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It's really disheartening how much unjustified disdain is heaped upon Bitcoin the technology by commenters here. You're going to claim you're certain that a solution to the Byzantine generals problem will have no useful consequences?
> You're going to claim you're certain that a solution to the Byzantine generals problem will have no useful consequences? Yes.
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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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> if Bitcoin ends up being one mankind’s most important inventions That seems unlikely.
It's really disheartening how much unjustified disdain is heaped upon Bitcoin the technology by commenters here. You're going to claim you're certain that a solution to the Byzantine generals problem will have no useful consequences?
> one mankind’s most important inventions
to merely
> useful consequences
Sure, maybe there are useful consequences, especially if you need to defy governments or whatever. But surely not something in the same league of importance as, say, fire, the wheel, writing, powered flight, the hammer, steel, math, or even Quicksort.
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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.
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).
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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.
> Even if only half the people in China or India did that, they would be double the numbers of the US for such tasks. Well, no, because each is more than double the US population, and only half the US population files tax forms (2021 had 165 million individual filers, on 332 million US population.)
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"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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> 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…
We had DHTs, we had blockchains, and double spending was solved at least 2 years before the bitcoin white paper. Satoshi combined them together in a novel form, for sure, but it’s still largely useless.
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Really though? I’m confident there are 100 RFCs alone that were more impactful.
Can you give some examples?
the thing that lets us communicate like this :)