Quote from: jojo69 on March 21, 2020, 05:35:08 PM

Quote from: VB1001 on March 21, 2020, 04:54:20 PM

Quote from: vapourminer on March 21, 2020, 10:30:31 AM

Quote from: VB1001 on March 21, 2020, 09:19:44 AM

All the big cities are deserted, reality surpasses fiction again, only the Martians remain to appear and we will have the complete apocalyptic pack.

hey, easy now

one horse at a time please

Sorry, what does the phrase mean? my english does not capture the meaning.
You can express it in another way so that I can understand it?

Thx.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse

:-)

Quote from: nullius on March 18, 2020, 01:32:15 AM

Stop panicking!

Between the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, I fear Famine. I do not fear Plague (at least, not in this instance). I do fear War. I have never feared Death; and I do not intend to start now.

The Earth is ridiculously overpopulated. A long-term global lockdown proximately causing deindustrialization and famine could help to knock off a few billion talking apes. Maybe it is not such a bad idea after all?

Everyone in crypto should also be familiar with the Four Horsemen of the Cryptocalypse. AFAIK/IIRC (?), the identification originated with The Cyphernomicon by Timothy C. May.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020727001417/http://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/chapter8.html#3

Quote from: The Cyphernomicon, v0.666, by Timothy C. May (1994-09-10)

8.3.4. "How will privacy and anonymity be attacked?"

the downsides just listed are often cited as a reason we can't have "anonymity"
like so many other "computer hacker" items, as a tool for the "Four Horsemen": drug-dealers, money-launderers, terrorists, and pedophiles.

See also: 12. Digital Cash and Net Commerce.

R.I.P., T. C. May (19512018). If he had lived just a bit longerperhaps he got lucky.