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I think you are well aware that there's a difference between making a statement in bad faith and making it sincerely.
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The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
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Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#112Honestly If i had to guess, I'd say the answer is as simple as: a freely distributable, easily verifiable document was needed for testing purposes, and some engineer thought it'd be a cheeky little easter egg to use that file as bitcoin was starting to gain back traction in 2019 after it's first big surge and fall the years prior.
Yup. I can't even think of any other "famous PDF". If you asked me for a famous modern formatted document generally, I might say the screenplay for The Godfather would be a good candidate. But there's no canonical PDF for that. :P Plus, copyright would prevent that.
I can't think of a PDF but there are images like this. "Lenna". There are also really famous datasets that are used for examples in similar ways (iris).
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#113I have a copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper hidden in my copy of the Bitcoin whitepaper.
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
People have projected that onto her, but it's not true. https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of... > In her view, the photograph is an immense accomplishment that just happened to take on a life of its own. “I’m really proud of that picture,” she said. Probably more harm has been done by the internet mob demanding she feel a certain way about her picture, than any harm done by the image itself.
My mistake on that claim, I still roll my eyes at people who say it's totally normal and okay. How many racey pictures of men have been canonicalized like that? There's a leering element to it.
> How many racey pictures of men have been canonicalized like that?
To be fair, very few other racy pictures of women have been canonicalized like that, either; about the only pictures I can think of are paintings, specifically the Mona Lisa, which is hardly racy, and Boticelli’s Birth of Venus, which I suppose you might look at as racy, though I wouldn’t particularly. There’s a couple other non-picture works of art that are canonicalized in that way, but aren’t themselves pictures – Michaelangelo’s David as mentioned in a sibling comment is a good example. But then, even though the canonicalization makes them into something else, it is usually based on upon perceived artistic importance, the Lenna is a different and arguably sui generis phenomenon.
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#115Honestly If i had to guess, I'd say the answer is as simple as: a freely distributable, easily verifiable document was needed for testing purposes, and some engineer thought it'd be a cheeky little easter egg to use that file as bitcoin was starting to gain back traction in 2019 after it's first big surge and fall the years prior.
Yup. I can't even think of any other "famous PDF". If you asked me for a famous modern formatted document generally, I might say the screenplay for The Godfather would be a good candidate. But there's no canonical PDF for that. :P Plus, copyright would prevent that.
Alan Turing's 1950 article in Mind proposing the Turing Test (Computing Machinery and Intelligence)
IRS Tax Form 1040
The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence
The Treaty of Versailles
The Paris Treaty
The Kyoto Protocol
The Bible, King James Version
Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech
Martin Luther's 95 Theses
The Communist Manifesto
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. I can't even think of any other "famous PDF". If you asked me for a famous modern formatted document generally, I might say the screenplay for The Godfather would be a good candidate. But there's no canonical PDF for that. :P Plus, copyright would prevent that.
Alan Turing's 1950 article in Mind proposing the Turing Test (Computing Machinery and Intelligence) IRS Tax Form 1040 The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence The Treaty of Versailles The Paris Treaty The Kyoto Protocol The Bible, King James Version Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther's 95 Theses The Communist Manifesto
The shitstorm using the communist manifesto would cause would be glorious.
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yup. I can't even think of any other "famous PDF". If you asked me for a famous modern formatted document generally, I might say the screenplay for The Godfather would be a good candidate. But there's no canonical PDF for that. :P Plus, copyright would prevent that.
Alan Turing's 1950 article in Mind proposing the Turing Test (Computing Machinery and Intelligence) IRS Tax Form 1040 The 1948 United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights The US Constitution and Declaration of Independence The Treaty of Versailles The Paris Treaty The Kyoto Protocol The Bible, King James Version Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech Martin Luther's 95 Theses The Communist Manifesto
The Arnell Group’s Pepsi Rebrand doc
https://www.goldennumber.net/wp-content/uploads/pepsi-arnell...
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
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Currently the only impact Bitcoin had is burning a large amount of electricity. I would not say this is a particular worthy technology to safe. There would be far better ideas like Transformers in AI or 5nm chip technology.
And facilitating organized crime, terrorism, and investment scams.
Which of these do not happen when using conventional money?
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She felt violated and wanted people to stop [ETA: Or not, see below]. Why isn't that harm? Why would using pornography in a professional context (outside of the pornography industry or other edge cases) be considered appropriate? Of course it's off-putting to people, women and otherwise. I just don't see your point at all.
That photo is not pornography. (Not arguing for using a photo of someone who minds it.)
> That photo is not pornography.
The full image from which it is clipped is, at a minimum, erotic photography (where the boundary with pornography is…well, opinions differ considerably.)
But, yeah, the crop that has become known as “the Lenna” isn’t (considered on its own) even that.
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
She felt violated and wanted people to stop [ETA: Or not, see below]. Why isn't that harm? Why would using pornography in a professional context (outside of the pornography industry or other edge cases) be considered appropriate? Of course it's off-putting to people, women and otherwise. I just don't see your point at all.
People have projected that onto her, but it's not true. https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of... > In her view, the photograph is an immense accomplishment that just happened to take on a life of its own. “I’m really proud of that picture,” she said. Probably more harm has been done by the internet mob demanding she feel a certain way about her picture, than any harm done by the image itself.
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