FauxPseudo
@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world
- Comment on Sleeping beauty bitcoin wallets wake up after 14 years to the tune of $2 billion 2 weeks ago:
Two wallets. 10k BTC each. These wallets were created back when BTC was 78¢. When you spend $10k the IRS might ask questions. If you are “structuring” correctly you avoid spending $9,999 and $1 within a short time span or even in the same reporting period. 10k BTC back then was something you could buy that looked like it wasn’t $10k but was really close. Spend it twice in two different wallets and if there are enough other transactions no one will notice.
Anytime you see a transaction or set of transactions that add up to or are just shy of 10k USD, BTC or pretty much anything, there should be a little bell that dings in your head and causes you to think “this person is clearly thinking about US tax reporting laws and trying to dodge them.”
Who had all that money back in 2011 that decided that now was the time to tap those wallets that are worth a billion each? Obviously someone that hasn’t needed the money until now. Someone that is planning on spending up to 2 billion. But not right away because if you try to sell 20k BTC in a hurry it will draw attention and potentially destabilize the currency. But you could sell it all off over the next year or longer without flooding the market.
Who wants to spend up to $2 billion in the next year? What could you buy with that kind of money? Elon musk spent ~$250 million getting Trump elected. That’s just an eighth of $2B. You could buy a lot of super PAC power with $2B. You could bankroll the primarying of every Republican that voted for OBBB. Weird that these wallets were dusted off so close to Elon saying he would primary anyone that voted for OBBB, and he has a strong affinity for crypto, and he had enough money in 2011 to buy that much BCT on a whim, and that he wouldn’t have had to touch it to pay other bills as BTC went from 78¢ to more than $100,000 over the last 14 years.
I wonder who these wallets belong to and what they will be used for?
This is what conspiracy thinking looks like. It’s me. I’m the one conspiracy thinking.
- Comment on Most Common PIN Codes 3 weeks ago:
Star Trek fans.
- Comment on New ATHEIST community. 3 weeks ago:
I’m number one!
- Comment on New ATHEIST community. 3 weeks ago:
Ideally an empty atheist group is the platonic ideal. Nothing about nothing. No arguments. No exclusion. No evangelicals. No conversion attempts.
- Comment on Against AI: An Open Letter From Writers to Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Hachette Book Group, Macmillan, and all other publishers of America 3 weeks ago:
It’s too early for the Butlerian Jihad to start.
- Comment on Microsoft pushes staff to use internal AI tools more, and may consider this in reviews. 'Using AI is no longer optional.' 3 weeks ago:
At your next job interview ask them if they are results driven or methodology driven. “If I were to take twice as long to do something by using a poorly designed tool will I be rewarded or punished?”
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 4 weeks ago:
Good to know. As my posting history on Lemmy will show I definitely watch bread recipes videos. In fact I became a mod for c/cooking today.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 4 weeks ago:
You watch one ContraPoints video about Jordan B Peterson and the next thing you know … Still not any JBP video recommendations. So I guess there is an upside to the failure of big data.
- Comment on The bizarre, dismal page you see if you open YouTube without an account. 4 weeks ago:
Each day I go to the YouTube app on Roku to my subscriptions tab and watch whatever is new. Then I go to Recommend and it’s 90% or more previous videos from those same subscriptions and very little new creators it hasn’t showed me.
After almost a year of this it figured out last week I might like AronRa, a person I’m very familiar with. And after countless videos on anthropology, evolution and paleontology he should have come up so much sooner. So much for big data.
But what is completely lacking is a “show me completely random stuff, old, new, not in my algorithm, short, long, completely against my algorithm, etc.” it lacks almost any way to discover new stuff that isn’t 100% related to content you already have.
YouTube gets more uploads than any one person can possibly watch and yet it’s almost incapable of showing me something unless I explicitly tell it to find it for me.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever 4 weeks ago:
It capitalized Wash because spell checker is the leaf on the wind.
- Comment on Walmart Expands Rollout of Generative AI Search on App 5 weeks ago:
There’s not much that can make their web experience worse, but this is definitely one of those things.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 1 month ago:
You didn’t understand the assignment. Before asking questions do the required reading. You may find your questions have already been answered.
- Comment on Tech moguls want to build a crypto paradise on a Native American reservation 1 month ago:
Look into the history of libertarians trying to set up paradises of like minded people to find out why this will fail. They start into the 19th century and just keep failing.
- Comment on UK vehicle regulator David Ward says cars sold in Europe are so much safer than in the U.S. 1 month ago:
So buy an American make and model car in Europe and have it shipped home.
- Comment on The New York Times stands by article mentioning Chinese women small fingers. The paper says Apple engineers privately talked about this 1 month ago:
Does anyone else remember this fake commercial from a real life movie with actual brand names in it?
- Comment on The New York Times Just Published Some Bizarre Race Science About Asian Women 1 month ago:
Does anyone else remember this fake commercial from a real life movie with actual brand names in it?
- Comment on Crypto Investor Charged With Kidnapping and Torturing Victim Over Bitcoin 1 month ago:
Nobody ever wants to talk about white collar on white collar crime.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
Buddddiey
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
Always read the fine print.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
In plain English this means
Me “Have you checked for eggs recently? I just saw a bunch in the nesting boxes. Too many for one day.” Wife “Yeah, it’s been a while. Even Rose [the duck], who hasn’t laid an egg in five years, probably laid one.” Me “I haven’t seen our special needs cat, the one we trapped as part of a TNR run on our own property, in the last 12 hours. Have you seen that blessed dumb beast who walks like he is drunk? If you see him now could you bring him inside?”
Any sufficiently developed culture has its own language. In this house we go out of our way to make obtuse inside joke references to keep each other on our toes.
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
Or at least not in conversational English. Me “The cheese is old and moldy.” Wife “Roses eggs” Me “Bach unaccounted.”
- Comment on There is significant evidence that Grok actually inserted information about “white genocide” in South Africa into prompts that didn't appear to be related to this topic. 2 months ago:
- Comment on Google's AI now listens to your English language phone conversations 2 months ago:
Jokes on them. I don’t have phone conversations
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Always a tradoff
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I don’t have a tower to put the poppy drive in. I’d rather make sure that these end up in a good home.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
A poor musician always blames their instrument.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
These came out in 98 And 99 so odds are they paid retail
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You are correct. Sorry about that everything after 8-inch floppy is a blur.
- Comment on Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever! 2 months ago:
I had that happen too. Couldn’t find something with DDG. Hopped over to Google and was shocked at how completely unusable it was.
- Comment on Sales of Hard Drives for the End of the World Boom Under Trump 2 months ago:
I’m only going to focus on one part because it shows the disconnect between you and I.
If you have a working printer, toner, paper…
Who said anything about a printer? I said hard copy. Not printout. Write it down. Carve it into rock or shape it in clay. 3000 cycles and you keep limiting yourself. That 200 pounds of copper wire could be pounded flat and marked with a sharp tool to create a long lasting hard copy. So many options for a hard copy and you defaulted to the one option we can’t even get to work when everything is working.
