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1. mark (mjn@icosahedron.website)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2017 21:23:34 EST mark

   While I'm inventing conspiracy theory origins for recent technologies, here's another one:

   Bitcoin was invented by an unknown person pseudonamed "Satoshi Nakamoto". Before people used their spare computing time to mine bitcoins, one of the big things they did with spare compute was to run the SETI@Home client, helping to search for extraterrestrials. Who might have a vested interest in redirecting resources away from the search for extraterrestrials? Is "Satoshi Nakamoto" really a /person/?

   1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 07-Dec-2017 22:58:53 EST clacke

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      @mjn Hey. Aliens are people.
   2. Sorokin Alexei (xrevan86@loadaverage.org)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2017 15:18:27 EST Sorokin Alexei

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      @mjn Are you implying aliens are necessarily non-persons? That's human-ist / species-ist :-).
   3. التنينوكس (dragnucs@social.touha.me)'s status on Friday, 08-Dec-2017 17:32:40 EST التنينوكس

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      @mjn That one is strong.