I was reading about Ethereum.
Solidity is the JavaScript-like programming language designed for developing smart contracts that run on the Ethereum Virtual Machine (EVM).
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reading up on the Ethereum / DAO hack and good lord is there some bad code out there in the world
“But what if there’s a bug and my code doesn’t do what I intended, letting someone take my money via means I didn’t expect?”
“Well, then you deserve to lose your money for your poor decision-making. Plus all the benefits of a process beyond human influence are worth making it so human judges and laws and fuzzy ideas of fairness can’t fix things. Besides, those fuzzy ideas do more harm than good.”
“There’s a bug in your code.”
”Okay, so let’s do a soft fork of the network in the short term to prevent the money from being spent, get the exchanges to freeze withdrawals, and then review what code changes we can make to give the money back to its proper owners.”
(This is a Plato’s chicken thing; if they truly deferred to the concept of ownership they’ve encoded into the software, the reaction would be “Yes, it’s the hacker’s money now, what of it?”)
Good ol’ fiat currency with fiat decision making remains the most reliable way for anyone with any grasp of the bounds of their own rationality, anyone who thinks the concept of an “unconscionable” contract has some value to them, to keep a balance.
Geeks love technology problems and hate people problems, so they try and convert every people problem into a technology problem.
Money is inherently social, because it’s merely a system for keeping track of how much you owe each other. Taking people out of the equation renders it absolutely useless, as the whole system only works by mutual agreement.
tl;dr bitcoin sux lmao
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I swear to god he has some kind of ancient Egyptian curse. There is always, always one of these whenever something happens. He stole an amulet from a tomb or some shit.
Watching these videos of people keeping exotic animals on the Internet.
Then you look it up, and it’s like…
The less smug you are, (and the less unethical you are), the less it stings when your most unethical behavior comes to light.
It’s good standard practice to avoid using “wit” (and snark) on people because they are low-status (”gross,” “smelly,” “ugly,” “fat harpy” and so on). First of all, it’s just not a good mental hygiene habit. Second of all, it cannot then come back to haunt you.
What does it mean when a post has 2 notes, but only a single like and no reblogs? Shadowban on a follower?
[someone may have] reblogged then saved as draft
Even now, I may be adding phantom notes to posts all across Tumblr.
Everyone likes fast cars, but why is it that when I propose a new class of police “super interceptors” powered by retired attack helicopter turbines as the new primary response to illegal street racing, in order to boost advancement in the automotive industry, I’m the bad guy??