A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted
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@topspin Yeah, it doesn't really do anything revolutionary, but for like a year it was everywhere.
Before that, it was "cloud".
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@blek said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin Yeah, it doesn't really do anything revolutionary, but for like a year it was everywhere.
Before that, it was "cloud".
I'm just waiting for distributed computing to make a comeback. Actually potentially useful work as proof of work.
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@topspin I've vaguely heard of a few tracking projects that use a private blockchain. So there's probably one thing it does better than a DB, but it does so many things so much worse that it almost certainly doesn't make up for using a blockchain.
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@PotatoEngineer said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin I've vaguely heard of a few tracking projects that use a private blockchain. So there's probably one thing it does better than a DB, but it does so many things so much worse that it almost certainly doesn't make up for using a blockchain.
The thing that makes it proper "blockchain" as opposed to just a forgery-proof logfile (ranging from something you could do in half a page of Bash to real Merkle trees) is the distributed consensus function, and that bit is utterly stupid in a "private blockchain".
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Whoopsie daisy
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@izzion AI sure is a bubble, but not a scam bubble. Unlike crypto money, which is 9001% scam.
That's right. The AI scams won't be going away.
Well, there is the seasonal AI winter when the scammers hibernate.
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@Carnage when is winter in India?
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Whoopsie daisy
Nice 〤account you have there, SECGov. I have the keys to the house, and I'm certainly not bitter or anything.
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People can, of course, still right-click and save the images and upload them that way.
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Guess SBF’s kickback has finally arrived…
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article @izzion linked in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
The U.S. securities regulator on Wednesday approved the first U.S.-listed exchange traded funds (ETFs) to track bitcoin
Can anybody explain what that's supposed to mean? If you want to track bitcoin, buy bitcoin. It's a single (worthless) asset, not a diverse index like the Dow Jones.
It's suppoed to be a currency, so surely trading it must be easy by design.The market capitalization of bitcoin stood at more than $913 billion as of Wednesday, according to CoinGecko.
This timeline is retarded.
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@topspin An ETF lets you track bitcoin without actually going through the hassle of owning bitcoin.
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@PleegWat By "hassle" you mean "ending up on Molly 0xfff's website"?
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@PleegWat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin An ETF lets you track bitcoin without actually going through the hassle of owning bitcoin.
So "investing" into something which you know fails hard at its single core function.
I guess that's acceptable for speculators, but they can't say it out loud so there's enough fools left to be parted from their money.
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
ending up on Molly 0xfff's website
Speaking of...
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@topspin So... what statements has she made that have been false and misleading? Any examples? Any explanation/proof why they are wrong? Anything? Hello?
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
This timeline is retarded.
This branch was never intended for deployment to production.
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@Atazhaia said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@topspin So... what statements has she made that have been false and misleading? Any examples? Any explanation/proof why they are wrong? Anything? Hello?
Of course not, they just wanted her to stop saying mean things.
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@Arantor But that letter was just pathetic. Not even any attempt at listing anything. I have seen legal scare threats without valid reason that at least says what the "offensive" parts are. Not just a vague "you said bad stuff".
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@Atazhaia she should just reply that this letter is false and misleading, and demand they cease and desist such activity.
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Apparently she did reply to them (this was in 2022) with a note that she had removed all the defamatory content.
Of course, she removed not a single line, but that’s the point.
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@topspin said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@Carnage when is winter in India?
When coal burning for heating makes the low air quality least bearable.
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@Atazhaia said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I have seen legal scare threats without valid reason that at least says what the "offensive" parts are.
I suppose YouTube's emails aren't technically legal...
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@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@loopback0 said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
anything
Ain't never don't got none value!
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The blockchain keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin'.... into the fuuuuuuuuuture!
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The future of currency is really more like Beanie Babies!
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@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Guess SBF’s kickback has finally arrived…
The really fun part about this: after the ETF was approved, a whole bunch of retail investors bought in.
...and the price dropped, because it was the opportunity that so many Bitcoin-holders were waiting for so they could get out of the market. The market is so shallow that nobody with any real holdings can exit the market unless there's a giant inflow of cash.
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@PotatoEngineer said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@izzion said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Guess SBF’s kickback has finally arrived…
The really fun part about this: after the ETF was approved, a whole bunch of retail investors bought in.
...and the price dropped, because it was the opportunity that so many Bitcoin-holders were waiting for so they could get out of the market. The market is so shallow that nobody with any real holdings can exit the market unless there's a giant inflow of cash.
Amazing how Ponzi schemes work
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@boomzilla Can't even take God at His word any more! I bet He didn't even use the proper financial advice disclaimers in His answers.
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@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla Can't even take God at His word any more! I bet He didn't even use the proper financial advice disclaimers in His answers.
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great blockchain.
-- Not Revelation 20:1
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@Applied-Mediocrity said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@LaoC said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@boomzilla Can't even take God at His word any more! I bet He didn't even use the proper financial advice disclaimers in His answers.
And I saw an angel coming down out of heaven, having the key to the Abyss and holding in his hand a great blockchain.
-- Not Revelation 20:1and behold a of a pale horse
and fraud followed with him
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@boomzilla said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
the Lord had told him people would become rich if they invested
I'm amazed at how little some church-goers read their Bibles. God doesn't really have a history of offering quick riches. I mean, sure, riches certainly are on offer, and have been often often granted in the past, yes. But the conditions tend to involve a lifetime's worth of hard work in faith and wisdom, not get-rich-quick schemes.
I hope the rest of his flock will keep each other, lest anyone fall destitute from this.
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And I was led to believe I could get everything I want from God by a
smalllarge donation tohis prophetHim!
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@acrow said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'm amazed at how little some church-goers read their Bibles.
I'm not. The church, or at least the people in it, follow Sturgeon's Law; according to various surveys, well under 10% actually live according to what they claim to believe. But this isn't the , so it's the wrong place to have this conversation.
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@HardwareGeek I have heard (without proof) that in NL protestants tend to have far better knowledge of the bible than catholics. I also know that when my uncle started going out with a catholic woman she ended up borrowing our children's bible.
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@acrow said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'm amazed at how little some church-goers read their Bibles.
Why? It's not like the Word of God is a big part of their lives. Synagogue-goers, on the other hand...
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@acrow said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'm amazed at how little some church-goers read their Bibles.
Have you read the complete documentation for every piece of software you use?
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
Have you read the complete documentation for every piece of software you use?
I think I'm unusual in that I've read the complete documentation for some of the software I use. And some of the software I use, I've read the complete documentation only by virtue of there being absolutely none.
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@dkf lately I find myself reading the source code of 3rd party software I use more often than the documentation.
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@acrow said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'm amazed at how little some church-goers read their Bibles.
Have you read the complete documentation for every piece of software you use?
Sadly, that is becoming easier with time, due to the lacking nature thereof...
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@Zerosquare said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@acrow said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'm amazed at how little some church-goers read their Bibles.
Have you read the complete documentation for every piece of software you use?
If I voluntarily spend several hours of my life every week using it, then I'm rather inclined to read at least the General section of the User's Manual.
...Yes, I tend to read/watch/play the tutorial for any computer games I play. If none are available, I tend to read through the keybind settings.
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@acrow 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:
the Lord had told him people would become rich if they invested
I'm amazed at how little some church-goers read their Bibles. God doesn't really have a history of offering quick riches. I mean, sure, riches certainly are on offer, and have been often often granted in the past, yes. But the conditions tend to involve a lifetime's worth of hard work in faith and wisdom, not get-rich-quick schemes.
"And the SATOSHI said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in the Constitutional Republic, and have heard their cry by reason of their taxmasters; for I know their sorrows; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Fed, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with Ether and Doge; unto the place of the Bankmans, and the Greenwoods, and the Lunas, and the Boredapes, and the—alright Stan, don't labour the point."
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@Gustav said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
lately I find myself reading the source code of 3rd party software I use more often than the documentation.
There's some software I'm dealing with where I wish that was an option. I'd like to know whether particular flag bits are a good thing or a bad thing when set. As it is, I'm not going to know until I plug into the real hardware, and that's in a secure lab at work...
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@PleegWat said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
@HardwareGeek I have heard (without proof) that in NL protestants tend to have far better knowledge of the bible than catholics. I also know that when my uncle started going out with a catholic woman she ended up borrowing our children's bible.
True. Traditionally, the Catholic church did not encourage people to read the bible themselves. Doctrine was that the bible would be explained by the church (i.e. the priests) to the people.
This is probably also the reason why long after protestants translated the bible in local languages, the catholic bible was still in Latin.[source: 14 years spent in Catholic schools, which made me the atheist I am today]
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@dkf said in A fool and his not-really-money are soon parted:
I'd like to know whether particular flag bits are a good thing or a bad thing when set.
Come on. You know that:
- There's no documentation.
- If there is, it doesn't mention those bits.
- If they are, their description is hopelessly vague and confusing.
- If the description is somewhat clear, it's wrong.
- If it looks somewhat right, it describes the design goal, not how the actual hardware works.
- If it describes how the actual hardware works (bugs and all), you're either dreaming, or you weren't supposed to ever see that doc (and it will mysteriously vanish sooner and later).