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My brother who is a chef tried to explain to me what the blockchain in and how it should be used for everything. Hearing a guy who has a culinary arts degree try to explain something he read of off Reddit is hilarious. At least he doesn’t have kids or is screwing anyone else but himself over by his decisions. It’s amazing how many people across all political spectrums I’ve known that bought into the bit coin voodoo. A liberal friend of mine went whole hog after he thought Trump was going to tank the economy and be only way to buy food would be through but coin.
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Oxygenpoisoning posted:My brother who is a chef tried to explain to me what the blockchain in and how it should be used for everything. Hearing a guy who has a culinary arts degree try to explain something he read of off Reddit is hilarious. At least he doesn’t have kids or is screwing anyone else but himself over by his decisions. It's an attractive idea if you have no skills at all. Which is basically every scam. I'm wondering why the hell I didn't go into scamming people rather than science, I'd be a bloody billionaire at this point.
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Corporate America has also had it with blockchains. Which is good, because they're loving stupid. Work had a 'what's your idea to empower the client with the power of the blockchain???!!' contest and it never went anywhere. I asked around and they got two responses and they were both terrible, to the point where they just expected everyone to forget about it. There are ~27k people on the mailing list and they got two responses.
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Vasudus posted:Corporate America has also had it with blockchains. Which is good, because they're loving stupid. Should have sent in "set one up to bilk the rubes then cut and run" but then again if they did and it tanked they'd say it was your idea.
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re: the wohls being loving morons https://hillreporter.com/exclusive-recording-expose-jacob-wohl-surefire-intelligence-14691
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Vasudus posted:Corporate America has also had it with blockchains. Which is good, because they're loving stupid. There's some legitimate applications for it in distributed computing, but a monetary system isn't one of them. Think things that need additional verification of authenticity, but where speed isn't an issue (medical records, protein folding, hunting for asteroids, root CA issuance, etc.). You know, things that are otherwise mundane and ignored by everyone except for the few people that work in those fields.
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I, too, look forward to China being able to burst compute and take over the world’s blockchain of medical records What could possibly go wrong
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Hexyflexy posted:It's an attractive idea if you have no skills at all. Which is basically every scam. I'm wondering why the hell I didn't go into scamming people rather than science, I'd be a bloody billionaire at this point. The sad thing is he is a classically trained chef and is successful in his area of expertise to the point where he could retire early if he was smart about his money and investments. But the lure of butt coin is too strong.
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pmchem posted:I, too, look forward to China being able to burst compute and take over the world’s blockchain of medical records I'd be more worried the Certification Authorities tbh Much, much more dangerous. But also not really a thing pertaining to the "Blockchain" in this context. The entire premise is a mutually verifiable record of information that exists in a zero trust environment. Now, that's useless for the vast majority of use cases because it's slow as poo poo, but there a couple of theoretical exceptions where it kinda works. It's an elegant solution to a problem that doesn't exist. Cryptocurrency is retarded af. It's the stock market but way way way stupider.
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psydude posted:There's some legitimate applications for it in distributed computing, but a monetary system isn't one of them. every one of those you could just use a merkle tree, which was published... 90's? 80's?
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bob dobbs is dead posted:every one of those you could just use a merkle tree, which was published... 90's? 80's? 70s
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And if you haven't developed that datastructure yourself by the age of 18 I'd never bloody employ you, because you're awful at computer science.
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When will the NYT doing such insurmountably dumb profiles of these people?  The answer is likely never. This was from a profile who are just so tiiiiired from trying to figure out politics and they just wish we could all get along and never talk about politics. Another person was like "gosh, I can't tell who's telling the truth, but maybe it's Glenn Beck?"
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Man what a bummer, not having a party that is pro choice but also believes those people should be kept away from your neighborhood and nation
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bob dobbs is dead posted:every one of those you could just use a merkle tree, which was published... 90's? 80's? Blockchain IS a merkle tree. The distinguishing feature is the distributed nature of the nodes and communication via a common protocol and the maintenance of a centralized ledger; as a data structure it's identical. psydude fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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Nov 20, 2018 03:10
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Current event: This Rams Chiefs game.
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Football is dead to me after Alex Smiths leg tried to leave his body. My boy had a decent career. Poor guy.
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Watching football at this point is unethical consumption under dot text, but for a really good game like this one, I'll make an exception and watch it.
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https://twitter.com/malloy_online/status/1064712485817597952 Thanks Bill for dropping truth
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"this planet with trillions of organisms isn't working out, but with the power of tech-bro we can live on a life-forsaken hell-rock?"
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mlmp08 posted:"this planet with trillions of organisms isn't working out, but with the power of tech-bro we can live on a life-forsaken hell-rock?" Science: "With some effort on our part, we can totally salvage the situation and maintain a reasonable level of existence on this planet" Rich Idiots: "MmmNah."
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Now, terraforming earth on the other hand...
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There's absolutely zero practical chance of terraforming ever being a thing. You would need the entire world's resources - industry, research, policy, governments, etc. to unite and throw countless amount of time, resources, and effort into just developing some of the underlaying technologies that would be necessary to even do it. Then you have to get there, set everything up, wait probably half a century or more for any sort of progress, and then you could maybe consider it being a possibility. And you could just as easily throw the entire world's resources at it for fifty years and still have your nerds going 'lol I dunno what about spinning magnets to create a magnetosphere" If you're going to put that much unified effort into something you're considerably better off doing green tech and getting us completely off fossil fuels and repairing the climate change damage with carbon capturing tech. It's about the same likelihood of success (0.0000001%) but you don't have to travel.
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Isn't Mars' gravity too weak to have an atmosphere that can sustain people/things bigger than bacteria
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All the rage right now is apparently subterranean exploration and maybe caves and deeper valleys will have enough oxygen for sustaining idiot people.
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Yeah, you have to figure out how to keep the atmosphere from venting into space. One of the dumb ideas that's been floated was building a network of powerful electromagnets that would...I have no idea, somehow keep charged particles inside???
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https://twitter.com/rvawonk/status/1064718127903268864?s=21
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can we just eat these fuckers already and get it the gently caress on
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Vasudus posted:Yeah, you have to figure out how to keep the atmosphere from venting into space. One of the dumb ideas that's been floated was building a network of powerful electromagnets that would...I have no idea, somehow keep charged particles inside??? It's just mindbogglingly arrogant and dumb. The idea that we literally can't figure it out on a planet that houses billions of humans and trillions+ of others, but we can totally figure out some wonder-mode of living which we have to transport off of Earth, through space, and to a currently lifeless place and then recreate poo poo the Earth supports with zero effort whatsoever. All while humans don't just gently caress it up somehow.
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mods changed my name posted:can we just eat these fuckers already and get it the gently caress on loving seriously. I'll take my politician medium rare and mounded in salt.
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mods changed my name posted:can we just eat these fuckers already and get it the gently caress on They already did the chopping and nobody wanted the eating.
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So says "a senior Saudi source." On the other hand, did Pompeo have any other reason to be there?
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Hot Karl Marx posted:Isn't Mars' gravity too weak to have an atmosphere that can sustain people/things bigger than bacteria It took like hundreds of millions of years for the atmosphere to dissipate. It didn’t get snuffed out like a candle. Its atmosphere is still thick enough to support weather and flight (theoretically) which is pretty cool imo Tiny Timbs fucked around with this message at 04:48 on Nov 20, 2018 |
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mods changed my name posted:can we just eat these fuckers already and get it the gently caress on Why don't we just give them their goddamn wish and send them all to Mars* *It's a considerably easier problem to solve if you don't actually intend for them to survive beyond T+5 seconds.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:All the rage right now is apparently subterranean exploration and maybe caves and deeper valleys will have enough oxygen for sustaining idiot people. Rich people literally want to become dwarves
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eloi and morlocks but they swapped dwellings
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Hexyflexy posted:They already did the chopping and nobody wanted the eating. People aren't halal. Course something tells me they did say the Bismillah when they killed him.
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