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  • ch00f@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldUnemployed?
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    12 days ago

    Not sure if this is intentional or if the author doesn’t understand the source they’re parodying, but putting multiple brackets around a word (in this case "job”) in a conspiracy/political context can be interpreted as a antisemitic dogwhistle.

    Edit: I hope you’ll read my careful wording in that I did not imply the author meant anything by this. I was simply bringing it up in case it was unintentional. I’ve since learned that some people use <<>> instead of quotes.




  • ch00f@lemmy.worldtoComic Strips@lemmy.worldXXX
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    13 days ago

    What’s funny is that it works even when people know the initial price is bullshit.

    A study at MIT had people participate in a silent auction. They were asked to list the last two digits of their social security number and then asked if they would be willing to pay that many dollars for each item before placing their bid.

    On average, people with higher SSN digits bid more.



  • What’s fun is how often this principle is used every day. For example, when you upload a video to YouTube, you’re assigned a unique URL, but it would be too slow to simply add your URL to a list to make sure nobody else uses it. There are millions of videos uploaded every day, and thousands of servers spread all over the world.

    Instead, YouTube just generates a truly random URL and depends on the odds of two videos having the same URL being effectively zero.

    The same is true for Bitcoin. If you could guess a Bitcoin private key for any currently used wallet, you’d have full access to the funds within that wallet. This can even be done offline. Even if you could guess trillions of private keys per second, the odds of you hitting even one that’s already been used is low enough to be totally secure.