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That's when it was released but it was not widely-known until years later. So maybe you're both kind of correct.
wtf, I remember using bitcoin back 1999, and now wikipedia says it began in 2009
Might be egold or ecash
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The Bitcoin whitepaper was the “Attention Is All You Need” of 2019.
The first surge towards 20k was at the end of 2017. It was down to about 4k in the first half of 2019 and up to about 10k in the second half of 2019. It went up and down between 30k and 60k in 2021. It's almost 30k now. So 2019 was a good time to buy but maybe the mind share moment for bitcoin was 2017, when even TV news were talking about it every night.
There were bitcoin meetups in my small major city in 2012
Waiters in the exurbs were giving me opinions on bitcoin in 2015
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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?
Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies only solve the byzantine generals problem inside of the blockchain itself. The second anything has to touch the real world you are right back to needing trust. It's robust against a pointless thing.
It's like building a bridge that can withstand the earth being swallowed by the sun. Sure the bridge will survive but that's pointless, and the energy and material being spent on that bridge has a billion better uses.
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The "Lenna" is also low dynamic range, low resolution (512x512), low chromatic range, does not have a color profile, etc. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna "In today’s age of high-resolution digital image technology, it seems difficult to argue that a 512 × 512 image produced with a 1970s-era analog scanner is the best we have to offer as an image quality test standard".[2]
I’d be willing to bet that there have been significantly more viewings of that image this century as a result of the documentary. What a ridiculous way to try to end cultural awareness of a meme. And I’m sorry but I just can’t fathom the controversy. The cropped version is the only one I’ve ever seen used in the context of a sample image. It is utterly unremarkable unless you’re aware of the image’s provenance, (whic…
Are other photographs of similar provenance in widespread use as test images in places of work/education/research?
If not, in what way is this image being singled out?
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But changes every year.
If you're not using for it intended purpose, do you actually care which version of the form you use?
Older versions might be difficult to get in the future, difficulty reproducing results due to that, yadda yadda.
It works for most cases, but I can see why changing every year might be a deal breaker for some.
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#408Every Samsung phone has a hidden picture of a chihuahua: https://lifehacker.com/every-samsung-phone-has-a-hidden-chih...
Yes, we have occasional meet ups with him/her; whenever my toddler mashes the phone to the ground.
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#409Cool, now I can add this to my `~/.bashrc` and easily view the whitepaper whenever. btc_wp() { open /System/Library/Image\ Capture/Devices/VirtualScanner.app/Contents/Resources/simpledoc.pdf }
you misspelled ~/.zshrc
Ha, I've tried zsh, but never got quite comfortable with it. Recently I've been using bash with starship, which has enough bells and whistles for me.
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#410Why can't they clean up their OS distribution. This kind of content clearly does not belong there at least if it is practically hidden in there. There should be a reason why every file in the OS distribution is there. This kind of looks like Apple does not know what is in their OS. What else is there?