_the mind virus_ @Full_marx@qoto.org
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Header : Angelina Bambina
Avatar : Adolfo Arranz
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I wish to build something that can be of good use to as many people as possible.
Social Sciences: Propaganda Science, Social Engineering, Behavioural Science, Advertising
STEM: Human-Computer Interaction Design and Web Dev
Multimedia: Motion Graphics, Video Production, Electronic Music Production, Abstract Film, Writing
Politics: Liberal but conservative economic
Joined Nov 2019
Is it slow
or is it like Escargot?
I wanna learn how to BASH the shit out of Terminal.
@freemo
I have made the following corrections to my profile.
Any more shame and I shall be forced to commit seppuku.
I was only giving an example.
I said SHA as I was referring to the fact that 'brute force needed to crack an encryption algorithm' is the chief determiner of its security.
I had read about a loophole in SHA. (prolly a bedroom conspiracy theory). It said that there exists an alternate way to solve the curve equation and use much less computing power.
If any company that devises its own encryption system (does fb do that I don't know), could they build a master key into it? - I had assumed they could.
But I realise now that they wouldn't do it, as it would turn into a security risk for FB itself.
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I agree, partly. But thats why no nations are a "Direct Democracy", as in, popular decision doesnt directly dictate decisions. Most democracies are in fact "Republics", a representative democracy. The idea being we can vote for people on their integrity, wisdom, and expertise, and then rely on them to make informed decisions, which may themselves be unpopular, but the positive effects speak for themselves in the end.
In theory thats all good, and it should work. The problem is we have media, and worse yet, actual news, that twists reality for a particular politicial agenda. So people no longer have an honest sense of if an unpopular decision has a positive result, because even if it does the media will make sure to twist it into something negative if they dont happen to support that particular decision or politician.
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@Full_marx @freemo Another argument used is "historical discrimination", that the so-called "lower castes" have been discriminated in the past, which while true is NOT a justification of reservations.
LGBTQs in the west have historically been discriminated against, and they still continue to face discrimination. I'm yet to come across a western government that reserves seats in universities, jobs, and even promotions in jobs for queers.
Reservations actually further divides the society. The 'general' people, who do not get reservations, feel that the lower castes have got accepted into prestigious universities only because of reservations. This makes them feel discriminated against and thus fuels hate against the ones that get reservations.
If the so-called lower castes really want to integrate with the broader Indian society, they have to voluntarily give up reservations. That's the only way out. Period.
A democratic government cannot put an end to reservations unless people demand the government to end reservations.
Yes. Curtis Yarvin calls it the Cathedral.
But the Cathedral includes the media and education system.
There was an essay I was reading which was fire.
It's about the nature of democracy.
https://americanmind.org/essays/the-clear-pill-part-1-of-5-the-four-stroke-regime/
Is he on Mastadon?
@freemo
But what about the whole NSA having the two constants needed to solve the parabolic equation of the SHA256 algorithm?
NSA doesn't need brute force to decrypt encoding.
Just tell me if I'm talking out of my ass
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@Full_marx You know what? Sometimes I feel that India has to choose between ‘equality’ and ‘democracy’ – India can't be "world's largest democracy" and "a free & equal society" at the same time.
Any democratic government that puts an end to this caste-based reservations will upset the caste "vote banks", and thus will not be able to win elections for the next term. There are reservations for castes not because government imposes them on people, but because people force the government to reserve seats for the castes. In a democracy, you cannot upset the mass, which can be ignorant and greedy — the reason why Socrates hated democracy.
Sometimes the best solutions require, tough and bold decisions. These decisions are often unpopular, and the paradox here is that popularity is an important tool to facilitate the functioning of Democracy.
As you already said, risking your popularity to do the right and most rational thing requires some balls(gender neutral).
The global media will hate you, the UN will shame you, but the people on the ground, who live the reality will thank you.
E2EE encryption means nothing, when FB has the master key, to crack the hashing algorithm.
Let a decentralised service host our messaging, let them use a custom hashing algorithm to encrypt messages. If govt wants to snoop let it get a court order and only then allow the messages to be snooped by using the master key to decrypt messages.
@freemo -- what do you think? Am I talking out of my ass. Tech is possible no? And allows for surveillance when there is a security risk.
Truth be told it would be cool to have more compsci peeps here, i'm just being greedy
Raman I'm sure you would like to write longer posts. We here at QOTO.org get a character limit of 60k vs 500. Plus a slew of other unique features.
Ideologically, The QOTO instance is a STEM and Free Speech Centric Instance.
No banning for extreme right or extreme left views.
Would love it if you could come aboard!!
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I know you’re tired but come, this is the way.
Rumi
Found this on Quora
It should be noted that the categories are really only used to identify the level of encouragement a person/family/caste needs for improving their quality of life and eventually society. Reservation was seen as a tool for making all our society equal in the future and one day it would be needed no more. But unfortunately like a person in pain becoming too dependent on pain relievers, that he does not recognize when they are not needed, to the point it is an addiction… reservation has also become an addiction to more than a few people… However, it should be noted that there are always persons who do need those pain relievers genuinely. It is not the fault of the medicine but the fault of the masses who cannot differentiate between want and need. It should also be noted that there are always people who don’t really need it but don’t like it when there are others who are getting it, just because they can’t get it.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-difference-between-OBC-and-general-category
#fascicommunism #JNU #leftwing #rightwing #fascicommunist #india
In short it is not compulsory to declare your caste.
You always have the option to declare general.
you declare caste to get access to reservation quotas.
SC-Scheduled Caste as notified and recognised by census
ST-Scheduled Tribe as notified and reg by census
OBC-Other Backward Class not yet reg or scheduled
PH-Physically Handicaped
Ex-Serviceman-Armed Forces
Artwork Credits
Header : Angelina Bambina
Avatar : Adolfo Arranz
he/him
I wish to build something that can be of good use to as many people as possible.
Social Sciences: Propaganda Science, Social Engineering, Behavioural Science, Advertising
STEM: Human-Computer Interaction Design and Web Dev
Multimedia: Motion Graphics, Video Production, Electronic Music Production, Abstract Film, Writing
Politics: Liberal but conservative economic
Joined Nov 2019
