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Google is too embarrassed to put a map anywhere on their Austin Fiber site. I dare someone to find one. Sure you can plug in your address BUT find that map I embedded below hosted by googleusercontent . . .

This was extracted from the Interactive Map on myStatesman.com

To put in perspective, zoom out twice on the '-' button and switch to Satellite view, drag image until Southpark Meadows is bottommost and see just how LITTLE coverage of the Austin metropolitan area is provided by Google Fiber. Nothing North of the river, including all of the big State of Texas offices and University of Texas campus, West Campus + most of the dense neighborhoods + all those other places that the city REQUIRED!

This is the current build-out since it was announced FOUR YEARS AGO!!!

Uber randomly borked Google Maps about a year ago for many people by forcing the default map to Uber services while using an Uber icon that looked almost exactly like the Car icon.
See the google forums here: https://productforums.google.c...
As you can see the Car and Taxi/Uber icons were very similar until recently: https://lh3.googleusercontent....
By changing the default mapping method to Uber this totally broke Google maps for those who couldn't tell what had changed.
To make it worse the recommended fixes and perceptions of what really happened changed as they tweaked the app to fix things.

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Microsoft makes money of Open Source software by shaking down companies that deploy it. I.e. they weaponize their software patent portfolio.

That's how they make money from Android.

Recently, they received good press for their Azure patents protection offer, but it is not what it seems at first glance, their is nothing benign about it. It's just a dressed up protection racket.

And while moving their Quantum Computing software to github, gave them press that they "Open Sourced" it, nothing could be further from the truth.

They will try to get a stranglehold on the future of computing, just as they had it in the PC market. They just switched strategy, but this tiger won't change its stripes.

Microsoft makes money of Open Source software by shaking down companies that deploy it. I.e. they weaponize their software patent portfolio.

That's how they make money from Android.

Recently, they received good press for their Azure patents protection offer, but it is not what it seems at first glance, their is nothing benign about it. It's just a dressed up protection racket.

And while moving their Quantum Computing software to github, gave them press that they "Open Sourced" it, nothing could be further from the truth.

They will try to get a stranglehold on the future of computing, just as they had it in the PC market. They just switched strategy, but this tiger won't change its stripes.

The bathtub curve is real

This Backblaze report, previous Backblaze reports, and the Google logitudinal disk reliability study, have all found that the "bathtub curve" is a myth. HDDs do not have high early failure rates, nor does the failure rate suddenly rise after a set period of time.

Another myth that these studies have debunked is that HDDs do better if kept cool. Actually, failure rates are lower for disks kept at the higher end of the rated temperatures. This is one reason that Google runs "hot" datacenters today, with ambient temps over 100F.

The corn we eat today, is nothing like what was available even 50 years ago.

That, and save billions. For example, the EPA air rules cost $11.3 billion, saved $55–146 billion annually, including 6,800 to 17,000 lives. From 1990 to 2020, that's an expected $65 billion spent to save $2 trillion.

The White House's Office of Management and Budget found that the annual benefits of major federal rules over a decade ranged between $193 billion to $800 billion, with costs of only $57 billion to $84 billion (EPA air regulations were the greatest source of these benefits). Google cache link, because Trump deleted the original.

51.99 billion of those are probably just copies of this and these...

Yup. Basically.

51.99 billion of those are probably just copies of this and these...

Yup. Basically.

51.99 billion of those are probably just copies of this and these...

51.99 billion of those are probably just copies of this and these...

You want my organ, come and get it.

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I'm pretty sure I remember you have previous posts calling people "space nutters", and are pretty rabid in attacking anything outside mainstream NASA. The claim that CAST has nothing just because the English version has nothing means nothing...unless you've gone through the Chinese language version and can prove the two sites contain the same information.

I found another reference in English at http://spaceflight101.com/shijian-17-rendezvous-with-chinasat-5a/: "and debuting a Hall-Effect Thruster system for use on future Chinese GEO satellites"

Digging into this via Google Translate does provide far more information. The information your claiming doesn't exist actually DOES exist, on the stdaily.com article. It's just all in Chinese, so you have to put some effort in to translate it. My link is at translate.google.com and https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http://digitalpaper.stdaily.com/http_www.kjrb.com/kjrb/html/2016-12/11/content_357005.htm%3Fdiv%3D-1&usg=ALkJrhhkYPDNKL_9BxSu6OAkt5KIHsse9Q but I don't know if this link will work for anyone else.

Using Google page translation:

Chen Yue said: "We use the classic electromagnetics and electrodynamics to design several different shapes of thrusters, theoretical analysis can generate thrust thrust, and through the test of the thrust, the results in line with theoretical analysis. Science and Technology Daily Beijing December 10 " Roger Xiaoe in an interview was also asked this "eternal" problem, he made it clear that the EM engine does not violate Newton's law of mechanics: "EM engine in a direction to generate propulsion, if circumstances permit, will In another direction, the momentum of the whole process is conserved. "This explanation is considered ambiguous.

"We have successfully developed several specifications of several prototype principle, the establishment of experimental verification platform to complete the milli-level micro thrust measurement test, through several years of repeated tests and the corresponding interference factor investigation test, confirm that the type of thruster Thrust exists. "Chen Yue introduced that they have completed the test device can be used for flight test development, is in orbit verification.

"This technology is currently in the latter stages of the proof-of-principle phase, with the goal of making the technology available in satellite engineering as quickly as possible," said Li Feng, chief architect of the China National Space Technology Institute's communications satellite division. , The principle prototype volume, thrust is small, require special engineering methods, optimize the cavity design, improve the cavity quality factor, reduce the loss, the microwave energy is more effective for generating thrust. At present, the thrust is measured to micro-cow level to millennial level, at least to improve the level of 100 cents or even cattle-level satellite can be used for attitude control, orbit and so on.

It's not that hard to set custom date ranges on Google:

Obama Sharia Law - 06/12 to 12/12.

3-Star General: Muslim Brotherhood Has Infiltrated All Levels of US Govt To Install Sharia Law

Just one fun one I found from 2008: UPDATE: 4/1/09. Obama appointed a radical muslim extremist, Harold KOH, to head the U.S. State Dept Legal Team. KOH advocates SHARIA ISLAMIC LAW to be allowed in USA courts. SHARIA LAW would over-ride USA LAW and allows women to be beaten and killed by their husbands, thieves to have their hands cut-off and Muslims to kill Infidels (i.e., American Christians and Jews) without fear of prosecution.

by Stanislaw Lem comes to my mind reading this.
"Well, the Monday me on Monday night became, Tuesday morning, the Tuesday me, and so on."

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I'm adding my perspective as a person knows some of the people involved, and calling for some disruption of the monoculture of research in that area. It would be an ad hominem attack if I were arguing against the content of what they're saying, but I'm not really.

I'm arguing that we need more different types of people saying it, but I'm not saying that the content is necessarily, or even likely wrong - I'm not qualified to judge the latter, while I am relatively well-qualified for the former, since I know the people and the structure of the organisation.

I added an updated link to the rebuttal, by the way: here you go.

1. Sorry about the paywall, I used Google's cache because the page wanted me to run far too much javascript. Here's the link.

2. More or less. He was disciplined for "not displaying responsibility in respecting the reputations of other colleagues". Honestly, it was a bit strange, and I wasn't the only one in the department that was mildly outraged.

3. I think we need to make an effort to avoid that though. Even ignoring the idea of "deserving", there are many things on the reef that we could benefit from. For example, there's a type of coral that produces a really powerful natural sunscreen that has inspired an artificial one. It's like the Amazon rainforest - the biodiversity on the reef is a tremendous resource.

"Since Android was launched over seven years ago, all Android devices have
shared a common security model that provides every application with a secure,
isolated environment known as an application sandbox. Android was one of
the first operating systems to introduce the idea of sandboxing to both protect
applications from attacks and protect the device from applications. Sandboxing
is used for all applications on the device, including system-level applications. "

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Well, thank you for the dissertation here, but unfortunately this has done FUCK ALL to actually prevent or protect consumers using the Android ecosystem.

The fucking pathetic part is it's become so systemic that it appears Android consumers want it that way.

"Since Android was launched over seven years ago, all Android devices have
shared a common security model that provides every application with a secure,
isolated environment known as an application sandbox. Android was one of
the first operating systems to introduce the idea of sandboxing to both protect
applications from attacks and protect the device from applications. Sandboxing
is used for all applications on the device, including system-level applications. "

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I'm not going to argue that some Republicans aren't in the pocket of big business, certainly no moreso that Democrats are in the pocket of labor and trial lawyers. (shrug) We have a congress generally that - regardless of party or predilection - is venal, blindly tendentious, and frankly more than a little stupid.

I disagree that there "needs to be some sort of government agency" - we have PLENTY of government agencies under whose jurisdiction this COULD fall: FDA, Commerce, FTC, CPSC,
Per the US Gov't itself:
The FDA regulates products that are foods, drugs, cosmetics, or medical equipment.
FTC: As a general rule of thumb, every other consumer commodity that doesnâ(TM)t fall under FDA regulations is regulated by the FTC.
There, solved.

And before you claim "but...Republicans drain all the funding from these programs" - in a sense, yes. Republicans tend to try to take money out of government spending generally (save perhaps Defense - although GWB pre 9/11 had major plans for DoD downsizing. That's precisely why Rumsfeld got SecDef: he was a budget cutter) BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FUNDS TO HAVE EVERYTHING WE WANT. So yes, in the same sense your household might be cutting the breakfast cereal budget along with everything else because you're deeply in debt, Republicans regularly try to drain bloated and eternal programs.

I'll remind you, nevertheless, that something north of 53% of the US Fed budget goes to Health and Social Services, so if the Republicans are attacking non-defense programs, they're not winning...
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Yeah, they do.
ATM on the right, bank statement printer on the left

While not all bank statement printer look like the one of the left (example), pretty much all ATMs look like that one on the right. What's also common for statement printer is a rudimentary user interface as you do not need to put in any information, all you do is to insert your card and the device will start printing after a short while.

... is a rogue device?

that we expect to be present being hijacked for nefarious purposes. And even if I don't plug my TV set into my home network, what's to stop it from turning on its WiFi and establishing a mesh network through the neighbors' TV sets until it can reach some remote command server?

Like my Comcast wifi which now routinely offers unsecured Xfinity wifi to all passers by in the neighborhood (by design); and as a bonus, occasionally drops my secure wifi so that my devices switch over to the public Xfinity network, silently?

... is a rogue device?

that we expect to be present being hijacked for nefarious purposes. And even if I don't plug my TV set into my home network, what's to stop it from turning on its WiFi and establishing a mesh network through the neighbors' TV sets until it can reach some remote command server?

Because I think we know what the outcome would be.

Here's the latest activity report: https://static.googleuserconte...

Note that the car has only been in autonomous mode approximately 60% of the time. Which is about the amount of time you can spend not paying attention when driving a car manually. Basically, we've finally gotten a computer to do what humans can do with spare cycles.

More non-news to promote an agenda, that's all.

For the lazy web, a link on google cache:

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The best version of this joke I can find is at http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:AuW0jGrLm08J:www.berkovich-zametki.com/Nomer31/Kigel1.htm+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us.

Slashdot won't let me insert Russian characters since it's 1987, but it seems like it translates to "They'll catch and castrate you then tell you you're free to go since you aren't a camel"

Some humble thoughts:
        - The UK has a conservative government, and had one for some time.
        - The current Scotland Yard commissioner was appointed by Boris Johnson, a staunch conservative, when he was Mayor of London.
        - The legislative background of this supposed initiative is the so called Malicious Communications Act, which at least in its most recent incarnations is again a brainchild of a conservative government.
        - According to the narrative you suggest, the liberal media would be conspiring to cover up the presumed misdeeds of a conservative appointed commissioner, under a conservative government, trying to (mis)use a law squarely backed by conservatives.
        - That does not honestly appear to make much sense, especially in the current UK political climate.
        - The "next article" on the page you link as reference has the following headline (copy pasta) : "I could do that: Woman who thinks she's faster than Usain Bolt claims she could sprint 100 metres in just SEVEN seconds." You know, that's the Daily Mail, that's what they do. So really take anything they write with more than one grain of salt.
        - The Independent article you mention is available in the google cache: http://webcache.googleusercont...
        - The Independent traditionally has mixed views, but in the most recent occasion they endorsed a conservative-led coalition: "For all its faults, another Lib-Con Coalition would both prolong recovery and give our kingdom a better chance of continued existence.". Hardly a fortress of the "left".
        - The UK Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron appears in this case to be quite reasonable. (For our American friends: In UK 'liberal' has a different meaning than in the US, but liberals are still considered on the "left" of the conservatives, for the ones that are especially attached to those labels). So, Farron is on the record as saying about this initiative: “Online bullying is an increasingly serious problem but police should not be proactively seeking cases like these and turning themselves into chatroom moderators. With such measures, even if well-intentioned, there is a real danger of undermining our very precious freedom of speech.”
        - I don't know why the article from the Independent appears to have been removed since publication. But I very much doubt, given what above, that one should think of a grand liberal conspiracy as the likely explanation. Unless liberals are conspiring against themselves, using a conservative-endorsing newspaper as their outlet.
        - For that matter, I equally very much doubt there is any ongoing grand conspiracy of conservatives (and I am not too convinced with this grand conspiracy of cats either). Maybe I am hopelessly naif, but in general, I like to start with the simplest possible explanations and move from there. In this case the Independent suddenly realizing after publication that they "like the idea of a leftist Thought Police", is NOT the simplest explanation - it's rather at the "WTF" end of the spectrum.

In general, a very friendly advice that I try to regularly also give to myself: try to focus on the issues, avoiding to rely too much on precooked but fuzzy categories like "the ruling class" "people on the left" "people on the right" "the liberal media", "conservative something" etc.

If you want to voice your concerns about the dangers of governmental overreach on digital media, I'm happy to join my concerns to yours. But you lose me fast if you throw around, in support to your concerns, suggestions of conspiracies and labels like "leftist Thought Police" recycled from a page on the Daily Mail.

And we all thought this was impossible, until the first time we saw Shazam. This Shazam not that other Shazam.

You're making quite a few assumptions. Consider the Indians, I think it is similar here in Canada as the States, the reservations, while having some sovereignty, are also sorta wards of the Federal government. Land is communally owned, many reservations are as you say, no land improvements, trailers or pre-fabbed houses, basically a slum. These are people who lost their lifestyle, often violently. Have been abused for generations, especially having their families ripped apart. Fact, people can't make good decisions if they don't know their choices.
Some of the natives have really lifted themselves up, even with the communal ownership thing. Take the Osoyoos band. To quote from their web site, http://oibdc.ca/

The Osoyoos Indian Band people honour the hard working, self-supporting lifestyle of our ancestors by developing our own economy through our business initiatives.

Through leases and joint ventures we have built meaningful business relationships that have created social and employment opportunities for both natives and non-natives in the South Okanagan. The Chief and Council of OIB are business people, and we desire to develop more business opportunities

And they've done an amazing job. Helps that they have a good location, just like the next band north, https://www.biv.com/article/20... who are happily leasing out their land for economic advantage.
Then there are the bands who have recently signed treaties, got out of the Indian Act (no special rights anymore), and into actual ownership. Generally they've just sold their assets for way too cheap and can't even claim a bit of the communal land to plant a trailer.

Russia and the Soviet Union. It's hard to claim that a country that went from wealth being considered how many serfs you owned to a space fairing nation in 50 years, while winning WWII through the sacrifice of millions of lives, and suffering under Stalin, didn't increase their GDP. At least their standard of living increased, they had a longer expected lifespan then the average American at one point, then went broke trying to compete with a country that could borrow trillions and was made up of mostly people that were motivated to move to the new world to make a success of themselves.

Other "successful communist experiments" include what was happening in civil war Spain, at least until the Stalinists showed up. Read some George Orwell. Or read about http://www.spookmagazine.com/w... http://webcache.googleusercont...

Sadly socialist revolutions, while easy to sell to a poor population, usually end up with corrupt leadership that fuck it right up. See recent events in S. America. We don't point to Saudi Arabia as an example of the success of capitalism or conservatism and most of the stories of communism are similar.
Personally I think mixed is best, take the best from all the systems. Think of the chief of the Osoyoos Indian Band, a very good businessman who is motivated to employ people, especially his people rather then to get disgustingly rich.

How is corporate welfare not socialism?

Socialism doesn't mean "for the little guy." It means "the means of production owned or controlled by the state."

Corporate welfare qualifies.

Actually socialism means "the means of production owned or controlled by the people". This can be the State, it can be through co-ops, credit unions etc. Ideally is getting rid of government though it is hard as the Stalinists usually show up and fuck things.
Ideally socialism needs to be combined with libertarianism.
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Not Starbucks, the company with the mermaid logo.

I was sort of hoping that they'd step it up to this.

July 14 2016: "France will not extend the state of emergency imposed after last year's Islamist militant attacks in Paris in November beyond 26 July"

July 15 2016: "Terror attack kills scores in Nice, France"

July 16 2016: "France extends state of emergency"

'The declaration of a state of emergency empowers the prefect whose department is wholly or partly included in a constituency in Article 2:'

1. To prohibit the movement of people and vehicles in places and times fixed by decree;
2. To establish, by decree, areas of protection or security where the presence of individuals is regulated
3. To prohibit the stay in any part of the department to any person seeking to hinder in any way the action of the authorities

.. The Minister of the Interior may impose the house arrest, the place it determines, any person residing in the area set by the decree mentioned in Article 2 .. in any case, the arrest will have the effect of creating camps would be held the persons mentioned in the first paragraph

I. - The decree declaring or law extending the state of emergency may, by an express provision conferring on the administrative authorities mentioned in Article 8 the authority to order searches anywhere, including a home of day and night ..

II. - Minister of the Interior may take all measures to ensure the interruption of any online public communication service leading to the commission of acts of terrorism or glorifying.

.. The Minister of the Interior, for the entire territory is established the state of emergency, and the prefect, in the department may order the temporary closure of theaters, pubs and places of any meeting Nature in areas determined by the decree provided for in Article 2. ref google granslate

You're looking for this picture ... "Ignorance Map"
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* Known Unknowns -- All the things you you know you don't know
* Unknown Unknowns -- All the things you don't know you don't know
* Errors -- All the things you think you know but don't
* Unknown Knowns -- All the things you don't know you know
* Taboos -- Dangerous, polluting or forbidden knowledge
* Denials -- All the things too painful to know, so you don't

Ironically, it is missing the most important part:

* Known Knowns -- Everything you know (either by proof or experience)

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Fix the broken political system -- POOL all political donations and then evenly divide them every quarter to every active party.

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Yep. You should look at those links. Or if you want quantitative measurements, check out http://static.googleuserconten...

It's not a binary question though - we're not forced to choose between "All regulation is good" or "All regulation is bad."

Unfortunately, with the Democrats — the Party of Government — the regulations are your only choice. Thousands new ones are added every year.

Maybe, Hillary will add fewer than Obama's record-setting 21,000, but her numbers will, no doubt, be comparable.

For instance, Net Neutrality isn't telling them in exacting detail how to manage their network

I said nothing about "exacting detail". But vagueness is often worse than that...

you can't abuse that by charging extra or degrading service based on whose traffic it is

How is that different, in principle, from telling you, you can not block certain callers (such as those exercising their First Amendment rights to pitch their services to you) on your telephone? How is it different from prohibiting you to install AdBlock on your dad's computer? It also blocks data based on whose it is — and that phone/computer is yours is, according to you, no defense...

What's good for the goose, is good for chicken — always test whatever regulation you'd like imposed on others on yourself first...

we could certainly do with removing regulations that serve solely as a barrier to competition or entry, such as those in the ISP market

Translation: such as those you are aware of. What makes you think, the ISP market is somehow unique in its amount of suspect regulations?

Here's a cache if anyone is interested. The official page is gone now, no telling if they pulled it or FB did. Gawker has more info, including part of the new clause that says “to not post on any public forum or page negative comments relating to the community.” While it may not be strictly illegal, it would be found discriminatory against those who don't have a Facebook account, internet access, etc. The quoted lawyer mentions this; it might violate other laws too; but it would be trivial to show in court that this is discriminatory against the elderly etc who don't use computers, have a Facebook account, etc. It's not technically a "free speech" issue, since it's not a Government agency forcing this..and at this time the only "free speech" restrictions are the Government, a private corp can do whatever it wants inside it's contractual agreements. Utah, and Salt Lake, might have additional "tenet laws" that might restrict them.

However, IANAL

You Could go here to see a Google Cache of their (now taken down) Facebook page. Place looks like a dump to me.

If your claim that nobody visits a business's Facebook Page is true, what explains tools to let a business count visits to its Page?

And in related recent news, Adidas will be moving shoe manufacturing to Germany and the US by replacing USD $1 to 3/hr workers in Asian factories with automation. (Estimated wage - the BLS data is only as recent as 2009.)

Here is the text of a Bloomberg article from 2013 (since going to the website itself didn't load for me) discussing "Asia Soaring Wages" where people make USD $226/mo in Indonesia and USD $10/day in Thailand which is apparently a significant increase (or not, depending on who the article author talked to.) China factories outsourcing to Indonesia and Thailannd factories is discussed. The drive to automation is discussed.

Automation is certainly not anything new. Even without minimum wage increases it's still an inevitability.

With a link to the article (google translate), it is far better. It is a communication of the federal police and more accurately the CCU (Computer Crime Unit). It is one of role of this unit. Privacy is important in Belgium and tracking users without their consent is a crime.

> But it's confusing if you're not - and it's even worse if you don't understand the underlying data model

The basics of git aren't that difficult as this post points out. Even this git tutorial walks one though the basics.

Searching images for git model shows everyone loves to over-complicate git. Here is one example or the popular A successful git branching model. How many freaking arrows do you need?? K.I.S.S. and add *layers* to explain the more complicated git stuff.

Do you need to understand git's underlying data model to use git effectively? No. Does it help? Probably.

The fundamentals of git aren't really that difficult:

* Every git repo is a glorified (local) database.
* Every entry has a unique hash.
* Branches are no different then a commit
* There is a chain of hashes. Head points to the start of this chain.
* Your repo is linear or non-linear as you make it. <--- This is what gets people into trouble.

> Git's not perfect, ...

I don't think anyone is claiming THAT. Anything more advanced then the trivial add, commit, push, pull is going to require a little bit of extra work. GitHub makes managing pull request pretty trivial.

Since Git supports non-linear actions by default, it takes discipline to maintain the expected linear development. Having a way to visualize the commit / branch tree makes dealing with this complexity significantly easier.

Git is a powerful tool with lots of options. IMO if there were less crappy tutorials people wouldn't find it to be so complicated.

Has anyone ever recovered consciousness after being declared âoebrain dead?â

Numerous accounts of patients who have recovered after a firm diagnosis of âoebrain deathâ demonstrate that âoebrain deadâ patients are not certainly dead. Here are two cases.

Zack Dunlap, a 21-year-old Oklahoman, flipped over on his 4-Wheeler and suffered catastrophic brain injuries in November 2007. Thirty-six hours after his accident, doctors at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, declared him âoebrain dead.â Preparations to harvest his organs were underway when friends and relatives gathered to say their final goodbyes. His cousin, a nurse, wanting to make certain, scraped his pocket knife along the bottom of Zackâ(TM)s foot. Zack jerked his foot away. Just months later, Zack was walking and talking. Zack recalled hearing the doctor say he was dead and being âoemad insideâ but unable to move.[5]

Steven Thorpe, a British 17-year-old, suffered horrific injuries in a multi-car accident. Four doctors declared him âoebrain dead.â Doctors asked his family to consider donating his organs before his life-support was turned off. The family sought a second opinion from a neurologist who detected faint brain waves. Seven weeks later, Steven was discharged from the hospital having made a near-full recovery. In 2013, at age 21, now an accountant trainee, he spoke to the media for the first time: âoeHopefully (my experience) can help people see you should never give up. My father believed I was aliveâ"and he was correct.â[6]

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Extraordinary Claims Require Extraordinary Proof
May 3, 2016
ExtraordinaryClaims

Yesterday, Andreas Antonopoulos posted a fantastic piece on Reddit.

Andreas said something critically important and it bears repeating: “I think the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto does not matter”.

He’s absolutely right.

It doesn’t – and shouldn’t – matter to the Bitcoin community.

I cannot deny that my interest in bringing the origins of Bitcoin into the light is ultimately and undeniably a selfish one – the only person to whom this should matter is me. In the wake of the articles last December in which I was ‘outed’, I still believed that I could remain silent. I still believed that I could retreat into anonymity, sever contact, go quiet, and that the storm would eventually pass and life would return to normal. I was right and wrong. The story did eventually retreat, but not before it ‘turned’ and the allegations of fraud and hoax (not to mention personal threats and slurs against me and my family) clung to me.

I now know that I can never go back.

So, I must go through to go forward.

Mr. Antonopoulos’ post also notes that if Satoshi wants to prove identity, “they don’t need an “authority” to do so. They can do it in a public, open manner.” This is absolutely true, but not necessarily complete. I can prove access to the early keys and I can and will do so by moving bitcoin, but this should be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for such an extraordinary claim.

And this is why I wanted to speak with Gavin weeks ago. Gavin was in a unique position as we dealt with each other directly while we nurtured Bitcoin to life in 2010. I knew that Gavin would remember the content of those messages and discussions, and would recall our arguments and early interactions. I wanted to speak with Gavin first, not to appeal to his authority, but because I wanted him to know. I owed him that. It was important to me that we could re-establish our relationship. Simply signing messages or moving bitcoin would never be enough for Gavin.

And it should not be enough for anyone else.

So, over the coming days, I will be posting a series of pieces that will lay the foundations for this extraordinary claim, which will include posting independently-verifiable documents and evidence addressing some of the false allegations that have been levelled, and transferring bitcoin from an early block.

For some there is no burden of proof high enough, no evidence that cannot be dismissed as fabrication or manipulation. This is the nature of belief and swimming against this current would be futile.

You should be sceptical. You should question. I would.

I will present what I believe to be “extraordinary proof” and ask only that it be independently validated.

Ultimately, I can do no more than that.

And I just found it on Google cache. Glad I could grab it before it disappears forever:

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This link will work fine even with ad blockers:

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You can also change your user agent to Googlebot to workaround such shenanigans.

Pastebin deleted it, Google has it cached for now.

With that said, while I'm not in favor of harsh punitive treatment in prisons IF it doesn't help prevent crime, nothing in the article sounds unreasonable.

According to the court opinion, he was woken up every half hour for the first year of his confinement and forced to acknowledge the guard. He was also subjected to strip searches and "anal inspections" every time he was moved, including from one cell to another, to the prison yard and back, etc. The court acknowledged that those can be reasonable for safety concerns in some situations, but considering that he was shackled when being moved, on camera, and watched by three officers, doing a cavity search before leaving one cell and after entering the next starts sounding more like punitive treatment rather than safety.

So, in other words the ideal living situation for the stereotypical techie! To be honest that almost does sound like the ideal living situation to me. I'd gladly give up ever seeing the outdoors again or ever communicating with another human again if I had unlimited access to any media I want and meals are provided for me.

He also was woken up every half hour for the first year of his imprisonment, during which "he had to give a sign of life," and was subjected to constant strip searches and "anal inspections" any time he left his cell (e.g. to go to a different cell, to meet with his lawyer, to go to the prison yard, to come back from the prison yard, etc., etc.), according to the opinion. The court acknowledged that reasonable safety requirements allow for some searches and surprise inspections, but these were done in the interest of torture, not safety.