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Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

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Re: Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

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Post by dcow »

vecplane wrote: post #158
dcow wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am being anti-political-correctness because it's ruining written and spoken English. You incessantly continue to miss the point. People have explained multiple times that this isn't about political correctness. You are seriously missing the point. It doesn't matter what you think about whether it's politically correct or not to assume Satoshi's gender. And it doesn't matter what I think either. And it doesn't mat…

I'm not missing your point. I'm arguing that your point is wrong. Satoshi is a he, and should be referred to as a he, not a they.

Here are two correct examples:

    Satoshi Nakamoto invented bitcoin. He’s a legend.

    I wonder who is behind the legend of Satoshi. Will we ever figure out who they are?
Do you see the point now?

Re: Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

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Post by dcow »

starfallg wrote: post #157
dcow wrote: post #155

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I think that would be a more appropriate theory if we were talking about all the silly pronoun fields every site feels the need to add so that everyone and their mother can virtue signal to infinity and beyond as if they were a good/correct UX or as if they enriched the content of the site or something unfounded. But we're talking about something that predates any sort of culture war of the last 20 years (which I do…

You responded to another user here as such - >The only harm happening here is people like you overstepping bounds and ultimately trashing actually correct usage of the language because you are operating under some pretext that there's a woke conspiracy to remove all gendered pronouns from colloquial usage. So it seems like you agree with me. The sensitivity and derision of the (more or less) correct usage of a pronou…

No, I’m a pedantic grammar nazi. I’m responding to people overcorrecting and suggesting incorrect language usage because of the perception that there’s a culture war to fight. I just want people to use language correctly and with precision because it soothes my OCD.

Re: Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

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Re: Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

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Post by dang »

SiliconVallet wrote: post #147
derangedHorse wrote: post #123

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Nothing in that PR showed he was a much better developer, he just implemented an optimization he found in a book. Contrary to the medium post, Satoshi's code was fairly clean for a first release. The omission of unit tests just shows the uncertainty Satoshi had about the project (why make tests for something that hasn't found adoption?).

Because TDD is dumb and actual hacking and development doesn't revolve around unit testing?

"Eschew flamebait. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re: Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

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Post by moneytide1 »

Dave Ramsey will fire employees for gossip (He's got to hear about it somehow - is this a paradox?). Here's a gossip Riddle for you to drool over:

Satoshi is Mr. Wilkinson (posturing as Mr. Slugsworth) probing for which one of you is useful enough to wield that kind of muscle.

Re: Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

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Post by starfallg »

dcow wrote: post #162
starfallg wrote: post #157

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You responded to another user here as such - >The only harm happening here is people like you overstepping bounds and ultimately trashing actually correct usage of the language because you are operating under some pretext that there's a woke conspiracy to remove all gendered pronouns from colloquial usage. So it seems like you agree with me. The sensitivity and derision of the (more or less) correct usage of a pronou…

No, I’m a pedantic grammar nazi. I’m responding to people overcorrecting and suggesting incorrect language usage because of the perception that there’s a culture war to fight. I just want people to use language correctly and with precision because it soothes my OCD.

But I wasn't responding to you. The person I was responding to did appear to be fighting a culture war.

Re: Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history

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Post by aspenmayer »

lottin wrote: post #128
aspenmayer wrote: post #125

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China’s CBDC already incorporates limited time balances, which were demonstrated with airdrops that had an expiration date. Flexa has partnered with various crypto projects and traditional business to offer crypto denominated coupons that have an expiration date as well. I’ll admit I’m bullish on crypto generally, but not like this. It may work for CBDCs, in that it will drive spending over saving to some degree, but…

> China’s CBDC already incorporates limited time balances Citation?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-09/china-s-m...
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