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If you think the book is superior, at least get the quote right
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 20:27 |
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I was doing it from memory, and as I noted earlier today, I am dumb.
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 20:33 |
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The Father but he's wandering around getting angry at people who tell him his apes are gone
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 20:34 |
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Durzel posted:Nah Hopkins is quality. But he is getting old and the years do take their toll on mental acuity. This is elder abuse
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 20:42 |
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Agents are GO! posted:I will agree with this with one exception: the section when the ending of life on earth has begun, and a bunch of professional musicians gather to perform requiems until they... can't anymore haunts me. Were there other Titanic references or just that one?
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 20:46 |
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all my elons gone https://twitter.com/web3isgreat/status/1534618702280278016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amYTnGSLy84
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 20:59 |
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Ediit: am dumb
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 21:06 |
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https://twitter.com/MNateShyamalan/status/1533839996532273153
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 21:24 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:Were there other Titanic references or just that one? I really didn't clock it as a Titanic reference. I honestly enjoyed Seveneves, but Stephenson honestly likes to spend a lot of time on irrelevant poo poo and gloss over important poo poo in a single sentence.
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 21:26 |
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BEHOLD https://shitcoins.club/?lang=en
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 21:50 |
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Agents are GO! posted:I really didn't clock it as a Titanic reference. I honestly enjoyed Seveneves, but Stephenson honestly likes to spend a lot of time on irrelevant poo poo and gloss over important poo poo in a single sentence. "Oh poo poo. I only have five pages left in this book. Whelp, guess it's time to stop introducing new elements of the story, going on irrelevant tangents, and adding detail about how sexy teenage girls are and wrap this up." -- Neil Stephenson
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 21:51 |
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I liked that book and a lot of the concepts, but somehow I misread the title as "Seveneyes" and never really got why the gently caress it was called that until I figured out the actual title in the last act. Ohhhhhh. That makes more sense.
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 22:19 |
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I kind of trailed off of Stephenson after Anathem, which I liked, but it gave me a god drat headache and was work to get through
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 22:23 |
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i tried to bring up crypto to some cousins at a family barbecue, and my 9 year old son dropped a miniature baseball bat out of his sleeve and instantly beamed it into my jaw, shattering my teeth. i started choking on the fragments, and my aunt, a RETIRED DENTIST, held my lower jaw open and poured outdoor wood glue into my mouth until i stopped vocalizing. how can i get them to understand blockchain?
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 23:17 |
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tried to get a friend to listen about crypto while we were enjoying soft serve in the park. he took the cone and crammed it so hard into my mouth my ears popped in some painful new way and i'm now partially deaf. later the park warden found me and beat me mercilessly with a hazel rod. i had already poo poo myself. i do feel though that i bested them both logically and they're just scared of progress
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 23:26 |
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20 million dollars lost by a market maker who never checked their test transactions. https://gov.optimism.io/t/message-to-optimism-community-from-wintermute/2595 go web3! edit: crypto: it's the grift that keeps on giving notwithoutmyanus fucked around with this message at 23:57 on Jun 8, 2022 |
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The bit at the end that they address to the person who took their poo poo is golden:quote:We expect the exploiter to read this as well (eventually). This is our message to you:
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 23:34 |
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Has anyone else said “web3 more like webpee” cuz if not I’d like to be the first
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 23:35 |
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they quoted it wrong too, it's not cops, it's the IRA that only needs to get lucky once
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 23:36 |
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quote:Timeline of events I have to admit I feel very dumb and old cause I’ve read this whole thing and I understood absolutely nothing and I don’t even know the meaning of half the terms used Like “Gnosis safe”, “synapse and hop bridges “ it sounds like made up technical gibberish from a comedy sketch to me
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# ? Jun 8, 2022 23:59 |
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Deep Glove Bruno posted:they quoted it wrong too, it's not cops, it's the IRA that only needs to get lucky once Same for male preying mantises.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:04 |
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Spuckuk posted:I work for a tech finance startup and a few developers have left. Not because they think theres anything to crypto, but the money they get bribed with is huge. I don't think I'd want coinbase or some poo poo like that on my resume after the bubble pops
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:10 |
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Dr. Video Games 0031 posted:Because this generally only works with some random smaller NFT projects or altcoins. Any bigger projects that are vulnerable to that are too big to be exploited. Unless you quietly backdoor all the miners with a zero day exploit. It only takes one exploit to sink the whole thing.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:22 |
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Lol all of these “open letter to the hacker” post-mortems have the exact same modus operandi - suck up to the hacker and simultaneously crow about the legal hell that awaits them once they bring the full force of the CIA, FBI, DEA and U.S. Coast Guard down upon them. They know they have no chance of getting their shitcoins back if the hacker doesn’t play ball, and no recourse with the authorities either, so they just desperately flail around impotently.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:35 |
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Durzel posted:Lol all of these “open letter to the hacker” post-mortems have the exact same modus operandi - suck up to the hacker and simultaneously crow about the legal hell that awaits them once they bring the full force of the CIA, FBI, DEA and U.S. Coast Guard down upon them. Has it ever worked?
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:38 |
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Elias_Maluco posted:I have to admit I feel very dumb and old cause I’ve read this whole thing and I understood absolutely nothing and I don’t even know the meaning of half the terms used *deep breath* okay. so Optimism is an L2 blockchain, which as I mentioned in an earlier post, tries to not make transactions in cryptocurrency dogshit slow by completely deferring writing into the main blockchain, (L1) (e.g Ethereum Blockchain, Bitcoin Blockchain) and instead only periodically sending transactions updating the total amounts that are in the L2 blockchain. the gist of it is.. a gnosis safe is basically a more secured smart contract that allows you to authorize transactions only if multiple people agree to engage a transaction. think of those safes that require two people to turn a key at the same time. if neither key is present or one person refuses to go through with the deal, the smart contract won't authorize it. gnosis safes are basically just more advanced and offers more functionality. what happened was, the optimism people wanted a private key from wintermute, he told them to use the gnosis safe that was deployed on L1 (ethereum blockchain) thinking they could also access the money on L2 (optimism blockchain). So they transferred it and then realized the mistake that there wasn't a gnosis safe created on L2. While they were trying to figure out what to do to make sure they could access the money.. someone way smarter than them realized wintermute's mistake and took advantage of it by basically creating a new smart contract that looked exactly like the gnosis safe contract, except all the ownership was changed to the hacker's credentials so the hacker now had access to the money in the safe because the hacker's multisig matched wintermute's multisig on L1. he then took all the money that was in the gnosis safe and transferred it back to L1 using 2 bridges. bridges basically just convert different cryptocurrencies that are on different L2 blockchains. once he got it back on the ethereum blockchain (L1) he washed it in tornado cash (which is a tumbler) Strong Sauce fucked around with this message at 00:46 on Jun 9, 2022 |
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Dongsturm posted:Has it ever worked?
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:45 |
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Dongsturm posted:Has it ever worked? Yeah constantly. The hackers return the coins for a nominal fee.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:46 |
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My impression of all these crypto schemes is it's a bunch of people a bit smarter than average failing to understand technology made by people much smarter than average and at the same time failing to understand that financial infrastructure needs to work even when most of the users are much dumber than average
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:52 |
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Strong Sauce posted:*deep breath* Thank you for your effort. Can’t say I understand it completely yet but I think I have an idea of what happened now
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:56 |
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Elias_Maluco posted:I have to admit I feel very dumb and old cause I’ve read this whole thing and I understood absolutely nothing and I don’t even know the meaning of half the terms used It means we need some U-RTV units to purge U-DO
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 00:58 |
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Elias_Maluco posted:Thank you for your effort. Can’t say I understand it completely yet but I think I have an idea of what happened now i have read way too much about this dumb poo poo and i feel like i have the technical competency to understand it, yet i'm reading this poo poo and i don't even understand the low level details. it honestly makes no sense why it needs to get this complicated if what ends up happening is people lose their money if someone makes a technical mistake most people would not even recognize as a mistake. its like that scene in indiana jones where they are stepping over blocks with old hebrew characters on it. everyone else is the fool who stepped on the wrong block and fell to their death and the hacker is basically indiana jones with his esoteric knowledge of latin-spelled hebrew words figuring it out. sorry scratch that. the hacker is sean connery because he was the one who knewo spell jehovah with an "I" vs Indy just jumping onto the J thinking he solved it.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 01:16 |
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Tunicate posted:It means we need some U-RTV units to purge U-DO You clod, Central Dogma cant take another N2 system cleanse, and Im not gonna be the one reporting to the chief you're responsible for a third impact to our operating bottom line this year
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 01:19 |
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so who wants to join me in rug-pulling some lovely Neal Stephenson fans??? i bet elon musk is a huge stephenson fan. i actually enjoyed the first hundred or so pages of Termination Shock, but then it became clear that he wasn't trying to write the most absurd self-parody of all time and he would not shut up about the norweigan MILF being horny. it almost seemed like deflection, like "guys look, i think middle aged women are sexy too, i promise" but that is, of course, undercut by the fact that said MILF kept discussing her horniness with, and i can't stress enough that i am not making this up, her 16 year old daughter
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 01:27 |
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This feels like the "well if you're so smart, why don't you explain crypto," when it's a bunch of gibberish dressed up as various hacks to disguise the essential unusability of the underlying tech, which unreasonably requires "decentralization" but self-defeats by centralizing at several key points anyway.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 01:28 |
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The problem is always going to be evolving innovative software solutions inevitably have exploitable flaws. The real strength of traditional banking infrastructure is their position as a heavily regulated middle-man between the end user and the big piles of money.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 01:29 |
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precision posted:so who wants to join me in rug-pulling some lovely Neal Stephenson fans??? neal stephenson beat you to it https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/260688528/clang
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 01:34 |
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Spuckuk posted:I work for a tech finance startup and a few developers have left. Not because they think theres anything to crypto, but the money they get bribed with is huge. They will all be laid off in the next 6-12 months. All these crypto startups are flush with cash based on valuations they will never reach. The mass layoffs happening right now in tech are a preview of an even bigger web3 startup massacre. Hell coinbase is already rescinding offers.
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# ? Jun 9, 2022 01:34 |
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repiv posted:neal stephenson beat you to it sadly, Neal was all too sincere about that one lmao but yeah
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https://twitter.com/concodanomics/status/1534575165698453506?t=C-i7yaG7JKa3NmQ9td3r0Q&s=19 Crypto bros always open to competition in the marketplace of-- *laughter begins, is only silenced by blocking*
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