Every anonymous online identity on this planet is only about 31 bits of information away from being completely exposed. This is because the total number of internet users on this planet is about 2 billion, or approximately 2^{31}. Initially, all one knows about an anonymous internet user is that he or she is a member of this large population, which has a Shannon entropy of about 31 bits. But each piece of new information about this identity will reduce this entropy. For instance, knowing the gender of the user will cut down the size of the population of possible candidates for the user's identity by a factor of approximately two, thus stripping away one bit of entropy. (Actually, one loses a little less than a whole bit here, because the gender distribution of internet users is not perfectly balanced.) Similarly, any tidbit of information about the nationality, profession, marital status, location (e.g. timezone or IP address), hobbies, age, ethnicity, education level, socio-economic status, languages known, birthplace, appearance, political leaning, etc. of the user will reduce the entropy further. (Note though that entropy loss is not always additive; if knowing X removes 2 bits of entropy and knowing Y removes 3 bits, then knowing both X and Y does not necessarily remove 5 bits of entropy, because X and Y may be correlated instead of independent, and so much of the information gained from Y may already have been present in X).
>What about the consumerist, industrialised West? 90% vs 3%. Rationality. No emotions please >hate I don't hate roaches and vermin. >nukes Biological weapons FTFY
Carson Moore
One can reveal quite a few bits of information about oneself without any serious loss to one's anonymity; for instance, if one has revealed a net of 20 independent bits of information over the lifetime of one's online identity, this still leaves one in a crowd of about 2^11 ~ 2000 other people, enough to still enjoy some reasonable level of anonymity. But as one approaches the threshold of 31 bits, the level of anonymity drops exponentially fast. Once one has revealed more than 31 bits, it becomes theoretically possible to deduce one's identity, given a sufficiently comprehensive set of databases about the population of internet users and their characteristics. Of course, such an ideal set of databases does not actually exist; but one can imagine that government intelligence agencies may have enough of these databases to deduce one's identity from, say, 50 or 60 bits of information, and even publicly available databases (such as what one can access from popular search engines) are probably enough to do the job given, say, 100 bits of information, assuming sufficient patience and determination. Thus, in today's online world, a crowd of billions of other people is considerably less protection for one's anonymity than one may initially think, and just because the first 20 or 30 bits of information you reveal about yourself leads to no apparent loss of anonymity, this does not mean that the next 20 or 30 bits revealed will do so also.
Xavier Walker
Restricting access to online databases may recover a handful of bits of anonymity, but one will not return to anything close to pre-internet levels of anonymity without extremely draconian information controls. Completely discarding a previous online identity and starting afresh can reset one's level of anonymity to near-maximum levels, but one has to be careful never to link the new identity to the old one, or else the protection gained by switching will be lost, and the information revealed by the two online identities, when combined together, may cumulatively be enough to destroy the anonymity of both.
Leo Watson
But one additional way to gain more anonymity is through deliberate disinformation. For instance, suppose that one reveals 100 independent bits of information about oneself. Ordinarily, this would cost 100 bits of anonymity (assuming that each bit was a priori equally likely to be true or false), by cutting the number of possibilities down by a factor of 2^100; but if 5 of these 100 bits (chosen randomly and not revealed in advance) are deliberately falsified, then the number of possibilities increases again by a factor of (100 choose 5) ~ 2^26, recovering about 26 bits of anonymity. In practice one gains even more anonymity than this, because to dispel the disinformation one needs to solve a satisfiability problem, which can be notoriously intractible computationally, although this additional protection may dissipate with time as algorithms improve (e.g. by incorporating ideas from compressed sensing).
EDIT: It is perhaps worth pointing out that disinformation is only a partial defence at best, and to protect anonymity it is better not to emit any information in the first place. For instance, in the above example, even with disinformation, one has still given away about 74 bits of information, which already is more than enough (in principle, at least) to identify the identity.
Levi Clark
remember to keep mummyposting to a maximum
Camden Robinson
Guys how will the border in Ireland between EU and UK look like?
Luke Wright
GARBAGE
Joseph Edwards
Can I ask why at 19.00 (my time) I think 11.00 UK the britpol is always spam, bots, pasta and full of cunts. However by 23.00 (my time) 15.00 UK they have all gone.
Julian Myers
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David Torres
God I'm fucking bored.
Carter Robinson
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Andrew Jenkins
God, you're not one of these "rationalist skeptic" faggots are you? Anyway, do you seriously think killing all non-whites will magically end pollution, habitat destruction, resource depletion etc when it is the west who are the biggest consumers? Just admit you couldn't give a shit about the environment and you use it as an excuse for your hatred.
Alexander Cox
Any Army Reservists here? What's it like?
Christian Russell
Notice how I agree on immigration with nearly everyone.
Asher Murphy
why do you keep mentioning bots? what bots? are you a schizo or something
Noah Evans
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Zachary Johnson
Either we figure out some kind of deal to maintain free movement between the UK and Ireland, making it a moot point, or we choose between having a proper manned border that will be attacked by chuckle fucks with libyan RPG's or just pretend it isn't a problem and allow an uncontrolled border between two countries that don't have free movement
Xavier Hill
Ed Balls
Sebastian Jackson
Just went to the Syria exhibition at the Imperial War Museum. A few middle-class liberal-looking girls near me started crying when they showed some photos of refugees accompanied by sad music, and had to leave the room.
Joseph Davis
>you seriously think killing all non-whites will magically end pollution, habitat destruction, resource depletion etc when it is the west who are the biggest consumers? Yes. Nod off animenonce. Take the DarwinPill
Caleb Robinson
TAKE THE MOGGPILL.
Here's a quick rundown:
-Dimblebys bow to Rees-Mogg -In contact with electorate -Possesses PM-like abilities -Controls North East Somerset with an iron but fair fist -Owns BBC Question Time regularly -Direct descendant of the ancient royal blood line -Will bankroll the first new British colonies after Brexit (Moggshire will be the first territory) -Owns 99% full-fat milk reserves on Earth -First post-EU regulations Somerset eggs will in all likelihood be Mogg-eggs -Said to have 215+ IQ, such intelligence on Earth has only existed deep in Tibetan monasteries & Oxford University Conservative Association -Ancient Etonian scriptures tell of an angel who will descend upon Earth and will bring an era of conservatism and unprecedented moral progress with him -Owns prizewinning Berkshire sows across the world -You are likely floccinaucinihilipilificating right now -Rees-Mogg is in regular communication with the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, forwarding the word of God to the Conservative Party. Who do you think set up the meeting between the pope & Conservative Central Office (First meeting between the two organisations in over 1000 years) and arranged the Catholic’s leader’s first trip to Somerset in history literally a few days later to the Rees-Mogg bunker in West Harptree? -He learnt fluent RP in under a week -Dictionaries entrust their vocabularies with Rees-Mogg. There’s no words in the OED, only JRM - Jacob is about 7 decades old, from the intellectual maturity of the base human currently accepted by our society -In reality, he is a timeless conservative being existing in all points of time and England from the big bang to the end of the universe. We don’t know his ultimate plans yet. We hope Brexit negotiations bring true glory.
Tyler Hughes
They have to be bots. Random bait by one off UK IP`s all appearing to be written by the same person. That is my gut reaction.
Daniel Price
Why are DUP always so far away when in reality they are just a more right wing Tory party. Stupid quiz.
Benjamin Jenkins
Help needed!:
I am a kissless virgin between 22 and 25, I am probably autistic, I have no social skills and am not an interesting person, but I am trying to hookup with someone via Happn or Tindr, what do I say to them in the opening messages? I have literally no idea.
>inb41488
Jayden Gutierrez
Its pretty good, the benefits are extensive and you don't really have to do all that much, I learned to shoot, when on three holidays, could have went on three more, and got paid to travel all over the UK for sports
The DUP have always done back stabbing deals with the Tories. They really do not give a shit about politics. All they care about is what they can get under the table. I can understand Irish people have differing views by I can not understand why anyone would vote for such scum.
Cameron Martinez
Well you're simply wrong. And don't give me that shit "I don't hate anyone honest". You make the same shit point every day of "let's kill all the subhumans". You wouldn't do that if tou weren't emotionally invested.
Tempted to stick a tenner on Wlad since the odds are solid.
Asher Young
I'm not the one being irrational
Jose Ward
do you have a notepad with all your posts saved ready to copy & paste? serious question
Nathaniel Powell
I hope the Russian wins
Christopher Murphy
she's not jewish she just works for them
Ryder Kelly
Anyone know where to watch it for free?
Cameron Ortiz
How the fuck did Iceland win the Cod Wars despite being unreasonable and extremely aggressive? Was it that our leaders were traitors?
Landon Russell
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Joshua Morales
Back to the bar for me.
Nicholas Lewis
Stop gambling.
David Wood
no, do you teach English?
Hudson Collins
So what was wrong with Bowden? His obituary written by one of the new right groups stated he had some mental illness. And it made him look like a bit of a weirdo. Apparently nobody had ever been to his house or knew anything about him. And these were people that he'd associated with for years.
Jacob Parker
I hope that coon loses. He's a criminal and an all around cunt, ain't he?
>It's another "nigger good at boxing pretends he's intelligent" episode
Take a look at his intstagram, he's worse than David Haye.
I hope Klitscho ends the hype and shuts everyone up.
Ryder Rivera
FUCK OFF CUNT
Brayden Bell
HAHAH LOL BROS XD LOOK AN AMERICAN CAME AND CALLED US A MUSLIM COUNTRY XD LET'S ALL FORGET YOU'RE 56% WHITE SHALL WE? XD
Isaac Robinson
Whatever, i'm done talking to you. You'll see how stupid you sound later in life laddo.
Juan Hall
I over heard a bunch of middle class liberal girls complain about Orban and how he hates refugees and he's a bad man.
They genuinely can't think past their feels.
David Cook
To be honest you're pretty retarded >Do you REALLY think killing off 6 billion people will end all the problems associated with over population like habitat destruction and climate change? haha stupid shlomo goldstein!! You're an idiot!
Chase Russell
Fuck off with this dead normie meme, it's been over for 3 years
Leo Campbell
So how's that zlumpf presidency going? How many Muslims were banned? How long is Hillary going to jail for? How tall is the wall? oh...
Chase Baker
When do we say fuck off to the EU and get a dope trade deal with Russia so I can get their hardcore vodka?
Anthony Martinez
Start buying guns.
Carson Cook
Very difficult to say desu. Klitschko is probably the better fighter, but he's old, hasn't fought for two years, and had a shock defeat against Fury last time round. Joshua is undefeated, on home territory, and very highly-rated, but he hasn't really come up against anyone world class before. If I had a free bet I'd probably stick it on Joshua desu, although I really hope Klitschko wins.
Yes but that's not the point. The West are the biggest consumers. We caused this shit. Getting rid of all non-whites doesn't reduce our demand for resources.
Parker Foster
mummy
Liam King
If he wins, it'll be on points. Klitschko is a very defensive fighter and doesn't get many KOs, especially against someone the size of Joshua. Only time Joshua's got rocked in his career was against Whyte who's another huge black bloke with a powerful punch but not a great boxer.
ANINONCES SHOULD BE SHOT 90% vs 3% Stop smoking spice
Logan Garcia
Imagine if Are Nige was still leader of UKIP.
;_;
Gavin Taylor
>38% BNP
CIVIC
Fucking hell, just purge them all and reform the British Union.
Parker Peterson
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Ian Ramirez
India and China are a greater threat to the global environment than the west and are incredibly destructive on a local level. Both nations still have growing populations and India in particular is going to grow further by a significant amount. In addition Africa is undergoing a population explosion and will within 50-100 years make up more than 50% of the population of Earth, and on the way will become the greatest polluters.
Naturally, Europe and the Americas were once the greatest polluters because we industrialised and developed first, but this isn't the case anymore.
Michael Lee
They wouldn't win a seat this election anyway, expect their vote share to drop below 1.2 million tbqh.
As a former BNP voter I think the test is stupid.
David Ortiz
Kek >Rangers fan appears to make monkey gesture after Celtic forward Scott Sinclair opens the scoring in Old Firm derby
Pol is usually satire, but people here sound serious... wtf is wrong with you guys?
Kevin Nguyen
>spending your time shitposting on brit/pol/ and trolling youtube comment sections with fashy memes >not evolving your propaganda game by calling out Kikes in the comment sections of Financial Times
