 700,000 Expedia Group hotels and accommodations are now available via crypto-friendly travel booking platform Travala.
news.bitcoin.com/700000-expedia-travala-hotels-cryptocurrencies/
Who writes all the propaganda research?
What is it that pushes people to participate in the brainwashing. Is it money? or money is just a way to abuse some “good” feelings? To get some drugs, to get some social acceptance, to get some “security”. What is the basis of conspicuous consuming? We need to “flash” our money to prove to society that we are better. Isn’t that a form of drug like something that is happening in our body that makes us feel good, too good, too often…
Then we lose control.
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“For example, here is Dr Marcia Angell, who edited the New England Journal of Medicine for over twenty years, writing in 2009:
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgement of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as editor of the New England Journal of Medicine.” “
www.sott.net/article/437593-Big-Pharma-has-been-busy-distorting-science-during-the-pandemic
It is not even the money it is just control and power. How could we be so gullible as to swallow all this? We should learn to control ourselves then we would not be controlled by some others.
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“But there was great pushback against hydroxychloroquine for two reasons. The first reason was because it was safe and very inexpensive. The second reason is because Donald Trump promoted its use.”
Russia was a close ally of the US before being brainwashed otherwise. On both sides. We get comfortable into using and abusing of “good” things and then we get spiraled into brainwashing machines. We should learn to control ourselves or others will control us.
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“Another spectacular Burganov statue features President Abraham Lincoln and Russian Tsar Alexander II. Although the two men never met, and came from vastly different backgrounds, there are powerful similarities.”
www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/jul/1/happy-us-independence-day-wishes-russia/
I thought this was unreal. I know better now. Maybe we should try to build and airplane on this model.
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“The paradise snake, which is native to south and southeast Asia, has been known to scientists for some time. But they never really understood how the species — and others like it — are able to glide through the air.”
www.sott.net/article/437602-Flying-snakes-exist-and-now-scientists-finally-understand-how-they-do-it
Too bad. We lost another genius. Mr Morricone changed the way we experience movies. Maybe he is the one who influenced Pink Floyd or vice versa. In any case, his music was great to listen.
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“The composer loved the sound of the electric guitar and the Jew’s harp and employed whistles, church bells, whips, coyote howls, chirping birds, ticking clocks, gunshots and women’s voices to add textures to scores not associated with the typical studio arrangement.
“All kinds of sounds can be useful to convey emotion … it’s music made up of the sound of reality,” he said.”
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ennio-morricone-dead-prolific-italian-composer-was-91-858358