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Stupid movie didn't cover the TRUE history displayed in Cryptonomicon! And god drat did that book suck. I was expecting fanfictiony stupid Mary Sue stuff with glimmers of interesting moments after reading Snow Crash, but that stupid book was about 8 times as long as it should have been and goes on and on about such petty bullshit. But it's got  THE VAULT and its magical digital currency which even in the book was used illegally, so of course it's probably one of the butter bibles
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Sentient Data posted:Stupid movie didn't cover the TRUE history displayed in Cryptonomicon! And god drat did that book suck. I was expecting fanfictiony stupid Mary Sue stuff with glimmers of interesting moments after reading Snow Crash, but that stupid book was about 8 times as long as it should have been and goes on and on about such petty bullshit. But it's got if you read stephenson books as him hating and ridiculing his audience they are much better
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JamesieAB posted:Mining Bitcoin with Excel! how the gently caress can a xxx-byte message be too long for a hash algorithm
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Sentient Data posted:Stupid movie didn't cover the TRUE history displayed in Cryptonomicon! And god drat did that book suck. I was expecting fanfictiony stupid Mary Sue stuff with glimmers of interesting moments after reading Snow Crash, but that stupid book was about 8 times as long as it should have been and goes on and on about such petty bullshit. But it's got my favorite part was the two pages dedicated to how to eat captain crunch without hating your life quite as much. i actually mostly like stephenson, but good god he cannot write an ending
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shadok posted:http://www.wired.com/2015/02/ross-ulbricht-didnt-create-silk-roads-dread-pirate-roberts-guy/ my only desire in life is for mark karpeles to be variety jones
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Sentient Data posted:Stupid movie didn't cover the TRUE history displayed in Cryptonomicon! And god drat did that book suck. I was expecting fanfictiony stupid Mary Sue stuff with glimmers of interesting moments after reading Snow Crash, but that stupid book was about 8 times as long as it should have been and goes on and on about such petty bullshit. But it's got if you just read the wwii parts and ignore all the bratty rear end in a top hat modern parts it gets about 10x better
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Aleksei Vasiliev posted:" Because you're doing it in excel
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so some random came to the defence of quickbt i'm guessing he's a friend or some poo poo  also i tweeted this too, but amazon doesn't keep anything but the last 4-digits and a hash value that they share between themselves and the payment processor that is otherwise useless
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Tiny Bug Child posted:b. the best way to store an amount of money is to use a decimal column in mysql. then when you pull it out you don't need to worry about the type, because caring about types is for people who use garbage languages that don't handle that nonsense for you this is legitimately good advice the problem is that i imagine p-lang language bindings will gently caress you over and return the sql decimal as floating point. (but java handles it correctly) Heresiarch posted:quick, does 0.0 === nul or not numeric columns aren't nullable in any other database, either what's your point
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OSI bean dip posted:also i tweeted this too 
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surebet posted:some legit funny stuff in there terrible codec, look at those crushed blacks.
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this is legitimately good advice PHP will return it as string , which you then cast to a floating point and gently caress up. Found this entry when looking up terrible p-lang awfulness http://php.net/manual/en/book.trader.php 
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shadok posted:http://www.wired.com/2015/02/ross-ulbricht-didnt-create-silk-roads-dread-pirate-roberts-guy/ eh he wasn't set up at all, what that's saying is that he had a number 2 guy that hasn't been caught who came up with the whole dread pirate roberts thing as a way to cover up how astoundingly stupid ross was about all his links to the creation of silk road
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'hey boss you should call yourself the mariachi!' 'ok' *goes by that name for a few years and committing crime under that name* 'youre under arrest 'the mariachi'' 'i was tricked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!'
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Greyhawk posted:if you read stephenson books as him hating and ridiculing his audience they are much better Rick Ross Ulbricht posted:yes, miners, the paragons of rational self-interest bitcoiners' highest ideals, when put into practice, betray themselves
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CapnAndy posted:Snow Crash was definitely satire but I think at some point he started getting high on his own supply, I got through Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon but that three-part doorstopper about Issac Newton searching for magic gold or whatever the gently caress broke me
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Heresiarch posted:look at you caring about types, i thought your language handled that i don't, i use strict equals like twice a year if that. you're the one that popped the obscure trivia question
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Notorious b.s.d. posted:this is legitimately good advice yeah but as long as you stick it in the database as a decimal all the weird floating-point poo poo will get truncated away and you probably won't screw around with it in php enough to make the weird poo poo happen
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Endless Mike posted:my favorite part was the two pages dedicated to how to eat captain crunch without hating your life quite as much. This is what killed me on him after snow crash, I really liked it up until about the last quarter when poo poo just derails and you get old man guido ripping off his pants to fight mega death Inuit. According to the author's blurb in the book, he said it was meant to be a graphic novel, but the project fell through, so he just shat out an ending to finish the script and welp.
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Greyhawk posted:if you read stephenson books as him hating and ridiculing his audience they are much better i read like part of his last one about the mmo but i was more interested in the "designing a fantasy world" parts of it and not in the rest so i stopped once those parts stopped four chapters in that's my story about stephenson
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Ron Paul Atreides posted:This is what killed me on him after snow crash, I really liked it up until about the last quarter when poo poo just derails and you get old man guido ripping off his pants to fight mega death Inuit.
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Endless Mike posted:i actually mostly like stephenson, but good god he cannot write an ending
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fuuuuck all coiners I get free electricity.... (self.Bitcoin) soumis 13 minutes ago par Austinswill Hey everyone... I get free electricity at night and I was thinking about the possibility of doing some more Bit-coin mining... What I would be interested in is a rig that has a high has rate but efficiency doesn't matter. Maybe the two are mutually exclusive, IDK, that is what I am trying to find out. I would love to find a high hash rate machine that nobody would run because it burns more $ in electricity than it generates in BTC. any Ideas?
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unpacked robinhood posted:fuuuuck all coiners got theirs?
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Sentient Data posted:Stupid movie didn't cover the TRUE history displayed in Cryptonomicon! And god drat did that book suck. I was expecting fanfictiony stupid Mary Sue stuff with glimmers of interesting moments after reading Snow Crash, but that stupid book was about 8 times as long as it should have been and goes on and on about such petty bullshit. But it's got I liked the setting of the pacific theater of ww2 since, growing up in Canada, you only ever learn about the European side. v  vHow to write like Neal Stephenson: 1) Press Random Article on Wikipedia 2) Write 4-5 chapters where a character repeats wikipedia page verbatim as part of the narrative 3) Write 2-3 wacky chapters about cap'n crunch, toilet paper pools, fictional video game languages' use of apostrophes, etc. 4) Write ending where the climax is 2 lines long and involves the villain dying unceremoniously 5) Masturbate furiously unpacked robinhood posted:fuuuuck all coiners ie: I got a job doing the overnight shift at 7/11 and can plug in a miner in the back room during my shift. Pls advise.
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CapnAndy posted:Snow Crash was definitely satire but I think at some point he started getting high on his own supply, I got through Diamond Age and Cryptonomicon but that three-part doorstopper about Issac Newton searching for magic gold or whatever the gently caress broke me Cryptonomicon was entertaining, Anathem was good, but basically everything Stephenson has written that I've read has made me cringe. With respect to the miners I was thinking of the guys who are mining at a loss because they love bitcoin that much
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https://bitcoinprivacy.net/index.php/distribution.html There are 4754776 addresses with more than -2 bitcoins, totalling 13821889 bitcoins, 100% of all bitcoins. There are 4343750 addresses with more than 0 bitcoins, totalling 13821889 bitcoins, 100% of all bitcoins.
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OSI bean dip posted:https://bitcoinprivacy.net/index.php/distribution.html I thought this was an error, but it just means there are 400k address with 0 bitcoins, since it's "more than" instead of "more than or equal to"
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theflyingorc posted:I thought this was an error, but it just means there are 400k address with 0 bitcoins, since it's "more than" instead of "more than or equal to" it's kind of a huge rounding error then
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Rick Ross Ulbricht posted:Cryptonomicon was entertaining, Anathem was good, but basically everything Stephenson has written that I've read has made me cringe. My coworker goes on about these books and made them sound quite interesting, but he's also a bitcoiner, so I'm pretty torn. Are they pretty much bitcoin fantasy novels or something?
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Stephen posted:My coworker goes on about these books and made them sound quite interesting, but he's also a bitcoiner, so I'm pretty torn. Are they pretty much bitcoin fantasy novels or something? they're like atlas shrugged but for technolibertarians instead of the regular kind
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Stephen posted:My coworker goes on about these books and made them sound quite interesting, but he's also a bitcoiner, so I'm pretty torn. Are they pretty much bitcoin fantasy novels or something? cryptonomicon is literally about a bunch of cypherpunks building an alternative financial system while being harassed by men with guns I don't know about anathem, I quit stephenson a short way into quicksilver
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Stephen posted:My coworker goes on about these books and made them sound quite interesting, but he's also a bitcoiner, so I'm pretty torn. Are they pretty much bitcoin fantasy novels or something? not really. e: anathem is the only one i really, really enjoyed. after i first read neuromancer some years ago i looked for anything like it and found snow crash which i guess was cool too. literally everything else i've read by him i would either suggest only with caveats or would recommend to stay away from. diamond age is particularly bad although the vision of the future that it provides is pretty cool Rick Ross Ulbricht fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Feb 10, 2015 |
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