MnemonicBump

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on No Spoilers 👁️⃤ · c/memes · 9 pts · 4h

Well, I was in the third grade when 9/11 happened, and there was never any kind of formal education about it, because we had all experienced. Kids a just a few years younger than me would t remember it at all, but likely still wouldn't have learned about it in school yet. That's probably where this guy falls

– Thomas John Watson Sr., IBM

The guy who helped the Nazis standardize the Holocaust? That's your citation? You want to quote Henry Ford while you're at it?

Noooo, I went to, like, 6 different elementary schools to two different states, all in pretty low income areas. This was pretty consistent. But this went well beyond elementary school. When you took world history in high school, what did that look like? This was pretty consistent. And it wasn't just history, this was all blended into English classes and stuff too

That's not an "America Bad" thing, it's just fact? That's the explicit reason for the entire framing of western history in American classrooms. We start with Egypt, then the hand the torch over to the Greeks, then they hand the torch to the Romans, then the Dark Ages (spoooooky), then the Renaissance, the British Empire, and then the USA. It's one of our foundations for American Exceptionalism

on Wow what an incredible deal · c/funny · 12 pts · 11d

We used to have them in North America under the branding Gameworks until about 2 and half years ago

Edit: But apparently none in Canada

If you use the same wallet for multiple transactions, you create a forensically-discocerable trail. It doesn't give any information in and of itself, but can be used to determine frequency of use, which can be used to trace you. This is, like very basic opsec, just in terms of what you should and shouldn't trust. That's what I'm saying here, and you're missing it because you want to defend a coin that you

didn't even say that [you] use

?

on Me this morning · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 13d

Okay, so what I literally said was:

The problem with that is, in many cases, being highly educated probably means you came from money, which usually translates to some of the worst people we could possibly be sending.

See how I used words like "probably", "usually", and "worst"? That's because I wasn't making a blanket statement that "all of the highly educated people are bad", I'm saying that amongst the highly educated are the very worst of people. That's a really important distinction.

It's not literally untraceable (unless you mean figuritively literally) it's just effectively untraceable.

Also important to note that your transaction is essentially as private as you are, which assume that the user is taking precautions to not broadcast to the world what website they are going to and at what time and for what. So obviously the biggest flaw is still user behavior (using a sketchy exchange, using the same Monero wallet for multiple transactions, connecting your Monero wallet to another non-private wallet, and leaking metadata outside of the block chain are all things that can and do happen and make this not literally untraceable.

But yes, it gets about as close as you can.

Another heuristic examined in the study is the Coinbase output heuristic. This method identifies mining-related outputs in transaction rings and assumes that these outputs are less likely to be actual spends. Since regular users rarely mine Monero, researchers can often use this strategy to eliminate decoys. While it’s not a foolproof method, when combined with other techniques, it can sometimes improve traceability in investigations.

https://www.trmlabs.com/resources/blog/the-rise-of-monero-traceability-challenges-and-research-review

on Me this morning · c/lemmyshitpost · 1 pts · 13d

Ohh, nononono. You made a fatal assumption that the worst people are the ONLY bad people, and obviously that's not true. The state is actively borking education because it needs to maintain its supply of sycophants.