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blueking··on Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal
Thats how google works. Piecemeal. You think loon was about internet for the poor and oppressed ? Thats just how they get their foot in the door. Im sure google just wanted to write a draft spec for the fun of it.

Google is a front for US intelligence. We should give no quarter. Shun them.

blueking··on Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal
You think google can write a proposal like this without the NSA getting involved ? The fact that they are preserving metadata is revealing and meaningful. Its another PR stunt.

Google can never never be trusted again. They publicly lied about PRISM, and they got caught. These people have no business making security protocols for us.

blueking··on Google's end-to-end key distribution proposal
The last people in the world you want managing your keys. Why don't you just send them directly to the NSA ?
blueking··on Vermont Quits War on Drugs to Treat Heroin Abuse as Health Issue
I wonder why the government needs to force everyone to hit a collective rock bottom before considering a new strategy. Throwing everyone involved in jail was a bad idea from day 1.

What they need to do is manufacture and sell the drugs at cost to registered addicts. This way you destroy the business of the drug cartels and you insure your citizens are at least using pure drugs.

Regardless of the legality of the use of the drug it is a health issue that the drugs your citizens consume are pure. The safety of your people should come first and a government that has taken this long to realize something that basic is simply incompetent.

Prioritizing law enforcement before public safety is a revealing and meaningful sign of incompetence or even corruption.

blueking··on What is a Hacker? (1985)
I am so so sick of this stupid hacker word. To me, hacker means immature loser who would rather piss around breaking some cheap commercial software to impress his naive peers than create something truly great with contemporary technology. Its a word to describe the feeble minded. Don't think so ? Go to a hacker convention. Fat kids in black tshirts smoking pot. Small minded people. The mcdonalds of innovation. Of course they try to rubber stamp every tech icon in the forehead with their tag. Fuck off, pretty please.
blueking··on Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
The danger is losing a competitive edge, and the poverty that comes from that. But perhaps its wise to be conservative for now.

What I see is where the last generation of drugs had the shotgun approach and a lot of side effects, the newer drugs are more targeted, effecting more specific areas of the brain exclusively, and are also a lot more potent.

In my recent experiments PRL-8-53 and estradiol stood out as making changes to my thinking that were well outside the capability of even the best diet and a rigorous exercise routine, and I have tried that approach.

blueking··on Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
Not the best source. The votes are rigged by suppliers with multiple accounts. They shoot down anything that will hurt their business and hype any topic that leads to sales.
blueking··on Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
Try PRL-8-53 for a couple of weeks 5mg/day.
blueking··on Ask HN: Ways to increase mental sharpness or intelligence?
One method to enhance fluid intelligence is to regularly play dual N back. Say 30 minutes a day.

http://brainworkshop.sourceforge.net

I have been experimenting for about 5 years now with nootropics. Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation on the internet as is the case with most supplements. Suppliers hype their products in forums and reddit.

Nootropics are really drugs not supplements, and although unregulated for the most part should be used with caution (experiment with small doses at first and never mix or 'stack'). The original nootropic was a compound called Piracetam which showed to improve cognitive function in mice. A number of similar 'racetam' products are on the market now with miraculous claims and fake reviews. There are two newer compounds significantly more potent than the rest - Pramiracetam and Noopept. Aside from those two almost every other racetam including piracetam doesn't work, and requires you ingest something like 5 grams to get any effect at all. The more potent racetams give you about 4 hours of slightly enhanced clarity, but honestly its nothing special. Use any racetam for more than a week and you get the most severe burnout its awful. I'm telling you these things because if there is one piece of advise I would give to a newbie in nootropics its to avoid the racetam family. Its a racket.

However, there are some nootropics that do work. PRL-8-53 is a memory enhancement drug, taken daily at 5mg. Its effects are accumulative, and it definitely works.

NSI-189 was originally marked for application as a anti depressant but has shown to increase density in the hippocampus by 20% in mice and to a lesser but significant degree in humans. It does provide a true benefit, but should be avoided by anyone with existing 'issues'.

Semax is definitely worth a mention, check that out too.

Other riskier nootropics I have been experimenting with are dihexa and estraidol. You will need to do a lot of research before experimenting. Those can easily hurt you.

Remember the mechanisms of nootropics are often not fully understood. Micro doses are the way. The idea is to get a long term permanent cognitive benefit rather than a fix.

Then there are the stimulants for the short term. Avoid caffeine, avoid adderall / dexedrine or any amphetamine solution. Those are yesterdays drugs. What you want is modafinil. Simple as that. Creatine is also a good pick me up.

All of the above can be ordered easily online. The best place to go (I don't work for them) is a Chinese supplier called XI'AN YIYANG BIO-TECH Co. They ship every type of nootropic and stimulant at a fraction of US middlemen who just import from China and triple the cost.

Finally avoid alcohol. That will drop your IQ like a brick.

blueking··on What's the matter with PGP?
Touché
blueking··on What's the matter with PGP?
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Prism_sli...
blueking··on What's the matter with PGP?
I don't agree. I use GPGtools on OSX with the openpgp smartcard and it works flawlessly and is truly convenient. Furthermore I can use 4096 bit RSA keys.

One thing I have learned watching the crypto forums over the years is that there are well calculated misinformation campaigns trying to dissuade people from using secure methods. I see it again and again and the people on this forum need to think carefully before swallowing this as sincere.

I would never never never trust a solution from Google or any large American corporation. They have just been caught lying about prism (Google) and taking bribes (RSA). These companies are now and always will be totally untrustworthy.

blueking··on Open Brain Computing Interface
https://github.com/openyou/emokit
blueking··on Open Brain Computing Interface
No there is a firmware hack called emokit which allows data with the $300 headset (correction its $400 now LMAO). However, emotiv is by far the single worst company I ever dealt with. Worst product support experience of my life. Having bought one of those epoc headsets I have to say its the very definition of flimsy, a half baked buggy product with planned obsolescence and proprietary restriction built in on every level of design. Emotiv even censored their forum and deleted my username to hide how they totally fucked me over. I support the openbci guys they have done a great thing by making a open source EEG sensor kit but well they are being rather greedy in the marketing. A terrible idea because right now they need to build a developer community around the device. They should be giving these kits away.
blueking··on Open Brain Computing Interface
Way overpriced. Emotivs epoc was $300 and did 16 channels. Or 14... I forget.
blueking··on Evolutionary algorithms and analog electronic circuits
If you like that then you will love this project I have been working on.

https://github.com/polysome/evolvable_motherboard

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