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It will be wild if Steve Jobs is Satoshi Nakamoto.
Steven Jobs marketed himself, Satoshi did not.
Not to say Jobs wasn't a great guy but I know many great guys who never could have invented bitcoin.
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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.
(I was actually shocked the mobile app is so poorly optimized that I needed a new phone to run it at full speed...)
Amazing site, even if it was only targeted at the true enthusiasts!
Why 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?
Not much else. Been using ‘find’ in ‘/System’ and haven’t found anything else that interesting.
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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?
Bringing mainstream attention to it was an extreme example of the Streisand Effect.
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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?
Now we're moving the goalposts from: > 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.
Absolute embittered curmudgeons.
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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)
That’s roughly the date they’d have done the full world build for the first non-beta release of Mojave based on its actual release date. It’s unlikely it was actually the date of creation
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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 p…
> No-coiners are exhausting. More than naive cryptobros? > 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. It is obviously stupid, slow, and wasteful. Ignoring all the other problems with cryptocurrencies, just on those three axes ETH is superior. > If in another 10 years it cont…
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It's only useful for speculation, scams, and drugs. What other utility does it have?
Sending money on the internet without a trusted third-party. I think that's revolutionary.
- The KYC of your exchange, and any exchange in the coins path
- The wallet you're using
- The recipient to provide the correct address
- The exchange rate
And you're trusting all of that hasn't been tampered with, which involves even more trusted parties.
It requires an order of magnitude less trust to send cash in the mail. It's cheaper, too.