tim.aidley.com
"A distinctively Timmy blob"
https://www.aidley.com/
(He/Him)
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Weird to base his look off a literal child molester
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The cool thing about music is that just from the brief description I know exactly what the note was she added.
Probably I do, anyway.
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Little more than an extraordinarily effective prison, metastasized to the level of a state. There is nothing of redeeming value here.
Sparta is not something to be emulated. It is a cautionary tale."
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"Sparta was – if you will permit the comparison – an ancient North Korea. An over-militarized, paranoid state which was able only to protect its own systems of internal brutality and which added only oppression to the sum of the human experience.
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The Workspaces and tab stacks in Vivaldi are just so useful. I love the way they recognize that searching the web is work, and that your tabs are valuable.
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I'm curious if you ever managed to beat someone by three grams.
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Which exposes you to many of the same risks that keeping money underneath your bed does - theft, fire etc
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I don't doubt that Bitcoin is cryptographically secure, but that won't necessarily protect you if an exchange you hold bitcoin with gets compromised. Just ask anybody who had money with Mt Gox.
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Wow, great job!
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I would never have noticed if you had not mentioned it.
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So anyway, those are some of the reasons I will not use Bitcoin. I don't see it as ethical.
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Similarly North Korea, Iran, and Russia use Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to evade sanctions.
North Korea even managed to hack a crypto exchange and steal $1.5 Billion of cryptocurrency. That kind of theft was simply not possible prior to Bitcoin.
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Now a ransomer can just demand payment via bitcoin. Their main issue is turning the bitcoin in to real money in an untraceable way, but there are various bitcoin tumbler services devoted to making the transactions almost untraceable.
in 2023, $1.1 Billion of ransom payments were made using Bitcoin.
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Nowadays Bitcoin has two main uses: speculation and making ransom demands.
Bitcoin has completely revolutionized the kidnap and ransom business. Previously ransoming always involved a certain amount of physical risk in picking up the money - but that is no longer the case.
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- Your savings have no federal protections, and if there is a security breach at the crypto exchange your bitcoin is stored at, you may have absolutely no recourse once that money is gone.
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- People often store money in banks because it offers them some protection against being burgled, fire burning down their house and their money etc. You can do something similar with bitcoin, but unlike a bank you have no financial protections there.
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- Bitcoin has no safety systems built in. If you are a victim of fraud with Bitcoin, there is no way to get that money back. If you lose your bitcoin wallet, that money is gone - no way to retrieve it.
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- the enormous power usage. A single Bitcoin transaction uses the same amount of energy as leaving your microwave on for one hour - and it's only going to become more expensive, by design
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For instance:
- It's inability to scale - on average there are less than 10 bitcoin transactions per second, *worldwide*, and bitcoin seems incapable of moving beyond that. It will never become an everyday currency for people.
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That video does a good job of explaining the idea behind bitcoin, and perhaps ten years ago that would have been enough, but I don't think it explains at all the real-world issues with it.
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My suggestion here is to block and move on. This is the kind of person who has all their wealth in Bitcoin and has searches set up so that they can harangue random people about it and how great it is. Even if you wanted to know about Bitcoin, he's unlikely to give you any objective information.
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If you stream an album The Boss will get about 1/20th of a cent richer.
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It hurts me to say this, but there are some things not worth knowing.
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MIDI was released in 1983, making it 42 years old.
The serial port was defined in 1969, making it 56 years old.
MIDI is probably still in more general use, though.
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Sort of, and the name of the room was Tim, which is why it could also have been a complete random.
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Thanks!
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Too late for me!
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I predict that by the end of the day someone will have got ChatGPT to write all of these books and put them up on Amazon.
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I'm mainly shocked that you were able to do all that for only around 700 quid.
Sounds awesome, though.
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You have two options: dump that guy, or shoot Joe Rogan.
It would be great if there was a podcast that worked as an antivenom for Joe Rogan. I don't know if it exists.
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It upsets me that I was alive when these existed and yet I never knew about them or had one.
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Although in the SF office it felt like a lot of people were ignoring the RTO order anyway.
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I sometimes wonder how it would have gone if JK hadn't had to resign due to the disastrous runtime fee. Like it always felt to me that the RTO got cancelled due to new leadership not seeing it as important.
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I wonder how they got that shot? RC helicopter? Crane?
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I dare you to tell Stewart Copeland that to his face
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I went to see that movie when I was 10, but I'd already read the book of the movie and knew what was going to happen, and closed my eyes in the cinema. Then when it came on TV it didn't have that shot so it wasn't until years later I got to find out what I missed.