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Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by notch898a »

overthrow wrote: post #93
maxbond wrote: post #88

Earlier 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.

The comment you are replying to is simply bad faith white knighting. As soon as I indicated I felt violated by their comment, suddenly it was "different."

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by slackfan »

maxbond wrote: post #107
overthrow wrote: post #93

Earlier 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.

The statue of David comes to mind immediately. It's been canonicalized like that for over over 500 years, yet I don't hear anybody saying that it's not ok, or talking about how it projects an unhealthy stereotype of men.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by lxgr »

cududa wrote: post #57
SllX wrote: post #54

Check out the actual directory. There’s a bunch of stuff in there including a cover image that does show up in the interface of Image Capture. In two minutes of testing I haven’t quite figured out where to click to get it to preview the Bitcoin white paper but decent chance they needed a “simple document” PDF for something at some point and it came down to “why not the Bitcoin white paper?”

I think this is for a unit test around scanned documents or something, given the rest of the directory's contents

Gotta fill up these non-user-replaceable/extendable hard drives somehow!

Another favorite of mine were the super-high-resolution touch pad gestures that the corresponding System Preferences pane would display in a loop to illustrate how to perform them. Must have been a few hundreds of megabytes at least.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by doodlesdev »

alex_sf wrote: post #98
alwillis wrote: post #72

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We’ve seen many instances of documents that weren’t highly thought of at the time of their publication, with that changing radically later. Vannevar Bush‘s essay “As We May Think” in 1945 is a visionary document that describes technologies we take for granted today more than 70 years ago. It’s possible the Bitcoin white paper will be looked at in similar ways, especially if Bitcoin ends up being one mankind’s most im…

Yeah, but, it's really not going to be. Like, there is absolutely no chance of that, ever. Even in the very-unlikely world where some sort of decentralized cryptocurrency is used for anything other than scams and drugs, it's not going to be bitcoin, and blockchains existed for decades before bitcoin did.

   > blockchains existed for decades before bitcoin did
That's absolutely not true. Bitcoin was the first blockchain like the ones we know today, the idea existed before but no one had implemented it in a decentralized way [0][1]. Bitcoin was also the first to solve the double spending problem. [2]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satoshi_Nakamoto

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blockchain

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-spending

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by yreg »

humanistbot wrote: post #115
crazygringo wrote: post #87

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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

None of those are famous PDFs.

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by unixhero »

reb wrote: post #117
humanistbot wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

This is a glorious one

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by seanp2k2 »

xxpor wrote: post #116
humanistbot wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Also likely a "career-limiting move" at AAPL

Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by [deleted] »

krsdcbl wrote: post #84

Honestly 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.

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Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by maxbond »

notch898a wrote: post #121
overthrow wrote: post #93

Earlier 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.

The comment you are replying to is simply bad faith white knighting. As soon as I indicated I felt violated by their comment, suddenly it was "different."

You're trying to stir me into anger by, yourself, acting in bad faith. It's a cheap trick which won't work, and patently obvious to most any observer.

If you had a point, you wouldn't need to behave this way. (As opposed to some other people who disagree with me in this thread, who do have a point, and don't feel compelled to do this.)

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