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No he never hid his identity, if you looked him up, you found his picture. Satoshi shouldn't be compared, I don't hold bitcoins nor am I interested, but the na
by keyle 4mo ago
No he never hid his identity, if you looked him up, you found his picture.
Satoshi shouldn't be compared, I don't hold bitcoins nor am I interested, but the name is a lore. It was stamped on the original document.
Fabrice Bellard is a real person shipping code; not an internet anonymous identity.
- deleted 4mo ago[deleted]
- coldtea 4mo agoParent knows. He makes an analogy, not an absolute equivalence.
- bravetraveler 4mo ago[flagged]
- alfiedotwtf 4mo agoThis thread is why he is not on Twitter
- bravetraveler 4mo agoFascinating, I'm not there for other reasons. So, about that costly Tea...
- herodoturtle 4mo agoAnd I'm here wondering if there's a limit to HN's nested replies.
- bravetraveler 4mo agoI'll continue to do my part as time allows, also curious. Anyway, if enough flag the top [like I did], it'll collapse.
- kmstout 4mo agoEvery so often, ask others just how far their ideas go.
- bravetraveler 4mo agoGreat minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people. Observe, etc.
- Barbing 4mo agoYou found a comment to flag in this thread? Didn’t catch rulebreaking myself.
- bravetraveler 4mo agoSure, I didn't restrict to rule breaking. As I already said, it serves the function of compressing the conversation others complained about.
- Barbing 4mo agoDownvotes may offer that function too, I think. Thought the flag was “hey this guy can’t call me a doodoohead with no ‘J/K’ at the end!”, rule break like rudeness or spam or slop Guess I better read the rules Edit: IDK why I can’t always downvote. Sometimes see it on a comment’s permalink page. Guessing some karma factors at play (lifetime upvotes received per user, can’t downvote more senior users maybe)
- bravetraveler 4mo ago> Downvotes may offer that function too, I think. Not quite as effectively, but sure. De-ranked consumption of vertical space instead of complete compression. Anyway, many tools one may choose. Not mutually exclusive or expensive. > Guess I better read the rules I'm sure someone will link them for us [again, vertical space!]. You're fine, however. Not super familiar with the heuristics, but I do know... downvoting gets blocked once you reply, do it first.
- f17428d27584 4mo agoRight, but the analogy is very clearly about someone trying to hide / protect their identity, which doesn’t apply in this case. Perhaps it was trying to stretch it to “unknown figure”, saying this programmer is mysterious, even though it was not by choice but circumstance: fame has eluded him. (Not implying it’s desired). But on that reading, I would still say the metaphor fails: it’s not effective at conveying this meaning and reads more like an unnecessary Satoshi name drop.
- sph 4mo ago> unnecessary Satoshi name drop "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord in vain". I apologise.