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[WO] Four Horsemen
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nullius
on 21/03/2020, 19:16:30 UTC
⭐ Merited by Hueristic (1)
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

:-)

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?

Roll Eyes



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 (1951–2018).  If he had lived just a bit longer—perhaps he got lucky.