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Imho we should be careful of using this term front running. If I buy a thing (simply becqause I can) and then turn around and sell it at artificially high limit sell orders, does this mean I'm front running or market making? Spoofing?

this is cute.

I feel this comment deeply as a child company of a parent that uses SAP and they really really really want us to use their (the same/unified) ERP system but it's really bad. 37 clicks across 7 tabs to place an order. No thanks.

We've spent 3 years refining our processes and automating our ERP system, both the data structures we need and the design of the UX. No thank you SAP

FWIW we just upgraded to a 98" NEC "commercial display" C981Q and couldn't be happier with it. I looked into the Raspi compute module but we just have a PC and some Crestron gear running it all, Shure ceiling tile mic and a vladdio cam.

It was $8500 + 1500 freight IIRC

AOL/CompuServe/Prodigy these walled gardens deserve to be included in the social history along with independent and international phreaker BBS's

Some might say that the original hacker ethos is exploring exploiting and even attempting to break things.

I’m retrospect yes it was juvenile and regrettable but hey welcome to the game, friends.

People weren’t brigading you with pitchforks back then because proof of work wasn’t destroying the planet a decade ago.

Simpler times.

Back in the merged mining days of bitcoin/namecoin, there was a lot of worthless namecoin around and you didn't exactly know what to do with it:

So I had the bright idea to go around collecting publicly listed namecoin addresses - bitcointalk signatures, github donation addresses, developers, you name it I think I gathered about 100 addresses

I wrote a bash script and put looped namedcoind to read my text file and send the minimum tx amount to a random address every second....

So that was running in a (detached) screen and I got busy and forgot about... for a few days...

Some folks didn't think that was very funny and called it an "attack"

Purchasing Verbatim purple bottom CDR blanks to copy original PSX games was my introduction to piracy. I was quite young. Those first gen Playstations with the port in the back were amazing easy to mod with the action replay or just the swap trick.

I also jumped on the XBMC and Xecutor modchip for the original Xbox when that came out. Another mind blowing time in computer gaming.

Lost my card, can confirm it's entirely tedious to replace

Accurate Voting seems like the most viable use case for triple entry accounting, you know that thing that got created in 2009 by that mysterious Satoshi guy and everyone hates it now and thinks it’s a Ponzi scheme- totally legitimate use case here with voting and the only real world scenario I know of where the solution hasn’t located the problem yet.

I think it would be super helpful if some of ya'll were to watch the USDT:BTC (edit: really any USDT currency pair) order books on the exchanges on different intervals and watch the market making bots in action - this is what I think. See the spreads, see the intervals they make their trades on - study it.

Taking me back to the golden years

Drop the idea and leave was the best thing anyone could've ever done in this scenario. At the end of the day the creator is the weakest link.

There's also this new-fangled social media anxiety pressure whereby most people only share and put out the AMAZING GAINS and HOW AWESOME their lives are.

I feel like social media ups the ante on a lot of borderline or negative human traits because instead of CONNECTING us it's actually pushing us further apart.

It's a tangential thought I know but the fact that there exist people bragging/boasting/ saying LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK HOW EASY IT IS - this creates a pretty unhealthy feedback loop and like you said, there's no value there.

I have smaller kids and I fear for their mental well being because of the pressures of the internet and how it's bleeding into reality in weird new ways that aren't exactly healthy.

I've pointed out this thread of comments to other people who I think should read some of the sentiment in these comments. It is absolutely amazing how polarizing this subject can become in specific forums

Thanks for this

I find this to be the most hugely under-rated comment in this entire thread. Crypto is a diversification tactic in 2022 - that's it. Everyone should have some sense of self-preservation and protect themselves from a market downturn. And the way you do this is to not put all your eggs in the same basket.

Always enjoy reading your comments, sir.

11 years now I fall into the category of people you are all collectively referring to as "crypto bros"

The only difference being I don't shill pyramid schemes on the internet for profit.

I kinda sit back and wait and take profit when it makes sense to me.

I certainly don't tell other people about it when I do it.

This is how it worked and 486 PC at the time would happily overflow AIM32.exe and stop responding thanks. Sanitize those inputs!

Also did this with netzero. Didn't like their software/UI "borrowed" their credentials and plugged them into Windows 95 Dial up networking FTW

Got tired of burning through free trial AOL CD's and decided to "borrow" the username and password from Windows 95 Dial up networking provider at local high school.

Went home and war dialed that local prefix (next city over) until I found the carrier number.

I was 14 and it was 25 years ago

Standard social media virtue signaling

Stopped using or even trying DDWRT long ago because buggy firmware. OpenWRT beats it hands down in this department

Furthermore contracts - in the context that a human being wants to be rewarded for their labor - also a legal construct. Meaning smart contracts aren’t very smart at all when they go wrong and reward the wrong party through unintended glitches or computer mis-interpretation of the contract. Or straight forgery.

No there’s no solution. Not until we all fully operate in a legal realm (the/a metaverse) that validates the contract and rewards the humans who created the contract to cover their own ass. If the contract doesn’t follow the _legal_ language and intent it’s not smart at all and yes it’s totally a solution in search of a problem.

this NFT stuff is doomed to failure until we all operate in the same realm validating the identity of the contract owner, validating the legal intent of the contract, because that’s what a contract is in meat space

Adblock on my openwrt router is like my bare minimum to surf the web. I’m aware of pi-holes and per device ad blocking via add-ins/vpns/whatever but it’s so dead simple to handle this at the gateway level it’s difficult to imagine doing it any way else.

Thanks for this

Can someone TL:dr what this Wordless thing is?

Thanks for killing my family’s primary email addresses google!

Absolutely no reason to pay for gmail @ vanity domain. Why I thought they would offer this service for free forever and actually went through with setting my kids up this way is beyond me - now it’s just 4x the work to migrate.

FWIW I read this awhile ago or some version of it but I have absolutely automated a job or an entire department’s job away with scripts.

Think debt collection and EDI file transfers daily to Equifax/Transunion and parsing the response files for skip tracing. People got paid to drag and drop files in an FTP client and my first inclination was to script it.

I’ve been wary of what I automate ever since.