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• JayGee commented on The Nakamoto Variations
  If there’s a sneaky way of encoding information in the blockchain you can bet multiple people have done it (probably in multiple different, mutually incompatible ways) with multiple motivations, and in the furtherance of multiple agendas. Pick any conspiracy you like, it’s probably as true as any of the others......
• dpb commented on The Nakamoto Variations
  Here's a conspiracy theory: Bitcoin was created as a distributed alternative to a numbers station. The whole "money" thing was just a smoke screen to make sure that lots of people regularly grab the block chain and the message recipients are lost in the noise....
• Arnold commented on The Nakamoto Variations
  Really? When they started? MAD The LOT of them eh? Oh Dear, Oh Dear ..there's a lot of it about isn't there ? But, Really? Well, to save you the trouble of invention and research.... " So we have a leader of Russia who is paranoid and delusional "And then trying to actually prove Putins mental instability? Try this .. http://projects.wsj.com/buzzwords2014/#p=16%7C44,24%7C25%7C%7C5%7C%7C0 There's a lot of it about in Academia. This mostly by people who couldn't even make their way up the management/political hierarchy of a non-Russell Group University here in the UK. This sort of thing? ....https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-winner-effect/201403/the-danger-lurks-inside-vladimir-putins-brain...
• Greg Tingey commented on The Nakamoto Variations
  AH the random buzzword/phrase generator - which, when I first saw it, about 1970, was three concentric plastic discs, prited with the mandatory "usful" words/phrases ... Nothing has changed since .......
• Bill Arnold commented on The Nakamoto Variations
  Off the OP topic, study - exercise dramatically defers dementia among (Swedish) women at least. (No males studied but I would expect similar results (guessing slightly less dramatic).) Study size unfortunately small, N=191. Needs more N. :-) Midlife cardiovascular fitness and dementia: A 44-year longitudinal population study in women (14 March 2018) We found that high cardiovascular fitness in midlife was associated with decreased risk of dementia in a population of women followed up for up to 44 years. High compared to medium fitness decreased the risk of dementia by 88%. ... The mean time to dementia onset was 5...