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The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by eru »

dingosity wrote: post #68
mdmglr wrote: post #52

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How is this pdf cool? Back in my day easter eggs were fun.

Tech isn't about fun any more. It's about making huge stacks of cash. We used to build things because it was fun and half-way artistic. Now we only build things if we think we can convince a VC to give us cash for it. Though... I suppose this isn't exactly the venue to encourage people to do things simply for the joy of it. [Also... you kids get off my lawn!]

> Now we only build things if we think we can convince a VC to give us cash for it.

Huh? Just because some person A somewhere builds something for cash, doesn't mean that there's no person B somewhere else building something for fun.

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Post by saagarjha »

kube-system wrote: post #183
oneplane wrote: post #156

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Even if only half the people in China or India did that, they would be double the numbers of the US for such tasks. They have taxes, work and PDFs too. For Google search numbers, that would be different considering PDF searches in China wouldn't be done using Google. But perhaps taxes aren't done using PDFs either, that important detail I don't know.

There are significant percentages of people in China and India that have never used the internet on any device at all, let alone opened any PDF. The number of people filing taxes on a computer in India rounds to zero. For example, a quarter of India is illiterate. And 97+% of them don't make enough money to owe tax. And of the final 3%, many have someone else file for them. https://www.ibtimes.com/how-many-people-ind…

> And 97+% of them don't make enough money to owe tax.

I believe the actual situation is 3% file for income tax and the majority of the rest don’t need to, but tax evasion is quite common there.

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

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Post by eru »

nirav72 wrote: post #197
jboy55 wrote: post #159

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The story mentioned how one of the reasons to put Bob on each CD was to make any download of the ISO longer, since the actual XP data didn't fill the CD's capacity. Someone this conjured a memory of downloading XP/2000 back in the day, when I first got DSL, and how it was almost an hour. I thought that was quick at the time. 1.5mb/s vs 56k and all. I recently upgraded to 1GB internet, a 600mb game update took under 1…

> I wonder what 20 years will bring? Probably not much. At least advancements wont be like the difference between going from 1.5 mbps to 1 gbps. It's the same reason why 10gbe ethernet has not become a common thing for consumer level desktop hardware. While 1gbe ethernet has been the standard offering since the mid-2000s. Recently lot of manufacturers have started supporting 2.5gbe. But low cost switching/routing har…

Here in Singapore Gigabit Internet is pretty much standard with fibre-to-the-home almost everywhere.

My main problem is that wifi is slower than that. So to benefit from faster speeds, I'd either have to upgrade to wifi 6 or lay cables throughout the house.

The ISPs here are happy to sell you faster broadband, though.

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Post by fomine3 »

colesantiago wrote: post #47
mhluongo wrote: post #37

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> and the former would never allow this to happen ever. Not sure what you mean here. There are many Linux distros...?

And they will never allow this to happen.

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=bitcoin&searchon...

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Post by ryandrake »

EamonnMR wrote: post #188
ryandrake wrote: post #160

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Racy picture? Wait, what photo are we talking about? Is this still about the one in andrewfromx's article that shows a woman's face and shoulder?

It's cropped from an explicit photograph published in Playboy.

But the topic of this subthread is the cropped, non-racy image that got circulated. Is there anyone who actually got offended by a picture of a woman’s face and shoulder? Besides maybe people in ultra-religious societies that insist on women’s shoulders being covered?

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Post by bombcar »

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

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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...

Apple and Pepsi don’t mix well ;)

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

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Post by __d »

varenc wrote: post #174
blauditore wrote: post #55

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It was almost certainly added around the hype in 2019.

On my Mojave machine the files modtime is “ Mon Aug 20 2018”! (Which seems to be straight from macOS, not the date of my install, since the modtime on other macOS system files varies widely)

On mine, it's Jan 1 2020 (Big Sur, 11.7.4).

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Post by kmeisthax »

tzs wrote: post #192
asdff wrote: post #92

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What about the famous "Lorem Ipsum"?

"Lorem Ipsum" completely confused me the first time I ran into it. I was trying to make a document for work, using Apple Pages for the first time. Pages had a template that seemed good for the kind of document I had to make so I used that. The template included "Lorem Ipsum" text. But since I hadn't heard of it before I thought it was some sort of sample document showing how to use the template but in a language I di…

"Why is my website in Spanish? I thought it was supposed to be in English!"
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