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Baby Babbeh posted:She's really into Etherium, which is even more of a niche solution to a problem no one has, and even more likely to get replaced by some kind of private blockchain developed by IBM if it ever catches on at all. Oh boy etherium, that's what the dao uses. That's a thing that runs the programs you attach to your transaction. So someone wrote a program that sends a coin then restarts and drained the dao. Good times.
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blowfish posted:remember that the craptocurrency community's first response to being asked "what real world uses do bitcoin etc have" was posting a story about a bitcoiner on holiday masturbating next to and cumming on his brazilian host family's underage daughter Av post combo.
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duz posted:Oh boy etherium, that's what the dao uses. That's a thing that runs the programs you attach to your transaction. So someone wrote a program that sends a coin then restarts and drained the dao. Good times. And then they went and did a split of the Ethereum blockchain, to revert the immutable transactions! (The 4th time such a thing has happened with Ethereum even). And people are still trading coins from the older chain at the same time as ones on the newer chain.
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dex_sda posted:vape enthusiast Laughed out loud
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May 12, 2017 02:20
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cowofwar posted:If I was going to write some dumb erotic fiction about some virginal kid with hangups about naked people I wouldn't choose a continental European as the protagonist. Definitely neither a French nor German dude.
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May 12, 2017 03:21
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Etherium is my favorite one because it literally has "ether" in the name but people still put money into it.
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May 12, 2017 05:36
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Terrible Opinions posted:Based on his post history he actually is European. This is likely the only true part of the story. I sincerely regret not being able to believe this; if he invented it totally out of whole cloth, wouldn't he have painted himself in a vastly better light? "Hmm, how should I play this...I know! I'll describe a believable but very serious misunderstanding, like you'd get in a romantic comedy, but more serious and frightening. Like, they thought I had done something horribly disgusting and inappropriate, and they were right." I want to believe the story has no connection to any irl hyper-gross things. Someone help me. 
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May 12, 2017 05:56
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Neo Rasa posted:Etherium is my favorite one because it literally has "ether" in the name but people still put money into it. So does my Ethernet cable. I mean, Etherium is stupid for a ton of reasons, but that's not one of them. (And it's still got a better name than dogecoin.)
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May 12, 2017 06:06
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Prism posted:So does my Ethernet cable. Well, it does harness the power of then of thousands of computers in order to run programs as fast as a Casio calculator so at least it does something!
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May 12, 2017 07:39
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Doc Hawkins posted:I sincerely regret not being able to believe this; if he invented it totally out of whole cloth, wouldn't he have painted himself in a vastly better light? There is, uh, overlap between cryptocurrency loonies and the "it's ephebophilia not pedophilia and therefore totally ok  " crowd.
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May 12, 2017 08:17
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Yeah 15 is almost exactly the age where they know cryptocurrency fans will come out and spew completely horseshit "fact" that start with "well,"
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Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules > Update: Judge Alsup has also referred the case to the U.S. Attorney for a possible criminal investigation. 
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blowfish posted:There is, uh, overlap between cryptocurrency loonies and the "it's ephebophilia not pedophilia and therefore totally ok
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ShadowHawk posted:Maybe the answer is that the protagonist in the story is also 15. Mentally probably, but quote:This story happened to me during the summer of 2012. I was a 23 year old French developer divabot posted:Waymo’s lawsuit against Uber is going to trial, judge rules I assume they found a smoking gun now?
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blowfish posted:I assume they found a smoking gun now? it's philosophically possible that terrible companies will one day realise that pissing off Alsup doesn't work out well,
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The fall of Juicero isn’t just entertaining tech industry stupidity – it’s the sign of a country refusing to break new groundquote:At the root of the problem is the story we tell ourselves about innovation. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: a lone genius disappears into a garage, preferably in Palo Alto, and emerges with an invention that changes the world. The engine of technological progress is the entrepreneur – the fast-moving, risk-loving, rule-breaking visionary in the mold of Steve Jobs.
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I work in university tech transfer so I unsurprisingly agree with that. The top schools are hemorrhaging their computer science / machine learning / applied math / bioinformatics etc. faculty to industry, btw. It's less clear to me that much is being lost from an innovation standpoint in these domains, since most of them get to do more of what they want without worrying about grants or administration etc., though I do wonder if there is some magic in the professor interfacing with other professors and a rotating crop of clever creative graduate students under a need-to-produce-research mandate that isn't really happening as much or as well in (e.g.) Google.
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The Juceiro guy being offended that people didn't ~~~respect his vision~~~ by juicing his $10 Capri Sun packs and still acting like his business is great is some next level corporate infallibility mindset, but it's already been topped: http://www.businessinsider.com/fyre-festival-founder-tells-employees-they-will-no-longer-be-paid-2017-5
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Neo Rasa posted:The Juceiro guy being offended that people didn't ~~~respect his vision~~~ by juicing his $10 Capri Sun packs and still acting like his business is great is some next level corporate infallibility mindset, but it's already been topped: Admitting to attending/working at Fyre Festival is probably the biggest self-own you could do to yourself in 2017. No one feels bad for these Anyone with half a brain got out before poo poo hit the fan.
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axeil posted:Admitting to attending/working at Fyre Festival is probably the biggest self-own you could do to yourself in 2017. No one feels bad for these
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axeil posted:Admitting to attending/working at Fyre Festival is probably the biggest self-own you could do to yourself in 2017. No one feels bad for these It's just amazing to me that there's probably still people that are going to stick around because of the vision of what Fyre could be or whatever. And how this guy is still able to act like he's proud of what's happened.
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Neo Rasa posted:It's just amazing to me that there's probably still people that are going to stick around because of the vision of what Fyre could be or whatever. And how this guy is still able to act like he's proud of what's happened. It kinda reminds me of that deal trading Theranos shares for a guarantee not to sue.
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axeil posted:Admitting to attending/working at Fyre Festival is probably the biggest self-own you could do to yourself in 2017. No one feels bad for these Blink-182 got out in time! I mean, come on!
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Neo Rasa posted:It's just amazing to me that there's probably still people that are going to stick around because of the vision of what Fyre could be or whatever. And how this guy is still able to act like he's proud of what's happened. Well, it makes sense if your definition of success isn't "I/we achieved something and it was good", but "other people showed up to do what I say, who cares what I said they should do".
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pangstrom posted:I work in university tech transfer so I unsurprisingly agree with that. I think the professor <-> professor stuff is pretty much a non-issue, because most of these companies have a decent chunk of world-class researchers in one place. I studied probability theory in grad school and one of the (say) 5 strongest and most productive research groups in the world was at Microsoft Research. They also had more researchers in that area than all but a few university departments (and in my field a lot of the collaboration that exists is between researchers at different institutions anyways). There are certainly externalities associated with the grad student poaching. Right now there is an implicit subsidy from the university system.
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blah_blah posted:I think the professor <-> professor stuff is pretty much a non-issue, because most of these companies have a decent chunk of world-class researchers in one place. I studied probability theory in grad school and one of the (say) 5 strongest and most productive research groups in the world was at Microsoft Research. They also had more researchers in that area than all but a few university departments (and in my field a lot of the collaboration that exists is between researchers at different institutions anyways). Strongest and most productive specifically WRT probability theory, or in general? I'd love to hear more about that if you can elaborate.
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What is Fyre Festival? I paid literally 0 attention to whatever it was
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:What is Fyre Festival? I paid literally 0 attention to whatever it was Ja Rule and some dude tried to set up a music fest in the Bahamas. Tickets started at $1250 or something, running up to 5 figures and the whole thing was billed as a luxury event with yoga, massages, AYCE/AYCD, etc. People showed up, nothing was set up, and it devolved into Lord of the Flies due to lack of planning, experience, and infrastructure. Basically a bunch of folks from the Rich Kids of Instagram set got fleeced.
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:What is Fyre Festival? I paid literally 0 attention to whatever it was It was supposed to be something like Burning Man, except the people behind the festival had no organization of anything including payment so the people who didn't quit when told they could not be paid or get the poo poo they needed to do their jobs right showed up to a more or less empty beach where there was supposed to be a festival.
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Shooting Blanks posted:Ja Rule and some dude tried to set up a music fest in the Bahamas. Tickets started at $1250 or something, running up to 5 figures and the whole thing was billed as a luxury event with yoga, massages, AYCE/AYCD, etc. Tickets started at $2500 https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20170407031134/https://www.fyrefestival.com/packages The $2500 price was if you paid your own way to the island in the Bahamas, and paid elsewhere for somewhere to stay on the island (intended that you'd be staying on your own boat in this situation, as the $2500 price includes docking rights). Actual tickets including a place to stay on the island and transport to the island from the main airport in the Bahamas started at $12,499 per person, with tickets for a flight in from the US included.
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Thread on Fyre Festival (with links to lawsuits) here: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3818672
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Ignatius M. Meen posted:It was supposed to be something like Burning Man, except the people behind the festival had no organization of anything including payment so the people who didn't quit when told they could not be paid or get the poo poo they needed to do their jobs right showed up to a more or less empty beach where there was supposed to be a festival. A professional planning company, brought in a few months before the planned dates, basically took a look at the proposals and timeline and told the Fyre team that the smartest thing to do would be cancel the 2017 festival and immediately begin working on the 2018 because that's the only way a semi functioning festival would ever be pulled off. A Fyre marketing guy told them "gently caress it man, lets just do this and be legends"
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May 12, 2017 21:46
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And the big headline act? Blink-182
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pentyne posted:A professional planning company, brought in a few months before the planned dates, basically took a look at the proposals and timeline and told the Fyre team that the smartest thing to do would be cancel the 2017 festival and immediately begin working on the 2018 because that's the only way a semi functioning festival would ever be pulled off. A Fyre marketing guy told them "gently caress it man, lets just do this and be legends" legendary fuckups are still technically legends 
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greazeball posted:And the big headline act? Blink-182 this is honestly what fucks me up the most about this stupid event
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greazeball posted:And the big headline act? Blink-182 hahaha all that for Blink-182 yeesh
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greazeball posted:And the big headline act? Blink-182 ...who didn't even show up. These kids were forced to live in the shelter tents and subsist on uncooked cheese sandwiches because they brought no money. Basically, the event was a promotion run by a digital payment company to market their Internet of Things wristbands, so they stupidly left their cash and cards behind because they were told everything would be handled through the bracelets, which were only good at the shitshow event. Resort town food and accommodations within walking distance, yet they were effectively too poor to afford them.
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super sweet best pal posted:...who didn't even show up. To be a little fair to them, they were told not to bring cash. For safety.
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Rich people having to taste poverty after being scammed out of their money and left behind on an island? Tbh that sounds like it loving ruled. Good work Fyre Festival.
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