Better than a U2 album, that's for sure.
I still feel violated everytime it plays on my home pod by accident.
The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
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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
I did use that PDF for testing at my previous workplace, although I didn't commit it to CI.
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No.
Wow, that's a great point. I hadn't even thought to approach it like that.
I mean the whole comment is wrong and I mean not just a little, like straight misinformation.
> We had DHTs, we had blockchains, and double spending was solved at least 2 years before the bitcoin white paper.
- Bitcoin doesn't use DHTs.
- The term blockchain was coined after the Bitcoin white paper was published, to describe the mechanism used in Bitcoin.
- Bitcoin was the first system to solve the double spending problem in a decentralized way.
> Satoshi combined them together in a novel form, for sure, but it’s still largely useless.
The network is actively used. Just yesterday, there were 345K on chain Bitcoin transactions totaling a value of around 4 billion USD.
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Really though? I’m confident there are 100 RFCs alone that were more impactful.
As am I. The top 100 wouldn’t even scratch the surface of any scientific or non-literary domain.
I guess some scientific work would make it into the list owing to their profound impact on society through overthrowing established philosophical thinking. Among others:
- Copernic's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium enabled the copernician revolution, which had profound impacts on how people thought about their place in the universe.
- Darwin's On the Origin of Species had more or less the same kind of impact, and provoked a strong reaction in the society, especially within churches.
I'm sure with more research we could find other scientific work that had a profound impact not only on our understanding of ourselves and our surroundings, but also on the way we think about ourselves.
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#345Earlier 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
Man, I might sneak a reference to that paper in my next technical report.
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#346Earlier 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
I imagine the word frequencies in that paper are somewhat less than respresentative.
Re: The Bitcoin whitepaper is hidden in every copy of macOS
#347Better 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.
And you are an adult. Imagine all the children and how that effected them on their ipads. My son used to come running over to me says “it’s back” and I’m not exaggerating he was afraid, fear in his eyes. It was an actual scary experience for many little kids.
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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
Note that none of these documents originated as pdfs. Digitalization happened after their creation.
Treaty of Lisbon?
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I would’ve went with Steve Jobs’ “Thoughts on Flash” (converted to PDF via a faithful rendition of the original open letter, assuming it wasn’t available as a PDF originally.)
How about "GOTO Statement Considered Harmful" http://www.informatik.uni-bremen.de/agbkb/lehre/programmiers...
I would take Ken Thompson’s “Trusting Trust” over Djikstra’s “GOTO”. Djikstra’s “GOTO” is a rare lowlight, but as Torvalds said, we don’t speak ill of the dead.
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Wow, that's a great point. I hadn't even thought to approach it like that.
I mean the whole comment is wrong and I mean not just a little, like straight misinformation. > We had DHTs, we had blockchains, and double spending was solved at least 2 years before the bitcoin white paper. - Bitcoin doesn't use DHTs. - The term blockchain was coined after the Bitcoin white paper was published, to describe the mechanism used in Bitcoin. - Bitcoin was the first system to solve the double spending pr…
No-coiners are exhausting. Bitcoin triggers a deep psychological anxiety in some people and their reaction is to construct these defensive arguments in their heads about why Bitcoin is stupid, a scam, useless, etc.
If in another 10 years it continues it’s success and we have widespread point of sale usage and micropayments etc, and value is, maybe $200K/coin. Then these people might require some type of specialized psychological therapy to handle their disbelief.
On the other hand, Bitcoiners even if it crashes to zero somehow, will be saying at least we tried, oh well.
Bitcoin opinions are some type of strange personality litmus test. I find it very curious as the test result feels very unpredictable for me when applied to people I know well.