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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

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Post by panarky »

gardenhedge wrote: post #82
em-bee wrote: post #75

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we don't know the harm, because we don't know how many women encountered this image and may have been made uncomfortable because of it. we also don't know how many men felt encouraged in their sexism upon encountering this image. while the image didn't make men sexist, it undoubtedly helped normalize that view among those coming across it during their work. context matters. if you read playboy at home, that's on you,…

"it undoubtedly helped normalize" You state this as a fact but it's just your opinion.

"You state this as a fact but it's just your opinion."

You state this as a fact but it's just your opinion.

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

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Post by btown »

ChickeNES wrote: post #97
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.

How about "Attention Is All You Need"?

Quick, get your own copy before Apple takes them all to put them in the next version of the Mac!

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf

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

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Post by notch898a »

maxbond wrote: post #130
notch898a wrote: post #121

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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.)

I think my point is made. You're creating a standard that even you refuse to satisfy.

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

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Post by eunoia »

crazygringo wrote: post #87
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.

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.

“R.I.P Good Times” might work for this particular community too.

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

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Post by TechBro8615 »

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

Earlier 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 Lyrics of the U2 Discography

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

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Post by paxys »

sebzim4500 wrote: post #62
indy wrote: post #43

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Every iPhone ships with a bitcoin miner. It gets activated once your phone is over a year old.

I wonder if that would generate a financially significant amount of BTC. Would they ever actually mine a block with that little compute?

In a vacuum, yes. If you account for the fact that a large majority of people would get pissed with the battery drain and return their phones, no.

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

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Post by humanistbot »

yreg wrote: post #125
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

None of those are famous PDFs .

OK fine, except for IRS Tax Form 1040. Each year's form is probably the most intentionally distributed PDF on the planet (so excluding PDFs bundled with software like this story). I don't think there is a country larger than the US that requires its citizens (or their tax agents/software) to download a form and submit it each year.
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