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I'm going to lay everything I have on the line next week by trying to catch a short position on index futures by Monday morning, July 22, 2019. My guess for Sunday is a big dip dow…

There is nothing scarier to me than primates discovering ways for a sentient brain to be effectively immortal. There is still time to re-examine the implications of this, as such t…

How would a technological brain-in-a-vat hell of unending torture be "more interesting" and "useful" than death?

What's your experience working in the IC or with LE?

1) Insufficient sample size (1) 2) Insufficient improbability of occurrence

For the life of me, I cannot figure out why this comment by "holyend" is being silently ghosted (censored) / flagged. Can a moderator explain the reasoning for it being flagged? Ar…

This sounds like a good demonstration of how mindless the activity of scrolling through Instagram truly is. (Even a monkey can do it). It's similar to watching TV or mindlessly bro…

While not a conclusion, the reports of objects that defy the known laws of physics are extensive by this point. If the incidents are not the result of "alien activity" perhaps the …

> You are conflating untraceable and private. You keep saying two things are different without explaining why you think they are fundamentally different. The differences are obviou…

> Encryption keeps communication private, talking to someone directly keeps communication private. The analogy is extremely simple, it seems like you are intentionally trying to ig…

No, the name of the G7 document is "Combating the use of the internet for terrorist and violent extremist purposes". Scanning the PDF, there doesn't appear to be any discussion abo…

The topic is about encryption, not microphones.

Not relevant to the topic.

As stated, in my opinion, it's irresponsible to deploy unbreakable two-party encryption at a national/global level. IMO, authorities should have a way to decrypt the encryption use…

What about developing a three-party system where the third party doesn't have any "master key" (to prevent a single key from compromising the encryption system), and perhaps the th…