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22marks t1_j5rpx1j wrote

Reply to comment by gotMUSE in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

Here's the whitepaper: https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Go to the last page and the references are listed, but these three of the eight are from Bell Labs and were conceived at the Friendly's Restaurant in Morristown:

S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "How to time-stamp a digital document," In Journal of Cryptology, vol 3, no2, pages 99-111, 1991.

D. Bayer, S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Improving the efficiency and reliability of digital time-stamping,"In Sequences II: Methods in Communication, Security and Computer Science, pages 329-334, 1993.

S. Haber, W.S. Stornetta, "Secure names for bit-strings," In Proceedings of the 4th ACM Conferenceon Computer and Communications Security, pages 28-35, April 1997.

One of the actual patents can be found here:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US5136647A/en

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22marks t1_j5rfsy2 wrote

Reply to comment by imMakingA-UnityGame in Pictured is the router which sent the 1st internet connection from NYC to Tokyo. These were sold out of a basement office of a home in Rahway NJ. It's signed by everyone who worked for Cisco Systems in 1989. It was given to my dad when he retired in 1999 for his work in establishing the internet. by TriggerTough

Also Blockchain. Including several of the patents listed on the Bitcoin whitepaper.

EDIT: As answered below, the idea of blockchain was conceived in the Friendly's in Morristown. Three of the eight technical references in the Bitcoin whitepaper are from these NJ inventors at Bell Labs.

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22marks t1_j2bjch0 wrote

Reply to Was Bruce Willis in Die Hard the ushering in of the modern everyman action star? by SquatOnAPitbull

What do you consider modern? The "Hero's Journey" coined by Joseph Campbell in 1949 speaks of: "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day."

In the call to adventure: "the hero or protagonist lives in the ordinary world." And this wasn't invented by Campbell. He was the one to break it down, but it can be traced back to mythology.

An "everyman" becoming a hero is about as classic a plot as you can get. Luke was an everyman moisture farmer. There are many other examples in this thread.

Even if you want to narrow it down to real-world plausible situations, there are plenty of action movies where "everyman" characters have to be heroic. Personally, I'd give Indiana Jones the nod before John McClane. After all, McClane isn't truly an everyman. He's a trained police officer who may be off duty, but it's basically his job. Indiana Jones is a professor with realistic flaws ("I don't know. I'm making this up as I go.") who ends up fighting Nazis.

It just makes sense that the protagonist who we're rooting for is kinda like us. It makes us wonder what we'd do in a similar situation. It makes us like the main character more.

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22marks t1_iyptopf wrote

Reply to TIL Yoo-hoo was invented in Garfield by TimSPC

I used to love Yoo-hoo. I'd get it in those juice box containers. One time, the box seemed "inflated" like it was overfilled but, being a kid, I didn't think much of it. I stuck the straw in and took a big gulp. It tasted like fermented yeasty vomit. I can only guess something happened with the whey.

I probably wouldn't even like it anymore, but I haven't been able to drink it again since.

TL;DR Don't drink the puffy Yoo-hoo boxes.

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22marks t1_iy1z5m4 wrote

Reply to comment by Smeghead333 in How exactly does CRISPR-CAS9 insert new genes? by AutomaticAd1918

Are there just random sequences always floating around for repairs? Forgive the analogy from a layperson, but is there any form of checksum? How does it know it needs to grab that sequence, especially since it’s not even the original sequence it’s replacing? Simply because the ends match like perfect “puzzle pieces” and it’s like “good enough?”

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