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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:i searched for "david gerrold blockchain" but all i could find was butters amazed that a scifi author predicted modern smartphones... way back in 1999
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Dixie Cretin Seaman posted:i searched for "david gerrold blockchain" but all i could find was butters amazed that a scifi author predicted modern smartphones... way back in 1999 sci-fi author: it will be small enough to hold comfortably, and have a headphone socket apple: gently caress, he predicted it, now we have to do something different
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May 22, 2019 09:00
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why the hell do these coiners keep listing their losses in $
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May 22, 2019 09:04
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The author of that "prediction" could have already combined some of the devices he was carrying at the time, the Nokia Communicator, for example, was released in 1996. Phone and PDA in one! Also, I miss my sweet iPAQ! You could write pretty fast on that thing using the character recognition. 
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May 22, 2019 09:44
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Bitcoin’s killer app: real money, real time game ladders. (self.Bitcoin) submitted 6 hours ago by ianandris So, just showerthinking over here, but imagine ladders with a crypto fee to enter where the winners actually walk away with money at the tourneys end instead of pride or ingame rewards. The first big publisher to do this could spawn a legitimate industry. If you mom realized your gaming was paying rent, how much more likely would she be to let you play? How much more would people improve with real money on the line? How many more games would they sell if people realized they could actually make a living off of playing? Not to mention, if a game company did this, it would encourage its user base to adopt crypto which would set the entire industry on absolute fire. Honestly, the whole concept could be probably accomplished with a DAO. Hell, I wonder if Bisq has an API functionality that would allow something like this. I’m imagining a GameSpy type service from the 90s that was needed since game companies didn’t realize how much money they could make by matchmaking natively.
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May 22, 2019 09:47
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Cryptopia founder already has a new exchange ready to go
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Lambert posted:The author of that "prediction" could have already combined some of the devices he was carrying at the time, the Nokia Communicator, for example, was released in 1996. Phone and PDA in one! the key thing isn't that his prediction isn't a real 'prediction' because these things were already in their nascence during his time - that's science fiction's core - it's that coiners are being truly astounded that he possessed the ability to have a hand on the pulse of technology enough to think about what it might feasibly contribute society. they're so excited to be ground floor for the newest technological advance to change society while fawning over his ability to imagine what the first floor might look like.
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May 22, 2019 10:22
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May 22, 2019 10:30
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lol @ acting like such a captain obvious column is "the best kind of scifi" and comparing it to Jules Verne.
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May 22, 2019 10:40
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...! posted:Bitcoin’s killer app: real money, real time game ladders. (self.Bitcoin) imagine a world where you can get paid money for being good at video games. truly, this guy is an unsurpassed visionary.
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i think you read that in the complete opposite way. i'm not comparing the column to the best scifi or jules verne. i'm saying that as a scifi author it's literally part of his genre to speculate on these things and so it's really just a matter of statistics that he got it like 60% right rather than any kind of special visionary foresight.
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May 22, 2019 11:03
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*Borat voice* Mai waif!
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Lambert posted:The author of that "prediction" could have already combined some of the devices he was carrying at the time, the Nokia Communicator, for example, was released in 1996. Phone and PDA in one!
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Thread I meed to admit something. As of late this thread and others like it (see sovcits etc) havent been as a fun because I am unable to shake the sense that in this reality anything that is deeply deeply deeply stupid is certain to happen. Anyways  and god bless
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May 22, 2019 12:25
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the stupid and the wicked will never receive what they deserve that is how our world is OH WAIT ROSS IS IN JAIL AND MARK IS INNOCENT
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May 22, 2019 12:36
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Lambert posted:The author of that "prediction" could have already combined some of the devices he was carrying at the time, the Nokia Communicator, for example, was released in 1996. Phone and PDA in one! wince/windows mobile’s input thinger was legit 
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Bulgakov posted:wince/windows mobile’s input thinger was legit urmom said the same thing about me last night goodnight everybody
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May 22, 2019 14:18
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Weatherman posted:urmom said the same thing about me last night
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...! posted:Bitcoin’s killer app: real money, real time game ladders. (self.Bitcoin) that failed artifact card game had a player run thing called the artifact bitcoin league, some guy with a bunch of bitcoin offered a monthly 2000 dollar reward and they had all these daily matches and ladders to win it i guess the prospect of wining bitcoin didn't really attract people as much as they hoped and the mysterious benefactor vanished like last week. others involved tried to take donations to fund the prize pool but, in true bitcoiner fashion, though many said that they were willing to fund this when the time came all the donations were made by the guy running it and he gave up. many people cited dealing with bitcoin as a reason they didn't donate and when asked why he didn't do actual money he said it was so he could dodge the taxes so someone already made this guy's idea a reality and it failed completely and utterly, in no small part because of bitcoin "killer app"
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May 22, 2019 15:09
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...! posted:That got me thinking because what rational investor holds a declining asset and is happy about it because they will be able to buy more for cheaper prices? No one! Literally no one besides us. A rational investor would set a stop loss for say 10% and then reevaluate after the drop to see if he wants to buy back in. ... and as a result they can buy a lot more when it hits a low because they didn't ride the dip all the way to the bottom? wow you're so much smarter than those dummy normie investors
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making a ladder that pays off is dumb because ladders routinely reward kinda-good players who play ladder obsessively over actually-good players who practice in literally any other way
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https://mobile.twitter.com/APompliano/status/1131215266904387585 https://mobile.twitter.com/APompliano/status/1131249489367449603
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what is any of that supposed to mean
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May 23, 2019 01:08
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i bet that guys never even used a github or excel or a computer or a brain
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May 23, 2019 01:19
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technology is magic and artifactual scarcity is good, and you need to buy magic beans for moon edit: 
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May 23, 2019 01:19
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Boxturret posted:what is any of that supposed to mean
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May 23, 2019 01:23
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hey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZBZPOEVyJA
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ben mezrich’s bitcoin book is out now: http://www.benmezrich.com
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I live in an SQL database that stores an enormous tree. Please, help me escape this digital hellscape.
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Paladinus posted:I live in an SQL database that stores an enormous tree. can you set the tree on fire op?
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in 2018 there was $233.4 billion printed. 75% of that was to replace bills lost during circulation, so 50% of that total would put the cash supply below the demand for it. that's the definition of scarcity. bitcoin, by function, cannot ever be scarce. there is a fixed quantity of "coins", but they can split infinitely to meet any demand (except that of hoarding whole coins because of an irrational belief they will be necessary for future supply)
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Ghostlight posted:in 2018 there was $233.4 billion printed. 75% of that was to replace bills lost during circulation, so 50% of that total would put the cash supply below the demand for it. that's the definition of scarcity. get out of here with your so called "math" and "numbers"; the tools of the devil aka spreadsheets
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May 23, 2019 02:32
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everyone is just afraid of triple entry accounting
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May 23, 2019 02:40
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Boxturret posted:everyone is just afraid of triple entry accounting 
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https://twitter.com/CasPiancey/status/1131348190324649984 hey the tether printer's back online!
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the tether printer??? welcome back old friend
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Boxturret posted:https://twitter.com/CasPiancey/status/1131348190324649984 its so nice they can have the better part of a billion dollars stolen and still get the totally real but you can't meet them because they're shy rich investors to fund even more tethers, this is good for bitcoin because it shows tether is a solid responsible company that rich people trust with their money
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