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psychedicticon Stellar Consensus Protocol and Federated Byzantine Agreement

yep, confirmed, "crypto" has hit a short term "bottom"

psychedicticon Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors

Nonsense.

@snowden could have chosen to not told our adversaries about any spying activity upon them. Instead, he stole classified info that was far beyond the scope of domestic surveillance, in a pre-meditated way, then shared this with our adversaries.

"domestic enemies in Maryland" is entirely your opinion. Are you an American citizen? What exactly is your justification (beyond Hollywood propaganda, news articles, etc) for such a claim? Have you reviewed in detail what @snowden (and his co-conspirators) have leaked? How much was actually related to domestic surveillance? How much was classified military intel?

psychedicticon Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors

Your comment temporally corresponded with multiple simultaneous downvotes of my comment.

There's no justification at all for informing any of our adversaries of details related to spying activity on them. Intentional or not, Mr. snowden's action have hurt USA.

psychedicticon Chinese Hackers Breach U.S. Navy Contractors

@snowden sold us out to china when he fled in 2013, by revealing details about our spying operation on them. apparently they bolstered their defenses after this, due to this information, meanwhile stepping up offensive attacks against the United States

psychedicticon How Criminals Steal $37B a Year from America’s Elderly

I'm sorry to say this but my faith in this species is quite limited at this point. The nature of this species seems to be extremely primitive. How can we be so collectively intelligent yet such behavior is so pervasive and widespread?

psychedicticon A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas

Can you please clarify or define what you meant by "in production"?

psychedicticon A key ingredient for a universal flu vaccine may come from llamas

Ahh, Justin Frankel's baby.

Also, this BBC article is two days old and is now in the 5th position on HN's homepage, for me currently.

psychedicticon The NSA Called Me After Midnight and Requested My Source Code

God bless you for doing what's right for America.

psychedicticon The iPhone SE was the best phone Apple ever made, and now it’s dead

SE is great for developers, since it sets a reasonable minimum bar for screen resolution.

psychedicticon Suicidal Vet Calls MDMA Treatment ‘a Miracle'

More specifically, MDMA is neurotoxic.

psychedicticon Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity

Someone does not need to have a "family history of mental disorders" to become an acid casualty. Some people simply have a bad reaction to the chemical and there isn't a reliable way of knowing in advance how a person might react to it.

psychedicticon Psychedelics Promote Structural and Functional Neural Plasticity

This is the common response from proponents of LSD. To them, it's never the LSD, and instead the adverse reaction must be because the person had a mind that was predisposed to some sort of mental illness.

Even if it's true that someone has some kind of latent / dormant condition that is ultimately triggered by the LSD, then the act of taking the LSD itself was the catalyst, and the person would have been far better off not ever having taken the drug.

The drug is illegal, and the argument growing up was that the "government was suppressing free thought" or whatever nonsense was being pushed, but the reality is that such a drug is dangerous and absolutely does hurt people. Whether connected to a predisposition of mental illness or not, it's not a hard connection and people should be extra cautious when considering whether to engage in such behavior.