A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@kt_ said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
DaziT
I keep reading that as DaziL (and all the word dazzle would imply to us)
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@PleegWat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@kt_ said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I can see the ruskies doing 51% attack on that shit as clear as day.
It's not quite clear to me, is this a global block chain a la bitcoin? Or a separate blockchain for each shipment, where all permit and shipping slip is cryptographically tied together in order but not linked to any other shipment?
Whichever will get them more press coverage & VC funding
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@kt_ said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
. Last May Singapore introduced electronic certificates of origin, based on blockchain
@kt_ said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Singapore’s busy port, along with ports in Hong Kong, Rotterdam, Philadelphia and other places, have started to use a blockchain-enabled process
How do these places even operate? Like, I hear this all the time. Some big organization / company / whatever switches to a obviously shit technology. Do all those places shut down and quietly go back to the old way? Do all the front-line workers just ignore the latest piece of shit and keep using the system that works for them?
Like, if I'm in line at the MTO (DMV for you yanks), and the line is moving at the expected pace-- slowly but surely-- then suddenly someone says "Welp, we're switching tech!" and boots up a new blockchain process. Suddenly everything JUST FUCKING STOPS WORKING and no one gets anything driver license related done. Is this how it works every time we see "so and so is using X"? Are Hong Kong's ports currently backlogged to death while people try to figure out what Huckster Scammer vAmazingTechCloud 2.0 is doing?
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Are Hong Kong's ports currently backlogged to death while people try to figure out what Huckster Scammer vAmazingTechCloud 2.0 is doing?
It seems to me that they have some sort of computerized entry system (I'm pretty sure this is the same thing that I posted about above) instead of mailing / faxing paperwork around. But it's completely unclear how blockchain is helping them any more than a plain old database and related bar code scanning technology that's been a part supply chains for decades.
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@kt_ said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
. Last May Singapore introduced electronic certificates of origin, based on blockchain
@kt_ said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Singapore’s busy port, along with ports in Hong Kong, Rotterdam, Philadelphia and other places, have started to use a blockchain-enabled process
How do these places even operate? Like, I hear this all the time. Some big organization / company / whatever switches to a obviously shit technology. Do all those places shut down and quietly go back to the old way? Do all the front-line workers just ignore the latest piece of shit and keep using the system that works for them?
Like, if I'm in line at the MTO (DMV for you yanks), and the line is moving at the expected pace-- slowly but surely-- then suddenly someone says "Welp, we're switching tech!" and boots up a new blockchain process. Suddenly everything JUST FUCKING STOPS WORKING and no one gets anything driver license related done. Is this how it works every time we see "so and so is using X"? Are Hong Kong's ports currently backlogged to death while people try to figure out what Huckster Scammer vAmazingTechCloud 2.0 is doing?
It probably didn't happen during business hours as implied in your rhetorical example, but in MN they switched over to a partially implemented, kind of broken, DMV system. It was known to be in a crap state but since so much time and money had been put into it the Legislature decreed that it will be deployed. Without knowing all this I had applied for new DNR supporting license plates in I think June and I didn't get them until I think September or October. To be fair I waited until kind of last minute to renew but that's still pretty ridiculous. Initially unsupported features in the new system (like vanity and these DNR plates) caused that kind of work to backlog. They couldn't just use the old system since they only did a one time sync instead of live sync as a transition. That was super awesome.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Are Hong Kong's ports currently backlogged to death while people try to figure out what Huckster Scammer vAmazingTechCloud 2.0 is doing?
It seems to me that they have some sort of computerized entry system (I'm pretty sure this is the same thing that I posted about above) instead of mailing / faxing paperwork around. But it's completely unclear how blockchain is helping them any more than a plain old database and related bar code scanning technology that's been a part supply chains for decades.
I'd be willing to bet (a small amount of) money that the actual backend is still an enterprise RDBMS like Oracle, and the 'blockchain' bit is only really providing something equivalent to a GUID associated with each shipping entry. But it makes the project properly buzzword-compliant so management liked it.
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@Cursorkeys I have very similar suspicions.
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@Cursorkeys
It's IBM so I'm putting my money a solution running on old iron
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@Luhmann said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Cursorkeys
It's IBM so I'm putting my money a solution running on old iron
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@boomzilla
Looks kinda cheap for IBM
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@Luhmann it's not actually iron though. It's platinum.
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@boomzilla Still kind of cheap for IBM.
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@dkf plutonium?
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@Cursorkeys said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'd be willing to bet (a small amount of) money that the actual backend is still an enterprise RDBMS like Oracle, and the 'blockchain' bit is only really providing something equivalent to a GUID associated with each shipping entry.
Arguably, putting everything on plain old git is putting it in the blockchain. After all, “blockchain” means “distributed ledger” and that's really how git works. Except without the whole “using more power than the whole eastern seaboard” part.
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
plutonium?
Only until they can get hold of unobtainium…
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@Cursorkeys said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Are Hong Kong's ports currently backlogged to death while people try to figure out what Huckster Scammer vAmazingTechCloud 2.0 is doing?
It seems to me that they have some sort of computerized entry system (I'm pretty sure this is the same thing that I posted about above) instead of mailing / faxing paperwork around. But it's completely unclear how blockchain is helping them any more than a plain old database and related bar code scanning technology that's been a part supply chains for decades.
I'd be willing to bet (a small amount of) money that the actual backend is still an enterprise RDBMS like Oracle, and the 'blockchain' bit is only really providing something equivalent to a GUID associated with each shipping entry. But it makes the project properly buzzword-compliant so management liked it.
Gotta store those blockchain tokens somewhere safe...
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@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
DNR plates
In case of accident, Do Not Resuscitate.
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@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
DNR plates
In case of accident, Do Not Resuscitate.
But I wanted the Moose Plate! Stupid government forms.
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@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
DNR plates
In case of accident, Do Not Resuscitate.
But I wanted the Moose Plate! Stupid government forms.
For anybody not in the US, DNR frequently means Department of Natural Resources in most states. Many states have special license plates you can buy where you pay extra that goes towards various conservation programs.
For example, Minnesota has:
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@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Cursorkeys said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'd be willing to bet (a small amount of) money that the actual backend is still an enterprise RDBMS like Oracle, and the 'blockchain' bit is only really providing something equivalent to a GUID associated with each shipping entry.
Arguably, putting everything on plain old git is putting it in the blockchain. After all, “blockchain” means “distributed ledger” and that's really how git works. Except without the whole “using more power than the whole eastern seaboard” part.
No, no, no. You see, unlike git, blockchain automated dealing with merge conflicts. Instead of resolving merge conflicts, whoever
winsis first writes history and everybody else’s history gets deleted. And successfullypushingmining gets you some kind of reward. Or something, I’m not sure.
That’s the kind of usability improvement to git even Blakey could get behind.
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Normal brain: "Keep your private keys safe, write them down and don't put them on your computer, or hackers will steal them!"
Galaxy brain: "Put your private keys on your computer and the cloud!"(In all fairness, cloud storage for password managers isn't unheard of. When it's done right and you can trust the encryption…)
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Because putting sexual consent on the blockchain was such a brilliant idea…
"Wedding vows are supposed to be forever, putting them on the blockchain insures that they are".
What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than making your love immutable in a public ledger?
SmartVows Blockchain Marriage Contract – 01:42
— SmartVows Blockchain Marriage ContractSource: @technollama
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@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
DNR plates
In case of accident, Do Not Resuscitate.
But I wanted the Moose Plate! Stupid government forms.
For anybody not in the US, DNR frequently means Department of Natural Resources in most states. Many states have special license plates you can buy where you pay extra that goes towards various conservation programs.
For example, Minnesota has:
A captcha to enter the website?
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
A captcha to enter the website?
They must really hate robots.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
A captcha to enter the website?
How to keep people who don't already badly want/need to visit your side from outstaying their welcome.
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@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Wedding vows are supposed to be forever, putting them on the blockchain insures that they are".
I don't think the blockchain prevents a court from issuing a divorce decree, so it makes a really shitty "forever."
making your love immutable in a public ledger?
Immutable like a hurricane?
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@dkf plutonium?
Just let the CEOs know that there's a very rare, expensive and special computer made out of very rare, expensive and special materials... but we can't afford to buy them for everyone in the company.
They'll all get one each for themselves, and that's just fine.
Filed under: a RADical solution to capitalism
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@HardwareGeek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I don't think the blockchain prevents a court from issuing a divorce decree, so it makes a really shitty "forever."
"Let anyone who has an issue with this union come forward now with their 51% attack, or hold your peace until the inevitable hardfork."
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@DCoder What's so special that you posted this in "foolish crypto" thread? Or did you actually intend to post this in the "Internet Of Shit" thread?
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@JBert And now for something actually crypto-related…
Coinmama exchange hacked, 450,000 email+hashed pw stolen
Today, February 15, 2019, we learned of a breach of about 450,000 emails and hashed passwords. We are still investigating the incident, but have reason to believe your account may be affected, and want to take immediate steps to secure it.
Given the dated nature of the published data, we have no reason to suspect that any other Coinmama systems are compromised. Having said that, we take your privacy seriously, and are monitoring our systems for suspicious activity.
We are also working closely with leading cybersecurity firms to understand the scope of the incident, and enhancing our systems to detect and prevent unauthorized access to user information.
Source: /r/CryptoCurrency
The source appears to be this clusterfuck, with breach date of 2017/08/02. So nobody noticed the breach for more than a year. Secure!
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@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Because putting sexual consent on the blockchain was such a brilliant idea…
"Wedding vows are supposed to be forever, putting them on the blockchain insures that they are".
What better way to celebrate Valentine's Day than making your love immutable in a public ledger?
SmartVows Blockchain Marriage Contract – 01:42
— SmartVows Blockchain Marriage ContractSource: @technollama
That's literally what a marriage license already is, minus the shitcoin part. An immutable public ledger.
edit: and divorce doesn't alter the public ledger... it updates it with an entry which supersedes the marriage.
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@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Having said that, we take your privacy seriously, and are monitoring our systems for suspicious activity.
If they took privacy seriously, they would have already been monitoring their systems for suspicious activity.
@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
We are also working closely with leading cybersecurity firms to understand the scope of the incident
"Firms"? Plural. Nothing exposes a childish lie more than over exaggeration.
"And then I saw a dog and he jumped over the building then there were fifteen cats that chased him and I got to pet all of them and they gave me ice cream!"
Or did they hire on multiple firms and set them to compete against each other in a reality show?
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Zecc said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@mikehurley said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
DNR plates
In case of accident, Do Not Resuscitate.
But I wanted the Moose Plate! Stupid government forms.
For anybody not in the US, DNR frequently means Department of Natural Resources in most states. Many states have special license plates you can buy where you pay extra that goes towards various conservation programs.
For example, Minnesota has:
A captcha to enter the website?
That's fun. There's probably some state or federal rule about access to information that somebody just applied to all state/federal websites because computers are hard and people are lazy.
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@topspin It works fine for me. Must have just decided that your connection looked fishy.
It does suggest running an antivirus, so maybe it thinks that there's a bot running from your IP address.
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Currency of the future is ready to crush all legacy finances. Thanks to magic sauce by a single developer and his "Taco" donations.
Tippin.me is a recently-launched Chrome extension that allows users users to send satoshi-sized† tips over the Lightning Network, with a simple button embedded in Twitter. The tipping button was thrust into the spotlight when Twitter chief Jack Dorsey demonstrated how easy it is to use, and the feature crashed shortly thereafter due to an overloaded server.
The biggest criticism of Tippin is the custodial nature of the wallet. If Tippin.me gets hacked, so too do the funds on the platform.
Nonetheless, it has gripped the crypto community with a child-like wonder.
The thing about Tippin is that its popularity was a surprise, even to the builder of the tool. Sergio Abril, who is funding the project with his own money and “Taco” donations on his website, was “quite overwhelmed” when Twitter’s Dorsey signed up, summing it up as a “crazy day.”
Little did he know that it was about to get crazier once the servers overloaded. Later, he urged the community to “give our servers a break.” Sergio admits “it works (most of the time at least!)!”
Meanwhile, Bitcoin usage is also strengthening, as evidenced by throughput hovering at around 3.87 transactions per second.
† satoshi is a minor bitcoin unit. 10⁸ Satoshis = 1 Bitcoin.
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@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Meanwhile, Bitcoin usage is also strengthening, as evidenced by throughput hovering at around 3.87 transactions per second.
And every single one of them is a crime against the environment.
EDIT: Huh, I wonder if there are any environmental interest groups which take donations in bitcoin.
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@PleegWat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Meanwhile, Bitcoin usage is also strengthening, as evidenced by throughput hovering at around 3.87 transactions per second.
And every single one of them is a crime against the environment.
EDIT: Huh, I wonder if there are any environmental interest groups which take donations in bitcoin.
When they hit 4TPS, the polar ice caps are history. moohahahaha!
OoOo - bitcoin is a conspiracy by the climate change people!
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@dcon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
bitcoin is a conspiracy by
the climate change peopleCanadians that want a real summer!FTFY
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@dcon
After all, it does rather heavily rely on Al Gore's greatest invention
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@PleegWat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
3.87 transactions per second.
Jesus Christ. In a similar vein, I've been working on a big data/analytics thing (I'd say machine learning, but it's really just a crapload of conditionals with history metadata) for 5 years or so, and it works better than a human studying the same data now. A couple of years ago we found out our competitor's solution to the same problem was literally having a building full of analysts manually looking at the data each day.
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@Cursorkeys said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
our competitor's solution to the same problem was literally having a building full of analysts manually looking at the data each day.
Your data is carefully analyzed by our exclusive Massively Parallel Natural Intelligence System™
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Cursorkeys said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
our competitor's solution to the same problem was literally having a building full of analysts manually looking at the data each day.
Your data is carefully analyzed by our exclusive Massively Parallel Natural Intelligence System™
Better: ... by our massive NIPS™ system.
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@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
3.87 transactions per second.
3.86 of which are just bitcoins being taken from hacked exchanges.
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@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
3.87 transactions per second.
3.86 of which are just bitcoins being taken from hacked exchanges.
That few?
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@dcon said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Lorne-Kates said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
3.87 transactions per second.
3.86 of which are just bitcoins being taken from hacked exchanges.
That few?
The rest are just gullible idiots giving Satoshi's to a billionaire like brain-dead cult members.
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@DCoder said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
† satoshi is a minor bitcoin unit. 10⁸ Satoshis = 1 Bitcoin.
Not a cult, mind you.
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