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He may very well not make it, but looks like some family of his may have jumped the gun.

Just came here to see if anyone posted that video. It's brilliant

Looks like they've settled in the most ridiculously obvious Nike only sued to shut up conservatives way. Nike and MSCHF settle Satan Shoe lawsuit, say any ‘confused’ buyers can get a refund WWW.THEVERGE.COM The full terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. MSCHF has agreed to a voluntary recall. They'll buy back any shoes bought by customers that were confused and thought these were made by Nike.

Yeah, this is actually pretty good. It really starts getting intense one you get the red Pac-Men roaming around.

Ha, that's my brother. Even my picky-ish five year old has a more developed palate. I don't get it. There's so much delicious food out there. Binging with Babish had an episode on tteokbokki like a week or two back. I think I have everything I'd need to make it. Maybe I'll try making that tonight. Kids on the spectrum are even more fun. My daughter is diagnosed severe autism. A lot of what she does is learned behaviors from watching others because giving her verbal directions don't really work. Either way, my son doesn't like eating the crust of his pizza or the crust on his sandwiches. My daughter somehow figured how that means you're not supposed to eat the edges of food and took that to the extreme. Pancakes end up with the centers chewed out. She rips burgers in half, eats the center, and leaves the edges. She somehow tries to eat the center out of cupcakes and just makes a huge mess. Nuggets are peeled and only the chicken is eaten. Again, kids are fun.

This is how my girls are. They'll eat just about anything you put in front of them. Takoyaki? Sure. How about some mildly spicy popusas? Why not. Is that tofu? Hell yeah. My son, five, can be picky and if he says he won't eat something my youngest will follow along even if she loves it. I don't get it because he'd eat sushi with us just a year or so ago. His only exception is spicy food. If we say something is too spicy for him, he'll eat it come hell or five bottles of water. Kids are fun.

I think I said this before, but all the major gaming companies have the ability to filter for this kind of language already. Intel doing it in real time on an end-user's own computer is cool, but we've gotten really good at looking for key words in speech. The only reason this hadn't happened is for fear of pissing off racists and other Gamergate-types that spend a lot of money on games. It's Jordan's whole "Republicans buy shoes, too" mindset.

This one is easy. Facebook doesn't actually delete user profiles and also creates dummy profiles based on data collected from their users' contact lists. That way if Pierre here tried creating a new Facebook account, Facebook will suggest all his friends and family that already gave them all his contact info via access to their contact lists. Facebook also uses this to recommend you invite your friends to join when you give them access to your contact list.

I'm theory; except that Facebook is trying to claim that this was all public data at the time and it doesn't exactly know who was affected and those people might not be Facebook users anymore. Who will hold them to account anyway? At worse, they'll get hit with a fine worth 0.001% of their earnings for that particular quarter.

Isn't it like the most common fetish there is? Relative prevalence of different fetishes | International Journal of Impotence Research WWW.NATURE.COM The aim of this study was to estimate the relative frequency of Fetishes in a large sample of individuals. Using the Internet as a data source, we examined 381 discussion groups. We estimate, very... I was actually curious, so I looked it up to see if anyone had actually done a study beyond some random porn site talking about their most streamed stuff.

I'm still holding out hope that we get additional Mario 35-like games but for the other games. Mario 3 35 or Mario World 35 would be awesome.

It's no replacement for Mario 35, but it like great fun and it'savailable today...

They make for great photo ops for local politicians while giving city councils a chance to rub elbows with some famous athletes. Also, for folks that don't pay attention it sounds like it makes sense in the surface and nobody in the press ever calls these guys out as bold face liars. I mean, CNN just ran with the $100 million economic impact without thinking twice about it because they're lazy fucks.

If anyone really wants to know how terrible of an idea NFTs are... Tom Brady is launching an NFT company - CNN AMP.CNN.COM Tom Brady is joining the NFT party. Like, I love Tom Brady on the football field, but I could do without him off of it.

In fairness, this is just a dumb part of NFTs. You can't store images and tweets in the blockchain. You can only store links to these images and tweets and whatever. If Elon Musk sells a tweet, the NFT token only keeps record of the link to his tweet. If Musk then decided to delete that tweet, the NFT remains, but it goes nowhere since the link is now dead. It would appear that this is happening a lot on NFT market places. I would imagine that the ownership of physical goods wouldn't be tied back to another website that could go down at any time. Rather than a link to something else, the blockchain could store GPS data or a simple street address or like the VIN of a car. Since every change is committed everywhere across the entire blockchain you wouldn't want to do something like store property lines, because that would just be way to much to keep in sync across the entire network. Think of it like a QR code. While you could store an entire image in a QR code, the QR codes that do this are far too huge and complex to be of any use for the vast majority of situations. Instead, most QR codes are simple redirects to something else. NFTs operate in the same way. This tech is great for keeping track of changes and transactions, but not really great for storing anything more than simple data.

Reminds me of a guy I used to work for. He was liked enough that multiple people followed him to whatever company he worked for. All white dudes. He cleared house of every minority that reported directly to him. Nobody saw it but us. They explained it away as "he just wants to bring in his own guys". Legitimately went from being the most diverse IT departments I've ever worked in to the least in just over a year. It was wild, and still wasn't seen by anyone other than me and the few women left on the team until they also quit. Some otherwise good folks have serious blind spots to this stuff, so I wouldn't be ready to write off Fillion just yet.

Abolish ICE. There is no fixing that mess.

Pretty much, yeah. I grew up a Celtics fan. I remember the league in the 80s. Sure, Lebron isn't Lebron without modern medicine and training, but that's besides the point. Lebron with more permission to body people isn't something I'd bet against in any era. That said, Lebron doesn't even play like Jordan, so the comparisons are silly. If you want to see a player that played like Jordan, anyone can go pull up an old Kobe highlight reel.

I'm with you here. The Droogs are less problematic to me than Pennywise. No kid is going to know who they are or what they're called unless they've seen the movie and that there is some questionable parenting. Pennywise is a lot more of a problem for me, but about equal to how inappropriate it was to market Alien, Robocop, Terminator, and the Toxic Avenger to kids. Man, the 80s were fucked up. I was a fan of all of those as a kid. Then again, I had a copy of Killer Clowns from Outer Space on VHS that I hid at my cousin's. That said, I don't want to be the exec that greenlit that in 2021. That screams rich dude that's never seen the movie.

Because it's all very preliminary. Even being generous, we're looking at less than a third of financial institutions using the blockchain to manage internal transactions. I don't know of a one that has moved entirely to blockchain. I don't think anyone has moved all of their transactions to the blockchain, though there are some companies working on a blockchain standard for transferring money between banks. Banks are our best indication of the way the market is moving and how the tech is to be used in the future. They're wildly stubborn and crazy risk adverse. Banks can't leave to fate the chance of a faulty backup losing them a token representing billions of dollars. Hell, I know a Deutsche Bank office that was still using AS/400 within the just few years and that shit was discontinued nearly a decade ago. Even then, it was already ancient. They're more zealous with their own money and systems for tracking it than they are with yours. Even then, at best you're suggesting that cryptocurrencies will inspire someone to create something that isn't cryptocurrency, but steals some underlying ideas that will go on to manage ownership of physical goods. Sure. Maybe. Probably. The key components of the blockchain and all cryptocurrency are non-fungible tokens that represent something else where the transactions of such are stored in a widely, peer-to-peer distributed database. Anything that doesn't have non-fungible tokens or a widely, peer-to-peer distributed database is something completely different. If we don't have non-fungible tokens, anyone can spoof any other transaction. If it's not a widely, peer-to-peer distributed database then it's no different than any other database technology as they currently exist. Nobody can be trusted to keep a single file safe forever. I wouldn't trust Google to do it. I wouldn't trust Apple. I wouldn't trust Microsoft. I wouldn't trust the DoD. I don't trust Iron Mountain to do it for me and I don't know how many millions of dollars I've given them over the years to do just that. If you think you could keep a token safe forever, you are vastly overestimating yourself and your future luck. Everyone is a meteor strike away from losing anything they think is safe. There's an entire industry worth many billions trying to solve this problem and the best solution we have to date is lock up multiple copies in fire proof safes, miles apart.

That's literally what I said was the future. Twice. I have you multiple examples of how blockchain is the future, just not in the way you might be envisioning. I mean, completely doing away with the entire concept of ownership would also do away with title fraud, but that's probably not an equitable solution for you because it raises other problems. It's the same thing here.

That explains it then. I don't know if your raise it, but all of this system already exists, so I'm not talking about problems in a system that doesn't exist. These are problems today that already happen. What I suggested previously was the future is how financial institutions are already using blockchain. JPMorgan and Citi are using blockchain technology, and other banks are considering allowing clients to hold crypto in bank accounts, Bank of America research finds | Currency News | Financial and Business News | Markets Insider MARKETS.BUSINESSINSIDER.COM BofA analysts found that 21% of banks they cover have incorporated blockchain technology into their businesses in some form. That's the real future here. Using the blockchain as a sort of digital ledger without the need for a large and centrally managed database. Why this works best because the entire blockchain is controlled by a single entity, so things like roll backs can happen and the worry over overly compute heavy transactions don't really exist because we're trading server hosting smaller proof of stake nodes along the chain with entire datacenters housing databases tracking all of this stuff. Like I said, proof of work crypto like NFT is a deadend technology. Half this country might not believe climate change is a thing, but future generations aren't going to be so happy to see all their electricity being wasted away on crypto. Either way, in the end, how much of your family do you trust to forever keep a single file on their computer safe? Now remember that when I ask that companies like Facebook, RSA, Equifax, Yahoo, Blue Cross, JPMogan, LinkedIn, and others have failed that very same task. I'm an IT pro with a secret security clearance working for a government contractor with a background in security. I don't trust myself with such a thing. My suggestion to anybody would be this. Get two secured USB drives like the ones from Apricorn and place them in two fire proof safes in two different buildings at least 20 miles from one another and then pray that works out for you. You so need to keep the combination to the safe and USB drive secured. Maybe you can trust those I'm an encrypted file in your Google Drive.

I think what's lost in translation here is that you haven't explained why any of the real already in existence problems with blockchain wouldn't be a problem when trying to affix virtual tokens into physical goods. Like, I totally agree with you that the current problems goes away. I just don't see how a whole new set of problems, problems that already exist in a world where only the most tech savvy are using the technology, isn't just swapping one set of problems for a whole other set of problems that also consumes a huge amount of compute. I'll make this simple. My mom owns a house. She stores the token for her property with her insurance company. Insurance company is irresponsible with their data and lose the token. What happens then when my mother wants to sell the house? My mother didn't trust the insurance company so she stores the token on her laptop. She gets hit with a "your computer has a virus" scam that steals her token. What does she do then? She stores her token at Iron Mountain, but gets social engineered into giving up access to her token. What does she do then? I'm not giving you any theoretical examples. Those are so real ones that already happen today. There isn't even a way to reverse fraudulent blockchain transactions, so yes, we can catch those fraudulent transactions and then do what with them? Issue a change that the previous token was fraudulent and then issue a new token to replace the old one? Who keeps track of that change? It can't be the blockchain because then anyone can make similar changes.

I'm pretty sure they acknowledge this in the trailer when whoever says "You really believe in this Loki variant?". I think that implies that there are other Loki's out there in time that are more trustworthy than the one we got in this series.

Yeah, but just moving everything into the blockchain just exchanges the current problems for a different set of equally troublesome problems. One problem isn't better or worse than the next problem, but there are some weird side effects here. If I lose the title to my car I can go to the RMV (sue me, Massachusetts doesn't do your regular ass DMV) and buy a new title. If I lost the token representing the title to my car, it's lost forever and ownership of the car is also lost forever. The car will then need to be junked/crushed because how can ownership of it ever be proven again? What's the solution there? A central authority with a database of all tokens? Just shred the car? Have the government take ownership of the car and use it along with others like it to build a levy for the incoming sea level rise? Generate a new token, thus invalidating the entire premise of unique tokens for unique items? Which token would even be valid then? I guess you'd need another token to track the transaction of the physical car from one token to another without needing ownership of the originating token. Want to tie your car's token to a biometric token? Good luck since your biometric token is just a digital representation of your squishy human parts. The worse part of biometrics is that losing that digital representation leaves you unable to change it in the future without some fun sounding surgery.