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The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS

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Post by palata »

s1gnp0st wrote: post #198
EamonnMR wrote: post #179

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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?

The one thing that blockchain is good at is cryptocurrencies. Whether we want cryptocurrencies or not is a separate question (I don't).

For absolutely everything else, blockchain is a worse solution than technology that already existed before.

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Post by jdiez17 »

grimgrin wrote: post #149
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.

I can think of nothing more important and famous than chicken.pdf https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

Well, that was hilarious. Thank you for starting my day with a chuckle.

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Post by marginalia_nu »

asdff wrote: post #92
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.

What about the famous "Lorem Ipsum"?

Which is dolorem ipsum, to friends of Cicero.

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Post by alex-moon »

grimgrin wrote: post #149
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.

I can think of nothing more important and famous than chicken.pdf https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

Came here to say this hahahaha. This is the dummy PDF I use for PDF testing whenever I need one.

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Post by pasc1878 »

com2kid wrote: post #266
grimgrin wrote: post #149

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I can think of nothing more important and famous than chicken.pdf https://isotropic.org/papers/chicken.pdf

Ah isotropic.org, once the home of the best ever online version of Dominion. The mobile version is now good enough, but it took nearly a decade and multiple development teams to catch up to what one developer did in his spare time.

But the new ones are prettier.

Actually I just wnat the card information and text as per isotropic plus the statistics generated e.g. how good or bad were you if a particular card was in the kingdom.

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Post by carabiner »

jxf wrote: post #308
monero-xmr wrote: post #22

The Bitcoin white paper is probably one of the top 100 impactful non-literary documents of all time. Makes sense to be used

Of all time? This almost certainly isn't true. Many treaties, laws, RFCs, and so on would be more impactful than Bitcoin. Do we really think the Bitcoin white paper is more impactful than, say, the Magna Carta or Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses? I think you might be inadvertently succumbing to recency bias.

1. The Holy Bible

2. Bitcoin white paper

3. US Constitution

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Post by cobertos »

chucknthem wrote: post #253

Interesting to see this discovery today on Satoshi's birthday (April 5th, 1975). Also the 90th anniversary of Executive Order 6102.

Interesting, Executive Order 6102, forcing US and non-US citizens to sell gold at a fixed rate, in order to prevent gold hoarding so the US could meet it's obligations to back it's currency via gold.

Also interesting that it led to the sort of related Brenton Woods system, and all the effects of that and it's de facto ending in the 70s under Nixon

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Post by octacat »

philsnow wrote: post #293
lamontcg wrote: post #187

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chicken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL_-1d9OSdk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIi74DKWErA , it's what's for dinner

"Made for kids" YT is a terrible idea, cannot even add to favourites. Triggers each time when I see such video

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Post by mellosouls »

speedgoose wrote: post #242
paxys wrote: post #135

Better than a U2 album, that's for sure.

I still have nightmares about my iPhone and my BMW randomly playing that album with that cover picture when I entered the car. I sold the car and even had to start iTunes to remove the album.

Selling the car to get rid of the album is admirable dedication to decent music.
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